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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Early baroque morning; everything portentous and vaguely elegant.

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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Mr. Pepper as environmental bellwether—

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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Well, hello, Tree Pollen. We meet again.

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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

the jauntiest of tunes being spun by a baltimore oriel outside my window—

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National Bail Out @nationalbailout.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Happy #MothersDay! We extend our solidarity and fortitude to all the mothers, aunts, grandmothers, caregivers, and those who love them. Support us as we continue to #FreeBlackMamas who are being held in cages because they can’t afford bail. bit.ly/freeblackmamas2025

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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

some evening redness in the west—

dramatic light at sunset on an open desert plain; a faint rainbow cuts through a dark cloud

a red and purple sunset rolls over a dark field; a split rail fence in the foreground

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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Gosh, Ithaca. In May you are astonishing.

Red bud branches spread out against a blue sky w wispy clouds

white blossoms cluster on a slender boughs

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International Virginia Woolf Society @ivws.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

For today’s #ModWrite we are working on accessibility and presentation guidelines for #VWoolf2025: Woolf & Dissidence 💫

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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

psychic wind attack : rough winds do shake the darling buds of May

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Open Access is key to opposing fascism, example 4,381: A writer posted this article, which is a useful study of Christian Nationalism and pronatalism. If you don't have institutional access, you will have to pay Wiley, who own & control it. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Fill the Earth and Subdue It: Christian Nationalism, Ethno‐Religious Threat, and Nationalist Pronatalism

What fuels both enthusiasm for increasing “American” birth rates and fears about their decline? Citing the prevalence of fertility campaigns in authoritarian regimes characterized by ethno-nationalis....

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Clemson University Press @cupress.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Exciting news for literary lovers! 📚 Virginia Woolf Selected Papers, Volume 31 is now available to read on ClemsonOPEN! Dive into fresh insights and scholarly takes on one of modernism’s most iconic writers. Available here: open.clemson.edu/vwoolfselect...

Volume 31: Virginia Woolf Selected Papers

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International Virginia Woolf Society @ivws.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

We are so pleased to announce that The Selected Papers from the 31st International Conference on Virginia Woolf, “Woolf and Ethics,” ed. by conference organizer Amy Smith, is open access and now available via @cupress.bsky.social open.clemson.edu/vwoolfselect... #VirginiaWoolf #VWoolf2022

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Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers | Vol 31 | Iss 1

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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

For this #ModWrite I’m picking up dropped research threads: what is my interest in Wordsworth’s “orbicular body” (letter to Alexander Dyce c.1833) and what does it have to do w reading antipastoral allegory in The Waves?

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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I mean…I think we know why our libraries are full of tears.

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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Fringe upon fringe of blue crocuses, crocuses, walled against blue of themselves, blue of that upper earth, blue of the depth upon depth of flowers, lost—

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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Take one last look at this sacred heart / before it blows

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Energetic, well attended “Hands Off” March in Ithaca, in spite of less than ideal weather.

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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

the unbearable snootiness of the midtown coffee shop disrupted by a pink heart raincoat—

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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

fat pigeons and frozen pansies at Grand Central—

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ACLU @aclu.org · 28/03/2025

UPDATE: Hours after filing our amended petition, a federal judge ordered Rümeysa Öztürk can't be removed from the U.S. until further court order. The government must respond to the amended petition by Tuesday at 5pm. This is a critical next step. We won’t stop until Rümeysa is free.

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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

What I really want is cookies—

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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Special issue launch with @moderniststudies.bsky.social ‘ s IFQP sig! Feministas Unidas will be hosting this virtual launch of the Spanish Sapphic Modernity special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies. April 11 2:30 PM ET. On Zoom!

A flier featuring the purple and green cover of Feminst Modernist Studies vol 7 no3, 2024 on a pale pink background along with information about the issue launch event speakers.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

"Inspired by the work of Victorian botanist + photographer Anna Atkins – who made use of the cyanotype process to document botanical specimens in her pioneering 1843 📘... – Mandy painstakingly created “a replica of the original publication," this time documenting the waste of fast fashion

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Algae or underwear? Mandy Barker documents the fast fashion waste polluting our seas

Collecting 200 fabric samples of clothing across several thousand miles of coastline, the artist has created a typology that traces the tangible effects of the world’s most environmentally damaging in...

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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Ah. That good old carceral feeling. Nice flex, America. Do it for the gram!

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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I’ll show you in spring / it’s a treacherous thing

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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

fingerpads burnt by boiled clementines—

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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

the very word is like a bell—

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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

snowdrops, crocus, winter aconite, iris reticulata—

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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

"How those birds sing!” said Mrs. Swithin, at a venture. The window was open now; the birds certainly were singing. An obliging thrush hopped across the lawn; a coil of pinkish rubber twisted in its beak. (Virgina Woolf, BTA)

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D. H. Lawrence Society of North America @dhlawrencesocna.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Just a quick reminder that the proposal deadline for our D. H. Lawrence session at #MLA2026 (Toronto) is approaching (3/17/25!)⏰ Be in touch with Ben @bdavidhagen.bsky.social (contact detail below) if you have questions about this session or need another day or two to put together a proposal.

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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · 13/03/2025

Submissions for our upcoming special issue "Feminism, Antifeminism, and the Mobilization of Regret," are due May 1, 2025! Check out the full call at signsjournal.org/for-authors/...

Feminism, Antifeminism, and the Mobilization of Regret
Guest edited by Laura Green (Northeastern University) and Chris Bobel (University of Massachusetts Boston)
Feminism is forward-looking and world-building. Feminists everywhere can call to mind the manifestos, mobilizations, solidarities, creative inspirations, legal propositions, and revolutionary paradigms that inspire us to action and move us toward more just futures. At the same time, we may also be haunted by obstacles encountered, losses experienced, and regrets felt along the way. With over fifty years of feminist history behind the journal—and, we hope, another fifty years of feminist troublemaking ahead—Signs seeks essays that delineate both how feminists may experience, theorize, and productively apply the concept of regret and how it may, alternatively, thwart the development of feminist futures.
We seek essays that make theoretical, analytical, and/or activist interventions. We welcome papers that engage the complex dynamics and larger contexts of regret, from the personal, emotional, and creative realms to the social, political, and empirical; or that consider how regret converges with or departs from related affective terrains of shame, guilt, grief, or nostalgia. As always, Signs encourages transdisciplinary and transnational essays that address substantive feminist questions, debates, and forms of literary, artistic, and cultural representation and that minimize disciplinary or academic jargon.
Scan the QR code or visit www.signsjournal.org/cfps for the full call for papers and submission instructions.

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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

A day bookended in beauties. Sunrise on Folly and this beautiful beautiful book—

soft pastel sunrise over the Atlantic. A stretch of low palms and a broad sand beach.

A hand cuffed in a cream white white sweater holds out a book (cover up) over a late winter lawn in late afternoon noon sunshine. The book is Queer Lasting : Ecologies of Care for a Dying World by Sarah’s Ensor. The cover is also a cream white w green and purple flowers in it.

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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

bro—do you even wander lonely as a cloud?

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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

6 mo. dentist appt: teeth so clean they hurt.

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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

I’m getting wildly sentimental in my dotage. Just teared up buying Girl Scout cookies bc the bright-eyed young lady was posted up outside the popular breakfast spot w her Mom—hawking her wares and practicing math in her kelly green sash.

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Once I regain feeling in my hands, my #ModWrite will be spent editing a chapter on Woolf's drafts for the Routledge Companion to Woolf (shepherded into being by the editorial dream team that is @bdavidhagen.bsky.social, @shilorae.bsky.social and Laci Mattison)

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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Sparkling gem of a grapefruit—

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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

It is a truth universally acknowledged that in a house where two reader’s reports are being simultaneously written, the dwelling will grow dark around them and no one will turn on the lights.

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Shilo Rae McGiff @shilorae.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Really need to dial in today. What are your favorite current writing / work albums or playlists? What helps you focus? Looking for recs.

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