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J.D. Sargan
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Medievalist, book historian, professional tran.

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Your challenge for this weekend is to put in an abstract for Queer Bibliography 2026. It's what all the cool kids are doing.

The theme is Space, Place, Community (widely understood, certainly not limited to the South). CFP: shorturl.at/XAVJ0; Submit: forms.gle/XD7FgrrStp3j...

Athens GA and online
Poster reads: March 12–14, 2026; Queer Bibliography in the South: Space, Place, Community; University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
October 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Evidence!
A stack of five books on a table. The book is titled “Trans Histories of the Medieval Book: An Experiment in Bibliography” by J.D. Sargan.
October 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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A screenshot of Chaucer Doth Tweet’s display photo, which shows a portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer, wearing a long black gown and a black squishy hat.
May 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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I have a strange soft spot for this billboard, which lives on H316 on the way into town. But of course when you’re driving you can only see one side of it at a time. I quite like coming home and seeing what I take as a 20ft high out of context expletive above the road.
A large billboard with a yellow background and black lettering. On one side it reads “Jesus” and on the other “Coming soon!”
May 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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GIF of a clip from Apple TV’s Shrinking in which Harrison Ford’s character misapplies the term “raw dog”. He leans into the window of a car, pointing his index finger, and saying “Don’t raw dog me again, alright?”
May 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Do you know this one?
A flowchart directing the user through the decision making process needed to have orthodox sex in Christian Europe in the thirteenth century, with the result that sex was very rarely permissible.
February 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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I guess I’m a Chaucerian now…
My copy of The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer, which arrived in my office today, open to my chapter, “Manuscripts and Books”.
October 11, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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On Sunday our friends took us to Truist Park to see our first baseball game on her company’s season tickets and now we can never go to a baseball game again.
Clear view of the baseball field at Truist Park from a table seat with waiter service behind the Braves dugout.
October 2, 2024 at 12:18 AM
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Quite so! And then the acceptance in the chainmail.

Not unrelated: this is now 3 weeks old and ready for touch ups.
An upper arm tattoo depicting, in a new traditional style, the torso and portrait of Jeanne d'Arc with a halo and surrounded by a frame of flames. They are wearing armor and holding a sword.
September 12, 2024 at 12:51 PM
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Here's a diagram to help. The gender of weasel babies depends on which ear they are born from--assigned gender by ear.
An illustration from a medieval bestiary showing in left foreground, two weasels face to face with mouths touching; on the right, a single weasel, with a small weasel emerging from each ear.
July 25, 2024 at 6:40 PM