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susan rojas
@susanrojas.bsky.social
Independent scholar exploring affective ecologies and transitional thresholds in early modern drama (she/her)

MA English / FGCU • Co-editor / Kritikon Litterarum • Certificate in Editing / University of Chicago
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My point is that a refusal to reconsider or apologize when people make a compelling case that you erred isn’t a feature of a culture of free speech.

It’s a feature of authoritarianism—a culture that expects people to stay silent and compliant even when they know they’re being lied to.
June 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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I’m co-organising a medieval conference next year in Oxford! Please take a look at the CfP and consider submitting an abstract, by the 15th of September, to bordersboundariesbarriers@gmail.com. We hope to be able to provide funding to help cover expenses of attendance.
#medievalsky #skystorians
June 20, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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It's Friday! What a great day to remind you that I draw maps for a living. It's the thing that supports all the eel facts! I mostly draw maps for books, but I can do all sorts. Here's a few examples.

If you need a map, you can check out my website for costs, reviews, etc.
surprisedeelmaps.com
June 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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If you like seeing someone get salty about textual editors actively erasing asexual and aromantic possibility from early modern texts (I have receipts), have I got the video for you!

#asexuality #aromanticism #alloediting
You can now watch the recording of our first New Variorum Shakespeare Seminar of the semester, given by Prof. Liza Blake (Toronto) @medrenliza.bsky.social under the title ‘Queer(er) Editing’, here:

newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/
March 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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“My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.”—Eartha Kitt

For #WomensHistoryMonth, we celebrate Eartha Kitt, an international star, dancer, singer, actress, performer, cabaret artist, and published author.
March 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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So glad I decided to go hard and attend the first day of the Early Modern Trans Studies conference today *after* the RSA / SAA twofer! It was a joy to see so many terrific papers and hang w the (rapidly expanding) premodern trans studies crew - and to taste the @badinfinity2.bsky.social book cake 🎂
March 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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I don’t have many photos from #Shax2025, but this one of us walking through the mall where we all lived and learned for several days on sums it up quite nicely. Thanks, as ever, to my friends and colleagues for being in community and sharing knowledge this weekend. 1/2
March 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Boston: City of Knowledge? As if #RSA2025, #shax2025 and #MAA2025 hadn’t been enough, we now have the PrEmoTrans symposium. Great to see such a huge turnout and many familiar faces from the RSA, etc.
March 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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April Fools Day is canceled indefinitely because there’s nothing more foolish than our current reality.
March 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Happy Birthday Chaka Khan! Explore her musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here:
Happy Birthday to Chaka Khan, Born March 23, 1953
Please join the Albumism team in celebrating Chaka Khan’s musical legacy and share your personal memories of her with us.
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March 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Popping in to share the excellent books I gathered at SAA/RSA. On order is Trans Historical: Gender Plurality Before the Modern (Greta LaFleur, Masha Raskolnikov and Anna Klosowska, eds)
March 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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There’s just one month until the deadline for this Call for Papers! Submit your abstract for "Reconsidering Courtly Environments, c.1200-1800" by March 15. Further information is available in the attached document 📝

@courtstudies.bsky.social
February 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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A very long shot, but does anyone know of any historians working on or who have worked on the history of cancer? It's a very small field but there must be some people out there!
February 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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London Theatre Company have today released production photos of Richard II, starring Jonathan Bailey and directed by Nicholas Hytner, this fresh take on Shakespeare’s subtle, caustic and powerful play is currently playing the Bridge Theatre
First Look: Richard II at Bridge Theatre
London Theatre Company have today released production photos of Richard II, starring Jonathan Bailey and directed by Nicholas Hytner, this fresh take on Shakespeare’s subtle, caustic and powerful play is currently playing the Bridge Theatre
theatreweekly.com
February 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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This April: ‘Shifting Scripts’, a multifaceted event with panel discussions and workshops we organise together with @mkghamburg.bsky.social explores the intersections of Arabic and Persian graphic design with cultural, political and artistic narratives.
More info/registration: uhh.de/csmc-shiftin...
February 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
February 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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A landscape commission I completed March 2024... this remains one of my proudest aerial embroideries to date! It was challenging and took its time and that pop of spring yellow in the south-west corner was a perfect choice from the commissioner 💛 I hope you also all love it! #fiberarts #embroidery
February 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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We're recruiting for the role of Assistant Professor in Early Modern History, and seek to appoint a historian working on any aspect of the early modern world, excluding the Anglophone world (deadline 17 March 2025): durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
February 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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I built a free URL shortener for teachers bc we don't need ads when we're just trying to help each other out

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I hope you find it useful. Please share with teachers freely

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February 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Happy UK publication day to the first of many amazing New Oxford Shakespeare plays! Here’s Julius Caesar (with my intro) pictured @shakespearesglobe.bsky.social! Thanks to @oldfortunatus.bsky.social for her brilliant work as general editor and to Sarah Neville for her precise editing of the text.
February 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Download a printable version of this card here: www.tomgauld.com/valentine
A personalized Valentine’s Card for Bibliophiles. My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.
February 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Current mood in face of all that is happening is Fuller Brooch
February 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Call for Papers – Refugees and Borders: Life, Law, and Limits

@chase-dtp.bsky.social Refugee Justice Network for a Borderless World
Abstract Deadline – 22 February 2025
Seminar Date – 19 March 2025 at SOAS, London

niche-canada.org/2025/02/10/c...

#envstudies #migration #refugees
Call for Papers - Refugees and Borders: Life, Law, and Limits
Borders proliferate and refugeehood expands at the present time. Borders follow us everywhere, they are not just physical; they are as much digital, institutional, social, imaginative.
niche-canada.org
February 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Antipopes should always have the opposite name to the reigning pope at the time; so
Urban/Rural
Clement/Inclement
Paul/Peter
Innocent/Guilty
Pius/Impius
Benedict/Maledict
Francis/Dominic
... and so on
February 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM