Easter-ish reading: my words on an #earlymodern Portuguese painting of hell that bristles with New World motifs and monsters.

#arthistory #monsters

On the value organizing using your own brain:
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For my PhD, I read a mountain of books and over 2,000 European printed and manuscript maps & atlases c.1450-1650 (and some older ones).

I identified 200-ish maps/atlases with distinctive imagery of peoples of the Americas (not just stick figures).
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Still thinking about this brilliant performance by @lisetteoropesa.com who so perfectly gets the gravitas of the role (to not even mention her absolutely divine voice and precision 💗💐)

I love this so much and think if you love Stoner you might like this too! (Ofc they’re very different but I love love Stoner too)

cannot wait to read this! congrats!🎉🎉

Descripción de imagen: Patty Berne, una persona japonesa-haitiana con piel de color café claro, sonríe de manera juguetona; brillan de sus ojos color café amor y luz. Lleva un vestido azul tornasol con hombros descubiertos y un colgante de amatista. Su cabello castaño está recogido en su estilo distintivo: dos moños. Detrás de Patty hay un fondo color rosa, con flores radiantes rojas y amarillas. En la parte superior de la imagen, unas letras mayúsculas de color tornasol forman la frase "PATTY BERNE ¡PRESENTE!" En la esquina inferior derecha, el logotipo de Sins Invalid, un recuadro rectangular negro con letras blancas que dicen "Sins Invalid."

Con profundo dolor compartimos que Patty Berne, cofundadora y directora de Sins Invalid, se unió a les ancestres el 29 de mayo de 2025. Su amor, visión y lucha viven en nosotres. Honramos su legado continuando el trabajo que lideró. #PattyPresente

All of these books are really fantastic, with Amphion being a particular favorite!!!

Logo for Thinking Literature series at the top, surrounded by five book covers: Reading Hegel, Slips of the Mind, Amphion, Throw Yourself Away, and The Barthes Fantastic.

Check out the new titles in our Thinking Literature series!
- Julia Jarcho: Throw Yourself Away
- John Lurz: The Barthes Fantastic
- Leah Middlebrook: Amphion
- Robert Lucas Scott: Reading Hegel
- Jennifer Soong: Slips of the Mind
Learn more: buff.ly/qO6iA5a. #ACLA2025

Nearly always Amalia! <3
Thrilled to have my translation in TR. REVIEW OF TRANSLATIONS.

Top Pop Songs of the 1600s | Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

What were the top musical hits of Shakespeare’s England? 🎶 On the podcast, researchers @angelamcshane.bsky.social and Christopher Marsh of the 100 Ballads project discuss what these ballads tell us about moral norms, sensationalism, and everyday life. Listen at: www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...

A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles BY VIOLET AFFLECK I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room. She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised…

Violet Affleck makes a powerful argument that society has a lot to learn from people with Long Covid & ME/CFS about the importance of pacing as a means to prevent “crashes,” both for individuals & societies faced with climate crises. #IllnessPolitics
yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...

Storm-thoughts and ice-songs: A creative-critical response to Old English eco-poetry - postmedieval This article looks at how ecocritical readings of The Wanderer, The Wife’s Lament, and Exeter Book riddles can inspire an ‘ecocreative’ way of rewriting and reimagining Old English verse. My creative-...

Delighted to see that my creative-critical Old English eco-poetics article is now out, Open Access, in Postmedieval (thanks to @postmedieval.bsky.social): link.springer.com/article/10.1... #medievalsky #oldenglish

Disability, Eugenics, and the Value of Human Life The eugenicists Your worth is not tied to what you can do. Your worth is not tied to your health. Your worth is not tied to all the things you can do...

if you're in the mood to read a strong affirmation about the worth of disabled lives in the face of a eugenicist administration.... so was i, so i wrote one: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

Disability is not a moral failing. It’s not a punishment. It’s not karma.

It’s part of the human experience. Our bodies are frail, and given enough time most people will experience disability.

The idea that we’re lazy, choosing not to “try hard” or want to be sick is a fallacy born out of ableism

Wow—I just had the same experience; fully researched and prepped something, was about to send it off. Suddenly realized I had been staring right at a Feb 28 deadline rather than March 28🫣

felicidades!!👏🎉👏

So thrilled to have my translation of this gorgeous (that is, bleak and beautiful) poem by the ever cheery Paolina Secco Suardo Grismondi (Lesbia Cidonia) appear in SWWIM!

@swwim.bsky.social #translation
#poetry
#italianliterature
#18thcentury
#settecento
#poesia
#letteratura

So this is everything!!

🔥🔥🔥or rather, 🪨🪨🪨? Where is the emoji for a sweet pearly gray and slightly viscous dear?

Fabulous talk(s)!!! Many thanks @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social !!!

Historic street corner with a store, Harvard Book Store, on both sides of the corner, with dark trim around windows and borders. Grey stone, brick, and ironwork building. Oval signs hang from above, with bookstore’s name.

Me in a busy bookstore signing a copy of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY. Other copies are on a low table nearby. I’m wearing a mid-blow sweater with a bright yellow collar and yellow and white flowers on it.

Me in front of a tall bookcase, gesturing at my book.

Three rows of said bookcase. HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is at the left-hand corner of the lowest visible shelf.

I signed copies of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY at Harvard Book Store today.

Get them while they last, @medievalacademy.bsky.social #MAA2025 #Shax2025 #RenSA2025 folks and #Cambridge #Boston folks!

💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #politics #18thCentury #HAMH 1/2

Parabéns!!!🎉

Opening up Access Dr Stewart Brookes recalls the time before and after Parker Library On the Web, and remembers the difference that online access to medieval manuscripts made for researchers

Parker Library On the Web massively transformed the access to medieval manuscripts

Just listen to @stewartbrookes.bsky.social give a powerful testimony on the impact it had for research

www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/ope...
#PLOW #ParkerLibrary

This is so disgusting

www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

#eatonfire #lafires

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