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Sarah Pyke
@sarahpyke.bsky.social
teaching children's and YA literature at the University of Münster
london.ac.uk/seized-books | #QueerBibliography
researching and writing various things
close reading forever
me: oh, the students are writing things down, I'm glad they're finding this useful!!

my students:
November 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
time to go
November 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
how about, because sex between men was yet to be decriminalised?
November 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Last week I posted that the image on the left was one of the single greatest pages in twentieth century literature, and I stand by that! But look what I noticed for the very first time: Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are closes with an almost-identical page layout, to wildly different ends
October 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
good morning
October 27, 2025 at 7:35 AM
everything is terrible apart from the University of Texas Austin students who, protesting a committee set up to review the humanities curriculum, have produced this graphic arranging committee members by length of hair
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 24, 2025 at 5:51 AM
one of the greatest single pages of the twentieth-century, a masterpiece
October 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
unexpectedly transcendent Saturday night: Pina Bausch’s Cafe Müller and Das Frühlingsopfer at the Opernhaus Wuppertal
October 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
and here is MWB reading Stein’s manuscript for the first time, according to Leonard Marcus, accidentally celebrating with ‘an amusing cake in the shape of a boat’
October 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
oh yes and not forgetting

‘President Trumbull spoke from the White House. “What we have today, with the things that are happening in today’s society, is…”’
October 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Teaching M.T. Anderson’s Feed (2003) this semester because I feel its time has come

‘the girls were all missing their favourite feedcast, this show called Oh? Wow! Thing!’
October 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
There also this from sometime in the mid-80s and this story about an LGBT window display from Pride ‘98. I don’t know what went down with the Polari Prize really but I dunno, I just thought this was worth mentioning
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
As well as being a total joy to read on all kinds of topics, Cholmeley is explicitly trans-inclusive from the very first page (and makes clear that Silver Moon and its staff were throughout the 1980s, too — the shop opened in 1984). No fuss, no argument
August 28, 2025 at 3:54 PM
very much enjoyed reviewing Jane Cholmeley's excellent A BOOKSHOP OF ONE'S OWN for Publishing Research Quarterly

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
August 28, 2025 at 8:24 AM
One of ours went out in hers. Ten minutes later she was back having swiftly disposed of it
August 23, 2025 at 7:29 AM
new syllabus idea just dropped
July 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Yes, there is! And my favourite is the Bastables’ newspaper in Nesbit’s The Treasure Seekers
July 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Having looked at the link you posted, I think this person thinks they are a lot cleverer than they are, but the framing lets them down. The tells for me are ‘I don’t remember too well’ (an Americanism), ‘gran’, in this context, ‘bollocks’ and ‘odds and sods’ in the same sentence, capital for ‘War’…
July 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Big thank you to my co-panellists @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social, @jdsargan.bsky.social and @brimwats.com for their excellent interventions in our panel Queer and Trans Communities and Values of the Book. What a pleasure to speak alongside and hear from and be in conversation with you all #SHARP2025
July 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
What a nice week at #SHARP2025. Met up with some old friends and made some new ones, gave three (3) talks, drank a lot of iced coffee, visited Visual Studies Workshop and ate incredible Korean food on an industrial estate 10/10 experience thank you Rochester
July 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
My cats met a hen once
July 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Looking back at old research photos and just found these lovely kids’ books by Pat Albeck from 1970
June 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Hello, a little reminder that @jenniegouck.bsky.social and I wrote a long CFP for a conference we're organising, online, next February. Do you have thoughts about book banning and censorship in children's and YA literature? Send 'em in!
June 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
V. much enjoyed writing about Jessica Love's Julián is a Mermaid, partly because I could start a sentence with 'Love's work...'
June 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
CFP: Thinking of the Children: Book Bans, Censorship and Literature for Young People
An online conference hosted by the University of Münster
11-12 February 2026

Abstracts due 11:59pm on 31 August!
Full CFP and to submit: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3505/
Please share!
June 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM