Amy Thorpe

@acthorpe.bsky.social

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PGR Northumbria ⭐ Leftist / histories of gender, visual and periodical culture, emotion, femininity and identity / museum and heritage enthusiast ⭐ BSL learner 👍 Views and grammatical errors my own.

Fountains Abbey church.
Doom-filled departure board at Kings Cross station, London.
Me outside Millicent Garrett Fawcett's house; a tall, cream coloured, London townhouse.
Image shows Zohran Mamdani standing behind a podium, smiling with his hand on his heart. Mamdani is surrounded by a crowd of people, and above is a banner which reads "Afford to live & afford to dream".
Gif/screenshot of Penny Hartz from US sitcom Happy Endings sat under a duvet with deshevelled hair, wearing an old blue t-shirt. Caption reads "This is the life. We feel terrific. We look even better than we feel, which - as you'll remember - is terrific".
A collection of four images of statues of Hades (ancient Greek God of the dead and the underworld), imbedded with the caption 'Hades is the reason why your standards are so high'.
Staring in the abyss that is an electronic mobile shelving unit inside a library.
Image of the Bold Big Band performing a set at the Newcastle Arts Centre.
A view across Scarborough's South Bay to Scarborough Castle. Taken from the terrace at Scarborough Spa.
Ironic image of two academic books on gender and leisure resting on a woman's legs in a sauna.
Image of a clear blue sky, footpath, open field, hedgerow and footpath signpost with trees on the horizon.
View of the rose window from the nave at Byland Abbey
Homer Simpson looking at his reflection in the bathroom mirror at an inaccurately muscled physique.
Still of Peter Dutton giving an interview in front of a large screen displaying the words 'significant defeat' after losing the Australian federal election.
View through the Fountains Abbey ruins through a window to the church tower.
Red Dwarf characters Rimmer, Kochanski and Lister.
Walter Crane's The Worker's Maypole.
Screen grab from Father Ted with the caption "That money was just resting in my account".
A screenshot of a Bluesky timelime. Above the Guardian reports "We are witnessing a slow constitutional collapse in the US" featuring an image of Donald Trump as he celebrates his first 100 days in office. Below, an account named Orange Lunatic shares an image of a ginger cat.