Carla María Thomas, PhD (she/they)

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Donate to Help a Queer Family Relocate to Safety, organized by Heather Wofford Hi, I’m a queer single parent of one trans child and one nonbinary child—two in… Heather Wofford needs your support for Help a Queer Family Relocate to Safety

#QueerSky #LGBTQIA Please help my best friend and her kids relocate from TX to MN bc of the transphobic legislation. Pleasure and, if you’re able, consider donating: gofund.me/eae501cc

I have *officially* completed a full draft of my #Ormulum translation, including an intro that needs revision! Now to work on the book proposal (ie, my hyperfixation has come, almost, to an end)! #MedievalSky #EarlyMiddleEnglish #OrmLove

Y’all!! Only 852 lines left to translate of the #Ormulum!! It’s only take me a decade… 🙃 #MedievalSky #EarlyMiddleEnglish #OrmLove

Trump Administration Fires Librarian of Congress

This is a particularly outrageous and deeply harmful act. Hayden is an important and impactful library professional. Her appointment as Librarian of Congress was historic but was also the most logical thing in the world. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...

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Orm doesn’t like the fleshy life. 😂

“Flæs[h]like follc. i flæshliȝ lif;
Flæshlike all unnderrstodenn.
Þe laferrd cristess word. tatt was.
Gastlike tunnderrstanndenn.” (16256-69)

We get it, Orm. We’re revoltingly fleshly. #Ormulum #OrmLove #MedievalSky #EarlyMiddleEnglish

NH’s new ID requirements send some would-be voters home to grab passports, birth certificates The law requires all new voters to show proof of their U.S. citizenship. For some, that meant making multiple trips to and from the polls before finally casting a ballot on Tuesday.

As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law:

“It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate.

www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

They want to cut USPS - so they can own it.

They want to cut Amtrak - so they can own it.

They want to cut Social Security - so they can force you to use private financial firms more.

They want to cut Medicare and the VA - so they can force you to use private healthcare more.

#MedievalSky, please read & share widely this updated stated by Medievalists of Color on #Palestine & the #MAA. medievalistsofcolor.com/statements/m...

Polestar's 'Trade In Your Tesla' $20,000 Deal Is Already A Hit Tesla owners are getting fed up with the brand. Polestar wants to reel them in, and it seems to be working.

insideevs.com/news/752184/...

This.

Crockett: This is not what we should be doing. I don’t even know why we’re fighting with Greenland. We’re fighting with Greenland, Canada, and Mexico—yet we’re in love with Putin?!

I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.

GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.

ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.

Plenty of people “under” the “Royal” Cheeseface are regretting their choices. How about y'all stop the self-pity party, let go of fear, & actively do something about it? After all, aren’t y’all the folx who ask, “What Would Jesus Do?” He wouldn’t follow a tyrant, that’s for damn sure.

From #Ormulum, 7158-7167: "it well might be that he [Herod] was furious, & fierce, & angry all for nothing bc he so wished to make his people all the more afraid of him & of his fear, for if the rich person is violent & grim, & tough to please, his people who are under him fear him the more."

The #OrangeMenace & all those beneath him come to mind as I translate Homily 10 of #Ormulum, which is long & about Jesus’s birth, but the section that sticks out the most right now is on Herod and his rule. Read below for the translated quotation. #MedievalSky #EarlyMiddleEnglish #OrmLove

Florida DOGE task force to audit state’s public universities All twelve of Florida’s public universities will be subject to an independent review and audit under the task force.

Florida gov’t is falling in line with the Orange Stain, which isn’t surprising since DeSatan leads us, but it’s still scary for those of us living and working here. www.wlrn.org/government-p...

You see that, Orm? I’m comin’ for ya! 🤣 #MedievalSky #Ormulum #OrmLove #EarlyMiddleEnglish

Day 2 of Indigeneity: A RaceB4Race Symposium! Remember, live stream is available! asuevents.asu.edu/event/indige... #MedievalSky #ShakeRace #Classics

A freewheeling podcast episode: I talk about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY with Ann Foster on the delightful @vulgarhistory.bsky.social podcast. #StarTrek #maps #cartography #SFF #earlymodern 🗃️

The discount is now back to 30% (UCPSAVE30, directly from the @ucpress.bsky.social website via the UC Press buying tab). But the need for non-violent pitchforkery to build a Monstertopia is more urgent than ever. 🗃 💙📚 #histsci #histmed

Middle-Aged Concertgoer Mad Libs Your partner bought two tickets to see BAND YOU ONLY HEAR NOW AT THE DMV & CVS. “What do I wear?” you wonder. Certainly, your CLOTHING ITEM YOU...

"Your partner bought two tickets to see [BAND YOU ONLY HEAR NOW AT THE DMV & CVS]. "What do I wear?” you wonder. Certainly, your [CLOTHING ITEM YOU ROUTINELY SLEEP IN] should be fine."

BHM Black sf for 2/7. As with Delany, any of fellow Grand Master Octavia Butler’s oeuvre could appear here, and I’ll certainly include one or two more, but Kindred stands alone in its meditation on the way the wounds of the past inevitably intersect the present.

One of my favorites of hers (Dawn holding a very special place in my heart). The graphic novel version is also very good.

Pale green book launch banner with book cover on the left. The red cover has a large black oval mirror framed by sci-fi and fantasy monsters, with yellow (title) and red (subtitle) lettering in a stylized font with details that resemble whale-tails and bats’ wings. Title along the top curve of the mirror: Humans: A Monstrous History. Along the bottom curve of the mirror: Surekha Davies. Text in the centre repeats book title and author’s name. Adds: Out now!

To find out more, order HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY now, from anywhere books are sold! 6/6

www.surekhadavies.org/humans-a-mon...

Square black background with a bright red book cover at the centre, showing: an oval, silver-coloured mirror with a black frame comprised of sci-fi and fantasy monsters, with yellow lettering for the title, “HUMANS”, around the top of the mirror, in a stylized font with details that resemble whale-tails and bats’ wings. Subtitle just inside the mirror: A Monstrous History. Inside the bottom curve of the mirror: Surekha Davies.

Human. Animal. Machine. God. And more. Every category is a story about society and its monsters. Beings don’t all fit into discrete, fixed boxes. People invent boxes and then try to stuff everything and everyone inside them. 1/6

💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #HAMH

So, apparently the SS…er, I mean ICE…has begun invading Florida’s state-university campuses this week.