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Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

So thrilled to share my latest article, Troubling Dystopia in Octavia Butler’s Kindred! Read it in the new issue of Textual Practice: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/257VP...

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Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump, but a dear friend recommend Wild Dark Shore and I devoured it over the long weekend. If you’re looking for a fragment of hope on the climate crisis, woven into a compelling narrative with some deadly twists, this one’s for you.

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Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

On Tuesday I had the privilege of graduating from UoN with my PhD in English Literature ✨

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Journal of Languages, Texts and Society @ltsjournal.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Great news! Our latest issue is now ready to download in full from our website: www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/gro... ✨ Start your weekend right by delving into some brilliant research by postgraduate and early career researchers 🥳

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Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

“It’s not just the students: Multiple AI platforms now offer tools to leave AI-generated feedback on students’ essays. Which raises the possibility that AIs are now evaluating AI-generated papers, reducing the entire academic exercise to a conversation between two robots — or maybe even just one.”

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

and are those Other Countries with thriving academic job markets and healthy higher education sectors in the room with us now?

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 04/05/2025

is the “masculinity crisis” currently going around not just a more paranoid patriarchy

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

as a text-based creature in an increasingly video-first world I'd like to be cherished as a sort of charismatic but doomed animal, to be fed treats in my enclosure until I meet my inevitable demise, after which my taxidermied corpse might greet visitors in a lobby somewhere

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Dr Jodie Marley 🔮 @jodielmarley.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Happy International Women's Day to my ECR friends especially. I admire your courage, kindness & wit every day & I would not be where I am today without you ❤️ (not everyone is on here but shout out to @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social, @amybouwer.bsky.social, & @diddykeats1.bsky.social who are)

Amy, Jodie (me) and Isabelle sitting in the audience for Burna' Beggars Opera on the last night of BARS, July 2024

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Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Important words from Dorothy Roberts in my morning reading today.

An excerpt from Dorothy Roberts's 'Reproductive Justice, Not Just Rights', reading: 'A reproductive justice framework can attract support from tens of thousands of women alienated by the mainstream agenda – poor and low-income women, women of colour, queer women, women with disabilities, and women whose lives revolve around caregiving. In addition, the movement’s social justice focus provides a concrete basis for building radical coalitions with organisations fighting for racial, economic, and environmental justice, for immigrant, queer, and disabled people, and for systemic change in law enforcement, health care, and education. True reproductive freedom requires a living wage, universal health care, and the abolition of prisons. Black women see the police slaughter of unarmed people in their communities as a reproductive justice issue. They recognise that women are frequent victims of racist police violence and that cutting short the lives of black youth violates the right of mothers to raise their children in healthy, humane environments. The reproductive justice movement and Black Lives Matter are likely allies because, at their core, both insist that American society must begin to value black humanity. Black, Latina, Asian-American, and indigenous reproductive justice organisations have a history of solidarity, exemplified by SisterSong, and they have begun to forge links with other social justice movements.'

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Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

My life is going great thanks I drunkenly did the NYT Mini Crossword in 14 seconds today.

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Leah from South Dakota @leahfromsd.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Now more than ever 🏳️‍⚧️

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Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

First books of 2025: 1. The Neighbour’s Secret — Sharon Bolton ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 2. American Psycho — Bret Easton Ellis ⭐️⭐️ 3. The Familiar — Leigh Bardugo ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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A very skilled radish @skilledradish.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Speaking of Luigi Mangione and entertainment in prison, I would like to direct people's attention to a charity that's really cool, The Prisoners Literature Project. They're looking for year end donations! www.prisonlit.org

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Prisoners Literature Project

An all-volunteer grassroots group that sends hundreds of free book packages to needy prisoners in the United States every month.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 13/12/2024

But, that survival-of-the-fittest mentality shouldn't surprise us. Because we treat health as a private good in this country. Because we equate health with morality. And because we tell people that the way to be healthy is to make "good choices" that minimize risk.

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Journal of Languages, Texts and Society @ltsjournal.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Check out our website for more information and email us at pg-lts@nottingham.ac.uk! Our editors would love to talk you through the submissions process, advise you on article ideas, or discuss other options for publishing your work. nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/languagestextssociety/lts-journal/

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Journal of Languages, Texts and Society @ltsjournal.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Hello Bluesky! We’re LTS, an interdisciplinary journal based at the University of Nottingham and spotlighting cutting-edge postgraduate and early-career research. Get to know us in the short 🧵 below 👇🏻

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

i've had enough of unexplained mysteries. i want all the explained ones. give me answers. give me endings. give me resolution

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Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Just found out, 7 years into taking sertraline, that it causes manic episodes (in addition to the long list of other side effects)! Love that for me. Love that I believed this was normal and okay and how not-depressed people felt (spoiler: it’s not! It doesn’t have to be like this!).

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

So you’re telling me he took violent action against hyper capitalism without reading a *single Verso e-book*?

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Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Possibly an unpopular opinion but after finishing the audiobook yesterday I think Bridge is my favourite Lauren Beukes novel. Tight prose, brilliant world building, intrigue balanced with ethical inquiry… not to mention all the sf/f tie-ins. Beukes is a fucking force.

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Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Just saw this CfP on the Other Site and thought I’d share here for anyone that missed it! The @bacls.bsky.social What Happens Now Conference will be held in Stirling on 10-12 June 2025 🤩 Proposals due 24 Jan. forms.gle/Jmx4BBpdB7L3...

Call for Papers: British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies - What Happens Now Conference (BACLS-WHN)
10-12th June 2025, University of Stirling
BACLS are delighted to open for proposals for their 2025 conference which, for the first time, will be held in Scotland at the University of Stirling.
Now a quarter of the way into the 21st century, theorisations of the contemporary and the discipline of literary study have sought to capture both new and reiterating forms: Anna Korbluh proposes that we've entered a permacrisis-induced age of 'immediacy' where art eludes mediation and prioritizes feelings of presence; for John Guillory in his recent Professing Criticism, the perennial disciplinary and existential anxieties of university English should be understood as a now-permanent feature of the subject. BACLS-WHN asks its participants to engage with cultural and creative works and their relation to the emerging formations of the present-engaging, in broad terms, with the question: what happens now?

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Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Elle Nash’s Deliver Me was weird as hell but I couldn’t put it down. Highly recommended if, like me, you need something queer and thrilling and horrifying every once in a while. (Big CW for pregnancy, miscarriage, Pentecostal trauma and bugs.)

Cover of Elle Nash’s Deliver Me: a black paperback with striking orange title, featuring an open mouth with a large black and orange beetle/roach crawling out of it.

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Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Still uneasy about pandemic-related stories (/novels set during Covid) but I’m glad I gave Delphi by Clare Pollard a chance. Skilful handling of mundanity and anachronism in ‘unprecedented times’, all while meditating on prophetic methods and myths.

Clare Pollard’s novel ‘Delphi’: a bright yellow paperback, with an off-centre faded picture of dying pink tulips on the cover.

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Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Arrived home-home to this little one today 🥰 I’m away for 8-10 months at a time and she still comes to sleep on my childhood bed whenever I visit my parents.

A small tabby cat curled up on a blue and white crocheted blanket, one paw stretched out as she licks her leg.

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Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Prepping for a five-year-old’s birthday party is no joke. How many dinosaur stickers is enough? (Answer: the limit does not exist.)

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Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

My girlfriend’s album club was discussing songs that were/had a cultural moment, and nobody said Welcome to the Black Parade. Or Unwritten. Or Sk8er Boi. Do I sit here and fume silently or shall I unleash my rage.

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Covid vaccines saved millions of lives Millions more could have been saved if the vaccines had been equitably shared with Global South countries

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Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Still processing this news. The very first work of lit crit I ever purchased was Madwoman. I was 19 & inspired by a course on feminist lit studies. I was not an English major. I did not know what a PhD was. That book was part of a swerve I was making—tho I didn’t know it yet. It was an invitation.

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Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

A great opportunity for Black UK-based PhD students working in history or related disciplines

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Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Finally spotted DUDE WIPES in the wild and I cannot stop laughing. $5 plus tax to protect you from germs, mess, AND emasculation. (Alternate caption: chapstick lesbian fall starter pack.)

A supermarket display of NyQuil, Dude Wipes, lip balm, Advil and Benadryl.

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Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Usually ‘this radical thing is fucked actually’ (with a sprinkling of ‘this fucked thing is radical actually’ to keep me from going insane).

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Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Had the best time at Day 1 of the NWSA annual conference yesterday! Ready for a full day of panels and discussions about feminist scholarship, reproductive activism, and the traps of neoliberal feminism today ✨

NWSA swag, including colourful feminist-themed stickers, a journal with a quote from Grace Lee Boggs (‘Movements are born of critical connections rather than critical mass’), ribbons reading ‘Feminist’ and ‘#CiteBlackWomen’, and a name tag.

Picture of me (brunette, white 20-something in her best white billowy shirt and black trousers) smiling and holding my name tag for the NWSA annual conference.

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Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I’ve touched down in Detroit and I am. So tired.

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Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

It is very early, but I am conference-bound! Fitting that the theme is ‘The Journey Not Only the Arrival, Critical Connections Not Only Critical Mass’ because I have a lot more traveling and connecting ahead of me… (Friends who are also heading to Detroit for NWSA, get in touch 👀)

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Hey new users— we’ve been trying to build a strong culture of expecting alt text. Take it from me, because I’ve heard from them: there are blind people on this app and they appreciate being included. You can also turn on a setting that prevents you from posting images without it, if you forget

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Persiflage @persiflage.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Now with ALT text.

Text from Ursula K. Le Guin, A Left-Handed Commencement Address (Mills College, 1983): I hope you live without the need to dominate, and without the need to be dominated. I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people. And when you fail, and are defeated, and in pain, and in the dark, then I hope you will remember that darkness is your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is. Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing — instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.

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Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Waking up and checking the news like

Screen cap from The Princess Bride, where a man reading the book to his grandson says, ‘All right, now, let’s see. Where were we? Oh, yes. In the Pit of Despair.’

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Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

Deeply unsettling experience applying for a visa to attend a conference on gender in Detroit. Imagine engraving a quote about peace* into the marble floors of your embassy whilst discouraging everyone from looking out the window at a protest encampment for Palestine.

Picture of the concrete facade of the US Embassy in London

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Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Pals, I’m writing about Gamergate, Comicsgate, and Puppygate again (I know, the horror). If you have any resources/articles about online harassment in SF/F spaces (esp. about the interplay of gamers, comic fans, Sad and Rabid Puppies etc.), please please please shoot them my way!

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Dr Jodie Marley 🔮 @jodielmarley.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

I wrote an article about Leonora Carrington's Down Below earlier this summer. Link if you're interested in literature & art history, the medical humanities, surrealism, & the occult 💜💫 open.substack.com/pub/jodielma...

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Leonora Carrington and Magical Resistance

A Study of Practical Magic, Medical Misogyny, and Power in Down Below

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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

Thrilled to be launching @freeandequal.bsky.social journal at @openlibhums.bsky.social today with the former editors of Philosophy & Public Affairs. Here's the new journal site: freeandequaljournal.org. Another diamond #OpenAccess journal to celebrate!

An image that shows the homepage of the journal website.

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Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

I guess this would be a good time to plug my other work, but I’m on a train and have very few academic spoons today. Check out my PhD profile for a recent-ish summary of what I’m up to, though! www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/student_prof...

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Amy Bouwer - M4C

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Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

My article about decolonial poetry and Judith Wright has just been published in the Journal of Postcolonial Studies! Technically my first ever article (I submitted it just after starting my PhD in 2021) and I’m overjoyed to finally release it into the world: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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‘I sing to you / from my place with my righteous kin’: Judith Wright’s decolonial poetics

Widely celebrated as one of the most influential twentieth-century Australian poets, Judith Wright occupies a central and uncontested space in the national literary canon. The political drive of he...

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Amy Bouwer @amybouwer.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

The past month has been chaotic (moving, deadlines, extensions, stress, more moving) but tonight! I’m seeing Chappell Roan in Manchester!! and will kiss my girlfriend during Pink Pony Club!!! and that will fix everything.

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