phd student in french literature (19th-20th c.) • thèse sur renée vivien • all things queer & fin-de-siècle • she/her 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 also on 🩵 sky!
Oxford, England
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In collaboration with @ars_memoriae_ox, the new cohort of QIO co-convenors is elated to welcome Dr Benjamin Bateman to Oxford for two lectures and public discussions on queer(ing) survival, HIV/AIDS, realism, and melancholia. In Week 6, Dr Bateman will be talking to us about: 🧵
ALT Poster for Dr Benjamin Bateman at Oxford. ‘Facing It: Literary Realism in the Early Years of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic’. Wednesday 20 November, 12pm, Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building, Oxford OX2 6GG. ‘Andrew Holleran, HIV/AIDS Fiction, and the Forms Melancholia takes.’ Thursday 21 November, Room 2, Taylor Institution Library, St Giles', Oxford OX1 3NA.
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La Femme Chauve-Souris (The Bat-Woman), by French painter Albert Joseph Penot (1890). In private collection.
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Join us for a conversation with @doboulanger about her new co-edited book, Arts et activismes afroqueers: Littératures, images, performances ✨✨
6.30pm, 23 October 2024
All welcome!
torch.ox.ac.uk/event/notes-o…
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So excited to introduce our line-up of speakers at the French Graduate Seminar at All Souls, Oxford! Lucky to be co-convening with my wonderful supervisor @CatrionaSeth and friend Ramani Chandramohan. Speakers include @EKoubis and more! 🥂@OxfordModLangs
takeaways from Joseph Allen Boone’s ‘Homoerotics of Orientalism’ so far: the gay obsession with coffee & hot baristas is a time-honoured tradition 🫶🏻
comme une envie de ressortir ces mouvements tecktonik appris dans la cours de récré en CM2 ce matin en écoutant de vieux tubes des années 2000 à la BU… that’s what I call ‘Péché des Musiques’ (1904) de Renée Vivien 😌
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this Thursday, I’ll be talking about Paris & the making of LGBTQ+ martyrs at @NCFSassoc – a little something I’ve been mulling over throughout my PhD… come along to hear about messy love squares, evil twinks, & more! ☕️
ALT Slide that says “Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future: Queer hagiographies of fin-de-siècle Paris” against a backdrop of photographs of Oscar Wilde & Alfred Douglas, and Renée Vivien & Natalie Clifford Barney
c’est quoi cette interprétation totalement perchée de la perf de Chappell Roan aux VMA ? elle est en cotte de mailles, elle porte une épée à deux mains et une arbalète, RIEN À VOIR AVEC LE XVIIE SIÈCLE BORDEL DE MERDE
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A reminder that the deadline for panel and paper proposals for next year's SFS conference in Bristol is 21st September 2024. The CfP is available via the link below:
sfs.ac.uk/conferences/sfs-an…
@FrenchUoB1 @BristolCompLit @BristolUni
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"Gisèle Pélicot asked for an open public trial so that the faces of the RAPISTS can be seen. And the media are filming her and taking her out. It is unfair and disgusting. Let us feminist women do what she asked for “that shame changes sides”, by spreading their faces in print."
