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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

The full LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is here 🏳️‍🌈!!! 650+ items of LGBTQIA+ #BookHistory!! Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here! sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

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LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography – SHARP NEWS

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The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

💜The embracing emperors💜 Diocletian and Maximian are shown in unified leadership of the Roman empire this #ReliefWednesday. Both have stepped down from their chariots to greet each other. #AncientRome #AncientBluesky🏺

Details from Mark B. Abbe, Tuna Şare Ağtürk 2019. “The new corpus of painted Imperial Roman marble reliefs from Nicomedia: a preliminary report on polychromy” Techne 48: “Having both descended from their flanking purple chariots, for all of their similitudo,they are clearly and emphatically differentiated, not only in their standing height and the height of their flying Nikai, but also, conspicuously, in their hair color: the taller, elder greeting emperor at left (Diocletian) has a light gray brown color, while the emperor at right (Maximian) has a remarkably different red hue.”

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

This is hateful and dystopian. I was just on holiday in Kent. Nice to know how welcome queer people (esp children) are there eh? Please, Kent locals, write to your councillors and resist this grossness. #KidLitUK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Roberto Di Tuccio @robertodituccio.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I did it – I’m officially Dr Di Tuccio! Huge thanks to my supervisors, examiners, and the Dept. of Classics & Ancient History at Durham. This is just the beginning. I’ll keep pushing boundaries and giving voice to ancient sex workers and other marginalised figures in Greek and Roman literature ✨📚🏛️

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Caroline Barron @carolinebarron.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

My lovely students from the Pompeii module are exhibiting their visual reconstruction projects today in @durhamclassics.bsky.social! They’ve produced some excellent work and I am very proud of them. Poster by Eleanor Paxton 😊

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

In 1492, Pope Alexander VI (aka Roderigo Borgia) banned the yearly prostitute races through the streets of Rome because they would corrupt respectable women viewing them. So his son Cesare compromised by bringing the competition into the Papal Apartments, where only clergy & men could see them.

The mural of Ferrara's contemporaneous prostitute races (vs outcast men, often elderly Jewish men), with matrons looking on from the balcony, celebrating the month of April (ancient Rome's traditional prostitute parade, the Floralia) in the Palazzo de Schifanoia.

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Marco Perale @mperale.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

'I'm nearly dying in the foundry! I'm tied up; I'm being treated like dirt'. The brutality of ancient slavery in a fourth century BC letter incised on a strip of lead. Text from Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 163 (2017), p.49-50 Picture: © Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού, ΕΦΑ Αθηνών

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Centre for Mental Health @centreformh.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Rainbows in the storm: Navigating hostility and hope in LGBTQ+ lives Following last week's Supreme Court ruling & new data on suicide deaths, @davidwoodhead.bsky.social explores how mental health inequalities are impacting LGBTQ+ people, and how we can tackle these injustices👇 tinyurl.com/mpu2a7px

Rainbows in the storm: Navigating hostility and hope in LGBTQ+ lives

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Quote: “What are the long-term impacts of enduring hate, not just on us as individuals but on the many LGBTQ+ communities we belong to?” “And perhaps more fundamentally, how do we survive, let alone thrive, in a world that questions our existence?”

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Roberto Di Tuccio @robertodituccio.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I recently tried to update my LinkedIn bio to reflect my academic research on the literary portrayal of Greek sex workers (hetairai) in Imperial Graeco-Roman literature. @linkedin.com wouldn’t let me use the term “sex worker”, even in a clearly academic and respectful context.

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Roberto Di Tuccio @robertodituccio.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I came, I wrote, I submitted! Not quite sure how I feel yet, but I can’t wait to defend my work on Graeco-Roman sex workers! (Or should I say… can’t wait to attack?) 💁🏻‍♂️📚

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Edith Hall @edithmayhall.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Fabulous fun launch of Epic of the Earth last night at Durham with Katrina Kelly providing superb questions. Thanks so much to Magdalena Zira, Roberto di Tuccio, @profarlenehh.bsky.social Alessandro Vatri, Rory McInnes-Gibbons for sterling support @durhamclassics.bsky.social @classical_association

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Roberto Di Tuccio @robertodituccio.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

The final thesis revision is hitting hard. I saw this 3rd-century CE mosaic from Antioch for the first time and almost burst into tears—Glykera, the hetaira (sex worker), standing between Comedy and Menander. Now at the Princeton University Art Museum

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Giulia Bernardini @giuliber.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Get ready for another exciting Plato event in Durham, organised by me and my amazing friend and colleague Dr Giovanni Trovato! @durhamclassics.bsky.social #plato #ancientmedicine #medicalhumanities #durhamclassics

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Roberto Di Tuccio @robertodituccio.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

My last paper as a PhD candidate! It was a pleasure to discuss sex workers in Alciphron’s and Aristaenetus’ letters at Edinburgh University @edinclassics.bsky.social. Huge thanks to @janjasoldo.bsky.social , @gibsonroyk.bsky.social, and Andrew Morrison

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