#medievaltwitter: bodily fluid and gender question. Men's bodies are humorally 'hot' - men don't have breastmilk because its heated to blood, etc. Would you think that there's something gendered about saying that a man's urine is 'hot'?

‘Joy Is an Act of Resistance!’ Says White Woman Who Engages in No Other Acts of Resistance: ow.ly/rTbK50UPXgY

News Post: The Department of History at Queen's University invites applications for the Global Indigeneity Post-Doctoral Fellowship. memorients.com/news/global-in…

I am thrilled to be the keynote speaker for the 35th Medieval Studies Student Colloquium, "Dissonance & Dysphoria" at Cornell University. My talk is entitled "Broken Trans Masculinities: Old Norse Trans Studies and Its Disappointments."🏳️‍⚧️ If you're around Ithaca, please join us on Feb 22!

trans woman Bebe Scarpinato outside Bellevue Hospital, 1971 // protest outside NYU Langone, which began cancelling health care appointments for trans youth this week, 2025

Please consider submitting to the symposium I'm organising at UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies in 2026: "Odious Comparisons Across and Beyond the Early Global World" (April 17-April 18 2026 [In Person], CMRS-Center for Early Global Studies, UCLA). #Medievaltwitter CFP HERE: bit.ly/OdiousComparis…

Medievailsts! If you have promising students who are looking to come to the UK to study for an MA, please take a look at the UEA MA in Medieval History: study ‘England and the Continent in the Middle Ages’ in our beautiful old city uea.ac.uk/course/postgra…

Applications are open for the 2025 SMFS Rising Star Grant, which is awarded to an ECR BIPOC scholar in medieval studies! More details here: tinyurl.com/RS-Details-MED…. Due March 15 2025. #medievaltwitter

Folks who are competent in 16th century administrative hands [unfortunately, in Sweden]: what do we think this ligature is? The full word is in the second picture.

Crisis averted, it’s a p.

Reminder that you have until the end of the month [April 30] to apply to the Spring 2026 symposium I'm organizing at UCLA: Odious Comparisons, Across and Beyond the Early Global World. #medievaltwitter Read the full CFP HERE [bit.ly/OdiousComparis…].

The 2025 call for applications to the Foremothers' Fellowship is now open! ⭐This grant provides $2,000 for a current doctoral candidate (at the time of the proposed project) to undertake a significant project related to feminist medieval studies! smfsweb.org/prizes/foremot…

Friends, I’m revamping my medieval to renaissance literature syllabus for a MWF semester schedule (🥲). Advocate for your favourite texts to include !

#medievaltwitter, will you be at #kzoo25? Join us for our incredible line-up of sponsored sessions at this year’s Kalamazoo!

Extremely embarrassing question for Norse folks on X: I *know* snakes/serpents are used as euphemisms for the penis in ON, but I am struggling for examples. The best think I can come up with is Hrútr in Nj. who 'launches wound-snakes'... other examples?

I am really saddened by the level of vitriol and hatred being directed toward the trans community. We are losing our common humanity. How hard is it to treat people with kindness and respect? Trans people are human beings — and they deserve to live in dignity.

STILL TIME (Due April 27th!): How have Indigenous/colonized populations appropriated the ‘medieval’? How has this appropriation shed light on the settler-colonial ideology that permeates medievalism? There is still time to submit to NCS 2026! Why not submit to my panel?

If you are interested in attending the LAMEMS Spring Lecture, you can register online here: events.ucalgary.ca/arts/calgary-i… This free hybrid event is open to anyone! When: April 25, 10am(MDT) Where: HNSC 334, UCalgary Campus and on ZOOM

New work from me in ACMRS Press’s The Sundial, all about Greenland and imperial fantasies, old and new. medium.com/the-sundial-ac…