Kind, generous, and moving roundup by @stevermentz on #TouchingThePast at #GWMEMSI. Marking 10 years of thinking (and acting!) together, and reflecting on transitions and change. @jeffreyjcohen #medievaltwitter #ShakeRace...
#medievaltwitter #TouchingThePast Theater historian EMcKay on past ways of handling the future and “castaway time.”
#medievaltwitter #TouchingThePast @RealMandeville with provocative closing: touching the past is not “owning” the past. You can touch the past, but the past can also grab you back.
#medievalm #TouchingThePast @RealMandeville on embodied criticism as critical mode: translating and traveling with Mandeville and with @RealMargery.
#medievaltwitter #TouchingThePast @RealMandeville Who polices our affective relationships to the past? “I am @RealMargery.” On living with MK’s language and intimate relation with object/subject is study as translator. Intimate critical practice and practice of voicing.
#medievaltwitter #TouchingThePast @RealMandeville on the historical trolling of @RealMargery — hate speech and verbal violence in her own day and the present: implications of misogyny, threat, “faggot” as charged Middle English term. Violent touch of past
#medievaltwitter #TouchingThePast Dinshaw: on Rykener and how performance opens up a new “now” and queer temporality in theater: invoked “trans-historicity” in embodied being across time; placeholder of trans* for the unknown
#medievaltwitter #TouchingThePast Dinshaw on Rykener reimagined in Finnish puppet theatre and use of educated guesses and imagination: “probable and the possible” in drama and performance
#medievaltwitter #TouchingThePast Dinshaw’s shoutout to @bruceholsinger’s reinvention of Rykener and fluid use of pronouns/kinship terms in this fiction
#medievaltwitter #TouchingThePast Dinshaw: queer error and unknowability of the grammatical “mistake” IGNOTOS (“unknown/unknowing”) in Rykener record in Latin
#MedievalTwitter #TouchingThePast Dinshaw on Rykener as “passing” in more ways than one: perceived as female, and successfully instructed/tutored in profession of sexual work
#medievaltwitter #TouchingThePast Dinshaw brilliant reads between lines of 14c Rykener interrogation record to discern meta-theatrical performance, epistemologies of sex work
