FREE Online conference on histories of disability and emotions organised by Sara Scalenghe Loyola University MD, Pieter Verstraete Leuven Centre for Health Humanities KU Leuven and myself Transitions - ULiège Université de Liège 13-15 June 2023 More than 35 international speakers + 2 keynotes during 3 days!

"The danger is that the shift towards the assessment of research management and culture might seem to diminish the importance of the research itself."

#KZoo2024 #MedievalTwitter #DisHist Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages Session: Intersections of Medieval Dis/Ability & Race/Making Session: Making Sense of Medieval Sensory Disabilities margaret.mccurry_at_nyu.edu RT:Accessible Practices in Academia (Hybrid)

My article on how Ælfric's Colloquy helped construct the masculinity of young boys on their way to monkhood, available Open Access at Early Medieval Europe. Soon to be followed by a book on clerical and scholarly masculinities in Byzantium. doi.org/10.1111/emed.1…

Our next IHR #histsex seminar will take place on 7 November, 5:30 pm UK time. This is an online seminar. Trans History Now! For further information and to sign up to receive the Zoom meeting link. history.ac.uk/events/trans-h…

🏳️‍⚧️ Excited to share this new resource for teaching trans history at university level! 🏳️‍⚧️ Whether you want to deepen your knowledge, diversify curricula, or do more trans-competent teaching – here's a start by Sam Rutherford & Jack Doyle Oxford History. docs.google.com/document/d/1IM…

How to swear in early 11th-c. England: Ælfric Bata's suggestions (via Dr Maroula Perisanidi's onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/em…)

if you're interested in ways to do trans history that don't either have us acting like sexologists or being written out of the past (or just curious about trans life in Byzantium) I turned my MA diss into an article and it is out in Gender & History onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Dear M&S - you're still doing it, despite repeated complaints. I don't care that "staff will happily assist if asked". I don't want to lose my autonomy because you don't give a fuck about #accessibility. It's dangerous and discriminatory. Disability Rights UK Doug Hartnäckigkeit Paulley

📢 This month on #NAMHN website, delve into #artist & #filmmaker Emily Beaney's multi-sensory work around human-animal #care, #vulnerability and #interdependence -- a pleasure to hear, watch, even touch & smell #NonHumanAnimals #Posthumanism 🐶📽️🌿🌊 👇 namhnetwork.wordpress.com/2024/02/27/mov…

Exquisite NEW blog by Josh St Pierre reflecting on the plurality of spoken & unspoken political goals that co-exist within the stammering community at this time: redefiningstammering.co.uk/dysfluency-in-… A powerful piece of writing that will hopefully transform how we envisage the future landscape

It's finally here! I'm so excited to finally see in print this special issue of Gender & History on 'Historicising Trans Pasts', co-edited by myself, Dr Maroula Perisanidi and Joanna de Groot. Thanks so much to all our contributors! Articles highlighted below 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424/2…

Finally, I should mention our introduction, written by myself, Dr Maroula Perisanidi and Joanna de Groot, in which we put forwards what a methodology of 'historicising trans pasts' might look like, and reflect on what these wonderful articles do when brought together: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

St Kevin and the Blackbird BL Royal 13 B VIII, f.20r Medieval Manuscripts

MR. DISFLUENT ✨ The latest comic strip about stammering from cartoonist and STAMMA member Gareth Cowlin follows Mr. Disfluent, a character both unfamiliar yet recognisable! Have a read: stamma.org/features/garet…

academic.oup.com/past/advance-a… Dr Maroula Perisanidi and I wrote an article about what a scarier, less conservative trans history could look like