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PERFORMING QUEER NATIONS: THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST IN POST-COLD-WAR EUROPE due from Manchester University Press in 2027. She/her.

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Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social · Jan 15
Here’s more about what the book does if you’re new to this feed: bakercatherine.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/p...
‘Performing Queer Nations: the Eurovision Song Contest Since 1990’ is coming in 2027
In 1990, Toto Cutugno won the Eurovision Song Contest celebrating a future Europe integrated under the same sky, stars and ideals from the stage of a Zagreb that hoped for democracy. In 1997, Icela…
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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 7h
CFP: Far-Right Archives in the Digital Age, a collaboration between @wienerlibrary.bsky.social and me (via my @britishacademy.bsky.social grant): 27 November, London: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Travel funds are available (probably only within UK)!! Please share. 🗃️
CFP: Far-Right Archives in the Digital Age | UON
Wiener Holocaust Library, London. Friday 27 November 2026, 10.30am-4pm Improved digital access to far-right material at archives, libraries, and beyond...
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Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social · 7h
This is by far the app with the campest name out of anything we have to use at work.

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Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social · 23h
We still don’t know most of what was in artists’ contracts with broadcasters in 2024 or otherwise (even though subscribers’ money pays for this), or what penalties artists like Bambie Thug would have faced for boycotting.

Have wondered since then whether a crowdfunder could have bought them out…

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Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social · 23h
Ed Sheeran’s tour now that venues have dropped Macklemore appears to be speedrunning Eurovision 2024, except with 🇮🇪 support acts able to use stronger language and actually drop out.
unamullally.bsky.social Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 1d
The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 23h
Guidance from @goodlawproject.org about trans kids in schools. The Equality Act still applies and it would appear that @lucympowell.bsky.social’s transphobic schools’ guidance may be unlawful in many instances.
It’s still unlawful to discriminate against trans kids | Good Law Project
Back at school, some trans kids and their families are being threatened with discrimination. But trans kids still have rights – and schools must protect them
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 1d
The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.

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Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social · 1d
‘At no point would a group on the left be given the levels of understanding or implicit praise that the black-shorted boot boys are getting. We’ve seen it happen enough times to know exactly what’s going on here’s
brokenbottleboy.bsky.social Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 2d
NEW | On some dangerous language…

AN (ACCIDENTAL?) LOVE LETTER TO THE LUNKHEADS

Taking a closer look at the BBC Home Affairs Editor’s gentle coverage of street fascists.

brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/an-acciden...
An (accidental?) love letter to the lunkheads
Taking a closer look at the BBC Home Affairs Editor’s gentle coverage of street fascists.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com

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Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social · 1d
Exciting news (well we think so)! We are looking for new people to regularly contribute to our archive!

We accept applications from anyone based in the UK who has an interest in sending us their thoughts and opinions about life in the UK.

#Skystorians

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Write for the archive - Mass Observation Archive
Writing for Mass Observation You can apply to write for the archive here. Current Observers If you are one of our current Observers you may find our handbook for new Observers helpful. This has all th...
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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 2d
🛡️ What does the Viking legacy look like today?

Tom Birkett and his team have launched a project exploring how ideas and narratives about the #Vikings have evolved across Europe over the past 200 years.

👉 t.co/0L4WD9EsLL

📸 ©️Clare Keogh

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 2d
“The organisation said 50 activists had been detained, more than 10 taken after police raids on their homes. It said that authorities had blocked several websites and social media accounts linked to LGBTQ+ organisations.”

Chilling to see Turkish authorities escalate their attacks against LGBT folk.
Turkish police detain dozens in raids on gay bars and homes of LGBTQ+ activists
Human rights groups in Turkey have accused the government of using a family- values campaign to target the LGBTQ+ community.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 2d
NEW | On some dangerous language…

AN (ACCIDENTAL?) LOVE LETTER TO THE LUNKHEADS

Taking a closer look at the BBC Home Affairs Editor’s gentle coverage of street fascists.

brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/an-acciden...
An (accidental?) love letter to the lunkheads
Taking a closer look at the BBC Home Affairs Editor’s gentle coverage of street fascists.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com

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Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social · 2d
‘Joan, like her literary knightly kin, was reverted back to womanhood in spite of the known fact of her short hair … Artists gave her back her long hair, turning her into a woman, not a warrior’
speculativeinsight.bsky.social Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 2d
Joyce Chng's essay - first published in April 2024, now leaping out of the vault - points to ways in which lady knights, while challenging stereotypes, nonetheless get cut down to expected feminine standards by male medieval poets.

www.speculativeinsight.com/from-the-vault
Purple background, white text, which says In this essay, I will discuss various strategies by which the literary lady knight -and to some extent, Joan of Arc - was rendered harmless by being turned into a romantic figure ready to be rescued by the male hero... "Rendered Harmless: Strategies to Tame the Lady Knight" -- Joyce Chng

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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 2d
Joyce Chng's essay - first published in April 2024, now leaping out of the vault - points to ways in which lady knights, while challenging stereotypes, nonetheless get cut down to expected feminine standards by male medieval poets.

www.speculativeinsight.com/from-the-vault
Purple background, white text, which says In this essay, I will discuss various strategies by which the literary lady knight -and to some extent, Joan of Arc - was rendered harmless by being turned into a romantic figure ready to be rescued by the male hero... "Rendered Harmless: Strategies to Tame the Lady Knight" -- Joyce Chng