🌈 MUSEUMS. News for people trying to represent queer maritime pasts. Rainbow Seas in Maritime Museums has just agreed new plans for 2026:
# meetings every month, alternating networking & talks
# topics/speakers list now available, up to 2027. Please email me.
'Sexual Histories of SASH at sea: toxic attitudes and individual women’s fightback 1850-1950.' It's not new. Read the story of abused 1860 stewardess Isabella McKenzie. lnkd.in/e6htqkFE.
I've been collecting post-1910 'funny postcards' that portray such behaviour as amusing. I'm not laughing.
Seafarers of colour in the very heart of the British empire. I'm looking fwd to catching their story in this London exhibition and re-launch talk on Friday May 1. lnkd.in/ehgpsZup. Exhibition continues at Lloyd's Register for two weeks afterwards.
Browse this special March IWD edition of the magazine SHE of Change. lnkd.in/eB7Ju6EN. On pp39-40 you will find my five tips to help us write better.🔦 This is about letting the complexity and ambiguity of life be visible 💚💚💚💚 - which AI so often omits.
This morning I've just started reading online the #openaccess version. This book is really something. Literally marvellous.
Faye Hamill has created a treasure: so interesting, so elegantly written, so beautifully thought through. This is real pleasure of a book.
