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Sophie Fuggle

@fuggbug.bsky.social
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James Barrow Professor of French and Head of Department of Languages, Cultures and Film @liverpooluni.bsky.social Co-founder ilesmondes.wordpress.com To be found somewhere between the prison and the beach.

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
The special issue on incarceration for French Historical Studies is now out! In our (open access) introduction, we begin by journeying through the carceral archipelago in France and its empire from the early modern period through to today ... doi.org/10.1215/0016... 🧵🗃️ 1/7 @fuggbug.bsky.social
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Sophie Fuggle @fuggbug.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Blue skies over Goose Fair!
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Sophie Fuggle @fuggbug.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Reading Vidocq while putting a load of laundry on
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Sophie Fuggle @fuggbug.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Between the Roman prison and the pool!
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Sophie Fuggle @fuggbug.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
After almost a year in Liverpool we finally made it to the beach!
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Sophie Fuggle @fuggbug.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Dreyfus’ spectacles from his time on Devil’s Island
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Sophie Fuggle @fuggbug.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2025/07/TRAC... by my excellent friend Samuel Tracol
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Au « temps béni » du bagne de Cayenne
En kiosques // par Samuel Tracol (juillet 2025)
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Sophie Fuggle @fuggbug.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
New club med spotted in Provence!
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Sophie Fuggle @fuggbug.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Marseille vibes
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Sophie Fuggle @fuggbug.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Little trip to Paris to work on a chapter of my book looking at the clinical-carceral gaze so seems fitting to be staying round the corner from rue Charcot - the gaze to end all gazes
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Sophie Fuggle @fuggbug.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Today’s view.
Mount Fuji
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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
"Prisons all over the United States are withholding books from prisoners, but not because they contain contraband. Books are becoming harder to receive based on their content."
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By My Prison’s Standards, the Bible Would Be a Banned Book
Today, more than 50,000 books are banned in prison. At Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women, the book ban is getting to be ridiculous.
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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
"In my old neighborhood, $300 could get you drugs, alcohol, tattoos, even a used handgun. Feeling guilty for disappointing my family by going to prison, there was no way I’d burden them by asking for money for textbooks."
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How I Became a Scholar Behind Bars
I earned three degrees and am now using my education to build up at-risk youth.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
"[B]est of all, though, is the food. Fans go all out, with buddies pooling their resources for weeks to collect ingredients from the canteen. Some turn to the black market for onions, cheese or spices stolen from the kitchen — whatever it takes to build a meal ... Nachos are a perennial favorite."
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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
After Writing About Prison Censorship, I Got Blocked From Messaging My Sources
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After Writing About Prison Censorship, I Got Blocked From Messaging My Sources
Censorship in prisons has expanded as a few private companies have increasingly monopolized prison communications.
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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
‘Essential’: nearly 800 incarcerated firefighters deployed as LA battles wildfires.
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‘Essential’: nearly 800 incarcerated firefighters deployed as LA battles wildfires
The firefighters earn $5.80-$10.24 per day plus $1 an hour when responding to active emergencies, according to CDCR
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UHIHistory.bsky.social @uhihistory.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
📣CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Contributions are invited (in various forms/media) to Islands Symposium - Island narratives of kinship, place, and the weather. 3-4 April 2025, at Ceòlas (South Uist) and online. DL for proposals 15 Jan. For further details, visit bit.ly/3DKqO3W
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Call for papers – Islands symposium
We invite contributions (in various forms/media) to a symposium which considers Islands as sites of geo-embodied knowledge mediated through experiential engagements with weather. Click here for Isl…
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historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
French humour. Vaut mieux en rire, qu'en ... Rire !
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Sophie Fuggle @fuggbug.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
First swim of 2025 and there’s nobody else here…
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Sophie Fuggle @fuggbug.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
district 7 going all out with the karaoke tonight
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Sophie Fuggle @fuggbug.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Spotted in HCMC - a birthday cake for Serge Gainsbourg
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
All I want for Christmas is to pull a loose book from a bookshelf and finally, at long last, find that it opens a hidden door.
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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
🔴 Language Barriers Harm Health Care in Prison
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🔴 Language Barriers Harm Health Care in Prison
Plus: Six short essays on holidays after prison.
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Sophie Fuggle @fuggbug.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
checking out of a hotel and somebody actually came to reception to pick up a fax
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Sophie Fuggle @fuggbug.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Today in HCMC am reminded of @arohelmet.bsky.social ‘s point that only the streets named after doctors kept their French names after Vietnamese independence
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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 17/12/2024
Congratulations to Bilbao’s House of the Basque Language, Euskararen Etxea, on winning the Council of Europe Museum Prize 🏆 The prize honours museums that make ‘significant contribution to the understanding of European cultural heritage’.
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Bilbao’s House of the Basque Language wins Council of Europe Museum Prize - Museums Association
Prize honours museums that make ‘significant contribution to the understanding of European cultural heritage’
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Sophie Fuggle @fuggbug.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
In the sensory overload of HCMC at Xmas, it’s a tough job trying to stand out but Notre Dame might be this year’s winner…
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Sophie Fuggle @fuggbug.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...
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Academic life on the big screen | LSE Higher Education
We asked nine film studies academics for their top picks of movies that feature academic life. From The Birds to Wicked, here are their recommendations.
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Luc-André Biarnais @labiarnais.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Le 40e anniversaire du discours de Félix Tiouka à Awala #Guyane pour les droits des peuples autochtones. Un texte d’Hélene Ferrarini.
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Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
The Beckett Advent calendar by the inimitable @tomgauld.bsky.social
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
"Senegalese President Diomaye Bassirou Faye, evoking the 80th anniversary of the massacre by French soldiers of Senegalese troops recently freed from German prisoner-of-war camps...told Le Monde that “soon there will be no more French soldiers in Senegal.” responsiblestatecraft.org/senegal-fran...
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Senegal and Chad just sent the French military packing. Why?
Washington should learn a lesson and ditch the counterterrorism lens now
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Sophie Fuggle @fuggbug.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
At this year’s Scausländer launch, German language newspaper run by @liverpooluni.bsky.social German students www.scauslaenderzeitung.com
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Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies @ilcs.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
So here's a starter pack for languages, literatures, cultures and societies, very broadly defined. If you'd like to be added or removed, comment below or send a message go.bsky.app/TdEXaP2
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Sophie Fuggle @fuggbug.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
It’s only Monday and I just spelt ‘typo’ wrong
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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The Nerd Room is a place where it’s safe to be who we really are and express the feelings we’re otherwise forced to hide. prisonjournalismproject.org/2024/06/24/e...
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In Prison, You Need a Group. Mine are the Nerds.
Our forward-thinking prison has allowed us to create the Nerd Room, where we don’t just gather as people who share common interests in gaming, sci-fi or anime — we’re family.
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Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I've set up a starter pack for academics in Francophone Post- and Decolonial Studies and Histories, please let me know who else to add: go.bsky.app/Jx7j4N1
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Sophie Fuggle @fuggbug.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Need to stop overthinking the first post…
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