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One more while we’re at it! We’re interested in offering TSW authors the chance to commission images to companion their pieces (if they wish). If you are an artist whose work aligns with our values & you'd be interested in being listed, send us an email (thesowhatpub [at]gmail [dot]com) #medievalsky

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Call for Guest Editors Call for Guest Editors: The So What Special Issues The So What welcomes proposals for individual or teams interested in guest editing a special issue on one of the following topics: Bardcore Medieva...

Call for #medievalsky & related other ski’s!! Guest editors for issues & clusters—we summon you!!! We’re currently looking for individuals or teams interested in #bardcore, craft medievalism & medieval crafts, changing climates, early globalities, & more! #cfp

Full guest ed call linked 👇

Critical thinkinge ys vitallye ymportant and manye academic fieldes rightfullye clayme that thei teache it. Englisshe majors learne critical thinkinge too, but thei also learne creative thinkinge and compassionate thinkinge.

Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

shrek from the movie shrek is smiling and looking at something ALT: shrek from the movie shrek is smiling and looking at something

The number of people buying used DVDs in this store, especially of Disney movies, is oddly heartening?

There are few looks of disdain as withering as that of a teen happening upon a Millennial emotively lip syncing to “Backstreet’s Back” in the aisle of a grocery store.

I kept dancing tho. Can’t stop won’t stop…as the kids no longer say 😂

A little tuxedo kitten, looking quite fancy.

News sucks

Have a cat 💙🐈‍⬛ #CatBreak

Friends. It’s international dog day, and we need to talk about one of the greatest unrecognized threats to dogs … U.S. Republican Leadership — video: www.instagram.com/reel/DN0_9v4...

#republicans #gop #internationaldogsday #nationaldogday #trump #kristinoem

Beowulf and the Far Right (Pedagogical) — Arthuriana Why do we still read medieval stories? This is the question I ask my students before my lesson on Beowulf and far-right groups. One reason, they decided, was that many medieval lessons and ideas r...

6/ last but very certainly not least, Sarah Barringer offers detailed lesson plans and pedagogical guidance for having students investigate and critique the appeal #Beowulf to the Far Right.

www.arthuriana.com/tsw/beowulf-...

A New Poem in Context: A Medieval Bog Woman in Northern Europe — Arthuriana It’s not easy being a historian of the early Middle Ages. Historians most commonly use primary sources to reach into the experience of people whose world was far different from our own. But the very l...

5/ check out a creative piece in context! Amanda Brighton Payne shares her poem, “The Window Bog,” and it’s origins in: “A New Poem in Context: A Medieval Bog Woman in Northern Europe.”

www.arthuriana.com/tsw/a-new-po...

IRRECOVERY — Arthuriana Archival and critical projects referred to as ‘recovery’ allow scholars to make heard the voices of those historically inaudible and marginalized. When discourses of representation, centers and margin...

4/ then read Seeta Chaganti’s “IRRECOVERY,” a powerfully written exploration of scholarly methods, medieval outlawry, and contemporary resistance; a moving call to “leave the agents of certain collective actions undetectable.”

www.arthuriana.com/tsw/irrecovery

Black Neomedievalisms in Late and Post-Covid Music Videos — Arthuriana The world of man was ending, rapidly, or so it seemed to me as I sat in my lonely New Jersey apartment in late Spring of 2020. Looking out at the skyline of the city I loved, I watched my friends flee...

3/ next we have Maggie Hawkins’ fascinating essay on “Black Neomedievalisms in Late and Post-Covid Music Videos”! And yes, those do include videos by Lil Nas X and hemlocke springs, thank you for asking!

www.arthuriana.com/tsw/black-ne...

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Queer Medieval Outing with Nicola Griffith: A Public Humanities Event — Arthuriana How do we recover the voices of those throughout history who have not been in positions of power and who, therefore, have been either left out of records or only represented in partial or stigmatizing...

2/ First up, “Queer Medieval Outing with @nicolaz.bsky.social: A Public Humanities Event,” in which María Bullón-Fernández & Sarah Faulkner discuss an amazing #pubhums event on the Queer Medieval sponsored by Humanities Washington

Hi #medievalsky! We’re excited to announce that Issue 2 of The So What is available on our site: www.arthuriana.com/tsw-issues! #pubhums #arthuriansky
And now, a quick teaser 🧵 of the pieces in this issue… /1

and--idk quite how to articulate this--but the work of it is... critical to art-making. like you discover your intentions through the labor of expressing them. if I'd woken up at 17 with the technical ability to write a novel, i wouldn't have known what i was trying to say. the work IS the product.

a man is sitting in a chair with his fist in the air . ALT: a man is sitting in a chair with his fist in the air .

Not comparatively important, but billboards featuring Michael B. Jordan staring out at the driver with FULL MODEL SMOLDER are a driving hazard. That’s all

I have never laughed so hard at something I also felt so raw and deep in my soul 😂😰😂

What's the best article or essay (not book!) you've read recently about women/gender in late medieval and/or early modern Europe?

#earlymodern #medievalsky

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Hey #medievalsky, #skystorians, #arthuriansky et al! The So What has its own Bsky acct now; give us a follow to learn about new issues and CFPs as they drop (that’s the appropriate verb for this sort of thing, yes?)!

signs of cats who are running for cat mayor of somerville, massachusetts

a sign for a cat running for cat mayor named hermes squirmies

a pink sign for a cat running for cat mayor named beatrix. her slogan is “no kings, only princesses”

a sign for a cat running for cat mayor named Luna. her slogan is “pro zoomies, chaos, and attention”

there’s an election for Cat Mayor currently happening in Somerville, Mass. and every cat deserves to win

a man in a black shirt is screaming with his mouth open and the word aha is on the screen behind him . Alt: Joel McHale dramatically points and yells, the text of the gif reads: “AHA!”

There should be an academic missed connections page where you can post the answers you wish you’d given to questions on your conference papers as well as the questions you’ve belatedly thought of for others

Did in fact need to see this

Was fooled 😬

Just skimmed through so far but pretty sure initial excitement was warranted!

Stack of books on a shelf, titles include Dana Oswald’s Conceiving Bodies and Sarah Baechle’s Father Chaucer and the Apologists

#kzoo2025 book haul part 1!!! So excited I can’t decide which to read first!!! #medievalsky

GOP Senator Introduces Bill to Make All Porn a Federal Crime, Following Project 2025 Playbook Mike Lee wants to deliver a death knell to PornHub.

Listen, this isn’t even close to the most important thing rn, but can I just say the person who selected the image for this story deserves some sort of prize

gizmodo.com/gop-senator-...

Brown and white tabby cat lying on a daybed. Behind him is a pillow whose cover bears two terrifying carnivorous, goats The net effect is it looks like the cat is about to be eaten

I don't know what compelled me to get this insane pillow cover, but I'm glad I did.

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🗣️ Fiona Tolhurst & K.S. Whetter’s book: Arthurian Intertextualities
Misreading is out soon! There’s open access AND a preorder discount code (40% off - PREORDERS25) if you prefer to have your own shiny copy to taunt others with. #medievalsky #arthuriansky

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