Our Hilary Term 2026 term card is here! 🏳️🌈📚
Join us this term for reading groups, workshops, a film screening, and a special book launch.
All events are free and open to all!
#history #queerstudies #genderstudies #skystorians
Come celebrate queer research with us!
The History Faculty LGBTQ+ Network is hosting a social to celebrate the LGBTQ+ History Library Guide. Join us for a presentation by librarian Rachel D’Arcy-Brown @bodleian.ox.ac.uk and updates on upcoming events. Everyone is invited!
#skystorians #history
I am big fan of complexly, crash course and scishow, and was honestly expecting a much more nuanced and thoughtful take.
While also neglecting to mention that the UFCO STILL exists under the name Chiquita, and still abuses workers' rights and safety. Recognising that local elites supported the CIA intervention is important. Still, it doesn't really change the narrative.
While I'm all for questioning established narratives, this take is kind of weird. You're posing communism as a real threat that in your words the US government would have been "forced" to confront in a military conflict unless employing covert techniques such as overthrowing elected officials [1/2]
This Tuesday!
I think all these textual tools can be used for good and for evil. It depends on our values and cho
That was a beautiful and soul nourishing read. Thank you rabbi
Dark chocolate is always the right answer
It's so frustrating, I support BDS, but they are ignoring the actual actions taken on the ground and the comments from Palestinian members of Standing Together
Any thoughts and resources on dealing with emotionally difficult subject matter in research? The case study I am currently working on is especially emotionally gruelling and I am wondering if there is a way to make the experience less difficult. #AcademicSky #Skystorians #AcademicWriting
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I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
ooof. hard relate
An etching of a shaggy small black and white dog sitting on top of a small wooden table
Are you ready for some paws-itvely lovely content?
To celebrate International Dog Day, we want to give a round of a-paws to the dogs in our collection.
🐕 Detail from Dog sitting on a table, 1874, Richard Samuel Chattock (1825–1906). Etching print, 7.5 x 7.4 cm. WA1995.58.1
Amazing how such small numbers have been identified as the voice of the nation when, for comparison, 100,000 turned out for trans pride last month in London.
can't even imagine getting to a thousand in one day!
As an early modernist working on Spain, I can happily confirm that it clearly happened in 1492
AMAZING
Can anyone recommend readings on *premodern* disability and sexuality, and/or disability and queerness? #disabilitystudies #history #queerhistory #lgbthistory #earlymodern
Thank you for sharing!
Amazing, congratulations!!
The benefits of our sedentary lifestyle... Get well soon!!
Over 600 people turned up to yesterday’s Foreign Office protest led by Jews and Israelis from mi-neged and Na’amod to demand SANCTIONS NOW on Israel.
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
A fantastic, playful read
Cripping the Archive Disability, History, and Power Author: Edited by Jenifer L. Barclay and Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy
Happy Pub Date to CRIPPING THE ARCHIVE: Disability, History, & Power edited by @jenbarclay.bsky.social & @stefhuntkennedy.bsky.social!
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...
#DisabilityStudies #DisabilityHistory #Nonfiction
cc: @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social @discoverunb.bsky.social
How exciting, looking forward to reading this!
On this day in queer history: Aug 5, 1961
Milwaukee’s LGBTQ+ community, led by Josie Carter, fought back against homophobic attackers at Black Nite bar. One of the earliest queer uprisings in U.S. history—years before Stonewall. ✊🏳️🌈
#QueerHistory #OnThisDay #BlackNiteRiot #JosieCarter #Milwaukee
It's a lovely app and music! I really hope a version for mac that sinks with the iOS one comes soon
Happy to share that I have received an Honorable Mention Innovative Scholarship prize for my 2024 @jewishstudies.bsky.social conference paper "Converso Families and Sodomy Trials in Early Modern Spain". As I am powering through the writing up of my thesis, it is so lovely to receive this boost!
