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Ségdae (they/them)
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#gaymer #queer #nonbinary // they/them // erratic tabletop gamer // PhD candidate studying queerness & queer bodies in old Norse myth // co-founder @pmpnconf.bsky.social
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Had the pleasure of listening to @damianbarr.bsky.social courtesy of @wedale-bookshop.bsky.social talk about his new book The Two Roberts in Stow last night - so entertaining and heartfelt!
Front cover of Damian Barr’s new novel, The Two Roberts, featuring a black and white photo of two young men overlaid with colours.
October 8, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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I went to the launch of this #LGBT Youth Scotland event today & I encourage everyone if you’re in/around the Scottish Borders - the exhibit is on until the end of June & the Great Tapestry centre is open 7 days a week, 930-5.

Super pleased to see art from some of the young folk I volunteer with!
Photo of a sign that reads “Stitched With Pride” 9-29th June. Stitched With Pride by young LGBTQ+ people living in the Borders showcases artwork focusing on the young people’s chosen themes: Pride, Living in the Borders and Expression as well as their connection with Scotland’s wider history.
June 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Had a cool weekend supporting @scottishfolkmagic.bsky.social book launch at @blackmoonbotanica.bsky.social 📖 🌙
Not to mention a wee adventure in the Big City™️ 😆
Image of a black fabric tote bag with three people dancing in a circle, naked, whilst holding hands and this is on a wooden table. Next to the bag are postcards depicting an artistic rendition of the Cailleach.
May 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Our book is finally here! I’m so proud of us, our authors, and all the support we received for @pmpnconf.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️
Front cover of Performing Magic in the pre-Modern North: Practice and Transgressions edited text, featuring an illustration of Walpurgisnacht. Edited by Jennifer Hemphill, Ségdae Richardson-Read, and Solveig Marie Wang. First page of chapter Bury Your Gays: Queer Readings of Viking Age Material Culture by Ségdae Richardson-Read.
February 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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King Margo, actor Summer Bishil, in the tv show Magicians, saying “life is pain, ovary up bitch”.
January 31, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Got this really cool zine recently from hearthkvlt.com and have read it cover-to-cover!
A really neat gathering of different pre-Christian beliefs in which you find us over and over again. Utterly wonderful 🏳️‍⚧️
Front cover of a zine titled “Dreaming of the Transcestors: Gender non-conformity and queerness in pre-Christian northwestern Europe”
January 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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@wraithlands.bsky.social book arrived yesterday & I have devoured it already!
Excited to run this for my pals very soon! Also, I would like be a Skelka Bogwitch. In a game or in life, or both.
Front cover of the Wraithlands TTRPG hardback book by Leckie.
December 22, 2024 at 10:56 AM
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Last week I had the incredible privilege of being invited to speak at an equality and diversity session at the School of Pharmacy at Newcastle University where I had the chance to talk about how we can make our practice more inclusive and supportive for trans people.
Three people standing in front of a screen displaying a slide titled “Person centred Pharmacy Series Panel Event”. From left to right is a trans woman, a cis woman, and a nonbinary person all standing together and smiling at the camera.
December 8, 2024 at 8:28 AM
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So I tend to doodle when we play TTRPGs & these are some of from this weekend.
Felwin, my husband’s character casting some sort of wind-y spell to blow away poisonous spores my character Eresh drinking two potions at once because she just got hit by a fireball & it HURT Eresh laughing at my pal’s character to whom she gave a cursed apple that turned them invisible & made them laugh hysterically for several hours.
August 20, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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Rennala and I were besties at school.
Ségdae, a nonbinary person, is smiling at the camera wearing a grey university t-shirt for the Raya Lucaria Academy from Elden Ring.
August 3, 2024 at 8:47 AM
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My glorious gals are busy all summer. It wasn’t until I got my fourth hen a few years ago that I realised I don’t actually eat eggs all that often, however it makes me very popular with my work colleagues when I bring them in.
Five full egg boxes sitting on a kitchen surface.
July 23, 2024 at 6:23 AM
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Went to the cleikin’ o’the de’il last night.
A small child dressed as a what I think was a mini-Pope set fire to a devil-effigy on a hill and there was some singing. Good times.
Picture of a large bonfire at night on a top of a hill with an effigy of a folk devil on top of it.
July 21, 2024 at 7:50 AM
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I’m just trying to read a book (Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee btw, most excellent sci-fi). 🐈 💤
Ségdae is smiling at the camera with a plump ginger cat sleeping over their arms as they try to read a book on their e-reader.
July 15, 2024 at 12:57 PM
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Played #D&D with pals this afternoon and made some doodles as we adventured.
A pen-ink drawing of the paladin Eresh singing a possibly dirty ballad whilst playing a lute. A pen-ink drawing of a fairy the party met who mainly gossiped and told lies. A pen-ink drawing of an angry-looking mushroom called a “fearshroom” above giant letters that spell out “burn the mushrooms!”.
July 14, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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I’ve had a busy week off so Friday night through to the weekend has been about dealing with some messed up demi-gods and finding cute-but-weird outfits in the Lands Between.
Yes I make a list of things to do, it’s the only way I can cope with this game.
A list in a bullet journal, in green and purple pen, of items, bosses, and armour from the video game Elden Ring
July 13, 2024 at 11:26 AM
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This is a really excellent article that details what rubbish the Cass Report is, how poorly it’s been done, and how they’ve cherry picked and ignored evidence to make their unsubstantiated claims.

Open access here: osf.io/preprints/os...
Front page of a journal article titled “Critically Appraising the Cass Report: Methodological Flaws and Unsupported Claims”.
June 15, 2024 at 9:58 AM
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A morning of coop clean-up watched closely by Lilith and/or Lucifer. One of a pair who, I think, purposefully change their feather colourings so I cannot tell them apart.
A photo of a red-feathered hen standing on green grass next to a small white plastic bucket in the sunlight.
February 3, 2024 at 10:49 AM
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Super delighted to hear that TransHistorical is on again this year - see their website transhisstorical.wordpress.com for details! I’ve also added their call for papers!

This conference was one of the highlights of 2023 for me, I met some glorious people there and heard so much amazing research.
The TransHistorical Conference provides an opportunity for researchers of trans and nonbinary histories to learn from one anothers’ expertise and to advance trans theories by working more cohesively in a supportive multidisciplinary environment. The conference is designed for researchers, practitioners, and professionals of all stages and backgrounds who work with any aspect of trans and nonbinary histories, from pre-history to the twenty-first century. As TransHistorical does not limit location or period of time there is no set theme - a variety of subjects and approaches is celebrated! Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words for a 20 minute paper to transhistorical@outlook.com by 1st March 2024. This will be an in-person event, however if you would need to present virtually please let us know when submitting your abstract. If you have any queries or access requirements you would like to discuss please feel free to email the address above.
January 24, 2024 at 2:07 PM
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Sitting on a train to the Big City™️ & practising my talk to an empty carriage 🤗

I’m delivering this tomorrow night for @northernstudies.bsky.social online & open to all, details at www.ssns.org.uk/events/ssns-...
Picture of an open laptop with a PowerPoint presentation on the screen titled “Seiðr, the magic of (trans)formation, by Ségdae Richardson-Read, PhD candidate at the University of Liverpool. Picture taken of a grassy bank leading to a field, with trees in the background. Taken through a moving train carriage window.
January 17, 2024 at 1:14 PM
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Christmas book haul!
Picture of 3 books on a table with a business card for Proud Geek store next to them. Top to bottom is: It Took Luke by Mark Bouchard and Bayleigh Underwood, Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White, and Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir.
January 3, 2024 at 12:07 PM
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We started a game of ttrpg Symbaroum today, in which I get to play, & I drew an artful rendition of my character Mourn. They are totally-not-a-practising-sorcerer, and spend their time selling small curses and wandering around in their woolly hat and scarf.
Rough drawing in pink ink of a ttrpg character called Mourn. They have a pointy hat, a small scarf, and wear long robes that cover their whole body. They are smoking a pipe.
January 2, 2024 at 6:48 PM
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Last night we played a game of the Quiet Year & my, did it take some turns! We had elders who turned into trees, a mysterious red tower with no door that was abandoned, we had a broken down old machine-house from the World Before, and visits from hungry wolves, scythe-men, and the Parish.
A3 piece of white paper with a hand-drawn map from a game of the Quiet Year by Buried Without Ceremony, Avery Alder. The symbols are drawn in multicoloured felt-tip pen.
December 25, 2023 at 2:27 PM
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Last day of work before the festive break! 🎉 🎄
Ségdae, a nonbinary person, is smiling into the camera. They are wearing a black Christmas sweater covered in geometric shapes and the words “don we now our gay apparel”.
December 22, 2023 at 8:21 AM
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These arrived from @galacticjonah.bsky.social 👏🥰👏
I’m getting some wee frames to put them on the wall!
Two postcards lying on a table. The one of the left depicts a drawing on a medieval knight, draped in a trans flag with a unicorn in their arms. The one on the right depicts two medieval knights holding each other closely, on the left one is wearing a trans flag over their armour and the right one is wearing an LGBTQIA+ rainbow flag over their armour.
December 14, 2023 at 5:59 PM
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Super delighted my new jumper from @carmico.bsky.social arrived today! I ❤️ it! The sleeves! The material! The cosy-star-ness! 🌟🥰
Picture of Ségdae, a nonbinary person, holding up their phone to take a photo in a mirror. They are smiling and wearing glasses. They are also wearing a bright blue jumper with star trails on the arms. In the background is a hallway with some hats hung on the wall.
November 18, 2023 at 11:27 AM