Racism bingo and respectability politics
I spent several hours today at the One Day Without Us stall in Bath. For those just tuning in, the basic idea behind this is that it’s a strike – immigrants withdrawing our labour in protest at the...
View ArticleHouse of lies
So we are to have a general election while the main opposition party continues to be a trashcan on fire, and due to the vagaries of the electoral system no other opposition party stands a chance. And...
View ArticleDear Yonatan Zunger, you are part of the problem, please stop.
So we’ve all heard about the #GoogleManifesto at this point and I have zero interest in engaging with it. I do have an interest in engaging with some of the responses, and Yonatan Zunger’s much-shared...
View ArticleGoodbye Cultural Theorist Cat
Unfortunately Monday's theft of blood cells wasn't enough, and we had Chili put to sleep tonight. Goodbye little-big, brave-patient, fierce-gentle cat. We'll always love and remember you. ?????...
View ArticleA guest post by Paul about Chili
Oh let me sing his virtues: He was exceedingly Sharp. He could occupy an entire queen-sized bed. When he curled up between your feet or in your lap or in the crook of your knees he had a solid warm...
View ArticleState of the blog
As you may or may not have noticed, over the last two years or so, a lot of my writing output has migrated to Twitter and Patreon. This trend is likely to continue, and those are probably the best...
View Article[Porn Researcher] Research impact
[I’m porting across a handful of posts from my academic blog. This was originally published in September 2015.] I spent the tail-end of last week in a workshop for PhD students on research impact...
View Article[Porn Researcher] Pitching to academic journals and conferences
[This was originally published in October 2015 under the title “What I learned from running a conference about writing abstracts”.] Bethan and I have just sent our acceptances and rejections of...
View Article[Porn Researcher] I accidentally a PhD – one year in
[This was originally published in October 2015.] So one of the stories I tell about how I ended up quitting a corporate job to go research porn is that it happened by accident. It’s the truth, though...
View Article[Porn Researcher] Writing is hard.
[This was originally published in January 2017, when I was failing to write my actual thesis so decided to write a 2000-word blog post about why was hard instead. Nearly three years later, having...
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