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Novelist, poet, scholar. She/they. Author of Out of Order (2015), Order in the Court (2016), & Doctor's Orders (2023). Lit PhD from Trinity College Dublin.

Canada • Sweden
Joined June 2012
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Just dropping by to say that the next paper in our @openlibhums special collection, Caliban's Mirror, is out! ‘The Letter of the Law: Joyce, Martyrdom, and Wildean Litigation’ by Casey Lawrence. Open Library of Humanities Volume 11 • Issue 2 • 2025 • olh.openlibhums.org/article/…
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The boys are back in town! By which I mean, James Joyce and Oscar Wilde. We've got an all new article from Mónica Galindo-González joining the collection! Homosexual Panic and Necropolitics in ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and ‘A Painful Case’ @openlibhums doi.org/10.16995/olh.16916
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“the ampersand is the sexiest punctuation mark & I dont case who knows it & she doesnt either because shes the one holding it together” — @MyExplodingPen medium.com/promptly-written/…
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Congratulations to @MyExplodingPen Their marvellous story (which we first published in our SKIN Anthology) has been shortlisted by Tenebrous Press for Brave New Weird Vol 3! tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025…?
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Joyce readers in Ireland/UK/Europe/Middle East, we scheduled this so you could attend! Vicki Mahaffey online book launch: "The Joyce of Everyday Life" 12 November, 5pm GMT RSVP for link: forms.gle/MiYfkaPeMNNKra7K7… @JoyceFound @JamesJoyceCentr @JJ_Gazette @JoyceTower @JoyceTrieste
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1994 academic: "do you do spousal hiring?" 2024 academic: "do you do hiring?"
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Yeah sure let's boil whales alive for this
My mom: That hike almost killed me! Apple’s AI summary:
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Academics will have a 2 hour conversation about how busy they both are that ends in them agreeing to co-write something new
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Watching a cheesy movie where the hot young neighbour gifts Jennifer Lopez a first edition of her favourite book...The Iliad. A first edition. Of The Iliad. He found it in a garage sale.
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I'm talking at a conference later this year (on UX+AI). I just saw an ad for the conference with my photo and was like, wait, that doesn't look right. Is my bra showing in my profile pic and I've never noticed...? That's weird. I open my original photo. No bra showing. I put the two photos side by side and I'm like WTF... Someone edited my photo to unbutton my blouse and reveal a made-up hint of a bra or something else underneath. 🤨 Immediately, I email the conference host. (FYI he is a great, respectable guy with 5 kids at home.) He is super apologetic and immediately looks into the issue. He quickly reports back that the woman running their social media used a cropped square image from their website. She needed it to be more vertical, so she used an AI expand image tool to make the photo taller. AI invented the bottom part of the image (in which it believed that women's shirts should be unbuttoned further, with some tension around the buttons, and revealing a little hint of something underneath). 🤯 — FYI the conference organizers were super apologetic and took down all of the content with that photo.
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Academia is held together by caffeine, free labour, and the two people who nod encouragingly during presentations
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academia is so brutal to ECRs. my current job ends this month & my email is vanishing that same day, which is causing havoc with the journal portals where Ive got articles submitted / accepted / in production. mayb Im naive, but is it rlly that hard to give us a few months grace?
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It's been said a million times before but if public libraries were invented today the law would strike them down
BREAKING: The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the long-running, closely watched copyright case over the scanning and lending of print library books. Full story to follow.
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Our first event of the season! Eric A. Lewis: "Complicit Reading: Castle-Agent Readers and the 'Hostile Milieu' of Ulysses." Sep. 12, 6pm. In-person at @nyit. @JoyceFound @JamesJoyceCentr @johnstonglenn @Ulyssesin80 @UlyssesSeen More info and RSVP: joycesociety.com/events/4ghh…
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The autistic trait that bites me in the ass most frequently is my impenetrable belief that if I show people the truth they will believe me.
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Bag of Bones have JUST exceeded the cost-profit threshold for SKIN which means ALL profit from EVERY SALE from THIS POINT FORTH in 2024 WILL GO TO a SKIN CANCER CHARITY! (Plus, it's a GREAT read!) BUY BUY BUY: bagofbonespress.com/books
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Replying to @Gabino_Iglesias
My daughter has a short story in this anthology, reading it right away!!
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