Dr Matt Lodder
@mattlodder.com
Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Essex. Trustee, Bishopsgate Institute. Law Student. Historian of tattooing. Podcaster @beneaththeskinpod.history.tattoo. 'Painted People' and 'Tattoos' out now. ADHD.
Already loving this trip...
November 9, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Already loving this trip...
Somebody stop this madness.
November 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Somebody stop this madness.
On my way home from a 2-0 Chelsea win and an incredible set from Arch Enemy... What a day!
November 1, 2025 at 11:11 PM
On my way home from a 2-0 Chelsea win and an incredible set from Arch Enemy... What a day!
The kink archives @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social throw up the most surprising objects...
October 31, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The kink archives @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social throw up the most surprising objects...
Delighted to be the cover feature for the Royal Horticultural Society magazine this month!
October 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Delighted to be the cover feature for the Royal Horticultural Society magazine this month!
My two lectures on Operation Spanner and its aftermath for the UK APP conference in September are now on our Patreon: patreon.com/beneaththeskin
October 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
My two lectures on Operation Spanner and its aftermath for the UK APP conference in September are now on our Patreon: patreon.com/beneaththeskin
Petition to ban Johnathan Jones from ever writing about art again.
Can we imagine any reason, Johnny boy - metaphorical or didactic, you unimaginative goon - why a Sami artist might install a small, fragile structure amongst a vast empty landscape?
Can we imagine any reason, Johnny boy - metaphorical or didactic, you unimaginative goon - why a Sami artist might install a small, fragile structure amongst a vast empty landscape?
October 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Petition to ban Johnathan Jones from ever writing about art again.
Can we imagine any reason, Johnny boy - metaphorical or didactic, you unimaginative goon - why a Sami artist might install a small, fragile structure amongst a vast empty landscape?
Can we imagine any reason, Johnny boy - metaphorical or didactic, you unimaginative goon - why a Sami artist might install a small, fragile structure amongst a vast empty landscape?
I was six years old, Academia.
October 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I was six years old, Academia.
Amazing work by the GLP... The case being made by the ECHR is crumbling at the very lightest touch...
!["A trans-exclusive approach by [duty bearers] would likely engage s.19 EA 2010 in that such an approach may well put trans people at a particular disadvantage relative to people who are not trans. This would require the service provider to justify the trans-exclusive approach. The possibility that a trans-exclusive approach will require justification appears to be accepted by the EHRC DGs (S87),"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:teve3wryywskmpytjuql5rz7/bafkreib5wphdunwmvfm43mwtdcqxubatiazqqmpl24lhqwgsfozh3kze5e@jpeg)
October 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Amazing work by the GLP... The case being made by the ECHR is crumbling at the very lightest touch...
Brilliant article, with a comment that gets to the nub of it all.
October 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Brilliant article, with a comment that gets to the nub of it all.
Penultimate session on the back today by Samantha Fung! Old piece needs to be reworked fully still and I think there's likely a tweak or two to the main bit but... we're so close!
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Penultimate session on the back today by Samantha Fung! Old piece needs to be reworked fully still and I think there's likely a tweak or two to the main bit but... we're so close!
Apparently Joanne missed the "Data of Biology" chapter from the Second Sex that explicitly argues against this stupid argument of hers.
www.reddit.com/r/GenderCyni...
www.reddit.com/r/GenderCyni...
October 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Apparently Joanne missed the "Data of Biology" chapter from the Second Sex that explicitly argues against this stupid argument of hers.
www.reddit.com/r/GenderCyni...
www.reddit.com/r/GenderCyni...
Apparently not a false memory. Fuck everyone involved in this.
October 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Apparently not a false memory. Fuck everyone involved in this.
Body shamed in the DMs!
October 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Body shamed in the DMs!
(super-nerd post but...) there's *finally* a Legends-scale standalone comics Iceman figure coming?! I can finally reunite the Amazing Friends on my office bookshelf without having to buy that stupid boxed set?!
October 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
(super-nerd post but...) there's *finally* a Legends-scale standalone comics Iceman figure coming?! I can finally reunite the Amazing Friends on my office bookshelf without having to buy that stupid boxed set?!
October 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This is television courtroom stuff. Beautiful.
September 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This is television courtroom stuff. Beautiful.
Now Farage is ascendant on a Broken Britain narrative, Fraser Nelson at the Times seems to be suddenly interested in telling the truth about how crime statistics reveal falling lawlessness after all. Weird.
September 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Now Farage is ascendant on a Broken Britain narrative, Fraser Nelson at the Times seems to be suddenly interested in telling the truth about how crime statistics reveal falling lawlessness after all. Weird.
Who is this product for? Who puts on deodorant at 8am on a Monday and thinks they're set, hygiene-wise, until Friday afternoon?
September 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Who is this product for? Who puts on deodorant at 8am on a Monday and thinks they're set, hygiene-wise, until Friday afternoon?
