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Dr. Brittany Orton
@bhoneybadger.bsky.social
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PhD in early medieval elite women and pre-Conquest England from the University of York. Assistant Teaching Professor at CU Colorado Springs. Outdoors and gym enthusiast.
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bhoneybadger.bsky.social
I would totally adopt her, but we are in CO. 😭
March 27, 2025 at 1:28 AM
bhoneybadger.bsky.social
Same 😂🤦🏽‍♀️
March 21, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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davidoatkins.bsky.social
These are religious fundamentalists, tech overlords and white supremacists.

They see that education makes people liberal and reject theocracy. Education gives workers power. And education makes people have fewer babies. They want more white babies.

So they want to kill all that.
March 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
bhoneybadger.bsky.social
I am constantly sick to my stomach. 🥲
February 26, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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aspencerhall.bsky.social
This year's conference is organised by @medievalcanter.bsky.social at Canterbury Christ Church, 2-5 July. Theme is "Gender: Charity and Care". Plenty of time to get your abstract in--they're due March 31

Full info 👉 medievalgender.co.uk/2025-canterb...

#MedievalSky #Skystorians 🗃️ #CfP
Save the Date! Wednesday 2 – Saturday 5 July 2025. Be inspired by love, charity and care to consider gendered literary, political/historical, and theological texts and responses, all forms of religious belief and none, and social/socio-economic, and environmental explorations of the subject from caring to apocalyptic climate emergency. Topics might include: • Religious devotion and almsgiving globally (including generosity in Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism and Buddhism (d̄āna), • Jewish philanthropy (tzedakah) and Islamic charitable giving (sadaqa) • Gift-giving and donations in texts, documents, material culture, drama and depictions from saints to chuggers, lay piety, and non-normative medieval beliefs, including the opposites of charity and care - cupidity and neglect. • Charitable locations: leperhouses, hospices and hospitals, and the care of the sick and dying, childbirth and childcare. • Charity in urban and rural domestic settings and gardens, guilds, church ales and help ales. • Charity and care for bodies, feelings and nature: emotions, senses, sensualities, sex, chastity, and inclusive genderings. • Convenor: Dr Sheila Sweetinburgh, Centre for Kent History & Heritage, Canterbury Christ Church University • Kindly email abstracts and questionsto GMS 2025 Liaison Dr Diane Heath, Diane.Heath@ScienceMuseum.ac.uk • AbstractDeadline: Monday 31 March 2025 PLEASE PUT ‘GMS 2025 ABSTRACT’ IN THE SUBJECT LINE OF YOUR EMAIL – THANK YOU • Abstracts 200 words max (+ bio) for papers (20 mins); panels, poetry, performance, posters and art also welcome • ECR travel bursary aid available on receipt of tickets (post attendance) via the Kate Westoby Fund. • Location: Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, Kent CT1 1QU • Conference begins Wednesday 2 July; Conference Dinner on Thursday; Conference ends Saturday am.
January 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM