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Research Fellow @KU_Leuven , writing about love. Previously @UnivCathoParis and @UniofOxford . Phenomenology, queer theory, and philosophy of medicine. I cook.
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As it's Pride Month, I wrote for the Paris Institute for Critical Thinking about why 'the pandemic' has made me angry, and why it should make all queer people angry.
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@TPGRoberts
‘Why is that funny?’ might be the most cutting thing I’ve ever heard asked of a politician ☠️
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I defended my thesis in Paris today! After four hours (!) of Q&A in French, my brain has ceased functioning.
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@NC_Renic
When I was a student representative at Oxford, I once sat in a faculty board meeting where this was actually the conclusion all the professors came to on a specific agenda item.
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@RMCunliffe
The same is true with talk about ‘family’, which is always defined in opposition queer people (as if we don’t have families).
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@TPGRoberts
The thing about animal products is that it’s not the meat that is so tasty, it’s the fat. The fat is the truly difficult thing to cut out.
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Despite it being housed at my alma mater and current workplace, it took me ten years to visit the Husserl Archives. I very much enjoyed it though, especially seeing his very annoyed scribblings in the margins of his copy of Heidegger’s Being and Time.
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@sufferingnatsci
Well, they pay their staff way less. That must make a fair bit of difference! 🙃
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@si_rubinstein
Honestly, I didn’t do this when I was supervising undergraduate dissertations at Oxford… It’s part of what the student is meant to learn from the exercise.
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@NoisyBits
Oh my God, I have been thinking about this since yesterday! There's no such thing as an unproblematic French intellectual.
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Almost exactly 10 years after starting my BA in Leuven, I just submitted my second PhD in Paris. Finally, I am done being a student!
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@sufferingnatsci
The prestige does indeed compensate at the junior levels, but I understand they really struggle with recruitment and retention at the most senior levels 😬 (especially with Americans who often leave after a few years!)
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@Sisto_Sesto
I’m about to submit a PhD thesis at the ACU and Catholic University of Paris as part of a collaboration between various Catholic universities. I wouldn’t have partnered with the ACU if it weren’t for the truly excellent scholars they hired a few years ago and now made redundant.
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We celebrated our ten year anniversary in an unexpectedly posh Japanese cocktail bar in Antwerp where they served the most incredible drinks we have ever had.
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Oops, I must have been a bit too vocal to my family about how into Japanese food I am these days.
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I recently acquired a Swiss roll tin, thinking ‘How difficult can it be?’. Let me tell you: I made FIVE cakes before I managed to produce this vaguely serviceable one, which I will now eat resentfully with some whipped cream.
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Cooked a Japanese feast for my family last night. Highlights included tonkatsu, wagyu beef, braised pork belly, and a seaweed salad.
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Productive day in my little bakery: two loaves of shokupan, one white for Japanese sandwiches tonight, the other wholemeal for more responsible eating throughout the week.
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Tempura rice bowl. Fried food is healthy when it’s vegetables, right?
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Tried to make melonpan (dusted with maple sugar) and am very pleased with the result.
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Husband and I thought it might be a fun Sunday afternoon activity to make gyoza together. It turns out that folding them is not as easy as it looks and after a very frustrating afternoon we’re now ready to kill each other.
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Finally got a grip and did the two bits of DIY in the kitchen that I had been putting of since last summer.
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I recently acquired a bamboo steamer, so I made nikuman or steamed pork buns today. They are so delicious, I might just start living off steamed buns for the foreseeable future.
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Toshikoshi soba. The buckwheat noodles the Japanese eat on New Year’s Eve. Happy New Year!
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I found a first edition, first printing of Kant’s Prolegomena in Copenhagen. Didn’t dare to ask for the price.
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We’re watching Shogun so it’s ramen for dinner. I made a broth from some lamb I found in my freezer, added dashi, topped with braised lamb neck and some rendered lamb fat infused with spring onions.
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I’ve been trying to breathe new life into my rather drab Ikea kitchen, so I put in some colourful tiles and I’m really pleased with the result (not to mention feeling very butch).
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As a birthday treat to myself, celebrating that I’m not yet thirty, I took advantage of the incredible discount young people get to the Belgian National Opera and bought myself a ticket to Wagner’s Das Rheingold.
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The husband returned to the motherland and brought back exotic goods that have recently become unavailable on the continent.
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@RuxandraTeslo
@academiquette
Given that this is not at all the case in continental Europe, it clearly is not ‘inevitable’ at all.
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I’m giving a lecture at Newcastle University on 24 March. Please come say hi if you’re around!
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Had excellent Korean food in Antwerp today. All of this for 40 euros, incredible!
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To celebrate me and my husband’s ninth anniversary, I made us one of our desert island dishes: sous vide steak, béarnaise, chips fried in beef tallow. A rare treat.
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Had the most wonderful dinner of gyoza, unagi onigiri, and clam tonkotsu ramen yesterday at Tonchin in New York.
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Really pleased with my Italian Christmas dinner: tortellini in brodo, porchetta with all the trimmings and excellent crackling, pandoro with pistachio ice cream and poached quinces.
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@ProfDaveAndress
Love it. Every day I discover a new reason not to return to a UK institution.
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I improved my katsu production line by buying a deep-fat fryer, which are actually a fairly standard kitchen appliance here in Belgium.
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Inadvertently bought fancy bedding that I now discover was licensed by the Van Gogh Museum. It even comes with a ‘certificate of authenticity’. That means I overpaid, right?
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@StevePeers
I still cannot believe that man has tenure and I, along with all my friends, don’t. It’s so insulting.
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The great thing about Belgium is that there’s this day in December where everyone just has to eat chocolate.
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I’m at the Belgian National Opera again to see Die Walküre and I thought it was a bit odd that the performance would start at 17.30, but I have now discovered that’s because it is over five hours (!) long. Also, the lady checking my ticket wished me ‘good luck!’ as I went in.
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@varn0v
@ChrisvdKieboom
@LoicTheStoic
I’m sorry, but this is an odd thing to say. Rubens was often commissioned to paint a specific thing for a specific church.
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I tried making some mini mince pies and they came out looking so cute!
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Nobody tells you how expensive it is to make your own ice cream until you’ve developed a financially ruinous habit.
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Blood orange season might be my favourite time of year (with serious competition from quince season, though).
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I finally put up the three signed Francis Bacon prints I bought over a year ago and am loving the look of them on the wall of my study, especially in these gorgeous frames!
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A pan of soon to be fondant potatoes, about to go into the oven to be roasted underneath some chicken.
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Katsu curry tonight (which, apparently, the Japanese consider ‘Western food’ as curries were brought to Japan by the British).
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@dbatherwoods
Honestly, this is the ideal situation. Just think about how little marking he had to do.
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The best seats in the house for The Turn of the Screw at the Belgian National Opera.
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I’m at a conference in a seminary that looks exactly like it must have done in the 1950s (including nuclear fallout shelter) and it would make the perfect setting for a horror film.
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I’m all for Belgian shops treating biscuits the way we already do chocolates.
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Ending the evening in bed with some truly incredible chocolates.
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We’re trying one of those Japanese subscription snack box this month, so now we have lots of sakura themed treats!
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This was an unspeakable amount of work. Do Japanese people actually make this at home on a regular basis?
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The appearance of quinces in middle eastern supermarkets always heralds the arrival of my favourite time of year. This year, I’m poaching them in an intensely spiced syrup of pomegranate juice and lemon, then storing them in jars to be enjoyed throughout the winter months.
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Not sure where the mortarboard went.
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Basic udon tonight: dashi, soy, spring onions, bonito flakes, and some chili oil.
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Decided to venture beyond my Asian cuisine of choice and tried making tteokbokki.
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We tried melon flavoured Calpis in Japan and loved it. However, when we got back, we discovered that nobody in Europe stocks it. Eventually, we found a company willing to import an entire crate for us directly from Japan. Three months later, it has finally arrived!
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I’m in Tokyo where someone appears to be rather ticked off by their neighbour’s AirBnB. Don’t be wrong!
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Just saw Wonka (it’s great!), but I especially enjoyed how the three villains—the chocolate cartel—are just three different types of insufferable gay men.
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@RezekJoe
The last time I reviewed an OUP book, they sent me a PDF and made my delete it after writing the review. Won’t be doing that again!
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An incredibly kind and generous man, as well as an extraordinary philosopher, has died. Perhaps more than anyone else, Jean-Luc Nancy taught me how to read, and thus what it means to be a philosopher. I'll be forever grateful for the time we had with him in Oxford in 2019. Adieu!
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We’re watching Shogun tonight, so I attempted some sushi: salmon maki and weirdly shaped inari.
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