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Alice Wickenden

@awickenden.bsky.social

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Leverhulme ECF at Cambridge: named early modern library collections, politics of book provenance, science & lit. Volunteer for Abortion Support Network; sometime poet. Forthcoming: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · Jun 30

hello. if you work at a university please ask your library to buy my book. it is all about books and libraries and also plants, museums, the Royal Society, and the ways we learn. I think it will be interesting to lots of people, hopefully. thank you www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

www.cambridge.org

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 8m

Storing my not-at-all-homoerotic fighting manual manuscript in my not-at-all-homoerotic Saint Sebastian book casket.

Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 23h

Oh this is actually an excellent suggestion, I’ve never been!

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 23h

Performatively reading in the cafe, but wearing white gloves so I'm still venerating the Book As Object, with a t-shirt saying "I know archivists don't wear gloves" so people know the gloves are performative.

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 23h

Have a day by myself tomorrow in Paris: what would you do? Thinking about maybe seeing the Gaza exhibition at the Institut du Monde Arabe, but very open to other suggestions.

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 2d

John Burnside. ‘The only gift is knowing we belong / to nothing’

CREATURELY
The only gift is knowing we belong to nothing.

Midsummer's night
in the drunk tank, moon on the walls

and something like a fox scouting for mice in the corner: shy

and auburn, it's the secret animal I reckon from a childhood

resurrexit;
and why would there not

be weather, some
event like wind, or rain,

from thirty years ago?
The fox turns in the light with something slender

caught between its jaws and no one knows for certain what it is: the one rule, here,

that no one leaves until the creaturely in everything is sifted from his skin

to mark the cure, the rollright in the mind.

Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 2d

No! Is that the one with Steve Coogan?

Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 2d

Just read Andrey Kurkov’s Death and the Penguin. Very enjoyable, more novels should have depressed pet penguins in them.

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 3d

almost outdone by ‘My thesis is that in the 17th, 18th century, the antichrist would have been a Dr Strangelove’

Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 3d

Fair play to Thiel, nothing funnier has ever been said than “I’m a libertarian, or a classical liberal, who deviates in one minor detail, where I’m worried about the antichrist”

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 3d

Fair play to Thiel, nothing funnier has ever been said than “I’m a libertarian, or a classical liberal, who deviates in one minor detail, where I’m worried about the antichrist”

Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve been thinking of you and your gay frogs 😌

Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 4d

over £7,500 raised so far! donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 4d

All that fur proves useful in becoming the Cosiest Animal Ever.

Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 5d

Cordelia!

Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 5d

impeccable form

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 6d

Ooooooooh YES I can’t wait to read this!! Hooray and congrats!

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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 6d

It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access!

www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...

Trans Histories of the Medieval Book - Arc Humanities Press

Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the commu...

www.arc-humanities.org

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 6d

This work is almost all done by volunteers, working in shifts, networking with partner organisations and reliable hosts and clinics. We talk people through the logistics of accessing abortions and help them make it happen.

Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 6d

The increase in access to at-home abortion via pills is fantastic, but it means that charities like ours are seeing a higher proportion of later and more complex cases, which are also often more expensive. Add this to the increased cost of living and our average grant last year was £924.

Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 6d

The majority of our clients currently come from Ireland and Poland. Due to various things (Brexit; visa restrictions; different countries having different abortion limits) we need to work with each client's individual situation to come up with a plan: where to go and how to get there.

Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 6d

please share! For this week, donations to Abortion Support Network are matched by the Big Give. Give £5, we receive £10, and so on... donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

We Fund Abortions – Big Give

Access to abortion care is a fundamental human right, but across Europe, millions of people can’t access care. ASN helps those people access a safe abortion by funding the costs of travelling to a cli...

donate.biggive.org

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Barbara Franchi @barbarafranchi.bsky.social · 7d

Delighted to announce that my co-edited special issue, Material Feminism and Posthumanism, is out today with Contemporary Women’s Writing @oxfordunipress.bsky.social!
Featuring articles on Vinciane Despret, Mary-Jo Bangs, Larissa Lai, V.H. Leslie, Erín Moure, and Sarah Moss. doi.org/10.1093/cww/...

Introduction: Material Feminisms and Posthumanism in Contemporary Women’s Writing

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report from 2023 (IPCC, Synthesis)1 on adverse impacts from human-caused climate crisis has once again

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 9d

It might be tempting to do some compromising ‘both sides’ work by saying yes to the suggestion that the pools are ‘biological’ at certain times, or that there are segregated bathrooms. Don’t. Don’t give *any* credence to the idea that trans people are inherently threatening or dangerous.

👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 10d

This also isn’t true!!! There is a public consultation NOW OPEN and you can go have your say. Obviously they want to present it as a done deal but it’s not.

hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 9d

final thing I will say on this topic but I truly believe Taylor Swift has accidentally conflated Ophelia and the Lady of Shalott and no-one has corrected her

Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 10d

Two very cute readers 😍

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Dr Rachel White @renaissancerach.bsky.social · 20d

I was very excited to come home to find the author copies of my book had arrived!

Though one young reviewer is disappointed that there are no tractors in it, if you are interested in early modern poetry and the occult, you can order below 👇

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

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