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Louise Siddons

@lsiddons.bsky.social

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Diversity is strength. Equity is freedom. Inclusion is liberation. Professor of Visual Politics, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Also dance caller/teacher, public transport fan, avid walker, and sometime printmaker.

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Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Encountering myself in the wild at #LesbianLives — just outside the room where I’m about to present. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social

Bookseller’s table with various volumes including Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon, by Louise Siddons.

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Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Unabashedly delighted to see Good Pictures in person at the @forarthistory.org.uk book fair in York — thanks @uminnpress.bsky.social for being present!

View of Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon alongside other books on a display table.

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Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Marketing colleagues asked for an author photo, so we took several and I asked my sister for her help choosing one. This was her reply.

Harvey, possibly the least attractive and most photogenic dog on earth, dressed in a professorial sweater and resting his tiny paw on a copy of “Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon”. He is looking at the camera with characteristically bulging eyes.

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Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

It'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?

Book cover of 'Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon: Laura Gilpon, Queerness, and Navajo Sovereignty' by Louise Siddons, alongside the following text: "Compelling... demands our attention and allows us to see things in new ways." Kevin Bruyneel, author of 'Settler Memory.' University of Minnesota Press, z.umn.edu/9uj5

Book cover of 'Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon: Laura Gilpon, Queerness, and Navajo Sovereignty' by Louise Siddons, alongside the following text: "Encourages us to think about the implications of visual sovereignty in our own moment in powerful ways." Cara Rodway, British Library. University of Minnesota Press, z.umn.edu/9uj5

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Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Mood: “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.

Ambrosia Tønnesen, Self-Portrait (bust), unfired clay covered in plaster and paint, 1895. A young woman with close-cropped hair looks slightly down. The angle of the photograph gives her a bemused air.

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Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

At the Bryggens Museum, wondering what the evidentiary/connoisseurial benchmarks are for identifying a medieval artefact as an ‘ear spoon’. Also googling ‘ear spoon’.

View into a museum display case containing three artefacts, identified as a net or loom weight, a possible awl, and a possible ear spoon.

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Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Bedtime reading: short stories by Billy-Ray Belcourt, beautiful in many ways but specifically of interest to me for the multiple ekphrastic moments around imaginary photographs. Woke up to a sunrise that feels positively triumphant on the heels of so much recent grey.

Morning clouds across a blue sky are lit orange by the rising sun; rooftops in the foreground.

The cover of the paperback edition of Billy-Ray Belcourt’s book, coexistence.

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Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Holding my new book (it just arrived!) feels so lovely I’m almost tempted to read the whole thing again. Many writers will know this was not how I felt 24 hours ago! But I’ve been surprised this week by two colleagues who find Book Arrival Day underwhelming. So, authors: is BAD good for you? Or meh?

A close view of the cover of my book, Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon, resting on my knees.

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Louise Siddons @lsiddons.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Available now from @uminnpress.bsky.social! ‘Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon’ began with my desire for stories of intersectional allyship in art history (why, yes, it was 2017) — a search for inspiration and courage from the past even as we learn from its limitations to do better.

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