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queerhistorian.bsky.social
Celyn [Kel as in Bell, Lyn as in Lin]
@queerhistorian.bsky.social
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Queer historian researching non conformity around sex and gender in Mainland Britain 1850-2018, but also interested in political violence across Europe and Soviet history - as well as, of course, cute cats.

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Oh my goodness its me!!! Still nervous as anything for the first conference I am speaking at!!!
July 22, 2025 at 10:28 AM
queerhistorian.bsky.social
Ah the time of year i need to head anywhere 30 mins early as i will see a tired bee resting on a path or road and need to help em out
Big bumble bee scooped on yellow flowers to move them off a path with a white hand in frame holding the flowers A smaller tired bumble bee on a white hand being carried off the road, blurry picture as moving in a less sunny area
July 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
queerhistorian.bsky.social
Would not recommend moving house during PhD, I am so behind my plans and all with a conference paper due soon!!!
June 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
queerhistorian.bsky.social
Spent some lovely time gardening and reading Shoplands A History of Women in Mens Clothing
April 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
queerhistorian.bsky.social
Excited as I got a paper accepted to be at a conference, anxious now as I need to finish the paper and travel to London.

Least my cat is providing supervision to the situation
March 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
queerhistorian.bsky.social
Took a day out of the archives and writing and went to the cutest illustration ball, new profile picture commissioned!!!
March 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
queerhistorian.bsky.social
Going over some of Leslie Feinbergs work and once again arguing gender outlaw is a cool term we should use more 🙏 #queerhistory #transhistoty #lgbt
Text from Feinbergs pamphlet 'Trans gender liberation. A movement whose time has come'. Direct text is as follows: there are other words used to express the wide range of "gender outlaws": transvestites, transsexuals, drag queens and drag kings, crossdressers, bulldaggers, stone butches, andeogynes, diesel dykes or berdache - a European colonialist term.
March 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
queerhistorian.bsky.social
It is furthering my aim to source the origin of the following image before I take it as an actual drawing of Charley
February 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
queerhistorian.bsky.social
Whilst I will try hold back on sharing every source I uncover, there is something so brilliant about this story from 1891.
#NationalLibraryofWales
newspapers.library.wales/view/3366917...
January 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
queerhistorian.bsky.social
Whilst it didnt end up being of interest to my research, there is something so amusing about this article from 1894.

newspapers.library.wales/view/4601082...
#NationalLibraryofWales
January 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM