Registration for the conference is now live at this link: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
We are extremely happy to see the variety of responses and the level of interest in the topics of this conference, and we cannot wait to see where this conversation takes us. 🤓
🫐 new poem in the yale review 🫐
The Trans Natures special issue (ed by @malentendre.bsky.social and Nat Rivkin) of Medieval Ecocriticisms that I contributed to is available open access ! Enjoy ! scholarworks.wmich.edu/med_ecocriti...
Arc is pleased to announce our new series Intercessions: Sanctity in the Pre/Modern World with series editor @aspencerhall.bsky.social – for more information see www.arc-humanities.org/intercession...
catherine o'hara. no no no. not you. and i never use this word, but what an actual genius.
The CFP for the Gender & Medieval Studies conference 2026 is now LIVE! The theme is Gender & Creativity. The conf will be held in Oxford, 8-10 Sept, abstracts due to me by 13 April. Full details on the GMS website (artwork by @hellomizk.bsky.social) medievalgender.co.uk/2026-oxford/
We're officially back on Bluesky and open for submissions for issue 10 from Jan 1st until March 31st. Send us your queer poetry, fiction and non fiction. Full guidelines available at www.queerlings.co.uk/submit
If it must
be winter, let it be absolutely winter.
—Linda Gregg, from "Part of Me Wanting Everything to Live"
i want time to watch more films but i also want time to read more books but i also want time to look at more nothing
Our special issue of differences is out! Claire and I were asked to suggest one article that would be open access, and (although it was VERY hard to choose) we picked Whitney’s, which is about Claudia Rankine’s “American lyric” in Ibero-American translation:
read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
... these songs I've
built from things too difficult
to speak of
—Carl Phillips, from "Fist and Palm"
Screenshot of the title page from the manuscript
This week I'll be submitting the manuscript, with my brilliant co-editor Carl Kears, for our OA volume with UCL Press: 'Beyond Medieval Archives: Rethinking the medieval archive through creative and critical practice'. Still so much work to do before Thursday, but it's exciting!
An oversized cotton button-down shirt. The upper portion features a classic shirting panel in pale blue, while the lower half shifts into a playful polka dot print for visual contrast. Diagonally placed floral sequin embellishments sweep across the front forming the border between the two fabrics
The perfect genderqueer shirt doesn't exi--
What an absolute honour it is to be featured in this magazine, by a poet whose work I admire so much, among all these other fantastic poets!!
There are so many creative medievalists I follow on here and having a community of practice like this is a great idea. Give them a follow.
Two very cool people doing very cool things 🏳️⚧️🩷
‘Resentment will keep us estranged from collectivity. Anti-trans discourses work to reaffirm and reproduce economies of separability in order to exile or outlaw us from society’.
Read an extract from Trans Femme Futures by Nat Raha & Mijke van der Drift: www.plutobooks.com/blog/trans-f...
Well worth 9 minutes of your time
OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.
From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this
Hildegard von Bingen's Scivias in Weimar Germany: Media Theory by Hand Sonja Drimmer Abstract Between 1929 and 1930 a feud over the legitimacy of reproductions of works of art erupted in the pages of the culture periodical Der Kreis. Later dubbed the Hamburg Facsimile Debate, the dispute involved many of the day's most eminent curators and academics in art and art history and became a focal point for emerging ideas about authenticity and the educative impact of the replica in the Weimar Republic. Even as the intelligentsia were publicly quarreling over the epistemological stakes of the facsimile, four nuns at Eibingen Abbey were meticulously hand-copying the most renowned illuminated twelfth-century manuscript of Hildegard von Bingen's visionary summa, Scivias. This essay pits the Facsimile Debate against the facsimile craft of the Eibingen nuns, situating both within the context of new reproductive technologies devised specifically for representing medieval artifacts. It argues for a historicizing approach to the notion of authenticity, which bears on how we think about mediation and the surrogate in our research and teaching today.
Between 1927 & 1933 four nuns at Eibingen Abbey replicated by hand the renowned manuscript of Hildegard von Bingen’s magnum opus, Scivias. When the original 12C manuscript disappeared after WWII, the replica became a facsimile-original. I tell the story of that facsimile here tinyurl.com/3mcb6vt7
And Suddenly It’s Evening by Salvatore Quasimodo, tr. Jack Bevan Everyone is alone on the heart of the earth pierced by a ray of sun: and suddenly it’s evening.
what a poem. in just three lines
Today is the publication day for Essex Hemphill's *Love Is a Dangerous Word: Selected Poems," out from @NewDirections, which Robert Reid-Pharr & I coedited!
Essex Hemphill's work speaks both to its time & compellingly to our current moment. Please order a copy!
www.ndbooks.com/author/essex...
![An image of a proof page on a laptop that reads TSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly Volume 12, Number 2, May 2025
"Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory"
Edited by J. Logan Smilges and Slava Greenberg
147 General Editor's Introduction: Bracketed Sites Dylan McCarthy Blackston
152 Toward a Trans[]crip Theory: Introduction J. Logan Smilges and Slava Greenberg](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cbdino63edzwqnfnjku2s4lp/bafkreidd4dahx4morgrdx4mss62tyn4lppmfdlilkflzqtwxurzw6hcaca)
An image of a proof page on a laptop that reads TSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly Volume 12, Number 2, May 2025 "Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory" Edited by J. Logan Smilges and Slava Greenberg 147 General Editor's Introduction: Bracketed Sites Dylan McCarthy Blackston 152 Toward a Trans[]crip Theory: Introduction J. Logan Smilges and Slava Greenberg
Alternating between these proofs and the news is making me very emotional.
“Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory” is a conversation long overdue and at the same time seems almost too late.
I can’t wait to share this special issue & talk trans-crip activism, theory, film, and art with y’all 🥹
Out in May!
Really excited that my pamphlet Almost, with Tenderness is coming out very soon with @outspokenpress.bsky.social 💛🍃
outspokenldn.com/shop/almost
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Why fool around with work and stuff How about some short but sweet kisses
happy Friday from Bernadette Mayer
This is blowing up, let me formally welcome all new-comers to the Eleanor Rykener fanclub!
If you're looking for more premodern trans histories, check out Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography
📖 Paperback www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
🔗 Free pdf bit.ly/TGQS-OA
So excited about this book!! And not just because I have a deeply personal chapter in it lol
It also contains updated guidelines on making conferences accessible, essential reading for event organizers
#MedievalSky #Skystorians #CripSky #DisabilitySky 🗃️
THE RAINCOAT When the doctor suggested surgery and a brace for all my youngest years, my parents scrambled to take me to massage therapy, deep tissue work, osteopathy, and soon my crooked spine unspooled a bit, I could breathe again, and move more in a body unclouded by pain. My mom would tell me to sing songs to her the whole forty-five-minute drive to Middle Two Rock Road and forty-five minutes back from physical therapy. Shed say that even my voice sounded unfettered by my spine afterward. So I sang and sang, because I thought she liked it. I never asked her what she gave up to drive me, or how her day was before this chore. Today, at her age, I was driving myself home from yet another spine appointment, singing along to some maudlin but solid song on the radio, and I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I've been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marvel that I never got wet. Ada Limón
I love how tender this is.
By Ada Limón.
🥺❤️
in our latest article, Denise Filios studies heritage items that commemorate margery kempe's pilgrimage to santiago de compostela, focusing on the representation of kempe's racial and religious identity and how the medieval past interacts with today's diverse population of walkers
read the article👇