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@queermedieval.bsky.social

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Queer, trans, purveyor of werewolfy things // PhD candidate, medieval lit // Muldumarec's number one fan // they/them // 🌈 ∞ 🌈

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · Nov 11

if we are all reintroducing ourselves: I’m Miles, I’m doing my PhD on rhetoric and nonnormative embodiment (disability, neurodivergence, animality) in late medieval literature, and I am very much into werewolves and shapeshifting and premodern trans studies. Also Muldumarec the birdman’s no. 1 fan

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NYC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO @nyclabor.bsky.social · 16h

Make sure you’re registered to vote before the Oct 25 deadline. You don’t even have to go outside.

Go to e-register.vote.nyc to get yourself #VoteReady.

#NYCLaborVotes

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Annalise Ophelian @dr-ophelian.bsky.social · 6h

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major

Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand

The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…

vimeo.com

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audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 6h

I have been watching the devastating videos from friends and colleagues. Some folks are still missing in cold waters. The few news and info sources for locals are also the same ones being cut by federal funding. People should know this is happening

KTOO Public Media @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social · 6h

The U.S. Coast Guard commander for Western Alaska compared the devastation in Southwest Alaska villages over the weekend to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

(From @alaskapublic.org)

Officials say storm 'completely devastated' Western Alaska communities

A Coast Guard commander recounts scenes of Alaskans swimming in floodwaters in the middle of the night, in search of debris to hold onto.

www.ktoo.org

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 5h

I did not make it through a single SEMESTER, let alone year, of undergrad, my MA, and my PhD coursework,without having to read the same bits of Chaucer at least once. I had fun with them the first time around but now I'm simply sick of Chaucer. there's so much more ME lit out there!

Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 6h

My actual hottest literary take is that Chaucer simply does not need to take up as much space as he does in the teaching of medieval literature

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Alex H. Nagler @nagler.bsky.social · 7h

This sentiment, the "we do not demobilize" is what this campaign needs to preach from here on out. Getting the work done is going to require EFFORT. Taking the campaign's infrastructure and applying it to advocacy and political pressure will be crucial - mobilization is the right word.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

"After we win in November, we do not demobilize. The rich and corporate interests who tried to buy this election with the millions they stole from our pockets will want to see us fail.

We won’t let them." - Chi Ossé

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h

Looks like the news is out. May her memory be a blessing. Miss Major, Presente!

Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 8h

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 8h

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 8h

someone just 100% seriously tried to correct me and say it’s Hildegard von Blingin instead of Hildegard von Bingen when I was talking about the medieval mystic because they didn’t know she was a real person and they just thought I’d spelled the bardcore youtube music person’s name wrong :/

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 9h

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 9h

Little Alex Horne, if you're reading this, please put Nathan Foad on Taskmaster posthaste. I need it for my health

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 10h

big day for extremely online gay people of a certain age

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 17h

"Product of his time" harvest the fruit of the dick tree and choke on its fruit.

Medieval image of a nun harvesting from the penis tree

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 11h

like this just looks absurd

A knitted chaperon in progress, but only the top bit of the hood has been knitted, so it's basically just a mostly flat piece of fabric with one silly pointy end. It's knitted in a deep burgundy yarn.

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 11h

I wish I could share a progress photo of my knitted chaperon because I'm very excited about it, but it just looks absurd because it's basically just a piece of flat fabric that really wants to curl up due to the needle cable, but with a fun little pointy bit on one end

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Zuccnini 🎃🦖 @zuccnini.bsky.social · Sep 3

Feelin sillay!
[ #art #oc #watercolor ]

Watercolor artwork of wormbo among bands that do be silly

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Zuccnini 🎃🦖 @zuccnini.bsky.social · Sep 10

Senseless icecream waste.

Wormbo shakes their tiny fist in rage (they're gonna eat it anyway)

[ #art #oc #watercolor ]

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Zuccnini 🎃🦖 @zuccnini.bsky.social · 13h

Taking some honey with the bees.
[ #art #watercolor #oc ]

Watercolor artwork of wormbo stealing honey from a jar with bees accompanying it.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 12h

“Help!” cried Toad. “My list is blowing away. What will I do without my list?”

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12h

I thought this was lovely.

"A few years ago I received a DM from Zohran Kwame Mamdani. Only recently did I discover its existence. It was a very unusual DM—especially coming from a local assemblyman who would soon be running for higher office. He had very little name recognition at the time, and could have benefited from publicity. But unlike the thousands of messages I’ve received from people with something to promote, Zohran did not ask to be featured on Humans of New York. Instead he asked if he could introduce me to taxi drivers that were struggling beneath the burden of debt. Coming from a man with political ambitions, this self-denying request was so strange as to be almost singular. I don’t endorse politicians on Humans of New York. But I’ll endorse a good man. And it was a good man who cleared 30 minutes from his schedule yesterday to swing by Grand Central and visit Dear New York’s Vanderbilt Hall Exhibition. Nearly fifty-student artists were visiting that day with their families, and I thought a surprise visit from this widely-loved future mayor would be a special memory for all of them. Before Zohran’s arrival I was convinced I’d made a terrible mistake. The exhibit was filled to capacity with adult visitors. Dear New York is self-funded so there was very little staff and security for crowd control. In the crush of people I was almost certain this special day for the kids would devolve into thirty minutes of selfie requests. But everyone rose to the occasion."

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"Hundreds of adults quickly cleared the room and stood outside the exhibit. Eleven very notable adult photographers are also featured in the show, but even they took a step back, so that these students could briefly have the stage to themselves. Each child stood by their work and Zohran was able to meet all of them, one at a time, and honor their contributions to the most-visited art show in New York City. Thanks to everyone who ceded the stage yesterday to make this moment possible. Thank you Zohran for literally sitting down on the floor so that these young artists could feel so tall. Thanks for continually centering other people in your life and work. And thank you, for being such an important part of Dear New York."

A large group of children and adults pose together indoors in front of a sign reading "DEAR." A man in a suit sits cross-legged in front, surrounded by smiling kids. The background features an ornate architectural detail.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h

made this at 5am idk

the fall i turned into a withered old crone

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mAlice aforethought 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🔜 @thesearethekids.bsky.social · 14h

WHEEZING

Screengrab of a headline "Nature's Labubu": Why are Gen Z "unboxing" Conkers

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 14h

among the many problems with having an "AI: Explain" button in the pop-up menu when highlighting text in my PDF reader, I'm very annoyed that it's messing with my muscle memory and making me accidentally highlight instead of underline text because it's pushed all the other buttons over one ☹️

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 14h

I bet everyone wishes they were in my medieval & modern monsters class receiving such stickers as "musical butt-face centaur" and "knight fighting snail"

A sticker of a manuscript illustration of a guy playing a lute. He is a centaur, and where the butt of his horse half should be, there is a silly face.

A sticker of a medieval manuscript illustration of a knight fighting a snail