Esmé

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[Esmé @esme_bonner]

@VirginActiveRED used your chat 4 days ago, still no follow up. Spent 40 minutes queueing on the phone, and then the call is dropped rather than correctly transferred! I want to cancel my membership before my contract renews, and this ineptitude is not convincing me to stay

[Esmé @esme_bonner]

If nothing else, it’s peoples lives and livelihoods. I will be signing this petition, I urge all Leicester alumni, and all Arts and humanities graduates, to do the same. As a two time alumnus of the University of Leicester I am appalled at this decision

[Esmé @esme_bonner]

Now, more than ever, we must fight to protect the disciplines which make us human. Help save Film Studies at UoL. The Arts are important, and the ability to distinguish and understand human made media feels more important than ever before

[Josh Edwards @Edwards22Joshua]

The University of Leicester is planning to shut down the Film Studies department for good and make staff redundant. We are all utterly devastated and we are trying to fight this. Please sign and share this petition to show your solidarity with us ❤️🎬

https://t.co/JfOLWifMdM

[Esmé @esme_bonner]

When UoL dropped so much of its English curriculum in 2021 I was one of many PGRs who watched their intended specialism vanish, now I’m seeing my friends go through the same thing. This is not cost reduction, it’s culture reduction, and it’s to the detriment of our society

[Esmé @esme_bonner]

@lizetteratura @underalocomotiv It’s a mix of fiction and non-fiction! There are non-fiction academic intros, but a lot of the stories after the first few are from fictional works, including plays

[Esmé @esme_bonner]

@mstiefvater My first ever book of yours was second hand, a copy of Shiver I got in a charity shop in Wales! Just a few years later that would feel like a funny little coincidence

[Inevitable Ally @AllyCister]

Something I said? 😂

[Esmé @esme_bonner]

Frankenstein - in which a man creates life.
Dorian Grey- used in Wilde’s trial.
Carmilla- infamously lesbian in its themes.
Jekyll & Hyde- in which a respectable man leads a secret second life.
The Vampyre- inspired by Byron, written by his obsessed bestie
The queerest books!!

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

This person got a PhD by arguing that Frankenstein's monster, and other monsters in 19th century British Gothic fiction, are queer.

The monsters depict "queer identities," are "allegories of queerness," and represent "transgressive queer affirmation."

[Coconut Tree Faller Outer Ofer @Cam_Oflage]

To find any of this notable enough to scare-quote, you have to be so out of touch with the last like 40 years of lit study that JSTOR should enable club-penguin-style parental controls if you go on the site

[Esmé @esme_bonner]

Doing stuff like this after sacking their govt. archivists is exactly why America is going to have huge gaps in their records in a few decades time. ‘Permanent modern digital’ doesn’t exist. Contemporary digital won’t be modern next year, let alone in 70. Fools.

[Department of Government Efficiency @DOGE]

The @USGSA IT team just saved $1M per year by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes (70 yr old technology for information storage) to permanent modern digital records.

[Esmé @esme_bonner]

Just saw something with a moustache pattern in flying tiger and a visceral 2014 flashback. Please. Not again

[Esmé @esme_bonner]

@Edwards22Joshua

[lauren @laurenashastro]

great time to get an english degree honestly nobody can read or write you might become scribe to the king in the next 15 years if you know cursive the way things are going

[jourdain searles @judysquirrels]

this is so important

[gal kilmer @beepupkin]

i bring a sort of "i have an ethical objection to the use of generative ai" vibe to every single conversation lately that nobody really likes

[lauren @laurenashastro]

this is the kind of society you get when you shit on english degrees

[ً @beImonttrevor]

vampires are inherently sensual creatures in that have been used to symbolize human sexuality and the forbidden since their inception so im not sure why anyone is shocked nosferatu is steeped in eroticism

[Marc O'Reachtaire @o_reachtaire]

Kneecap are absolutely exposing the disdain and hate certain parts of Tory England still have for Irish people