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Liz Schirmer

@bertilak.bsky.social

Medievalist, teacher, reluctant administrator; queer solo parent by choice; borderlands dweller, trans advocate; piersplowman.org

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Global PhD on Middle English Arthurian romance The University of Groningen and Macquarie are offering a co-funded scholarship to support a student undertaking doctoral research in medieval literature.

Medievalist friends! Applications are open until end of Feb for a fully-funded PhD in Arthurian Literature with the brilliant Louise D'Arcens @medievalafterlives.bsky.social and myself, based between Sydney (Australia) and Groningen (The Netherlands).

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18.12.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 70    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 4
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Come join us, Friday the 13th!

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I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

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I read that as β€œif we just had a society” and you know…

05.01.2026 02:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe they think white people in the South won’t stand up for their neighbors. I think they’re wrong. #charlotte

16.11.2025 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Jupiter says trans rights

11.11.2025 08:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1598    πŸ” 563    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 1
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This Friday - join us!

10.11.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Home UC Law Faculty to Regents: Resist the Unlawful Demands

160 faculty from all 5 UC law schools signed this open letter detailing why the Trump demands to UCLA are unlawful, unconstitutional, and wrong: sites.google.com/view/uclawfa... Great to work with @fishkin.bsky.social @blakeprof.bsky.social @seanashiffrin.bsky.social on this statement.

07.11.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 114    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4
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Join us!

13.10.2025 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Convo w bff 6 months ago: our institutions are huge and pretty entrenched, and I suspect they won’t be that easy to dismantle

Convo w bff today: at this point I want to be in a blue state when the war breaks out

09.10.2025 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Other than, like, kick the chair out from under American democratic institutions (or what was left of them).

03.10.2025 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The summer has seen anti-trans campaigns across the UK and US, alongside a crisis in healthcare. But what use could trans history have in these time, beyond proving 'we have always been here'?

Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures:
www.historyworkshop....

23.09.2025 05:32 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in β€˜McCarthy era’ move Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for β€˜alleged antisemitic incidents’

β€œWe have a right to know the charges against us, to know who has made the charges and to review them and defend ourselves,” they said. β€œBut none of that has happened, which is why we’re in Kafka-land … It is an enormous breach of trust.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

12.09.2025 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5

go go go!

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nmsu.zoom.us/j/9732714697

12.09.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today! Please note time: 12:30 ET (not 1:30).

12.09.2025 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Can we get some professional assessment of signatures on all those batshit executive orders? Pls and ty.

10.09.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Friday - join us!

10.09.2025 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Likewise if you think you can hide in a blue state

10.09.2025 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Oh for actual fuck’s sake

10.09.2025 13:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | This Is Who’s Really Driving the Decline in Interest in Liberal Arts Education Students want to study the humanities and liberal arts. But university administrators keep getting in the way.

β€œIt’s not tht traditional liberal learning is out of step w student demand. Instead, it’s out of step w priorities, values & desires of a powerful board of trustees… & an administrative class tht won’t fight for the liberal arts… even when it attracts major $$ gifts”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...

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Tony is a local hero, having rescued two small children from drowning in the Rio Grande. He lives at Camp Hope, where he can keep his dogs and focus on sobriety while working landscaping jobs. Help Tony and other move to stable housing: tentstorents.org.

29.08.2025 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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in this week's newsletter! a rant against this weird sex culture we seem to now live in: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/everything...

15.08.2025 09:14 β€” πŸ‘ 957    πŸ” 188    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 39

Congratulations!!!!! Can’t wait to read it!

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Still photograph of Judith Butler, wearing a black jacket and shirt, and looking into the camera. On the right of the image, white text is displayed saying: "10-Minute Talks / Gender as framework / with Judith Butler FBA

Still photograph of Judith Butler, wearing a black jacket and shirt, and looking into the camera. On the right of the image, white text is displayed saying: "10-Minute Talks / Gender as framework / with Judith Butler FBA

β€œGender studies as a discipline…is defined by a set of debates and problematics.” In this 10-Minute Talk, Judith Butler FBA discusses gender as a field of study and its interdisciplinary contributions to research, social analysis and social movements.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...

11.08.2025 09:15 β€” πŸ‘ 121    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 4
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A Profession, If You Can Keep It Imagined meritocracies mean little to extractive institutions.

"This 'burnout' that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be."

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nmsu.zoom.us/j/84004832770

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