Sam Godfrey
@skgodfrey.bsky.social
Artist & practice-based PhD researcher
Exeter & Bath Spa (SWW DTP)
textiles/diy technology/kelp/trans studies
(they/them)
sarahkgodfrey.com
Exeter & Bath Spa (SWW DTP)
textiles/diy technology/kelp/trans studies
(they/them)
sarahkgodfrey.com
Went to an academic career workshop today for PhD students today and uh...this wasn't discussed (we were told to deal with our confidence gremlins instead. What happens when your confidence gremlin is the imminent collapse of your sector?)
‘Risk exiting the market’
what a way to package the complete collapse of higher education
what a way to package the complete collapse of higher education
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Went to an academic career workshop today for PhD students today and uh...this wasn't discussed (we were told to deal with our confidence gremlins instead. What happens when your confidence gremlin is the imminent collapse of your sector?)
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Who knew the incoherent, maliciously motivated and practically unenforceable pseudolegal prattle couldn't actually stand up to scrutiny?
Under pressure from Europe, court cases and MPs, EHRC withdraws transphobic 'interim update' calling for segregation of Trans+ people
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/ehrc-withdraws-transphobic-interim-opinion-on-supreme-court-ruling-and-demands-ministers-act-at-speed-to-publish-new-statutory-guidance/
https://www.wearequeeraf.com/ehrc-withdraws-transphobic-interim-opinion-on-supreme-court-ruling-and-demands-ministers-act-at-speed-to-publish-new-statutory-guidance/
EHRC withdraws transphobic interim opinion on Supreme Court ruling
The equalities watchdog's move came in an eventful week for British trans rights
www.wearequeeraf.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Who knew the incoherent, maliciously motivated and practically unenforceable pseudolegal prattle couldn't actually stand up to scrutiny?
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It's transgender awareness week, and if you ever wanted to learn more about the history of transness in cinema, you could pick up our book CORPSES, FOOLS AND MONSTERS at your local library or purchase a copy. We wrote this book for trans people like us. Thank you.
bookshop.org/p/books/corp...
bookshop.org/p/books/corp...
Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema
The History and Future of Transness in Cinema
bookshop.org
November 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
It's transgender awareness week, and if you ever wanted to learn more about the history of transness in cinema, you could pick up our book CORPSES, FOOLS AND MONSTERS at your local library or purchase a copy. We wrote this book for trans people like us. Thank you.
bookshop.org/p/books/corp...
bookshop.org/p/books/corp...
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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Soviet republic of New York takes first key step towards total communism by publicly owning Andrew Cuomo
November 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Soviet republic of New York takes first key step towards total communism by publicly owning Andrew Cuomo
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The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major
Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand
The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…
vimeo.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major
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Assata Shakur exchanged letters with Audre Lorde from prison, and Lorde wrote for her the poem "For Assata":
I dream of your freedom
as my victory
and the victory of all dark women
who forego the vanities of silence
👇Here's the whole poem
I dream of your freedom
as my victory
and the victory of all dark women
who forego the vanities of silence
👇Here's the whole poem
September 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Assata Shakur exchanged letters with Audre Lorde from prison, and Lorde wrote for her the poem "For Assata":
I dream of your freedom
as my victory
and the victory of all dark women
who forego the vanities of silence
👇Here's the whole poem
I dream of your freedom
as my victory
and the victory of all dark women
who forego the vanities of silence
👇Here's the whole poem
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it's AI schadenfreude season
September 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
it's AI schadenfreude season
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Man i fucking wish 1 in 5 were trans. And you 🫵 can help make this dream a reality
September 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Man i fucking wish 1 in 5 were trans. And you 🫵 can help make this dream a reality
Excited to start rummaging around in Ronald Duncan's archives and travel to his writing hut in Welcombe this autumn 🍂 🍂
September 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Excited to start rummaging around in Ronald Duncan's archives and travel to his writing hut in Welcombe this autumn 🍂 🍂
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"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational." - Charlie Kirk, 2023
September 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational." - Charlie Kirk, 2023
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researchers are where the content comes from; it doesn't grow on the Wikipedia tree
September 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
researchers are where the content comes from; it doesn't grow on the Wikipedia tree
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“Politics and aesthetics have an uneasy alliance. Too often, trans art—whatever it might encompass, and whatever form it might take—is on the losing end. Creating good work requires time, space, funding, and the motivation to keep showing up.”
For @newyorker.com I wrote about the censorship of trans art. I spoke to many of my favorite artists from Puppies Puppies to Creighton Baxter, thought about strategic opacity, Amy Sherald, and whether or not we have had great trans artists.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The War on Trans Art
Politics and aesthetics have an uneasy alliance. Too often, trans expression is on the losing end.
www.newyorker.com
September 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“Politics and aesthetics have an uneasy alliance. Too often, trans art—whatever it might encompass, and whatever form it might take—is on the losing end. Creating good work requires time, space, funding, and the motivation to keep showing up.”
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Surely they will have to admit this is untenable. Solidarity with everyone standing up against our authoritarian, genocide-enabling government.
Arrests begin at Palestine Action protest as hundreds gather in Parliament Square
Arrests begin at Palestine Action protest as hundreds gather in Parliament Square
Up to 1,000 people are expected to defy terror laws by showing their support for the banned group
www.independent.co.uk
September 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Surely they will have to admit this is untenable. Solidarity with everyone standing up against our authoritarian, genocide-enabling government.
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Know of any WGs in Berlin with openings? If so please send them my way!
September 2, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Know of any WGs in Berlin with openings? If so please send them my way!
I occasionally do proofreading and editing for non-English organisations. Absolutely spending way more time trying to decipher AI translated nonsense that completely erases original language nuances and meaning (and assume these jobs will dry up now bc I'm costing people more). Hire translators!
August 22, 2025 at 5:28 AM
I occasionally do proofreading and editing for non-English organisations. Absolutely spending way more time trying to decipher AI translated nonsense that completely erases original language nuances and meaning (and assume these jobs will dry up now bc I'm costing people more). Hire translators!
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Unsurprised, but disappointed, to see that Newnham College's JRFs are being defined as explicitly trans-exclusionary: newn.cam.ac.uk/research/res...
Research Fellowships
newn.cam.ac.uk
August 21, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Unsurprised, but disappointed, to see that Newnham College's JRFs are being defined as explicitly trans-exclusionary: newn.cam.ac.uk/research/res...
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Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities
August 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities
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TW.
Needs to be widely shared with cisgender people, especially politicians. Utterly horrifying that Britain has come to this- that most of Britain is just looking the other way while a whole community is being eliminated from society because of lies and hatred. transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Needs to be widely shared with cisgender people, especially politicians. Utterly horrifying that Britain has come to this- that most of Britain is just looking the other way while a whole community is being eliminated from society because of lies and hatred. transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...
August 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM
TW.
Needs to be widely shared with cisgender people, especially politicians. Utterly horrifying that Britain has come to this- that most of Britain is just looking the other way while a whole community is being eliminated from society because of lies and hatred. transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Needs to be widely shared with cisgender people, especially politicians. Utterly horrifying that Britain has come to this- that most of Britain is just looking the other way while a whole community is being eliminated from society because of lies and hatred. transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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"One display is ‘guest-curated’ by the museum’s royal patron Kate Middleton... She has even ✍️ a gallery text. ‘Objects can tell a story... A collection of objects can create a narrative'... If you haven’t lost the will to live by this point[,] then you cld find out about the 14 objcts she chose..."
What Isn’t at the V&A Storehouse
You can’t escape it: this is the same colonial museum we know, in a shiny new suit
artreview.com
August 16, 2025 at 2:16 AM
"One display is ‘guest-curated’ by the museum’s royal patron Kate Middleton... She has even ✍️ a gallery text. ‘Objects can tell a story... A collection of objects can create a narrative'... If you haven’t lost the will to live by this point[,] then you cld find out about the 14 objcts she chose..."
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Our colleagues Al Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif & Mohammed Qraiqeh, & cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal & Moamen Aliwa have been killed in a strike on a tent for journalists near Al Shifa hospital. They worked relentlessly through bombing & hunger to document this war. Please remember them
August 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Our colleagues Al Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif & Mohammed Qraiqeh, & cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal & Moamen Aliwa have been killed in a strike on a tent for journalists near Al Shifa hospital. They worked relentlessly through bombing & hunger to document this war. Please remember them