Louise Siddons
@lsiddons.bsky.social
Diversity is strength. Equity is freedom. Inclusion is liberation.
Professor of Visual Politics, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Also dance caller/teacher, public transport fan, avid walker, and sometime printmaker.
Professor of Visual Politics, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Also dance caller/teacher, public transport fan, avid walker, and sometime printmaker.
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Today is Equal Pay Day: the day women effectively stop earning compared to men.
We fight inequality wherever we find it.
That’s why GMB Union members have launched more than 25 equal pay claims at employers across the UK 👏
We fight inequality wherever we find it.
That’s why GMB Union members have launched more than 25 equal pay claims at employers across the UK 👏
November 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Today is Equal Pay Day: the day women effectively stop earning compared to men.
We fight inequality wherever we find it.
That’s why GMB Union members have launched more than 25 equal pay claims at employers across the UK 👏
We fight inequality wherever we find it.
That’s why GMB Union members have launched more than 25 equal pay claims at employers across the UK 👏
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Encountering myself in the wild at #LesbianLives — just outside the room where I’m about to present. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Encountering myself in the wild at #LesbianLives — just outside the room where I’m about to present. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social
Enjoyed seeing prints by women at the V&A, but will there ever be a print exhibition that doesn’t feel compelled to explain print processes in detail? Other media don’t get this treatment. Also have qs about the aggressive pastoralism of their 21st-c selection…
October 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Enjoyed seeing prints by women at the V&A, but will there ever be a print exhibition that doesn’t feel compelled to explain print processes in detail? Other media don’t get this treatment. Also have qs about the aggressive pastoralism of their 21st-c selection…
This morning’s FT inadvertently summarises management everywhere in its analysis of corporate discussions of AI: “When we spoke to executives, they would often say the internal tool was very successful,” said Challapally. “But when we spoke to employees, we found zero usage.”
September 23, 2025 at 7:05 AM
This morning’s FT inadvertently summarises management everywhere in its analysis of corporate discussions of AI: “When we spoke to executives, they would often say the internal tool was very successful,” said Challapally. “But when we spoke to employees, we found zero usage.”
Summer’s almost over (where does the time go?!) and I’ve been meaning for months to share this lovely short review of Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon by Cassandra Langer for The G&LR: glreview.org/article/shor... — next up, new research from this project at Lesbian Lives in NYC this Oct!
Short Reviews - The Gay & Lesbian Review
glreview.org
August 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Summer’s almost over (where does the time go?!) and I’ve been meaning for months to share this lovely short review of Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon by Cassandra Langer for The G&LR: glreview.org/article/shor... — next up, new research from this project at Lesbian Lives in NYC this Oct!
Starbucks CEO discovers people prefer people to machines: “We’re finding through our work that investments in labour rather than equipment are more effective at improving throughput and driving transaction growth,” he told analysts. (Financial Times, 29 April 2025)
April 30, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Starbucks CEO discovers people prefer people to machines: “We’re finding through our work that investments in labour rather than equipment are more effective at improving throughput and driving transaction growth,” he told analysts. (Financial Times, 29 April 2025)
Mieke Bal, 2003: “one must study a boundary without policing it … studying a boundary and policing it are *incompatible* activities. When you police a boundary … it is no more open to questioning than the law is to the police. When you study a boundary it is put at risk, denaturalized.”
April 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Mieke Bal, 2003: “one must study a boundary without policing it … studying a boundary and policing it are *incompatible* activities. When you police a boundary … it is no more open to questioning than the law is to the police. When you study a boundary it is put at risk, denaturalized.”
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Today's the big day! There are 22 planned protests all over the UK and even one abroad!
Find out if there's one near you here:
whatthetrans.com/compilation-...
Find out if there's one near you here:
whatthetrans.com/compilation-...
April 19, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Today's the big day! There are 22 planned protests all over the UK and even one abroad!
Find out if there's one near you here:
whatthetrans.com/compilation-...
Find out if there's one near you here:
whatthetrans.com/compilation-...
Unabashedly delighted to see Good Pictures in person at the @forarthistory.org.uk book fair in York — thanks @uminnpress.bsky.social for being present!
April 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Unabashedly delighted to see Good Pictures in person at the @forarthistory.org.uk book fair in York — thanks @uminnpress.bsky.social for being present!
Today: the @societyofauthors.bsky.social protests #MetaBookThieves in London. Amidst widespread, centuries-old (admittedly quibbly) consensus around copyright, why is wholesale corporate theft even a debate? societyofauthors.org/2025/04/01/s...
April 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Today: the @societyofauthors.bsky.social protests #MetaBookThieves in London. Amidst widespread, centuries-old (admittedly quibbly) consensus around copyright, why is wholesale corporate theft even a debate? societyofauthors.org/2025/04/01/s...
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Hello world! We’re a new nonprofit that brings together academic, libraries & university-based publishers. We’ll be launching a large collection of hundreds of HSS diamond #openaccess journals in Jan. 2026.
March 31, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Hello world! We’re a new nonprofit that brings together academic, libraries & university-based publishers. We’ll be launching a large collection of hundreds of HSS diamond #openaccess journals in Jan. 2026.
Is it AI undermining peer review, or is it offering evidence that we have definitively hit the wall in terms of pressuring academics to do more with less? (Hint: it’s both.)
theconversation.com/vague-confus...
theconversation.com/vague-confus...
‘Vague, confusing, and did nothing to improve my work’: how AI can undermine peer review
Peer review ensures the findings of research are trustworthy. But what happens when it’s performed by an AI model?
theconversation.com
March 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Is it AI undermining peer review, or is it offering evidence that we have definitively hit the wall in terms of pressuring academics to do more with less? (Hint: it’s both.)
theconversation.com/vague-confus...
theconversation.com/vague-confus...
“The free space of creation exists only when it is actively, aggressively, courageously, persistently occupied” — Marilyn Frye, “Do you have to be a lesbian to be a feminist?” off our backs (Aug/Sept 1990): 22.
March 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
“The free space of creation exists only when it is actively, aggressively, courageously, persistently occupied” — Marilyn Frye, “Do you have to be a lesbian to be a feminist?” off our backs (Aug/Sept 1990): 22.
M. Gessen nails it: “The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...
Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing
The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.
www.nytimes.com
March 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
M. Gessen nails it: “The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...
The brilliant and delightful Andrew Swaine came to my IVFDF workshop, Dancing Queer History, and had some thoughts which led to a conversation, the results of which he has written up here: andrewswaine.uk/interpretati...
Fair Quaker of Deal, The | Andrew Swaine
andrewswaine.uk
March 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
The brilliant and delightful Andrew Swaine came to my IVFDF workshop, Dancing Queer History, and had some thoughts which led to a conversation, the results of which he has written up here: andrewswaine.uk/interpretati...
My ‘Dancing Queer History’ workshop at IVFDF this Sunday comes with a free two-page handout for the first ten dancers, which is what happens when concern for the environment and the excitement of sharing collide in the copy room.
February 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
My ‘Dancing Queer History’ workshop at IVFDF this Sunday comes with a free two-page handout for the first ten dancers, which is what happens when concern for the environment and the excitement of sharing collide in the copy room.
Winchester School of Art is looking for an artist with substantive creative digital/technical knowledge, either hardware- or software-based -- someone who uses tech as their medium, not just their platform. Does this sounds like you or someone you know? jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Lecturer B/ Associate Professor in Creative Technologies
Winchester School of Art is proud to be one of the UK’s leading art Schools and part of the world-renowned University of Southampton, a founder member of the Russell Group of research-intensive univer...
jobs.soton.ac.uk
February 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Winchester School of Art is looking for an artist with substantive creative digital/technical knowledge, either hardware- or software-based -- someone who uses tech as their medium, not just their platform. Does this sounds like you or someone you know? jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Don't delay, listen today! The lesbian gaze waits for no man.
open.spotify.com/episode/3HXJ... (Queer Lit episode with @lsiddons.bsky.social about this gorgeous, gorgeous book.)
open.spotify.com/episode/3HXJ... (Queer Lit episode with @lsiddons.bsky.social about this gorgeous, gorgeous book.)
February 25, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Don't delay, listen today! The lesbian gaze waits for no man.
open.spotify.com/episode/3HXJ... (Queer Lit episode with @lsiddons.bsky.social about this gorgeous, gorgeous book.)
open.spotify.com/episode/3HXJ... (Queer Lit episode with @lsiddons.bsky.social about this gorgeous, gorgeous book.)
@lenamattheis.bsky.social & I just had this 💜 convo, but in US politics it was ahe’s ago (before, eg, Trump attacked USAID, which work[s/ed] with/for queer & Indigenous people in the US & abroad). Book is free bc of @neh-odh.bsky.social & @uminnpress.bsky.social.
open.spotify.com/episode/3HXJ...
open.spotify.com/episode/3HXJ...
"Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon" with Louise Siddons
Queer Lit · Episode
open.spotify.com
February 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
@lenamattheis.bsky.social & I just had this 💜 convo, but in US politics it was ahe’s ago (before, eg, Trump attacked USAID, which work[s/ed] with/for queer & Indigenous people in the US & abroad). Book is free bc of @neh-odh.bsky.social & @uminnpress.bsky.social.
open.spotify.com/episode/3HXJ...
open.spotify.com/episode/3HXJ...
Virginia Woolf, 1926: ‘however interesting facts may be, they are an inferior form of fiction… we become impatient of their weakness…, of their compromises and evasions, of the slovenly sentences which they make…, and are eager to revive ourselves with the greater intensity and truth of fiction.’
February 17, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Virginia Woolf, 1926: ‘however interesting facts may be, they are an inferior form of fiction… we become impatient of their weakness…, of their compromises and evasions, of the slovenly sentences which they make…, and are eager to revive ourselves with the greater intensity and truth of fiction.’
Delighted by this accolade for my dear colleague's brilliant and innovative work! Congratulations Prof Jennifer Borland! @okstate.edu www.medievalacademy.org/page/GouldPr...
Karen Gould Prize Citations - The Medieval Academy of America
3/6/2025 » 3/9/2025(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media
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February 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Delighted by this accolade for my dear colleague's brilliant and innovative work! Congratulations Prof Jennifer Borland! @okstate.edu www.medievalacademy.org/page/GouldPr...
Great review of our current exhibition at The Winchester Gallery, curated by @lizziereed.bsky.social: www.in-common.co.uk/2025/02/01/a...
Art review: Queering connections: Glitchy Kinship, The Winchester Gallery, Winchester School of Art - In-Common - Southampton
By Mabel Wellman. The fifth Queering Connections art exhibit launched this week at The Winchester Gallery at Winchester School of Art (30/1/25). This exhibition by sociologist Dr Lizzie Reed of sociol...
www.in-common.co.uk
February 1, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Great review of our current exhibition at The Winchester Gallery, curated by @lizziereed.bsky.social: www.in-common.co.uk/2025/02/01/a...
On holiday (again!), and this time it’s Isabel Miller’s canonical lesbian novel, A Place For Us/Patience and Sarah, 1969/1979: “I can’t say how much it meant that there would never be a hurry again.”
January 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
On holiday (again!), and this time it’s Isabel Miller’s canonical lesbian novel, A Place For Us/Patience and Sarah, 1969/1979: “I can’t say how much it meant that there would never be a hurry again.”
Fantastic talk by @themedievaldrk.bsky.social in our Material Interests series at Winchester School of Art @unisouthampton.bsky.social this evening — huge win to see students engaging with Prof Kennedy’s thought-provoking connections between Medieval English manuscripts and comics theory!
January 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Fantastic talk by @themedievaldrk.bsky.social in our Material Interests series at Winchester School of Art @unisouthampton.bsky.social this evening — huge win to see students engaging with Prof Kennedy’s thought-provoking connections between Medieval English manuscripts and comics theory!