I haven't watched the video. I was in bed last night, recovering from the flu, and from the next room over I could hear BBC News as my wife watched. Women shouting, men yelling, and then shots ring out and there is just screaming. I can't
Metaphorically. I came across this sticker (image above) recently and it spoke to my very soul. I think a lot of us are feeling lost at the minute. Especially for those of us who work in/study international law, the world seems to have gone completely - moreso than usual
I wrote a book this year! It's currently with my editors for editorial and peer review on the manuscript. I'm looking forward, with the requisite amounts of trepidation, to seeing what they think. Come on Reviewer 2, be a friend! It's due for publication
I am writing this at lunchtime on the last day of work before my Christmas holidays. The tree is up, the lights are on, the dog is snoring, and I have one more meeting to go before the festivities kick off for two weeks. Ahhhh. This week I handed in
I dream of a time in my life when my thoughts aren't saturated with colonialism. That's my dramatic way of saying that I am deep, deep in the weeds of writing both the last quarter of my book, and a couple of other projects, all of
Today I am feeling quite down, and you, internet therapybox, get to hear about it. Reasons to be cheerless: there's a transpocalypse looming in a few weeks' time when the UK brings in a de facto bathroom ban. Your friends are freaking out, for legitimate reason. You&
The poet and author Adam Lowe titled his debut collection Patterflash in 2023. From Polari, the 'secret language' of gay British people, he translates it as 'gossip, chat, ostentatious or pretentious speech.' I've been intrigued by Polari since reading Paul Baker's excellent
I'm writing a piece for a special issue I'm editing with some academic friends, in which I write a queer feminist rereading of the UK Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers. As much as that sounds like an impossible thing to
Hi. You probably know me from somewhere. I am trying this out for thoughts that are longer than microblogging and less serious than my academic blog. I need to learn to write freely again. So here is the place where my energy might be lower and my thoughts a little
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