Caroline Gonda (she/her)
@liederfollower.bsky.social
queer receptionista (h/t Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social), lover of songs and stories, writer of flash. #LWithTheT
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Anne Seymour Damer: public life, private love
Gossip about Anne Damer's sexuality nearly wrecked her relationships and reputation, but in this queer love story, love outlasts scandal.
www.britishmuseum.org
My blog for the British Museum on Anne Damer is now live - very happy to see this out in the world. #AnneDamer #PrideMonth #LGBTQIA #c18th
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A must-have! Dulcibella agrees. First print run (which admittedly was not on the scale of, like, Byron's Don Juan) is nearly sold out, get your copy here: veer2.org/Kit-Fryatt-H...
November 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
A must-have! Dulcibella agrees. First print run (which admittedly was not on the scale of, like, Byron's Don Juan) is nearly sold out, get your copy here: veer2.org/Kit-Fryatt-H...
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Really pleased that the lecture I gave on disability in history for @histassoc.bsky.social is now live and #openaccess #DisabilityHistoryMonth #CriptheCurriculum #18C #WilliamHay #LifeWriting Link: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Film: Disability in Britain and Ireland – 1714 to 1785
eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Really pleased that the lecture I gave on disability in history for @histassoc.bsky.social is now live and #openaccess #DisabilityHistoryMonth #CriptheCurriculum #18C #WilliamHay #LifeWriting Link: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Keegan’s book is just so, so good - on how poetry expresses, refracts, and critiques state-managed capitalism, and how it does this by developing interdisciplinary public forms. I’ve been reading this book all week and cannot wait to talk with Keegan and Chris later today!
This Saturday at 7 pm, two @columbiaup.bsky.social authors, Keegan Cook Finberg and Kristin Grogan discuss their extraordinary new books, POETRY IN GENERAL and STITCH, UNSTITCH: in conversation w/ Christopher Nealon at @redemmas.org! bit.ly/3LAvRYz @keegancf.bsky.social @kristingrogan.bsky.social
Keegan Cook Finberg and Kristin Grogan present "Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public" and "Stitch, Unstitch Modernist Poetry and the World of Work" in conversation w/ Christopher Nealo...
Join us for an evening of rethinking the power and labor of poetry in everyday spaces.
bit.ly
November 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Keegan’s book is just so, so good - on how poetry expresses, refracts, and critiques state-managed capitalism, and how it does this by developing interdisciplinary public forms. I’ve been reading this book all week and cannot wait to talk with Keegan and Chris later today!
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I keep thinking abt a boy my mum (a retired English professor) tutored for his English lit GCSEs. He was obsessed w/the orange juice presser in Gatsby. But the stupid GCSE guide specified sticking to specific themes/words, so Mum had to keep redirecting him to those (1/7) @johannawinant.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I keep thinking abt a boy my mum (a retired English professor) tutored for his English lit GCSEs. He was obsessed w/the orange juice presser in Gatsby. But the stupid GCSE guide specified sticking to specific themes/words, so Mum had to keep redirecting him to those (1/7) @johannawinant.bsky.social
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Final night tonight! It's been a phenomenal experience - if you're in London and want to support trans artists then COME!
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
If cost is a barrier, just message me and we'll work it out - we want you there
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
If cost is a barrier, just message me and we'll work it out - we want you there
November 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Final night tonight! It's been a phenomenal experience - if you're in London and want to support trans artists then COME!
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
If cost is a barrier, just message me and we'll work it out - we want you there
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
If cost is a barrier, just message me and we'll work it out - we want you there
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1. These changes aren’t about budgets or enrollments.
2. My colleague has been deeply involved in this :waves hands: all along the way. What he shares here isn’t performative handwringing wrapped in clever rhetoric.
2. My colleague has been deeply involved in this :waves hands: all along the way. What he shares here isn’t performative handwringing wrapped in clever rhetoric.
academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
academeblog.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
1. These changes aren’t about budgets or enrollments.
2. My colleague has been deeply involved in this :waves hands: all along the way. What he shares here isn’t performative handwringing wrapped in clever rhetoric.
2. My colleague has been deeply involved in this :waves hands: all along the way. What he shares here isn’t performative handwringing wrapped in clever rhetoric.
Exciting news from the wonderful @naoisemurphy.bsky.social - so happy to see this!
My book is coming out soon and you can ask your library to order it! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queerin...
If you have loads of money, you can also order it yourself, and use the code NEW30 to get a 30% discount, but I recommend the library route 📚📚
If you have loads of money, you can also order it yourself, and use the code NEW30 to get a 30% discount, but I recommend the library route 📚📚
Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing
Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Exciting news from the wonderful @naoisemurphy.bsky.social - so happy to see this!
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Baltimore! Red Emma’s! Tomorrow!
This Saturday at 7 pm, two @columbiaup.bsky.social authors, Keegan Cook Finberg and Kristin Grogan discuss their extraordinary new books, POETRY IN GENERAL and STITCH, UNSTITCH: in conversation w/ Christopher Nealon at @redemmas.org! bit.ly/3LAvRYz @keegancf.bsky.social @kristingrogan.bsky.social
Keegan Cook Finberg and Kristin Grogan present "Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public" and "Stitch, Unstitch Modernist Poetry and the World of Work" in conversation w/ Christopher Nealo...
Join us for an evening of rethinking the power and labor of poetry in everyday spaces.
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Baltimore! Red Emma’s! Tomorrow!
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WHAT DOES HENSELPUSHERS DO?
A lot! In honor of Fanny Hensel's 220th birthday today, here is an overview of everything on offer.
I've grouped henselpushers' activities into four categories:
1) Free scores
2) Arrangements & special editions
3) Directories & resources
4) Events & Videos
A lot! In honor of Fanny Hensel's 220th birthday today, here is an overview of everything on offer.
I've grouped henselpushers' activities into four categories:
1) Free scores
2) Arrangements & special editions
3) Directories & resources
4) Events & Videos
November 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
WHAT DOES HENSELPUSHERS DO?
A lot! In honor of Fanny Hensel's 220th birthday today, here is an overview of everything on offer.
I've grouped henselpushers' activities into four categories:
1) Free scores
2) Arrangements & special editions
3) Directories & resources
4) Events & Videos
A lot! In honor of Fanny Hensel's 220th birthday today, here is an overview of everything on offer.
I've grouped henselpushers' activities into four categories:
1) Free scores
2) Arrangements & special editions
3) Directories & resources
4) Events & Videos
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My book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is now available for pre-order in a paperback priced for humans! Go get it!
A Funny Thing | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is now available for pre-order in a paperback priced for humans! Go get it!
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Really appreciate this statement from ACLS director Joy Connolly about federal attempts to suppress certain scholarly fields, including gender & sexuality studies. Love to see scholarship funding bodies speak up in explicit and pointed ways about their ideals. www.acls.org/news/speakin....
Speaking Out for All Studies: November 12, 2025 Advocacy Update
Joy Connolly shares how ACLS is standing with scholars and societies defending academic freedom and humanistic inquiry against censorship, defunding, and political interference.
www.acls.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Really appreciate this statement from ACLS director Joy Connolly about federal attempts to suppress certain scholarly fields, including gender & sexuality studies. Love to see scholarship funding bodies speak up in explicit and pointed ways about their ideals. www.acls.org/news/speakin....
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In other, beautiful news - Transpose: SUBVERSE opening night at Barbican was an absolute joy and wonder last night. We have three nights left - if trans art and incredible music/poetry is your thing, then come/share/both!
If cost is a barrier, just message.
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
If cost is a barrier, just message.
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
November 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
In other, beautiful news - Transpose: SUBVERSE opening night at Barbican was an absolute joy and wonder last night. We have three nights left - if trans art and incredible music/poetry is your thing, then come/share/both!
If cost is a barrier, just message.
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
If cost is a barrier, just message.
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
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New York people: doing this celebratory event on the centenary of The Weary Blues at NYU next Thursday. It's going to be a lot of fun - come along?
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
New York people: doing this celebratory event on the centenary of The Weary Blues at NYU next Thursday. It's going to be a lot of fun - come along?
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Thanks to @awickenden.bsky.social's suggestion yesterday, I'm now going to be teaching The Waste Land all day while mentally rewriting it to the tune of Eleanor Rigby e.g.
Saint Mary Woolnoth
Keeping the hours with a thunk on the last stroke of nine
It's Stetson time
Saint Mary Woolnoth
Keeping the hours with a thunk on the last stroke of nine
It's Stetson time
Madame Sosostris / Had a bad cold and a Hanged Man that no-one could find
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Thanks to @awickenden.bsky.social's suggestion yesterday, I'm now going to be teaching The Waste Land all day while mentally rewriting it to the tune of Eleanor Rigby e.g.
Saint Mary Woolnoth
Keeping the hours with a thunk on the last stroke of nine
It's Stetson time
Saint Mary Woolnoth
Keeping the hours with a thunk on the last stroke of nine
It's Stetson time
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this is correct. like unironically completely seriously yes this is what happened
bsky.app/profile/robj...
bsky.app/profile/robj...
The only reason Europe isn't covered in collapsed mediaeval cathedrals is that they reused the stone for the next attempt at getting one to stay up. 😈
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
this is correct. like unironically completely seriously yes this is what happened
bsky.app/profile/robj...
bsky.app/profile/robj...
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Read this, on software, maintenance, political community, Ursula Le Guin, and the public good. You will be pleased that you did!
Sparks fly up
Once you’ve seized the tools of political life to build communal power, it’s hard to forget what a hammer feels like in your hand.
www.wrecka.ge
November 12, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Read this, on software, maintenance, political community, Ursula Le Guin, and the public good. You will be pleased that you did!
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Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
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Iona is a fantastically good writer.
So I wrote two books. both are set in London, in winter, in 2021. One is an alternate future history, a sparse love story where a spad and civil servant work on Brexit together and fall unwillingly in love; the other is a sports anime, a post-pandemic f/f romance. here they both are:
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Iona is a fantastically good writer.
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So I wrote two books. both are set in London, in winter, in 2021. One is an alternate future history, a sparse love story where a spad and civil servant work on Brexit together and fall unwillingly in love; the other is a sports anime, a post-pandemic f/f romance. here they both are:
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
So I wrote two books. both are set in London, in winter, in 2021. One is an alternate future history, a sparse love story where a spad and civil servant work on Brexit together and fall unwillingly in love; the other is a sports anime, a post-pandemic f/f romance. here they both are:
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For colleagues in the UK: Yale UP is running a 50% discount through November, using the promo code FIFTY. Lots of books at much better prices, including my own: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Novels, Needleworks, and Empire - Yale University Press London
The first sustained study of the vibrant links between domestic craft and British colonialism Finalist, Susanne M. Glasscock Book Prize In the e...
yalebooks.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
For colleagues in the UK: Yale UP is running a 50% discount through November, using the promo code FIFTY. Lots of books at much better prices, including my own: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
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1824: Read 'Macbeth' what a soul-thrilling power hovers about this tradegy I have read it over about 20 times & it chains my feelings still to its persual like a new thing it is Shakespears masterpiece the thrilling feelings created by the description of Lady Macbeths terror-haunted walkings in...
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 AM
1824: Read 'Macbeth' what a soul-thrilling power hovers about this tradegy I have read it over about 20 times & it chains my feelings still to its persual like a new thing it is Shakespears masterpiece the thrilling feelings created by the description of Lady Macbeths terror-haunted walkings in...
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Found this clipping from who knows where in an envelope with photos at my mom’s. Remember this, ladies, the next time jackasses start mouthing off about how you’re ruining the workplace. (Also my mom worked at Yale so LOL)
November 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Found this clipping from who knows where in an envelope with photos at my mom’s. Remember this, ladies, the next time jackasses start mouthing off about how you’re ruining the workplace. (Also my mom worked at Yale so LOL)