Dr. Jessica McKenzie
@jessicamckenzie.bsky.social
roman historian and archaeologist, learning designer, educator, escaped muppet. writing on the strait of messina, mobility and connectivity, and trans monsters. she/her 🏳️⚧️
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Okay, here’s the deal: RIGHT NOW is the time for concrete, direct action.
If you’re following me, it’s probably because you care about trans art and trans literature. The article below lays out my suggestions for dozens of concrete actions you can take to preemptively combat literary censorship.
If you’re following me, it’s probably because you care about trans art and trans literature. The article below lays out my suggestions for dozens of concrete actions you can take to preemptively combat literary censorship.
The Trans Literature Preservation Project: A Practical Guide to Resisting Censorship
Project 2025 wants to criminalize trans literature. Here’s a game plan for keeping our stories alive.
thetransfemininereview.com
January 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Okay, here’s the deal: RIGHT NOW is the time for concrete, direct action.
If you’re following me, it’s probably because you care about trans art and trans literature. The article below lays out my suggestions for dozens of concrete actions you can take to preemptively combat literary censorship.
If you’re following me, it’s probably because you care about trans art and trans literature. The article below lays out my suggestions for dozens of concrete actions you can take to preemptively combat literary censorship.
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CFP: Putting Objects with Gods/Putting Gods with Objects:
Divine Attributes and Materiality in Ancient Mediterranean Religion and Mythology www.uc.pt/site/assets/...
Divine Attributes and Materiality in Ancient Mediterranean Religion and Mythology www.uc.pt/site/assets/...
www.uc.pt
January 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM
CFP: Putting Objects with Gods/Putting Gods with Objects:
Divine Attributes and Materiality in Ancient Mediterranean Religion and Mythology www.uc.pt/site/assets/...
Divine Attributes and Materiality in Ancient Mediterranean Religion and Mythology www.uc.pt/site/assets/...
So delighted and honoured to have been part of this. Out now!
ANNOUNCING...
A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology - our first book! 🎉
📅Available 5th Feb 2025 (but you can preorder now)
🤝 In collaboration with @contubernales.bsky.social
✍️ 117 different writers
🖼️ Periodic Table Poster by @corabeth.bsky.social
👇 Read more...
A Periodic Table of Greek Mythology - our first book! 🎉
📅Available 5th Feb 2025 (but you can preorder now)
🤝 In collaboration with @contubernales.bsky.social
✍️ 117 different writers
🖼️ Periodic Table Poster by @corabeth.bsky.social
👇 Read more...
January 9, 2025 at 1:25 AM
So delighted and honoured to have been part of this. Out now!
#classics #ancientbluesky #archaeology
Advice you wish you had when turning your PhD into a book? Im deep in the weeds
Advice you wish you had when turning your PhD into a book? Im deep in the weeds
December 16, 2024 at 10:29 PM
#classics #ancientbluesky #archaeology
Advice you wish you had when turning your PhD into a book? Im deep in the weeds
Advice you wish you had when turning your PhD into a book? Im deep in the weeds
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This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
December 11, 2024 at 10:43 PM
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
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Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes
December 12, 2024 at 4:31 AM
Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes
Romans: here are very detailed depictions of various fish
Also Romans: whales are basically swimming dragons idfk
Also Romans: whales are basically swimming dragons idfk
#MosaicMonday
This mosaic found in #Pompeii depicts, as many roman mosaics did, several sea animals, including a detailed octopus. You can see it in the Archaeological Museum of Naples.
Photo: mine.
#AncientBlueSky🏺 #Archaeology
This mosaic found in #Pompeii depicts, as many roman mosaics did, several sea animals, including a detailed octopus. You can see it in the Archaeological Museum of Naples.
Photo: mine.
#AncientBlueSky🏺 #Archaeology
December 9, 2024 at 11:44 PM
Romans: here are very detailed depictions of various fish
Also Romans: whales are basically swimming dragons idfk
Also Romans: whales are basically swimming dragons idfk
delightful to share my passion for object based learning this week @asciliteconf.bsky.social
December 4, 2024 at 6:59 AM
delightful to share my passion for object based learning this week @asciliteconf.bsky.social
Fun fact: the roman empire collapsed because the strain of feeding the sauropods became too high
December 3, 2024 at 1:54 AM
Fun fact: the roman empire collapsed because the strain of feeding the sauropods became too high
a general curiosity about what makes people and cultures tick, supercharged by how welcoming, supportive, and uplifting the community was - a space and group unlike anything else i had experienced at that age 🥰
Dear fellow historians: I recently asked my undergraduate students what sparked their interest in studying history. Two of them mentioned the film Titanic! Now I'm curious (and will let them know): What sparked your interest in studying #history?
November 28, 2024 at 10:20 PM
a general curiosity about what makes people and cultures tick, supercharged by how welcoming, supportive, and uplifting the community was - a space and group unlike anything else i had experienced at that age 🥰
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A big win for the NTEU. Australia’s vice-chancellors are amongst the highest paid in the world but they’ve been poor stewards of higher education, unable to explain its national importance or to advocate effectively for HASS. This is long overdue:
www.theaustralian.com.au/subscribe/ne...
www.theaustralian.com.au/subscribe/ne...
November 25, 2024 at 8:23 PM
A big win for the NTEU. Australia’s vice-chancellors are amongst the highest paid in the world but they’ve been poor stewards of higher education, unable to explain its national importance or to advocate effectively for HASS. This is long overdue:
www.theaustralian.com.au/subscribe/ne...
www.theaustralian.com.au/subscribe/ne...
what a cracker shot, and excellent resource!
November 25, 2024 at 10:41 AM
what a cracker shot, and excellent resource!
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Our latest book review on Rhea!
@fallaxharuspex.bsky.social reviews Marco Benoît Carbone "Geographies of Myth and Places of Identity: The Strait of Scylla and Charybdis in the Modern Imagination" (@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social 2022).
@fallaxharuspex.bsky.social reviews Marco Benoît Carbone "Geographies of Myth and Places of Identity: The Strait of Scylla and Charybdis in the Modern Imagination" (@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social 2022).
Geographies of Myth and Places of Identity: The Strait of Scylla and Charybdis in the Modern Imagination
Marco Benoît Carbone, Geographies of Myth and Places of Identity: The Strait of Scylla and Charybdis in the Modern Imagination (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022). 9781350118201. Reviewed b…
rheaclassicalreviews.com
November 21, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Our latest book review on Rhea!
@fallaxharuspex.bsky.social reviews Marco Benoît Carbone "Geographies of Myth and Places of Identity: The Strait of Scylla and Charybdis in the Modern Imagination" (@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social 2022).
@fallaxharuspex.bsky.social reviews Marco Benoît Carbone "Geographies of Myth and Places of Identity: The Strait of Scylla and Charybdis in the Modern Imagination" (@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social 2022).
Thank you ☺️
November 20, 2024 at 8:21 AM
Thank you ☺️
Could i please be added to this list? Thank you ☺️
November 19, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Could i please be added to this list? Thank you ☺️
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CfP alert! 📢 Mythological Game Studies Conference
@maciejpaprocki.bsky.social and I are organizing an online conference on mythology & video games (May 2025). We're interested in everything games, myth, mythology & mythologies! Abstract deadline: Feb 2!
For more: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
@maciejpaprocki.bsky.social and I are organizing an online conference on mythology & video games (May 2025). We're interested in everything games, myth, mythology & mythologies! Abstract deadline: Feb 2!
For more: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
November 18, 2024 at 1:56 PM
CfP alert! 📢 Mythological Game Studies Conference
@maciejpaprocki.bsky.social and I are organizing an online conference on mythology & video games (May 2025). We're interested in everything games, myth, mythology & mythologies! Abstract deadline: Feb 2!
For more: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
@maciejpaprocki.bsky.social and I are organizing an online conference on mythology & video games (May 2025). We're interested in everything games, myth, mythology & mythologies! Abstract deadline: Feb 2!
For more: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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As more folks migrate here, the list of scholars/professionals engaging with ancient gender and sexuality starter kit grows. There is room for others to be included. go.bsky.app/7WfPe2L
November 18, 2024 at 3:29 PM
As more folks migrate here, the list of scholars/professionals engaging with ancient gender and sexuality starter kit grows. There is room for others to be included. go.bsky.app/7WfPe2L
This year's Greek Love was a spooky sold out smash!
November 14, 2024 at 10:57 PM
This year's Greek Love was a spooky sold out smash!