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jadefrench.bsky.social
Leverhulme ECR researching modernist/post-war lit, ageing, emotions and care at Loughborough University. Co-founder of arts platform Decorating Dissidence 🧶
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Can't wait to talk all things generational @lboroenglish.bsky.social in May with @drsarahparker.bsky.social & our brilliant guest speakers – sign up below & DM for more info!

Ever since we were slapped with punitive deductions in January 2022, it’s been our aim to turn our experience of impoverishing intimidation into freedom from employer detriment for everyone. This 🧵 outlines some of the ways you can help protect & improve workers’ rights. qmucu.org/2025/02/10/j...

read, weep and - especially if you're a parent of students - protest voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

The incomparable Kate Lister (@k8lister.bsky.social): "I am old enough to remember when it was important for a university to just have a history department and somewhere to study literature, and I’m not that old."

It's here! Equal parts exciting and daunting to share my first monograph is OUT NOW! Please consider ordering to libraries 📚 and I'd also love to connect with people/research groups working on similar topics 📧

From Dada to Taboo! Our modernist maker feature celebrates provocateur Leigh Bowery 💚 decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/modernist-...

Can't wait to talk all things generational @lboroenglish.bsky.social in May with @drsarahparker.bsky.social & our brilliant guest speakers – sign up below & DM for more info!

CfP alert!📣 We're looking for contributions to Caring Modernists: Locating Care in Modernist Production and Practice, co-edited by @jadefrench.bsky.social, Emily Bell, Paula Maher Martin and I. Send your abstract (250 words) and bio (100 words) to [email protected] by 14 March 2025. CfP below⬇️

I'm co-organising a conference on the modernist long poem, partly for the centenary of Richard Aldington's A Fool i' the Forest. Please consider submitting! nclsn.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/c... @modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social @mmodernity.bsky.social @fwwsoc.bsky.social

Made it to the Peter Townsend papers - so much to take in over 3 days!

✨ Our first Modernist Maker feature of 2025 celebrates modern artists’ jewellery - from Peggy Guggenheim’s fabulous earring collection to Surrealist accessories crafted by a master goldsmith and jewellery made by Picasso for friends & lovers ✨ 🔗 decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/modernist-...

Finally over the flu and digging into some new research - what could the spinster's secret possibly be?

Hi friends, Loughborough's Health Humanities research group has finally made it over to bluesky ⛅🦋. Follow for updates from our wonderful researchers in the Health Hums. You can also use the link below find out more about who we are and what we do! www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/eng...

❤️‍🔥 Jasleen Kaur, on winning the Turner Prize: “I’ve been wondering why artists are required to dream up liberation in the gallery but when that dream meets life we are shut down” youtu.be/6RoLMAf37qY

Latest Modernist Maker post on @decodissidence.bsky.social – who should we feat. in the new year?!

👋 Hello! We're Decorating Dissidence - a project documenting craft and making from modernism to now ✂️For radical histories of craft, modernist maker profiles, interviews with artists, curators & makers, reviews, guest essays and more, subscribe to our newsletter ✉️ decoratingdissidence.substack.com

Haven't seen one yet so wanted to make a starter pack for modernist studies organisations (and related platforms) as more migrate to Bluesky. Do help us out by letting us know who to add & do share so we can get connected! go.bsky.app/VAe3Wb1

Everyone do us a favour and sign this, please. The Arts and Humanities are not a negotiable.

🙌 Big congrats to Michael – can't wait to read the piece on 'the domestic architecture of autobiographical poetry'! It also feels really nice to be commended for my essay @modernistudies.bsky.social - the piece has been through a fair few iterations, so excited to see it in the world!

BBC Culture feature on Radicals & Rogues: the Women Who Made New York Modern ‘According to a new book, New York's transformation in the 20th Century into a vibrant, modern city is largely thanks to a cohort of radical women artists who were overlooked by history’ 👇

Rather sadly - my first post on here is to let anyone who will listen know that English/Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes is facing massive redundancies - 40% of staff to be culled by January including my own role. Please share and support, we are trying to save our livelihoods #SaveBrookesEnglish

Three quarters of the way there! But time is of the essence. Can you help? t.co/E9OUUuaYNK

Brilliant to see Radicals & Rogues: the Women Who Made New York Modern on a little tour of NYC thanks to @jadefrench.bsky.social 🥰 🗽 Here it is in fab company with some of the artists & artwork that ft in it - Beatrice Wood, Florine Stettheimer & Mina Loy 🤩

✉️ Check out our October craft & making round up for jobs & awards in the sector, plus spotlights on exciting new autumn exhibitions inc. Enam Gbewonyo at Nott New Art Exchange, the British Textile Bienniale & our round up of Frieze highlights! Don’t miss our latest updates, sign up: bit.ly/3FjEDnm

Via @outspokenpress.bsky.social: With Palestinian deaths now in the thousands, we’ve put together this online fundraiser on Monday 30th Oct at 7pm to offer aid. All proceeds go to Medical Aid for Palestinians. Please join us, tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-for-...

Our Modernist Makers this month are Hilary Bourne & Barbara Allen, a craft couple who were collaborators in life & creative practice. Their overlooked contribution to British Modernism is the focus of Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft’s new exhibition Double Weave 🧶 Read more: bit.ly/3LPxhvA

Folks coming to MSA in Brooklyn! Sign up here for Claire Battershill's DIY Modernisms workshop: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You know I will be there with bells on!

⚡️Radicals & Rogues: the Women Who Made New York Modern is out next week ⚡️ It explores creative collaboration & networks formed by women searching for radical new ways to live, love & make art -a journey thru salons, soirées, exhibitions & anarchist cafes amzn.eu/d/0hgbqtx

We’re delighted to host an online celebration of Amy Elkins’ book Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present on 15th Nov ⚡️Amy will be in conversation with the DD team & multimedia artist Kabe Wilson, whose work ft in her book 🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/decor...

So excited for this with @amyeelkins.bsky.social !

Big morning of deadlines so now a little respite & reading ✨

We spoke with artist and maker Alice Kettle, fresh from curating 'Threads: breathing life into new materials' Arnolfini (on until 1 Oct, Bristol) in our latest newsletter! 👇🧶 decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/how-thread... “I use thread as a descriptive line, textured and rich"

The latest Modernist Maker Digest profiles Irish designer Eileen Gray (1878 - 1976). “A house is not a machine to live in.” Read more in Decorating Dissidence's weekly newsletter - sign up via link in bio ⭐ decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/eileen-gray

Keep up to date with all things craft, making and the decorative from modernism to now via our newsletter! 🧶 decoratingdissidence.substack.com

Researcher and curator Graham Feyl chatted to me about his research into queer craft networks and histories in NYC & San Francisco! Read Graham’s insights into the radical power of glitter as a craft material here: decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/all-that-g...

'So the bird alights.' Currently working on Mina Loy's infamously unfinishing experimental Islands in the Air contained in the Beinecke Library (although an edited publication of these texts is on the way from Karla Kelsey with Yale University Press!). Here is one of my favourite pages.

A September round up of all things craft, making and the decorative: decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/the-month-...

You can’t smile your way to a good old age! But I enjoyed talking with Wency Leung about what we can do individually and collectively about what there is and isn’t to fear about growing older. Intrigued? Have a listen to my #podcast Wrinkle Radio www.theglobeandmail.com/life/style/a...

How cool! www.eventbrite.ie/e/a-literary...

Loved this essay about the 'chintzy, gilded florist foils and cellophane-wrapped rats of Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt': decoratingdissidence.com/2023/08/22/j...

The latest Modernist Maker Digest profiles Irish designer Eileen Gray (1878 - 1976). “A house is not a machine to live in.” Read more in Decorating Dissidence's weekly newsletter - sign up via link in bio ⭐ decoratingdissidence.substack.com/p/eileen-gray