Alysandra Dutton
@alysandra.bsky.social
stuck in 753 BCE 🏺not your boyfriend’s Ancient Rome 🏺 work in The Sun & Electric Lit 🏺 rep’d by Lucy Carson
For the past five years, I’ve been working on a retelling of the story of the Sabine Women. And now it’s finally, finally, coming to your shelves!!
October 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
For the past five years, I’ve been working on a retelling of the story of the Sabine Women. And now it’s finally, finally, coming to your shelves!!
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I have a new story out! And I'm so proud of it! I hope you like it as much as I do ✨🎺🥤
Thanks to @stevexisxok.bsky.social for one of the most encouraging, enlightening editorial processes I've experienced. I can't recommend submitting to OKD enough!
Thanks to @stevexisxok.bsky.social for one of the most encouraging, enlightening editorial processes I've experienced. I can't recommend submitting to OKD enough!
"I'll walk through the front door and everyone will cheer, like I'm a fan favorite in a sitcom."
"All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me" by @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
"All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me" by @mackenziemcgee.bsky.social, new flash fiction out today at OKD. 📝
All the Friends I Could Have Made are Having Fun Without Me by Mackenzie McGee
Alexis throws a big party and everyone’s invited. She lives a half-hour drive from her childhood home, the one with the big bay window and the basement where we had sleepovers every other weekend f…
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September 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I have a new story out! And I'm so proud of it! I hope you like it as much as I do ✨🎺🥤
Thanks to @stevexisxok.bsky.social for one of the most encouraging, enlightening editorial processes I've experienced. I can't recommend submitting to OKD enough!
Thanks to @stevexisxok.bsky.social for one of the most encouraging, enlightening editorial processes I've experienced. I can't recommend submitting to OKD enough!
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Y'all. Masking is important. I have never stopped masking. I light up when I see a well-masked space, because it means I can have more confidence in my own mask. But using every opportunity to shame people for not masking...is not helping.
August 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Y'all. Masking is important. I have never stopped masking. I light up when I see a well-masked space, because it means I can have more confidence in my own mask. But using every opportunity to shame people for not masking...is not helping.
I just remembered that as a kid I used to play this game I made up called “poppy field” wherein I had to get from point a to point b without breathing in too much poppy vapor and falling asleep. Inevitably, this meant making little nests on the floor and napping dramatically in them.
August 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I just remembered that as a kid I used to play this game I made up called “poppy field” wherein I had to get from point a to point b without breathing in too much poppy vapor and falling asleep. Inevitably, this meant making little nests on the floor and napping dramatically in them.
chocolate covered skittles pop’d
July 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM
chocolate covered skittles pop’d
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Here are some tips for ways to “show up” when you aren’t able to show up in person, as well as suggestions for all of us for building more inclusive movements for social justice and human rights.
How to Protest If You're Disabled And Can't Show Up at Rallies
Tips and tricks to help you resist.
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June 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Here are some tips for ways to “show up” when you aren’t able to show up in person, as well as suggestions for all of us for building more inclusive movements for social justice and human rights.
Tonight the 12 activists aboard the Madleen have been kidnapped in international waters and taken into custody. Reliable live updates from Al Jazeera, for those not wanting to rely on algorithm to keep them up to date— www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Israeli commados taking Gaza-bound aid ship, Madleen, to Israel
The Madleen crew is being detained by Israeli forces after their ship was stopped close to 160km from Gaza.
www.aljazeera.com
June 9, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Tonight the 12 activists aboard the Madleen have been kidnapped in international waters and taken into custody. Reliable live updates from Al Jazeera, for those not wanting to rely on algorithm to keep them up to date— www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
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Half-figure of a Young Woman #artbots #klimt
https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/1351216
https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/1351216
May 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Half-figure of a Young Woman #artbots #klimt
https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/1351216
https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/1351216
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Tomorrow at 3pm UK/10am EDT, I'll be chatting with Dr Jane Draycott @jldraycott.bsky.social about her book Fulvia: the Woman who broke all the rules in ancient Rome
It'll be recorded if you miss it!
www.youtube.com/live/6hnNHnS...
It'll be recorded if you miss it!
www.youtube.com/live/6hnNHnS...
The Roman Woman Who Broke All The Rules with Dr Jane Draycott
YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble
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May 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Tomorrow at 3pm UK/10am EDT, I'll be chatting with Dr Jane Draycott @jldraycott.bsky.social about her book Fulvia: the Woman who broke all the rules in ancient Rome
It'll be recorded if you miss it!
www.youtube.com/live/6hnNHnS...
It'll be recorded if you miss it!
www.youtube.com/live/6hnNHnS...
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Look at this gorgeous bookmark my friend Emily made me to match RAVISHING!! True friendship, I tell you!
May 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Look at this gorgeous bookmark my friend Emily made me to match RAVISHING!! True friendship, I tell you!
So deep in my butternut squash era honestly
May 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
So deep in my butternut squash era honestly
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Okay, let's talk a bit about my book! I've said a few times that it's about Rome but Not Like That – what do I mean?
The popular idea of ancient Rome is incredibly powerful – ask 100 people to summon up an image of ancient Rome and I bet most could and also that their ideas would be quite similar.
The popular idea of ancient Rome is incredibly powerful – ask 100 people to summon up an image of ancient Rome and I bet most could and also that their ideas would be quite similar.
May 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Okay, let's talk a bit about my book! I've said a few times that it's about Rome but Not Like That – what do I mean?
The popular idea of ancient Rome is incredibly powerful – ask 100 people to summon up an image of ancient Rome and I bet most could and also that their ideas would be quite similar.
The popular idea of ancient Rome is incredibly powerful – ask 100 people to summon up an image of ancient Rome and I bet most could and also that their ideas would be quite similar.
I joined a million dollhouse miniature crafting groups on Facebook and now my feed is a million times better and I’m considering buying a glue gun.
May 11, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I joined a million dollhouse miniature crafting groups on Facebook and now my feed is a million times better and I’m considering buying a glue gun.
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Yesterday's conversation about the Herculaneum Papyri with Michael McOsker is now out on Spotify too! #AncientBlueSky
open.spotify.com/episode/6het...
open.spotify.com/episode/6het...
Decoding the Herculaneum Papyri with Dr Michael McOsker
Archaeology with Flint Dibble · Episode
open.spotify.com
May 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Yesterday's conversation about the Herculaneum Papyri with Michael McOsker is now out on Spotify too! #AncientBlueSky
open.spotify.com/episode/6het...
open.spotify.com/episode/6het...
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This episode has everything: smuggling, scandal, Sappho, a disgraced Oxford prof, & a 🔥 takedown of everyone's least favorite 'hobby' store. Check out our AWESOME episode on the extreme & illegal lengths collectors go through for papyri #PeoplingThePast #CulturalHeritage #AntiquitiesTrade #Papyri
New #PeoplingPodcast alert! Today, we are joined by @robertamazza.bsky.social to discuss the antiquities trade in both the past and the present, the ethics behind papyrology, and the illicit papyrus trade in academia. Listen in to “Fragments and Falsehoods” here: peoplingthepast.com/2025/05/06/p...
May 6, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This episode has everything: smuggling, scandal, Sappho, a disgraced Oxford prof, & a 🔥 takedown of everyone's least favorite 'hobby' store. Check out our AWESOME episode on the extreme & illegal lengths collectors go through for papyri #PeoplingThePast #CulturalHeritage #AntiquitiesTrade #Papyri
The way I feel about Shy Girl by Haute & Freddy as a song is exactly what I felt in 2021 about Chappel Roan’s Pink Pony Club—“darn, this little artist is so obscure I’m never gonna be able to convince people to play them at dance parties”
May 5, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The way I feel about Shy Girl by Haute & Freddy as a song is exactly what I felt in 2021 about Chappel Roan’s Pink Pony Club—“darn, this little artist is so obscure I’m never gonna be able to convince people to play them at dance parties”
Listen I just wanna sell a bunch of books and then dedicate myself to the passionate world of making bespoke dollhouse furniture. That is my dream for my life. Writing stories. Carving tiny things.
April 25, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Listen I just wanna sell a bunch of books and then dedicate myself to the passionate world of making bespoke dollhouse furniture. That is my dream for my life. Writing stories. Carving tiny things.
Okay but Sinners was instantly my favorite movie by about halfway through.
April 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Okay but Sinners was instantly my favorite movie by about halfway through.
Today’s update is I watched all of Dying For Sex, ugly cried about how much I love my friends, and insisted Charlie nap not on a pillow, but on my lap, because I’m incapable of letting him out of my sight. 10/10 show, loved it.
April 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Today’s update is I watched all of Dying For Sex, ugly cried about how much I love my friends, and insisted Charlie nap not on a pillow, but on my lap, because I’m incapable of letting him out of my sight. 10/10 show, loved it.
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I’m happy to announce that the chapter my advisor and I co-wrote for Women and the Army in the Roman Empire is now available for purchase on Cambridge’s website www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
November 2, 2024 at 3:18 PM
I’m happy to announce that the chapter my advisor and I co-wrote for Women and the Army in the Roman Empire is now available for purchase on Cambridge’s website www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
It’s been a little while since I had some good airport serendipity, but today I sat down right across from one of my favorite former students and their mother! It’s wonderful to see a talented kiddo grow even more cool and enthusiastic!
March 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
It’s been a little while since I had some good airport serendipity, but today I sat down right across from one of my favorite former students and their mother! It’s wonderful to see a talented kiddo grow even more cool and enthusiastic!
Asked the grocery store cashier if I was gonna regret buying sushi on 3$ off day and they looked me dead center nowhere near my eyes and went “nnnnnnnnooooo?”
March 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Asked the grocery store cashier if I was gonna regret buying sushi on 3$ off day and they looked me dead center nowhere near my eyes and went “nnnnnnnnooooo?”
Charlie has named his sourdough starter “Yorgos” because “there’s some kind of organic chemistry in those movies, but it’s not life as I recognize it.”
March 24, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Charlie has named his sourdough starter “Yorgos” because “there’s some kind of organic chemistry in those movies, but it’s not life as I recognize it.”
I am being an absolute household terror about the fact that Charlie is reading my most recent draft. He’s on page forty one. He thinks it’s “really great.” But three pages ago he said, “it’s good!” What is the truth? What changed? Doesn’t he know his the opinion I care for the most?
March 18, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I am being an absolute household terror about the fact that Charlie is reading my most recent draft. He’s on page forty one. He thinks it’s “really great.” But three pages ago he said, “it’s good!” What is the truth? What changed? Doesn’t he know his the opinion I care for the most?