Diversity is strength. Equity is freedom. Inclusion is liberation. Professor of Visual Politics, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Also dance caller/teacher, public transport fan, avid walker, and sometime printmaker.https://bsky.app/profile/lsiddons.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/lsiddons.bsky.social/post/3mjomuv4xlc26Unbearable to listen to #BBC Woman’s Hour sympathetically platform Kishwer Falkner as she continues to unfounded, false, antitrans fears about women’s safety. #NION17 Apr 2026 09:38 +0000at://did:plc:flyb45vjrqsjqgh5pqszhfga/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjomuv4xlc26https://bsky.app/profile/lsiddons.bsky.social/post/3mj2dgnsy4223“No wonder that their shoe bills were quite as substantial as their hefty yearly bill for cheese…” #lifegoals from walking enthusiasts, the Ladies of Llangollen (and credit to author Elizabeth Mavor for the delightful observation and felicitous turn of phrase).09 Apr 2026 07:56 +0000at://did:plc:flyb45vjrqsjqgh5pqszhfga/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj2dgnsy4223https://bsky.app/profile/lsiddons.bsky.social/post/3m3zotj74gs2oEncountering myself in the wild at #LesbianLives — just outside the room where I’m about to present. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social25 Oct 2025 15:19 +0000at://did:plc:flyb45vjrqsjqgh5pqszhfga/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3zotj74gs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/lsiddons.bsky.social/post/3m2kalu7zos2nEnjoyed seeing prints by women at the V&A, but will there ever be a print exhibition that doesn’t feel compelled to explain print processes in detail? Other media don’t get this treatment. Also have qs about the aggressive pastoralism of their 21st-c selection…06 Oct 2025 18:30 +0000at://did:plc:flyb45vjrqsjqgh5pqszhfga/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2kalu7zos2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/lsiddons.bsky.social/post/3lziebcfbks2pThis morning’s FT inadvertently summarises management everywhere in its analysis of corporate discussions of AI: “When we spoke to executives, they would often say the internal tool was very successful,” said Challapally. “But when we spoke to employees, we found zero usage.”23 Sep 2025 07:05 +0000at://did:plc:flyb45vjrqsjqgh5pqszhfga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lziebcfbks2phttps://bsky.app/profile/lsiddons.bsky.social/post/3lwnytzluic2gSummer’s almost over (where does the time go?!) and I’ve been meaning for months to share this lovely short review of Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon by Cassandra Langer for The G&LR: https://glreview.org/article/short-reviews-60/ — next up, new research from this project at Lesbian Lives in NYC this Oct!18 Aug 2025 08:41 +0000at://did:plc:flyb45vjrqsjqgh5pqszhfga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwnytzluic2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/lsiddons.bsky.social/post/3lnz6qvkws225Starbucks CEO discovers people prefer people to machines: “We’re finding through our work that investments in labour rather than equipment are more effective at improving throughput and driving transaction growth,” he told analysts. (Financial Times, 29 April 2025)30 Apr 2025 06:39 +0000at://did:plc:flyb45vjrqsjqgh5pqszhfga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnz6qvkws225https://bsky.app/profile/lsiddons.bsky.social/post/3lnb773nxs22nMieke Bal, 2003: “one must study a boundary without policing it … studying a boundary and policing it are *incompatible* activities. When you police a boundary … it is no more open to questioning than the law is to the police. When you study a boundary it is put at risk, denaturalized.”20 Apr 2025 17:43 +0000at://did:plc:flyb45vjrqsjqgh5pqszhfga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnb773nxs22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/lsiddons.bsky.social/post/3lmf25h7tz22hUnabashedly delighted to see Good Pictures in person at the @forarthistory.org.uk book fair in York — thanks @uminnpress.bsky.social for being present!09 Apr 2025 12:58 +0000at://did:plc:flyb45vjrqsjqgh5pqszhfga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmf25h7tz22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/lsiddons.bsky.social/post/3llvfn3d3e22iToday: the @societyofauthors.bsky.social protests #MetaBookThieves in London. Amidst widespread, centuries-old (admittedly quibbly) consensus around copyright, why is wholesale corporate theft even a debate? https://societyofauthors.org/2025/04/01/soa-day-of-action-following-allegations-of-metas-mass-theft-of-authors-work/03 Apr 2025 07:41 +0000at://did:plc:flyb45vjrqsjqgh5pqszhfga/app.bsky.feed.post/3llvfn3d3e22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/lsiddons.bsky.social/post/3llhf23lztk2lIs it AI undermining peer review, or is it offering evidence that we have definitively hit the wall in terms of pressuring academics to do more with less? (Hint: it’s both.) https://theconversation.com/vague-confusing-and-did-nothing-to-improve-my-work-how-ai-can-undermine-peer-review-25104028 Mar 2025 17:53 +0000at://did:plc:flyb45vjrqsjqgh5pqszhfga/app.bsky.feed.post/3llhf23lztk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/lsiddons.bsky.social/post/3lko2gmjurs2t“The free space of creation exists only when it is actively, aggressively, courageously, persistently occupied” — Marilyn Frye, “Do you have to be a lesbian to be a feminist?” off our backs (Aug/Sept 1990): 22.18 Mar 2025 16:07 +0000at://did:plc:flyb45vjrqsjqgh5pqszhfga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lko2gmjurs2thttps://bsky.app/profile/lsiddons.bsky.social/post/3lkl25bxwd22hM. Gessen nails it: “The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/opinion/trump-trans-denationalizing.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/opinion/trump-trans-denationalizing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare17 Mar 2025 11:24 +0000at://did:plc:flyb45vjrqsjqgh5pqszhfga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkl25bxwd22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/lsiddons.bsky.social/post/3lkfpfteegc26The brilliant and delightful Andrew Swaine came to my IVFDF workshop, Dancing Queer History, and had some thoughts which led to a conversation, the results of which he has written up here: https://andrewswaine.uk/interpretations/fair-quaker-deal15 Mar 2025 08:28 +0000at://did:plc:flyb45vjrqsjqgh5pqszhfga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkfpfteegc26https://bsky.app/profile/lsiddons.bsky.social/post/3ljatksowzs2oMy ‘Dancing Queer History’ workshop at IVFDF this Sunday comes with a free two-page handout for the first ten dancers, which is what happens when concern for the environment and the excitement of sharing collide in the copy room.28 Feb 2025 16:34 +0000at://did:plc:flyb45vjrqsjqgh5pqszhfga/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljatksowzs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/lsiddons.bsky.social/post/3liyz2ehsik27Winchester School of Art is looking for an artist with substantive creative digital/technical knowledge, either hardware- or software-based -- someone who uses tech as their medium, not just their platform. Does this sounds like you or someone you know? https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=3017225FH25 Feb 2025 13:51 +0000at://did:plc:flyb45vjrqsjqgh5pqszhfga/app.bsky.feed.post/3liyz2ehsik27https://bsky.app/profile/lsiddons.bsky.social/post/3ligt4dzpz22u@lenamattheis.bsky.social & I just had this 💜 convo, but in US politics it was ahe’s ago (before, eg, Trump attacked USAID, which work[s/ed] with/for queer & Indigenous people in the US & abroad). Book is free bc of @neh-odh.bsky.social & @uminnpress.bsky.social. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3HXJ6YHxFeSESZ29w5czP2?si=tvTyE2w3T0yvs8t9eQWeFw18 Feb 2025 08:17 +0000at://did:plc:flyb45vjrqsjqgh5pqszhfga/app.bsky.feed.post/3ligt4dzpz22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/lsiddons.bsky.social/post/3lie776mc4s2kVirginia Woolf, 1926: ‘however interesting facts may be, they are an inferior form of fiction… we become impatient of their weakness…, of their compromises and evasions, of the slovenly sentences which they make…, and are eager to revive ourselves with the greater intensity and truth of fiction.’17 Feb 2025 07:15 +0000at://did:plc:flyb45vjrqsjqgh5pqszhfga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lie776mc4s2khttps://bsky.app/profile/lsiddons.bsky.social/post/3li2y55zoek2sDelighted by this accolade for my dear colleague's brilliant and innovative work! Congratulations Prof Jennifer Borland! @okstate.edu https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/GouldPrizeWinner13 Feb 2025 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:flyb45vjrqsjqgh5pqszhfga/app.bsky.feed.post/3li2y55zoek2shttps://bsky.app/profile/lsiddons.bsky.social/post/3lh54lmcuwk2bGreat review of our current exhibition at The Winchester Gallery, curated by @lizziereed.bsky.social: https://www.in-common.co.uk/2025/02/01/art-review-queering-connections-glitchy-kinship-winchester-school-of-art/01 Feb 2025 18:14 +0000at://did:plc:flyb45vjrqsjqgh5pqszhfga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lh54lmcuwk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/lsiddons.bsky.social/post/3lgtltg3kuk2nOn holiday (again!), and this time it’s Isabel Miller’s canonical lesbian novel, A Place For Us/Patience and Sarah, 1969/1979: “I can’t say how much it meant that there would never be a hurry again.”28 Jan 2025 23:21 +0000at://did:plc:flyb45vjrqsjqgh5pqszhfga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgtltg3kuk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/lsiddons.bsky.social/post/3lfv5ztcaak2tFantastic talk by @themedievaldrk.bsky.social in our Material Interests series at Winchester School of Art @unisouthampton.bsky.social this evening — huge win to see students engaging with Prof Kennedy’s thought-provoking connections between Medieval English manuscripts and comics theory!16 Jan 2025 20:54 +0000at://did:plc:flyb45vjrqsjqgh5pqszhfga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfv5ztcaak2thttps://bsky.app/profile/lsiddons.bsky.social/post/3lfovybteok2sLooking forward to speaking about Good Pictures in the History dept at #BristolUni tomorrow — join us! https://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts-law-social-sciences/events/2025/january/good-pictures-are-a-strong-weapon.html14 Jan 2025 09:14 +0000at://did:plc:flyb45vjrqsjqgh5pqszhfga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfovybteok2s