Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Please 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.media.tenor.coma cat is sitting in front of a laptop computer asking for adviceALT: a cat is sitting in front of a laptop computer asking for advice 143
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Coming out of Bluesky hibernation to share that I started ADHD medication today. Here’s to a new chapter of Ethan! 050
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 17/09/2025That’s so kind of you, Ross! I really appreciate you checking. Hope you’re well. 010
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Good question! The obituary was published in the Springfield Republican on the 10 January 1919. 100
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Or if you know ANYTHING about Goodall, pls hit me up! I wanna know all the gossip x 020
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Bluesky 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? 252
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 08/09/2025After two months off with burnout, and a new ADHD diagnosis, I’m back in the PhD and feeling ready for anything! 070
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Last month, I was formally diagnosed with ADHD! Really happy 🥳 0111
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 10/03/2025A 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 🥹 040
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Two good writing days, and this afternoon I learned that I’ll be getting some assistive technology from the uni 🥹 #ADHDmedia.tenor.coma man with a beard is wearing a pink shirt with the words slay and yassALT: a man with a beard is wearing a pink shirt with the words slay and yass 030
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 26/11/2024On a journey of self-discovery #ADHD 130
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Today, 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 😭 050
Reposted by Ethan Evans (he/him)Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 17/11/2024The 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". 716061
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Inspired *presses ‘instant purchase’* 120
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 22/05/2024Wearing 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. 030
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 12/05/2024‘Do not ban transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards’ | If you are a UK resident, please sign this parliamentary petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/66...petition.parliament.ukPetition: Do not ban transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wardsThe Health Secretary has said that transgender hospital patients in England may be banned from being treated in female- and male-only wards. We believe that this segregation is discriminatory, dangero... 010
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 30/04/2024I would read that!media.tenor.comGood Morning GIFALT: Good Morning GIF 010
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 30/04/2024I am always so inspired by your work, Kadin! 110
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 30/04/2024Do 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...amp.theguardian.comTrans patients to be treated in separate rooms in hospital under Tory plans | Hospitals | The GuardianMinisters accused of dragging NHS into ‘culture wars debate’ with proposal for patient rights update 030
Reposted by Ethan Evans (he/him)DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 30/04/2024The 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? 4141
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 27/04/2024This just confirms my quietly-confident belief that the best way to write about Eliotic pauses is auto theory. I have experienced so many pauses lately - grief, writer’s blocks, illness, and interruptions of study - it makes sense that this chapter is about me *and* Eliot. Or me *through* Eliot. 010
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 27/04/2024On 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). 110
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 22/04/2024My paper was accepted 🥹🥳 Looking forward to sharing my archival research on the surprising connection(s) between George Eliot and Edward Carpenter 🏳️🌈 140
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 19/04/2024Does #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. 020
Reposted by Ethan Evans (he/him)Trans* Book History @transbookhistory.bsky.social · 10/04/2024adding this to my dissertation chapter on the trans materiality of Leaves of Grass... 1245
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 01/04/2024First proper day of writing since losing my grandma. Not a huge word count, but it’s a start. I can do this 🥹 030
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 17/03/2024Ready for this to become my entire personality 🥹 020
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 14/03/2024Me at 3am: What if I made my Woolf seminar an escape room? Also me: 030
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 14/03/2024As 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 💁🏻♂️ 020
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 06/03/2024Anyone 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. 010
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 05/03/2024My 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...justgiving.comSteps for Stonewall (March 2024)Help N B raise money to support Stonewall 041
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 03/03/2024So many amazing pieces in that thread! Thanks Neil. Going to check them out :) 020
Ethan Evans (he/him) @queervictorian.bsky.social · 15/02/2024Every Barthes seminar must include this picture of the (very handsome!) man himself. Sorry, I don’t make the rules 🤷🏻♂️ 020
