Caroline Gonda (she/her)
@liederfollower.bsky.social
queer receptionista (h/t Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social), lover of songs and stories, writer of flash. #LWithTheT
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Anne Seymour Damer: public life, private love
Gossip about Anne Damer's sexuality nearly wrecked her relationships and reputation, but in this queer love story, love outlasts scandal.
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My blog for the British Museum on Anne Damer is now live - very happy to see this out in the world. #AnneDamer #PrideMonth #LGBTQIA #c18th
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Dearest hivemind: I'm gearing up for a brief residency and wanting to actually make some progress on my new project on faith, faithlessness, and the spiritual. Who are your favorite poets / books even tentatively related that you'd suggest? Queer and non-Judeo-Christian even better!
February 8, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Dearest hivemind: I'm gearing up for a brief residency and wanting to actually make some progress on my new project on faith, faithlessness, and the spiritual. Who are your favorite poets / books even tentatively related that you'd suggest? Queer and non-Judeo-Christian even better!
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And here is Joan Hassall's 1973 wood engraving illustration to Austen's "Love and Freindship"--presumably picturing Laura and Sophia, as they faint alternately on the sofa
February 8, 2026 at 1:55 AM
And here is Joan Hassall's 1973 wood engraving illustration to Austen's "Love and Freindship"--presumably picturing Laura and Sophia, as they faint alternately on the sofa
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Exquisite work in this thread
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
February 8, 2026 at 7:01 AM
Exquisite work in this thread
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Loved doing this interview with the wonderful Ben Daniels and Anthony Lau about their rare revival at the National Theatre of a shocking Terence Rattigan play giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Money, power and the play that scandalised Sixties London
Terence Rattigan’s ‘Man and Boy’, a fearless study of a ruthless financier, is getting a rare revival at the National Theatre
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February 5, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Loved doing this interview with the wonderful Ben Daniels and Anthony Lau about their rare revival at the National Theatre of a shocking Terence Rattigan play giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Stumbled on Punctuation Personified: or, Pointing Made Easy (London: John Harris, 1824), and I'm kind of in love.
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February 6, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Stumbled on Punctuation Personified: or, Pointing Made Easy (London: John Harris, 1824), and I'm kind of in love.
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publicdomainreview.org/collection/p...
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Philly! This is tomorrow! Come along!
cannot wait to talk about poetry + work this Saturday in the free nation of Philadelphia at Lot 49 books, with beautiful geniuses @keegancf.bsky.social and Gina Myers. Come along! Bring your friends enemies lovers comrades!
February 6, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Philly! This is tomorrow! Come along!
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@londonreviewbookshop.co.uk I am in you and it is the coolest thing🥰
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Textile Shakespeare | Hester Lees-Jeffries | London Review Bookshop
Textile Shakespeare argues for the vital presence of the 'textile imagination' in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, as it explores the economic, cultural,…
www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
February 6, 2026 at 7:40 PM
@londonreviewbookshop.co.uk I am in you and it is the coolest thing🥰
www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/textil...
www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/textil...
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Still time to sign up for next week's BARS Digital Event!
BARS Digital Event Announcement with our friends @chawtonhouse.bsky.social!
Join us on 11th Feb at 6pm on Zoom for this event celebrating New Research in Women's Writing!
Register to join: uofglasgow.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join us on 11th Feb at 6pm on Zoom for this event celebrating New Research in Women's Writing!
Register to join: uofglasgow.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Still time to sign up for next week's BARS Digital Event!
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Friends! We are looking for a visiting assistant professor with expertise in 17th century literature. Help me spread the word? It’s limited term, but I can promise wonderful students and lovely colleagues for a very nice bit of teaching experience… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Visiting Assistant Professor of English: Seventeenth-Century Literature The Department of English at Wesleyan University seeks applicants for a full-time Visiting Professor with expertise in seventeen...
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February 6, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Friends! We are looking for a visiting assistant professor with expertise in 17th century literature. Help me spread the word? It’s limited term, but I can promise wonderful students and lovely colleagues for a very nice bit of teaching experience… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
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Happy BandCamp Friday! There’s 20% off everything in my shop today. Use code DREAM, expires 11:59 Fri 6 Feb. Happy Friday & happy listening! 💚 angelinemorrisonmusic.bandcamp.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Happy BandCamp Friday! There’s 20% off everything in my shop today. Use code DREAM, expires 11:59 Fri 6 Feb. Happy Friday & happy listening! 💚 angelinemorrisonmusic.bandcamp.com
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We are beyond delighted about this article in @thequietus.com about The Black British Folk Collective - huge thanks to Patrick Clarke 🖤
Great article about the Black British Folk Collective, founded in our very own basement! @thequietus.com @angelcakepie2.bsky.social
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Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Winter, by Patrick Clarke | The Quietus
In October last year the musician Angeline Morrison, whose 2022 masterpiece The Sorrow Songs drew on deep research to present new folk music that centred the real Black British figures who are often w...
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February 6, 2026 at 12:00 PM
We are beyond delighted about this article in @thequietus.com about The Black British Folk Collective - huge thanks to Patrick Clarke 🖤
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Childhood forever, childhood for all ✊
Childhood was a political project, centuries of activism carving out time and space for young people to grow and learn. It's an unfinished project, and the right wing wants it ended when it's barely even begun.
The Right has spent years trying to push a return to child labor and attacking age of consent laws. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that they’re exposing us to mountains of the most horrendous stuff imaginable while also normalizing it.
So much of what’s happening is the destruction of childhood.
So much of what’s happening is the destruction of childhood.
February 5, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Childhood forever, childhood for all ✊
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Happy publication day to "Dance and Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century"! So many thanks to Bloomsbury and all of the contributing authors who worked with Mark, Ian, and me to bring this volume together! We could not have done it without you! #dancehistory #18thcentury
February 5, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Happy publication day to "Dance and Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century"! So many thanks to Bloomsbury and all of the contributing authors who worked with Mark, Ian, and me to bring this volume together! We could not have done it without you! #dancehistory #18thcentury
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Marie Spartali Stillman: Pre-Raphaelite muse and talented artist in her own right, whose own important work is often overlooked. More than just a model.
February 5, 2026 at 11:21 AM
Marie Spartali Stillman: Pre-Raphaelite muse and talented artist in her own right, whose own important work is often overlooked. More than just a model.
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Please remind yourself that asylum seekers do not use taxis - the Home Office uses taxis to transport asylum seekers
February 5, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Please remind yourself that asylum seekers do not use taxis - the Home Office uses taxis to transport asylum seekers
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cannot wait to talk about poetry + work this Saturday in the free nation of Philadelphia at Lot 49 books, with beautiful geniuses @keegancf.bsky.social and Gina Myers. Come along! Bring your friends enemies lovers comrades!
February 4, 2026 at 9:07 PM
cannot wait to talk about poetry + work this Saturday in the free nation of Philadelphia at Lot 49 books, with beautiful geniuses @keegancf.bsky.social and Gina Myers. Come along! Bring your friends enemies lovers comrades!
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![Comic. [Person talking to person with black hat.] PERSON 1: Historically, it refers to a ceremony to predict the weather using a rodent. But nowadays people often use it to mean “a time loop experienced by one person.” PERSON 2: …What. [caption] Easily our weirdest holiday.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreidknpywgj44ox6nphuyzs6si6lozn77jyx75nbh7v67wsjr6dssl4@jpeg)
February 4, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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Monks in the ninth–eleventh centuries identified with bees to make sense of their place in medieval society. In bees, they found an ideal of communal life, selfless virtue, and chastity. By living with bees and writing about them, these monks forged a distinct, nonbeenary gender.
February 4, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Monks in the ninth–eleventh centuries identified with bees to make sense of their place in medieval society. In bees, they found an ideal of communal life, selfless virtue, and chastity. By living with bees and writing about them, these monks forged a distinct, nonbeenary gender.
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excited to host Johanna at Rutgers on February 19 for a panel on close reading today feat. brilliant contributors - come if you're local?
February 3, 2026 at 10:55 PM
excited to host Johanna at Rutgers on February 19 for a panel on close reading today feat. brilliant contributors - come if you're local?
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Absolutely this! And, like social media (but more permanent), what you've written in a particular context may well be revisited in a different one years later. People try to control how this happens but it doesn't always work.
Spent today in an archive of 19th-century diaries. I know people have commented on how the frequency of mail in e.g. 19th-century London made letters like emails, bouncing back & forth multiple times per day. But I realized today that they were actually more like social media posts, because
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February 3, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Absolutely this! And, like social media (but more permanent), what you've written in a particular context may well be revisited in a different one years later. People try to control how this happens but it doesn't always work.
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NOW. Now it is the day. These are for shows from April 7-19.
Melbourne: cheap tickets to see me here. For one day only. But the day doesn’t start yet. It will soon, though.
February 3, 2026 at 10:57 AM
NOW. Now it is the day. These are for shows from April 7-19.
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AI: “do you want me to summarise this folder”
Me: no, I want to open the folder and summarise it with my own eyes, a quaint process that I call “reading”
Me: no, I want to open the folder and summarise it with my own eyes, a quaint process that I call “reading”
February 3, 2026 at 1:01 PM
AI: “do you want me to summarise this folder”
Me: no, I want to open the folder and summarise it with my own eyes, a quaint process that I call “reading”
Me: no, I want to open the folder and summarise it with my own eyes, a quaint process that I call “reading”
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Btw, my gorgeous cover star is a gynandromorph gypsy moth, female on its left side, male on the right. It was caught in Berlin in July 1864 and pictured by German entomologist Ernst Ludwig Taschenberg in 1877. It makes more than one appearance in my book!
#booksky #histsci #sts #queerhistory 🦋🌈📚🗃️
#booksky #histsci #sts #queerhistory 🦋🌈📚🗃️
February 3, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Btw, my gorgeous cover star is a gynandromorph gypsy moth, female on its left side, male on the right. It was caught in Berlin in July 1864 and pictured by German entomologist Ernst Ludwig Taschenberg in 1877. It makes more than one appearance in my book!
#booksky #histsci #sts #queerhistory 🦋🌈📚🗃️
#booksky #histsci #sts #queerhistory 🦋🌈📚🗃️