Halfway through a globally successful contemporary novel, and I just can’t shake the feeling that it is has been plotted, planned, storyboarded, narrative-arced, tick-boxed to the point that it is no longer a creative act but a professional exercise. This happens a lot.

i like teaching lefty theory as much as the next guy but I can rarely do better at explaining the connection between capital and social-political domination than just pointing at what the guys with the capital do and say

⚡👉Thrilled to announce the program of the public #CriticalAI seminar series (online) Anna Schjøtt Hansen & Tobias Blanke and I are organizing🙌 Open to everyone that aims to better understand, critique and provide alternatives to current regimes of #AIdevelopment and implementation✨

🚨 The Israeli army’s order to people in northern Gaza and Gaza city to “evacuate” to the south of the Gaza Strip, cannot be considered an effective warning and may amount to forced displacement of the civilian population, a violation of international humanitarian law.

WHO pleads for immediate reversal of Gaza evacuation order to protect health and reduce suffering WHO joins the wider United Nations in appealing to Israel to immediately rescind orders for the evacuation of over 1 million people living north of Wadi Gaza. A mass evacuation would be

this really is a masterclass in media training. Clearly in order for her to do this interview CNN forced her to exclude any comment that Israel is at fault, and bc of this she decided to turn the interview into showing the love, bravery and community of Gaza 1/?

1. Napoleons in Manchester was opened as an LGBT bar & club in 1941 l It was first prosecuted for ‘men’ dancing together in the 1950s, In 1979 Chief Constable James Anderson (later of the infamous quote; homosexuals are “swirling in a human cesspit of their own making” (1986)…

JK Rowling using the #NotOurCrimes is very problematic. Crimes do not belong to a group of people. We do not criminalise groups of people based on the crimes committed by a few. This thinking is what leads to racism, homophobia and transphobia.

🚨130 academic posts at risk at Goldsmiths, mainly in theatre/ performance, history, English/creative writing, visual cultures, politics/IR, music, anthro, sociology, ed studies, psychology, social, +therapeutic/community studies Solidarity Goldsmiths UCU ucu.org.uk/article/13485/…

Everyone is welcome to our 2nd Desire for Trans symposium at the University of Amsterdam. In person only.

The NHS has just banned puberty blockers for children. You’d be forgiven if you heard that and thought “oh, maybe they were being over-prescribed.” Do you know how many children were prescribed puberty blockers on the NHS last year? 83. 83. This is a moral panic.

I've been promoted to assistant professor 😭😭😭 (and I still had to delete this first time round because of a typo)

It was honour to collaborate with Adam Murray & Stephen Morgan on a retrospective of Jeff Barnaby’s extraordinary body of work. Do seek out his films, and a reminder to UK an Irish cinemas that you can book Blood Quantum as part of our touring offer 👇

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How Janey Godley became one of the most iconic transphobe-fighters of a generation trib.al/Mejmbxo

Incredible news. Zooey Zephyr, my fiancée, was re-elected to the Montana House of Representatives, getting 83% of the vote. Many of you will remember her for standing up for trans people in Montana, and then getting censured and kicked off the House floor. I'm so proud of her.

Stuart Hall has a great analysis of this in his book, The Hard Road to Renewal on Thatcherism. He argued masochism is deeply embedded in the English psyche 😭