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Ash Paley @ashpaley.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Call for Papers: Leeds IMC 2026 Neurodivergent and Neuroqueer Temporalities Deadline: Monday 15th September 9am #CFP #IMC2026 #Medievalsky #Neurodiversity #Neuroqueer

Call for papaers poster. Medieval image of Hildegard of Bingen as header. Neurodivergent infinity loop behind text.

Text reads: Call for Papers: International Medieval Congress 2026
Neurodivergent and Neuroqueer Temporalities

Over the past decade, critical neurodiversity studies and neuroqueer theory have come to prominence. These new paradigms seek to explore differences in mind through an understanding that there are naturally diverse ways of being rather than through pathologisation. While the paradigms are beginning to be used in other academic disciplines, they are yet to be implemented in a significant way in medieval studies. This panel seeks to change this by encouraging medievalists to see the potentials in neuroqueer and neurodivergent scholarship and prompting discussion in these areas.
This panel is requesting proposals for papers which examine aspects of medieval temporalities through a neurodivergent or neuroqueer lens. This includes, but is not limited to:
• Application of contemporary neuroqueer or neurodivergent theory to medieval temporal concerns.
• Examination of non-normative experiences of time, e.g. in mystical ecstasy.
• Exploration of neuroqueer attitudes to normative lifecycles.
• Examination of the effects of time and age on the mind in medieval texts.
• Neurodivergent readings of medieval material relating to temporalities.

Paper proposals should be under 200 words and accompanied by a short bio. Proposals should be sent to A.T.Paley1@leeds.ac.uk for the attention of Ash Paley and Daniel Coultas by 9am on Monday 15th September 2025.

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Susan Klaiber @susanklaiber.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Not only does this sound interesting, but full points for a very appealing social media rollout of the #CFP. #CAA2026 #earlymodern #architecture

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

With the 30% off back-to-school sale, its a good time to order Transformative Objects and the Aesthetics of Play: Louise Bourgeois’s Sculpture 👉🏻👉🏽👉🏾✍🏻🕷️💙🩵https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/academic/art-visual-culture/theory-of-art/

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ACADEMIC: Art & Visual Culture: Theory of Art: Books: Bloomsbury Publishing (US) - Bloomsbury

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Is it okay to say that lovely family lobotomized the wrong kid?

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

As an independent scholar of art history, I’m excited to share my new website: www.drlynnsomers.com

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Just two weeks to go till @forarthistory.org.uk #AnnualConference2025 at the University of York, UK. If you are attending and work on sculpture, please do join us!

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Less than 4 weeks till @forarthistory.org.uk Annual Conference @uniofyork Join me and scholars Victoria MacBeath, Laura Lake Smith, Ivan Knapp, Tess McCoy, Susan Richmond, and Tobias Teutenberg for the panel "The Work of Sculpture: Object encounters within art history and everyday life"

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Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · 12/03/2025

Less than a month until our Annual Conference ✨ We’re counting down the days to our three day event at University of York, bringing together international research and critical debate about art history and visual culture. ⬇️

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Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · 03/03/2025

📣 DEADLINE: 28th March 2025 📣 We are looking to appoint new members to our Board of Trustees, who will join other board members, staff and stakeholders to fulfil our mission to advance the study and practice of art history. Full details on our website: forarthistory.org.uk/latest_news/...

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Rae is an A.I. Killjoy @raewalker.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

At what point is the rest of the country going to catch on to the fact that the executive branch *repeatedly* & *openly* defying Federal judges’ orders, without consequence, means the Constitution is no longer in effect?

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Prof. Francesca Berry (she/her) @francescaberry.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Flash sale @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social ! My book, Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity - very recently published - is 30% off hardback and 40% off ebook. The 84 ebook illus are all colour but then the hardback is lovely to hold. Either way, a bargain! Just sayin.😊 1/2

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Available for pre-order, this tome includes my chapter essay "Affect, Attachment, and Loss: The Material Objects of Art History and Psychoanalysis." Congrats to the tenacious editors Tijen Tunali and @brianwink.bsky.social www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

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The Routledge Companion to Marxisms in Art History

This companion is an essential contribution to the study of historical materialism in general and the social history of art in particular. Each chapter in the collection focuses on a key figure, conce...

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

There are just THREE DAYS until @carolinehagood.bsky.social's dual book launch with @lisamariebasile.bsky.social over at Stanza Books 7pm EST! Don't forget to RSVP and preorder copies of DEATH AND OTHER SPECULATIVE FICTIONS, and SAINT OF, right here!

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Caroline Hagood + Lisa Marie Basile — Stanza Books

Friendly reminder: No outside books allowed at Stanza events.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Medical toxicologist here to confirm: all available, real-world data has proven mifepristone is actually even safer than many over the counter medicines. Mortality rates: Mifepristone: 0.65/100,000 Penicillin 2/100K Viagra 4/100K Pregnancy in the US: 22/100,000 (some states see rates >60/100K)

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Lovely package arrived today: my first monograph Transformative Objects and the Aesthetics of Play: Louise Bourgeois’s Sculpture, 1947–2000 @bloomsbury #louisebourgeois #modernsculpture #contemporarysculpture #psychoanalysis #objectrelations #objectrelationtheory #donaldwinnicott #melanieklein #play

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

As a follow-up to my earlier David Wojnarowicz post, here's something to keep in mind in coming years: a statement from Wojnarowicz—relayed by artist Zoe Leonard—about the importance of embracing beauty in difficult times (via @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social's "Orwell's Roses" bsky.app/profile/rebe...)

The tension exists even in nonnarrative art. The artist Zoe Leonard was bashful about making beautiful images during the AIDS crisis and said so to fellow artist and activist David Wojnarowicz, who replied, "Zoe, these are so beautiful, and that's what we're fighting for. We're being angry and complaining because we have to, but where we want to go is back to beauty. If you let go of that, we don't have anywhere to go." So beauty can be both what one does not wish to change and where one wishes to go, the compass or rather north star for change. Leonard reflects on their interchange: "You know, we were all just too busy for beauty. We were too angry for beauty. We were too heartbroken for beauty. I felt like an asshole with these picture of clouds, but David was right. You go through all of the fighting not because you want to fight, but because you want to get somewhere as a people. You want to help create a world where you can sit around and think about clouds. That should be our right as human beings." You could argue that if we go too long without sitting around and thinking about clouds we might forget how to do so or why, that we could so shrivel en route we'd be unable to reach that destination.

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Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

“…the usual renovator worries kept us up at night: tuberculosis, unionization, Jacob Riis… but our dreams kept us going.”

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 13/01/2025

I’m sorry but the fact that Congress is about to throw immigrants under the bus at the very same time that countless immigrants in California are risking their lives to protect neighborhoods many of them could never aspire live in is breaking my brain in a whole new way.

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Wow--a wonderful start on #indiebookshops where you can pre-order Transformative Objects and the Aesthetics of Play: www.mcnallyjackson.com/book/9781350... www.wordsbookstore.com/item/nFcFUEs... bookshop.org/p/books/tran... www.watchungbooksellers.com/item/nFcFUEs...

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

If you'd like to see people lose their minds, mention that the person they're complaining about being annoying has autism and struggles socially. Ableism isn't just about taking up the special parking lot spots. Neurodivergent people experience ableism constantly.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Footage of the California fire is horrifying, especially of the elderly and disabled being wheeled out. Really awful and praying for those affected.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Jimmy Carter, a visionary on ending fossil fuels, put solar panels on the White House. Big Oil-backed Ronald Reagan ousted Carter in 1980 and ripped them out Tonight, as Carter lies in in state in the Capitol, a climate-fueled wildfire is destroying Reagan's former hometown of Pacific Palisades

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Being chronically ill means existing in a body that doesn’t function, living a life others can’t understand, suffering nearly 24/7 while being constantly told you’re not good enough. No matter what you do, it’ll never be enough because disabled people are seen as less than. 🧵

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AnnieR @anet2111.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Exactly this

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 01/01/2025

"The document won’t open? I’m not sure how I could make this any easier. Okay, I reset the document permissions, but you’ll need to sign into the email document_view@busycompany.org via the password I texted you via iMessage." #McSweeneysTop24of24

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My Comments Are in the Google Doc Linked in the Dropbox I Sent in the Slack

Our 5th most-read article of 2024. - - -Thanks for sending this along. I left my comments in the Google Doc. You don’t see my comments? You’re loo...

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Visited these stunning ceramic vessels and forms from "Wonder Working Power" by #theastergates at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The one with the spiky "collar" calls to mind Agnes Martin's Burning Tree (1961) sculpture. vmfa.museum/exhibitions/...

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The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

It is Dec 22 and I have been remiss in not yet posting any bizarre Victorian Christmas cards, so… Here’s a reminder to make sure you remember to give the gift of a severed head with embedded cleaver this Yuletide.

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

forarthistory.org.uk/the-work-of-... Thrilled to share the terrific line-up of scholars working on sculpture for the #associationforarthistory #Conference2025 at the University of York @forarthistory.bsky.social April 2025

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This country wants poor people to die. They want them to suffer from treatable conditions. They are gleeful about it. And that’s why no one cares about an insurance CEO. This is their bed and they get to lie on it.

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/6744a... Thrilled to share a preview of my book (and pre-order!), Transformative Objects and the Aesthetics of Play: Louise Bourgeois's Sculpture, 1947–2000, forthcoming with Bloomsbury. I will happily share discount codes as I receive them.

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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Once you realize that a lot of men only value their wives in terms of what they do for them or for their children/families, you can't unsee how almost all of the praise from men to their wives has nothing to do with them personally and everything to do with the quality of service.

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

www.instagram.com/p/DC0HUDWxCD...

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I plan to post at least one of my photos a day here on Bluesky. I design each of my photos using recent research into the benefits to mental health of looking at plants & patterns in nature. Making my collections relaxes my noisy autistic+ADHD brain & they'll relax yours by looking at them here:

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Sir Norman of Nowhere. CSE. 🏴‍☠️ @sirnorman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

People who think it is easy to fraudulently claim disability benefits should try it. It took me two years, and I'm mostly bedbound.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Just out: I wrote for @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social's online journal about a work that is incredibly relevant right now & should be better known: Norman Parish's c. 1970 painting "Gyrations of American Gothic," which reworks some of America's most iconic symbols journalpanorama.org/article/amer...

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Norman Parish’s Historical Gyrations - Panorama

Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...

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Lynn Somers @drlynnsomers.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Mostly migrated from X. I'm a NY-based art historian who works on 20th and 21st century sculpture, material culture, and disability aesthetics. My first book, Transformative Objects and the Aesthetics of Play, will be out next month with Bloomsbury (see page 6). www.bloomsbury.com/media/rffdbb...

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 15/11/2024

Long before the modern disabled people’s movement, people with impairments were claiming disability as a social and political identity. @profdavidturner.bsky.social investigates the development of disabled people’s activism in Victorian Britain.

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Disabled People’s Activism in Victorian Britain

Long before the modern disabled people's movement, people with impairments were claiming disability as a social and political identity.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 16/11/2024

"You privately think 'the kids' are alarmingly intolerant of free speech these days, but you’d never say this aloud or online because 'the kids' are your bosses."

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Signs That You Are a Gen-Xer Going Through Menopause

1. You sweat those newly-applied purple streaks right out of your hair. 2. You use the word “fuck” more now, even more than you used it in ...

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Coko @coko.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Please 💙🦋🌈

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