Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Unbearable to listen to #BBC Woman’s Hour sympathetically platform Kishwer Falkner as she continues to unfounded, false, antitrans fears about women’s safety. #NION 010
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 09/04/2026“No wonder that their shoe bills were quite as substantial as their hefty yearly bill for cheese…” #lifegoals from walking enthusiasts, the Ladies of Llangollen (and credit to author Elizabeth Mavor for the delightful observation and felicitous turn of phrase). 010
Reposted by Louise SiddonsBlake Montgomery @montgomery.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Great photos, great story: Once home to gold and prospectors, the Nevada desert is now the site of a new kind of expansion: tech datacenters www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comThe AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American westOnce home to gold and prospectors, the Nevada desert is now the site of a new kind of expansion: tech datacenters 21212
Reposted by Louise SiddonsGMB Union @gmb.org.uk · 22/11/2025Today is Equal Pay Day: the day women effectively stop earning compared to men. We fight inequality wherever we find it. That’s why GMB Union members have launched more than 25 equal pay claims at employers across the UK 👏 0267
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Encountering myself in the wild at #LesbianLives — just outside the room where I’m about to present. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social 062
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Enjoyed seeing prints by women at the V&A, but will there ever be a print exhibition that doesn’t feel compelled to explain print processes in detail? Other media don’t get this treatment. Also have qs about the aggressive pastoralism of their 21st-c selection… 000
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 23/09/2025This morning’s FT inadvertently summarises management everywhere in its analysis of corporate discussions of AI: “When we spoke to executives, they would often say the internal tool was very successful,” said Challapally. “But when we spoke to employees, we found zero usage.” 000
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Summer’s almost over (where does the time go?!) and I’ve been meaning for months to share this lovely short review of Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon by Cassandra Langer for The G&LR: glreview.org/article/shor... — next up, new research from this project at Lesbian Lives in NYC this Oct!glreview.orgShort Reviews - The Gay & Lesbian Review 010
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Starbucks CEO discovers people prefer people to machines: “We’re finding through our work that investments in labour rather than equipment are more effective at improving throughput and driving transaction growth,” he told analysts. (Financial Times, 29 April 2025) 030
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Mieke Bal, 2003: “one must study a boundary without policing it … studying a boundary and policing it are *incompatible* activities. When you police a boundary … it is no more open to questioning than the law is to the police. When you study a boundary it is put at risk, denaturalized.” 030
Reposted by Louise SiddonsWhat The Trans?! 🏳️⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 19/04/2025Today's the big day! There are 22 planned protests all over the UK and even one abroad! Find out if there's one near you here: whatthetrans.com/compilation-...whatthetrans.comCompilation of Protests Against the Supreme Court – What The Trans!? 12826403
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Unabashedly delighted to see Good Pictures in person at the @forarthistory.org.uk book fair in York — thanks @uminnpress.bsky.social for being present! 083
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Today: the @societyofauthors.bsky.social protests #MetaBookThieves in London. Amidst widespread, centuries-old (admittedly quibbly) consensus around copyright, why is wholesale corporate theft even a debate? societyofauthors.org/2025/04/01/s... 031
Reposted by Louise SiddonsOpen Journals Collective @ojcollective.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Hello world! We’re a new nonprofit that brings together academic, libraries & university-based publishers. We’ll be launching a large collection of hundreds of HSS diamond #openaccess journals in Jan. 2026. 68032
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Is it AI undermining peer review, or is it offering evidence that we have definitively hit the wall in terms of pressuring academics to do more with less? (Hint: it’s both.) theconversation.com/vague-confus...theconversation.com‘Vague, confusing, and did nothing to improve my work’: how AI can undermine peer reviewPeer review ensures the findings of research are trustworthy. But what happens when it’s performed by an AI model? 041
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 18/03/2025“The free space of creation exists only when it is actively, aggressively, courageously, persistently occupied” — Marilyn Frye, “Do you have to be a lesbian to be a feminist?” off our backs (Aug/Sept 1990): 22. 020
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 17/03/2025M. Gessen nails it: “The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...nytimes.comOpinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: DenationalizingThe message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation. 020
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 15/03/2025The brilliant and delightful Andrew Swaine came to my IVFDF workshop, Dancing Queer History, and had some thoughts which led to a conversation, the results of which he has written up here: andrewswaine.uk/interpretati...andrewswaine.ukFair Quaker of Deal, The | Andrew Swaine 000
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 28/02/2025My ‘Dancing Queer History’ workshop at IVFDF this Sunday comes with a free two-page handout for the first ten dancers, which is what happens when concern for the environment and the excitement of sharing collide in the copy room. 010
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Winchester School of Art is looking for an artist with substantive creative digital/technical knowledge, either hardware- or software-based -- someone who uses tech as their medium, not just their platform. Does this sounds like you or someone you know? jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...jobs.soton.ac.ukJob Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Lecturer B/ Associate Professor in Creative TechnologiesWinchester School of Art is proud to be one of the UK’s leading art Schools and part of the world-renowned University of Southampton, a founder member of the Russell Group of research-intensive univer... 010
Reposted by Louise SiddonsLena Mattheis @lenamattheis.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Don't delay, listen today! The lesbian gaze waits for no man. open.spotify.com/episode/3HXJ... (Queer Lit episode with @lsiddons.bsky.social about this gorgeous, gorgeous book.) 001
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 18/02/2025@lenamattheis.bsky.social & I just had this 💜 convo, but in US politics it was ahe’s ago (before, eg, Trump attacked USAID, which work[s/ed] with/for queer & Indigenous people in the US & abroad). Book is free bc of @neh-odh.bsky.social & @uminnpress.bsky.social. open.spotify.com/episode/3HXJ...open.spotify.com"Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon" with Louise SiddonsQueer Lit · Episode 131
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Virginia Woolf, 1926: ‘however interesting facts may be, they are an inferior form of fiction… we become impatient of their weakness…, of their compromises and evasions, of the slovenly sentences which they make…, and are eager to revive ourselves with the greater intensity and truth of fiction.’ 000
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Delighted by this accolade for my dear colleague's brilliant and innovative work! Congratulations Prof Jennifer Borland! @okstate.edu www.medievalacademy.org/page/GouldPr...medievalacademy.orgKaren Gould Prize Citations - The Medieval Academy of America3/6/2025 » 3/9/2025(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media 161
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Great review of our current exhibition at The Winchester Gallery, curated by @lizziereed.bsky.social: www.in-common.co.uk/2025/02/01/a...in-common.co.ukArt review: Queering connections: Glitchy Kinship, The Winchester Gallery, Winchester School of Art - In-Common - SouthamptonBy Mabel Wellman. The fifth Queering Connections art exhibit launched this week at The Winchester Gallery at Winchester School of Art (30/1/25). This exhibition by sociologist Dr Lizzie Reed of sociol... 030
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 28/01/2025On holiday (again!), and this time it’s Isabel Miller’s canonical lesbian novel, A Place For Us/Patience and Sarah, 1969/1979: “I can’t say how much it meant that there would never be a hurry again.” 050
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Fantastic talk by @themedievaldrk.bsky.social in our Material Interests series at Winchester School of Art @unisouthampton.bsky.social this evening — huge win to see students engaging with Prof Kennedy’s thought-provoking connections between Medieval English manuscripts and comics theory! 160
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Looking forward to speaking about Good Pictures in the History dept at #BristolUni tomorrow — join us! www.bristol.ac.uk/arts-law-soc...bristol.ac.ukGood Pictures Are a Strong Weapon: Laura Gilpin, Queerness and Navajo Sovereignty 051
Reposted by Louise SiddonsAli Messer @freereed59.net · 05/01/2025vm.tiktok.com/ZGdBBFSwg/ book now for #ContraDancing at Halsway Manor with @lsiddons.bsky.social Heather McAslan Will Allen Will Power and Linda Game. halswaymanor.org.uk/event/contra...vm.tiktok.comTikTok - Make Your Day 002
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Emma Donoghue, Learned by Heart: “But if it’s true… about the mad being capable of a sustained performance of sanity, then I wonder how many people going about their business… in the world may only be keeping their wildest impulses in check by means of such an ‘immense and harmful effort of will’.” 000
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Last HGW post: “It may be I see decay all about me because I am… decay. To others it may be a scene… radiant with hope. I… [find] no promise… in any of the great things of our time. How they will look in history I do not know …; that is how they have mirrored themselves on one contemporary mind.” 000
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Wells: “For this… millions toiled and perished in suffering, in order that a few of us should build palaces we never finished… and make our lives one vast dismal spectacle of witless waste! …It came to me like a revelation… at once incredible and indisputable of the abysmal folly of our being.” 010
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Wells, 1909 and still nailing it. “In these plethoric times when … the struggle for life takes the form of competitive advertisement and the effort to fill your neighbour’s eye, when there is no urgent demand either for personal courage, sound nerves or stark beauty, we find ourselves by accident.” 000
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 28/12/2024More from Tono-Bungay: “I do not know how far it is possible to convey to any one who has not experienced it, the peculiar interest, the peculiar satisfaction that lies in a sustained research when one is not hampered by want of money. It is a different thing from any other sort of human effort.” 020
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Hols, so I randomly pulled Tono-Bungay (HG Wells, 1909) from my mum’s shelf. “A country which leaves its medical and literary criticism, or indeed any such vitally important criticism, entirely to private enterprise and open to the advances of any purchaser must be in a frankly hopeless condition.” 041
Reposted by Louise SiddonsEnglish Folk Dance and Song Society @efdss.bsky.social · 19/12/2024 We're pleased to announce that @uclofficial.bsky.social will be offering a fully-funded PhD studentship (with stipend), in partnership with the English Folk Dance and Song Society. For further description, specific candidate requirements and how to apply, go to: bit.ly/3ZKMggtbit.lyUCL and EFDSS announce partnership offering a fully-funded PhD studentshipWe're pleased to announce that University College London (UCL) will be offering a fully-funded PhD studentship (with stipend), in partnership with the English Folk Dance and Song Society. This opportu... 097
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Marketing colleagues asked for an author photo, so we took several and I asked my sister for her help choosing one. This was her reply. 1112
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 15/12/2024What an honour to be included in @karlajstrand.com’s December Reads for the Rest of Us in @msmagazine.bsky.social! And such brilliant company to be in — my winter reading list just got that bit longer :) 093
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Just adding my voice to the many saying this is a dangerous policy based on flawed ‘evidence’. Please stand up to protect trans kids. Indefinite ban on puberty blockers to be introduced www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comPuberty blockers: Indefinite ban to be introducedHealth Secretary Wes Streeting says the way the drugs have been used is a "scandal" following a review. 020
Reposted by Louise SiddonsUniversity of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 11/12/2024"An excellent example of an intersectional art-historical monograph, impressive for its incredibly productive dialogue between queer and Indigenous studies." Great review of @lsiddons.bsky.social 's GOOD PICTURES ARE A STRONG WEAPON at The Brooklyn Rail: brooklynrail.org/2024/12/art_...brooklynrail.orgLouise Siddons’s Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon | The Brooklyn RailThis book recontextualizes Laura Gilpin’s photographs of the Navajo (Diné) people. Weaving together new archival findings, skillful visual analyses, and cultural theory from queer and Indigenous studi... 084
Reposted by Louise SiddonsThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/12/2024England’s new towns must be walkable and green, say campaignerstheguardian.comEngland’s new towns must be walkable and green, say campaignersThinktank founder says recent attempts to build new towns are ‘depressing, unsustainable and stupid’ Labour should build 12 new towns in England that are not car-dependent or built on flood plains, a former government adviser has said in a report. A… 922526
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 10/12/2024It's officially here from @uminnpress.bsky.social! Some reminders: - #NEH supported open access: manifold.umn.edu/.../good-pic... - Prefer real paper? www.upress.umn.edu/.../good-pic... - Stay tuned for our 2026 exhibition at @unisouthampton.bsky.social! - Book tour in 2025 - #queer venue ideas? 051
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Mood: “Ambrosia Tønnesen was unmarried, but not alone.” Kode Permanenten, the word you are looking for is lesbian. A beautifully crafted exhibition, though, and it is delightful to discover another reason to revisit my lesbian sculptors project, which had to take a back seat to the book for a bit. 000
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 02/12/2024At the Bryggens Museum, wondering what the evidentiary/connoisseurial benchmarks are for identifying a medieval artefact as an ‘ear spoon’. Also googling ‘ear spoon’. 021
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Sadly relevant to my current collaborative research project. 010
Reposted by Louise SiddonsLos Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 25/11/2024"Our research reveals evidence of courage and fresh thinking taking place in many different kinds of institutions, and it is this story we wish to convey." Stacy Hartman and Heather Hewett examine how the humanities are being reimagined across higher ed today. lareviewofbooks.org/article/reje...lareviewofbooks.orgRejecting the Siege Mentality in Higher Education | Los Angeles Review of BooksStacy Hartman and Heather Hewett examine how the humanities are being reimagined in departments and programs across higher education today. 0105
Reposted by Louise SiddonsAHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Monday morning got you feeling a little like a zombie? We feel you. Check out Helen Lewandowski's “Zombie Humanism, Generative AI Images, and Photography” in the current #JournalPanorama, a review of the @flickrfdn.bsky.social's “A Generated Family of Man.” bit.ly/3CKVCB9 #AHAATakeover 1/3bit.lyZombie Humanism, Generative AI Images, and Photography - PanoramaPanorama 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... 154
Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Going over my old conference notes and feeling seen by my past self: the only note I took on one paper is “ethnography is hard for introverts.” 160
Reposted by Louise SiddonsTig Slater @tigslater.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Pleased to share the 'Whose Rainbow?' research project report! We asked LGBT+ students, staff & those considering themselves 'allies' what they thought of the use of LGBT+ symbolism in universities. Full report here: shura.shu.ac.uk/34366/1/2024... Or continue this thread for the headlines... 1/8shura.shu.ac.uk 34630