Dr. Mark Joseph O'Connell 🏳️🌈☮️❤️
@markoconnellstudio.bsky.social
Professor at Seneca Polytechnic in Toronto. Research areas: fashion history; Queer history; visual culture; transglobal commodities that shaped colonial societies, and fashion tech. Publications: markoconnellstudio.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1027-9338
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Canadian Fashion Economies by Mark Joseph O'Connell is a re-examination of Canadian cultural and commercial history, told through the key fashion objects from First Nations, colonial, and contemporary Canadian culture. From @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social #Canada #fashion #history
Rick Owens frock coat and Hermès circus tie for my Last Dance talk tonight! I will have books for signing with me as well
November 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Rick Owens frock coat and Hermès circus tie for my Last Dance talk tonight! I will have books for signing with me as well
Giving a talk tonight in Toronto! Last Dance: The Lost Legacy of 70s LGBTQ+ Fashion Icons"
Monday, November 24, 7:30 pm. Free Times Cafe. 320 College Street. Soluble Fish Lecture Series.
#Halston #WayBandy #ScottBarrie #Disco #Fashion #FashionHistory #Makeup #Lgbtq #queerhistory
Monday, November 24, 7:30 pm. Free Times Cafe. 320 College Street. Soluble Fish Lecture Series.
#Halston #WayBandy #ScottBarrie #Disco #Fashion #FashionHistory #Makeup #Lgbtq #queerhistory
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Giving a talk tonight in Toronto! Last Dance: The Lost Legacy of 70s LGBTQ+ Fashion Icons"
Monday, November 24, 7:30 pm. Free Times Cafe. 320 College Street. Soluble Fish Lecture Series.
#Halston #WayBandy #ScottBarrie #Disco #Fashion #FashionHistory #Makeup #Lgbtq #queerhistory
Monday, November 24, 7:30 pm. Free Times Cafe. 320 College Street. Soluble Fish Lecture Series.
#Halston #WayBandy #ScottBarrie #Disco #Fashion #FashionHistory #Makeup #Lgbtq #queerhistory
Canadian Fashion Economies by Mark Joseph O'Connell is a re-examination of Canadian cultural and commercial history, told through the key fashion objects from First Nations, colonial, and contemporary Canadian culture. From @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social #Canada #fashion #history
October 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Canadian Fashion Economies by Mark Joseph O'Connell is a re-examination of Canadian cultural and commercial history, told through the key fashion objects from First Nations, colonial, and contemporary Canadian culture. From @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social #Canada #fashion #history
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Mazel tov to Chloë Grace Moretz and Kate Harrison, who married over the weekend. Vogue reports that Moretz wore a Louis Vuitton gown that has me frothing with anticipation for the long-awaited return of my favorite historical bridal fashion trend: the "bridal blue" or "celestial blue" wedding dress!
September 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Mazel tov to Chloë Grace Moretz and Kate Harrison, who married over the weekend. Vogue reports that Moretz wore a Louis Vuitton gown that has me frothing with anticipation for the long-awaited return of my favorite historical bridal fashion trend: the "bridal blue" or "celestial blue" wedding dress!
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Researching at the AMNH in NYC this week. The collections workers are so dedicated and knowledgeable as always. Northwest Coast First Nations galleries at the American Museum of Natural History are beautiful and thoughtfully designed. The power of the objects in the spaces is palpable. @amnh.org
August 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Researching at the AMNH in NYC this week. The collections workers are so dedicated and knowledgeable as always. Northwest Coast First Nations galleries at the American Museum of Natural History are beautiful and thoughtfully designed. The power of the objects in the spaces is palpable. @amnh.org
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WOW! A 2,000-year-old felt hat intended to keep #Roman soldiers cool in the heat of the desert of Egypt has been painstakingly brought back to life.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
🏺 #archaeology
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🏺 #archaeology
August 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
WOW! A 2,000-year-old felt hat intended to keep #Roman soldiers cool in the heat of the desert of Egypt has been painstakingly brought back to life.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
🏺 #archaeology
www.bbc.com/news/article...
🏺 #archaeology
Mood ...
The Extraction of the Stone of Madness Hieronymus Bosch 1501 - 1505.
Bosch died #otd 9 Aug 1516.
(Museo Nacional del Prado)
Bosch died #otd 9 Aug 1516.
(Museo Nacional del Prado)
August 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Mood ...
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Worn #onthisday in 1954 by Christine Jorgensen--a former American GI who, two years earlier, had become the first person to openly undergo sex reassignment surgery--at her hotel in London, where she was embarking on a variety-show tour to capitalize on her controversial fame. #OTD 📷 Getty Images
August 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Worn #onthisday in 1954 by Christine Jorgensen--a former American GI who, two years earlier, had become the first person to openly undergo sex reassignment surgery--at her hotel in London, where she was embarking on a variety-show tour to capitalize on her controversial fame. #OTD 📷 Getty Images
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New discovery: Archaeologists have uncovered a rare, intact Etruscan chamber tomb – a discovery hailed as one of the most significant finds in recent decades for understanding the ancient pre-Roman civilization.
news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2...
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July 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
New discovery: Archaeologists have uncovered a rare, intact Etruscan chamber tomb – a discovery hailed as one of the most significant finds in recent decades for understanding the ancient pre-Roman civilization.
news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2...
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news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2...
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Wordsworth and Coleridge at the Coldplay gig
July 20, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Wordsworth and Coleridge at the Coldplay gig
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This organza dress from Iris Van Herpen’s couture show yesterday is amazing
Video via Vanessa Friedman at the NYT (Twitter handle VVFriedman)
Video via Vanessa Friedman at the NYT (Twitter handle VVFriedman)
July 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This organza dress from Iris Van Herpen’s couture show yesterday is amazing
Video via Vanessa Friedman at the NYT (Twitter handle VVFriedman)
Video via Vanessa Friedman at the NYT (Twitter handle VVFriedman)
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Donna Gottschalk, 1970 Christopher Street Liberation Day March. Photo by Diana Davies, found in Diana Davies NYPL collection.
June 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Donna Gottschalk, 1970 Christopher Street Liberation Day March. Photo by Diana Davies, found in Diana Davies NYPL collection.
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Tom Doerr and Marty Robinson during Gay Activists Alliance sit-in at Governor Rockefeller's office. Photo by Diana Davies. Photo found in Diana Davies Collection at NYPL.
June 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Tom Doerr and Marty Robinson during Gay Activists Alliance sit-in at Governor Rockefeller's office. Photo by Diana Davies. Photo found in Diana Davies Collection at NYPL.
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Fashionable some 6,000 years ago: a stunning Neolithic three-row necklace from Sachsenheim, dating to around 4,000 BC. This remarkable piece, which comprises more than 500 limestone and jet beads, is a witness to both craftsmanship and style.
📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg
#Archaeology 🏺
📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg
#Archaeology 🏺
June 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Fashionable some 6,000 years ago: a stunning Neolithic three-row necklace from Sachsenheim, dating to around 4,000 BC. This remarkable piece, which comprises more than 500 limestone and jet beads, is a witness to both craftsmanship and style.
📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg
#Archaeology 🏺
📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg
#Archaeology 🏺
Happy Dalloway day!
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‘Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself… In people’s eyes, in the swing, tramp and trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging… was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.’
‘Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself… In people’s eyes, in the swing, tramp and trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging… was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.’
June 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Happy Dalloway day!
Amazing to give the keynote talk for the Seneca Pride Month 2025 kick off 🌈. Spoke on my Lilac Time at the Rodeo fashion & AIDS research. We had a Drag show & tie-dye party too! a.co/d/gt01yGh
June 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Amazing to give the keynote talk for the Seneca Pride Month 2025 kick off 🌈. Spoke on my Lilac Time at the Rodeo fashion & AIDS research. We had a Drag show & tie-dye party too! a.co/d/gt01yGh
Loved Edmund White's writing and courage. He always felt like a mentor to me. Rest in grace ❤️ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85
The American essayist, playwright and author of books including A Boy’s Own Story and The Married Man has died
www.theguardian.com
June 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Loved Edmund White's writing and courage. He always felt like a mentor to me. Rest in grace ❤️ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Happy Pride🌈
Remembering trans man Albert Cashier for Pride, Union soldier during the civil war, was captured, marched a thousand miles without them figuring out his assigned sex at birth, escaped, and went right back to fighting them.
Lived the rest of his life as a man.
We have always been here.
Lived the rest of his life as a man.
We have always been here.
June 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Happy Pride🌈
I will be speaking on my Lilac Time at the Rodeo, fashion and AIDs research at the Seneca Pride Month Kick Off 2025. It is on Tuesday, June 3, 2025 | 10 a.m. to noon
MH1005, Magna Hall, King Campus.
You are all invited, it is SO great to see the Seneca commitment to Pride.
a.co/d/4UCiP5f
MH1005, Magna Hall, King Campus.
You are all invited, it is SO great to see the Seneca commitment to Pride.
a.co/d/4UCiP5f
June 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I will be speaking on my Lilac Time at the Rodeo, fashion and AIDs research at the Seneca Pride Month Kick Off 2025. It is on Tuesday, June 3, 2025 | 10 a.m. to noon
MH1005, Magna Hall, King Campus.
You are all invited, it is SO great to see the Seneca commitment to Pride.
a.co/d/4UCiP5f
MH1005, Magna Hall, King Campus.
You are all invited, it is SO great to see the Seneca commitment to Pride.
a.co/d/4UCiP5f
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A remarkably well-preserved 3,400 year-old linen tunic with contrasting bands around the neckline and along the side edges.
It belonged to an ancient Egyptian official named Kha. Excavated from Theban Tomb TT8 at Deir el-Medina in 1906.
Muzeo Egizio, Turin. 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
It belonged to an ancient Egyptian official named Kha. Excavated from Theban Tomb TT8 at Deir el-Medina in 1906.
Muzeo Egizio, Turin. 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
May 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
A remarkably well-preserved 3,400 year-old linen tunic with contrasting bands around the neckline and along the side edges.
It belonged to an ancient Egyptian official named Kha. Excavated from Theban Tomb TT8 at Deir el-Medina in 1906.
Muzeo Egizio, Turin. 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
It belonged to an ancient Egyptian official named Kha. Excavated from Theban Tomb TT8 at Deir el-Medina in 1906.
Muzeo Egizio, Turin. 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
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It's #WorldOtterDay!
To celebrate here's a lovely woodcut illustration of a very hungry little otter found in Conrad Gesner's Historiae Animalium (c.1602)
To celebrate here's a lovely woodcut illustration of a very hungry little otter found in Conrad Gesner's Historiae Animalium (c.1602)
May 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM
It's #WorldOtterDay!
To celebrate here's a lovely woodcut illustration of a very hungry little otter found in Conrad Gesner's Historiae Animalium (c.1602)
To celebrate here's a lovely woodcut illustration of a very hungry little otter found in Conrad Gesner's Historiae Animalium (c.1602)
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The cast of Star Wars without costumes. Harrison Ford (Han Solo), David Prowse (Darth Vader), Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca), Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia), Kenny Baker (R2-D2) and Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), 1977.
Colorized by
@jecinci
#WorldHistory #History
Colorized by
@jecinci
#WorldHistory #History
May 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The cast of Star Wars without costumes. Harrison Ford (Han Solo), David Prowse (Darth Vader), Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca), Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia), Kenny Baker (R2-D2) and Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), 1977.
Colorized by
@jecinci
#WorldHistory #History
Colorized by
@jecinci
#WorldHistory #History
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We all need a timeline cleanse!
Terracotta figurine of a #dog feeding her puppies. 500 BC-450 BC, Boeotia/Greece.
Terracotta figurines from this region during this period typically depict everyday scenes
Life without #dogs is possible but pointless 🐶🐕
On display at Antikensammlung München
📷 me
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Terracotta figurine of a #dog feeding her puppies. 500 BC-450 BC, Boeotia/Greece.
Terracotta figurines from this region during this period typically depict everyday scenes
Life without #dogs is possible but pointless 🐶🐕
On display at Antikensammlung München
📷 me
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May 25, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Admiral Nelson's coat from the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805. It includes the hole in the shoulder caused by the musket ball that killed him.
Photo by Steve Vidler
#WorldHistory #History
Photo by Steve Vidler
#WorldHistory #History
May 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Admiral Nelson's coat from the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805. It includes the hole in the shoulder caused by the musket ball that killed him.
Photo by Steve Vidler
#WorldHistory #History
Photo by Steve Vidler
#WorldHistory #History