Domenico Di Rosa

The Caledonian Trans Reveal Scottish Gender Novels in the Literature of Devolution University of Aberdeen

The Caledonian Trans Reveal
4 March @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social & online: free

Writer & performer Harry Josephine Giles looks at transgender figures across genres in modern Scottish literature – with @vavapoetry.bsky.social, @domenicodr.bsky.social & Moth McGowan
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IASSL member Domenico Di Rosa @glasgow.ac.uk is going to take part in the panel 'The Caledonian Trans Reveal' at the @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social, 4 March, 5:30 pm, in person & streamed. tinyurl.com/ycydpfvy

📣 TODAY! Don’t miss Of Us & Others – a powerful new film by Maya Rose Edwards 🎬 Screening 12–5pm at Civic House (drop in anytime!). One day only – Sat 4 Oct! AGA’s first visual art commission supported by @creativescots.bsky.social & the Edwin Morgan Trust

Of Us & Others is the result of our inaugural visual art Creative Commission with Maya Rose Edwards, supported by @creativescots.bsky.social Open Fund & @edmorgantrust.bsky.social Edward’s new film will screen for one day at Civic House, 04.10.25, from 12–5pm, on a rolling loop so pop in anytime!

Next in our Student Stories series is Domenico Di Rosa, PhD Candidate, and our Alasdair Gray Archive x Edwin Morgan Trust commissioned researcher.
Domenico says that their research ‘naturally led toward AGA’s values; Equity, Sharing and Openness’.

Thanks Geraldine! Well done to you too, great to see how your research is evolving.

It was great to present two papers this week at the CSCS and UCSL PG symposia! Lots of fruitful and forward-looking conversations around the current state of Scottish literature research. Looking forward to seeing these papers published in the near future ✨

Happy Birthday Eddie

Edwin Morgan & Alasdair Gray were 'friends, collaborators and (inter)national representatives of Scottish literature'. And, together with the Edwin Morgan Trust we are delighted to be able to continue to celebrate their friendship & legacy with our ongoing collaboration ❤️

While the Supreme Court ruled, I tore up a fence On being trans and living a life

The Supreme Court is wishing a problem away and so gifting more problems to trans lives. Those lives can, must and will continue being lived in their fullness and their joy. My sisters, please give all your love to each other and none of it to the state.

hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/while-the-...

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Graphic with a purple background. It reads: "We are really shocked by today's Supreme Court decision- which reverses twenty years of understanding on how the law recognises trans men and women with Gender Recognition Certificates. The judgement seems to have totally missed what matters to trans people- - that we are able to live our lives, and be recognised, in line with who we truly are. We will continue working for a world in which trans people can get on with our lives with privacy, dignity and safety. That is something that we all deserve.". The Scottish Trans and Equality Network logos are in the bottom right.

Along with @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social, we've published our reaction to the judgement in the UK Supreme Court today.

There will be more we want to say to trans people directly once we have a chance to catch our breath.

www.equality-network.org/uk-supreme-c...

Huge thanks to researcher Domenico Di Rosa who delivered an insightful workshop on Tuesday evening looking at ‘Queer Forms and Kinship’ in the work of Alasdair Gray and Edwin Morgan. This research phase was delivered with support from The Edwin Morgan Trust , 📸 by @alasdairwatson.bsky.social

Delighted to announce the appointment of Maya Rose Edwards as our FIRST VISUAL ARTIST COMMISSION, responding to queer forms and kinship in the works of Alasdair Gray and Edwin Morgan, supported by Creative Scotland and The Edwin Morgan Trust

NEXT WEEK ⬇️

Free workshop at AGA sharing findings from Domenico Di Rosa’s Edwin Morgan Trust supported research project on the personal and artistic connections between Alasdair Gray and Edwin Morgan.

➡️ 25 spaces available
➡️ To secure your spot, please email info@thealasdairgrayarchive.org

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Free workshop at AGA sharing findings from Domenico Di Rosa’s Edwin Morgan Trust supported research project on the personal and artistic connections between Alasdair Gray and Edwin Morgan.

➡️ 25 spaces available
➡️ To secure your spot, please email info@thealasdairgrayarchive.org

Head over to Instagram to read our final post for #lgbtplushistory month from our fantastic researcher Domenico Di Rosa. Through support from the Edwin Morgan Trust, Domenico has gathered together archival materials that connects Gray and Morgan.

Head over to Instagram to read two new comparative studies on the work of Alasdair Gray and Edwin Morgan developed by Domenico Di Rosa with support from The Edwin Morgan Trust 🌈

Sharing this wonderful portrait of Edwin Morgan by Alasdair Gray for #GrayDay!

Hope our friends at @agrayarchive.bsky.social have a great evening celebrating 90 years of the inimitable Alasdair Gray 🎉

Image credit: Glasgow Life Museums 🎨

Sharing the first of two timeline posts looking at Independence and Cultural/Legal attitudes towards Queer kinship based on Domenico Di Rosa’s excellent research in relation to Alasdair Gray and Edwin Morgan’s work, supported by The Edwin Morgan Trust.

Pls share 🙏
Exciting new commission now LIVE to apply via link in bio, a partnership with The Edwin Morgan Trust under the theme of ‘Queer forms & kinship’ deadline 07.03.25 👇🏽supported by Creative Scotland

So before we start exploring the work, let’s begin by introducing Edwin…

Edwin George Morgan was born on 27 April 1920 in Glasgow. He is known as one of the most skilled, inventive, and energetic poets in contemporary Scotland, devoting much of his work to his home

To mark #lgbtplushistorymonth we are sharing our collaboration with The Edwin Morgan Trust. Alasdair & Edwin were close friends with much of their work connecting through themes of sexuality and love. Recently researcher Domenico Di Rosa has been mapping these connections, read more on Instagram

Black and white photograph of John Scott sitting on a wall in a suit and smiling at the camera.

I suppose I was just going around, feeling my way, taking part in this or that but not being very much committed until I met John Scott in 1962 … It was both very physical and it was a love affair. It showed me that it could happen. All through the Fifties, I despaired that it would ever happen … My writing just took off from the time I met him and the great doubts I had about myself as a writer in the Fifties just disappeared and, touch wood, will never come back. I owe everything, in a sense, to that relationship.’ — EdwinMorgan in Footsteps and Witnesses: Lesbian and Gay Lifestories from Scotland (1993)

‘I owe everything, in a sense, to that relationship.’

#EdwinMorgan #LGBTHistoryMonth

I've recently read Maud Sulter's Zabat as I start drafting my next thesis chapter and have fallen in love with her work. It is very timely that Tramway in Glasgow has organised an exhibition on her life, poetry and visual art. Amazing opening night, please check it out! ✨

Hi everyone!✨ First post on this app, so a brief bio.

- PhD student at the University of Glasgow, researching into modern and contemporary queer Scottish literature.
- lover of Italian cuisine, chic earrings, Real Housewives, and the Oxford comma.

A few pictures of life lately ☺️

Hi Paul, I'd love to be added! Thanks ☺️