Dr T Pilgrim
@pilgrimteresa.bsky.social
A queer soul wandering 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Medievalist | Feminist | Survivor
Mostly on Insta @teresa_pilgrim
Medievalist | Feminist | Survivor
Mostly on Insta @teresa_pilgrim
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Dr T Pilgrim
@pilgrimteresa.bsky.social
· Mar 21
Seems like a good spot to stand and soak up the moment after I signed the contract with MIP and De Gruyter’s New Queer Medievalisms series to write Early Histories of Female Masculinities and Queer Identities 700-1000 (working title). #MedievalSky
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@londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social London Medieval Society will be hosting its first colloquium of the academic year on the 22nd November 2025 on the subject of Women and Knowledge in the Middle Ages. 😊
You can find the Zoom link here: us02web.zoom.us/j/81823681150
You can find the Zoom link here: us02web.zoom.us/j/81823681150
October 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
@londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social London Medieval Society will be hosting its first colloquium of the academic year on the 22nd November 2025 on the subject of Women and Knowledge in the Middle Ages. 😊
You can find the Zoom link here: us02web.zoom.us/j/81823681150
You can find the Zoom link here: us02web.zoom.us/j/81823681150
Looking forward to presenting this paper today. The organisers are kindly printing out the zine I made to go with my paper because I am presenting it online.
October 24, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Looking forward to presenting this paper today. The organisers are kindly printing out the zine I made to go with my paper because I am presenting it online.
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Given the rise in tensions lately, particularly towards the trans and non binary communities our trustee, Heather Paterson, has written an article to coincide with Hate Crime Awareness Week. in which they discuss the importance of solidarity.
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk/post/hate-cr...
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk/post/hate-cr...
October 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Given the rise in tensions lately, particularly towards the trans and non binary communities our trustee, Heather Paterson, has written an article to coincide with Hate Crime Awareness Week. in which they discuss the importance of solidarity.
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk/post/hate-cr...
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk/post/hate-cr...
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New post meandering around nostalgia, and food, and Eamon Duffy on memory and loss.
lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/dill-sour-...
lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/dill-sour-...
Dill, Sour Cream, and Memories
The wind is getting up again now.
lucyallengoss.substack.com
October 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
New post meandering around nostalgia, and food, and Eamon Duffy on memory and loss.
lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/dill-sour-...
lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/dill-sour-...
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New book review out in Signs of the fantastic A Short History of Trans Misogyny. Great issue too, check out lots of brilliant articles www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
A Short History of Trans Misogyny. By Jules Gill-Peterson. Verso, 2024. | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society: Vol 51, No 1
www.journals.uchicago.edu
October 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
New book review out in Signs of the fantastic A Short History of Trans Misogyny. Great issue too, check out lots of brilliant articles www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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My next book Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism in Britain is in the @plutopress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalogue (for a May '26 release)!
This book is the first joined-up history of trans activism in the UK all the ways from the 40s to the present.
This book is the first joined-up history of trans activism in the UK all the ways from the 40s to the present.
October 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
My next book Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism in Britain is in the @plutopress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalogue (for a May '26 release)!
This book is the first joined-up history of trans activism in the UK all the ways from the 40s to the present.
This book is the first joined-up history of trans activism in the UK all the ways from the 40s to the present.
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Paperback of Trans and Genderqueer Subjects is apparently on sale #MedievalSky
www.routledge.com/Trans-and-Ge...
www.routledge.com/Trans-and-Ge...
October 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Paperback of Trans and Genderqueer Subjects is apparently on sale #MedievalSky
www.routledge.com/Trans-and-Ge...
www.routledge.com/Trans-and-Ge...
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Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Gender and Sexuality MA - University of Birmingham
Course information for prospective postgraduate students on our MA History taught masters degree programme at the University of Birmingham.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
September 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social
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Here are some gorgeous snippets from historical garden writers about bulbs, and flower colours, and general loveliness that might make Monday morning feel a bit better.
lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/a-sullen-o...
lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/a-sullen-o...
'A sullen or smoakie yellow … a Crimson Fooles Coat …': Spring Bulbs in a New Garden
This morning I bought bulbs for a client’s garden.
lucyallengoss.substack.com
September 8, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Here are some gorgeous snippets from historical garden writers about bulbs, and flower colours, and general loveliness that might make Monday morning feel a bit better.
lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/a-sullen-o...
lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/a-sullen-o...
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You‘re invited to this years WELCOME LECTURE delivered by the one and only @rkdasgupta.bsky.social and chaired by Head of Department @sumimadhok.bsky.social!
Start the year with a great talk and drink on us! 🥂
Details below! ⬇️
Start the year with a great talk and drink on us! 🥂
Details below! ⬇️
We‘re inviting all LSE students, staff and alumni to attend our WELCOME LECTURE 2025!
📩 Comment for details on how to attend!
www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
@rkdasgupta.bsky.social @sumimadhok.bsky.social
📩 Comment for details on how to attend!
www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
@rkdasgupta.bsky.social @sumimadhok.bsky.social
September 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
You‘re invited to this years WELCOME LECTURE delivered by the one and only @rkdasgupta.bsky.social and chaired by Head of Department @sumimadhok.bsky.social!
Start the year with a great talk and drink on us! 🥂
Details below! ⬇️
Start the year with a great talk and drink on us! 🥂
Details below! ⬇️
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Our last Making Space Session raised a perennial question: what do you do when you get stuck with your creative-critical project?
Our Guild members came up with lots of excellent suggestions which you can find compiled in the blog post below👇
Our Guild members came up with lots of excellent suggestions which you can find compiled in the blog post below👇
What to do when you’re stuck? Making Space Session 4 — The Guild of Medievalist Makers
What do you do when you’re stuck, creatively? When you’re trying to make but the flow isn’t there or you’re feeling too much pressure? When it feels like wading through treacle, you’ve lost the joy, y...
www.guildmedmak.com
August 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Our last Making Space Session raised a perennial question: what do you do when you get stuck with your creative-critical project?
Our Guild members came up with lots of excellent suggestions which you can find compiled in the blog post below👇
Our Guild members came up with lots of excellent suggestions which you can find compiled in the blog post below👇
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This was such a wonderful event last week, organised by @sidhepress.bsky.social to fundraise for Gaza. I bought the following books from them too 👇 Keep telling of Gaza ❤️
August 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
This was such a wonderful event last week, organised by @sidhepress.bsky.social to fundraise for Gaza. I bought the following books from them too 👇 Keep telling of Gaza ❤️
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They're HERE! 💙
If you’d like to get your hands on one of our “This shirt is” t-shirts, now you can!
100% of profits fund gender-affirming care for trans+ people.
For a limited time, use the code ‘anne10’ for 10% off ✨
🔗 merchify.me/AnneHealth/
#AnneHealth #GenderAffirmingCareSavesLives
If you’d like to get your hands on one of our “This shirt is” t-shirts, now you can!
100% of profits fund gender-affirming care for trans+ people.
For a limited time, use the code ‘anne10’ for 10% off ✨
🔗 merchify.me/AnneHealth/
#AnneHealth #GenderAffirmingCareSavesLives
August 1, 2025 at 11:24 AM
They're HERE! 💙
If you’d like to get your hands on one of our “This shirt is” t-shirts, now you can!
100% of profits fund gender-affirming care for trans+ people.
For a limited time, use the code ‘anne10’ for 10% off ✨
🔗 merchify.me/AnneHealth/
#AnneHealth #GenderAffirmingCareSavesLives
If you’d like to get your hands on one of our “This shirt is” t-shirts, now you can!
100% of profits fund gender-affirming care for trans+ people.
For a limited time, use the code ‘anne10’ for 10% off ✨
🔗 merchify.me/AnneHealth/
#AnneHealth #GenderAffirmingCareSavesLives
Such a privilege to participate with readings from Palestinian poets & poets across the globe in aid of Gaza. #KeepTellingOfGaza
I shared in reading: We Speak in the Plural: A Poem in Many Voices, by Amanda Najib (proteanmag.com/2025/07/05/w...
I also read a poem of mine.
❤️ @sidhepress.bsky.social
I shared in reading: We Speak in the Plural: A Poem in Many Voices, by Amanda Najib (proteanmag.com/2025/07/05/w...
I also read a poem of mine.
❤️ @sidhepress.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Such a privilege to participate with readings from Palestinian poets & poets across the globe in aid of Gaza. #KeepTellingOfGaza
I shared in reading: We Speak in the Plural: A Poem in Many Voices, by Amanda Najib (proteanmag.com/2025/07/05/w...
I also read a poem of mine.
❤️ @sidhepress.bsky.social
I shared in reading: We Speak in the Plural: A Poem in Many Voices, by Amanda Najib (proteanmag.com/2025/07/05/w...
I also read a poem of mine.
❤️ @sidhepress.bsky.social
Tonight ✨
So looking forward to sharing this wonderful space of bearing witness & taking action through poetry. Join us.✨
So looking forward to sharing this wonderful space of bearing witness & taking action through poetry. Join us.✨
www.tickettailor.com/events/sdhep...
Come and join us in gathering funds for Gaza! 14 th August, 7 pm BST
#Poetry #Community #Palestine
Come and join us in gathering funds for Gaza! 14 th August, 7 pm BST
#Poetry #Community #Palestine
August 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Tonight ✨
So looking forward to sharing this wonderful space of bearing witness & taking action through poetry. Join us.✨
So looking forward to sharing this wonderful space of bearing witness & taking action through poetry. Join us.✨
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Come back from annual leave to discover that Towards An Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists is out now! So proud to have been involved with this wonderful project.
wmich.edu/medievalpubl...
wmich.edu/medievalpubl...
Premodern Transgressive Literatures | Medieval Institute Publications | Western Michigan University
wmich.edu
August 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Come back from annual leave to discover that Towards An Accessible Academy: Perspectives from Disabled Medievalists is out now! So proud to have been involved with this wonderful project.
wmich.edu/medievalpubl...
wmich.edu/medievalpubl...
I am so looking forward to reading at this event!
Come and join us in gathering funds for Gaza! 14th August, 7pm BST
#Poetry #Community #Palestine
Come and join us in gathering funds for Gaza! 14th August, 7pm BST
#Poetry #Community #Palestine
www.tickettailor.com/events/sdhep...
Come and join us in gathering funds for Gaza! 14 th August, 7 pm BST
#Poetry #Community #Palestine
Come and join us in gathering funds for Gaza! 14 th August, 7 pm BST
#Poetry #Community #Palestine
August 4, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I am so looking forward to reading at this event!
Come and join us in gathering funds for Gaza! 14th August, 7pm BST
#Poetry #Community #Palestine
Come and join us in gathering funds for Gaza! 14th August, 7pm BST
#Poetry #Community #Palestine
✨It was an absolute pleasure to write this blogpost about my zine making & the workshops I facilitate. ✨
✨Within this post are many acts of kindness, collegial support & feminist communities of care. Some spoken & others unspoken (due to word limits💜), but I am grateful for each & every one. ✨
✨Within this post are many acts of kindness, collegial support & feminist communities of care. Some spoken & others unspoken (due to word limits💜), but I am grateful for each & every one. ✨
Delighted to share @pilgrimteresa.bsky.social's Meet a Medievalist Maker post on @guildmedmak.bsky.social! Teresa makes the most amazing zines as part of her creative-critical practice. Find out more abt her zine exhibition, workshops, & how to make a zine here: www.guildmedmak.com/blog/meet-a-...
Meet a Medievalist Maker: Teresa Pilgrim — The Guild of Medievalist Makers
Meet a Medievalist Maker: Teresa Pilgrim
www.guildmedmak.com
July 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
✨It was an absolute pleasure to write this blogpost about my zine making & the workshops I facilitate. ✨
✨Within this post are many acts of kindness, collegial support & feminist communities of care. Some spoken & others unspoken (due to word limits💜), but I am grateful for each & every one. ✨
✨Within this post are many acts of kindness, collegial support & feminist communities of care. Some spoken & others unspoken (due to word limits💜), but I am grateful for each & every one. ✨
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Very hand thread
In light of this, I want to share some resources on trans people in the medieval and early modern period, for anyone who might be interested. There is a thriving field of research into the lives, identities, and experiences of trans people globally before the advent of modern medicine (a 🧵)
UK supreme court to rule on legal definition of a woman
July 18, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Very hand thread
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My poem/essay is indebted to @dianewatt.bsky.social concept of ‘overwriting’, @pilgrimteresa.bsky.social ecofeminist reading of Grendel’s Mother’s wetlands, @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social on desire lines, @ellafrears.bsky.social poems wi desire lines, & Finn Mackay on feminist activism in movement 🙏🏻 TY!
I was delighted to be invited to contribute one of my #Beowulf poems to the colloquium and to write up my presentation. ‘Against Misdirection’ is a response to Hrothgar’s hostile description of the path to Grendel’s Mother’s Mere creativecritical.net/against-misd...
Against Misdirection’: Mapping Poetic Desire Lines in Creative Criticism on Beowulf - Laura Varnam - Creative-Critical
This creative-critical essay frames my contribution to the colloquium: a poem entitled ‘Against Misdirection’ which forms part of my feminist adaptation project of the Old English epic Beowulf.
creativecritical.net
July 16, 2025 at 7:34 AM
My poem/essay is indebted to @dianewatt.bsky.social concept of ‘overwriting’, @pilgrimteresa.bsky.social ecofeminist reading of Grendel’s Mother’s wetlands, @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social on desire lines, @ellafrears.bsky.social poems wi desire lines, & Finn Mackay on feminist activism in movement 🙏🏻 TY!
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If anyone else is threatened by Kathleen Stock - or any of those other GCs who love free speech so much they have defamation lawyers on speed dial - please do get in touch. We employ a full time lawyer to fend off this intellectually dishonest bullshit.
I’m going INSANE! There are news articles about how I and several other grad students were personally harassed by Stock, threatened with legal action for protected speech, fired from their jobs after repeated threats, and publicly bullied!
July 8, 2025 at 7:29 AM
If anyone else is threatened by Kathleen Stock - or any of those other GCs who love free speech so much they have defamation lawyers on speed dial - please do get in touch. We employ a full time lawyer to fend off this intellectually dishonest bullshit.
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In this post, I'm trying to think through the ways we respond to infertility, loss, and the guilt that can be stirred up by attempts at pregnancy that don't work out, through the lens of a story written nearly 700 years ago. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/grief-care...
Grief, Care, and the Non-Viable Foetus: Emotions from History
This post contains discussion of foetal abnormalities.
lucyallengoss.substack.com
July 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In this post, I'm trying to think through the ways we respond to infertility, loss, and the guilt that can be stirred up by attempts at pregnancy that don't work out, through the lens of a story written nearly 700 years ago. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/grief-care...
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Tomorrow !
Ready for #IMC2025 next week? Don't miss session #241 on (14:15-15:45) and session #341 (16:30-18:00) on Monday about all things Seven Sages of Rome, org. by @7sagesresearch.bsky.social! Come hear me in #241 talk about translation, transness, and badness in the Danish redaction! 🏳️⚧️
July 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Tomorrow !
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I don't normally advocate random petition-signing but sometimes they can make a difference. This petition needs another 21,000 signatures by 28 July & it will force a debate in parliament. If it does there are loads of issues we can get MPs to raise, incl. the PB ban, Levy, proposed hormone ban...
Okay folks! We’ve a real opportunity here. This petition is at 78,000 (ends 28 July!). With a good push, we can get it over the line.
MPs *don't need to stick to the exact petition topic*. We can brief them to discuss any & ALL issues with trans healthcare.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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MPs *don't need to stick to the exact petition topic*. We can brief them to discuss any & ALL issues with trans healthcare.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Petition: Legally enshrine the right of adults to physically transition using NHS services
Introduce a law to legally protect the right of those aged 18 and over to transition using NHS services. This should specifically cover physical transition, including hormone treatment and surgery, as...
petition.parliament.uk
July 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I don't normally advocate random petition-signing but sometimes they can make a difference. This petition needs another 21,000 signatures by 28 July & it will force a debate in parliament. If it does there are loads of issues we can get MPs to raise, incl. the PB ban, Levy, proposed hormone ban...
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In a country where rape is all but decriminalised, the Daily Rowling asks, 'is the system unfair to men?'
July 7, 2025 at 6:53 AM
In a country where rape is all but decriminalised, the Daily Rowling asks, 'is the system unfair to men?'