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Annika Williams (she/her)

@annikawilliams.bsky.social
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musicologist-in-training mta & mcgill music alum 📍Tiohtià:ke musicology with a side of silliness and long covid | baroque opera, disability studies, Mad studies, gender studies | constantly crafting something with yarn

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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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Annika Williams (she/her) @annikawilliams.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
pretty wild that the last 10 years have been so bad we all are reminiscing FONDLY about 2016
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
your very existence is troubling, enraging, and distracting as hell for some of the shittiest people on earth so no, i’m afraid you may not kill yourself rn
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Best subtitle so far: “alpacas humming in distance”
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Essential Opera @essentialopera.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
BONUS CONTENT! This month only, you can watch our adorable queer 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 holiday 🎄rom-com 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨 film 🍿 when you buy the EP: essentialopera.bandcamp.com/album/decemb... As heard on CBC Music! #opera #classical #musicaltheater #newmusic
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December [Complete EP], by Essential Opera
5 track album
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Harriet - Pumpkin Spite @akaharriet.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025
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Annika Williams (she/her) @annikawilliams.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
no Quebec is wild bc what do you mean one of my fav thrift stores sells maple syrup now
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AMS Music and Disability Study Group @amsdismus.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The AMS Music and Disability Study Group proudly welcomes Stefan Sunandan Honisch to the Community of Practice on Wednesday, December 17th, 2025 at 10:00am PST/1:00pm EST via Zoom. For more information and registration, please use the following link: www.musicdisabilitystudies.org/blog/decembe...
The image features a white sticky note with smiling sunflowers in the corners. The background consists of a pale and dark pink wavy checkered pattern. The text on the poster reads as follows: AMS Music and Disability Study Group presents Community of Practice: Wednesday, December 17th, 10:00am PST/ 1:00pm EST, Zoom.
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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Happy Chompsgiving!
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Annika Williams (she/her) @annikawilliams.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I have a chapter in this! www.bloomsbury.com/au/disabilit...
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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
STRENGTH CRUSHES ENEMIES! DO YOU NEED TO CLEAN YOUR GLASSES?
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Straight up fucked that you can’t vote today, even with proof of address, if you didn’t register online two weeks ago. Thank god I remembered to register, but a friend who wanted to vote for Luc Rabouin just texted that she was turned away. Montreal needs to fix this. It’s undemocratic.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
*young me, developing a strong sense of justice* This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane
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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I mean, sure, "Elephants never forget" is cute and all, but "corvids carry generational grudges" is both factually correct and _sick as hell_
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Annika Williams (she/her) @annikawilliams.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Ozzy Osbourne dying just reminds me that I think I can still play the melody of Crazy Train on the flute through pure muscle memory bc it was the first band piece I ever played. Crazy Train flute version was absolutely iconic work on my band teachers part
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Florence’s Medici had a family curse: an agonizing hereditary medical condition causing torturous joint pain and severe mobility restrictions, so it was agony to stand, walk, or even hold a pen. Yes, Renaissance Florence, cradle of the Renaissance, was run by disabled people from a sickbed. 2/?
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Friends, let's visit the largest, most famous disability access ramp on Earth... with a twist! About how our feelings about a bit of history can reverse completely based, not just on the historian’s POV, but what questions we ask 1/? (Countdown to "Inventing the Renaissance" buff.ly/4j6qkoS
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Inventing the Renaissance - Ada Palmer
In Inventing the Renaissance, acclaimed historian Ada Palmer provides a fresh perspective on what makes this epoch so captivating.
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Annika Williams (she/her) @annikawilliams.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
So incredibly excited about this!!
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Kayli Jamieson @wanderingkayli.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
It’s not too late to complete your submission for our #LongCOVID photovoice exhibit at the Museum of #Vancouver, debuting this fall! Open Canada-wide to any self-identified #longhauler 18+. Upload your photos by June 1 here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/YourPhotos
Poster with black and yellow text against blue background and a photo-film-like strip displaying examples of submissions such as medication, an Apple Watch of high heart rate, flowers, and a symptom crash. Submission prompt titles are: starting the day, middle of the day, lowlight, healthcare moment, end of the day, and highlight. Poster text with camera icon says: Your Life, Your Photos, Your Story. A Day in the Life of a Longhauler. Share your Long COVID story at the museum of Vancouver! "A Day in the Life of a Longhauler" is a photography project that captures the daily life of individuals living with Long COVID to enhance visibility, reduce stigma, and advocate for improved support. Whether you have a Long COVID diagnosis or are dealing with long-term symptoms following a COVID-19 infection, we invite you to share up to six photos from your everyday life which will be showcased at the Museum of Vancouver in the Fall of 2025.QR code for submission. Logos from Simon Fraser University, OH-HI Science CoLab, Museum of Vancouver, Post-COVID-19 Interdisciplinary Clinical Care Network, and Michael Smith Health Research BC.French version of poster. See English alt-text (sorry)Punjabi version of poster. See English alt-text (sorry)Chinese (simplified) version of poster. See English alt-text (sorry)
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Annika Williams (she/her) @annikawilliams.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
AMS NYSSL chapter conference complete! What a great weekend!!
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Annika Williams (she/her) @annikawilliams.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Having such a great first day at the NYSSL AMS chapter meeting! So so many amazing papers and friends!
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
PLS REPOST: "The collection is a powerful rebuttal to the notion of the integral relationship of disability—medieval and otherwise—with sin, stigma, and shame. So doing, it recentres medieval disability history as a lived history that merits exploration and celebration." www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
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Disability and Sanctity in the Middle Ages
This volume significantly expands current understandings of both disability and sanctity in the Middle Ages. Across the collection, heterogeneous constructions, and experiences, of disability and holi...
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Annika Williams (she/her) @annikawilliams.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
it feels mandatory to use this to tell you that the cheer for the Victoire is "let's go Victoire" in a French accent, yes even if you're anglophone
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Annika Williams (she/her) @annikawilliams.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Another reason to not support starbucks
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Mr Nick @mrnick76.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Has anyone else heard back about their pope application? So nervous!
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Annika Williams (she/her) @annikawilliams.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I think profs probably love that gen z is in grad school now bc they get to have meetings where I say things like 'i fear I'm lost in the sauce' and then they get to ask me what my primary concern is when I say I'm lost in the sauce
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Annika Williams (she/her) @annikawilliams.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I think it's cute how the university puts fake plants in the grad student study rooms, it's reassuring, like don't worry these plants also have a fake will to live and just appear to be living!
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Annika Williams (she/her) @annikawilliams.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
If you find you write better with someone reading over your shoulder glaring, may I recommend, bitchy faced grey cat? She's SO helpful
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Annika Williams (she/her) @annikawilliams.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I've decided I'm gonna start calling figures and diagrams pictures instead. who will pay me $10 to tell a theorist I really loved all the pictures in their paper?
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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 09/04/2025
Scholarship on Price continues in the hands of scholar-pianist Samantha Ege, musicologist Doug Shadle, and many others, including Alex Ross whose New Yorker article put Price in the mainstream spotlight (There are so many more Friends of Florence out there, but I'm trying to keep this concise-ish)
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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 09/04/2025
Some, but not all of the people who labored to keep her from being lost to history include the late Rae Linda Brown who wrote her dissertation in 1987 and the definitive Price biography, Helen Walker-Hill who published Price's piano work in 1992, and Price's descendents
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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 09/04/2025
In their marketing and program copy, a lot of orgs and ensembles will talk about the new "discovery" of Florence Price which is a wee bit problematic because scholars, predominantly Black and women scholars, have been keeping her flame alive without recognition for decades
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Annika Williams (she/her) @annikawilliams.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
queer culture is getting a notification that K or M liked your story and you have to click the notification to see which K or M that is
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Annika Williams (she/her) @annikawilliams.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
hello today I read a whole book to avoid reading a chapter of another book
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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Looking at C19 composer Liza Lehmann today. Wonder why no-one mentions that her mother (Amelia Chambers), sister (Alma Goetz) & niece (Eva Pain) were all composers too? A direct descendent of the famous publisher, Robert Chambers, her cousins included writers Rosamond Lehmann & Menie Muriel Dowie.
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Annika Williams (she/her) @annikawilliams.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We gotta stop romanticizing grad school bc when I say I'm a student people picture dark academia when actually it's really dark that academia is the way it is
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/03/2025
COVID, flu, measles, and all airborne viruses can seriously harm anyone, not just people who are immunocompromised. EVERYONE has a medical reason to wear a mask at any time and in any place.
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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Savor the beauty of the moment. ko-fi.com/sophielabell...
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 18/03/2025
The miraculous wrinkle-erasing, acne-fighting cream, is the result of decades of horrifying medical abuse.
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The Horrifying History Behind a Beloved Skin-Care Ingredient
Retin-A was developed through tests on incarcerated people.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
can anyone who's good at weekdays tell me if tomorrow is friday
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Ditch Skipper ☘️ @narrowboatireland.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Some days you just wanna give up , let everything go and follow the light inside of a red cabbage
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/03/2025
People in the Tesla Cybertruck Owners group are writing to their congressman asking for 'attacks' on Tesla owners to be classified as hate crimes: www.facebook.com/groups/88288... archive.ph/wip/VXVxM
With all the hate going on against Tesla's now, I decided to write our Congressman. I highly encourage all of you do the same. Just in the news today, they burnt down an entire charging station in Boston, Massachusetts, and it seems that many of the Bay Area Tesla Service Centers are being infiltrated with protestors daily (vandalising brand new Tesla's, and harassing customers).  
Here is what I wrote:
Subject: Addressing Harassment and Violence Against Tesla Owners
Dear Congressman Garamendi,  
I am writing to seek your assistance in addressing the growing harassment, hostility, and violence directed toward Tesla owners across California and the United States. You may be aware of the increasing incidents involving vandalism, road rage, and targeted aggression toward individuals simply because they own and drive a Tesla. As both a concerned citizen and a 24-year retired military veteran, I find it deeply troubling that owning an American-made vehicle has made me—and many others—a target for unjustified hostility.  
I have personally experienced multiple alarming incidents. On one occasion, while driving on I-80, another driver deliberately attempted to run me off the road. In another unsettling encounter, while washing my car in my own driveway, a stranger drove up, hurled insults at me, and then left while running stops signs. Reviewing my HOA security footage, I confirmed that this individual had never been in my neighborhood before, making it clear that I was specifically targeted.  
Beyond my personal experiences, I am a member of several Tesla owner forums where widespread reports of similar attacks are being shared. Owners are facing physical threats, vandalism, and intimidation simply because of their vehicle choice. Reports in the media highlight incidents of Tesla charging stations being burned, Tesla service centers being vandalized, and Tesla vehicles being spray-painted or otherwise damaged. Unfortunately, law enforcement often has limited ability to h…
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Clean Air Club @cleanairclub.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Lots of people find replacing the Sip valve way too $$. Luckily there's a different supplier for the replaceable valve and it's WAY cheaper 😈 www.webstaurantstore.com/tablecraft-1...
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Tablecraft 1SV Clear Valve for InvertaTop Squeeze Bottles
Use this Tablecraft 1SV clear valve for InvertaTop squeeze bottles to replace the valve that came with your original squeeze bottle (sold separately). The valve top allows you to effortlessly drizzle ...
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
let me get this straight. Tesla owners think they're being "hate crimed?" While the owner of Tesla uses slurs on a daily basis on Twitter, boosts and encourages transphobes, racists, white supremacists and neo-Nazis and does the Nazi salute unrepentantly in public?
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
My 4 year old's favorite joke: "I just saw a wolf!" "Where?" "No, just the regular kind."
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alicia 🍳 NYCC AA I-24 @acorviart.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
stop using chatgpt. i can also use em dashes and lie to you
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
How quickly academic spaces--conferences, workshops, department meetings, other interactions--begin to grumble about hybrid modes gave me whiplash. "We prefer you be here in person" "We are trying to ensure in-person meetings" Telling us who you think is worth including/excluding.
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