Shilo Rae McGiff
@shilorae.bsky.social
| PhD in English Lit | Co-Conspirator at The Woolf Salon Project | Feminist Modernist Studies | “No, I was not busy when you came!”
Early baroque morning; everything portentous and vaguely elegant.
June 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Early baroque morning; everything portentous and vaguely elegant.
Mr. Pepper as environmental bellwether—
May 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Mr. Pepper as environmental bellwether—
Well, hello, Tree Pollen. We meet again.
May 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Well, hello, Tree Pollen. We meet again.
the jauntiest of tunes being spun by a baltimore oriel outside my window—
May 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
the jauntiest of tunes being spun by a baltimore oriel outside my window—
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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
Support us as we continue to #FreeBlackMamas who are being held in cages because they can’t afford bail.
bit.ly/freeblackmamas2025
May 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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
Support us as we continue to #FreeBlackMamas who are being held in cages because they can’t afford bail.
bit.ly/freeblackmamas2025
some evening redness in the west—
May 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
some evening redness in the west—
Gosh, Ithaca. In May you are astonishing.
May 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Gosh, Ithaca. In May you are astonishing.
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For today’s #ModWrite we are working on accessibility and presentation guidelines for #VWoolf2025: Woolf & Dissidence 💫
✍️ What are you working on for #ModWrite Monday? Show us using the hashtag!
April 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
For today’s #ModWrite we are working on accessibility and presentation guidelines for #VWoolf2025: Woolf & Dissidence 💫
psychic wind attack : rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
April 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
psychic wind attack : rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
canary as moral compass—
April 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
canary as moral compass—
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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...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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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...
April 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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...
behold the magnolia—
April 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
behold the magnolia—
Reposted by Shilo Rae McGiff
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
open.clemson.edu/vwoolfselect...
#VirginiaWoolf #VWoolf2022
Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers | Vol 31 | Iss 1
open.clemson.edu
April 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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
open.clemson.edu/vwoolfselect...
#VirginiaWoolf #VWoolf2022
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?
Happy Monday! Share with us what you are working on using the hashtag #ModWrite!! 🤩
April 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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?
I mean…I think we know why our libraries are full of tears.
April 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I mean…I think we know why our libraries are full of tears.
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—
of blue crocuses,
crocuses, walled against blue of themselves,
blue of that upper earth,
blue of the depth upon depth of flowers,
lost—
April 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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—
of blue crocuses,
crocuses, walled against blue of themselves,
blue of that upper earth,
blue of the depth upon depth of flowers,
lost—
Take one last look at this sacred heart / before it blows
April 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Take one last look at this sacred heart / before it blows
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Energetic, well attended “Hands Off” March in Ithaca, in spite of less than ideal weather.
April 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Energetic, well attended “Hands Off” March in Ithaca, in spite of less than ideal weather.
gone huffing magnolia
April 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
gone huffing magnolia
the unbearable snootiness of the midtown coffee shop disrupted by a pink heart raincoat—
April 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
the unbearable snootiness of the midtown coffee shop disrupted by a pink heart raincoat—