Dustin Friedman and I wrote up a brief blog post about our new edited collection with @CambridgeUP Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1890s. Please take a look: https://t.co/NYwxQQDoa1
Queer Kinship after Wilde was awarded Honorable Mention for the NAVSA Book Prize for books published in 2022. Thank you to the judges for writing such a thoughtful citation, and congratulations to all of the 2021 and 2022 NAVSA Book Prize winners! @CambridgeUP@CUP_LitPerform
Modern Believing 64.4 features @joanna_rzepa on Mary Ward and theology as a literary problem, @jiddix on Maude Royden and the ‘Sacrament of Love’, & @DeanJaneShaw on progressive women and English Theology in the 20th C. @ModernChurchUK
Browse the issue: https://t.co/bZhzUJWexF ⛪️
all this is just a close reading and political analysis of what he said in the interview. its not my opinion, its an analysis, taking apart his rhetoric to understand what they were doing. im using skills i learned studying poetry and history
not magic
“For Symonds, as for the 20th- and 21st-century British state, rights for bourgeois, respectable homosexuals came at the expense of a broader vision of sexual liberation.”
https://t.co/sSzZg2Z5a8
The Journal of the History of Sexuality has been publishing #QueerHistory for 33 years. My dive into our archives for #PrideMonth can only highlight some of the amazing contributions over the years. Have an area of interest? Let me know and I'll find you an article!
A few things not to ask for as a teacher:
* A doctor’s note for a student who spent the night in the ER.
* Proof of a positive COVID test.
* A funeral notice for a student who’s had a death in the family.
* [Insert every other personal thing that we shouldn’t be policing.]
I am begging nondisabled folks to stop equating "standardization" w/"fairness" (à la "it's only fair if everyone does it the same way"). The dominant culture categorizes ppl as disabled on the basis of our "non-standard" bodyminds; standardization cannot produce fairness for us.
we have an election in two days and evangelical christianity is playing a big part in it — forced birth, denying the humanity and bodily autonomy of queer and trans people, and more
understanding the evangelical values underpinning the threat to our democracy is vital
@AnthonyCantorCA Still working on really getting this part: “this notion of the intentional craft error exists in cultures around the world, and I’ve also grasped the lovely, complex ways superstition, hubris, humility and respect for the gods may all intersect.”
🧵x ten.
My son is starting grade 10. He didn’t go to school today because his ‘program’ doesn’t start until tomorrow. You see, he’s in a segregated program. He doesn’t have a homeroom class + doesn’t experience high school like his typical peers. 1/10 #bced