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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social

@drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social

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Senior Lecturer in 18th-century Studies (Queer & Disability Studies). Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2025). Views my own, not employer’s.

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 7d

Excited for this #Queer #Crip #18thC #Lifewriting

Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 13d

Finally on 10 December we're delighted to be joined by @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social who is giving a paper on Michael Clancy and queer/crip life-writing

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 2h

True spirit

DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 2h

Was actually theatre!

DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 2h

Was at a seance tonight as part of #LondonMonthoftheDead in Kensal Green cemetery & I LOVED how blunt Londoners are at a seance: ‘I am getting a Barbara here for you …’ ‘Don’t know a Barbara mate’. 💀😆

Graveyard with people drinking mulled spirits

Graveyard at dusk yellowy light branches twist and sprawl into the photo frame headstones crooked

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michael veale @michae.lv · 1d

Does your university have a contract with Grammarly? Write to the decision-maker asking if they think the university should be paying for a tool that is fast integrating features that can only be used for academic misconduct and cognitive offloading and request they drop the contract.

Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · Aug 18

It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur.
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

For help with attribution and sourcing, Grammarly is releasing a citation finder agent that automatically generates correctly formatted citations backing up claims in a piece of writing, and an expert review agent that provides personalized, topic-specific feedback.

Screenshot from Grammarly's demo of inserting a post-hoc citation.
https://www.grammarly.com/ai-agents/citation-finder

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

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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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 1d

Go Zack! You’re doing great!

DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 1d

#SpookySeason reading suggestions from English and Creative staff @kent.ac.uk check them out here: www.instagram.com/p/DPo9iZijCx... @tramppress.bsky.social #DorothyMacardle #TheUnivited

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WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE HAUNTED BOOK?
Dr Declan Kavanagh recommends Dorothy Macardle's haunting tale "The Univited) reissued by Trampl Press. The novel was stirst published in for 2, escan as aped
of Hollywood's most successful ghost stories, The
Uninvited, in 1944. If you like thinking about haunted spaces
soth within and without then this tamilial tale of the
repressed is for you!

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 3d

Fair

Pic of women running away from skeleton. Caption by skeleton: ‘me wanting to talk about ghosts’. Caption by woman: ‘normal people just trying to live their life’.

DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 4d

Made my day!

Metro Weekly @metroweekly.bsky.social · 7d

Harvard hires drag performer and scholar Kareem Khubchandani -- better known as “LaWhore Vagistan” -- as a visiting professor in gender and sexuality studies. Conservatives are fuming. 🌈🎓 #LGBTQ #Drag #Harvard

LaWhore Vagistan Goes to Harvard as a Visiting Professor

Harvard hires drag performer and scholar Kareem Khubchandani, known as “LaWhore Vagistan,” to teach gender and sexuality studies.

www.metroweekly.com

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 6d

Some pictures from @dannyrobins.bsky.social #Canterbury show. It was such a treat. Yes, I also bought another cup and a #BloodyHellKen Tshirt.

Man in red rain coat thinking about ghosts

Stage set design - screens project the words uncanny

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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 12d

Good discussion with someone who was initially told he couldn't study computer science at uni because he is blind. Spoiler alert: he could, he did, and he is now employed as a computer scientist. #UKHE really needs to get better at understanding disability
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In Touch - Scottish Venues; A Career in Computer Science - BBC Sounds

Sight Scotland have launched a campaign aiming to make every venue in Scotland accessible.

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 7d

I find it interesting that racial capitalism is what gets him shipwrecked in the first place.

DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 7d

The cherry blossom in anti-blossom is something to behold @kent.ac.uk

A gorgeous richness of warm oranges and honeyed reds—leaves on grass - wind gently moving them along their way

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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 13d

Finally on 10 December we're delighted to be joined by @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social who is giving a paper on Michael Clancy and queer/crip life-writing

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 7d

Excited for this #Queer #Crip #18thC #Lifewriting

Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 13d

Finally on 10 December we're delighted to be joined by @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social who is giving a paper on Michael Clancy and queer/crip life-writing

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 7d

Preparing to lecture on Robinson Crusoe tomorrow. Been a few years since I read it.

An open book with a fish bookmark and a coffee on an oak table

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 18d

Beautiful autumnal colours

A tree outside my office window turning red

DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 19d

This is a brilliant thread 🧛‍♂️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 19d

Well, if it’s 23 September... YES, THAT’S RIGHT! It’s the 71st anniversary of the hunt for the Gorbals Vampire, in which hundreds of children aged from four to 14, armed with dogs, knives and sharpened sticks went looking for an urban myth

Daily Mirror front page shows grainy image of horde of children in a cemetery, and the headline “Amazing scene as hundreds of children rush cemetery”

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 19d

A very enjoyable thread - thank you. I think children were also involved in the Highgate case but maybe someone was conflating the stories.

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 19d

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 21d

There’s a certain kind of straight man who also sings ‘bananas in pyjamas’ to himself to dog whistle a homophobic slur & in my direct experience that man is always, without exception, wrecked looking. The confidence he must have to pronounce upon anyone should be studied.

DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 21d

This is what a sector in crisis looks like. It’s beyond time for support from government.

Rob Jackson @robajackson.bsky.social · 22d

Worrying - Quarter of UK university physics departments at risk of closing, survey finds | Physics | The Guardian share.google/OloD34Di6p9D...

Quarter of UK university physics departments at risk of closing, survey finds

Four out of five making staff cuts as physicists say findings are ‘great concern’ for UK’s leadership in important areas

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 22d

Very clear protesting a Far Right demo
today in Canterbury that the group I stood with were a real cross section of people: age, gender, ethnicity, religion. The Far Right were quite the opposite. Totally unrepresentative of England in 2025.

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 22d

Say it loud, say it clear, refugees are welcome here! When refugees are under attack what do we do? Stand up, fight back!

Canterbury is anti-fascist!

Sign says Starmer look at what you’ve wrought

Signs saying among other things: tolerating racism is racism

Sign that says: I can’t get a GP appointment either but I am not harassing children. The far right attack today is on a centre that temporarily houses refugee children in Canterbury.

Sign that says: your racism is not patriotism

DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 26d

An empty Tayto packet on an English train. The emptiness I feel is something else.