Rachel Moss
@menysnoweballes.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in medieval history, feminist, parent, widow, sequin aficionado. Current research interests: late medieval family, gender, literary culture; medievalism and the extreme right.
Happy Sunday, bluesky! Hope you have something nice planned on this beautiful day.
This one is very easy and the bourbon too makes it look quite fancy!
Stress baking!! Blondie take on Frances Quinn’s famous bourbon brownies. The original recipe is here; I reduced the sugar content by 50g because white chocolate is very sweet.
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Workshop went really well and lots of interest in the workshops we are running online in June - will publish details soon in case any of you would like to attend too!! Great to interact with people working in the field over these issues.
Tomorrow we’re running Extreme Right Ideology Aware: Online Radicalisation in Extreme Right Spaces, a 1 day workshop for practitioners. Today I’m drafting my BA Leverhulme small grant app for proposed project “medievalism, masculinity & politicised nostalgia in the British extreme right 1962-86” 🗃️
A humid morning - think I’m already ✨glowing✨ - for our extreme right awareness workshop
I’m bona fide obsessed with Mars, but yes: “I question anyone among the richest people in the world who sells a story of caring so much for human survival that he must send rockets into space. Someone in his position could do so many things on our little blue dot itself to help those in need.”
gonna print this out and stick it in the seat back pocket for muskrat to read when he takes is inaugural flight to mars
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Mars Is a Hellhole
Colonizing the red planet is a ridiculous way to help humanity.
www.theatlantic.comLove seeing this kind of post before 7:30am, gives it an additional unhinged energy (I mean this very sincerely) ✨✨
Please do!! They only need to be short - the idea is working papers, nothing too polished, with lots of time for discussion!
Thursday boost, please share. I know many people were interested first time round but can’t get to Northampton - well, now you can take part!! 🗃️
Exciting news - had such a strong response to my Politicised Nostalgias CFP I have now added an additional ONLINE day on 12 July & have reopened the call, please share & submit your abstracts by 31/5! The in person day is currently full. www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo...
Politicised Nostalgias | University of Northampton
Participants are invited to a workshop on political nostalgias, from the ancient world to the contemporary moment.
www.northampton.ac.ukTomorrow we’re running Extreme Right Ideology Aware: Online Radicalisation in Extreme Right Spaces, a 1 day workshop for practitioners. Today I’m drafting my BA Leverhulme small grant app for proposed project “medievalism, masculinity & politicised nostalgia in the British extreme right 1962-86” 🗃️
Feel like Dune Prophecy might take up the space in my brain Game of Thrones did in the early years before I abandoned it in disgust. I AM READY!!
(I mean in the formal court response context, obviously can't know what conversations took place!)
yes absolutely - and doesn't seem like anyone asked Margaret how she understood her own body?
absolutely - gynaeological exams at the best of times aren't fun, but to have people trying to prove what you could or couldn't fit there? Horrible - potentially very physically uncomfortable as well as emotionally distressing.
what embarrassing people
The link to the full list of signatories is here. 🧪 🗃 docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Poor Margaret, how distressing to have all of this exposed in court. :(
There’s a lot of drawing on the medieval by all kinds of extreme right groups so this doesn’t surprise me! Hoping I might be able to get some research money to do some proper work on all this…
Busy but productive day today working in the Searchlight Archive researching material for a co-authored article on British neo-Nazi activity in the 90s and 00s. Amazing where medieval studies can take you
Anyway, on Friday with my colleagues in the Extreme Right Research Network I’ll be delivering a workshop for practitioners on online radicalisation so expect more on these themes soon.
This is a good point - with the times we are in, we need to be precise about how we use language to discuss fascist behaviours. Normal people are really great at dehumanising their neighbours. Part of combatting radicalisation processes is a recognition that ordinary people are vulnerable to them.
"Cartoonish" is one of those things that Arendt wrote about. Wanting to kill large groups of people is entirely ordinary, and boring non-cartoonish people do it all the time. JKR is not really a Bond villain: she is a boring person with far too much wealth who wants to kill trans people.
Super interested to know more about what you’re working on!
Though since this is an online call, participants can come from anywhere :)
Kieran’s funeral was three years ago today, and sometimes it still feels unbelievably stupid that he’s dead.
Exciting news - had such a strong response to my Politicised Nostalgias CFP I have now added an additional ONLINE day on 12 July & have reopened the call, please share & submit your abstracts by 31/5! The in person day is currently full. www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo...
Politicised Nostalgias | University of Northampton
Participants are invited to a workshop on political nostalgias, from the ancient world to the contemporary moment.
www.northampton.ac.ukYeah I almost never read medieval-set fic because my brain goes into work mode. I read quite a bit set in my “hobby” periods though (we all have those…right?)
I wish you could! Always a delight to have interested people in my classroom :)
Aww that’s a shame! It’s so interesting. My favourite of his is Perdido Street Station but this one is very good.
Saving this for my Medieval Chivalry and its Afterlives course, which does a lot with fascist appropriation of the past - thanks!