Kathryn Leia
@voxossa.bsky.social
they/she | studying the memorialisation of marginalised people in history and making art about it | queer, disabled, AuDHD | living my best hobbit life | MLitt Gender Studies | views my own 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴🇵🇸
Hey, so if you’re not familiar with Alice Wong’s work, I urge you to honour her memory by looking up the Disability Visibility Project, and reading the books she wrote and edited.
November 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Hey, so if you’re not familiar with Alice Wong’s work, I urge you to honour her memory by looking up the Disability Visibility Project, and reading the books she wrote and edited.
Also, I’m on holiday this week in Faro. Aside from Capela dos Ossos - the bone chapel - what shouldn’t I miss?
November 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Also, I’m on holiday this week in Faro. Aside from Capela dos Ossos - the bone chapel - what shouldn’t I miss?
I’m an avowed After Dark listener, but other podcasts are available. I listened to two episodes of @goingmedieval.bsky.social’s Gone Medieval on my flight today and they were SO GOOD. Ballads of Love and Death with Amy Jeffs, and The Real Lady Macbeth with @valmcdermid.bsky.social.
November 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I’m an avowed After Dark listener, but other podcasts are available. I listened to two episodes of @goingmedieval.bsky.social’s Gone Medieval on my flight today and they were SO GOOD. Ballads of Love and Death with Amy Jeffs, and The Real Lady Macbeth with @valmcdermid.bsky.social.
Historic evidence of bisexuals, who’ve been doing awkward thumbs up since at least c500 BCE
Remember, thumbs up and smile when you see a camera ☺️
👍🏛️🍑🏃♂️🏃♂️🇬🇷 #MuseumBums
Relief of a helmeted runner from Athens, c500 BCE, from @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social
👍🏛️🍑🏃♂️🏃♂️🇬🇷 #MuseumBums
Relief of a helmeted runner from Athens, c500 BCE, from @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Historic evidence of bisexuals, who’ve been doing awkward thumbs up since at least c500 BCE
Data visualisation by a dyscalculic cemeteries researcher:
If all the people estimated to be buried at Crossbones were to attend a University of St Andrews graduation ceremony, they'd fill Younger Hall 15 times over.
If all the people estimated to be buried at Crossbones were to attend a University of St Andrews graduation ceremony, they'd fill Younger Hall 15 times over.
November 8, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Data visualisation by a dyscalculic cemeteries researcher:
If all the people estimated to be buried at Crossbones were to attend a University of St Andrews graduation ceremony, they'd fill Younger Hall 15 times over.
If all the people estimated to be buried at Crossbones were to attend a University of St Andrews graduation ceremony, they'd fill Younger Hall 15 times over.
I had a brilliantly insightful conversation Bodmin Jail manager Jess Marlton earlier today about performative memorialisation, constructed narratives, and representation of women's historic experiences. Have I mentioned recently how much I love my research area?
November 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I had a brilliantly insightful conversation Bodmin Jail manager Jess Marlton earlier today about performative memorialisation, constructed narratives, and representation of women's historic experiences. Have I mentioned recently how much I love my research area?
This #MementoMoriMonday is from the tomb of Mr Richard Blisse in Southwark Cathedral.
November 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This #MementoMoriMonday is from the tomb of Mr Richard Blisse in Southwark Cathedral.
Reposted by Kathryn Leia
Unfortunate juxtaposition…
November 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Unfortunate juxtaposition…
Reposted by Kathryn Leia
2,400 year-old skeleton mosaic reads:
“Be cheerful, enjoy your life”
Discovered in Turkey
“Be cheerful, enjoy your life”
Discovered in Turkey
May 19, 2025 at 2:26 AM
2,400 year-old skeleton mosaic reads:
“Be cheerful, enjoy your life”
Discovered in Turkey
“Be cheerful, enjoy your life”
Discovered in Turkey
Reposted by Kathryn Leia
Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!
This week’s #MementoMoriMonday is a day late because I was up in Aberdeen then down in Edinburgh, which was a lot of driving! This one’s from my thesis site, Crossbones, carved into the entranceway.
October 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This week’s #MementoMoriMonday is a day late because I was up in Aberdeen then down in Edinburgh, which was a lot of driving! This one’s from my thesis site, Crossbones, carved into the entranceway.
This Daily Mail journo appears to be writing fanfic about Zack Polanski #hatecrush
October 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
This Daily Mail journo appears to be writing fanfic about Zack Polanski #hatecrush
I can talk about my neurodivergence very openly. I’m happy to talk about having endometriosis and chronic pain. Ehlers Danlos Syndrome isn’t that well known, and I speak about my experiences no bother. But cPTSD is so much harder for me to explain to people. It’s painfully vulnerable.
October 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I can talk about my neurodivergence very openly. I’m happy to talk about having endometriosis and chronic pain. Ehlers Danlos Syndrome isn’t that well known, and I speak about my experiences no bother. But cPTSD is so much harder for me to explain to people. It’s painfully vulnerable.
I was raised by a single mother who worked as a nurse in the 80s and 90s. One of my earliest memories is being on an RCN / Unison anti-Thatcher march on (fittingly) Union Street in Aberdeen. I’ve always joined my workplace union, and I’ve been a rep. Unions are support and solidarity. Join yours.
October 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I was raised by a single mother who worked as a nurse in the 80s and 90s. One of my earliest memories is being on an RCN / Unison anti-Thatcher march on (fittingly) Union Street in Aberdeen. I’ve always joined my workplace union, and I’ve been a rep. Unions are support and solidarity. Join yours.
Got through my first day at work since sabbatical followed by illness. Over four months away = inbox of horror, but it was good reconnecting with colleague-pals and using my day job skillset again.
October 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Got through my first day at work since sabbatical followed by illness. Over four months away = inbox of horror, but it was good reconnecting with colleague-pals and using my day job skillset again.
#MementoMoriMonday comes from the pleasingly alliterative Moulin, a village just a mile outside Pitlochry. The church dates from the 1800’s when it was rebuilt after a fire, but there was a church on the site for a long time before that. The churchyard holds a 12th century crusader knight’s tomb!
October 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
#MementoMoriMonday comes from the pleasingly alliterative Moulin, a village just a mile outside Pitlochry. The church dates from the 1800’s when it was rebuilt after a fire, but there was a church on the site for a long time before that. The churchyard holds a 12th century crusader knight’s tomb!
Reposted by Kathryn Leia
probably most people know this but: if you have an age related or disabled Railcard you can ask London underground staff to put it on your oyster and you get 1/3 off off-peak fares on tube/DLR/overground. with a disabled railcard it works for peak fares too
October 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
probably most people know this but: if you have an age related or disabled Railcard you can ask London underground staff to put it on your oyster and you get 1/3 off off-peak fares on tube/DLR/overground. with a disabled railcard it works for peak fares too
Queer friendships are sacred.
October 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Queer friendships are sacred.
Hooray for the Internet Archive for allowing me to access at cite a book published in 1906, for free, without having to leave my couch.
October 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Hooray for the Internet Archive for allowing me to access at cite a book published in 1906, for free, without having to leave my couch.
An excerpt from my thesis:
"I am not, after all, Mr Brightside, and to date, I have never stepped outside and screamed from the top of my lungs "what's going on?", though it doesn't seem an unreasonable course of action in the current global climate."
"I am not, after all, Mr Brightside, and to date, I have never stepped outside and screamed from the top of my lungs "what's going on?", though it doesn't seem an unreasonable course of action in the current global climate."
October 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
An excerpt from my thesis:
"I am not, after all, Mr Brightside, and to date, I have never stepped outside and screamed from the top of my lungs "what's going on?", though it doesn't seem an unreasonable course of action in the current global climate."
"I am not, after all, Mr Brightside, and to date, I have never stepped outside and screamed from the top of my lungs "what's going on?", though it doesn't seem an unreasonable course of action in the current global climate."
• Indiana Jones and the Same Sex Double Burial Who Were, Like, Probably Roommates or Something
• Indiana Jones and the Series of Small Walls
• Indiana Jones and the Object of Probable Ritual Significance That Looks Suspiciously Like a Seggs Toy
• Indiana Jones and the Series of Small Walls
• Indiana Jones and the Object of Probable Ritual Significance That Looks Suspiciously Like a Seggs Toy
October 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
• Indiana Jones and the Same Sex Double Burial Who Were, Like, Probably Roommates or Something
• Indiana Jones and the Series of Small Walls
• Indiana Jones and the Object of Probable Ritual Significance That Looks Suspiciously Like a Seggs Toy
• Indiana Jones and the Series of Small Walls
• Indiana Jones and the Object of Probable Ritual Significance That Looks Suspiciously Like a Seggs Toy
I’m a Scottish Greens member. Let’s make hope normal again! @zackpolanski.bsky.social we stan 🙌
🎉 We've done it. We've passed 100,000 Green Party members!
📈 But we're not stopping there.
💚 Let's make hope normal again! Join the Green Party today!
📈 But we're not stopping there.
💚 Let's make hope normal again! Join the Green Party today!
October 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I’m a Scottish Greens member. Let’s make hope normal again! @zackpolanski.bsky.social we stan 🙌
Sunday stitching the sweary scene from The King’s Speech
October 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Sunday stitching the sweary scene from The King’s Speech