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Ségdae (they/them)
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#gaymer #queer #nonbinary // they/them // erratic tabletop gamer // PhD candidate studying queerness & queer bodies in old Norse myth // co-founder @pmpnconf.bsky.social
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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 7d
Are you a rural trans or non-binary person in Highland or Argyll and Bute? NHS Highland Public Health have partnered with Scottish Trans to conduct trans-led research on experiences of GP practices.

Take part in this important research: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/RTHTNBSurv...

#RuralTransHealth
Graphic with a light blue background. At the top are small drawings of the trans and nonbinary flags, the Scottish Trans, NHS Highland and Public Health Scotland logos. It says "Trans People Needed for Rural Research - Rural Transgender Health: Primary Care Experiences The survey can be found at: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/RTHTNBSurvey" There is a drawing of a computer with a webpage of a survey. "Chance to win one of 3 x £100 vouchers"
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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 12d
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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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 12d
Trans people, I am once again asking you—nay, begging you—to share something good that is going on in your lives right now!

I’ll start: I’m working on a new graphic novel and having a blast with the creative team we’ve assembled!
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Ségdae (they/them) @coffeoglobin.bsky.social · 12d
Had the pleasure of listening to @damianbarr.bsky.social courtesy of @wedale-bookshop.bsky.social talk about his new book The Two Roberts in Stow last night - so entertaining and heartfelt!
Front cover of Damian Barr’s new novel, The Two Roberts, featuring a black and white photo of two young men overlaid with colours.
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Tomás Ojeda G. @tiojeda.bsky.social · 15d
“The Cass Review, lacking expertise and compromised by implicit stigma and misinformation, does not give credible evidence‐based guidance. We are gravely concerned about its impact on the wellbeing of trans and gender‐diverse people” www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...
Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people
Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator. The Cass Review, lacking expertise and compromised by implicit stigma and misinformation, doe...
www.mja.com.au
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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 16d
Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years.

This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.
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Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social · 18d
Registration for @pmpnconf.bsky.social's next conference, co-organised by our PhD @coffeoglobin.bsky.social, is now open!
🗓️13 & 14 November
🧭ONLINE
🎟️FREE registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
ℹ️ performingmagicinthepremodernnorthconference.wordpress.com/2025-nov-13t...
#medievalsky
Conference schedule for Day 1: WELCOME, DAY 1 (11:00-11:15) Solveig Marie Wang SESSION I – Chair: Solveig Marie Wang (11:15-11:45) Housing Complexes: Domestic Protection in Central Medieval England c.800-1215 – Jennifer Coulton, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford (11:50-12:20) ‘Bewitching Corne’ and other ‘such ridiculous fictions’: Elizabeth Sawyer and Popular Obsessions with Maleficium in Early Modern England – Paul Barret, Independent Researcher (12:25-12:55) The Transformation of Ghosts in the Byland Ghost Stories – Regina Papp, University of Pécs COFFEE BREAK (12:55 – 13:15) SESSION II – Chair: Selu Ita (13:15-13:45) ‘Ley this or set this on her & she shall be deleuryd’: Parturient Women Performing Magic in Late Medieval England – Jessica Boynton, Independent Researcher (13:50-14:20) The Division of Labour between Magicians and the Church in Rus’ and Muscovy – Shannyn L Bald, University of Illinois Conference schedule for Day 2: (11:00-11:05) Jennifer Hemphill SESSION III – Chair: Jennifer Hemphill (11:05 – 11:35) Obtaining Knowledge from the Earth Dweller: Dreams, Earth and Healing Charms from the Icelandic Grimoire Jarðskinna – Kári Pálsson, Independent Research (11:40-12:10) A re-examination of the Icelandic magical staves (galdrastafir) – Roberto Luigi Pagani, Háskóli Íslands / University of Iceland (12:15-12:45) The Galdrabók: practical spells and formulas in the magical material of 17th century Iceland – Giorgia Sottotetti, Independent Researcher COFFEE BREAK (12:45 – 13:00) SESSION IV – Chair: Ségdae Richardson-Read (13:00-13:30) Revisiting Perceptions of Magic in Viking Age Society – Harley Nicole Botham, University of the Highlands and Islands (13:35-14:05) Old Norse Magical Vocabulary: Problems and Potential – Joseph Fenwick, University of Edinburgh (14:10-14:40) The Poetry of Magic: Poetic Techniques in the Jarðskinna Manuscript – Galen Miler-Atkins, Independent Researcher
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pmpnconf.bsky.social
Performing Magic in the pre-Modern North Conference @pmpnconf.bsky.social · 27d
Hey #medievalsky !

Registration for our conference is now open!

This year features topics ranging from Elizabeth Sawyer & popular obsessions with maleficium in early modern England, to Icelandic magical staves & practical spells in the Galdrabók

Register for free here: forms.gle/Xr8CgpRhhooC...
Performing Magic in the Pre-Modern North Virtual Conference, 13-14 November 2025
This form is to register your intention to attend the sixth Performing Magic in the pre-Modern North Conference to be held on 13 - 14 November 2025. This conference will be entirely virtual and access...
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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 28d
📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers

We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.

Details below. Please share.
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights. While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…
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Dr Beverliey Braune @amberbaeden.bsky.social · Apr 29
Celebrating the 2nd anniv. of my monograph on poetic reading and Old Norse poetry published with Peter Lang Oxford. Don't think I'll ever get over my excitement.😊
www.peterlang.com/document/118...
Beverliey Braune, Historical Lacunae and Poetic Space (Oxford, United Kingdom: Peter Lang Verlag, 2022)
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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · Sep 19
Tonicha Upham, Death Rituals:
The Rūs and 'Vikings' in Arabic and Persian, is available #OpenAccess until 2 October.

#MedievalSky

www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Death Rituals
Cambridge Core - Global History - Death Rituals
www.cambridge.org
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pmpnconf.bsky.social
Performing Magic in the pre-Modern North Conference @pmpnconf.bsky.social · Sep 5
Hello #medievalsky !

We’ve had an incredible response to our call for papers for our upcoming virtual November 2025 conference.

Thank-you to everyone who submitted abstracts - responses are going out today!

We have begun work on the conference programme and registration will be opening shortly.
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basilaprice.bsky.social
Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · Aug 30
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15 SEPTEMBER!
Please consider submitting an abstract to Daniel Reeve and I's proposed session(s) "Beyond Touch: New Queer and Trans Temporalities" for @imc-leeds.bsky.social (6-9 July 2026). Full CFP below and accessibly HERE: tinyurl.com/BT-IMC.
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Ana Roda Sánchez @arodsan95.bsky.social · Aug 22
Two weeks left to get your abstracts in for #imc2026!!!
We look forward to hearing from you 🤗

@medievalgeorgie.bsky.social @imc-leeds.bsky.social

#skystorians #medieval #premoderncriticalracestudies #medievalsky #imc #premodernrace #cfp
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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · Aug 22
You have about a week to submit to Dan Reeve and I’s IMC panels on queer and trans temporalities ! #imc2026 #medievalsky @imc-leeds.bsky.social
basilaprice.bsky.social Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · Jul 29
Ready for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026? Submit an abstract to Dan Reeve and I's CFP: "BEYOND TOUCH: New Queer and Trans Temporalities" We invite submissions for 15-20 minute papers that examine queer and trans temporalities from new and unexpected angles. #IMC2026. Full CFP below 👇
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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · Aug 22
THE REANIMATOR MYSTERIES series is perfect for lovers of Gothic coziness. There are 3 (going on 4) books with
💀Pushing Daisies x Sleepy Hollow vibes
🫀An autistic necromancer
⚰️His reanimated lover
🪦 Solving mysteries in 1890s NYC
🏳️‍🌈MM paranormal historical romance
🔗⬇️Available wide!
Available now in ebook, audiobook, or paperback The Reanimator's Heart by Kara Jorgensen Mm romance, forced proximity, a lavender marriage, murder/magic/mysteries, food tour of 1890s NYC, unbury your gays, an autistic necromancer, everybody's queer The Reanimator's Soul by Kara Jorgensen is out now in ebook and paperback, book 2, autistic necromancer x undead adhd-er, mm romance, a sinister clinic, new powers, 1890s NYC, a murdered patient, a cure for magic, a horrible ex, rich people behaving badly, the tether becomes a #problem The Reanimator's Remains by Kara Jorgensen, out now in ebook, audiobook, and paperback, book 3, mm romance, autistic necromancer x undead adhd-er, the trees are watching, dealing with trauma... poorly, dont go where I can't follow, family secrets, breaking the cycle, the dead are out for revenge
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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · Aug 22
Over 80 Palestinian students with places at UK universities are unable to leave Gaza. With no functioning visa centres in Gaza and no safe route out, they are effectively blocked from taking up their places. NUS is calling on the UK government to help - please sign www.nus.org.uk/support_pale...
Support Palestinian students coming to the UK
www.nus.org.uk
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pmpnconf.bsky.social
Performing Magic in the pre-Modern North Conference @pmpnconf.bsky.social · Aug 21
Our very own Solveig Marie Wang, co-founder of Performing Magic in the Pre-Modern North!
historyworkshop.org.uk History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Aug 21
How can Indigenous histories change our understanding of the medieval period?

Solveig Marie Wang shows how medieval stories reveal the Saami at the heart of the Nordic world — and why recognising their history matters in the fight against racism and far-right myths.
Reclaiming the Medieval Saami Past
Explore Saami history and its representation in medieval sources, challenging the myth of a purely White Middle Ages.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Aug 21
How can Indigenous histories change our understanding of the medieval period?

Solveig Marie Wang shows how medieval stories reveal the Saami at the heart of the Nordic world — and why recognising their history matters in the fight against racism and far-right myths.
Reclaiming the Medieval Saami Past
Explore Saami history and its representation in medieval sources, challenging the myth of a purely White Middle Ages.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
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historyworkshop.org.uk
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Aug 21
In the newest article in our series Indigenous Historical Practices, Solveig Marie Wang uncovers Saami histories in medieval texts, challenging whitewashed myths of a monocultural medieval North.
Reclaiming the Medieval Saami Past
Explore Saami history and its representation in medieval sources, challenging the myth of a purely White Middle Ages.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
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historyworkshop.org.uk
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Aug 21
From traders to magicians and allies, the Saami appear across medieval Nordic sagas.

Solveig Marie Wang explores how these stories reveal an Indigenous presence at the centre of the Middle Ages — and why remembering it matters today.
Reclaiming the Medieval Saami Past
Explore Saami history and its representation in medieval sources, challenging the myth of a purely White Middle Ages.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
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pmpnconf.bsky.social
Performing Magic in the pre-Modern North Conference @pmpnconf.bsky.social · Aug 11
Our #callforpapers is still open! Deadline is 1st September!

The conference will be free and virtual on 13 and 14 November.

Please find more details at our website below:

performingmagicinthepremodernnorthconference.wordpress.com/upcoming-con...
Upcoming Conference
Our next conference will be held online 13 -14 November 2025. The current Call for Papers is shown below. Please submit your abstracts by 1 September 2025. A more reader friendly version is shown b…
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Tommy Wolf @theravening.bsky.social · Jul 30
Me to myself at random times during day for no reason: 'fit CHECK for my napalm ERA'
"How It's Done" Official Lyric Video | KPop Demon Hunters | Sony Animation
YouTube video by Sony Pictures Animation
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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · Jul 31
A reminder that NHS National Services Scotland are consulting on new Children and Young People’s Gender Identity Health and Wellbeing services until Wednesday 20th August: neu-www.sway.com/nSaxBjBlgL14...

Read more on our website: www.scottishtrans.org/children-and... 🏳️‍⚧️
A white box on a blue background with a paintbrush stroke effect. Black text in the box says “NHS National Services Scotland are consulting on new Children and Young People’s Gender Identity Health and Wellbeing services until Wednesday 20th August.” There is a link to the consultation in white text in a purple box: https://neu-www.sway.com/nSaxBjBlgL14dYxC The Scottish Trans logo is in the bottom right hand corner. A white box on a blue background with a paintbrush stroke effect. Black text in the box says “NHS National Services Scotland are consulting on new Children and Young People’s Gender Identity Health and Wellbeing services until Wednesday 20th August.” There is a link to the consultation in white text in a purple box: https://neu-www.sway.com/nSaxBjBlgL14dYxC The Scottish Trans logo is in the bottom right hand corner. Text in a white box on a blue background with a paintbrush stroke effect. The text says: “It’s really important that people who actually need these services or know what using them is like have their say. So if you’re: • currently under 18 • a young adult who used the young person’s service or came out at school • the parent, family member or carer of a trans child or young person, or a child or young person questioning or exploring their gender identity then please take part”. There is a pink arrow at the side of the image. The Scottish Trans logo is in the bottom right hand corner. A pink box with the text “What do you think?” on a blue background with a paintbrush stroke effect. A smaller white box is inside the pink box, with black text that reads “The model does not include access to medical treatments – and we don’t believe it can possibly meet the needs of everyone while this is the case. There are some good proposals – like having more people, inside and outside of the health service, who can have conversations with children and young people that meet them where they’re at.” The Scottish Trans logo is in the bottom right hand corner. A white box with the text “Read more about the consultation, our thoughts, and the next steps at our website:” on a blue background with a paintbrush stroke effect. There is a pink line surrounding the white box, with an arrow at the bottom pointing to a purple box. White text in this box has the weblink “https://www.scottishtrans.org/children-and-young-peoples-gender-identity-health-and-wellbeing-services-consultation/” The Scottish Trans logo is in the bottom right hand corner. A white box with the text “Read more about the consultation, our thoughts, and the next steps at our website:” on a blue background with a paintbrush stroke effect. There is a pink line surrounding the white box, with an arrow at the bottom pointing to a purple box. White text in this box has the weblink “https://www.scottishtrans.org/children-and-young-peoples-gender-identity-health-and-wellbeing-services-consultation/” The Scottish Trans logo is in the bottom right hand corner.
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