academic @QMULsed · feminist theory · queer theory · contemporary lit and culture
London, England
Joined August 2011
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I wrote a thing and it is in the world. An ode to exes and the shapes we keep making. Thanks so much @Ro_Mclaughlin for being such a dreamy editor.
‘Why are exes so frequently described via the language of failure?’ Now online, Sam McBean (@s_mcbean) reflects on the queer photography of Ren Hang (via @coberlin) and the ‘infrastructure’ of ex-lovers. Read it here: thewhitereview.org/reviews/b…
I’ll be doing a little Q&A with director Kanchi Wichmann after the screening of Break My Fall… lesbian cinema not to be missed.
On Sunday 26 Feb afternoon
we host a very special screening @riocinema
Introduced by one and only @s_mcbean
Come witness East London #queer history
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Such wonderful affirmation to receive about my new writing ☺️. Thanks you to everyone who attended and to the Society of Queer Studies in Finland for the invite to speak.
Attending today Queer tentaclles conference @JYUhytk Just listened to perhaps the best keynote I’ve ever attended, such a beautiful and innovative talk on Queer grief by Sam McBean jyu.fi/hytk/fi/laitokset/mut…
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Here I am, peddling my thoughts on the circulation of desire (queerness! logistics!) in 'Sense8'... hot off the 'Feminist Media Studies' press.
(DM me if you don't have access and want a copy)
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‘Let me begin by saying that I came to theory because I was hurting… I came to theory desperate, wanting to comprehend-to grasp what was happening around and within me. Most importantly, I wanted to make the hurt go away. I saw in theory then a location for healing.’💔bell hooks
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Lesbian camp weekender indeed ⛺️... I’ll be introducing Pumping Iron II 💪 and @CBradburyRance is tasked with the delicious But I’m a Cheerleader (I’m forever mad there’s no cheerleader emoji. Not even a pompom.)
What #LesbianCamp weekender? This ONE 👇
Lesbian Camp: Yes It's F**cking Political
@riocinema 5-6 Jun + Rio Player
📽 But I'm a Cheerleader, Pumping Iron II: The Women w/ @fringefilmfest, Just Livin' shorts
Pass for all 3: £20
Single tix £8
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🎨@JavHux
ALT This image is a colour illustration by Javie Huxley, incorporating illustrated versions of characters from the films in the Lesbian Camp: Yes It's F**ckIng Political film programme. From left to right: a pale-skinned, shirtless boy playing a video game (from the short film Dungarees); a dark-skinned bodybuilder in a white bikini, posing with her arms behind her head (from the film Pumping Iron 2); a dark-skinned person with their hair pulled back (from the film Anemone); a fair-skinned, blonde-haired cheerleader in a pink top holding a pom-pom (from the film But I’m a Cheerleader); three dark-skinned women standing together in a group, one with a shave head, one wearing a fringed cap, and one with long loose hair (from the film Bonde); behind them is a dark-skinned woman in a yellow sundress and gold dangly earrings (from the film Trashy Booty). There are white and gold starbursts scattered across the poster.
To add to my lockdown sex dream diary... last night I dreamt Emma Thompson stuck her finger up my butt. Or, actually, my butt took the initiative and swallowed up her finger. And then we laughed and laughed, rolling around in post-anal-penetration-bliss.
I dreamt that Gillian Anderson was having sex with... Gillian Anderson. I think I can stop having dreams now. No more are necessary.
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‘Feminist Diagrams’ is out w/ @FeministTheory! ‘Perhaps the pleasure of the diagram... is the beauty of the promise of the perfect map. As though the perfect map might not only explain gendered power relations, but might lead us to a different future’
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This special issue of Textual Practice is now a book! Queer and Feminist Theories of Narrative ✍️. I wrote about lesbians and the ‘BFF narrative’. The title of my chapter contains not one, but two fucks.
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Have my copy now of this beautiful new feminist book edited by @JenniferACooke. Thanks so much for your work putting this together! Can’t wait to read my fellow contributors’ work 🤗
am I losing my mind or does Bersani or Edelman or some other queer theorist discuss Bernini's The Ecstasy of St Teresa (perhaps in dialogue with Lacan's reading?)... halp.
Here is a thing that now exists in the world. I wrote about Hanya Yanagihara's 'A Little Life' and the network as a queer aesthetic.
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I really needed to remember this. Maybe you do too.
Man-Size – HD restored video.
Directed by Maria Mochnacz.
Watch in full youtu.be/WuJE40OBt48.
From the album 'Rid Of Me', vinyl reissue out now.
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Queer happiness as being on a queer dance floor, feeling the 'collaborative loosening of the constraints of individuality produced by the collective difference of our desires'. A joyful read.
‘Lists aren’t evidence, lists aren’t arguments, listing is barely even thinking. But sometimes lists can help us see what our faith in thinking can’t.’
Kevin Brazil looks for patterns in queer culture.
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