Sally Blackburn Daniels

Very excited to be part of the audience for @robbhawkes.bsky.social and Robyn Ollett’s research seminar at #TeessideUniversity

‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers

‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n... such a significant collection of materials for Victorianists and Lee scholars.

This is the context in which I and all my colleagues are being told that we must bring in a minimum of £25k in external funding per year. We get 100 hours of research time per year. The bid-writing process will take up most of it.

Dr Siobhan Campbell, Mel McAvoy and others in the Writers Nook at UHNT

Great write-up in @thenorthernecho.bsky.social for The Writers' Nook at UHNT: tinyurl.com/ya9wu4jz
Over 200 visitors in less than a week! Well done @poetrysiobhan.bsky.social, Mel McEvoy, @drsallybd.bsky.social and all involved. @ouhealtharts.bsky.social
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New Writers' Nook unveiled at North East hospital A new Writers' Nook has been launched at the University Hospital of North Tees in the café area of the Tees Restaurant.

Fab article about the launch of The Writers’ Nook at UHNT. #CreativeWriting with #NHS staff is incredibly rewarding & I’m grateful to @poetrysiobhan.bsky.social and Mel McEvoy for sharing their expertise, and the staff for their creative generosity! www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2555243...

That’s fantastic news! Congratulations on this, it’s an excellent journal. I look forward to reading the Issue 🥰

Call for papers: “The nineteenth century saw profound transformations in how being and embodiment were figured across British culture. Art and science were at the forefront of these changes. As new forms of subjectivity were being formulated, the relationship between the self and the body, and between the body and life itself, were being reconfigured in visual productions and scientific writings alike. These transformations were entangled with new, ambivalent, and profoundly modern ways of thinking about gender, sexuality, form, and the nature and limits of the human. In Victorian art, the body was opened up to forces and flows which constituted and exceeded it. This panel invites papers which centre trans studies as a lens through which to explore these turbulent transformations in nineteenth-century art. What modes of…”

“… embodiment, being, or becoming come into view when Victorian visual culture is approached via trans theory? What kinds of subjects and materials come to matter differently? What are the uses of transness— attuned to transition, indeterminacy, multiplicity, and bodily change—as a theoretical and historical framework? We invite 20-minute papers exploring British art (broadly conceived) in the long nineteenth century through the lens of trans theory and/or from trans perspectives. Topics might include, but are not limited to: • The (un) making of the human; nonhuman bodies; monstrosity; animality • Ecology, metamorphosis, bodies and environments • Racialization of sex, gender, and embodiment • Coloniality of gender; imperialism and difference • Transness and disability; mutable, prosthetic, and anomalous bodies • Fairytales, folklore, myth, and transformation • Spirituality and immaterial bodies • Sexology and medical imaging”

Calling all c19 art and queer theory ppl! @frankiedytor.bsky.social and I are still welcoming proposals for our #AAH panel on c19 British art after trans studies: see CFP below. #c19 #lgbtqhistory

Sayaka Murata on stage at the Manchester Literature Festival. Murata is sat on a chair at the centre of the stage, on her right is her translator, on her left, the host of the session.

Still buzzing after attending the #SayakaMurata event @mcrlitfest.bsky.social yesterday. Fascinating to hear about her compulsion to write and process. Kudos to the incredible interpreter who brought across Muraka’s humour and voice so beautifully.

This averages out at a violation roughly every four hours, around the clock, continuously since 10 October. At what point do we stop calling it a ceasefire when Israel has just literally not ceased firing

As Minsky (almost) said, anyone can create Boro Bucks, the problem is getting them accepted

Members or Redcar community kitchen cooking three dishes from Iran

Nigerian rice dish with peas, beans, sweetcorn and beef

Participants eating Thai food around a table

Food is recognised by UNESCO as an important part of a community's cultural identity and living heritage. I am so happy to be part of the Redcar Community Kitchen project which provides space for participants to cook and share food that forms part of their cultural identity. #WorldFoodDay2025

So sad I missed it! Will there be a publication/ proceedings Emilie? 🤞

The Uninvited Guest at Theatre Space North East Review — Theatre and Tonic Written by Stacy for Theatre & Tonic Disclaimer: Gifted tickets in exchange for an honest review Content includes: Depictions of pain and strained family relationships.

It is brilliant! Don’t just take my word for it… check out this ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review from Theatre and Tonic theatreandtonic.co.uk/blog/the-uni...

The Uninvited Guest by Jamie Brown

🎭Chronic pain is real: and so are the people behind the stories.

There's still time to catch the last few performances of 'The Uninvited Guest', a new play blending lived experience, comedy and compassion.

More info >> www.theatrespace.org.uk

Dr. Siobhan Campbell, creative writing lead on the Creating Space for NHS voices project in front of The Writers' Nook wall at North Tees Hospital.

NHS writers read their creative works on display in Teesside Restaurant, University Hospital North Tees

Plaque acknowledging NHS writers, the Creative Writing workshop series, Mel McEvoy Nurse Consultant, Convenor Dr. Sally Blackburn-Daniels and the Northern Cancer Alliance for the Open University Knowledge Exchange Project - Creative Writing for psychosocial support of NHS workers.

@drsallybd.bsky.social @teessidelive.bsky.social @hwstockton.bsky.social @bnteesside.bsky.social @ouliterature.bsky.social
Thanks to Gary Wright & Dr. Jean McCleod, University-Hospitals-Tees at The Writers' Nook exhibit-NHS voices, an OU Knowledge Exchange, supported bythe Northern Cancer Alliance

I have been lucky to support @poetrysiobhan.bsky.social and Mel McEvoy with the Creative Writing to support Healthcare workers Knowledge Exchange project at @ouliterature.bsky.social Yesterday we launched The Writers’ Nook at UHNT, showcasing impactful work of CW workshop participants.

Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... Vernon Lee and empathy or Elon Musk?

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Hurrah! Glad you made it!

Hurrah! We had such a good time at Teesside running a Being Human festival hub - looking forward to hearing about this year’s theme @beinghumanfest.bsky.social

We have adopted the tradition of Jólabókaflóð in our house and this year I got a wonderful selection! Started with the Balle!

Very much feeling my Home Alone 2 fantasy!

A view of skyscrapers in the snow from Central Park, New York City

Snow in NYC this morning - thanks to jet lag, I’ve had a solid four hours pottering around in the city in beautiful wintry weather!

… looking at flights to Australia…

Where do I get ‘Shapes’? I need to try them

Hello to all #academics! The #Neurodivergent #Humanities Network, is now on Bluesky!

We've got many exciting events lined up for 2025, including the relaunch of our NDHums #mentorship scheme!

Follow us here for important updates, and join the network via our website.

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My incredible colleague @janeford.bsky.social has developed this powerful project, which aims to support women of the Tees Valley to raise their voices. Take a look at the website - it is awesome!

Final workshop of the first phase of our “Deliberate Ink” project. It’s been a privilege to work with such amazing women to produce these political messages. Still populating the website but you can find out a bit more at deliberateink.org