Reposted by Imogen CookCN Lester 🏳️⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 12h'those with the most severe and debilitating disabilities would not lose any money.' - I don't know a single severely disabled person - all of whom have reams of medical evidence of impairment and illness - who hasn't had their conditions deliberately downplayed by benefit assessors 02912
Reposted by Imogen CookFrances: Meh and Loving It @francesmeh.reviews · 30/09/2026one thing i understand more and more as i get older is that i do not have to post every half-baked inane thought that blows through my weary, addled brain. i do it by choice. i can stop anytime i want. 1556793
Reposted by Imogen CookKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you. 768286125970
Reposted by Imogen CookErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 27/09/2026The worst part about twitter is there are a number of people who think they have to be active there who are left-leaning but have had their brains absolutely cooked by the site. You can't inundate yourself in exposure to that stuff without it having an impact on you. 691816258
Reposted by Imogen Cookperversemag @perversemag.bsky.social · 27/09/2026PERVERSE is back with issue 10 on Monday - an email of five strange and unusual poems every week, and each poem posted here too. Sign up free at perverse.substack.com 065
Imogen Cook @birosmudged.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Not reading up on the lesbian mask mandate bar drama because I only have one life on God's green earth 000
Reposted by Imogen CookMorgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Queer drama is really fun to text about and politically sinister when it breaches containment and conservatives find out about it. Those are *our* unreasonable assholes, back off!! 346382
Imogen Cook @birosmudged.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I finished my jury service (eight days on one trial, not unreasonable at all, felt lucky) here’s everything I read whilst waiting around 110
Reposted by Imogen CookPacked with Potential @packedwith.bsky.social · 22/09/2026On this day in 1840, Anne Lister died at Koutais, in Georgia, aged 49. For today's anniversary we've made her a Victorian mourning card with the maxim she loved best, borrowed from Edward Young's Night-Thoughts: "For human weal, Heaven husbands all events." 054
Reposted by Imogen CookPacked with Potential @packedwith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Miss Threlfall swindled Anne Lister's friend Miss Pickford out of thousands to fund her West Indies plantations, and violated the 1807 abolition act to do it. Join Anna Clark on what this case reveals about slavery in Lister's world. www.eventbrite.com/e/anne-liste...eventbrite.comAnne Lister Research Summit 2026An online conference for Anne Lister enthusiasts. 053
Reposted by Imogen CookMatthew Roberts @matqbritholiday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026www.fabula.org/actualites/1... NEXT WEEK! So excited to present about Gulliver and the Victorian Pantomine!fabula.orgGulliver’s Travels at 300. The Global Afterlives of a Bestseller in Print, Transmedial Adaptations, and Material Cultures (Seventh ILLUSTR4TIO International Symposium, London)Plenary Lecture: Professor Daniel Cook (University of Dundee) Artist’s Talk: Martin Rowson (in conversation with Brigitte Friant-Kessler) Venue: St. Bride Library (London, U.K.) Dates: 23–25 September... 094
Imogen Cook @birosmudged.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Sorry to link to a s*bstack post but man Devon Price (almost) never misses, I was going to begrudgingly write something on this at some point and now I don’t have to any time soon because this is more or less exactly what I’ve been thinking and feeling RE the discourses of recent monthsdrdevonprice.substack.comOf course some people make up disabilities. But how many? And does it matter?Responding to critics of neurodiversity. 000
Imogen Cook @birosmudged.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Really wish headlines would stop framing this as “disabled people are against assisted dying” when the vast majority of disabled people I know with concerns were only against the timing & implementation of this assisted dying bill, not assisted dying in & of itself. That wording does actually matter 150
Imogen Cook @birosmudged.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It’s been two years today since I secured CHASE AHRC funding to begin my PhD and about two years since I made this meme about how the two years/cycles I‘d spent applying and reapplying all over the place had felt lol. Having lots of thoughts and feeling reflective about what those years were like 110
Imogen Cook @birosmudged.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Update: a vote for 'Recipes' has hit the survey. Overjoyed 000
Reposted by Imogen CookIlikecaketoo (UK) @ilikecaketoo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Disgraceful that the RNLI have to say this today, but here we are 😞. If you would like to donate👇🏻. rnli.org/support-us/g... #RNLI #RNLISavesLives 621934871
Imogen Cook @birosmudged.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Disappointed that nobody has yet responded to this survey to tell me they write 'Recipes' so if anyone does and wants to let me know go for it 000
Reposted by Imogen CookDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026If "legitimate concerns" were considered to excuse illegitimate methods, then nobody from Just Stop Oil or Palestine Action would have been arrested. So we know it doesn't. In fact that phrase is only ever used in one context. Only in that context is uniformed mob intimidation "peaceful protest" 211107401
Reposted by Imogen CookMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026However much you hate British media, it is not enough www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09... 13758091210
Imogen Cook @birosmudged.bsky.social · 05/09/2026New Sense and Sensibility adaptation looks very nicely cast imo but I‘m struggling to look past the hair situation because I’m one of those people sorry. I’ll still go see it though obviously 100
Reposted by Imogen CookCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026"would mean, for example, that Jewell would not be able to breastfeed in the future" this person is TWENTY NINE YEARS OLD and the BBC is scaremongering about their choice not to breastfeed a baby that they do not have and have given no indication of ever wanting to have 19752174
Reposted by Imogen CookLouie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I love that this is how I found out Starmer stepped down as an MP 362577485
Imogen Cook @birosmudged.bsky.social · 30/08/2026It’s her sweet sixteen today, everyone say happy birthday Mimi 130
Imogen Cook @birosmudged.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I always feel a bit attacked when I think of this Mansfield Park quote because yeah, I do indeed call it The Island, as if there were no other island in the world (in my defence I lived there for years and my mum & cat still live there, so I assume people always gather which one I’m referring to) 120
Reposted by Imogen CookWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 28/08/2026#OtD 28 Aug 1830 in Kent, UK a threshing machine was destroyed by angry labourers, starting the Swing rebellion. Workers sent demands to bosses signed by "Captain Swing", and if the bosses did not cave in, mobs would smash the machines stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9980... 17036
Reposted by Imogen CookRicardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 26/08/2026The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan 181204623054
Reposted by Imogen CookAlex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.comimaginationlibrary.comDolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AUDolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas. 45121535979
Reposted by Imogen CookDeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Happy to share this statement from the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, which responds to recent comments about my position as Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth Century Studies and work I supervise. Solidarity with all marginalised academics under attack by the peddlers of a culture war. 820761
Reposted by Imogen CookSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Professor Jason Arday's former students want to "gather everything good about Jason Arday, in the words of the people who were there" to make their contribution to the public record about him (rather than to debate events + controversies of recent months) leilacancode.github.io/everythinggo...leilacancode.github.ioEverything Good About Jason ArdayFirst-hand accounts from people who knew him. Collected by his students. 413039
Reposted by Imogen CookCN Lester 🏳️⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I genuinely don't know how Britain can move forward as a society with our toxic press culture dragging us down at every step, poisoning everything. 7552163
Imogen Cook @birosmudged.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Very belated post because I’m bad at posting but it was wonderful to attend the anthology and exhibition launch for Sucking Face from t’art press last week, and an even greater honour to get to read an excerpt from my short story (to a much bigger and more enthusiastic crowd than I’d expected lol) 110
Reposted by Imogen CookZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Andy Burnham says the bigger questions of oil and gas will come "at the right moment in time." On the eve of another heatwave when thousands of people have died already, when is a better time to rule out drilling for new oil and gas? 761414392
Imogen Cook @birosmudged.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Genuinely so so so sick of booking the quiet coach on a train service only for almost everyone on the coach to ignore it. Sat on a table with three friends who noticed they were in the quiet coach, went “oh no! We’re in the quiet coach!” and then proceeded to continue to talk (loudly and poshly) 020
Imogen Cook @birosmudged.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Genuinely fascinates me that so many trans exclusionary ‘feminists’ just loop round to doing what is an extremely archaic well documented form of misogyny, like if you swapped Gen Z for something else I’d fully believe you if you told me that subheading was written by some medical writer in 1812 062
Reposted by Imogen CookBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions 50105822738
Reposted by Imogen CookFrozen Sea @frozenseapoetry.bsky.social · 01/08/2026A big thank you to our lovely Issue Twelve contributors! We're the luckiest 🩵 🪓 ㅤ Next up, Issue Thirteen. Line-up dropping tomorrow! 🌲👀 042
Reposted by Imogen CookJay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Racists describing refugees to Britain as "Boat people" like our nation's most famous hobby wasn't using the boats of the British Navy to take over other countries. Like... British people are, very famously, boat people. We were boat people all over the world. It was our whole thing. 1343475
Reposted by Imogen CookAnupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Incredible statement from the Church in Wales on the ignominious Code of Practice: "The Church in Wales will not use equality law exemptions to exclude trans people from our worship, our sacraments, our pastoral care, or our common life." www.churchinwales.org.uk/en/news-and-...churchinwales.org.ukStatement of the Bench of Bishops of the Church in Wales on the publication of the EHRC Draft Code of Practice - Church in Wales 191742514
Reposted by Imogen Cook👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 16/07/2026the cognitive dissonance required to threaten to sue *Amnesty International* out of existence and still think of yourself as a good person is incredible 102021387
Reposted by Imogen CookCHASE Creative Writers Network @chase-cw-net.bsky.social · 06/07/2026More updates to come around the new academic year, but if you would like to be added to our mailing list in the meantime, just drop us a line chase.creative.network@gmail.com :) 101
Reposted by Imogen CookDisability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 02/06/2026🚨DR UK's Statement on the EHRC's New Code of Practice "We are appalled at implications that an adequate workaround is trans people using Disabled toilets instead. We will not be used as a loophole in the wider erosion of trans rights." Full statement👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil... 01196603
Reposted by Imogen CookBad Gays @badgayspod.bsky.social · 30/05/2026wise words from a friend of the show novaramedia.com/2026/05/29/t...novaramedia.comTrans Segregation Is Becoming Law. What Can We Do About It? | Juliet Jacques‘Single-sex spaces’ must now exclude trans men and women, according to new guidance from the EHRC. We aren’t taking seriously just how dangerous this will be, write Juliet Jacques. 062
Reposted by Imogen CookChris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Hey Bluesky folks. If you’re in education or just follow for my thirst traps, would you please sign this if you can, and share far and wide? c.org/dCKk9vjqxY It’s much appreciated. My university is cancelling all UG humanities degrees. We need support and love right now xc.orgSign the PetitionSave the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire 68377
Reposted by Imogen CookChristian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social · 06/05/2026At the end of all these cuts, will Linguistics actually be taught outside of a few 'elite' Universities? (and even at those institutions, the field will be much smaller than it once was) If you aren't seeing this as a Widening Participation issue, then you really don't get what's going on. 03818
Reposted by Imogen CookPatrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 06/05/2026DAWKINS: You idiots believe in God? ALSO DAWKINS: The Computer is alive. And it’s also my girlfriend 13678811683
Imogen Cook @birosmudged.bsky.social · 17/04/2026happy to see one of my poems in the new issue of Frozen Sea, thanks for having me @frozenseapoetry.bsky.social :)frozensea.orgImogen Cook — Frozen Sea 010
Reposted by Imogen CookFrozen Sea @frozenseapoetry.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Issue Twelve out now! Check out our link in bio to read some next level work from our contributors 👾🩵🪓 @chrisblackman.bsky.social @birosmudged.bsky.social @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social @ella-b-winters.bsky.social @thejayestofzees.bsky.social 054
Reposted by Imogen CookJuni Kvarving @juni-kvarving.bsky.social · 23/03/2026After finishing my PhD in English, I finally have time to take on editing work again. So I'm very excited to announce that I've just launched my own freelance business! junikvarving.com I primarily offer: 📚 Developmental Editing ✍ Line Editing 💼 Academic Editing 🎓 Tutoring for Academic Writingjunikvarving.comHome - Juni KvarvingDr Juni Kvarving Editor-Researcher-Tutor Selected Testimonials "Good editing takes skill, insight, and hard work; great editing requires something extra. Juni 121