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Arielle Mc

@arielleemcee.bsky.social
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Medievalist from ATX | Fairies & Forms & Chaos & Resistance | Out here keepin' it fictional | she/her | BLM | All view’s are my cat’s

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The So What @thesowhat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New issue, who dis?! Issue 6 is up and ready for your eyeballs! #medievalsky #skystorians #arthuriansky #pubhums Let the piece previews commence! /1
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Curious Cat Peeking Through Blinds
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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
it's great to see a cat pitcher throwing out a ceremonial first pitch. i have to imagine he's got a solid fastball if they're letting him out there, but he's going to get clobbered if he doesn't develop a quality breaking ball. i hope this is something they're helping him with.
A fluffy light-colored rescue kitten walks across the green turf of a baseball field. A TV news caption reads, “Rescue cat’s purr-fect first pitch,” with the Gwinnett Stripers credited in the upper left.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
I just called her DC office to let her know what I think of her position on trans rights and protecting trans children (202) 225-4146
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The So What @thesowhat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
TSW welcomes proposals for short, public-facing pieces on animals real & imaginary in medieval marginalia. Argumentative, creative, & pedagogical pieces on marginalia from any manuscript, place, & language is welcome! #medievalsky #marginalia #skystorians www.arthuriana.com/tsw-calls-page
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Arielle Mc @arielleemcee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I know there’s a deluge, but if you’re looking for a ICMS/Kzoo ‘27 panel to submit to, we’d love to hear about your playfullest pedagogies! #CFP / panel description attached #medievalsky #icms2027 #pedagogy
“Playful Pedagogies" (co-sponsored with the Game Cultures Society)
Organizers: Clint Morrison, Thomas Sawyer, and Arielle McKee
Games offer a unique opportunity for cultural analysis of historical and topical content in popular media. The ludic experience relies upon local interaction between human agents. Yet educators frequently comment that the use of games in classrooms poses significant risks, in terms of time spent and objectives achieved. We invite papers that share approaches that have worked – and not worked – in view of future lesson designs for High School and University instruction.Pragmatic conversation sometimes takes a backseat to idealistic exploration. Educators increasingly recognize the pedagogical value of games and play in the classroom, designing effective lesson plans around games requires significant time and attention; however, few resources exist for modifying and comparing successful strategies. This panel seeks to bridge the pragmatic pedagogical use of games with cultural game theory. Where in the lesson planning stage do you implement and execute the ludic? What materials support your approach? How do you evaluate the success of the activity?
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Arielle Mc @arielleemcee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It’s giving petrify the patriarchy 🐍🪨
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Arielle Mc @arielleemcee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hey #medievalsky! Abstracts for #icms2027 are due 9/15 & we’d love to include you in a session honoring Gale Sigal! We’re seeking papers addressing an aspect of Gale’s research in female voice & #lyricpoetry, including multilingual lyric, troubadour & trobairitz poetry, #pastourelle tradition, &c!
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John Oliver's Pure Poetry Reaction
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 11/09/2026
Surely the options should be "Positive," "Yfel" and "Ic ne cunne"
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I've decided to compile a definitive thread of photos of the best sheep I've photographed during my walks in the countryside, together with supporting biographical information. I will put the vital story associated with each sheep in the alt text, since some of it is a little long to fit in a post.
A nihilistic sheep, who, like so many other sheep, just wants to watch the world burn, staring at me insouciantly, moments after it has set fire to a large portion of the United Kingdom.
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The So What @thesowhat.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The brand new, social media-focused issue of TSW just dropped! /1 #medievalsky #arthuriansky
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The So What @thesowhat.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The So What welcomes your articles! Email thesowhatpub@gmail.com with your submissions exploring the ‘so whats’ of medieval studies and medievalisms, as well as short, pedagogical and/or creative pieces.
A white rabbit is surrounded by human remains and text that reads, "Feeling Cute, Might Maul a Knight Later." The image is from a scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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Arielle Mc @arielleemcee.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
When I die, please ice the shape of whatever killed me on a cookie cake and serve it at the funeral. Kay? Thx.
Cookie cake with a large white cross iced on it. The cross is surrounded by a round, white icing border, dusted with colorful sprinkles, and “Happy Easter” is iced in pale yellow cursive over the cross’ top.
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Arielle Mc @arielleemcee.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Maybe of interest to @guildmedmak.bsky.social!
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Arielle Mc @arielleemcee.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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Arielle Mc @arielleemcee.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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kermit the frog from the muppet show is standing in front of a red curtain .
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Arielle Mc @arielleemcee.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
👀 at you @dancingmedievalist.bsky.social (but like with no pressure)
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The So What @thesowhat.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Another exciting #CFP! “Playing Camelots,” is a special issue interested in pieces that examine #Arthuriana in various game genres thru the lens of play, illuminating how Camelot continues to evolve—not only as text & myth, but as system, strategy, & shared experience! #arthuriansky #medievalsky
Screen from computer in War Games; Matthew Broderick’s face is reflected over the text: “shall we play a game?”
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Tomorrow marks the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. It also marks the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court first upholding the Voting Rights Act. We have gotten so, so far away from a Court that cares about democracy. New from me at @brennancenter.org:
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The Bygone Era of Supreme Court Support for Voting Rights
Sixty years after upholding the Voting Rights Act, the Court has dismantled most of it.
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
People are wisely bringing up how this will be used to disrupt mail-in ballots, but it's also part of the continuing Repub effort to make USPS unreliable, so they can dismantle it in favor of forcing everyone to use private services (ex: you can bet someone from UPS or FedEx would be fired for this)
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The So What @thesowhat.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Check out the newest Issue of TSW! #medievalsky #arthuriansky #academicsky #publichumanities The preview 🧵 starts NOW👇/1
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The So What @thesowhat.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Just dropped! A #CFP for a Sports Medievalism Special Iss of TSW, guest ed. by @mairistirlinghill.bsky.social! We’re seeking proposals for pieces that engage w/ the relationship between sporting culture & medieval aesthetic! Full CFP attached Deadline: 3/31 #medievalsky #academicsky #sports
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Call for Proposals:  Sports Medievalism - TSW Special Issue *** Submission Deadline for Proposals: March 31, 2026*** In athletics, athletes are often described as ‘throwing down the gauntlet’ when t...
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Arielle Mc @arielleemcee.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Free academic publishing workshop coming up! #academicsky #medievalsky
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Stone Butch Blue Velvet @jennyllello.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
the ancient world just intuitively understood that hot beverages taste better when poured out of a little dude. we had the technology before, and we can again.
little pig teapots in china
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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Just over two weeks left to submit your abstracts! Had quite a few already. Please share with your networks. Welcoming colleagues across time periods and disciplines!
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
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celj.bsky.social @celj.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Congrats to the winners of this year’s CELJ Awards! 🏆 Best Special Issue: James Baldwin Review 🏆 Best New Journal: Regeneration 🏆 Best Public Outreach: The So What, Arthuriana 🏆 Phoenix Award: Labor 🏆 Best Digital Feature: Modernism/modernity 🏆 Distinguished Editor: Charles H. Rowell, Callaloo
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Winners — Council of Editors of Learned Journals
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Arielle Mc @arielleemcee.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Many thanks to @celj.bsky.social! Keep sending us your stuff #medievalsky!!
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The So What @thesowhat.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
We’re thrilled to announce that issue 3 is up & features a special cluster on Netflix’s The Decameron!m! The full issue is available here: www.arthuriana.com/tsw-issues! #pubhums #medievalsky #arthuriansky And now, a quick teaser 🧵 of the pieces in this issue… /1
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The So What @thesowhat.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
One more while we’re at it! We’re interested in offering TSW authors the chance to commission images to companion their pieces (if they wish). If you are an artist whose work aligns with our values & you'd be interested in being listed, send us an email (thesowhatpub [at]gmail [dot]com) #medievalsky
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Arielle Mc @arielleemcee.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
YUP
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The So What @thesowhat.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Call for #medievalsky & related other ski’s!! Guest editors for issues & clusters—we summon you!!! We’re currently looking for individuals or teams interested in #bardcore, craft medievalism & medieval crafts, changing climates, early globalities, & more! #cfp Full guest ed call linked 👇
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Call for Guest Editors: The So What Special Issues The So What welcomes proposals for individual or teams interested in guest editing a special issue on one of the following topics: Bardcore Medieva...
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Critical thinkinge ys vitallye ymportant and manye academic fieldes rightfullye clayme that thei teache it. Englisshe majors learne critical thinkinge too, but thei also learne creative thinkinge and compassionate thinkinge.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.
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Arielle Mc @arielleemcee.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
The number of people buying used DVDs in this store, especially of Disney movies, is oddly heartening?
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Arielle Mc @arielleemcee.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
There are few looks of disdain as withering as that of a teen happening upon a Millennial emotively lip syncing to “Backstreet’s Back” in the aisle of a grocery store. I kept dancing tho. Can’t stop won’t stop…as the kids no longer say 😂
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M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
News sucks Have a cat 💙🐈‍⬛ #CatBreak
A little tuxedo kitten, looking quite fancy.
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Are You For Cereal?! @areyou4cereal.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Friends. It’s international dog day, and we need to talk about one of the greatest unrecognized threats to dogs … U.S. Republican Leadership — video: www.instagram.com/reel/DN0_9v4... #republicans #gop #internationaldogsday #nationaldogday #trump #kristinoem
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The So What @thesowhat.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
6/ last but very certainly not least, Sarah Barringer offers detailed lesson plans and pedagogical guidance for having students investigate and critique the appeal #Beowulf to the Far Right. www.arthuriana.com/tsw/beowulf-...
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Beowulf and the Far Right (Pedagogical) — Arthuriana
Why do we still read medieval stories? This is the question I ask my students before my lesson on Beowulf and far-right groups. One reason, they decided, was that many medieval lessons and ideas r...
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The So What @thesowhat.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
5/ check out a creative piece in context! Amanda Brighton Payne shares her poem, “The Window Bog,” and it’s origins in: “A New Poem in Context: A Medieval Bog Woman in Northern Europe.” www.arthuriana.com/tsw/a-new-po...
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A New Poem in Context: A Medieval Bog Woman in Northern Europe — Arthuriana
It’s not easy being a historian of the early Middle Ages. Historians most commonly use primary sources to reach into the experience of people whose world was far different from our own. But the very l...
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The So What @thesowhat.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
4/ then read Seeta Chaganti’s “IRRECOVERY,” a powerfully written exploration of scholarly methods, medieval outlawry, and contemporary resistance; a moving call to “leave the agents of certain collective actions undetectable.” www.arthuriana.com/tsw/irrecovery
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IRRECOVERY — Arthuriana
Archival and critical projects referred to as ‘recovery’ allow scholars to make heard the voices of those historically inaudible and marginalized. When discourses of representation, centers and margin...
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The So What @thesowhat.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
3/ next we have Maggie Hawkins’ fascinating essay on “Black Neomedievalisms in Late and Post-Covid Music Videos”! And yes, those do include videos by Lil Nas X and hemlocke springs, thank you for asking! www.arthuriana.com/tsw/black-ne... More on the author: liberalarts.utexas.edu/english/grad...
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Black Neomedievalisms in Late and Post-Covid Music Videos — Arthuriana
The world of man was ending, rapidly, or so it seemed to me as I sat in my lonely New Jersey apartment in late Spring of 2020. Looking out at the skyline of the city I loved, I watched my friends flee...
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The So What @thesowhat.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
2/ First up, “Queer Medieval Outing with @nicolaz.bsky.social: A Public Humanities Event,” in which María Bullón-Fernández & Sarah Faulkner discuss an amazing #pubhums event on the Queer Medieval sponsored by Humanities Washington
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Queer Medieval Outing with Nicola Griffith: A Public Humanities Event — Arthuriana
How do we recover the voices of those throughout history who have not been in positions of power and who, therefore, have been either left out of records or only represented in partial or stigmatizing...
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The So What @thesowhat.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Hi #medievalsky! We’re excited to announce that Issue 2 of The So What is available on our site: www.arthuriana.com/tsw-issues! #pubhums #arthuriansky And now, a quick teaser 🧵 of the pieces in this issue… /1
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TSW Issues and Collections — Arthuriana
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
and--idk quite how to articulate this--but the work of it is... critical to art-making. like you discover your intentions through the labor of expressing them. if I'd woken up at 17 with the technical ability to write a novel, i wouldn't have known what i was trying to say. the work IS the product.
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Arielle Mc @arielleemcee.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Not comparatively important, but billboards featuring Michael B. Jordan staring out at the driver with FULL MODEL SMOLDER are a driving hazard. That’s all
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Arielle Mc @arielleemcee.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I have never laughed so hard at something I also felt so raw and deep in my soul 😂😰😂
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Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
What's the best article or essay (not book!) you've read recently about women/gender in late medieval and/or early modern Europe? #earlymodern #medievalsky 🗃
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Arielle Mc @arielleemcee.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Hey #medievalsky, #skystorians, #arthuriansky et al! The So What has its own Bsky acct now; give us a follow to learn about new issues and CFPs as they drop (that’s the appropriate verb for this sort of thing, yes?)!
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cats being weird little guys @weirdlilguys.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
there’s an election for Cat Mayor currently happening in Somerville, Mass. and every cat deserves to win
signs of cats who are running for cat mayor of somerville, massachusetts a sign for a cat running for cat mayor named hermes squirmiesa pink sign for a cat running for cat mayor named beatrix. her slogan is “no kings, only princesses”a sign for a cat running for cat mayor named Luna. her slogan is “pro zoomies, chaos, and attention”
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Arielle Mc @arielleemcee.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
There should be an academic missed connections page where you can post the answers you wish you’d given to questions on your conference papers as well as the questions you’ve belatedly thought of for others
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