Dr Tess Wingard
MSCA postdoctoral fellow @historytcd.bsky.social, researching sex and the Church courts in 14th century England
read more about my work: tesswingard.wordpress.com
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- also I was there on a date and I finally found a use for all the time I spent during my PhD reading Donna Haraway 👌
- went to see Staying with the Trouble at the IMMA (absolutely A+ exhibition) and overheard a grandma with her two grandkids complaining to a gallery employee that there should have been a sign posted to warn visitors about some of the artwork because "it was really horrifying and unsuitable for kids"
- women love hearing about the cyborg manifesto
- went to see Staying with the Trouble at the IMMA (absolutely A+ exhibition) and overheard a grandma with her two grandkids complaining to a gallery employee that there should have been a sign posted to warn visitors about some of the artwork because "it was really horrifying and unsuitable for kids"
- I spent the whole visit trying to figure out what piece specifically had got her so worked up and I'm still not sure, but I think Venus Patel's 'Daisy: Prophet of the Apocalypse' was a likely contender
- This is next Monday!!
- Very excited to announce that our next ISMR talk will be by @micahmackay.bsky.social on ‘An Odour of Sanctity?’: The Late Medieval Carol in Dance and Devotion. 18:00 BST on Mon 12 May, on Zoom. Register for the link to the stream via ticketsource: www.ticketsource.co.uk/ideology-soc...
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- francine!!! you made the big migration over to bluesky ❤️ btw I'm going to be in london for a couple of weeks in july for research - let me know if you're around!!!
- to mark trans history week, I want to showcase some of the best recent work that's been published in medieval and early modern trans studies; most of it is open access, so you can freely download and read it without access to an institutional library. 🏳️⚧️🧵
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View full thread4/ Charmaille, "Trans Climates of the European Middle Ages, 500–1300" - explores the interaction between medieval understandings of climatology and the sexed body www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- 5/ finally, for an introductory essay on how to do premodern trans history (though now beginning to show its age a little), there's my "The Trans Middle Ages: Incorporating Transgender and Intersex Studies into the History of Medieval Sexuality" academic.oup.com/ehr/article/...
- 2/ Maude and Perisanidi, "Transmisogyny, Ableism and Compulsory Cisness: Case Studies from Byzantium" - builds up a critical framework for exploring transness in Byzantine sources academic.oup.com/past/advance...
- 3/ Jesperson, "Trans misogyny in the colonial archive: Re-membering trans feminine life and death in New Spain, 1604–1821" - examines trans history in colonial New Spain onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- 1/ McDonogh and Armstrong-Partida, "Trans* & gender identity in the premodern Mediterranean" - examines a number of lesser-known trans case studies across the late medieval Mediterranean world link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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- i can fix them
- girl send me the chasers, I no longer fear death
- always a joy to return to lochrie ❤️
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View full threadI think it's generally people who are so terminally offline that they don't even *know* about JKR's transphobia, or think it's at the level of a few poorly phrased tweets a decade ago or whatever
- trans people sadly aren't immune from being shockingly low-information citizens lol
- I have met these people before and they are literally the most cursed human beings on the planet
- absolutely spinless statement from my alma mater and former employer, the university of york, on the supreme court ruling. www.york.ac.uk/students/new...
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- it's really disappointing to see after how positive my experience with the EDI team was when they were drafting their guidance for trans staff back in 2023-24. love and solidarity with all of you over there <3
- how *dare* you talk about upholding the law with 'support and compassion', my trans former colleagues and students deserve so much more than this cowardice.
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- cooking in both senses tbh 🔥
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- girl you struck gold!!!
- maybe im too sentimental but I would definitely burst out in tears if a partner said this to me tbh
- chappell roan mural off george's street, dublin
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- wellllll I haven't been to Bristol before so I really am overdue a trip at some point 👀
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- when I started my PhD someone in my cohort asked me the exact same question regarding my partner at the time and then had the audacity to wonder why I didn't get on with her after that point lmao
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- happy anniversary but also the alt-text on these is sending me
- just finished g-witch, you guys were right to tell me to hang in there after the first season. second season is some of the best gundam, best mecha, best god damn animation in history. what a damn fine giant robot show.
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View full threadg-witch is something really god damn special and I'm so glad it exists for all the kids getting into mecha now
- if you want to watch a genuinely beautiful queer coming-of-age story featuring mechs, the whole of g-witch/witch from mercury is available completely for free from the official gundam channel (they also have the English dubbed version if you don't like subtitles) youtube.com/playlist?lis...
- I have loved gundam for twenty years of my life and if you'd told 13 year old me that one day there'd be a gundam show where two girls fall in love and get their happy ever after, she would never have believed you
- oh this looks FANTASTIC 👀 will definitely be watching the stream!
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- ahhh ty 🥰
- having had the chance to take an early sneak peek at this essay I can confirm it is BRILLIANT and will be of major interest to anyone working on queer medievalisms 👀
- yeah this was one of the best contemporary novels I have read this decade, stayed up till 1am finishing it while sobbing
- increasingly of the opinion that making fun of margery kempe for crying too much reveals just how hardened one's heart has become
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- Yeah even aside from the "try to understand a subjectivity who is separated from your own by six hundred years and a different cultural context" angle it's like... girl does your eye even see the cathedrals all around us
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- Thank you! That would be lovely ☺️
- weep with awe at a masterfully devised painting! sob with grief over the ending to a tragic novel!! soak your cheeks with tears of goodbyes!! let your body feel her emotions like a billion years of evolution crafted her to experience!!
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View full threadmy least favourite workplace dynamic gotta be when the men decide to railroad a group conversation into dissecting the weekend's matches and just keep going even when they can see everyone else in the room literally bored out of their minds lmao
- (the women I've worked with who are into sports at least seem capable of being Normal about it when talking with a mixed group of fans and non-fans)
- at least he's pretending to care lol, I just let my eyes glaze over and don't even give the pretence of caring when male colleagues start talking about football 🤷♀️
- full text of the study is available here: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... trans people are beaten and raped by their partners at more than *twice* the rate of cis people, but in many jurisdictions cannot even access available (insufficient, poorly-funded) support for IPV survivors
- almost every single trans woman I know has been in this kind of abusive relationship - with cis men, trans men, cis women - and without fail, each one of them says that she stayed with her abuser long after she recognised what was happening because she felt that this was the best she could expect.
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- Oooh this whole collection looks fantastic, but your essay especially!
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- girl saaaame
- why are thirty year olds doing this shit, it's teenage behaviour
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- it's not a relational database programme!! you can't run queries as easily!!! it's like using PowerPoint to design documents, it'll work if you brute force it but it's a much less powerful tool 😭
