Julia M Perroni
@juliamperroni.bsky.social
She/her, writer among other things.
Classics grad: UBC ➡️ KCL ➡️ UWisc.
I like epic and tragedy and queer stuff of all kinds! Co-Host of Classically Trained Podcast.
Classics grad: UBC ➡️ KCL ➡️ UWisc.
I like epic and tragedy and queer stuff of all kinds! Co-Host of Classically Trained Podcast.
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I've gained a TON of followers the last few days, so I'll do one of those "get to know your followee" threads!
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Reposting again to emphasize that we won an award!!! Librarians picked the anthology out for best indy scifi.
Tldr librarians think we’re cool ✨ 🥈 🥰 📚
Tldr librarians think we’re cool ✨ 🥈 🥰 📚
It's been just over a year since this enthusiastically crowd-funded anthology was released by the coolest SFF writers I know. Our contributors have won accolades and the book itself has won an IAP award! Check out it's hot, new cover + pick it up this weekend for $5!
books2read.com/newyearnewyo...
books2read.com/newyearnewyo...
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Reposting again to emphasize that we won an award!!! Librarians picked the anthology out for best indy scifi.
Tldr librarians think we’re cool ✨ 🥈 🥰 📚
Tldr librarians think we’re cool ✨ 🥈 🥰 📚
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My book "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is now available for pre-order. Use promo code WIN26 to get 30% off. Coming January 6th 2026! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
October 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
My book "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is now available for pre-order. Use promo code WIN26 to get 30% off. Coming January 6th 2026! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
I’ve embarked on an extremely large project. No, not the dissertation—a DIFFERENT extremely large project. (page 1 of sixteen underway) #crossstitch
November 6, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I’ve embarked on an extremely large project. No, not the dissertation—a DIFFERENT extremely large project. (page 1 of sixteen underway) #crossstitch
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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
Glasses shopping is so weirdly stressful. Like man, that’s my face! I’m deciding what my face is gonna look like for at least a year!
October 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Glasses shopping is so weirdly stressful. Like man, that’s my face! I’m deciding what my face is gonna look like for at least a year!
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it is funny how much studio executives dislike making money
whelp, I’ll be thinking about the Steven Soderbergh movie about Ben Solo until the day I die, I guess. we could’ve had it all.
apnews.com/article/adam...
apnews.com/article/adam...
October 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
it is funny how much studio executives dislike making money
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Hello new followers! I am a SFF writer but I also make candles inspired by books and TV
I just added a bunch more candles, including some book boyfriend candles for the romance readers (and monsterfuckers) in your life
www.etsy.com/shop/specula...
I just added a bunch more candles, including some book boyfriend candles for the romance readers (and monsterfuckers) in your life
www.etsy.com/shop/specula...
October 16, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Hello new followers! I am a SFF writer but I also make candles inspired by books and TV
I just added a bunch more candles, including some book boyfriend candles for the romance readers (and monsterfuckers) in your life
www.etsy.com/shop/specula...
I just added a bunch more candles, including some book boyfriend candles for the romance readers (and monsterfuckers) in your life
www.etsy.com/shop/specula...
Any other Canadians following me: civic duty time! Tell our government that letting credit card companies dictate what we spend money on is nonsense!
The official Canadian Petition to reign in payment processor censorship has stalled out just under 10k signatures.
This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech!
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech!
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
October 12, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Any other Canadians following me: civic duty time! Tell our government that letting credit card companies dictate what we spend money on is nonsense!
Man. Sometimes you read some shit and you just have to sit there for a minute boggling at how unhinged racists are. What the fuck. What is wrong with you people*?
*They're racist. That's what's wrong. I'm putting my head down on my desk and never picking it up again. How did this get published.
*They're racist. That's what's wrong. I'm putting my head down on my desk and never picking it up again. How did this get published.
October 8, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Man. Sometimes you read some shit and you just have to sit there for a minute boggling at how unhinged racists are. What the fuck. What is wrong with you people*?
*They're racist. That's what's wrong. I'm putting my head down on my desk and never picking it up again. How did this get published.
*They're racist. That's what's wrong. I'm putting my head down on my desk and never picking it up again. How did this get published.
I do queer readings of ancient lit, and I think one of the most important insights there is that the literature itself doesn’t need to be supportive of queerness to support a queer reading. The queerphobia helps the reading, actually. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be useful to queer studies today.
September 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I do queer readings of ancient lit, and I think one of the most important insights there is that the literature itself doesn’t need to be supportive of queerness to support a queer reading. The queerphobia helps the reading, actually. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be useful to queer studies today.
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People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
September 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
There's a deep cut comment here about the palantiri having been invented by Feanor, notorious Guy Who Fucked Stuff Up For Everyone And Then Died Before He Saw Any Consequences, but I'm not going to get into it. I refuse to believe Thiel has read the Silmarillion.
I can't get past Peter Thiel naming his company Palantir aka the magical objects in LOTR used by an evil control obsessed entity for weird authoritarian surveillance state reasons
It's like an 80s movie villain who runs a company called SwastikaCorp, like its TOO on the nose
It's like an 80s movie villain who runs a company called SwastikaCorp, like its TOO on the nose
September 1, 2025 at 7:34 AM
There's a deep cut comment here about the palantiri having been invented by Feanor, notorious Guy Who Fucked Stuff Up For Everyone And Then Died Before He Saw Any Consequences, but I'm not going to get into it. I refuse to believe Thiel has read the Silmarillion.
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August 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus
I love this idea and also want a list of academic murder books. Please reply with recs
Hear me out: a dark academia murder book that opens at a department beginning-of-the-year celebration on a boat (I know a department that does this) and a professor goes overboard. The intrepid department chair must figure out who did it. Everyone is a suspect, including the chair herself.
August 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus
I’m experiencing the horrible “last 10%” resistance thing. I have like three projects which are substantially done but need to get DONE done, and my brain is like… nah.
August 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I’m experiencing the horrible “last 10%” resistance thing. I have like three projects which are substantially done but need to get DONE done, and my brain is like… nah.
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refusing to accept this isn’t just about “purity” or whatever, it’s about effective politics. someone who thinks it’s practical to cave on trans rights misunderstands how politics works, they don’t recognize that public opinion is forged by perseverance
Gavin Newsom suggesting that 25 years of age is too young to transition and agreeing to right-wing entryism of concern trolling about trans people in sports. This is your opposition leader?
I will never vote for Gavin Newsom anyone who thinks trans people are actual humans will follow suit.
I will never vote for Gavin Newsom anyone who thinks trans people are actual humans will follow suit.
August 24, 2025 at 12:16 AM
refusing to accept this isn’t just about “purity” or whatever, it’s about effective politics. someone who thinks it’s practical to cave on trans rights misunderstands how politics works, they don’t recognize that public opinion is forged by perseverance
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Odysseus: I am Athena’s favored boy!
Me: you are a stray cat that Athena likes keeping fed so she can see how many crimes you commit
Me: you are a stray cat that Athena likes keeping fed so she can see how many crimes you commit
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Odysseus: I am Athena’s favored boy!
Me: you are a stray cat that Athena likes keeping fed so she can see how many crimes you commit
Me: you are a stray cat that Athena likes keeping fed so she can see how many crimes you commit
Editing IS more fun when you get to colour-code stuff, and that’s why I do major edits on paper with actual pens.
August 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Editing IS more fun when you get to colour-code stuff, and that’s why I do major edits on paper with actual pens.
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THIS IS HOW WE DO IT, BABY! Congratulations to Air Canada Flight Attendants on their swift and unerring strike action!
August 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
THIS IS HOW WE DO IT, BABY! Congratulations to Air Canada Flight Attendants on their swift and unerring strike action!
Much as I should have been more slow and steady about it, it’s nice to know that when a deadline demands, I CAN still produce 9,000 words of fiction in two days.
August 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Much as I should have been more slow and steady about it, it’s nice to know that when a deadline demands, I CAN still produce 9,000 words of fiction in two days.
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The way the enshittification of the internet has extended to google scholar results irks me more than maybe any of the rest of it
August 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The way the enshittification of the internet has extended to google scholar results irks me more than maybe any of the rest of it
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We need to offer counter-narratives to the reductions to humanities that many institutions are undertaking, and equip our colleagues across institutions with evidence that the myths being deployed to reduce our fields are not based in fact.
futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/the-myth-o...
futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/the-myth-o...
"The Myth of the Useless Humanist" vs "Humanities myths, busted"
a letter to colleagues
futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com
August 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
We need to offer counter-narratives to the reductions to humanities that many institutions are undertaking, and equip our colleagues across institutions with evidence that the myths being deployed to reduce our fields are not based in fact.
futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/the-myth-o...
futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/the-myth-o...
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My Dept of History at W. Michigan University in Kalamazoo is hiring an Asst/Associate Prof in African American History. Please come join us! 2-2 load/generous research & travel funding, diverse & culturally lively community/ free college in MI for kids. ?s welcome. www.wmujobs.org/postings/4277
Assistant/Associate Professor - African American History - Tenure Track
Western Michigan University invites applications and nominations for the position of full-time tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor in the field of African American history to start August 20...
www.wmujobs.org
August 19, 2025 at 1:45 AM
My Dept of History at W. Michigan University in Kalamazoo is hiring an Asst/Associate Prof in African American History. Please come join us! 2-2 load/generous research & travel funding, diverse & culturally lively community/ free college in MI for kids. ?s welcome. www.wmujobs.org/postings/4277
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For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students.
1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
www.technologyreview.com
August 14, 2025 at 10:17 AM
For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students.
1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...