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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Please signal boost 🙏 Neurodivergent PhD students: What reasonable adjustments and accommodations do you have for your studies? My PhD is in English Literature, I have ADHD (combined type), and I’m struggling. I would like to make changes, but I don’t know what might help.

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a cat is sitting in front of a laptop computer asking for advice

ALT: a cat is sitting in front of a laptop computer asking for advice

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Coming out of Bluesky hibernation to share that I started ADHD medication today. Here’s to a new chapter of Ethan!

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Bluesky friends, please signal boost! I am trying to read an obituary in the Springfield Republican (1919) for a ESN Goodall who might, just *might*, be the author of the ‘George Eliot Birthday Book’, but it’s behind a paywall 😭 Can anyone help?

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

After two months off with burnout, and a new ADHD diagnosis, I’m back in the PhD and feeling ready for anything!

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Last month, I was formally diagnosed with ADHD! Really happy 🥳

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

A few weeks ago, I contacted the bookshop where a friend had bought a misbound George Eliot novel for my birthday. I wanted to say thanks and share the queer things I’d learned from studying it. Today, the owner surprised me with ‘a gift from the shop’. What a lovely man 🥹

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Today, I disclosed my ADHD to the university. I’m going to get lots of help, and, hopefully, the PhD won’t be so hard anymore 😭

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 17/11/2024

The term 'trans' (in relation to sex and gender) is over 350 years old... Thomas Blount's 'Glossographia' from 1656, the first full-length English Language Dictionary, had two different words for changing sex. These were "Tranſection" and "Transfeminate".

Picture of a victory page which reads in black gothic script: "Tranſection (from trans and ſexus) a turning or paſſing from one ſec to another. Dr. Br. Transfeminate (from trans and faemina) to turn from woman to man, or from one ſex fo another. Dr. Br."

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Wearing my favourite trans-affirming t-shirt to campus today because my university is hosting an event on ‘academic freedom’. Events like this make me - and other LGBT+ people I know - feel anxious and deeply uncomfortable. But I won’t give up. Trans people belong.

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

Do not listen to their lies. I have zero concerns about sharing a hospital ward with a trans, non-binary or intersex person. And I’m not the only one who feels this way. Trans people belong. Always. amp.theguardian.com/society/2024...

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Trans patients to be treated in separate rooms in hospital under Tory plans | Hospitals | The Guardian

Ministers accused of dragging NHS into ‘culture wars debate’ with proposal for patient rights update

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

The strangest thing about the NHS ‘biologically segregated’ wards is that there’s already a commitment in place to have male/female wards & that often gets broken. Where will these ‘single rooms’ for trans patients be found? It’s a bit unrealistic isn’t it?

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 27/04/2024

On route to see the boyfriend, I’m thinking about queerness, anxiety, and the need to pause in Eliot. Delighted to find an accidental pause in my copy of ‘Impressions of Theophrastus Such’ (1879). Page 49 is ‘missing’ and ends on a pause ‘when—’. (It then reappears later in the book around p. 112).

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

My paper was accepted 🥹🥳 Looking forward to sharing my archival research on the surprising connection(s) between George Eliot and Edward Carpenter 🏳️‍🌈

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Does #AcademicTwitter know of any work on literary pauses, those moments when a story stops unexpectedly or steps outside of itself and reflects? Bonus points for any queer approaches. I want to think about Adam Bede, pauses, grief, interruptions of study, and my PhD with holes in it.

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Trans* Book History @transbookhistory.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

adding this to my dissertation chapter on the trans materiality of Leaves of Grass...

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

First proper day of writing since losing my grandma. Not a huge word count, but it’s a start. I can do this 🥹

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

Ready for this to become my entire personality 🥹

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

Me at 3am: What if I made my Woolf seminar an escape room? Also me:

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

As the midterm is due an hour before today’s seminar, I’m going to give my students a moment to reflect (in private!) on their ‘slay of the day’. Because there is a slay in every day and it doesn’t always have to be linked to academic performance. Yes, I am a gay teacher 💁🏻‍♂️

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Anyone know of any queer fiction/poetry/non-fiction about taxidermy? 🤔I’m mainly working on C19th pieces, but keen to bring in contemporary examples (like this one!) where relevant.

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 05/03/2024

My supervisor @nbsteps4stonewall.bsky.social is perhaps the most compassionate man I know. He inspires me to be a better thinker, scholar and human everyday. This month, NB is walking 10,000 steps a day to raise money for @stonewalluk! 🚶🏳️‍🌈 Let’s support him: www.justgiving.com/page/nb-1708...

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Steps for Stonewall (March 2024)

Help N B raise money to support Stonewall

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Every Barthes seminar must include this picture of the (very handsome!) man himself. Sorry, I don’t make the rules 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

Found some shoes abandoned in the rain. It felt oddly poetic.

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

Earlier this week, I was heartened to see that someone had left period products in the men’s bathroom at university. Trans men and non binary people have periods too! 🏳️‍⚧️

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 02/01/2024

My first read of 2024 is, I think, a book for the ages. Witty, raw, and incandescent. There simply aren’t enough words in the English language to describe how moved I am by this little book.

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

Motivating myself to return to the thesis tomorrow x

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

1/2: On this NYE, I wish for peace, for compassion, and for an end to war, homelessness, divisive politics, hunger, pain, and loneliness. I wish for radical queer love, shorter waiting lists, warm + affordable housing for all, accessible spaces everywhere, logical families, + endless trans joy.

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

1/2: As of five minutes ago, I’ve donated the last of the funds from my teaching in trans-affirming t-shirts challenge to Impact, an LGBTQ+ youth group based in Cathays, near to my university.

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

Outraged to hear Labour supporting the Tories anti-trans school ‘guidance’. Trans, non-binary, and intersex young people exist (they always have done, history tells us so) and they are just as deserving of dignity and respect as cisgender children and young adults. Shame on you all. Labour = Tories.

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

After 11 weeks of teaching in trans-affirming clothing, 80% of donations have been transferred to @ImpactLGBTQ 🫶 Just waiting for Gofundme to process and release the remaining 20%💰Will tweet as soon as it’s complete for full transparency! Thank you for donating #transrights 🏳️‍⚧️

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Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

City break with friends to Winchester. Going to eat mince pies, look at posh buildings, and learn lots about groovy Jane Austen 📚🫶

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