Cookie cake with a large white cross iced on it. The cross is surrounded by a round, white icing border, dusted with colorful sprinkles, and “Happy Easter” is iced in pale yellow cursive over the cross’ top.
When I die, please ice the shape of whatever killed me on a cookie cake and serve it at the funeral. Kay? Thx.
Maybe of interest to @guildmedmak.bsky.social!
👀 at you @dancingmedievalist.bsky.social (but like with no pressure)
Screen from computer in War Games; Matthew Broderick’s face is reflected over the text: “shall we play a game?”
Another exciting #CFP! “Playing Camelots,” is a special issue interested in pieces that examine #Arthuriana in various game genres thru the lens of play, illuminating how Camelot continues to evolve—not only as text & myth, but as system, strategy, & shared experience! #arthuriansky #medievalsky
Tomorrow marks the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. It also marks the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court first upholding the Voting Rights Act.
We have gotten so, so far away from a Court that cares about democracy.
New from me at @brennancenter.org:
People are wisely bringing up how this will be used to disrupt mail-in ballots, but it's also part of the continuing Repub effort to make USPS unreliable, so they can dismantle it in favor of forcing everyone to use private services (ex: you can bet someone from UPS or FedEx would be fired for this)
Check out the newest Issue of TSW!
#medievalsky #arthuriansky #academicsky #publichumanities
The preview 🧵 starts NOW👇/1
Just dropped! A #CFP for a Sports Medievalism Special Iss of TSW, guest ed. by
@mairistirlinghill.bsky.social! We’re seeking proposals for pieces that engage w/ the relationship between sporting culture & medieval aesthetic! Full CFP attached
Deadline: 3/31
#medievalsky #academicsky #sports
Free academic publishing workshop coming up! #academicsky #medievalsky
the ancient world just intuitively understood that hot beverages taste better when poured out of a little dude.
we had the technology before, and we can again.
Just over two weeks left to submit your abstracts! Had quite a few already. Please share with your networks. Welcoming colleagues across time periods and disciplines!
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
Congrats to the winners of this year’s CELJ Awards!
🏆 Best Special Issue: James Baldwin Review
🏆 Best New Journal: Regeneration
🏆 Best Public Outreach: The So What, Arthuriana
🏆 Phoenix Award: Labor
🏆 Best Digital Feature: Modernism/modernity
🏆 Distinguished Editor: Charles H. Rowell, Callaloo
Many thanks to @celj.bsky.social! Keep sending us your stuff #medievalsky!!
We’re thrilled to announce that issue 3 is up & features a special cluster on Netflix’s The Decameron!m! The full issue is available here: www.arthuriana.com/tsw-issues! #pubhums #medievalsky #arthuriansky
And now, a quick teaser 🧵 of the pieces in this issue… /1
One more while we’re at it! We’re interested in offering TSW authors the chance to commission images to companion their pieces (if they wish). If you are an artist whose work aligns with our values & you'd be interested in being listed, send us an email (thesowhatpub [at]gmail [dot]com) #medievalsky
YUP
Call for #medievalsky & related other ski’s!! Guest editors for issues & clusters—we summon you!!! We’re currently looking for individuals or teams interested in #bardcore, craft medievalism & medieval crafts, changing climates, early globalities, & more! #cfp
Full guest ed call linked 👇
Critical thinkinge ys vitallye ymportant and manye academic fieldes rightfullye clayme that thei teache it. Englisshe majors learne critical thinkinge too, but thei also learne creative thinkinge and compassionate thinkinge.
Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.
The number of people buying used DVDs in this store, especially of Disney movies, is oddly heartening?
There are few looks of disdain as withering as that of a teen happening upon a Millennial emotively lip syncing to “Backstreet’s Back” in the aisle of a grocery store.
I kept dancing tho. Can’t stop won’t stop…as the kids no longer say 😂
Friends. It’s international dog day, and we need to talk about one of the greatest unrecognized threats to dogs … U.S. Republican Leadership — video: www.instagram.com/reel/DN0_9v4...
#republicans #gop #internationaldogsday #nationaldogday #trump #kristinoem
6/ last but very certainly not least, Sarah Barringer offers detailed lesson plans and pedagogical guidance for having students investigate and critique the appeal #Beowulf to the Far Right.
www.arthuriana.com/tsw/beowulf-...
5/ check out a creative piece in context! Amanda Brighton Payne shares her poem, “The Window Bog,” and it’s origins in: “A New Poem in Context: A Medieval Bog Woman in Northern Europe.”
www.arthuriana.com/tsw/a-new-po...
4/ then read Seeta Chaganti’s “IRRECOVERY,” a powerfully written exploration of scholarly methods, medieval outlawry, and contemporary resistance; a moving call to “leave the agents of certain collective actions undetectable.”
www.arthuriana.com/tsw/irrecovery
3/ next we have Maggie Hawkins’ fascinating essay on “Black Neomedievalisms in Late and Post-Covid Music Videos”! And yes, those do include videos by Lil Nas X and hemlocke springs, thank you for asking!
www.arthuriana.com/tsw/black-ne...
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