Rebecca Quoss-Moore

📚🌈 1 week until our first reading group session of 2026! This month we are talking about The Shapes of Sex by Leah DeVun 📚🌈

📍Where?: over Zoom
⏰ When?: Thursday 12th Feb from 1-2:30pm PT/ 4-5:30pm EST/ 9-10:30pm GMT

📚 To sign-up to the reading group visit: docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/...

Boromir from the movie The Fellow ship of the rings thinking out loud about the one ring, with the caption "Perhaps we could give the ring better training."

An articulation of a thing that bothers me has emerged from my mid-term grading marathon: Some students think that the point of assignments is to show (off) what they KNOW, when what I want is to see what they’ve LEARNED.

Only took me 16 years to name, but will be useful going forward!

A screenshot of part of an email, which reads "Your last chance to join the global AI conversation"

Do you fucking promise, tho?

A woman's place was not in the home: Challenging the assumptions about women's work in early modern history New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700.

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]

phys.org/news/2025-10...

The work on “Q” in Masten’s Queer Philologies, but also: it’s broader and more of a popular history, but I really love how Rubenhold’s The Five rethinks the historiography of the women killed by Jack the Ripper.

Writing groups are really such invaluable tools for making sure time gets carved out for your work. I’m making time for this one as often as I can; I hope I see some of y’all there:

robert tombs article titled what netflixs rrr gets wrong about the british raj

mfer is literally named "rob tombs", did they summon the spirit of the british museum into an op ed writer

Potential workaround if you're already logged in and get prompted by the ToS notification: opening this "privacy policy" link www.academia.edu/privacytakes you to a page where you can access the drop-down menu and reach "account settings." From there I was able to delete my account without agreeing.

Acknowledging that, like, by definition all scams are scummy, the near-daily spam texts I am getting about “jobs” feels…just particularly scummy in this moment. Taking advantage of people who are desperate for work while all their options are being actively eroded…gross, gross, gross.

Flyer reading CRAFT FAIR FOR GAZA / Proceeds will go to mutual aid orgs operating in Gaza / Sunday, Sep 7, 12-6 pm, 729 Nostrand Ave, Brooklyn

CRAFT FAIR FOR GAZA!
Tomorrow! 629 Nostrand Ave. 12-6 PM

We do not have the resources for another pet, really; moving a cat in with me is exactly like creating a two-cat household (with the implicit Mixed Results), but THE NAME

My spouse has just shared that his proposed name for a cat is Vinegar Tom, and this may be it; this may be the tipping point where we get a cat

The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean | Barnard Center for Research on Women Kim Hall in conversation with Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan; moderated by Tapiwa Gambura

🚨🚨So excited that the Barnard Center for Research on Women is hosting the virtual launch for *Sweet Taste of Empire,* published by ‪@pennpress.bsky.social‬. We have an incredible lineup!!!!!! #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace

10.30.2025 | 6:30pm EST| register here!
bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-sw...

A screenshot from the astrology app Costar, showing “trouble” in all the areas the app addresses: routine, thinking and creativity, spirituality, social life, sex and love, and self

Bruh.

When I showed this to my spouse, he quipped “data mining results: user likes onion rings,” but I think it’s really got legs as an explanation

Can I have it as experiential learning?

An image of a doggy daycare report, reading “Pocket was extremely resourceful and hid fully under our play equipment in an attempt to be forgotten before her bath! Unfortunately, the counselor is a hide and seek champion, and Pocket was retrieved for her bath, despite it all!” A list of other dogs is at the end of the report, with the last one reading “Mistletoe (The Missile.”

May I share with you the small joy that was my dog’s report card from daycare today?
(Bonus content: the name of the last dog on her friends list.)

Thank you! It was a really satisfying project!

CFP for a special issue on #Medieval #Asexualities!

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...

Ty ty ❤️
And yeah, for sure; post away!

Thank you for the gorgeous, perfect yarn! This is exactly the red I wanted, and it feels so, so good 💕💕
I think next up is the baby alpaca/merino blend in Emerald Magi 👀

Just finished knitting my first sweater, using Republic of Yarnia’s ( @isasaxonists.bsky.social ) merino Aran!! Extremely pleased with it; already looking forward to the next one

More people voted for Kamala in Texas (4.8 million votes) and in Florida (4.7 million) than in New York State (4.6 million).

California had nearly the same number of Trump '24 voters (6.08 million) as Florida (6.11 million), and had only 300k less than Texas.

Does anyone else see the problem here?

*Out now in paperback*

'Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary Stage and Screen' edited by @edelsemple.bsky.social &‬ Ronan Hatfull
is the first edited collection to explore Shakespeare's life as depicted on the modern stage and screen.

bit.ly/3ZcDet2

Been thinking about that a lot lately. No reason.

I said, basically, harass your blue state representatives. Push them left. Their work is often our best shot at retaining rights and staying safe. And the person who had first asked kind of went “oh, well, I don’t think I have to worry about them.” And other auditors sort of nodded/agreed.

A couple years ago, I was in a workshop at SAA on using Shakespeare in times of political unrest. And as we moved to including the auditors, someone asked what they could do to support those of us who had done the workshop, almost all of whom worked in red states.

oh, it’s that skateboard trick you learn when you’re trying to learn to do a kickflip