Dr Natasha Booth-Johnson

Got my floppy hat!! 🎓

What they don't tell you when you start crocheting or knitting is that you will spend more time untangling yarn than working on an actual project.

Sneakily changed my display name because on Thursday I passed my viva with minor corrections!! 🎉🎉🎉

A photograph of the stained glass window in Birmingham Cathedral. The window shows the acesnsion of Christ. By Edward Burne-Jones & William Morris' studio. If you look closely, you can see Morris patterns in the glass panels.

Had such a fab time at #VPFAExtremes (as usual) and met so many lovely people (also as usual). Saw this cool window, too (less usual).

Just submitted my thesis. Time for a nice, long nap.

Midlands Art Papers 8 (2025) - University of Birmingham The 2025 issue focuses on queer work in museums and galleries in the Midlands.

Happy Pride Month! Don't forget to check out the Midlands Art Papers (featuring yours truly) to see the exciting queer work going on in midlands museums!

My arm after my blood test with the cotton ball and tape on my WRIST which is where they took the blood from. 0/10 do not recommend.

Had a surprise blood test sprung on me today. The nurse said I had the veins of a dead person. I was very brave even though my blood did NOT want to leave my body.

A copy of Wolf Siren by Beth O'Brien. Cover is a lovely illustration of an autumnal wood with three black wolves prowling around a girl in a red cloak. Buy it or else.

My lovely friend Beth is not on Bluesky, but her book comes out in 2 days! I got mine early because I'm special 😇😇

Word and page count of my thesis draft. 199 pages, approx. 75000 words.

It's getting close, lads.

A hardback copy of Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson. Cover shows a man standing on a roof and looking out over the mountains in black and white with a red sun overhead.

Now that I'm done with work, I can finally start reading this 1300-page monstrosity I've been anticipating all year! Will I finish it before Christmas? Doubtful.

Hey Bluesky people! I'm currently a PhD candidate at the University of Birmingham studying queer fiction by suffragist and socialist women authors in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I also run the online project Queer Nineteen which I will transfer here too as soon as possible!