Women of 1000 || Meg Hyland
Art & research project illustrating the lives of women from around the world 1000 years ago: womenof1000ad.weebly.com
PhD student at Edinburgh Uni in Celtic & Scottish Studies, researching herring gutters & their music.
she/her, disabled 🏳️🌈
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- QRP with something watery~ 🌊 #ArtTrain
- QRP with something watery~ 🌊 #ArtTrain #Watercolor
- If you see this, post a sword! ⚔️ Thanks to Dizzy for finding this in my gallery when I thought I didn't have any sword pics!! Mahendradatta (December 2019)
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- "In Saint Andrews in Scotland, students and tutors at the then-young university were forbidden from ‘bringing in the May’ while disguised as monarchs" - fascinating given the Kate Kennedy parade happening this time of year & other May Day traditions at St A. What's the source for this info?
- Happy Beltane everyone! Here's an illustration I did a few years ago of a young Irish woman leading her cow through the Beltane fires. 🔥🐮🔥 #Beltane #WitchSky #MedievalSky 🗃️ womenof1000ad.weebly.com/moacuter.html
- ⭐ NEW! ⭐ Steinunn Refsdóttir is the latest Woman of 1000! A pagan poet devoted to Thor, she had a legendary confrontation with a Christian missionary that pitted Thor against Christ in an epic poetic smackdown! Learn more on the website: womenof1000ad.weebly.com/steinunn-ref... #MedievalSky 🗃️
- She's pictured here with her son Hofgarða-Refr, who went on to be a poet of great renown himself, persisting in writing pagan poetry after it was no longer acceptable to do so in Scandinavian royal courts.
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- There was a timeout issue so I didn't see my score, but I got most of them right - still more to learn though!! Great quiz, thanks for sharing.
- What are you reading this week? Non-fiction: The Works of Song Dynasty poet Li Qingzhao. Too bad she lived in the 12th century & not 1000 - she's just the kind of woman I enjoy including in my project! Fiction: The second Earthsea book. I'm enjoying it so far - very different from the first one! 📚
- Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
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- This is SUCH a fantastic film!
- This is my life right now. I'm on an interruption of studies from my PhD waiting for a laparoscopy. I've had symptoms of endometriosis for 19 years & have been actively seeking a diagnosis for 6 years. The medical misogyny I've faced is infuriating & so damaging in the long term.
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- Thanks for adding that! I shared it now. If you struggle to remember to add alt text, there's a setting you can choose where Bsky will always remind you! I use that which helps a lot.
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- This is great, just made a donation. Can you post a version with alt text so I can share?
- Sneak preview of my current WIP - Steinunn Refsdóttir, an Icelandic skald who famously opposed a Christian missionary through her poetry. Looking forward to sharing her story!
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- Wow, that was interesting! I had no idea the first use of the St George's flag was in the conquest of Wales.
- WOW! Check out the beautiful first entry in @norree.bsky.social's new Pokedex challenge!
- Wrong, wrong, and wrong. Just some basic fact-checking would be nice. Anyway, I wrote about Eostre here: florencehrs.substack.com/p/eostre-pag...
- ‘The Easter bunny was a hare long before he was a rabbit; the hare was sacred to Eostre, the Saxon goddess of spring – no rabidly cute bundle of fluff.’ Katherine Rundell considers the hare: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- Great read as usual! One question. I love Ronald Hutton and always recommend him for holiday origin questions. But how well does he know Old English? I'm wondering about the basis of the "beginning month" or "opening month" claim.
- Trans women & transfeminine people have ALWAYS been a part of history! To act otherwise is to impose violent colonial gender norms onto Indigenous cultures & their history. Pictured here are the two transfems in my Women of 1000 project so far, in Unangan (Aleut) & Samoan history. #MedievalSky 🗃️
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View full threadWhen the UKSC issues a transphobic ruling in 2025, it is continuing the long history of Western imperial states enforcing their violent gender binary. The regressive "cause" of For Women Scotland is the latest in a long history of the imperial state violence that transphobia is rooted in.
- No real shock here from Rowling, whose "A History of Magic in North America" was possibly the most racist thing she's ever written. Wealthy, white imperial elites like her who fight to enshrine transphobia in law continue a long, historic crusade against Indigenous & other philosophies of gender.
- And when I say "violent," I am NOT exaggerating. Two-Spirits (pan-Native umbrella term) were targeted by boarding schools & other colonial missions with violence, imprisonment & humiliation to enforce a Western gender binary. This violence continues today. transgenderlawcenter.org/roots-anti-t...
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- A film that takes place where you're from
- Drop some HEADWEAR!
- OK, this is so cool! Hoping the results get confirmed...! "In the few years that the James Webb Space Telescope has been operating, he says, scientists have learned more about these planets' atmospheres than in the entire three decades before."
- So amazing seeing my Star Trek RPG character in Sacha's style!!!! ❤️🖖
- Mine is Jevala, the bottom middle character of the third pic. She is from Risa and is a rare Risian to join Starfleet! After seeing the galaxy come to Risa, she wanted to see the galaxy herself!
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- Whoaaa, your art is so beautiful! Would you consider adding alt text to future pics? A lot of us on Bsky don't share art without alt text because it's not accessible to some disabled users. I'd love to share your art!
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- Wow, that was an amazing read. So many thought-provoking pieces. I especially liked Bently Spang's "Modern War Series: War Shirt #3, The Great Divide." Thanks for sharing.
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- This bill could also make it very easy to take the franchise away from overseas voters (like me!).
- ⭐ NEW! ⭐ The Sisters of Aakawaxung Munahanung Have you ever wondered what New York City was like a thousand years ago? Journey with me to Lenapehoking to learn more about life for Munsee girls in Staten Island in the year 1000! womenof1000ad.weebly.com/sisters-of-a... #MedievalSky #skystorians
- If you want to get a taste of what the new Women of 1000 newsletter is like, here's the link to today's email! If you'd like to get emails like this whenever I update a new illustration, please subscribe! Make sure to check your spam for the confirmation email. women-of-1000.kit.com/posts/new-il...
- Lots of thought-provoking and beautiful pieces here!
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- Lord Schweitzer!!
- Major announcement! Starting today, Women of 1000 AD is going to focus on a new time period! In Women(?) of 750 million years ago, we're going to be shining a spotlight on the unsung and unnamed foremothers of all life on Earth - amoeba!
- Amazing new queer medieval story coming from my friend Finn Longman this November!
- Let's share art! Art is defiance! Art is resistance!
- I have used many pose references from AdorkaStock over the years! Here's an example! #ArtShare The Gamblers of Parowan (2021) Thanks for all the great references!
- If you see this, quote with your green art! 🍀
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- Loving your art!! Can you add alt text? A lot of us don't share art without alt text on Bluesky. You can go into your settings to ask Bluesky to remind you to post alt text if you have a hard time remembering too.
- Sneak peak of my next illustration, set in the part of Lenapehoking known in English as New York City! Looking forward to sharing this one with everybody. 🥰
- Oops, I meant 'sneak peek' of course!
- Happy #InternationalWomensDay! If you want women's history all year round, consider subscribing to the new Women of 1000 newsletter. You'll get an email in your inbox whenever there is a new illustration or new product (roughly once a month). Be sure to check your spam for the confirmation email!
- ⭐ Announcement! ⭐ I am starting a newsletter for Women of 1000! Sign up here to get an email in your inbox when there is a new illustration or some other important announcement. (Roughly once a month!) #MedievalSky 🗃️ women-of-1000.kit.com/6fe634f58b
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- Those are some serious crimes!! I'd get arrested for forcing exotic animals to fight each other and capturing as many of them as I can in my local area. (Pokémon Go!)
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- It's not new at all, but just in case you don't know it, are you familiar with the Papar Project? webarchive.nrscotland.gov.uk/201709030103...
- ⭐ Announcement! ⭐ I am starting a newsletter for Women of 1000! Sign up here to get an email in your inbox when there is a new illustration or some other important announcement. (Roughly once a month!) #MedievalSky 🗃️ women-of-1000.kit.com/6fe634f58b
- If you join, please check your spam folder for the confirmation email! Unfortunately it is going there for some people. If you don't confirm your subscription through the email, you won't be subscribed.
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- Diary of Anne Frank? Not sure if that counts for what you're looking for.
