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Katy Telling
@katytelling.bsky.social
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JCB Postdoc 2026 Coordinator || PhD, History. Family + Household Authority + Quakers in the 18th/17th-c. American South. Texan. She/Her. All views my own. 📍 PVD.

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”Why would you watch tv when you could be watching me, mother?”
Photo of Sadie the calico cat lying on her side in a navy blue ottoman in a living room. She can be seen over a crowded coffee table stacked with books and laptop.
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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A curious calico peeks her head out of the bottom hidey hole in a tall gray cat tree.
November 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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My sweet brave Sadie left her donut briefly to come over for some sniffs, pets, and an inspection of my morning coffee. Little steps that feel huge!
Sadie the calico cat stands on her hind legs to sniff Katy's yellow mug of coffee on top of her brown coffee table.
October 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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I think I’m officially a New Englander now. 🙂
Photo of a Boston Red Sox trucker hat on top of a brown coffee table and Christine Leigh Heyrman’s book “Southern Cross.”
August 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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knowing that looking up a quote that works as great support in a piece I'm working on means cracking back open the dissertation for the first time since defending.
Meme of stick figure with one arm on their hip and one arm behind their neck in a posture of bemused resignation.
July 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Let’s go ahead and end the weekend here, great work everyone, see you in Barcelona
Meme of hamster with large eyes wearing a scudiera Ferrari ball cap with the Ferrari flag. Text reads “go scudereya fewawi” in imitation of baby speech.
May 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Graduation weekend all done and dusted!
Katy stands on the marble steps in front of a brick university building. She is wearing a teal tea-length dress, brown strappy heels, and her emerald green William & Mary doctoral robes and tam. She is smiling and her has both arms stretched over her head in triumph.
May 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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A very Texan way to end the short trip home: bbq and a visit to the Witte Museum's display of past Fiesta dresses!
Metal tray upon which is brisket bbq, a styrofoam cup of coleslaw, a styrofoam cup of macaroni and cheese, and a roll. A can of Dr. Pepper is visible next to a plastic cup filled with soda and ice. A light pink ballgown with a fitted, sequined bodice and layers of pink lace and sequins cascading over a broad hoopskirt. A tiara is displayed above the gown and dressform. To the left of the dressform is a partial view of a matching sequined pink train. To the right of the dressform is a partial view of a dress train of dark blue velvet, turquoise overlay, and sequin appliques. A long light pink dress train is displayed next to a light pink ballgown and tiara over a dressform. The train, inspired by Monet's waterlilies, displays sequined waterlilies flowing alongside a sequined tree. The edges are trimmed in pink lace and sequins. A museum placard is in front of the dress and train, with information on the original wearer, Lynne Riggan Chaney, c. 1962.
April 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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No matter how far from home, today is a day for king cake and red beans and rice. RVA folks, Montana Gold Bread Co. always makes a beautiful and delicious king cake. Also kinda love that they make the tiny baby Jesus purple chrome.
Katy’s holding a small purple chrome plastic baby in front of a king cake. A king cake frosted with traditional purple, yellow, and green frosting inside of a cake box. A small chrome purple baby in a plastic baggie rests on top of the cake.
March 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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I mean it’d just be cruel not to share one of these lil angels
A small gray tabby kitten rolls on its back while playing with a coat drawstring.
January 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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The way Texas skies stretch forever and the mockingbirds crying and the way cyclamen smells and “there are biscuits on the counter, baby” and the best salsa you’ve ever tasted (and that one, and that one, too) and fiddles and banjos and mariachi.
Image of a casita in the backyard. The sky is radiant with a Texas sunrise, clear blue peeking out from fluffy white clouds, everything washed in golden sunlight. The black silhouette of power lines cuts a dramatic figure against the outlines of trees.
December 27, 2024 at 3:34 PM
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Happy Boxing Day from the politest paws you ever did see.
Sitka (a husky mix with a white and brown coat) looks up at Katy with large, imploring eyes. She has laying on a dog bed with her paws folded primly over a Gumby chew toy.
December 26, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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Instincts to come dressed for Texas immediately validated in line at the holiday market with folks in Georgia gear (he was lovely and a great sport! Dressed in support of his wife’s Alma mater.)
Katy is smirking at the camera while standing in a large outdoor area set up for a holiday craft festival. She is wearing a UT Austin sweatshirt and burnt orange earrings, holding a plastic cup of cider.
December 7, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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Featuring the city’s unofficial official mascot, the mighty Virginia opossum
Katy is holding a sticker of a cartoon possum filling out a ballot with the caption “RVA Votes.” Katy has a dark purple manicure.
November 5, 2024 at 2:16 PM
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Tickled by the emergency pot luck label at the Richmond Friends Meetinghouse.
Light brown kitchen cabinet with a label that reads “Tableclothes Emergency Pot Luck”
October 13, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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Yesterday on the James River. The cicadas were singing.
View of the James River in the waning light from Nickel Bridge. A small embankment is at the edge of a rushing river and lush green foliage. A view of the James River from Nickel Bridge at sunset. The sky is painted in soft pinks and purples as the river rushes underneath.
July 5, 2024 at 1:39 PM
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Laughing in the midst of crying: the dog could not possibly care less that the reason she was boarded for two nights was so we could lay our beloved family matriarch to rest
Sitka on her bed looking askance to the right
June 19, 2024 at 2:19 PM
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South Texas abundance!
Photo of light green rushes, cacti, and the rust-colored branches of a cedar set against a bright blue south Texas sky.
June 12, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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Everyone, meet my new little desk buddy, Emily Deschanel.
Small blue rubber figurine of Jeff Koons’ balloon dog sculpture resting on the arm of a red leather couch.
June 4, 2024 at 2:04 PM
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I love The Bitter Southerner. ❤️
Three shirts from the bitter southerner lay on Katy’s bed.
June 2, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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me, having a lil giggle to myself every few moments in my living room
Lady Gaga as Aly in A Star is Born smirking
May 30, 2024 at 10:46 PM
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To all those who do a lot of toting. ❤️
Katy holds up small paper card of a heart that reads “I love you, mom” set against a variety of flowers. The heart is colored in with pink crayon, while the flowers are brightly filled in with orange, yellow, red, dark blue, and purple crayon. The coloring has the distinctive style of a young child’s artwork. Katy holds the paper card open, her pink painted nail visible on the left hand side. On the left side of the card is a red heart drawn in crayon. The right side reads “thanks for toting me around. ❤️ Katy” in a young child’s hand.
May 12, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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Had one of the worst chronic flare-ups in years this weekend so I’ve been essentially bed bound. Made it out for a slow morning walk today and this little pal greeted me on my return to the outside world.
Small orange rock with a tiny smiling face sits among the soil and clover.
April 17, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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when you pull a little prank on me today, this is who you’re pranking
Orange kitten wearing a yellow duck hat leans back in confusion.
April 1, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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Spring in Richmond, Virginia.
The bright white petals of a dogwood tree set against a clear blue sky. Pink camellias and lush green leaves hang over a red brick wall. An upward view of hot pink camellias set among a bounty of green leaves. The second-story windows of a stone house are visible above the tree, as is a clear blue sky.
March 19, 2024 at 9:48 PM