Evan Hayles Gledhill
@gothicbodies.bsky.social
Professional nerd researching Gothic Fangirls and Families.
Disabled, Queer, Socialist.
Disabled, Queer, Socialist.
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In tis episode I define what I mean when go looking for historic examples of fandoms, and explain how I started this research a decade ago. With a shout out to the 'Sir Harry Page Collection of Victor...
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First full episode of Historical Squee is now live! Possibly of interest if you're interested in eighteenth century literary cultures, Romantic era poets, and sentiment albums and collage, and feminist history!
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If my fucking MAGA-voting retired father gets denaturalized and his arse deported back to Yorkshire I will have a hard time not laughing til I die
With ALT. This is legitimately terrifying. This is a MASSIVE escalation of violent anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies.
It’s almost as if they knew unleashing the military into American cities would lead to violence and they were already planning to use that violence to justify this.
It’s almost as if they knew unleashing the military into American cities would lead to violence and they were already planning to use that violence to justify this.
November 28, 2025 at 5:10 AM
If my fucking MAGA-voting retired father gets denaturalized and his arse deported back to Yorkshire I will have a hard time not laughing til I die
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As the person who does most of the VM socials, let me tell you this: bluesky is absolutely the worst platform of the bunch for slapping random adult content warnings on innocent posts to bury them. Would super appreciate if you share the post below like hell, and donate a fiver!
Let's try this again... Glad tidings we bring to you and your quim! We are fundraising this festive period. Earlier this year, the future looked bleak for the Vagina Museum. But we're still here, and there's many reasons for you to become a vital part of our future... www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
November 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
As the person who does most of the VM socials, let me tell you this: bluesky is absolutely the worst platform of the bunch for slapping random adult content warnings on innocent posts to bury them. Would super appreciate if you share the post below like hell, and donate a fiver!
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Does anyone have a physical or ebook copy of Rachel Harrison’s latest novel, Play Nice?
I read the audiobook, but need to check the exact wording of a quote and have no idea how to go about finding it in the audiobook…
If you’ve got a copy and are willing to look up the quote for me, let me know!
I read the audiobook, but need to check the exact wording of a quote and have no idea how to go about finding it in the audiobook…
If you’ve got a copy and are willing to look up the quote for me, let me know!
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Does anyone have a physical or ebook copy of Rachel Harrison’s latest novel, Play Nice?
I read the audiobook, but need to check the exact wording of a quote and have no idea how to go about finding it in the audiobook…
If you’ve got a copy and are willing to look up the quote for me, let me know!
I read the audiobook, but need to check the exact wording of a quote and have no idea how to go about finding it in the audiobook…
If you’ve got a copy and are willing to look up the quote for me, let me know!
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Do we or do we not live in a country where these awful people got their way at almost every major decision point of the century so far? We do! Is it good? No, it is a national calamity. Are they sorry? No they’re not, they’re *absolutely furious* that they haven’t got more and worse.
November 27, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Do we or do we not live in a country where these awful people got their way at almost every major decision point of the century so far? We do! Is it good? No, it is a national calamity. Are they sorry? No they’re not, they’re *absolutely furious* that they haven’t got more and worse.
Rachel Reeves best Sheriff of Nottingham impression: "ban disabled people from driving Mercedes, no more universities for the poor or foreign, and cancel Costa!!"
Happy Budget Day! what little luxuries are Labour going to take from us this year to appease billionaires and bigots? It's like reverse Christmas.
I would say this, but the IfG's budget live blog is already great, even before we get to the main event - where else do you get this kind of content?
November 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Rachel Reeves best Sheriff of Nottingham impression: "ban disabled people from driving Mercedes, no more universities for the poor or foreign, and cancel Costa!!"
Happy Budget Day! what little luxuries are Labour going to take from us this year to appease billionaires and bigots? It's like reverse Christmas.
I would say this, but the IfG's budget live blog is already great, even before we get to the main event - where else do you get this kind of content?
November 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Happy Budget Day! what little luxuries are Labour going to take from us this year to appease billionaires and bigots? It's like reverse Christmas.
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I’ve had one traditionally published book. No advance. First batch of royalties lasted abt 4 months. I live on a disability pension that covers my rent and a little for utilities. Food is scarce. I get a grant now and then, and when I don’t, it’s very rough.
Meta stole the book to train its LLM.
Meta stole the book to train its LLM.
I know we know this, but authors need to get better at talking about how they actually make their money. Stop pretending it's from the books.
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I’ve had one traditionally published book. No advance. First batch of royalties lasted abt 4 months. I live on a disability pension that covers my rent and a little for utilities. Food is scarce. I get a grant now and then, and when I don’t, it’s very rough.
Meta stole the book to train its LLM.
Meta stole the book to train its LLM.
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Whisky label with ALT Text
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Whisky label with ALT Text
Support your local library!! Champion UBI! Support artists and their communities by supporting social provision
REMINDER: if you think your right-on lefty/socialist/communist/etc. politics justifies pirating books, well guess what? Most writers don't make a living wage from their books or writing work, and stealing from them makes you a class traitor.
November 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Support your local library!! Champion UBI! Support artists and their communities by supporting social provision
TFW when it seems none of the advice you carefully gave three weeks ago was acted up, the project is due in days, and somehow the parameters seem to have been expanded??!?!
a baby is crying while sitting at a table with his hand on his forehead .
Alt: .an adorable baby about ten months old wearing a bib is sitting in a high chair one hand against their forehead in a full grimace before turning to an off screen stimulus with a miserable expression.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
TFW when it seems none of the advice you carefully gave three weeks ago was acted up, the project is due in days, and somehow the parameters seem to have been expanded??!?!
To make this funnier, I was out here dressed like temu Duncan Mcleod - half-up half-down in this barette
November 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
To make this funnier, I was out here dressed like temu Duncan Mcleod - half-up half-down in this barette
Teaching Queer Gothic in a seminar room with giant windows onto a busy street, managed to pause the video clip on Lestat's bare arse. I think it was my muttered 'sorry Sam' that provoked the laughter and inadvertently drew more eyes. Corrupting the morals, in expected lefty lecturer style.
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Teaching Queer Gothic in a seminar room with giant windows onto a busy street, managed to pause the video clip on Lestat's bare arse. I think it was my muttered 'sorry Sam' that provoked the laughter and inadvertently drew more eyes. Corrupting the morals, in expected lefty lecturer style.
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Jimmy Cliff was touring the clubs of Wolverhampton in the year Enoch Powell made his Rivers of Blood speech. 50 years later artists Anand Chhabra, Jagdish Patel and Vanley Burke responded with the exhibition Many Rivers to Cross, the title of Cliff's 1969 track. RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y9Q...
Many rivers to cross - Jimmy Cliff
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November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Jimmy Cliff was touring the clubs of Wolverhampton in the year Enoch Powell made his Rivers of Blood speech. 50 years later artists Anand Chhabra, Jagdish Patel and Vanley Burke responded with the exhibition Many Rivers to Cross, the title of Cliff's 1969 track. RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y9Q...
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To be absolutely clear on this, one of our volunteers received a letter from a cabinet minister acknowledging the contents of the Discord leaks, including comments talking about serious abuse. The government knows exactly who they are including in these consultations.
Trans Safety Network are extremely concerned that DHSC are continuing to solicit input on trans healthcare from Bayswater and other anti trans groups after a reply to our previous concerns stated they would not work with groups who promote harmful practices or discriminatory views
Wes Streeting continues to ignore safeguarding concerns about parents group linked to abusive practices
Trans Safety Network has seen evidence Wes Streeting and the DHSC solicited feedback on a “puberty blocker risk form” from Bayswater Support Group and other anti-trans groups in September 2025, 6 mont...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
To be absolutely clear on this, one of our volunteers received a letter from a cabinet minister acknowledging the contents of the Discord leaks, including comments talking about serious abuse. The government knows exactly who they are including in these consultations.
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Streeting is admitting that the Pathways “trial” already has a predetermined outcome. Stuffing it with SEGM placeholders is evidence of this.
The only way we are going to end state-mandated torture of trans kids is to get Labour out of government completely.
The only way we are going to end state-mandated torture of trans kids is to get Labour out of government completely.
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Streeting is admitting that the Pathways “trial” already has a predetermined outcome. Stuffing it with SEGM placeholders is evidence of this.
The only way we are going to end state-mandated torture of trans kids is to get Labour out of government completely.
The only way we are going to end state-mandated torture of trans kids is to get Labour out of government completely.
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Details of a women's writing online conference!
Looks interesting!
Looks interesting!
November 23, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Details of a women's writing online conference!
Looks interesting!
Looks interesting!
This finally convinced my disabled ass that it's ok to call my mum and abstain from family Christmas. They're absolutely lovely, they'll miss me, but I can't sacrifice my health on inaccessible public transport for basically a two-day snack fest.
It’s not too late to cancel your holiday travel plans. If your family is mean to you, cancel. If the weather is too dangerous, cancel. If you don’t want to catch a virus, cancel. You can just stay home. I love you. ❤️
November 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This finally convinced my disabled ass that it's ok to call my mum and abstain from family Christmas. They're absolutely lovely, they'll miss me, but I can't sacrifice my health on inaccessible public transport for basically a two-day snack fest.
Cis people literally cannot be normal about gender, example #27,650 . Just leave the kids alone.
This is just the tip of the iceberg of over 314 questions outlined here including eg Do you start fires? Do you steal? Do you physically assault people?
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Questioning trans kids
The UK Government and UK research councils have contributed £10 million pounds to a series of research studies on service users of the newly established Children and Young People’s Gender Services.…
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November 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Cis people literally cannot be normal about gender, example #27,650 . Just leave the kids alone.
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in a real world, this would be blaring across the headlines in every country. this is the scene that starts your climate disaster survival movie.
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
in a real world, this would be blaring across the headlines in every country. this is the scene that starts your climate disaster survival movie.
Going on my introductory slide deck for next term - under what to expect from this module.
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Going on my introductory slide deck for next term - under what to expect from this module.
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So, I have read articles written by people who claim that the entire concept of modern medicine is bad, because "artificially" saving people's lives has put a stop to human evolution by letting genetically inferior people breed. Great that those folks are in charge of the CDC now.
EXCLUSIVE: CDC to end all monkey studies. Decision handed down by recent college grad and former DOGE employee who is now deputy chief of staff at the agency. Animals were being used in studies of HIV prevention. Some may be euthanized. My latest for @science.org
Exclusive: CDC to end all monkey research
Studies related to HIV and other infectious diseases will be phased out, sources say; fate of the agency's animals remains unclear
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November 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
So, I have read articles written by people who claim that the entire concept of modern medicine is bad, because "artificially" saving people's lives has put a stop to human evolution by letting genetically inferior people breed. Great that those folks are in charge of the CDC now.
Goths against fascism. Put those new rocks to good use - you can march all day in a pair of good boots.
So this is happening outside of the Heritage Foundation right now
"Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE! Fuck Project 2025! Fuck Alligator Alcatraz!"
"Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE! Fuck Project 2025! Fuck Alligator Alcatraz!"
November 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Goths against fascism. Put those new rocks to good use - you can march all day in a pair of good boots.
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Now THIS????
is a white man!
this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!
is a white man!
this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Now THIS????
is a white man!
this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!
is a white man!
this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!
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In fact, fuck it. Building on what Jess says. Do you cis fuckers have any fucking ideas how much grief we carry? How every trans person has multiple dead friends? How death is just a thing we live with? How everywhere we gather has to have an explicit policy on expressing suicidal ideation?
Today is Trans Day of Remembrance.
Today we remember and grieve all those we have lost. But we also commit – collectively – to fighting for those of us who are left. There will be hope as long as we continue to stand together.
https://goodlaw.social/n1jn
Today we remember and grieve all those we have lost. But we also commit – collectively – to fighting for those of us who are left. There will be hope as long as we continue to stand together.
https://goodlaw.social/n1jn
goodlaw.social
November 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
In fact, fuck it. Building on what Jess says. Do you cis fuckers have any fucking ideas how much grief we carry? How every trans person has multiple dead friends? How death is just a thing we live with? How everywhere we gather has to have an explicit policy on expressing suicidal ideation?