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Frankie Dytor
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British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Exeter | Queer & Trans visual & literary culture 1880-1930 | current project 'Aestheticism, Sexology, and the Making of Trans Feeling' | they/them
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massobsarchive.bsky.social
Today is the day! Record your day and be part of recording queer lives and histories in the UK. Sketch, type, write, or photograph your day. Even if you think your day isn't very interesting we'd still love to have it in our collection! All types of days, boring or brilliant are welcome #LGBTplusHM
massobsarchive.bsky.social Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social · 12d
We're looking to capture experiences of what it means to be queer in the UK today! To do that we're collecting day diaries for 12th February. It doesn't matter what you get up to, or how you record it, we'd love to have it!🧵 (1/4) #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26
massobsarchive.bsky.social Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social · Jan 12
In 1982, inspired by the work of MO the National Lesbian and Gay survey began, it sought to capture what everyday life was like for queer people living in the UK. For our latest open call we're continuing the work of NLGS and asking what does it mean to be queer every day?

#lgbtqhistory
February 12, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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dukepress.bsky.social
In their new book "Sex Isn't Real," Beans Velocci traces the history of current high stakes attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of trans life. Read a Q&A about their bold argument on the blog today. buff.ly/hB1k4Cw
Cover of Sex Isn't Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary by Beans Velocci. The cover features a mesh grid pattern in an off white against a black background. The title is written large in a serif font in the center of the cover. Each word is a different color— ‘sex’ is a light orange; ‘isn’t’ is a grey blue; ‘real’ is a teal. The subtitle is directly below in white. The author’s name is above the title also in white.
February 4, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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echomikeromeo.bsky.social
I am giving the Edinburgh Uni LGBTQ+ History Month lecture on the evening of 27 February, with the title 'Scottish Trans Pasts, Useable and Otherwise'. Details and link to register are here: hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even... Do come along if you're in Edinburgh!
LGBTQ+ History Month: 'Scottish trans pasts, useable and otherwise?' | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology
Celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month with Dr Sam Rutherford and learn more about the last 150 years of trans history in Scotland.
hca.ed.ac.uk
February 5, 2026 at 10:30 AM
frankiedytor.bsky.social
Really looking forward to this!
culturalcurrents.bsky.social culturalcurrents.bsky.social @culturalcurrents.bsky.social · Nov 4
Join us on Wed 12 Nov, 16.15-17.30 GMT for our next research seminar, featuring Dr Frankie Dytor @frankiedytor.bsky.social (University of Exeter) on 'Edith Lees Ellis and Queer Disability Studies at the Fin de Siècle' - DM for Teams link
November 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
frankiedytor.bsky.social
A few more days to get your proposals to us!
emmamerkling.bsky.social Emma Merkling @emmamerkling.bsky.social · Oct 20
Calling all c19 art and queer theory ppl! @frankiedytor.bsky.social and I are still welcoming proposals for our #AAH panel on c19 British art after trans studies: see CFP below. #c19 #lgbtqhistory
Call for papers: “The nineteenth century saw profound transformations in how being and embodiment were figured across British culture. Art and science were at the forefront of these changes. As new forms of subjectivity were being formulated, the relationship between the self and the body, and between the body and life itself, were being reconfigured in visual productions and scientific writings alike. These transformations were entangled with new, ambivalent, and profoundly modern ways of thinking about gender, sexuality, form, and the nature and limits of the human. In Victorian art, the body was opened up to forces and flows which constituted and exceeded it. This panel invites papers which centre trans studies as a lens through which to explore these turbulent transformations in nineteenth-century art. What modes of…” “… embodiment, being, or becoming come into view when Victorian visual culture is approached via trans theory? What kinds of subjects and materials come to matter differently? What are the uses of transness— attuned to transition, indeterminacy, multiplicity, and bodily change—as a theoretical and historical framework? We invite 20-minute papers exploring British art (broadly conceived) in the long nineteenth century through the lens of trans theory and/or from trans perspectives. Topics might include, but are not limited to: • The (un) making of the human; nonhuman bodies; monstrosity; animality • Ecology, metamorphosis, bodies and environments • Racialization of sex, gender, and embodiment • Coloniality of gender; imperialism and difference • Transness and disability; mutable, prosthetic, and anomalous bodies • Fairytales, folklore, myth, and transformation • Spirituality and immaterial bodies • Sexology and medical imaging”
October 31, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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emmamerkling.bsky.social
Calling all c19 art and queer theory ppl! @frankiedytor.bsky.social and I are still welcoming proposals for our #AAH panel on c19 British art after trans studies: see CFP below. #c19 #lgbtqhistory
Call for papers: “The nineteenth century saw profound transformations in how being and embodiment were figured across British culture. Art and science were at the forefront of these changes. As new forms of subjectivity were being formulated, the relationship between the self and the body, and between the body and life itself, were being reconfigured in visual productions and scientific writings alike. These transformations were entangled with new, ambivalent, and profoundly modern ways of thinking about gender, sexuality, form, and the nature and limits of the human. In Victorian art, the body was opened up to forces and flows which constituted and exceeded it. This panel invites papers which centre trans studies as a lens through which to explore these turbulent transformations in nineteenth-century art. What modes of…” “… embodiment, being, or becoming come into view when Victorian visual culture is approached via trans theory? What kinds of subjects and materials come to matter differently? What are the uses of transness— attuned to transition, indeterminacy, multiplicity, and bodily change—as a theoretical and historical framework? We invite 20-minute papers exploring British art (broadly conceived) in the long nineteenth century through the lens of trans theory and/or from trans perspectives. Topics might include, but are not limited to: • The (un) making of the human; nonhuman bodies; monstrosity; animality • Ecology, metamorphosis, bodies and environments • Racialization of sex, gender, and embodiment • Coloniality of gender; imperialism and difference • Transness and disability; mutable, prosthetic, and anomalous bodies • Fairytales, folklore, myth, and transformation • Spirituality and immaterial bodies • Sexology and medical imaging”
October 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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themerl.bsky.social
🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏

Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.

In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.

merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
The Absolute Units art. Three giant sheep hover over the English countryside.
October 16, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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profsarahparker.bsky.social
So excited that my article 'Michael Field’s “Caenis Caeneus”: Transmasculine Poetics at the Fin de Siècle', co-written with the fantastic @frankiedytor.bsky.social, is out in the world!
& in great company with @preraphsrule.bsky.social @kristinmahoney.bsky.social @nathankhensley.bsky.social & more!
Michael Field’s “Caenis Caeneus”: Transmasculine Poetics at the Fin de Siècle | Victorian Literature and Culture | Cambridge Core
Michael Field’s “Caenis Caeneus”: Transmasculine Poetics at the Fin de Siècle - Volume 53 Issue 2
www.cambridge.org
October 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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historyworkshop.org.uk
The summer has seen anti-trans campaigns across the UK and US, alongside a crisis in healthcare. But what use could trans history have in these time, beyond proving 'we have always been here'?

Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures:
www.historyworkshop....
September 23, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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uniofexetercvs.bsky.social
🗓️ Join us on Wednesday 26 March as we welcome @carolyndever.bsky.social to speak on "Speculative Biography: What Edith Knew" - a paper that explores the ethical challenges of reading the poet couple Michael Field not as one, but as two.

Open to all!
Please message if you would like a teams link.
A poster advertising an upcoming talk at the Centre for Victorian Studies, featuring the front cover of the verse drama 'World at Auction' by Michael Field.
March 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
frankiedytor.bsky.social
Last night saw the launch of QUEER CLASSICS in the iconic cast gallery of the Museum of Classical Archaeology in Cambridge. We screened the 1922 silent film Salomé - Alla Nazimova's decadent retelling of Oscar Wilde's scandalous play. Thanks all who came!
A photograph of a projector screen in the cast gallery of the Museum of Classical Archaeology.
March 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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uniofexetercvs.bsky.social
Hello, world! The Universityof Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies has moved to this platform, and will share news of its activities here. Posts will be created members of the CVS.
March 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM