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Happy 10th birthday to the Ea-Nasir complaint tablet meme! A glorious decade of memes, mashups, merchandise, erotic fanfic, real-life copper fraud, and pilgrimages to the British Museum. Thread 🧵:

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Strangely moving to see sculptures of sleeping sperm whales hang in the vast space of Winchester Cathedral. At one point, this cathedral may have been lit by whale oil. Ambergris may have scented some varieties of sacred chrism oil.

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I think this from Cronenberg is my favourite thing I’ve ever seen from another cis person about trans stuff, because he’s so clearly coming at it having thought very seriously about it and integrated it into his own weird lil artsy guy worldview rather than generic liberal platitudes.

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This paper is an incredible rant about racist educational ideologies and about adults who assume that their own behavior has nothing to do with how children talk to them

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I love having a wander around the shops on 13th February. So many anxious-looking men scurrying around. So many men rushing into Card Factory with a debit card and terror in their eyes. So many men trying, with an air of panic, to figure out what their partner actually likes. Just delightful.

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Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners #WordsMatter

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Last week I updated my mega-post "What's wrong with the Cass Review?" with new links to analysis and evidence. I have no illusions about the current political landscape. It will likely take years to undo Cass' act of sabotage. But I am in this fight for the long haul and hope you are too.

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Today at 1pm, the inimitable @mixosaurus.bsky.social is presenting "Eroticising the trans body: labels and descriptions of queer bodies in online erotica" as the Gender Institute's Scholar of the month🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ Join us in McCrea 1-17 or on Teams for what is sure to be a fascinating talk

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Today one of my students was wearing a Green Day t-shirt. Me: cool, I saw them live. Student: me too! I saw them in 2021, how about you? Me: 2001 - wait, were you even born then...? Student: nope! I was minus four years old! Cool. Very cool. Age has sunk its claws into me, time will eat my bones

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A resource I've been working on for over a year with Clare Horrie at The National Archives, Kew intended primarily for upper secondary school students has gone live. It's based on research for my current book project. Do take a look: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/re...

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Okay, here’s the deal: RIGHT NOW is the time for concrete, direct action. If you’re following me, it’s probably because you care about trans art and trans literature. The article below lays out my suggestions for dozens of concrete actions you can take to preemptively combat literary censorship.

submitted 37 days ago • 70 comments

Join us at the Winchester Gallery from 5pm on Thursday 30th January for the opening of Queering Connections: Glitchy Kinship. We've also got an 'In Conversation' with me (curator) and Milou (artist) on Thurs 6th Feb at 5pm. @unisouthampton.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social

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TransActual need to hear from you. The Trans Lives Survey 2024/25 is now open and your answers will be used to write a report (it will be anonymised don’t worry) that we can share with all sorts of people to help them understand what life is like for trans people in the UK today. (a thread)

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My incredibly talented and clever friend has just published this! Stories about love and grief and loss and finding yourself in that. Stories about flawed people in difficult situations doing the best that they can with small acts of kindness and care and hope. It's really really good.

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If you work at a university here is a practical list of things we can fight for our insitutions to provide to Gazan students, as with Ukraine. Free access to online resources, mentorship programmes, research partnerships, skills workshops, collaborative development of technology and services.

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Today I saw an amazing tree in Richmond Park. A tree had blown over years ago but didn't die. Instead, it lay on the earth - half of its roots buried in the loamy soil, rich with the rotting of leaves. And a couple of roots, open to the air and sun and rain, grew up and became the tree's new trunk

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Excited to hear from Royal Holloway Gender Institute colleagues about their research - looking forward to ten fascinating, varied and thought-provoking talks

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Big talk for someone who's never seen Threshold and who refuses to be in the room when I helpfully put it on

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I think this is ominous.

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Fossil hunting along the Jurassic Coast with the family, followed by bedtime stories about Mary Anning. All rocks are old but it's especially striking to see fossils under our feet and worn away by the waves.

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Doing a MA in Corpus Linguistics with @michamahlberg.bsky.social, Michael Hoey and Mike Scott, living on my own for the first time in a great but tiny flat in Liverpool's Georgian Quarter, feuding with a former housemate who remains dead to me, being messily queer in a number of bars and clubs

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Highly recommend the seasonal delight that is #DuvetKnowItsChristmas - a truly magnificent insight into the sleeping arrangements of British adult children returning to parents and in-laws

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Off to the @nhm-london.bsky.social Birds exhibition as a post-teaching (pre-marking 😭) treat. I wanted to take my best girl with me but I'm worried that she'll be a little too inspired by the T rex... The blood of dinosaurs runs hot in Leia's veins, and she doesn't like us forgetting it

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From a weirdly in-depth knowledge of the socioeconomic positioning of New York department stores - a city I have never visited - to the wonderful bunny paper, and all the linguistics inbetween: thank you, William Labov

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If you’re a cis person who often posts here or on Twitter about transphobia and how you disagree with it, please consider calling or writing to Wes Streeting today - there’s a script here to make it easy: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Brought in a box of celebrations/heroes for each of seminar groups and I am fascinated by how they responded. Group 1: everyone too polite to take them apart from two students who happily ate the boxful 2. Take one and pass it on 3. Divide the box equally and furiously and ruthlessly trade

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In Nottingham for the first time in nearly a decade. It's a city that I have mixed feelings about - I didn't have a happy time as a doctoral student - but it's weirdly nice to follow Lister Gate, Castle Gate, Hounds Gate; see the shabby hulk of Broadmarsh; pass a 200° coffee shop

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