Laurie Stras
Feminist, musicologist, musician, extreme knitter, gardener. Not necessarily in that order. Girl groups from Ferrara to Motown; all the nuns, all the time; disability studies
Prof Emerita of Music, Uni of Southampton; director @musicasecreta.bsky.social
- Reposted by Laurie StrasI think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.
- I won’t be watching the documentary b/c I don’t give money to Bezos, but what a takedown. Stuart Heritage knocks it out of the park in the final sentence.
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- Reposted by Laurie StrasWe need a home ec fervor to rival the last 20 years of yelling about STEM. I will happily spend my later years teaching high school kids how to meal plan, budget, prep, and cook if needed to serve my country.
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- Reposted by Laurie StrasINBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
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- Amazing. The police have always overstepped when charging non-violent protesters. I know from first-hand experience how ridiculous the evidence looks in court, but 40 years on the charges are so much more serious and the consequences for speaking truth to power so much heavier. Well done, that jury.
- ❗️BREAKING -- Palestine Action protesters found not guilty of burglary at Elbit weapons factory in Bristol. The six activists were also not convicted of other charges, having spent 18 months in jail awaiting trial. realmedia.press/filton-verdi...
- Reposted by Laurie StrasExcellent article but stark reminder that for all the perceptions of universities as ivory towers for elites, they are actually vital hubs in towns n cities supporting local businesses and providing key services as well as education….
- Reposted by Laurie StrasSo when do the course closures, job losses and contract dilutions begin? Becaue there’s absolutely no way that this isn’t the plan. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
- This thread tho. ❣️❤️
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- Good God, what a depressing vision of the present for Southend and the future for many other places. God rot UUK, HEFCE, and the governments of the big three political parties who all had a hand in this disgrace to society and culture. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Google Books was returning no searches for me at all today
- Reposted by Laurie StrasIt’s publication day for Ideas on Fire author Beans Velocci! Their new book Sex Isn't Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary is out now from @dukepress.bsky.social. 🥳 dukeupress.edu/sex-isnt-real #IoFAuthors
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- Reposted by Laurie StrasReminder that "jaywalking" was literally made up by american car manufacturers to shift the blame for accidents from drivers to pedestrians. "Jay" was a slang term meaning "idiot" or "rube".
- “Jaywalking is permitted in London. In 1966, the police tried to crack down on it, but gave up after three months.” People walk and cycle on roads by right, people drive under licence. Jaywalking is not a thing in English law and Waymo must not change that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- Buckler's Hard at Beaulieu is mostly tenanted. It's fabulous. The picture here of the concert hall is just... THERE'S AN OLD KEYBOARD AT THE BACK
- Still nope.
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- This is such an important read from Irish writer Emma Dabiri. Please read it. emmadabiri.substack.com/p/what-so-ma...
- Important thread by @willpooley.bsky.social here
- Curtis is having none of Monday.
- Reposted by Laurie StrasContemporary campus novel in which a professor from the US pitches up at a British university for a year and realises that no one told them that they had to set their readings and their coursework five months earlier.
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- this is a great selection of tracks! Exactly what I would have chosen to illustrate this #nuntastic repertoire
- Reposted by Laurie Stras1/ This pause is obviously concerning to researchers & universities & I’d like to specifically register the point that if the reason of ‘aligning with national priorities’ means more policy-driven & less free ideas-driven research then this move is of even more concern. www.msn.com/en-in/politi...
- This interview was so much fun! The questions really honed in on the core of what Musica Secreta does and why we do it. It’s valuable to have to articulate those.
- Thank you @naomialderman.bsky.social
- I poured my heart out about Marty Supreme, Jewish identity, why the Old Testament isn’t the same book as the Torah and what it takes to survive trauma open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
- Reposted by Laurie StrasSO SO GLAD to see a PROPER rebuttal against Silvia Federici's very wrong scholarship in the latest Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft! Thank you, Rita Voltmer! muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
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- Welp, I didn't think I could be astonished by the warped and coercive advice books written for #earlymodern nuns anymore, but I shake my head at this latest: Paolo Botti, writing in 1688, saying that "Laudate eum in tympano et Coro" means to *use yourself as a drum* and sing as you self-flagellate.
- This applies to the arts and humanities just as much as the sciences in the UK, instigated by research assessment (RAE/REF) and publications/metrics-based promotion and (gah) redundancy selection criteria. /1
- Reposted by Laurie StrasApparently history profs are eligible to make nominations. You know what to do, folks: MOAR nominations for the city and people of Minneapolis, and the state and the people of Minnesota! #skystorians
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- Reposted by Laurie StrasFor reasons, decided to check in on my Small Business Administration Woman Owned Small Business certification --- and guess what? DOGE wants women to get their spouses to sign off on their certification, despite them not having anything to do with the business! So that's retrograde.
- Alas for the punctuation. Fear, not bum fans; the sex scenes continue apace. Fear not, bum fans! The sex scenes continue apace. I read the post the first way and thought it a bit odd, but since I've never watched this programme I was open to it becoming body horror.
- Good morning from researchweird: trying to find a late 17th-cen Theatine essayist I find his relative instead, also a Theatine, who died in the desert somewhere near "Bagdat" between 14-16 August 1643 with two other missionaries, having been abandoned by the caravan they were following. #earlymodern
- Reposted by Laurie StrasWho radicalised him? (If this article has been deleted when you see this post it’s because a sub editor woke up!) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Laurie StrasThere is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree
- BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace. Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
- Wait, that’s more than they were offering a few months ago 😱 £36k iirc? Def <£40k
- Reposted by Laurie StrasNeil Young gives complete musical catalogue to Greenland for free - while removing all his music from Amazon www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/neil-y...
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- Reposted by Laurie StrasPlease spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- I totally recommend finding a convent guesthouse for undisturbed writing. Going to a convent signals "do not disturb" so much more clearly than a writer's retreat. I could not have finished my monograph without the Poor Clares of Arundel and their £25-a-night half-board room. Ora et labora, indeed.
- The matching jumpers are <chef's kiss>
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- I open my notes for a paper I'm giving in March. I haven't touched them since mid-December because <waves arms at family, festivities, house demolition, tax>. The first thing I see is a trite formulaic sentence with "[bleh]" after it. Can my scholarship ever recover? Crushed by my own mediocrity.
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- #craftivism is one of the ways people who feel like they can't speak up, who have a hard time in crowds, who may not be mobile enough to join marches, or who face other practical barriers to protest can join in and be heard. Every stitch, brush or pen-stroke will carry your heart into your message
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