Caroline Gonda (she/her)
@liederfollower.bsky.social
queer receptionista (h/t Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social), lover of songs and stories, writer of flash. #LWithTheT
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Anne Seymour Damer: public life, private love
Gossip about Anne Damer's sexuality nearly wrecked her relationships and reputation, but in this queer love story, love outlasts scandal.
www.britishmuseum.org
My blog for the British Museum on Anne Damer is now live - very happy to see this out in the world. #AnneDamer #PrideMonth #LGBTQIA #c18th
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also a poet in here, grouped with Silvia, called W. E. R. Bell. no information beyond the poems and google is giving me nothing. anyone have any ideas who they are/if they emerged anywhere else?
November 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
also a poet in here, grouped with Silvia, called W. E. R. Bell. no information beyond the poems and google is giving me nothing. anyone have any ideas who they are/if they emerged anywhere else?
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Absolutely outrageous what is happening to modern language departments in the UK. Nottingham is known for the quality of its French department. Please sign the petition:
From AULC, we stand in solidarity with colleagues at University of Nottingham. We want to share this petition by a student highlighting how suspending all Modern Languages undergraduate programmes affects the whole academic community: www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
Sign the Petition
Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
www.change.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Absolutely outrageous what is happening to modern language departments in the UK. Nottingham is known for the quality of its French department. Please sign the petition:
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Worth remembering as this unfolds that it was disabled people and people from ethnic minority backgrounds who disproportionately died. Tens of thousands needlessly lost their lives, many who died alone or with just an iPad. Thousands more were left with life changing Long Covid. A true scandal.
BREAKING: The UK’s response to Covid was “too little, too late”, a damning official report on the handling of the pandemic has concluded, saying the introduction of a lockdown even a week earlier than happened could have saved more than 20,000 lives.
November 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Worth remembering as this unfolds that it was disabled people and people from ethnic minority backgrounds who disproportionately died. Tens of thousands needlessly lost their lives, many who died alone or with just an iPad. Thousands more were left with life changing Long Covid. A true scandal.
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Friends, if you want to learn a bit more abt The Sweet Taste of Empire, watch this INCREDIBLE conversation with @triciamatthew.bsky.social w.bsky.social, Debapriya Sarkar, Jennifer Morgan, @kwazana.bsky.social & Tapiwa Gambura!
www.youtube.com/live/a-Npxq-...
Then you can buy it at 40% discount.
www.youtube.com/live/a-Npxq-...
Then you can buy it at 40% discount.
Kim F. Hall: The Sweet Taste of Empire
YouTube video by Barnard Center for Research on Women
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Friends, if you want to learn a bit more abt The Sweet Taste of Empire, watch this INCREDIBLE conversation with @triciamatthew.bsky.social w.bsky.social, Debapriya Sarkar, Jennifer Morgan, @kwazana.bsky.social & Tapiwa Gambura!
www.youtube.com/live/a-Npxq-...
Then you can buy it at 40% discount.
www.youtube.com/live/a-Npxq-...
Then you can buy it at 40% discount.
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Book launch for Love & Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance on Tuesday 25 November, 5.30pm @iashedinburgh.bsky.social - please share & consider coming along! I'll be chatting to @kateai.bsky.social & Carol M Richardson.
Sign up for in-person & online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Sign up for in-person & online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Book Launch: "Love and Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance"
New book: "Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance: Typologies of violence and desire" by Hope Doherty-Harrison
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Book launch for Love & Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance on Tuesday 25 November, 5.30pm @iashedinburgh.bsky.social - please share & consider coming along! I'll be chatting to @kateai.bsky.social & Carol M Richardson.
Sign up for in-person & online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Sign up for in-person & online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
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You will potentially enjoy this. Trailer by @matryer.bsky.social.
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
You will potentially enjoy this. Trailer by @matryer.bsky.social.
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Endless journey cards by @tomgauld. Green version available here: laurencesternetrust.org.uk/shandy-hall-... A great postable #Christmaspresent for all ages. These 12 picture cards can be arranged to form 479,001,600 different landscapes! Inspired by the works of Laurence Sterne.
November 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Endless journey cards by @tomgauld. Green version available here: laurencesternetrust.org.uk/shandy-hall-... A great postable #Christmaspresent for all ages. These 12 picture cards can be arranged to form 479,001,600 different landscapes! Inspired by the works of Laurence Sterne.
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I've mentioned this quietly, but - since the summer my hobby has been making this ambitious murder mystery podcast. A story. Narrated by me, with a mouthwatering cast. Partly interactive. Trailer is coming tomorrow but if you like the sound of this, please follow @murderbastard.bsky.social.
November 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I've mentioned this quietly, but - since the summer my hobby has been making this ambitious murder mystery podcast. A story. Narrated by me, with a mouthwatering cast. Partly interactive. Trailer is coming tomorrow but if you like the sound of this, please follow @murderbastard.bsky.social.
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“Around six months after the cyber incident I talked to the then chair of the science select committee, who was not aware of this incident” w o w
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
“Around six months after the cyber incident I talked to the then chair of the science select committee, who was not aware of this incident” w o w
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I am often to be found caring for the unknown dead, who emerge, shattered, from their ancient and forgotten graves. Collecting them, burying them, praying them back to their rest. It makes me think, sometimes, of the transphobic refrain that in a thousand years our bones will somehow betray us.
November 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I am often to be found caring for the unknown dead, who emerge, shattered, from their ancient and forgotten graves. Collecting them, burying them, praying them back to their rest. It makes me think, sometimes, of the transphobic refrain that in a thousand years our bones will somehow betray us.
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The grotesque spectacle of a Labour government — a Labour government! — promoting the idea of stealing from refugees to appease the far right
November 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The grotesque spectacle of a Labour government — a Labour government! — promoting the idea of stealing from refugees to appease the far right
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Imagine writing a policy that required you to be explicit that you would not forcibly confiscate refugees’ wedding rings
Ministers now appear to be confirming in broadcast interviews that they would audit and could confiscate assets (including jewellery) excepting wedding rings from the jewellery that they could confiscate.
November 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Imagine writing a policy that required you to be explicit that you would not forcibly confiscate refugees’ wedding rings
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A must-have! Dulcibella agrees. First print run (which admittedly was not on the scale of, like, Byron's Don Juan) is nearly sold out, get your copy here: veer2.org/Kit-Fryatt-H...
November 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
A must-have! Dulcibella agrees. First print run (which admittedly was not on the scale of, like, Byron's Don Juan) is nearly sold out, get your copy here: veer2.org/Kit-Fryatt-H...
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Really pleased that the lecture I gave on disability in history for @histassoc.bsky.social is now live and #openaccess #DisabilityHistoryMonth #CriptheCurriculum #18C #WilliamHay #LifeWriting Link: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Film: Disability in Britain and Ireland – 1714 to 1785
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November 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Really pleased that the lecture I gave on disability in history for @histassoc.bsky.social is now live and #openaccess #DisabilityHistoryMonth #CriptheCurriculum #18C #WilliamHay #LifeWriting Link: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Keegan’s book is just so, so good - on how poetry expresses, refracts, and critiques state-managed capitalism, and how it does this by developing interdisciplinary public forms. I’ve been reading this book all week and cannot wait to talk with Keegan and Chris later today!
This Saturday at 7 pm, two @columbiaup.bsky.social authors, Keegan Cook Finberg and Kristin Grogan discuss their extraordinary new books, POETRY IN GENERAL and STITCH, UNSTITCH: in conversation w/ Christopher Nealon at @redemmas.org! bit.ly/3LAvRYz @keegancf.bsky.social @kristingrogan.bsky.social
Keegan Cook Finberg and Kristin Grogan present "Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public" and "Stitch, Unstitch Modernist Poetry and the World of Work" in conversation w/ Christopher Nealo...
Join us for an evening of rethinking the power and labor of poetry in everyday spaces.
bit.ly
November 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Keegan’s book is just so, so good - on how poetry expresses, refracts, and critiques state-managed capitalism, and how it does this by developing interdisciplinary public forms. I’ve been reading this book all week and cannot wait to talk with Keegan and Chris later today!
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I keep thinking abt a boy my mum (a retired English professor) tutored for his English lit GCSEs. He was obsessed w/the orange juice presser in Gatsby. But the stupid GCSE guide specified sticking to specific themes/words, so Mum had to keep redirecting him to those (1/7) @johannawinant.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I keep thinking abt a boy my mum (a retired English professor) tutored for his English lit GCSEs. He was obsessed w/the orange juice presser in Gatsby. But the stupid GCSE guide specified sticking to specific themes/words, so Mum had to keep redirecting him to those (1/7) @johannawinant.bsky.social
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Final night tonight! It's been a phenomenal experience - if you're in London and want to support trans artists then COME!
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
If cost is a barrier, just message me and we'll work it out - we want you there
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
If cost is a barrier, just message me and we'll work it out - we want you there
November 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Final night tonight! It's been a phenomenal experience - if you're in London and want to support trans artists then COME!
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
If cost is a barrier, just message me and we'll work it out - we want you there
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
If cost is a barrier, just message me and we'll work it out - we want you there
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1. These changes aren’t about budgets or enrollments.
2. My colleague has been deeply involved in this :waves hands: all along the way. What he shares here isn’t performative handwringing wrapped in clever rhetoric.
2. My colleague has been deeply involved in this :waves hands: all along the way. What he shares here isn’t performative handwringing wrapped in clever rhetoric.
academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
academeblog.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
1. These changes aren’t about budgets or enrollments.
2. My colleague has been deeply involved in this :waves hands: all along the way. What he shares here isn’t performative handwringing wrapped in clever rhetoric.
2. My colleague has been deeply involved in this :waves hands: all along the way. What he shares here isn’t performative handwringing wrapped in clever rhetoric.
Exciting news from the wonderful @naoisemurphy.bsky.social - so happy to see this!
My book is coming out soon and you can ask your library to order it! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queerin...
If you have loads of money, you can also order it yourself, and use the code NEW30 to get a 30% discount, but I recommend the library route 📚📚
If you have loads of money, you can also order it yourself, and use the code NEW30 to get a 30% discount, but I recommend the library route 📚📚
Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing
Queering Twentieth-Century Irish Women’s Writing
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Exciting news from the wonderful @naoisemurphy.bsky.social - so happy to see this!
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Baltimore! Red Emma’s! Tomorrow!
This Saturday at 7 pm, two @columbiaup.bsky.social authors, Keegan Cook Finberg and Kristin Grogan discuss their extraordinary new books, POETRY IN GENERAL and STITCH, UNSTITCH: in conversation w/ Christopher Nealon at @redemmas.org! bit.ly/3LAvRYz @keegancf.bsky.social @kristingrogan.bsky.social
Keegan Cook Finberg and Kristin Grogan present "Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public" and "Stitch, Unstitch Modernist Poetry and the World of Work" in conversation w/ Christopher Nealo...
Join us for an evening of rethinking the power and labor of poetry in everyday spaces.
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Baltimore! Red Emma’s! Tomorrow!
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WHAT DOES HENSELPUSHERS DO?
A lot! In honor of Fanny Hensel's 220th birthday today, here is an overview of everything on offer.
I've grouped henselpushers' activities into four categories:
1) Free scores
2) Arrangements & special editions
3) Directories & resources
4) Events & Videos
A lot! In honor of Fanny Hensel's 220th birthday today, here is an overview of everything on offer.
I've grouped henselpushers' activities into four categories:
1) Free scores
2) Arrangements & special editions
3) Directories & resources
4) Events & Videos
November 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
WHAT DOES HENSELPUSHERS DO?
A lot! In honor of Fanny Hensel's 220th birthday today, here is an overview of everything on offer.
I've grouped henselpushers' activities into four categories:
1) Free scores
2) Arrangements & special editions
3) Directories & resources
4) Events & Videos
A lot! In honor of Fanny Hensel's 220th birthday today, here is an overview of everything on offer.
I've grouped henselpushers' activities into four categories:
1) Free scores
2) Arrangements & special editions
3) Directories & resources
4) Events & Videos
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My book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is now available for pre-order in a paperback priced for humans! Go get it!
A Funny Thing | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is now available for pre-order in a paperback priced for humans! Go get it!
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Really appreciate this statement from ACLS director Joy Connolly about federal attempts to suppress certain scholarly fields, including gender & sexuality studies. Love to see scholarship funding bodies speak up in explicit and pointed ways about their ideals. www.acls.org/news/speakin....
Speaking Out for All Studies: November 12, 2025 Advocacy Update
Joy Connolly shares how ACLS is standing with scholars and societies defending academic freedom and humanistic inquiry against censorship, defunding, and political interference.
www.acls.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Really appreciate this statement from ACLS director Joy Connolly about federal attempts to suppress certain scholarly fields, including gender & sexuality studies. Love to see scholarship funding bodies speak up in explicit and pointed ways about their ideals. www.acls.org/news/speakin....
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In other, beautiful news - Transpose: SUBVERSE opening night at Barbican was an absolute joy and wonder last night. We have three nights left - if trans art and incredible music/poetry is your thing, then come/share/both!
If cost is a barrier, just message.
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
If cost is a barrier, just message.
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
November 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
In other, beautiful news - Transpose: SUBVERSE opening night at Barbican was an absolute joy and wonder last night. We have three nights left - if trans art and incredible music/poetry is your thing, then come/share/both!
If cost is a barrier, just message.
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
If cost is a barrier, just message.
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
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New York people: doing this celebratory event on the centenary of The Weary Blues at NYU next Thursday. It's going to be a lot of fun - come along?
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
New York people: doing this celebratory event on the centenary of The Weary Blues at NYU next Thursday. It's going to be a lot of fun - come along?