The Guild of Queer Early Modernists

✨📚 Reminder that this is happening tomorrow! We are so excited to chat with @nardizzi1 all about Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance 📚✨

This looks set to be a great conference! Sign-up here (or scan the QR code): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Join us this Thursday for our next reading group session! 📚🎉

🌈📚 Ten days to go until our next reading group session! It will take place on 12th March from 1-2:30pm PT/ 4-5:30pm EST/ 9-10pm GMT over zoom 📚🌈

We are discussing Vin Nardizzi's Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance, with Vin himself!

To sign-up visit: docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/...

Join us tonight!

One day to go! We can't wait to see those of you at RSA 🌈 🌁 🌉

Reminder that this is happening on Friday! 🎉 🌁 🌉

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Will you be at RSA? Our founder, Liesl Jensen, is hosting a GQEM meet-up on Friday 20th February in San Francisco! 🌁 🌉

Meet us for drinks from 7:30 on Friday 20th Feb at Aunt Charlie's Lounge, the last queer bar in Sam Francisco's Tenderloin district! Please note the bar is 21+ and cash only.

Reminder that this is tomorrow! 📚🌈

Planning on attending? All attendees will receive excerpts from the book to read in advance, sent once you have signed-up. No worries if you can only read some of the extracts, we would still love to have you join us ☺️

📚🌈 1 week until our first reading group session of 2026! This month we are talking about The Shapes of Sex by Leah DeVun 📚🌈

📍Where?: over Zoom
⏰ When?: Thursday 12th Feb from 1-2:30pm PT/ 4-5:30pm EST/ 9-10:30pm GMT

📚 To sign-up to the reading group visit: docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/...

Fancy winning a free copy of Vin Nardizzi's Marvellous Vegetables of the English Renaissance? 🥬📚🌈

You have until Saturday to enter Vin's raffle!

Please note: all entrants should have the intention of attending the reading group session for this book, taking place on the 12th March

Exciting news🎉 AMEND will be presenting at Disability and the Archives: Access, Absences and Action. This 2-day conference will be held online from 23–24 January 2026! Tickets are available for purchase here: www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/dis....
Hope to see some of you there!🤩

Don't worry if you don't own a copy of the text, we share selected pages of the texts anyone wishing to attend beforehand. 📚

🌈📚 Announcing our winter and spring reading group dates and readings! 📚🌈

📚 sign-up to the reading group: docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/...

🥬 enter Vin's raffle: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🏳️‍🌈📚🏳️‍⚧️Here is 2025 wrapped top ten recently(ish) published queer early modern books 🏳️‍⚧️📚🏳️‍🌈

What did we miss? Let us know what your favourites have been! 📚✨

Reminder: you have one day left to apply for our peer writing exchange! 📝 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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📅 January 5–7, 2026
📍 Victoria College
🎥 In person/livestreamed

What does it mean to do asexual history? This three-day conference bridges early modern studies and asexuality studies to explore compulsory sexuality, disability, race, and queer histories.

👉 More info crrs.ca/crrsevents/e...

Attention Guild members! You have until the 12th December to register for our peer writing exchange. 🖋️🌈

Signup here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1Mxr...

To find out more visit gqem.org/events-calen...

Peer Writing Exchange Registration Taking place between January and March, participants will be paired with 1 or 2 other people to exchange writing up to 8000 words long. Participants will then return feedback and have a meeting toget...

Announcing our Peer Writing Exchange! Taking place between January and March 2026, participants will be paired with 1 or 2 other people to exchange writing up to 8000 words long. Participants will return comments and meet to discuss feedback. Register by Dec 12th: docs.google.com/forms/d/1Mxr...

Tomorrow is your last chance to join us for reading group until next term!

Conference poster featuring excerpts from a painting: a man in a tunic (Apollo) chasing a woman (Daphne); Apollo looks imploring, while Daphne, walking away from him, looks exasperated. Their figures repeat in miniature on the background of the poster, and in the center in a purple circle is the following text: "January 5-7, 2026, Victorial College Chapel and Online, Early Modern Asexualities"

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Conference on "Early Modern Asexualities," in person at Victoria College at the University of Toronto (and streamed online), January 5-7, 2026.

Get previews of chapters in the collection edited by myself, @catherineclifford.bsky.social, and @omaraphd.bsky.social. 💜🤍🌪️🖤

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Our reading group returns next Thursday, the 13th, for our FINAL session of the term! We will be discussion Gamble and Knoll's Kinky Renaissance! There is still time to join us!

Tomorrow, from 4-5:30! Join us for some quiet, focused work time!

After a week off, we are back today from 4-5:30 EST!

Today! There is still time to join us for this afternoon's discussion!

Our reading group returns this Thursday, with @badinfinity2.bsky.social brilliant Glorious Bodies. Join us!

Writing groups are really such invaluable tools for making sure time gets carved out for your work. I’m making time for this one as often as I can; I hope I see some of y’all there:

GQEM Writing Group Registration Mondays, 4 - 5:30pm EST

Join us for our drop-in writing group, happening tomorrow (Monday) from 4-5:30 EST! We will be off next week (October 6th), so this is your chance for some supportive co-working with us in the next few weeks. Join us! docs.google.com/forms/d/1UIJ...

Our first writing group is today! Come join us for some group accountability!