teaching children's and YA literature at the University of Münster
london.ac.uk/seized-books | #QueerBibliography
researching and writing various things
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Sarah Pyke
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Just acquired: two tiny pamphlet printings of the preliminary and final Emancipation Proclamation, published in Boston in December 1862 and January 1863. Made to be distributed freely and to be carried south by Union soldiers and given, in particular, to formerly enslaved men who might enlist.
writing is moving the unexpectedly interesting and unplanned line buried in the third paragraph of your final section to the very top of the google doc
Jay Moschella
and then there's Xavier de Maistre's bedroom scene
should my conclusion actually be my introduction, Y/N?
Sarah Pyke
writing is saying no to almost everything and also backing out of your existing commitments
My thoughts with all those treated so poorly, pushed to achieve the impossible without resources, care, time or acknowledgment of the sheer illogicality of these inhuman expectations. It’s only a job. It‘s not a duty. You can walk away *somehow*. Your health is more important. You are more important
This frightens me. It’s dangerous. Not to scaremonger but before my PhD, I worked in another sector in which similarly dedicated, caring people were pushed harder & harder, restructured, threatened with redundancy. I burned out. Others weren’t able to find a way out that allowed them also to go on—
