Dr. Shelby Judge

@shelbyjudge

Lecturer • researches feminist myth retellings and, sometimes relatedly, incels • Seed Talks speaker on folklore & myth • good at book recs • she/her 🏳️‍🌈

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Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· Jul 14

You can decide if you think Black Widow’s hair in Endgame suggests that all the hairdressers were snapped or if they all survived and had more time to dedicate to their craft 😶

A Caucasian woman with hair that is red at the roots and blonde at the tips. The woman is Scarlett Johansen playing Black Widow in Avengers: Endgame

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· Jul 14

Okay sorry to keep spamming you but this image just reminded me of another one (ish!) if these chairs imply the existence of hairdressing facilities

Cartoon woman sat under a hairdressing helmet. Image from The Jetsons.

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· Jul 14

All I know for sure is that this feline fella definitely knows his way around a comb and some hair lacquer

The Cat (a Black man) from Red Dwarf wearing a feathered purple suede smoking jacket, sporting a bouffant and fangs

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· Jul 14

The MaddAddam trilogy is Atwood’s best writing if you ask me! Aren’t there hairdressers or similar in Hitchhikers Guide? Also, I’m not sure if it’s ever addressed, but the Lister on Red Dwarf must be stopping somewhere to maintain these beautiful locs

Lister from Red Dwarf wearing a leather jacket and sporting long locs

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· Jul 14

So excited to chat about tradwives through the ages with the Women@OU group this morning ☺️🍞👰 @openuniversity.bsky.social

A purple background with a white circle in the middle. In the white circle are the words:
Revisiting Betty Friedan: Ancient and Modern Tradwives
Dr Shelby Judge
s.judge@derby.ac.uk

Around the circle are images of various leaves and ferns.

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· Jul 12

lads lads lads

A ginger cat and a black cat with a white chest and nose and no eyes lying together on a grey cat bed

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· Jul 7

Join me at the ancient history summit on Sunday 2nd Aug 🏺 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ancien...

Blue poster with cartoon images of Zeus, Achilles, and Athena. In white and orange writing:

SEED TALKS
I'M TALKING AT...
THE ANCIENT HISTORY SUMMIT
Sun 2 Aug | Ilam-5:30pm | Online
Travel back through the ancient world - exploring the cities, emperors, myths, and philosophies that shaped everything we are today. This summit brings together some of the sharpest minds in ancient history for a day of eye-opening talks that are as entertaining as they are illuminating.
Head to Eventbrite to grab your tickets!

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· Jun 27

I did this with Lick e Lix and they loved it! Well, except for the ‘fraidy-cat who thought frozen treat might = predator

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· Jun 20

🤕

A television with the menu screen for the twilight movie blu ray. Overlaid in white text is “sore head calls for ultimate comfort (vampire emoji)”

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· Jun 15

Sicily! This is a 9th century Arab-Norman fortress 🏰

A Caucasian woman wearing a black and pink floral outfit standing in front of ruins

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· Jun 2

finally got my paws on this in the airport ✈️ budget airline, first-class reading 📖

A purple book with gold rose vines and light purple decals of a Greek helmet, a goddess, and a dove. The book is THIS IMMORTAL HEART by Jennifer Saint

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· May 28

🏛️

A blonde Caucasian woman wearing a blue top with her back to the camera. She is facing the Parthenon.

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· May 25

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE

Playmobil Artemis holding a bow and arrow with a flower crown, a plinth, a stag, and a tree. Placed on a blue book with gold decals: Aphrodite by Phoenicia Rogerson. She is placed here on the plinth with the stag at her side and the tree behind her.

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· May 25

ARTEMIS ARTEMIS ARTEMIS

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· May 25

I would say “my loot from the Acropolis & Parthenon” but I’m not the British Museum

Three books on a blue background: nights without Carrie, Aristophanes Lysistrata and other plays, and The Iliad, a graphic novel adaptation by Gareth Hinds. There are also two postcards: one of the maenads and Dionysus and one of the caryatids, as well as a caryatid bookmark

A beige makeup bag with the print of the back of a caryatid with braided hair

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· May 12

wasn't this one either, then, I'm guessing...

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· May 12

Was it this picture?

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· May 12

Oh what a hero Jess Phillips is for resigning because she cares just so, so much about VAWG 🙄

"in 2024, Philips stated that while she is "happy to refer to trans women as women", she believes that they should not be allowed into spaces such as women's rape crisis refuges and prisons, and should instead have their own separate facilities.

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· Apr 21

My friend had no time for my self-pity party earlier 😂🫠

Two messages in a screenshot
1) Shelby Judge, the bargain bucket of academia
2) Lmao why are you doing this

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· Apr 20

☂️ VC Showcase, @derbyuni.bsky.social ☂️

A woman standing on a stage with a man sat behind the computer on the stage. She is in front of a podium and next to a banner, both of which advertise the University of Derby in gold lettering on a white background. Behind her is a presentation slide that shows an umbrella with TRP on it. On one side it says THE MANOSPHERE and THE FEMOSPHERE, on the other it says THE ALT RIGHT

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· Apr 19

Screenshot from the cartoon bobs burgers. The first panel is Bob and the three kids with the words “mom, what would you like for Mother’s Day?” The second panel is Linda saying “a baseball bat and 62 million addresses

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· Apr 6

The absolute best Hamlet I’ve ever seen @nationaltheatre.org.uk

Hiran Abeysekera (a Sri Lankan man) wearing a suit with red socks lounging on red theatre chairs. He has a Shakespearean collar and is holding a skull

Francesca Mills (a blonde woman) as Ophelia, wearing a t shirt and bike shorts and feather wings, ringing a bell and pulling a box with flowers on, clearly distraught

Hiran Abeysekera wearing a blockbuster video jumper and holding his fingers to his head like a gun

Hiran Abeysekera pointing both hands to his head, wearing a t shirt that says “tobacco and boys”

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· Mar 31

When your cat matches your book 😻📖

A ginger cat on a grey cat tree. To his left, a hand holds up a book with an orange colour palettes though it has a blue band through it as well as an orange laurel pattern. The book is Cleopatra & Julius by Joanna Courtney

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· Mar 20

🫖 📖

A wooden table. On it is a laptop open with the background of Botticelli’s Venus. There is also a book: artificial intelligence I. Greek and Roman epic. Alongside this is a cup of tea and a teapot.

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· Feb 11

Editing 📖

Zoomed in picture of printed text on a white sheet of paper. There are annotations in blue highlighter and blue pen.
One paragraph has the annotation: } quote from Ovid
Another has the annotation: } quote from Homeric hymns

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· Feb 6

Change of scenery today 🫖

An open laptop on a table in a cafe that also has a teapot and teacup on it

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· Jan 30

example 375,000,000 of AI being stupid

screenshot of a Bing search. the question is 'when did plato write the republic' and the AI response at the top says 25 Feb 2003.

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· Jan 21

Happy birthday Edith Wharton! @edithwhartonsoc.bsky.social @drlaurarattray.bsky.social @laurakatherine95.bsky.social 🥳🎂

Screenshot of a zoom call with the presentation:

Edith Wharton
as Musician - Musicians in Her Fiction
Frederick Wegener
Edith Wharton's Birthday Talk
January 21, 2026

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· Dec 30

I met baby pygmy goats and it was magical 🐐

A Caucasian woman kissing the forehead of a very small brown-grey goat

A Caucasian woman smiling while holding a very small brown-grey goat

Dr. Shelby Judge@shelbyjudge· Dec 4

The VC of the University of Derby unselfconsciously swanned off to the University of West London to receive an honorary doctorate for her “commitment to education” while her staff is picketing outside her university because of how she’s misused funds & is decimating the staff with redundancies 🥴🥴