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Sarah Busch
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PhD student @UniFreiburg / lecturer @UniCologne / queer-feminist literature 📚contemporary theatre and audience studies🎭/ (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈

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sarahbusch.bsky.social
#britcult2025 on queering religion, menstruation and literary reception; on being haunted by the ghosts of our past and taking strength in community for what lies ahead of us; on reading reparatively and listening to each other - thank you so much to everyone for these past 2 days!
The conference organising team of 12 people with rainbow lenyards, smiling and standing in front of a PowerPoint slide that reads "Re-Orientating Gender (Studies): Feminism, Queerness and Trans* in Cultural Studies Today“, Bamberg, 20.-22. November 2025.
November 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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helenasteinhaus.bsky.social
sich Strom-&Gasschulden angehäuft. Das Jobcenter hat Darlehen abgelehnt, obwohl ein Kleinkind von der Energiesperre beroffen ist! Wir haben den Anwalt eingeschaltet und die Strom- und Gasschulden i.H.v. 800€ übernommen. Wer unsere Arbeit unterstützen kann, hier entlang: sanktionsfrei.de/support.
November 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
Celebrate Transgender Awareness Week with this collection of plays focusing on trans life and gender diversity.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3IY2bDV

#TheatreSky #Theatre @methuendrama.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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lauramca.bsky.social
Soldier F found not guilty of murder on Bloody Sunday. What can one expect when the British state doesn’t adequately investigate at the time, blames the dead for their murders, drags out justice processes for >50 years and then imposes a legacy act. Ensures this outcome www.rte.ie/news/ulster/...
Soldier F cleared of two murders on Bloody Sunday
A former British paratrooper has been found not guilty at Belfast Crown Court of committing two murders and five attempted murders on Bloody Sunday in Derry in 1972.
www.rte.ie
October 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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pinknews.bsky.social
Protestors arrested after standing on rainbow Pride crossing to stop its removal
Protestors arrested after trying to stop removal of rainbow Pride crossing
Protestors have been arrested in Houston after standing on a rainbow Pride crossing to stop its removal.
www.thepinknews.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
sarahbusch.bsky.social
Listening to a lady from Yorkshire talk about a play: "oh lordy, we were so close and we were just like, oh crikey, audience participation" but when she came out of the play she was "gobsmacked" by how much she liked it 😄 #theatre
October 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
sarahbusch.bsky.social
Someone in our house is practicing the recorder and…good grief…I’m sorry mum, all the way through primary school plus year 5 and 6!!
October 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
sarahbusch.bsky.social
Good insights into maintaining friendships by being forgiving of unresponsiveness, and how loneliness impacts negatively on our health.
October 4, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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theguardian.com
The Irish language is a joy not a burden: in what other tongue is a penis a wild carrot? | Una Mullally
The Irish language is a joy not a burden: in what other tongue is a penis a wild carrot? | Una Mullally
Record numbers of pupils are seeking opt-outs from compulsory learning. This is misguided – Irish is a portal to a world of imagination, says journalist Una Mullally
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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theguardian.com
Israel intercepts aid flotilla but one ship reported to have escaped blockade
Israel intercepts aid flotilla but one ship reported to have escaped blockade
Activists from Global Sumud flotilla including Greta Thunberg arrested and taken into custody with one boat reported to be in Palestinian waters • Gaza aid flotilla: around 40 vessels intercepted by Israeli forces – live Israel has said it has stopped a pro-Palestinian flotilla carrying aid from reaching Gaza, after its navy intercepted most of the vessels. However, one boat, the Mikeno, was reported to have escaped the maritime blockade and to have stopped inside Palestinian territorial waters near Gaza’s coast before contact with the vessel was lost. Continue reading...
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October 2, 2025 at 12:47 PM
sarahbusch.bsky.social
Hey #booksky #academicsky : Does anyone have or know where to get bell hook‘s little volume of poetry In the Temple of Love: the Female Buddha?
September 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
sarahbusch.bsky.social
Petition von @msf.de, gesehen am Tag der Kinderrechte beim Stand von Free Palestine, die heute der knapp 20.000 getöteten Kinder in Gaza gedenken.

www.aerzte-ohne-grenzen.de/sich-engagie...
Jetzt Aufruf an die Bundesregierung unterschreiben!
Unterschreiben Sie unseren Aufruf an die Bundesregierung. Weil Regierungen handeln, wenn wir es tun.
www.aerzte-ohne-grenzen.de
September 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
sarahbusch.bsky.social
#academictwitter help! Does anyone have access to Henry Abelove’s "The Queering of Lesbian/Gay History" from 1995? read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hist...
The Queering of Lesbian/Gay History
read.dukeupress.edu
September 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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susannegruss.bsky.social
Things are getting real! The website for #britcult2025 has gone live: www.britcult.de/conference20.... Check out our exciting programme, register until October 20, then join us for a 3-day conference on the Re-Orientation of Gender (Studies) in the 21st century. #AcademicConference #GenderStudies
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September 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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correctiv.org
📣 Schauspiel Köln und CORRECTIV bringen #Journalismus auf die Bühne!

Am 10. September feiert das Theaterstück „GEHEIMPLAN GEGEN DEUTSCHLAND – Ein Nachspiel“ Premiere am Schauspiel Köln. Das Thema: Die CORRECTIV-Enthüllung über das geheime Treffen rechtsextremer Akteure in Potsdam und seine Folgen.
Schauspiel Köln und CORRECTIV präsentieren „GEHEIMPLAN GEGEN DEUTSCHLAND – Ein Nachspiel“: Auftakt zum langfristigen Schwerpunkt „Theater und Journalismus”
Am 10. September 2025 feiert „GEHEIMPLAN GEGEN DEUTSCHLAND – Ein Nachspiel“ Premiere am Schauspiel Köln. Die Aufführung wird zeitgleich kostenlos per Stream auf correctiv.org übertragen.
correctiv.org
September 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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deirdreflynn.bsky.social
Research Assistant - School of English, Media and Creative Arts, University of Galway

full-time, two-year position as a Research Assistant with Professor Marie-Louse Coolahan

universityvacancies.com/university-g...
Research Assistant - School of English, Media and Creative Arts, University of Galway 011297 | University Vacancies Ireland
universityvacancies.com
August 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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volksverpetzer.de
Ich weiß, den Entscheidern in unseren Mainstream-Medien ist das völlig egal, aber wir werden trotzdem nicht müde, die Fakten zu wiederholen: Eine brandneue Studie hat gezeigt, was schon etliche davor gezeigt haben: Rechtsextreme zu interviewen steigert Rechtsextremismus. WANN LERNT IHR ES ENDLICH!
August 12, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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philouw.bsky.social
CFP! Anne Rüggemeier and I are organizing a FRIAS conference on silence in literature and culture from April 15-17, 2026. Please consider submitting an abstract by September 15 ✍️ (link below) @uni-freiburg.de @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
sarahbusch.bsky.social
"A play is not ONLY its themes and supposed “content” but its shape, its sound, its rhythm, its music, its playfulness (…) Immediacy (see Anna Kornbluh’s book on this) is the presentism trap in which society has fallen in this stage of accelerated lazy capitalism in the West."
csvich.bsky.social Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · Aug 2
"there's no healing that can occur in spaces where harm is being sold as repair."
csvich.bsky.social Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · Jul 21
i wrote a little something abt plays. open.substack.com/pub/csvich/p...
August 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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thanatos-kalos.bsky.social
Ch 3 is as drafted as it can get until audience research data starts coming in. Currently just over 19K words. Please fill out/share?

#19-2: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#DaVincisInquest:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#RepublicofDoyle:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
August 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
sarahbusch.bsky.social
Great Alison Bechdel exhibit at the comic museum #Basel. These dykes loved it! #graphicnovels #comics #AlisonBechdel
Glass doors with rainbow reflection and self portrait of cartoonist Alison Bechdel. Two people are reflected in the glass. Several pages of Bechdel‘s graphic novels exhibited on a white wall, a life size cartoon drawing of the artist rollerblading and drawing a line to skate on with a brush. The following Adrienne Rich quote on the wall: „(…) the hard ones, practicing till strength and accuracy became one with the daring to lead into transcendence.“ Two people with short brown hair, one with glasses and a black blouse, one with a flowery blouse smile into the camera in front of an illustration of the title to Bechdel‘s comic strips "Dykes to Watch Out For".
July 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM
sarahbusch.bsky.social
Creative strategies to get students into reading - I will definitely try these, students often love a book *after* they’ve read it but to get them excited about the process is often difficult!
#teaching #EnglishLit #reading
aktange.bsky.social Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · Jul 16
Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.
Reading Scenario Experiments. This series of prompts is designed to get you thinking about how the setting for reading affects concentration, comprehension, and even the existential experience of reading. Every week, one of the following prompts will appear on the syllabus. I encourage you to try all of them that you are able. How does a different reading setting affect your mood? Your receptiveness to the prose? Your pleasure or difficulty reading? What are the particular impacts of changing your lighting or surroundings? What do you notice about yourself and about the work you are reading during this experiment? 1. read by candlelight (use a small lamp in dorms where no candles are allowed!) 2. read for one hour without checking any devices, answering texts, etc. 3. walk out into nature (climb a tree, sit on a rock, grab a spot in a hammock) and read 4. host a reading night with friends & food (sit in companionable silence, reading without chatting) 5. read aloud a chapter to someone else 6. climb into bed at night and read by flashlight under the covers for at least 30 minutes, as if you’ve already been told “lights out” as a kid 7. reread a chapter and see what new things you notice the second time through 8. change your ambient-noise level: add music if you normally read in the quiet; or read without music if you are normally a music-listener 9. read with a sketchpad at hand and sketch scenes, characters, or other elements from the story 10. practice focused listening: have someone read to you 11. make yourself a special, fancy snack on a real plate to nibble while eating: pay attention to the cooking or arranging or choosing of ingredients to make it especially appetizing first 12. make tea (even if you’re not usually a tea drinker), and read and sip 13. invent a new reading scenario for yourself, or repeat the one you liked the best from this term [writing assignment using these prompts follows; text character limit prevents inclusion of it in full]
July 17, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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uk.theconversation.com
The V&A exhibition showcases the radical contributions of people with disabilities to design history and culture, and calls for greater visibility, equality and consideration.
Design and Disability at the V&A is a rich, thought-provoking exhibition
The V&A exhibition showcases the radical contributions of people with disabilities to design history and culture, and calls for greater visibility, equality and consideration.
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July 17, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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volksverpetzer.de
Ist die Juristin unbequem, diffamiert man sie als linksextrem.
July 16, 2025 at 10:55 AM