Arielle Mc

👀 at you @dancingmedievalist.bsky.social (but like with no pressure)

Screen from computer in War Games; Matthew Broderick’s face is reflected over the text: “shall we play a game?”

Another exciting #CFP! “Playing Camelots,” is a special issue interested in pieces that examine #Arthuriana in various game genres thru the lens of play, illuminating how Camelot continues to evolve—not only as text & myth, but as system, strategy, & shared experience! #arthuriansky #medievalsky

The Bygone Era of Supreme Court Support for Voting Rights Sixty years after upholding the Voting Rights Act, the Court has dismantled most of it.

Tomorrow marks the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. It also marks the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court first upholding the Voting Rights Act.

We have gotten so, so far away from a Court that cares about democracy.

New from me at @brennancenter.org:

People are wisely bringing up how this will be used to disrupt mail-in ballots, but it's also part of the continuing Repub effort to make USPS unreliable, so they can dismantle it in favor of forcing everyone to use private services (ex: you can bet someone from UPS or FedEx would be fired for this)

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Check out the newest Issue of TSW!
#medievalsky #arthuriansky #academicsky #publichumanities
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The So What - Sports Medievalism CFP.docx Call for Proposals:  Sports Medievalism - TSW Special Issue *** Submission Deadline for Proposals: March 31, 2026*** In athletics, athletes are often described as ‘throwing down the gauntlet’ when t...

Just dropped! A #CFP for a Sports Medievalism Special Iss of TSW, guest ed. by
@mairistirlinghill.bsky.social! We’re seeking proposals for pieces that engage w/ the relationship between sporting culture & medieval aesthetic! Full CFP attached
Deadline: 3/31
#medievalsky #academicsky #sports

Free academic publishing workshop coming up! #academicsky #medievalsky

the ancient world just intuitively understood that hot beverages taste better when poured out of a little dude.

we had the technology before, and we can again.

Just over two weeks left to submit your abstracts! Had quite a few already. Please share with your networks. Welcoming colleagues across time periods and disciplines!

Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Winners — Council of Editors of Learned Journals

Congrats to the winners of this year’s CELJ Awards!

🏆 Best Special Issue: James Baldwin Review
🏆 Best New Journal: Regeneration
🏆 Best Public Outreach: The So What, Arthuriana
🏆 Phoenix Award: Labor
🏆 Best Digital Feature: Modernism/modernity
🏆 Distinguished Editor: Charles H. Rowell, Callaloo

Many thanks to @celj.bsky.social! Keep sending us your stuff #medievalsky!!

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We’re thrilled to announce that issue 3 is up & features a special cluster on Netflix’s The Decameron!m! The full issue is available here: www.arthuriana.com/tsw-issues! #pubhums #medievalsky #arthuriansky
And now, a quick teaser 🧵 of the pieces in this issue… /1

One more while we’re at it! We’re interested in offering TSW authors the chance to commission images to companion their pieces (if they wish). If you are an artist whose work aligns with our values & you'd be interested in being listed, send us an email (thesowhatpub [at]gmail [dot]com) #medievalsky

YUP

Call for Guest Editors Call for Guest Editors: The So What Special Issues The So What welcomes proposals for individual or teams interested in guest editing a special issue on one of the following topics: Bardcore Medieva...

Call for #medievalsky & related other ski’s!! Guest editors for issues & clusters—we summon you!!! We’re currently looking for individuals or teams interested in #bardcore, craft medievalism & medieval crafts, changing climates, early globalities, & more! #cfp

Full guest ed call linked 👇

Critical thinkinge ys vitallye ymportant and manye academic fieldes rightfullye clayme that thei teache it. Englisshe majors learne critical thinkinge too, but thei also learne creative thinkinge and compassionate thinkinge.

Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

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The number of people buying used DVDs in this store, especially of Disney movies, is oddly heartening?

There are few looks of disdain as withering as that of a teen happening upon a Millennial emotively lip syncing to “Backstreet’s Back” in the aisle of a grocery store.

I kept dancing tho. Can’t stop won’t stop…as the kids no longer say 😂

A little tuxedo kitten, looking quite fancy.

News sucks

Have a cat 💙🐈‍⬛ #CatBreak

Friends. It’s international dog day, and we need to talk about one of the greatest unrecognized threats to dogs … U.S. Republican Leadership — video: www.instagram.com/reel/DN0_9v4...

#republicans #gop #internationaldogsday #nationaldogday #trump #kristinoem

Beowulf and the Far Right (Pedagogical) — Arthuriana Why do we still read medieval stories? This is the question I ask my students before my lesson on Beowulf and far-right groups. One reason, they decided, was that many medieval lessons and ideas r...

6/ last but very certainly not least, Sarah Barringer offers detailed lesson plans and pedagogical guidance for having students investigate and critique the appeal #Beowulf to the Far Right.

www.arthuriana.com/tsw/beowulf-...

A New Poem in Context: A Medieval Bog Woman in Northern Europe — Arthuriana It’s not easy being a historian of the early Middle Ages. Historians most commonly use primary sources to reach into the experience of people whose world was far different from our own. But the very l...

5/ check out a creative piece in context! Amanda Brighton Payne shares her poem, “The Window Bog,” and it’s origins in: “A New Poem in Context: A Medieval Bog Woman in Northern Europe.”

www.arthuriana.com/tsw/a-new-po...

IRRECOVERY — Arthuriana Archival and critical projects referred to as ‘recovery’ allow scholars to make heard the voices of those historically inaudible and marginalized. When discourses of representation, centers and margin...

4/ then read Seeta Chaganti’s “IRRECOVERY,” a powerfully written exploration of scholarly methods, medieval outlawry, and contemporary resistance; a moving call to “leave the agents of certain collective actions undetectable.”

www.arthuriana.com/tsw/irrecovery

Black Neomedievalisms in Late and Post-Covid Music Videos — Arthuriana The world of man was ending, rapidly, or so it seemed to me as I sat in my lonely New Jersey apartment in late Spring of 2020. Looking out at the skyline of the city I loved, I watched my friends flee...

3/ next we have Maggie Hawkins’ fascinating essay on “Black Neomedievalisms in Late and Post-Covid Music Videos”! And yes, those do include videos by Lil Nas X and hemlocke springs, thank you for asking!

www.arthuriana.com/tsw/black-ne...

More on the author: liberalarts.utexas.edu/english/grad...

Queer Medieval Outing with Nicola Griffith: A Public Humanities Event — Arthuriana How do we recover the voices of those throughout history who have not been in positions of power and who, therefore, have been either left out of records or only represented in partial or stigmatizing...

2/ First up, “Queer Medieval Outing with @nicolaz.bsky.social: A Public Humanities Event,” in which María Bullón-Fernández & Sarah Faulkner discuss an amazing #pubhums event on the Queer Medieval sponsored by Humanities Washington

Hi #medievalsky! We’re excited to announce that Issue 2 of The So What is available on our site: www.arthuriana.com/tsw-issues! #pubhums #arthuriansky
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