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Dr Basil Arnould Price

@basilaprice.bsky.social

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He/Him 🏳️‍⚧️ ✨ Asst. Prof. of Queer and Medieval Literature @SUNY, previously UCLA, York, UO ✨Gender, Empire, and Race in the Old Norse World ✨my own bad opinions

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · May 7

New work from me in The Sundial, all about Greenland and imperial fantasies, old and new.

Sagas and Sovereignty in Kalaallit Nunaat, Grænland, and Red, White, and Blueland

by Basil Arnould Price

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 1d

On Indigenous Peoples' Day I'm re-sharing the episode of @thisguysucked.com on which I spoke with host @ceaubin.bsky.social about why, even in his own day, people thought Christopher Columbus sucked.

💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #renaissance #maps #geography #cartography #empire 1/2

Christopher Columbus with Surekha Davies

Podcast Episode · This Guy Sucked · 08/28/2025 · Subscribers Only · 1h

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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…

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 1d

To clarify: Anglophone modernism. If I wasn’t a medievalist, I would have been a Kafka scholar.

Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 1d

A heated conversation in the English department revealed to me that I might not like modernism.

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Lynneth Miller Renberg @lmillerrenberg.bsky.social · Sep 2

Sewanee subtheme on movement as resistance and refuge is live! Submit a proposal to think about the potential readings of movement as response to crisis with me: www.sewaneemedievalcolloquium.com/movement-as-...

Subtheme: Movement as Resistance and Refuge | Medieval Colloquium

www.sewaneemedievalcolloquium.com

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 3d

🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT

UT Austin wants to eliminate its Black studies, Latino Studies, and gender studies departments. Tell them you won't stand for it.
UT President, Jim Davis, president@utexas.edu
UT Executive Vice President and Provost, William Inboden, provost@utexas.edu
College of Liberal Arts Interim Dean, David Sosa, david_sosa@austin.utexas.edu
#EducationalLiberty #SaveUT

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 5d

Yeeeeesssssss 🩷🩷🩷🩷

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Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · Aug 7

Announcing my book, Techno-Negative!

It will be out in Spring 2026, published with @uminnpress.bsky.social.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 8d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8d

NEW: Oregon and Portland filed an amended complaint in their lawsuit against Trump tonight, with a new plaintiff added who is joining them: California. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON
PORTLAND DIVISION
STATE OF OREGON, the CITY OF PORTLAND, and the STATE OF CALIFORNIA
Plaintiffs,
v.
DONALD TRUMP, in his official capacity as
Case No.
AMENDED COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE
RELIEF
OF DEFENSE; KRISTI NOEM, in her official apacity as Secretary of Homeland Security; nd U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY,
Defendants.

N. Cross-State Deployment of California National Guard to Oregon
110. On the evening of Saturday, October 4, 2025, after this Court issued a temporary restraining order blocking the attempted federalization of Oregon National Guard personnel to deploy to Portland, Oregon, the U.S. Army Northern Command communicated to the California Military Department Executive Leadership that they intended to send 200 of the federalized California National Guard personnel in Los Angeles to Portland.
111. As of 6:30 a.m. on Sunday, October 5 one transport carrying approximately 100
federalized California National Guard personnel had already departed from Los Angeles to Portland, with additional transport scheduled for later in the day. Additionally, California
Military Department Executive Leadership learned that all 300 federalized California National
Guard personnel will be imminently deployed to Portland.
112. Also on Sunday, October 5, 2025, the California Military Department received an order extending the federalization of the 300 federalized California National Guard personnel
through January 31, 2026.

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Aleksei Ilídio Valentín (he/they) ✡️♿🏳️‍🌈 @aivalentin.bsky.social · 9d

These are communications degrees. This is literally what communications is for.

Can't have fine arts, but we can have hyper-specific degrees in influencing. Because a liberal arts education is only for the wealthiest scions, everyone else goes into debt for glorified job training.

"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 10d

Syracuse University, which costs $100,000 per year, has opened a school to give degrees in podcasting and social media influencing 🫥

Betting on the Creator Economy, Syracuse University Opens Academic Center for Podcasters and Influencers

The shift in course offerings follows a recent decision to pause admission for 20 undergraduate majors, including fine arts and digital humanities.

www.artnews.com

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 9d

Hey #medievalsky ! I’m designing a medieval hero & monsters literature class. If anybody has some syllabi they would be willing to share, I would super appreciate it !

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 11d

Are they sexy at the very least?

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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 11d

Yale professor Tarren Andrews understands the importance of language. She teaches her students that law is a linguistic technology shaped by culture. Find more of her thoughts and pedagogy including videos and reading lists on Throughlines.
www.throughlines.org/scholars/tar...

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 11d

Almost certainly. Pure shit.

Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 11d

what the hell is this

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CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education (CADHE) @cadhe.bsky.social · 12d

#CADHE statement in support of Texas Tech Faculty. #MADC

Statement in Support of Texas Tech Faculty who teach about Gender, Sex, and Sexuality – The CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education

cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu

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Dominik Waßenhoven @domwass.bsky.social · 13d

4 year fully funded PhD at University College Cork in the field of Old Norse-Viking Studies, working on artistic and literary representations of the Vikings for the ERC-funded @norsemap.bsky.social project. www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc... #medievalsky

Research Vacancies | University College Cork

Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

www.ucc.ie

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 14d

transgender for everybody, especially me.

Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 21d

should we form a committee about this?

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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 21d

TT job in open field of Indigenous Studies/Literatures, St. Thomas More College, USask: universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

Search Jobs - University Affairs

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 21d

VT just closed its religious studies department.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 21d

Virginia Tech is looking to add $229 million to its athletics budget over the next four years, with just over half coming from donors and the rest from additional institutional support.

VaTech proposes adding $229M for athletics

Virginia Tech has proposed adding an extra $229 million to its athletics budget over the next four years to help position the Hokies to compete with the top programs in the ACC, a crucial moment with ...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 23d

‘No amount of knowledge about medieval literary culture can make the Pearl Manuscript tell us what it means. Everyone has to speculate at some point.’

@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the manuscript that contains the only copy of ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Tom Johnson · Supereffable: Mysteries of the Pearl Manuscript

Any book made by hand is unique, but the Pearl Manuscript’s claim to uniqueness is unparalleled: the manuscript...

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 23d

and i think i’ve also seen them use these terms for sámi, at least “berdache” which is…… something …..