Hope you’re doing well, friend 💜

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Please signal boost 🙏 Neurodivergent PhD students: What reasonable adjustments and accommodations do you have for your studies? My
PhD is in English Literature, I have ADHD (combined type), and I’m struggling. I would like to make changes, but I don’t know what might help.

Coming out of Bluesky hibernation to share that I started ADHD medication today. Here’s to a new chapter of Ethan!

That’s so kind of you, Ross! I really appreciate you checking. Hope you’re well.

Good question! The obituary was published in the Springfield Republican on the 10 January 1919.

Or if you know ANYTHING about Goodall, pls hit me up! I wanna know all the gossip x

Bluesky friends, please signal boost! I am trying to read an obituary in the Springfield Republican (1919) for a ESN Goodall who might, just *might*, be the author of the ‘George Eliot Birthday Book’, but it’s behind a paywall 😭 Can anyone help?

After two months off with burnout, and a new ADHD diagnosis, I’m back in the PhD and feeling ready for anything!

Last month, I was formally diagnosed with ADHD! Really happy 🥳

A few weeks ago, I contacted the bookshop where a friend had bought a misbound George Eliot novel for my birthday. I wanted to say thanks and share the queer things I’d learned from studying it. Today, the owner surprised me with ‘a gift from the shop’. What a lovely man 🥹

My goal for 2025 x

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Two good writing days, and this afternoon I learned that I’ll be getting some assistive technology from the uni 🥹 #ADHD

On a journey of self-discovery #ADHD

Suits you!

Today, I disclosed my ADHD to the university. I’m going to get lots of help, and, hopefully, the PhD won’t be so hard anymore 😭

Picture of a victory page which reads in black gothic script: "Tranſection (from trans and ſexus) a turning or paſſing from one ſec to another. Dr. Br. Transfeminate (from trans and faemina) to turn from woman to man, or from one ſex fo another. Dr. Br."

The term 'trans' (in relation to sex and gender) is over 350 years old...

Thomas Blount's 'Glossographia' from 1656, the first full-length English Language Dictionary, had two different words for changing sex. These were "Tranſection" and "Transfeminate".

Image shows me (Ethan) in a red shirt, stood at the front of a large lecture hall. On the screen behind me, I have projected the title of my lecture ‘George Eliot, the Victorian Novel, and Realism’. The title also includes my pronouns and email address. The image on the slide is of a cartoon country village.

Gave my first lecture today 🥹

Inspired *presses ‘instant purchase’*

Wearing my favourite trans-affirming t-shirt to campus today because my university is hosting an event on ‘academic freedom’. Events like this make me - and other LGBT+ people I know - feel anxious and deeply uncomfortable. But I won’t give up. Trans people belong.

Petition: Do not ban transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards The Health Secretary has said that transgender hospital patients in England may be banned from being treated in female- and male-only wards. We believe that this segregation is discriminatory, dangero...

‘Do not ban transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards’ | If you are a UK resident, please sign this parliamentary petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/66...

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I would read that!

I am always so inspired by your work, Kadin!

Do not listen to their lies. I have zero concerns about sharing a hospital ward with a trans, non-binary or intersex person. And I’m not the only one who feels this way. Trans people belong. Always. amp.theguardian.com/society/2024...

The strangest thing about the NHS ‘biologically segregated’ wards is that there’s already a commitment in place to have male/female wards & that often gets broken. Where will these ‘single rooms’ for trans patients be found? It’s a bit unrealistic isn’t it?

This just confirms my quietly-confident belief that the best way to write about Eliotic pauses is auto theory. I have experienced so many pauses lately - grief, writer’s blocks, illness, and interruptions of study - it makes sense that this chapter is about me *and* Eliot. Or me *through* Eliot.

On route to see the boyfriend, I’m thinking about queerness, anxiety, and the need to pause in Eliot. Delighted to find an accidental pause in my copy of ‘Impressions of Theophrastus Such’ (1879). Page 49 is ‘missing’ and ends on a pause ‘when—’. (It then reappears later in the book around p. 112).