Rhiannon Garth Jones
Teaching Fellow in Global Medieval History, Uni of Leeds. PhD in early Abbasid visual language of power & relationship to Rome, general geek, chronically ill. I want to live on a boat again. She/her.
*All Roads Lead to Rome* out now with Aurum Press.
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- Reposted by Rhiannon Garth JonesIan McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
- Reposted by Rhiannon Garth JonesOkay hear me out. A holiday. For cheese. Not in honor of cheese necessarily, but the celebration custom involves... Eating cheese.
- Reposted by Rhiannon Garth JonesClassical reception crew: if you have written a classical reception book* (anywhere in the ancient world obviously not just Greece and Rome) that is open access or has a cover price of less than £30, can you let me know so I can check I’ve covered them all in my list? Thanks!
- Reposted by Rhiannon Garth Jonesjust decade after benighted decade of racists rebranding eugenics thinking as heterodoxy and people who knew better going along with it bc it’s so gauche to be angry all the time do calm down dear
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- Reposted by Rhiannon Garth Jonesacademia, sorry to say, is fully implicated---our load-bearing belief of "genius dude acts immorally, but is genius" and it's a matter of seeing sleaze and thinking "prestige" and when genius things happen from anyone else they don't land, might as well be sending ideas out in a bottle on the ocean
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- Reposted by Rhiannon Garth JonesIt is the release day for Attacking the Space!! If you haven't pre-ordered you can now pick-up a copy in your local bookshop.
- Reposted by Rhiannon Garth JonesI think an uncomfortable amount of academia depends on young people with deep reserves of energy operating under the hope that they’ll eventually reach a point where they‘re stable enough to rest before their bodies collapse.
- Reposted by Rhiannon Garth JonesI wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
- Reposted by Rhiannon Garth JonesHello, I have a new book out in the spring with Picador and I would love it if you could help me spread the word. IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it. Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...
- Reposted by Rhiannon Garth JonesThe government’s suggestion that rolling out 20 minute courses on writing “AI“ prompts, sponsored by Google, Microsoft and Amazon, is somehow comparable to the founding of the Open University (the Wilson government‘s, & Jennie Lee’s, proudest achievement), is an insult to our human intelligence.
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Three-year #postdoc in Bern for an art historian specializing in #medieval or #earlymodern textiles. #arthistory - Reposted by Rhiannon Garth JonesAbout 6.8 million people – half of all those in poverty – were in very deep poverty, the highest number and proportion since records began three decades ago - @jrf-uk.bsky.social analysis www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
- Reposted by Rhiannon Garth JonesMy book, "The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greece and Rome to Justify Hate" is out! Promo Code WIN26 will get you 30% off at @yalepress.bsky.social. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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- Reposted by Rhiannon Garth JonesWhenever I’m feeling really horrible about the state of the world, I like to go through the #ClearTheList hashtag on here and order classroom supplies for teachers off their wishlists - if you can afford it, it’s a great way to make your donation count.
- Reposted by Rhiannon Garth JonesLast term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:
- Reposted by Rhiannon Garth JonesThis week I wrote about one of my favorite commissioned maps: a 2022 map of the silk roads in Muslim lands. In this week's post, I write about how I drew the mountains. And there are so many mountains on this map! The post is free to read, so have at it! www.patreon.com/posts/silk-r...
- Took a break from exam marking to get on my favourite hobby horse: sport *matters* because it's about communities, in ways that are both silly and serious. People who don't understand that shouldn't be entrusted with managing it - aka the WRU can fuck off. Also some fun chat about the 6N, obv.
- Our latest episode is here, w @rhigarthjones.bsky.social standing in for @joshgardner.bsky.social, who is away plotting.
- Also I made a (bad) pun because the world looks a bit end-timesy so why not give new stuff a whirl? Didn't love it.
- Reposted by Rhiannon Garth Jonesgofund.me/c66dc3659 EMERGENCY — A CHILD’S LIFE AT RISK Please stop and help. You may be the only hope to save my child. My son is in critical condition after being shot by a drone. He is now in surgery and urgently needs treatment outside Gaza. Please donate and share to help save his life.
- Reposted by Rhiannon Garth JonesThe New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
- Reposted by Rhiannon Garth JonesPleasd help if you can 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
- It's exam marking time and, once again, these kids are alright. More than alright. Some of these essays are a joy to read and all of them have tried to grapple with some pretty big concepts - I'm so proud of them 🥰
- This course has been wonderful to teach but it's definitely been challenging for them - so many of them have really risen to that challenge and all of them have seriously tried. catalogue.leeds.ac.uk/Module/UG/HI...
- Actually a bit giddy about this latest one, ngl
- Reposted by Rhiannon Garth JonesI’m seeing increased use of this word and I just want to gently suggest that if there’s one word you can manage to remove from your vocabulary it should be this one. It was coined by a eugenicist who used it as a diagnosis to forcibly institutionalize and sterilize mentally disabled people.
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- Reposted by Rhiannon Garth JonesI can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.
- My book is *on display* at Heffers, in Cambridge! 🤭
- I think this means it's fair to use the line "you can get it in all good bookshops" (pssst also libraries and audiobook sites). Get it online and still support indie bookshops here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/all-...
