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Ellis Light @ellislight.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

There are also some wonderful books reviewed here, including featured (free to access) reviews of books by @badinfinity2.bsky.social, Roseen Giles, Elizabeth S. Cohen and Marlee J. Couling, and some great translations.

Cover of Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature, by Colby Gordon, featuring art of a crucifixion scene in papercut art.

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Colby Gordon @badinfinity2.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

everyone drop what you're doing and read this now!!

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Liesl Jensen (she/her) @liesljensen.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

@badinfinity2.bsky.social's Glorious Bodies is simply my favourite thing I've read this year!

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Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Yesterday's keynote at #BritCult2025 #conference was really impactful, with @badinfinity2.bsky.social highlighting the queer & trans elements in #Medieval & #EarlyModern Christian iconography & texts, from Genesis to Jesus Christ & the Last Judgment #TransStudies #QueerStudies #Theology #ArtHistory

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Colby Gordon in front of his presentation showing 2 Bible illustrations with Eve emerging from Adam's body's side

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Apparently, Trump created “Transgender For Eveyone” in the past few weeks, which I think is what @badinfinity2.bsky.social has been lobbying for all along, so I guess we’re done here. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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The Guild of Queer Early Modernists @emqueerguild.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Our reading group returns this Thursday, with @badinfinity2.bsky.social brilliant Glorious Bodies. Join us!

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The Guild of Queer Early Modernists @emqueerguild.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

🥳 Announcing our reading group! Thurs, Sept. 11, 4-5:30 EST, Sex Lives, Joseph Gamble Thurs, Oct. 9, 4-5:30 EST, Glorious Bodies, Colby Gordon. @badinfinity2.bsky.social will join us! Thurs, Nov. 13, 4-5:30 EST, Kinky Renaissance, Gillian Knoll, Joseph Gamble Register here! tinyurl.com/mr3mjauz

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The second Thursday of each month, from 4-5:30pm EST. September 11th, Sex Lives, by Joseph Gamble October 9th, Glorious Bodies, by Colby Gordon November 13th, The Kinky Renaissance, edited by Gillian ...

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Colby Gordon @badinfinity2.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

got my top surgery at the government-run grocery store

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Daily(ish) #Pride #SmallPress #books: Glorious Bodies by @badinfinity2.bsky.social ‬(@uchicagopress.bsky.social) and A Magnificent Disturbance‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ by @2coasties.bsky.social (@boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social‬) #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚 #PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈📚

Book cover for A Magnificent Disturbance‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ (Book 3 of the Rainbow Gap Quartet) by Lee Lynch (Bold Strokes Books‬), with a muted sepia-tinted photo of a boardwalk leading to a white house with a wraparound porch, in front of a distant ocean horizon and palm tree. This is not a good time for Berry Garland to realize her dream of opening a women’s health center. Florida has become more conservative, and “women’s health” raises a red flag. Berry’s intent to serve victims of domestic violence, gay women, migrant workers—documented or not—makes reliance on government funding and the cooperation of local agencies precarious. When the owner of Pansy’s Café donates space, though, MJ Beaudry and her lover Vonnie Lowe’s brother volunteer to revamp the space into a health facility. Berry’s best friend, activist Allison Millar, is disgusted with the frenzied hurricane of right-wing extremism, homophobia, and violence. As mayor of Four Lakes, she helps navigate local bureaucracy. A community of lesbians, neighbors, and patients rises up to protect this critical resource from a shocking saboteur. Despite Berry and her partner Jaudon Vicker’s devastating life changes at home, these everyday dykes and their friends will stop at nothing to see the Center thrive. Their ideals, their wounds, and a steadfast allegiance to one another render them heroes. https://www.boldstrokesbooks.com/books/a-magnificent-disturbance-by-lee-lynch-4701-b

Book cover for Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature by Colby Gordon (University of Chicago Press‬), with an angel statue held up by other angel statues. Marking a major intervention in early modern gender studies, Glorious Bodies insists that transition happened, both socially and surgically, hundreds of years before the nineteenth-century advent of sexology. Pairing literary texts by Shakespeare, Webster, Donne, and Milton with a broad range of primary sources, Gordon examines the religious tropes available to early modern subjects for imagining how gender could change. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo222253331.html

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Colby Gordon @badinfinity2.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

the grads must do truly wild impressions of us

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Colby Gordon @badinfinity2.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

41 today, an unimaginable age. I’m glad he got the chance to grow up.

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Colby Gordon @badinfinity2.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

fwiw I think my chapter on Trans Mayhem in Samson Agonistes is the best thing I've ever written

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Colby Gordon @badinfinity2.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

today's a great day for a vaccine and a sex change

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Colby Gordon @badinfinity2.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

when things are bad, you know what to do (take testosterone)

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dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Wow, @badinfinity2.bsky.social’s suggestion (command?) to transition just became a lot cheaper and more accessible, if this is true!

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Galen Bunting is querying 👽📚 @galenbunting.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Pretty cool to win @badinfinity2.bsky.social ‘s Glorious Bodies in the raffle at PrEmo Trans Studies III!

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Colby Gordon @badinfinity2.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I believe that queer and trans people deserve everything, including religion (if they want it)!

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Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

One of my fave conferences ever. Thank you @badinfinity2.bsky.social and all.

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

So glad I decided to go hard and attend the first day of the Early Modern Trans Studies conference today *after* the RSA / SAA twofer! It was a joy to see so many terrific papers and hang w the (rapidly expanding) premodern trans studies crew - and to taste the @badinfinity2.bsky.social book cake 🎂

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austin svedjan @svedjan.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Next month at Penn: A symposium on Premodern Trans Studies featuring @transliterature.bsky.social, @ldevun.bsky.social, @badinfinity2.bsky.social, @hamlethologram.bsky.social, and Nat Rivkin ! Philly come thru!

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Colby Gordon @badinfinity2.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

That's right, (Pr)EmoTrans 3 is almost upon us! Join us and our mascot Doof Bat for a generous selection of Jesus vaginas, gay plants, trans Dominicans, sissies, circumcision reversals, and so, so many tranimals

Poster reading: Live & 3D! (Pr)emo Trans March 23-25 Boston University. In the center is our mascot, Doof Bat

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wannabe bluestocking @duckwithfourlegs.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

thank you so so so much to @badinfinity2.bsky.social for sending me a copy of his amazing book, and for helping motivate me to get my surgery letters done. i have like 2000 pages of secondary sourcing i need to read but idk if i can wait to read this :3 (just nobody tell my advisor)

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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 25/02/2025

They’re the same picture

News alert from the Philadelphia inquire saying that Philadelphia schools will continue to allow transgender athletes to participate in sports that match their gender identity

Gritty, the strange orange mascot of the Philadelphia Flyers, skates on the ice while holding a queer pride flag like a goddamn battle standard

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m. @lowbrowhighart.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

"Batter my heart, transgender’d god, for yours/is the only ear that hears" Thank you @badinfinity2.bsky.social for the lovely book & the kind note. It truly couldn't have come at a better time - the prior auth for my hysterectomy was just approved! I love trans community so dearly.

A flat lay of 3 items on a dark gray granite table. There is a book titled Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature by Colby Gordon. The book cover displays a classical painting of angelic figures surrounding a partially nude person. Beside the book, there is a white bottle of Testosterone Gel, 1.62%, with its label clearly visible, indicating dosage & safety warnings. A small card with rainbow on it is partially tucked under the bottle.

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Colby Gordon @badinfinity2.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

there's never a right time to transition, you just gotta do it

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Colby Gordon @badinfinity2.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

good morning, trans genders and sociologists! would you all like a little radical gender ideology this fine morning?

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Q @quinnhasadhd.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

@badinfinity2.bsky.social NEW BOOK NEW BOOD NEW BOOK!!!! I can't wait to start this one 😁

Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature by Colby Gordon

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perfect little soup boy @pigeonfan.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

super stoked abt this new read from @badinfinity2.bsky.social! it came just in time for my surgery 🙌

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Colby Gordon @badinfinity2.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

lol according to clearsky, three people blocked me when I posted this

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Colby Gordon @badinfinity2.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

start hrt. get a couple extra tattoos. go to grad school, why the fuck not

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susan rojas @susanrojas.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I'm only about halfway through the introduction to @badinfinity2.bsky.social 's excellent book, but it's 🔥🔥. Important work in both literary criticism and history.

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Colby Gordon @badinfinity2.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Two weeks ago, I announced a drawing for a copy of my book, and anyone who made an appointment to start hormones or get a trans surg could enter. Then I decided to send a copy to everyone who entered :)

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Colby Gordon @badinfinity2.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

man you just gotta transition even harder now. out of spite

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tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

hey uh has anyone figured out what to,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, do

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joseph p. derosier @derosierjoseph.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

students listened to @tuck.bsky.social interviewing @badinfinity2.bsky.social for class today and they were very excited about trans mayhem bit.ly/3E8qwUz

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Colby Gordon @badinfinity2.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

hey boys, maybe today's a good day to get your hysterectomy on the books

me the day after my hysto, with my belly half shaved and a bandage over my abdomen

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alice f.z. @faith2fleurs.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

This is gonna me at PreMoTrans if you’re wondering @micahgoodrich.bsky.social @badinfinity2.bsky.social

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