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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn

@kvmfinn.bsky.social
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Medievalist. Early Modernist. Fan Scholar. Shakespearean. Interests: queenship, popular history, medievalism, fandoms, then&now

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
From the article: “The thing we don't hear about enough, in my opinion, is the lives and humanity of pregnant people.” 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 In Judaism, the fetus is regarded as a part of the pregnant person's body until birth. Because whose life matters most is the one already born.
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Alt-NIHscience4ALL @alt-nihscience4all.altgov.info · 25/09/2026
Let’s do our best to honor Dolly Parton’s memory today!
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Good riddance.
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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This lecture on #Shakespeare and #HouseoftheDragon is from April 2024, before Seasons 2 and 3 aired, but I suppose that just means I need to do a sequel. #medievalism #medievalsky
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Kavita Mudan Finn, "This Tragic Glass: Shakespearean Medievalisms in House of the Dragon"
YouTube video by UNM Institute for Medieval Studies
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Libération @liberation.fr · 27/08/2026
⚫ L’artiste japonaise Yayoi Kusama est morte à l’âge de 97 ans. Considérée comme précurseure d’Andy Warhol et de Keith Haring, elle a créé une œuvre entêtante, marquée en peinture par la répétition de motifs, notamment du filet et du point. 📷 l.liberation.fr/2e0
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Kendra, normal version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.
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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Just another Manicule Monday...
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Harvard is embarking on a new and exciting experiment to determine whether one truly needs to have a university that does university things in order to maintain an endowment the size of a small nation’s GDP.
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Magen Cubed @magencubed.net · 11/08/2026
The Sameer Project is pausing operations due to a lack of funding. This is devastating. If you can support their efforts, please do so. Every penny goes to helping families in Palestine survive
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Magen Cubed @magencubed.net · 12/04/2026
If you want to help families in Palestine, you can support The Sameer Project's initiatives. They're a Palestinian-led, on-the-ground aid group that collaborates with other networks to provide vital food, water, shelter, and medical care to families during the ongoing genocide
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Food & Water x The Sameer Project
Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide food & water...
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Barbara Bleiman @barbarableiman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Absolutely brilliant from Katherine Rundell. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
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‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view from the classroom
Education is at a crossroads, argues the author and academic. Should we embrace new technology in the name of efficiency, or is it time to fight back?
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Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Available for pre-order (The exhibition opens October 18th @folger.edu) Patricia Akhimie’s work here is phenomenal. Featuring work by @profkfh.bsky.social and yours truly.
Cover to the forthcoming To Hear Her Speak: Black Women and Shakespeare
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.
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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
kids should know how to type, yes. but i am telling you as a teacher, this is BROADLY not the reason kids are using ChatGPT. They use it for the same reason adults do: because it's a shortcut and they don't see the value of the work they are being asked to do or the skill underlying it.
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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I am shocked, SHOCKED, I say!
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Casablanca Humphrey Bogart
Alt: From Casablanca: 1940s club owner Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) argues with Casablanca police chief Renault (Claude Rains) about closing his club because the Nazis demanded it. Renault claims it is because he is “shocked, SHOCKED, that gambling is going on here.” They are interrupted by the croupier giving Renault his winnings.
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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The first time I tried chèvre from Rocamadour, my brain short-circuited. But then I remember the first time I had buffalo mozzarella in Parma…or my first poutine at La Banquise…I just really love cheese.
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Wallace and Gromit's Love for Cheese
Alt: An old white English man (Wallace) declares how much he loves cheese.
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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
To be clear, I'm sorry for everyone who travelled and didn't get to see it, but the fact that safety issues with pyrotechnics caused the Royal #Shakespeare Company #MadKing show to be delayed is far too thematically apt for a play about King Aerys II Targaryen. ...also it sounds like a great show.
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George @hannahtempler.com · 26/07/2026
if you're a presenter it takes 15 minutes to look up names you're not sure how to pronounce. A great way is to look up interviews or videos- people often introduce themselves in videos, and research is a miniscule effort you can do to honor their work and achievements
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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Extra-long recap (with extra pictures) of #S03E04 and #S03E05 of #HouseoftheDragon, in which Ryan Condal adapts the bestselling novels A Feast for Crows and A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin kvmfinn.wordpress.com/2026/07/22/h...
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House of the Dragon 3.04 and 3.05
First of all, apologies for the missed week. I was out of town and dealing with medical things, so I ran late. Mea culpa. Extra long entry with extra screencaps this week as recompense. (Not sure i…
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Free healthcare would solve so many problems for people in this country. So many.
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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
There is an entire academic discipline that has zero issues speaking ill of the dead. It's named history
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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History Will Judge the Complicit
Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?
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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
These cuts are appalling. Let’s make clear they will not be tolerated!
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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Finished my recap of @houseofthedragon.bsky.social 3.03 'Rhaenyra Triumphant', aka 'Rhaenyra shall sleep no more', aka a one-queen production of Shakespeare's Macbeth with a dash of Perkin Warbeck for spice. kvmfinn.wordpress.com/2026/07/07/h...
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House of the Dragon 3.03 ‘Rhaenyra Triumphant’
Previously: Rhaenyra takes King’s Landing! Yay! Fine, it’s not nearly that simple. The episode opens, once more, right where the prior one left off, underwater in the Gullet as the battle rages abo…
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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Still working on my recap of #HouseoftheDragon S03E03, but here's a taste: It's a fantastic exercise in low-key domestic horror. There are rats skittering along the edges of so many shots, their claws constant in the background, even before they become the main course.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
NEW: Two-hundred-and-fifty years in, Justice Jackson is doing the work that is needed from our leaders. The United States needs leaders willing to speak forthrightly about our past and ambitiously about our future in order to make it through the treacherous present. This Fourth, at Law Dork:
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Two-hundred-and-fifty years in, Justice Jackson is doing the work that is needed from our leaders
The United States needs leaders willing to speak forthrightly about our past and ambitiously about our future in order to make it through the treacherous present.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
British Academy President's statement on the UK's higher education crisis, July 2026.
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British Academy President: UK higher education crisis risks irreversible damage
As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...
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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
My recap for #HouseoftheDragon S3E02 'Queen's Landing', for the night is dark and full of feelings. Also burnination.
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House of the Dragon 3.02 ‘Queen’s Landing’
Previously: We began more or less where the Season 2 finale ended, with Alicent arriving at the Red Keep after brokering her clandestine deal with Rhaenyra, only to find…Aemond? On the Iron T…
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 28/06/2026
"how can we incentivize public transport usage" make it free "but who will pay for it" the taxpayer "but won't that make people have less money" not if they use public transport "but doesn't that punish motorists" that is the incentive yeah
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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Mel Brooks is an icon for so many reasons. Nothing but respect for this brilliant man.
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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Happy 100TH BIRTHDAY to the king Mel Brooks, who wore a fake extra finger to his handprint ceremony🥳🎂🥳
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Mel Brooks, legende. Trickster genius. Mel Brooks doth deserve all the lyfe, fame, and love he hath receivid, and more, and more. To make anothir person laugh ys to helpe them bear thys lyfe. We love you Mel Brooks.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“Our societies are not built to withstand what’s coming, and by any rational thinking, all countries should be uniting in a last ditch battle to save the world.”
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London’s Burning
Extreme heat hits Europe — the US is next
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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Colleagues, even if you're outside the UK, please sign in support of our fellows at the University of Exeter, whose departments are being decimated right now. This is such an appallingly destructive move on the part of uni administration.
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The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 26/04/2026
It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."
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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
My initial thoughts on the #HouseoftheDragon Season 3 premiere (plus more on that Elizabeth I quotation): kvmfinn.wordpress.com/2026/06/22/h...
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House of the Dragon 3.01 ‘Salt and Sea, Fire and Blood’
Previously: After losing her second son Lucerys (and his dragon Vermax) to her half-brother Aemond and his dragon Vhagar, Queen Rhaenyra vows revenge. What she wants is Aemond. What she gets is a w…
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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Rhaenyra quoting Queen Elizabeth I's Tilbury speech in #HouseoftheDragon, not on my bingo card, but I'm here for it.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
the problem with modern society is that everyone wants to run their country like a business and their business like a country but nobody wants to run their country like a country and their business like a business
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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Hot take: All popular history books should have notes and bibliography. You still need to show your work when writing for a general audience. It may even be more important in this case, because most people do not understand how research works.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 04/06/2026
To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away. As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other. We honor her memory and oppose the war.

NO WAR WITH IRAN!
The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West.
You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together
& we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you
& your government is much bigger than the difference
between you & me.
And the difference between me
& my government is much bigger
than the difference
between me & you.
And our governments are very much the same...
—Marjane Satrapi
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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Question for #academicsky: What is the best way to donate/recycle old hard copy academic journals? I really, truly do not have space for them and cannot justify keeping more than a few sentimental issues. I'm in New England, for context, so I doubt any nearby universities need them.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 31/05/2026
There is no one unilateral masculinity. There are *masculinities* Toxic masculinity is a reactionary, violent masculinity that derives its power by subduing, insulting, dominating, and abusing anything that's conceivably Not Man. It is zero-sum, chauvinist, and preoccupied with male power.
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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
So much about this is frightening, not the least of which is how utterly blasé this administration is about spying on and actively controlling its citizens. Long read, but even the first half should be enough to scare the sense out of you.
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Bill @stillbill.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
What selling-out used to be: "I'm going to give up on my passions and get a 9-5" What selling-out is now: "I'm going to give up on my 9-5 for a life of petty villainy"
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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
My interview with @oldfortunatus.bsky.social is on YouTube! Featuring: Ragging on Suffolk, inevitable #ASongofIceandFire #GameofThrones references, Margaret is the best, Jack Cade made some good points even if he went too far, and why it would actually be a bad idea to kill all the lawyers.
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English Faculty / OWC Shakespeare Webinar with Emma Smith: Henry VI, Part II
YouTube video by Faculty of English, University of Oxford
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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This is a FANTASTIC piece about fandom, about books and authorship, readership, and how consumerism is doing all of us a disservice. #fanstudies
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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Senators Hassan and Shaheen, what, and I cannot stress this enough, in the ACTUAL FUCK are you doing??
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