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Sarah Pyke

@sarahpyke.bsky.social

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teaching children's and YA literature at the University of Münster london.ac.uk/seized-books | #QueerBibliography researching and writing various things close reading forever

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 1h

faith in humanity ever so slightly restored by the handful of likes for this

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 1h

If you, like me, want to put in for this but just haven’t had time to work on your abstract, there is……..a little bit more time. Closes 20 October (eep!)

J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 3d

Your challenge for this weekend is to put in an abstract for Queer Bibliography 2026. It's what all the cool kids are doing.

The theme is Space, Place, Community (widely understood, certainly not limited to the South). CFP: shorturl.at/XAVJ0; Submit: forms.gle/XD7FgrrStp3j...

Athens GA and online

Poster reads: March 12–14, 2026; Queer Bibliography in the South: Space, Place, Community; University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 7h

Deadline extended! You have until Monday October 20th to put in an abstract! #queerbibliography #transbookhistory

@bibsoc.bsky.social @bibsocamer.bsky.social @obs1922.bsky.social @transbookhistory.bsky.social @thetransfemininereview.com @sharpnews.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org

J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 3d

Your challenge for this weekend is to put in an abstract for Queer Bibliography 2026. It's what all the cool kids are doing.

The theme is Space, Place, Community (widely understood, certainly not limited to the South). CFP: shorturl.at/XAVJ0; Submit: forms.gle/XD7FgrrStp3j...

Athens GA and online

Poster reads: March 12–14, 2026; Queer Bibliography in the South: Space, Place, Community; University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 12h

Oh yes! I briefly looked at that when indulging my niche Gavin interest a few years back

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 15h

Yes, very much so. But I’m glad he doesn’t quite fit in this category (will check out your previous work on him)

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 15h

Ah yes, I just spotted in the alt text. Grim / grimly fascinating topic. Is Gavin Maxwell also on the list?

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 15h

(also poor little puss)

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 15h

(in the worst possible sense obviously). We’re the brutes here

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 15h

Deakin’s analysis makes no sense. Williamson killed the kitten not for acting on its instincts but because it did not behave as he would have wished a human to behave. He was not acting in consistency with the kitten (or he might’ve tucked into the fish himself) but in a profoundly human way

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Cutter W. González @cutterwgonzalez.bsky.social · 17h

I’m a doctoral student at TXST.

The feeling on campus is worse than you imagine. Faculty afraid to speak, grad students feel like they could lose their entire futures if they draw the university president’s ire, undergrads openly worrying about the complete loss of a fundamental right.

Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 1d

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter

Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

spectrumlocalnews.com

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 1d

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 1d

*slaps the top of two new syllabi the day before teaching starts* these bad boys can hold so many lively 90 minute seminars

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 1d

have you looked at Martin Salisbury and Morag Styles's Children's Picturebooks: The Art of Visual Storytelling? I haven't actually assigned any of it but it has some nice overviews (and is visually gorgeous)

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 1d

if Martin Salisbury is looking for a new project...

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 2d

💯

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 2d

picture book theory needs it (plus imagine how beautiful)

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 2d

I wish someone would do for picture books what Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics does for comics and graphic novels

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 2d

The fourth, yes *fourth* #QueerBibliography annual conference is coming up in 2026!

J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 3d

Your challenge for this weekend is to put in an abstract for Queer Bibliography 2026. It's what all the cool kids are doing.

The theme is Space, Place, Community (widely understood, certainly not limited to the South). CFP: shorturl.at/XAVJ0; Submit: forms.gle/XD7FgrrStp3j...

Athens GA and online

Poster reads: March 12–14, 2026; Queer Bibliography in the South: Space, Place, Community; University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

Reposted by Sarah Pyke

Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social · 2d

How have I only just spotted this fabulous joke in Carter’s ABC?!

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 3d

I’m sorry for your loss. He looks like a good dog friend

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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 3d

Your challenge for this weekend is to put in an abstract for Queer Bibliography 2026. It's what all the cool kids are doing.

The theme is Space, Place, Community (widely understood, certainly not limited to the South). CFP: shorturl.at/XAVJ0; Submit: forms.gle/XD7FgrrStp3j...

Athens GA and online

Poster reads: March 12–14, 2026; Queer Bibliography in the South: Space, Place, Community; University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 3d

❤️

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 3d

he sounds like a good dad

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 3d

I looked him up earlier just to check he'd been in anything else

Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 3d

for Gag read Gág, my apologies to Wanda