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Maria Scott @mariascott.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I spent a few hours yesterday reading this double issue -- and am even more delighted, after reading it, to be included in the list of contributors. Thank you to guest editors @cherylperfume.bsky.social, @rmesch.bsky.social and Masha Belenky, and to the Dix-Neuf editors

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

And please enjoy my reading of Colette’s literary modernism, the material, and queer photography as an antidote to the Baudelairian gaze (The Vagabonde, a break up novel, was desicated to Missy!) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Deframing Baudelaire: The Queer Hors-Champ in Colette’s La Vagabonde

This article reads Colette’s 1910 La Vagabonde as a response to Baudelaire’s heteronormative aesthetic practices. While the novel is predicated on a heterosexual love story, I argue that queer sexu...

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I’m also obsessed with “Widow Shopping” by @srocher.bsky.social. Come for the fabulous puns, stay for the brilliant analysis of mourning clothes, gender, and consumer culture (remember the passante’s black dress?) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Widow Shopping with Baudelaire’s Passante

Baudelaire’s ‘À une passante’ (1860) features a beautiful, anonymous woman, walking through Paris in deep mourning, arousing the passions and curiosity of the poet-flâneur. A flourishing mourning i...

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SDN @uksdn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If you are looking for some late-summer reading, we’ve got just the thing… the latest special double issue of Dix-Neuf, which features articles around Baudelaire's "À une passante", edited by Masha Belenky, @cherylperfume.bsky.social, and @rmesch.bsky.social

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Correction: 9 stunning articles!!

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If you are teaching Baudelaire this semester, you will want this for your syllabus!

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Co-edited with Cheryl Krueger @cherylperfume.bsky.social and Masha Belenky, with pieces by @marnikessler.bsky.social @srocher.bsky.social @mariascott.bsky.social Aimée Boutin and Alex Wettlaufer

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🚨 Our double issue of Dix-Neuf is now up!! TO THE PASSERSBY: BEFORE & AFTER BAUDELAIRE has 8 stunning articles that center the passante herself through cultural, visual, and literary history, ecocritical, feminist, and queer perspectives

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If you are teaching Baudelaire this semester, you will want this for your syllabus!

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Co-edited with Cheryl Krueger @cherylperfume.bsky.social and Masha Belenky, with pieces by @marnikessler.bsky.social @srocher.bsky.social @mariascott.bsky.social Aimée Boutin and Alex Wettlaufer

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Just got invited to write a 8,000-10,000 word article that would be due in 3 months… for an academic outlet. Do other people churn things out at this speed? During the academic year?

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Thank you. You might want to do the same with others who have responded to my post having experienced similar issues.

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

When can I expect to hear from them?

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Realizing that I haven’t shared this gorgeous new French pub here: Allures Dissidentes: Apparences Queer & Représentations de soi du 19e à aujourd’hui ed by Magali Le Mens, Elizabeth Fischer & nonbinary poet Klimte. Put together in a highly original choose your own adventure way 🏳️‍🌈

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Ugh is this just how it is everywhere now?

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Such a waste of everyone’s time and so depressing!

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Yes exactly. And we’ve also recently discovered that they charge you huge sums if you want to republish YOUR OWN WORK. Highway robbery in plain sight

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

And we’ve all published with this journal before. The tech seems to be getting worse, and they’ve clearly gotten rid of a lot of humans

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I am co-editing a special issue, long delayed because of them, with leading scholars. We all feel the same way. Sad for the journal, but we will never work with them again

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Have any other academics experienced the dystopian future of AI copyediting? In a kafkaesque doom spiral with @tandfonline.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social as their bot randomly reassigned authors to texts. Just one example of zillions of errors introduced, impossible to communicate with

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Not be all tin hat but this is the optimistic view, where the election isn’t hacked…

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Actual image of my brain right now

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Just because one cannot imagine another version of events after reading a scholar’s compelling narrative does not make that narrative self-evident from the archives themselves. The erasure of the painstaking original work of crafting that narrative is a special kind of maddening

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This is enraging! I have had other scholars do this with my work in smaller ways (causing me to lose many hours of sleep), but never a whole book. I am so sorry! I hope this gets the attention it deserves

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

If you are moved by the BU pride flags story, please take a moment to support our WGS program which is currently the leader in BU’s Giving Day! There’s matching $ for high participation. Even a $5 helps send a message about how vital this work is to education& students 🏳️‍🌈 give.bu.edu/schools/Bost...

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Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program

Join me in supporting BU Giving Day!

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nathanpboston @nathanpboston.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Hopefully @bostonu.bsky.social realizes there’s no going back now.

A range of new pride & nods to pride flags & window displays in these 4 photos

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Boston University, where I teach, has been taking down Pride Flags from faculty and office windows because of a new “content neutral” ban on public-facing flags and banners. This is a bad policy that infringes on free speech. Faculty are protesting. Today the President defended these actions. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Following outcry, BU president defends removing pride flags

Gilliam’s remarks come days after several faculty members sent her a letter decrying the removal of pride flags from several windows, including one at the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies departmen...

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Ravie de partager mon article en open access: “Les jambes de l’orientaliste: photographie et transidentité chez Jane Dieulafoy” - première publication en français de mes recherches sur la transitude avant la lettre #FRHistory 🌈🗃️ publications-prairial.fr/theia/index....

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Les jambes de l’orientaliste : photographie et transidentité chez Jane Dieulafoy – Théia

Cet article examine l’écrivain·e et archéologue Jane Dieulafoy sous l’angle de la transidentité, plutôt que par le biais du cadre féministe traditionnel à travers lequel iel a le plus souvent été évoq...

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Upside of being dept chair is that you can plant an idea like this in your Spanish colleagues’ heads and then it happens!

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

My son did this too at one point last year! Did they see it on TikTok or something??

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