A Dancing Medievalist
@dancingmedievalist.bsky.social
PhD | currently writing about premodern dance, games & John Lydgate. he/him
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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
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Are you a medieval maker? Or know someone who is? Email [email protected] for a chance to be featured in my holiday gift guide!
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Are you a medieval maker? Or know someone who is? Email [email protected] for a chance to be featured in my holiday gift guide!
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'Translating Chaucer is a strange and humbling act. It’s like listening through centuries of static to a voice that is both foreign and familiar, comic and solemn, earnest and ironic.'
Jonathan Fruoco writes about his experience translating Chaucer for our Meet a Medievalist Maker blogpost series👇
Jonathan Fruoco writes about his experience translating Chaucer for our Meet a Medievalist Maker blogpost series👇
Meet a Medievalist Maker: Jonathan Fruoco — The Guild of Medievalist Makers
“ Meet a Medievalist Maker ” is an ongoing series of blog posts introducing our members and the work they are doing. Each post is organized around our Four P’s: a project they are working on...
www.guildmedmak.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
'Translating Chaucer is a strange and humbling act. It’s like listening through centuries of static to a voice that is both foreign and familiar, comic and solemn, earnest and ironic.'
Jonathan Fruoco writes about his experience translating Chaucer for our Meet a Medievalist Maker blogpost series👇
Jonathan Fruoco writes about his experience translating Chaucer for our Meet a Medievalist Maker blogpost series👇
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Just a few days left until @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social ! I’ll be at Table C12a in the Comixology Hall and also hosting a Saturday panel on comics and medieval texts (SWOON). I’ll have copies of a new book and some other fun stuff for you, so say hello!
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Just a few days left until @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social ! I’ll be at Table C12a in the Comixology Hall and also hosting a Saturday panel on comics and medieval texts (SWOON). I’ll have copies of a new book and some other fun stuff for you, so say hello!
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This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
And you folded and “negotiated” with liars. Shame. Disappointing as always.
Health care isn’t negotiable.
We need to both reopen the government and work together to protect access to affordable health care by extending the ACA enhanced premium tax credits.
We need to both reopen the government and work together to protect access to affordable health care by extending the ACA enhanced premium tax credits.
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 AM
And you folded and “negotiated” with liars. Shame. Disappointing as always.
This moment from the Simpsons is always relevant in US politics
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
This moment from the Simpsons is always relevant in US politics
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I swear they hate winning. Disappointing as always
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I swear they hate winning. Disappointing as always
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So, listen, call Schumer’s office no matter where you live, no matter if you’re registered to vote. Leave a voicemail that says if Senate Dems cave without an ACA premiums fix, you will never vote for or donate to another Senate Democrat as long as he is Leader
Call them:
Schumer (NY)
202 224-6542
Booker (NJ)
202 224-3224
King (ME)
202 224-5344
Hassan (NH)
202 224-3324
Durbin (IL)
202 224-2152
Ossoff (GA)
202 224-3521
Shaheen (NH)
202 224-2841
Gillibrand (NY)
202 224-4451
Masto (NV)
202 224-3542
Warner (VA)
202 224-2023
Fetterman (PA)
No Point
Schumer (NY)
202 224-6542
Booker (NJ)
202 224-3224
King (ME)
202 224-5344
Hassan (NH)
202 224-3324
Durbin (IL)
202 224-2152
Ossoff (GA)
202 224-3521
Shaheen (NH)
202 224-2841
Gillibrand (NY)
202 224-4451
Masto (NV)
202 224-3542
Warner (VA)
202 224-2023
Fetterman (PA)
No Point
November 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
So, listen, call Schumer’s office no matter where you live, no matter if you’re registered to vote. Leave a voicemail that says if Senate Dems cave without an ACA premiums fix, you will never vote for or donate to another Senate Democrat as long as he is Leader
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Make the Goddamn meal and put it in your Free Fridge. Write the $100 check to the food bank. Ask your local school what they need for the kids and then go about trying to get that stuff.... Do these things regularly and you are making meaningful contributions to your communities.
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Make the Goddamn meal and put it in your Free Fridge. Write the $100 check to the food bank. Ask your local school what they need for the kids and then go about trying to get that stuff.... Do these things regularly and you are making meaningful contributions to your communities.
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Surprised he heard about it.
Mike Johnson: "What happened last night is blue states and blue cities voted blue. We all saw that coming. And no one should read too much into last night's election results."
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Surprised he heard about it.
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No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
it is right.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,
it is a strength.
No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,
it is unlimited.
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If you’ve been waiting to get the audio version of my book Black Disability Politics (narrated by @imanibarbarin.bsky.social), it’s currently deeply discounted on @libro.fm!
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
Black Disability Politics Audiobook on Libro.fm
In Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long...
libro.fm
November 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
If you’ve been waiting to get the audio version of my book Black Disability Politics (narrated by @imanibarbarin.bsky.social), it’s currently deeply discounted on @libro.fm!
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
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photos from Houston Pride 2000, including the houston trans community float, photos courtesy of Houston LGBT History www.houstonlgbthistory.org/houston-prid...
November 3, 2025 at 5:17 AM
photos from Houston Pride 2000, including the houston trans community float, photos courtesy of Houston LGBT History www.houstonlgbthistory.org/houston-prid...
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"They become haunted by the precarity of queer desire and the persistence of the heterosexual norm."
@chiltonm.bsky.social examines the link between the institution of the house and the ghost of heterosexuality in The Paying Guests and The Safekeep: unwinnable.com/2025/10/30/a...
@chiltonm.bsky.social examines the link between the institution of the house and the ghost of heterosexuality in The Paying Guests and The Safekeep: unwinnable.com/2025/10/30/a...
All Houses Are Haunted (By Heterosexuality) - Unwinnable
In both Sarah Waters' The Paying Guests and Yael van der Wouden's The Safekeep, the lesbian main character keeps a neat, controlled house in lieu of a more traditional home life with a husband.
unwinnable.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:04 AM
"They become haunted by the precarity of queer desire and the persistence of the heterosexual norm."
@chiltonm.bsky.social examines the link between the institution of the house and the ghost of heterosexuality in The Paying Guests and The Safekeep: unwinnable.com/2025/10/30/a...
@chiltonm.bsky.social examines the link between the institution of the house and the ghost of heterosexuality in The Paying Guests and The Safekeep: unwinnable.com/2025/10/30/a...
Fatal Frame (PS2) is terrifying
November 1, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Fatal Frame (PS2) is terrifying
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Want to know the best way to play some of the best (and not-so-best) Silent Hill games this Halloween? @dancingmedievalist.bsky.social has you covered: punishedbacklog.com/best-ways-pl...
The Best Ways to Visit Silent Hill - The Punished Backlog
With Silent Hill making a bit of a resurgence, what are the best ways to play all the old games?
punishedbacklog.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Want to know the best way to play some of the best (and not-so-best) Silent Hill games this Halloween? @dancingmedievalist.bsky.social has you covered: punishedbacklog.com/best-ways-pl...
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Wanna hear a scary story?
The first American vampire was Black.
Seriously.
78 years before Dracula appeared in American literature, there was "The Black Vampyre" by Uriah D'Arcy.
It was written in 1819 as an antislavery critique and the effect the Haitian Revolution had on the States
The first American vampire was Black.
Seriously.
78 years before Dracula appeared in American literature, there was "The Black Vampyre" by Uriah D'Arcy.
It was written in 1819 as an antislavery critique and the effect the Haitian Revolution had on the States
October 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Wanna hear a scary story?
The first American vampire was Black.
Seriously.
78 years before Dracula appeared in American literature, there was "The Black Vampyre" by Uriah D'Arcy.
It was written in 1819 as an antislavery critique and the effect the Haitian Revolution had on the States
The first American vampire was Black.
Seriously.
78 years before Dracula appeared in American literature, there was "The Black Vampyre" by Uriah D'Arcy.
It was written in 1819 as an antislavery critique and the effect the Haitian Revolution had on the States
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ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
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In a slight change to advertised programming, our next Making Space (online co-working session) is taking place on Tuesday 2nd December, 5:30pm-7:00pm! Join us to work convivially on your own project, or get inspired and respond to our optional theme: 🎪festivities🍻
October 31, 2025 at 11:18 AM
In a slight change to advertised programming, our next Making Space (online co-working session) is taking place on Tuesday 2nd December, 5:30pm-7:00pm! Join us to work convivially on your own project, or get inspired and respond to our optional theme: 🎪festivities🍻
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If you have a bit of time right now, please tune into Kim F. Hall's (@profkfh.bsky.social) book The Sweet Taste of Empire launch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Np...
Kim F. Hall: The Sweet Taste of Empire
YouTube video by Barnard Center for Research on Women
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
If you have a bit of time right now, please tune into Kim F. Hall's (@profkfh.bsky.social) book The Sweet Taste of Empire launch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Np...
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NEW EPISODE - Lost Edge Tattoo
Is that a new tattoo did that piercing effing hurt?! In this episode of Susto, Ayden sits down with the artists of Lost Edge Tattoo in Austin to chat all things spooky, culture, and ink!
Full video on YouTube! 📺
www.sustopodcast.com/lost-edge-ta...
Is that a new tattoo did that piercing effing hurt?! In this episode of Susto, Ayden sits down with the artists of Lost Edge Tattoo in Austin to chat all things spooky, culture, and ink!
Full video on YouTube! 📺
www.sustopodcast.com/lost-edge-ta...
October 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
NEW EPISODE - Lost Edge Tattoo
Is that a new tattoo did that piercing effing hurt?! In this episode of Susto, Ayden sits down with the artists of Lost Edge Tattoo in Austin to chat all things spooky, culture, and ink!
Full video on YouTube! 📺
www.sustopodcast.com/lost-edge-ta...
Is that a new tattoo did that piercing effing hurt?! In this episode of Susto, Ayden sits down with the artists of Lost Edge Tattoo in Austin to chat all things spooky, culture, and ink!
Full video on YouTube! 📺
www.sustopodcast.com/lost-edge-ta...