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Alicia Spencer-Hall

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Writer. Researcher. Editor. Genderqueer femme. Crip. She/they. // medieval lit / media / gender / disability / pop culture // https://linktr.ee/aspencerhall

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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · Nov 18

So I wrote a book about Twitter. Medieval Twitter to be exact---the interconnections between Twitter's textual modes & medieval literary culture(s), plus medievalists' use of Twitter and the #MedievalTwitter hashtag

www.arc-humanities.org/978194240195...

@archumanities.bsky.social #MedievalSky 🗃️

Front cover of "Medieval Twitter" by Alicia Spencer-Hall, published by Arc Humanities Press in October 2024. Series: Arc Impact. On a bright, textured blue background, neon pink birds from medieval manuscripts circle three medieval monks. The monk on the left reacts with a heart, the middle monk, agog, retweets, and the monk on the right wags his finger, tweeting a response.

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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 2h

Pre-ordered!!!!!!

J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 4d

Evidence!

A stack of five books on a table. The book is titled “Trans Histories of the Medieval Book: An Experiment in Bibliography” by J.D. Sargan.

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You rang? bsky.app/profile/aspe...

Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · Mar 13

Nthing the spite thing

Sometimes passion isn't enough. But righteous spite and incoherent rage really help to get things over the line. As such, I would like to explic-itly acknowledge the fuckery of the following in this book's genesis: a global pandemic; the systemic oppressions of the ableist cis-hetero-patriarchy; shingles; no-fault evictions; a deliberately understaffed National Health Ser-vice; Conservative governments, forever and always; an apparent worldwide shortage of Nice 'n' Spicy NikNaks at a critical point in drafting; academic precarity and the myth of meritocracy; the horrors of having a body; the ten days when everything broke; the systemic marginalization of gestational parents, professional and otherwise; the crip tax; the broken academic job market; all the people who said I shouldn't, or couldn't, do this kind of research, in this kind of style. Following the gospel of Ariana, to you all I say: thank u, next.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 23h

TIL that the aggro af wasps you see in late summer are worker wasps who have finished their nest tasks and are all out seeking sweet stuff and raising hell for the locals with the last days of their lives while waiting to die, wasps are basically just the insect version of retired Brits in Spain

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 9h

'The British Library...has taken years to recover from a major cyberattack that disrupted its services and restricted access to its collections. The walkout is set to take from 27 October to 9 November, coinciding with the two-year anniversary of the cyberattack.'

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 23h

‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

‘Livid’ British Library staff vote to strike over pay - Research Professional News

Two-week walkout planned on second anniversary of major cyberattack

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 1d

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 1d

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

Reading Miss Majors Speaks was an incredibly moving experience last year. I can't recommend this book enough for those unfamiliar with her work.

Rest in peace 🖤

Miss Major Speaks Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Toshio Meronek and Miss Major

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selfcaregamer @selfcaregamer.bsky.social · 19h

there is literally nothing wrong with being disabled, and you will be so much happier once you accept that

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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 15h

Hi what

Headline: “nature’s labubu: why are gen z unboxing conkers?”

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · 14h

Hi, I'm not really here ever but I have A WHOLE ASS MID CAREER SHOW AT TANGLED ART GALLERY in Toronto you can see in person til 10/31 and online one of three ways: Rosa Robot tour - robot tour that you can drive from your computer independently calendly.com/tangledarts/...
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This Body Keeps Me Up At Night: (Rosa Robot) - Tangled Art + Disability

This Body Keeps Me Up At Night: 30 Years of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaSeptember 19 – October 31, 2025this body keeps me up at night is a mid-career retrospective of disability justice writer, cu...

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 1d

Boo!

Happy looking ghost annotation at the top right of a printer page.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 22h

“the people targeting trans people now want them to regret being visible. they want trans people to wish they'd stayed quiet.“

this is, as expected, very good, and hits hard as someone newer to social media who’s like “what am i even doing? why am i doing it? *should* i be doing it

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

I wrote about trans visibility in a time of rising transphobia for @theverge.com www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

How trans visibility became a trap

People who have documented their lives online are discovering the dark side of digital permanence.

www.theverge.com

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 1d

Whenever we slept over at my grandparents' house, my cousins and I would make fun of my grandma for vacuuming the house at 6am.

Now, in my 50s, I understand that 1) menopausal women live on their own time. We live outside of time. 2) We have to get shit done and we don't care.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

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ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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TransLash Media @translash.org · 1d

We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. Our hearts are with her loved ones and all who carry her vision forward.

"We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social

An illustration of Miss Major surrounded by candles with blue background and a famous quote of hers written in gold. The quote reads“I don’t need their permission to exist; I exist in spite of them. I want you to train and teach and love on and create families within my community and gender non-conforming people, so that we can understand that we have a culture, we have a history, we have a reason to be here. We have a purpose. We’re entitled to be loved, and seek happiness, and share that with the people that we care about.” -Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

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Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 1d

Publishers should be invested in promoting the books they publish.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 1d

But I am just a plain simple menswear guy

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll tell you what’s a treat, whenever you watch a movie and you get Odo when he’s not Odo

René Auberjonois in McCabe and Mrs Miller

René Auberjonois in Batman Forever, this is probably the best hair

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 2d

Proof day! Excited to see this piece in Exemplaria. ❤️

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Lucy Lapinska / LD Lapinski 💛🤍💜🖤 @ldlapinski.bsky.social · 3d

When the ibuprofen starts kicking in

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 2d

Ireland has a population of 5m and we've a waiting list approaching 15 years. Why? Because their mandatory, archaic and traumatic psychiatric and psychological assessments are a deliberate bottleneck to ensure as few people as possible can access healthcare a nurse can do!

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 2d

The ‘Transit’ gender clinic in Spain has a 3 WEEK waiting list! 😳😳😳

It covers a population of 8 million, (equivalent to the population of Scotland & Wales combined, or 1/7th of the population of England) It has a total of 43 staff, a majority of whom are part-time, working 6-7 hours per week!

Trans health waiting lists are a political choice

I’m just back from an awesome trans healthcare conference in Norway (blog on that to follow). Here I wanted to share information from a presentation by the founder of the transit trans health…

growinguptransgender.com

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Boo!-story (disturbingly absent) @withouthistoryband.bsky.social · 3d

(stolen from a friend)
Gender affirming train ticket

Screenshot from a train app with the date and the journey Nottingham to Manchester Piccadilly. The abbreviation reads NOT -> MAN

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 3d

it would probably be sorta hard for just anyone to do it *this well* because it requires you to actually be normal about trans people, but still it feels important to state for the record that WE ARE NOT HARD TO STAND UP FOR AND ANY OF THEM COULD DO IT.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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