Violet Olivia

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Latest issue of @CardiffUni Press journal Intersectional Perspectives out now - read it for free here ipics.cardiffuniversitypress.org 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cardiffunilib.bsky.social #openaccess

'The Next Drag Superstar': Earning and Maintaining Legitimacy in RuPaul's Global Empire | Intersectional Perspectives: Identity, Culture, and Society

✨🧡 excited to share my new journal article on Drag Race, homogenisation & gentrification with IPICS - 'The Next Drag Superstar'. available through @cuopenresearch.bsky.social via doi.org/10.18573/ipi... ✨🧡

god I hope this gives Jodie and Mandip the material they deserve, really hoping audio does for them what it did for Colin Baker

Trans Rights are Human Rights 🏳️‍⚧️

Also, feeling very strange that more time has passed since this episode aired than my age was at the time.

I still show this episode whenever I'm teaching on media representations. Glee did a lot of things badly, but it's effect on my teen years, and the ways in which it helped me start to figure out who I was in the midst of a very confusing, scary home and school life, can't be understated.

I can't explain enough how transformative this moment was for 13 year old me. I'd never seen something like this on television before - it completely changed the trajectory of my life, and made me feel seen in a way I didn't really understand. I came out a couple of months later.

Join Mass Demo to Protest Proposed Axing of Cardiff University’s School of Music On Saturday 22 February, musicians, students and alumni will be gathering to publicly protest the proposed closure of Cardiff University's School of Music.

And, tomorrow (22nd Feb) -
musiciansunion.org.uk/news/join-ma...

petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...
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And as always please visit:
www.cardiffucu.org.uk

Please take a few minutes to read. And sign/share my colleagues petitions fighting against the disgusting actions of the EC board:

www.change.org/p/save-cardi...
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400 jobs to go?
Let them eat canopés in the Cholmondley Suite!

@UCU’s @DrJoGrady quoted in these big splashes in the the Western
Mail, & the South Wales Echo.
Vice Chancellor Wendy Larner “needs to cut her own £290,000 salary before she attacks the hard-working staff who keep the University going.”
The Uni’s trashing its own reputation, as well as its staff.

YouTube video by Llantwit1977 BBC Wales Today comment from Cardiff UCU on the brutal cuts imposed on staff, January 2025

Cardiff UCU on the brutal & unnecessary cuts at Cardiff Uni announced yesterday:
“Is this the kind of outward-facing, forward-looking Wales we want to be a part of?
“This is an act of gross economic & cultural vandalism as well as being terrible for staff.”
@ucu.org.uk
youtu.be/PF3okajNhmc?...

Who needs music?
Who needs nurses?
Brutal cuts, and not necessary according to the UCU union, quoted at length here.

Remembering The Vivienne for making us laugh, always.

Survival in the Passion Economy: Mental Health and Well-Being of Local Journalism Entrepreneurs This study investigates the mental health and well-being of local journalism entrepreneurs in the UK context. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 57 journalists in 2020 and 2021, 10 in 2022 and 7 i...

Another significant study about local journalism by
@karinwahlj.bsky.social from the Cardiff school of journalism, Media and Culture - examining journalistic well-being through 57 interviews with local news practitioners: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Please! 😀

Workshops and Training Workshops I offer two pieces of training designed for businesses or organisations. I’ll work with you to create culture-specific content for all of these trainings for your community. LGBTQ+ Inclus…

I'm available for an array of Workshops, talks and training.
I cover:
-Diversity and Inclusion (LGBTQ & Neurodiversity)
-LBGTQ+ history and culture.
-Theatre, musicals and more.

emilygarside.com/workshops-an...

🌟✨ Exciting News! ✨🌟Feminist Media Studies has officially migrated to Bluesky! 🎉 We are thrilled to continue fostering critical conversations and building community on this new platform. Be sure to follow us here and help us spread the word by sharing our page. 💬💜

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How I introduce myself on all the new platforms

Could I be added? 🌈

Amazing! Love this 🌟

some personal news along with this new start:

I've spent the summer working on redrafting + the big final draft, and so excited to have submitted my thesis this week! looking forward to taking some time off before starting viva prep🌈🎉