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

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#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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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
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If you can, help finance the first internationalist queer pride Frankfurt. Many big prides have become commercial, capitalist events - may we never forget that the first pride was a riot!

www.paypal.com/pool/9grfFjS...
Red and yellow poster of the internationalist queer pride Frankfurt, 26 and 27 July, demonstration starts 4 pm at Hauptwache. Two fotos: one with a banner that reads „police violence is not an accident“ and the other one showing a persons back with the words „queer trans resistance“ written on their jacket.
July 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Lovingly curated queer book table at the English and Romance Languages‘ department library!
July 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Charlie Josephine speaking about his work, the body and queer joy at #CDE2025 Konstanz. Very eloquent, very inspiring!
A laptop and the playtext of I, Joan on a table, people seated on chairs listening to Charlie Josephine, who is in the back, speaking at a podium.
June 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Happy IDAHOBIT from my Team Bembel Town Roller Derby ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Conservative/right pressure in the US, UK and, let’s face it, also in Germany is threatening the trans/nonbinary community. That‘s why we say: Trans people belong in sports. And everywhere. On equal terms.
Two skaters with their backs to the camera holding a diverse pride flag between them with the logo of Bembel Town Roller Derby, Frankfurt.
May 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Never stop saying this out loud. Your silence at transphobic comments will not protect you.
Poster of the trans flag that reads "no terfs, no tories" at the Museum of Transology in London King‘s Cross.
April 17, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Sometimes your Schreibtisch must become an Eiscafé. Correcting student paper to the sound of angry badische ladies <3
April 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Bye bye London, I love you with a quiet fierceness for providing theatre, queer books, chats with friends and (a small selection of) English foods that only taste nice here❣️
book shop on a narrow boat that is moored in a London canal sunny snapshot of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park framed by blooming trees Kate Charlesworth‘s graphic memoir Sensible Footwear on a table of a park cafe, the small hut visible in the back Gail‘s scones with cream and jam spread into the shapes of a heart on one half and a smiley face on the other, cup of coffee on the side.
April 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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The Museum of Transology and @queerbritain.bsky.social are two fantastic LGBTQ spaces in London. The queer archive is alive and overflowing with love when we truly need it!

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Wall of protest posters, people sat around a table, and other artefacts like clothing at the Museum of Transology in King‘s Cross. Poster of the trans flag with „no terfs, no tories“ and the transgender symbol. Miniature statue of Radclyffe Hall made by her partner Alice B. Toklas in a glass case in front of framed posters and other artefacts at the museum Queer Britain in King‘s Cross.
April 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Day made brighter by Emma Donoghue‘s thoughts on LGBTQ+ history and literary heritage.
"'history' is not a luxury for arty types, nor just a vague feeling that we queer folk have been around a long time. It is crucial advice, passed on from one generation to the next (…) and literary heritage is just as important as the more obvious kinds of activism." Emma Donoghue in Lesbian and Gay Visions of Ireland (1995)
February 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Here comes the sun. Little Darlings, may it all be a little more alright in 2025.
Panorama of Freiburg, a green hill with vines, the city in the middle, more hills behind it and a light blue sunny sky.
January 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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my dad‘s grumpy cat Lucie whenever she‘s not the centre of attention
Me holding a glass of red sitting at a table with a cat‘s head popping up behind it receiving scratchies
December 28, 2024 at 4:47 PM
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My grandmother loved her Schwibbogen of the Dresdner Frauenkirche with carol singers. It‘ll bring joy to our home from now on. Thanks, Oma. ♥
Corner of a room, half of it a nook with two windows, a candle arch on the sill of one, a tiny star light in the other, a wooden table with a red lamp and three burning candles to the left, a tiny Christinas tree with lights on the right.
December 20, 2024 at 7:51 AM
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Phd motivation for next week - Duolingo reminding me of what I‘m doing. OK let’s go! 💪🏼
Screenshot of Duolingo Polish lesson with the sentence „you write a book“.
December 1, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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Made similar bouquet today, colours were too pretty to leaf them on the floor 😏
October 26, 2024 at 8:00 PM
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Had lovely conversations with queer indie publishers Querverlag and Ylva at the Frankfurt book fair, meanwhile bigger publishers like Penguin and Bloomsbury had closed off their stands to the public (?!) while the Irish were serving Guiness.
My partner and me in front of a sign that says "Sappho would read lesbian romance novels“ in German. a replica of a Gutenberg printing press, a man is printing a page A tote bag that says „book lover“ enclosed by a rainbow heart.
October 18, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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Exciting news: the next International Federation for Theatre Research conference about performing carnival will be in Cologne!

More info on: iftr.org
Poster for the IFTR performing carnival conference 2025, June 9-13, a colourful background with little graphics of the Dom and the globe wearing a carnival hat in white.
October 9, 2024 at 12:38 PM
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Took a cable car across the Rhein in Köln today - fun bonus: naked people swimming in the spa below us towards the end, Irish friend found this hilarious and thinks all Germans love being naked now.
wide lens picture of the Rhine with the Könner Dom at the back, grey clouds with some sunlight bursting through, and green a park with trees on the left riverbank. (Naked people not pictured…)
October 3, 2024 at 9:35 PM
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Bye bye sole italiano, I’ll remember you fondly throughout the German winter!
the sun has just gone down behind Elba, which is glowing orange and yellow against a dark blue sky, the waves reflect the light, the beach is dark, an person‘s outline on the left. a red tray with crisps, pistachios, a frothy cappuccino and an Aperol Spritz on a terrace facing the beach, deck chairs in the background two pairs of feet standing in the sand among seagull footprints
October 1, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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Late to the party but this book is a beautiful, rigorously researched piece of poetry.
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"A poet is someone who swims inexplicably away from the shore, only to arrive at an island of her own invention."
Paperback of After Sappho (2022) by Selby Wynn Schwartz on a lounge chair at the beach, the Tuscan sea and blue sky in the back.
September 22, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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Always wanted to create a more diverse and safer leaning environment for people? Come to our free workshop "Queering the Classroom" @UniCologne Oct 4-5 that uses theatre to learn about equality! 🎭🌈
For more info and programme: anglistik1.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/abteilungen-...
Poster for the workshop, for the info it contains and a programme of the workshop, follow the link in the post!
September 16, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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Post conference blues and on to organizing the next thing - a diversity in/through theatre workshop I’m really looking forwards to - but also trying to write the next chapter of the thesis. Send help. And more pastries.
Front camera showing selfie, back camera showing a reading room of Senate House Library and my laptop screen with an open tab about a diversity/theatre workshop at the University of Cologne. Chocolate cream filled beignet held up in front of a street with people sitting on benches eating.
September 9, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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Edinburgh is beautiful, medieval, exciting. Sad to have just missed the Fringe, but bagpipe performances made up for it.
Greyfriars Kirkyard in the sun, a cobbled path and Tolbooth Kirk in the back. The Royal Mile, a 17th century cistern with a beautiful, smiling mask as a waterspout, some red telephone boxes and a church in the back. Gold memorial plaque of Lady Oliphant, Victorian author who supported her family through her writing, in St. Giles‘ Cathedral Walter Scott‘s Monument, Stevenson in the foreground, slightly upset he only got a significantly smaller statue.
September 8, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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#AudienceStudies panel on dis/comfort, having to perform one’s identity, and questions of power fittingly brought to you as a panopticon from the #TaPRA2024 stage.
September 6, 2024 at 1:44 PM