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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/08/2026

This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Very excited to have a chapter in this wonderful new collection on Ray Bradbury where I get to talk about one of my (and Bradbury's) favourite things in the whole world: Halloween!! Huge thanks to @kevinwetmore.bsky.social for asking me to contribute 🎃 www.peterlang.com/document/149...

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Kelson Thomas (poped up) @kelson.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

school administrators implementing canvas for every use case

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy Halloween 🎃 Our new interdisciplinary series, Manchester Studies in the Supernatural, launches today. If you work on ghosts 👻, witches 🧙‍♀️, demons 😈, or other spooky beings, please do reach out. @devilprof.bsky.social @mikkibrock.bsky.social @vetur.bsky.social ‪‪@manchesterup.bsky.social‬

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Harley Ramsey @harleyramseywriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Release the Steinbeck werewolf novel!

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

40 years ago today Concerts and their atmosphere that are simply unforgettable. Bad Brains, Wabash Hall, October 11, 1985, San Diego, California #punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #hardcore #badbrains #history #punkrockhistory

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Something about a camel and the eye of a needle ...

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

PhD-level experts? Literally every student essay I've marked (and failed) that's been produced by AI reads like one of the following: A) A spoiler-free IMDb review B) Advertising copy C) A vague non-apology by a celebrity on the verge of cancellation

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

You mean the profound mortification of going to M&S with your mum to get fitted for a bra and hoping to god no one from school sees you. Why must TERFs cling to such saccharine, idealised notions of essentialist femininity?

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

*Academics in early August

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Daniel Pietersen @pietersender.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Jesus and the Devil, caught at a Coldplay gig

A medieval artwork, in colour, which depicts a scaly, brown devil (who has chicken feet, a tail and visible vertebrae) carrying Jesus away into the hills. Jesus is a pale-skinned man with brown hair and beard, wearing an orangey robe. He has a strangely stiffened posture, as if paralysed.

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Ginevra Bianchini @bianchiniginevra.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Tomorrow at the @tlrhub.bsky.social! Looking forward to this 🤓📚

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

UPenn site has been updated, so you can now find our CFP for the Horror Studies special issue on women and horror here: cfplist.com/CFP/44405 @intellectbooks.bsky.social @melanieamarotta.bsky.social

cfplist.com

The CFP List

An academic call for papers database.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

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Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic

Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I am so excited to be working on this special issue of Horror Studies with @melanieamarotta.bsky.social Send more cops, or, you know, abstracts.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

@melanieamarotta.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue of Horror Studies on post-2010 horror texts by women. Abstracts due August 1st call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/04/...

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ALT: a woman wearing a black hat with a white flower on it

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Dr. Melanie A Marotta @melanieamarotta.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Our call for papers is out! @middleagewitch.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue of Horror Studies: Women and Horror @intellectbooks.bsky.social Abstract submission date: August 1, 2025 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/04/...

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cfp | call for papers

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Hail, Satan! Very excited to see that my edited collection on Satanism and feminism in popular culture is now up on the AUP website. I worked with some amazing people on this collection, and I can't wait to see their work out in the world. www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

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Satanism and Feminism in Popular Culture

Satanism and Feminism in Popular Culture: Not Today Satan constitutes a timely and necessary intervention in the academic study of Satanism. At the same time, the book also constitutes a vital additio...

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

It's hard enough to see a beloved pet fall ill without having to worry about incurring debt to save them.

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/03/2025

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

If you want to hang with some fantastic American Studies scholars (and generally awesome people), we will be accepting abstracts for the IAAS annual conference (April 24-26) until tomorrow evening. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/...

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cfp | call for papers

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Very excited to be heading up to Dublin to witness the resurrection of the Irish Network for Gothic and Horror Studies (and give a keynote). @irishgothichorror.bsky.social

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Huge congratulations to BA English graduate Kel Menton, who launched their debut novel A Fix of Light last night in Dubray Cork. I know that everyone here in the English Department is so proud of their achievement.

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Horror Queers @horrorqueers.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

FYI (And yes, this counts as activism - so stop doomscrolling and get it done)

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

My response. I'm not even from the US, but I'm frankly exhausted by the greed and petty cruelty of the current administration.

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

👇 👇 The long-awaited issue #6 of Cine-Excess is out and #openaccess with all sorts of talk about devils, monsters, and hellspawn. And when Barbara Creed does your keynote, you know you're doing something right on Team #Horror.

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don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

this has always been my favorite picture set of david lynch

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

thats ok im already fluent in anxiety

Sign reading Duolingo,
but for Anxiety Created by scientists from Oxford, Cambridge, and Harvard
FREE to use without a subscription with a cute lil blob cartoon character

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The loss of David Lynch just feels immense. I cannot think of a single other filmmaker whose work has the capacity to explore the absolute darkest parts of humanity while always countering it with portraits of goodness, joy and love. For every Bob, there's a Special Agent Dale Cooper.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

This is such a wonderful idea (and a great cause). Looking forward to attending!

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Saw this yesterday in Florence, so will have to back and check out the non-dubbed, English-language version, but this was very much the plague-ridden, hysterical, high gothic vampire film of my dreams. It certainly deserves its place alongside Murnau's and Herzog's versions.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I'm so excited and honoured to be giving a witchy keynote at this event.

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Gotta watch out for those Uncle Franks

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

If you see this, drop a pic from the last place your passport was stamped. Morocco

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Heather D. Freeman (She / They) @heatherfreeman.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Magic in the U.S. S 3 E 5: Teen Witch! www.magicintheunitedstates.com/s3e5 Teen witches are all over the media -- but *real* ones are shrouded in mystery. Featuring @middleagewitch.bsky.social, Addy Ebrahimy, @heathergreene01.bsky.social and Susan Ridgely. #witchsky #spiritsky #podcast #witch

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I was recently interviewed for the podcast Magic in the United States. Alongside Addy Ebrahimy, Heather Greene, and Susan Ridgely, I talk about the history of teen witches in US media and culture. @prx.org @heathergreene01.bsky.social @heatherfreeman.bsky.social www.magicintheunitedstates.com/s3e5

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Teen Witch — Magic in the United States

How the media portrays the teenage witches.

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Eva Arriaga @evaarriagad.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

'The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant' Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1972

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Middle-Aged Witch @middleagewitch.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

If you're sad you missed my book launch at Watkins, London, back in October, the good news is that the entire talk is now available on YouTube. You can listen to me talk about monsters and complain about the American rail system from the comfort of your own home www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO_K...

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Regional Monsters of the American Gothic by Miranda Corcoran

YouTube video by watkinsbooks

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