Robbie Richardson
@londonmikmaq.bsky.social
Oinpegitjoig Mi'gmaw.
Wrote The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in 18th-Century British Literature and Culture. Next book on Indigenous material culture in the 18thc.
Teaches 18th-century lit and Indigenous Studies.
Wrote The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in 18th-Century British Literature and Culture. Next book on Indigenous material culture in the 18thc.
Teaches 18th-century lit and Indigenous Studies.
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University of Toronto Press - The Savage and Modern Self
The Savage and Modern Self examines the representations of North American "Indians" in novels, poetry, plays, and material culture from eighteenth-century Br...
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Guess I haven’t done this yet: I do 18th-century lit and Indigenous studies, lately museums, collecting, and Indigenous art and aesthetic expression. First book on Native people in 18thC British lit, next book on reading Indigenous material culture in the 18thC. utorontopress.com/978148750344...
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Book submissions for the George E. Haggerty Prize in LGBTQ+ Studies in 18th-Century Scholarship are now open—Jan 15 deadline. If you published a peer reviewed book in 2024 or 25, please submit! $500 cash prize. RT’s appreciated 🙏🏼 asecs.org/resources/ol...
George E. Haggerty Prize in LGBTQ+ Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scholarship – ASECS
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December 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Book submissions for the George E. Haggerty Prize in LGBTQ+ Studies in 18th-Century Scholarship are now open—Jan 15 deadline. If you published a peer reviewed book in 2024 or 25, please submit! $500 cash prize. RT’s appreciated 🙏🏼 asecs.org/resources/ol...
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I was today years old when I learned that James Edward Austen-Leigh, Jane Austen's nephew & memoirist, was a practitioner of cut-paper silhouettes! (Attn: @catrionamac.bsky.social !)
Here's one Austen-Leigh created as an illustration for his aunt's Sense and Sensibility. This is Barton Cottage:
Here's one Austen-Leigh created as an illustration for his aunt's Sense and Sensibility. This is Barton Cottage:
December 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I was today years old when I learned that James Edward Austen-Leigh, Jane Austen's nephew & memoirist, was a practitioner of cut-paper silhouettes! (Attn: @catrionamac.bsky.social !)
Here's one Austen-Leigh created as an illustration for his aunt's Sense and Sensibility. This is Barton Cottage:
Here's one Austen-Leigh created as an illustration for his aunt's Sense and Sensibility. This is Barton Cottage:
A plaque in Glasgow for the first Canadian prime minister, John A. Macdonald, born in this parish; below his name, someone has written “Architect of a genocide. Nice one, Glesga city council.”
December 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
A plaque in Glasgow for the first Canadian prime minister, John A. Macdonald, born in this parish; below his name, someone has written “Architect of a genocide. Nice one, Glesga city council.”
A pair of Eastern Woodlands mittens, possibly Huron-Wendat; I think they are mid-eighteenth century. Made of deer, moose hair, and porcupine quills with, as far as I know, no trade materials in their construction. Amazing patterns, and they would’ve once had a cozy fur trim on the cuffs.
December 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A pair of Eastern Woodlands mittens, possibly Huron-Wendat; I think they are mid-eighteenth century. Made of deer, moose hair, and porcupine quills with, as far as I know, no trade materials in their construction. Amazing patterns, and they would’ve once had a cozy fur trim on the cuffs.
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Incredible patterns on this 18th-century Innu or Naskapi painted hunting coat; it was worn on caribou hunts and the patterns honour Papakassik, master of the caribou.
December 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Incredible patterns on this 18th-century Innu or Naskapi painted hunting coat; it was worn on caribou hunts and the patterns honour Papakassik, master of the caribou.
Incredible patterns on this 18th-century Innu or Naskapi painted hunting coat; it was worn on caribou hunts and the patterns honour Papakassik, master of the caribou.
December 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Incredible patterns on this 18th-century Innu or Naskapi painted hunting coat; it was worn on caribou hunts and the patterns honour Papakassik, master of the caribou.
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Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
![Statement on Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Genocide Denial at the Israel Hayom Summit
December 9, 2025
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright genocide denial.
During her remarks, the Secretary correctly noted that the recent deterioration of Israel’s standing among U.S. voters is not a “Republican versus Democrat kind of divide” but rather a generational one. Nevertheless, she incorrectly diagnosed the reasons for the shift as a matter purely of optics, stating that “Israel [has] the worst PR of any group” and accusing social media, particularly TikTok, of presenting “pure propaganda” that American youth are uncritically ingesting.
Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel. Young Americans of all political stripes have not fallen prey to propaganda, though that is always a legitimate concern. Rather, they have consumed two years of videos depicting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians that have been uploaded by Palestinian journalists, ordinary people trying to survive in Gaza, IDF soldiers, and ordinary Israelis themselves. There has been no convincing refutation of the sheer amount of raw evidence of genocide coming out of Palestine. Young people in the U.S. are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well.
Secretary Clinton appears not to be bothered by the reality of genocidal violence – in fact, she did not mention anything about it. Her concern is, rather, in her words, “the narrative” – the fact that these crimes are no longer hidden and are now being live-streamed and documented in real time, making it harder for her and others to control it. TikTok cannot be blamed for the fact that many members of Gen Z understand that Israel is …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pwsjq3xnal6auzgeqho4ecw7/bafkreiafbjju65esvo6htynkkl6or6muv4qqhwo5fghkkbyvclgnxxmchy@jpeg)
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
It’s not labelled as such but this porcupine quillwork and birchbark miniature canoe I’ve just come across in Scotland is definitely Mi’gmaq and made for the tourist trade in the 19th century.
December 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
It’s not labelled as such but this porcupine quillwork and birchbark miniature canoe I’ve just come across in Scotland is definitely Mi’gmaq and made for the tourist trade in the 19th century.
Getting festive in Iceland with a Yule lad.
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Getting festive in Iceland with a Yule lad.
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RIP the great Martin Parr
December 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
RIP the great Martin Parr
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Landmark British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73
Landmark British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73
Parr said his brightly coloured, closely observed pictures of British life were ‘disguised as entertainment’ but they became hugely popular
Martin Parr, the British documentary photographer who captured the peculiarities of the nation with clarity and hilarity, has died aged 73. He had been diagnosed with cancer in May 2021.
Known for his acute observations of the English class system, Parr’s images covered sunbathers and Conservative clubs, village fetes and coffee mornings, often in vivid colour and with more than a dash of humour. His iconic 1986 photobook The Last Resort: Photographs of New Brighton captured working-class holidaymakers in the Wirral, Liverpool and helped mark a sea change in British documentary photography, from the gritty, black and white style of the past towards a cheekier and more colourful style. Continue reading...
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December 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Landmark British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73
Love the neighbours’ sign: “Presidents are temporary, Wu-Tang is Forever.”
December 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Love the neighbours’ sign: “Presidents are temporary, Wu-Tang is Forever.”
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As a friend just said to me, when New York gets it right, it really gets it right.
December 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
As a friend just said to me, when New York gets it right, it really gets it right.
Chuckling to myself that there is a beer in this tiny Manhattan beer bar called Pliny the Elder
December 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Chuckling to myself that there is a beer in this tiny Manhattan beer bar called Pliny the Elder
As a friend just said to me, when New York gets it right, it really gets it right.
December 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
As a friend just said to me, when New York gets it right, it really gets it right.
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Tomorrow marks two years since the Israeli military killed beloved Palestinian professor, writer, and activist Refaat Alareer in an airstrike on his sister’s home.
December 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Tomorrow marks two years since the Israeli military killed beloved Palestinian professor, writer, and activist Refaat Alareer in an airstrike on his sister’s home.
If only the NYC Penn Station I am going to be walking through twice today looked even remotely like this now.
December 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
If only the NYC Penn Station I am going to be walking through twice today looked even remotely like this now.
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
The Louvre heist got all the fanfare so I missed this Oakland museum theft a few days later, which included a number of precious Native baskets and other items.
California museum's collection looted: Over 1,000 items stolen in early morning heist
Police in California are investigating the theft of over 1,000 items from the Oakland Museum of California.
apnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The Louvre heist got all the fanfare so I missed this Oakland museum theft a few days later, which included a number of precious Native baskets and other items.
Sometimes elders will simply tell you about the scent of your great grandmother’s favourite topical medicine and it’s somehow beautiful and life affirming.
December 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Sometimes elders will simply tell you about the scent of your great grandmother’s favourite topical medicine and it’s somehow beautiful and life affirming.
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A large effigy figuring made by a Cochiti Pueblo artist around 1880. It is a satirical depiction of a white settler arriving in the Southwest, and was purchased by a collector seeking "authentic" Indigenous art who was unknowingly purchasing a caricature of themselves.
December 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
A large effigy figuring made by a Cochiti Pueblo artist around 1880. It is a satirical depiction of a white settler arriving in the Southwest, and was purchased by a collector seeking "authentic" Indigenous art who was unknowingly purchasing a caricature of themselves.
A large effigy figuring made by a Cochiti Pueblo artist around 1880. It is a satirical depiction of a white settler arriving in the Southwest, and was purchased by a collector seeking "authentic" Indigenous art who was unknowingly purchasing a caricature of themselves.
December 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
A large effigy figuring made by a Cochiti Pueblo artist around 1880. It is a satirical depiction of a white settler arriving in the Southwest, and was purchased by a collector seeking "authentic" Indigenous art who was unknowingly purchasing a caricature of themselves.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Paintings by Anishinaabe artist Rhonda Snow honouring the endangered Ojibwe Spirit Horses that run in this field at Mādahòkì Farm.
December 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Paintings by Anishinaabe artist Rhonda Snow honouring the endangered Ojibwe Spirit Horses that run in this field at Mādahòkì Farm.
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Free Palestine lit??? Free Palestine lit. 🇵🇸 🍉 📚 ✨
Arab Lit Quarterly is making all of their pdfs of works with Palestinian authors free for #ReadPalestine week. arablit.gumroad.com
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December 1, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Free Palestine lit??? Free Palestine lit. 🇵🇸 🍉 📚 ✨