Lizzie Hibbert
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writer @thedraftwriters | wrote a phd about deep time in english fiction after ww1 @LAHP_DTP
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I would also like would also like compensation for this money the government STOLE from me (sorry, I "wasn't really following the news" in 2012, when I was 17 x)
Would love to know how many of the ‘wtf how did waspi women not know their pension age changed’ 1. Know exactly what their own current pension forecast is 2. Understand just how many people don’t really follow the news 3.Know when social media was invented
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I am a teaching assistant and I get paid £75 a week on a freelance basis, including all prep (which will often include reading a whole novel so works out as less than minimum wage), to teach a compulsory undergraduate module at an institution with a £3,000,000 endowment
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I know there's a Labour government coming because 2 years ago students all called Bartleby the Scrivener "lazy" and "entitled" and in this year's seminar they all absolutely idolise him
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A bit gobsmacked to say I just passed my viva with no corrections! A celebration, a dedication and a thousand thank yous 🥹
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The reason ppl see English/ Sociology/ History of Art as valuable subjects at Oxbridge but 'mickey-mouse' at a post-92 has absolutely nothing to do with presumed quality of teaching and everything to do with the class (and therefore purpose in life) of the students at those unis
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After we read Ovid, Yeats, Lucille Clifton and Jericho Brown this week, one of my students sent me 'Leda and the Swan' (1962) by Cy Twombly.
"The painting does not depict Leda or a swan," she says: only "Leda's pain."
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Men when they discover a groundbreaking new way to humiliate women
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V excited to be presenting my work on modernist fiction and deep time on this cool panel at the
@modernistudies
New Work in Modernist Studies conference next month!!
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@rubytandoh
@serpentstail
Salt in 'God's Own Country': Johnny shyly, silently, asks Georghe to share his pot noodle salt sachet, then lets him taste and salt the meal he cooks for him later on. It's a funny and beautiful symbol for caring and being cared for, and a sweet homage to Patricia Highsmith.
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No matter how interesting you think your PhD is, you will sometimes find yourself having to write sentences more boring than you have ever dreamt was possible
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What a delight it is to have my review of Daisy Hildyard’s and Sarah Moss’s latest novels in this month’s
@TheLondonMag
. It’s about Covid, regret, and the ethical fallout out of narratives of infection (and Woolf bc I simply couldn’t help myself) 🦠📚🌻
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One of the most important and forgotten contributions of the labour movement in the 20th c. was breaking elites' centuries-long hold on knowledge and culture through colleges, libraries, and arts organisations such as workers' theatres
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Arthur Holmes’ ‘The Age of the Earth’ (1927), which presents the first scientific proof (from uranium-lead radiometric dating) that the earth is several billion years old, makes frequent, substantive use of poetry. STEM hasn’t always aggrandised itself by denigrating the arts…
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Well, that's a wrap on
@stillpointLDN
2020-21 & my time as editor. Thank you to everyone who has read, listened to & engaged with SP & to the talented writers & artists whose work has made it. I'm so proud of everything we've done & can't wait to see what
@james_waddell
does next
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@Sinclelz
I grew up in George Osborne’s constituency. Our Sixth Form brought about 30 of us down to London one day to meet him; he met us on the kerb of 11 Downing St, posed for a photo, and answered a single question with “I can’t discuss anything about the budget” then went back inside.
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@PriyamvadaGopal
One lowlight of my BA was a college lunch where students receiving financial aid were made to mingle with wealthy donors: the woman I was sat next to asked me where I was "schooled", what my father did for a living, and "how on earth" I'd managed to get A*AA at a "northern comp"
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Get in loser, we’re going beyond the pleasure principle! Walk don’t run to get your hands on the latest issues of the Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies, where you can read my article on Women in Love, the First World War and fossil fuel combustion as mass suicide 🔋☠️🪖
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I wrote about
@DrAliceKelly
brilliant 'Commemorative Modernisms', grief and the First World War for
@Review31
📚🪦 👩⚕️ (spoiler: it's really about Covid)
"Kelly’s ultimate argument is this: that the true animating principle of literary modernism was not Ezra Pound’s call to ‘Make it New!’, but Mansfield’s call to ‘face death […] through Life’."
@HibbertLizzie
on
@DrAliceKelly
's COMMEMORATIVE MODERNISMS
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Me: D. H. Lawrence's novels present a coherent & convincing critique of industrial capitalism and critics' adolescent fixation on their handling of sex is a deliberate attempt to defuse their radicalism & discredit Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence:
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'Animals' (1950) by Frank O'Hara is one of my favourite love poems. It's sad, but all the best ones are.
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Dr. Thompson has left the building 👩🎓All congratulations to beautiful
@HarrietTho
for passing her viva with flying colours 🍾🥳💕
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I'm very proud of and excited about our new website! 6 years' worth of writing and art + new stuff every Monday, from Arts and Hums researchers in London and beyond
🎉The Still Point Journal is back!🎉 You can now read everything we've ever published on our brand new website, . Here's some highlights:
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It was an absolute joy to write this piece on the life and works of Richard Aldington, a woefully under-appreciated writer who is very dear to my heart, and I’m so happy to see it out in the world
Once a poet of considerable renown, Richard Aldington's work has been largely forgotten. Perhaps because he did not conform to the conventional image of the soldier-poet.
Read
@HibbertLizzie
's Portrait of Richard Aldington:
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So sick of this ludicrous, ubiquitous dichotomy, which basically implies that trans people don't exist, since a) gender identity is a totally abstract issue that only concerns people without any *real* problems, and b) nobody living with poverty or economic precarity is trans
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Reactionary opposition to post-92 universities, public funding for the arts, & public ownership of cultural institutions represents the rejection of this project by people who see aesthetic & intellectual pursuits as a dangerous distraction for people who were born to serve them
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Reading H.D.’s ‘Bid Me to Live’ for the second time in about six months. I like it so much that I find it almost unbearable.
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Left the UK for the first time in 3+ years; experienced joy
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I assume that *everybody* who follows me is as much of a Ford fan as I am, so this should come as no surprise, but just in case, I hereby announce that you can now read part one of my excruciatingly deep dive into 'Parade's End''s reception history in the
@FordMadoxFordie
journal
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What happened with A Levels this year was not a "debacle", a "shambles" or a "fiasco": it was the logical culmination of ten years of education policy geared towards the systematic erosion of young people's every chance to depart from the circumstances into which they were born
If Michael Gove had not scrapped modular A Levels against the advice of teaching pros, everyone receiving their A Level results today would have their grades based largely on their accumulated assessments. The finger of accusation should be pointed firmly at him.
#AlevelResults
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Delighted to find that my second-hand copy of the collected poems of Richard Aldington is an original review copy, complete with a 1949 letter from the publishers and a sassy, typewritten diss poem directed at Aldington by the unimpressed reviewer
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Yes, truly "exceptional circumstances": imagine having a family and a job *at the same time*! A very difficult and unusual set-up!
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Me @ all the first-year exam papers arguing that Judith Butler/ Eve Sedgwick/ Frantz Fanon/ Karl Marx are no longer useful due to the fact that misogyny/ homophobia/ transphobia/ racism/ imperialism/ classism/ inequality no longer exist
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🎙️We've started a podcast!🎙️ I can't wait for you to hear this first ever episode of the Still Point Podcast, produced by the brilliant
@james_waddell
and featuring
@ImogenFree
and me interviewing
@imogen_cassels
and David Garrard. We had so much fun making this 💫
🚨NEW🚨 We’re thrilled to present the first episode of our new podcast series, featuring
@imogen_cassels
on poetry, grief and strangeness, and David Garrard on the striking survival story of a centuries-old pub. Listen here:
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This is every bit as brilliant as I thought it would be. Beautiful, beautiful stuff from
@msamykey
(again) 💞💞💞
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I’m absolutely over the moon for
@HarrietTho
today, who just handed in a PhD thesis which is a genuinely original, exciting and important piece of scholarship. An exceptional Victorianist and an even better friend…the girl’s smashed it!!! 🎉👩🎓🍾
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those "Peaky Blinders" WWI haircuts everyone has these days came about bc lice infestations were so bad in the trenches that everyone was made to shave their heads, but bc shaved heads were considered deeply uncool, men kept just as much hair as they could hide under their caps
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Of all the Imperial War Museum’s collections, the most extensive and impressive has to be its vast collection of ill-informed men using half-remembered misinformation from GCSE history and Blackadder Goes Forth to try and show off to their girlfriends
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Me, watching undergraduates stress out about their dissertations: jesus christ these kids don’t know they’re born, 10k words is absolutely nothing, I’d like to see them try *real* work for once
Me, attempting to write a 200 word abstract:
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I got to read some of
@HarrietTho
fascinating work on 19th c. telegraphy and let me tell you I'm absolutely OBSESSED with the text-speak these telegraph operators are using to flirt with each other in 1877: "U are looking pale and shld take a vacation.”
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Rembrandt’s 1634 Descent From the Cross. Seeing it at The Hermitage in St Petersburg in 2012 changed something in me and I look at it every single day
y’all what is a painting or other work of visual art that never fails to destroy you every time you see it because BOY I’ll start:
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The BL is a great place to give yourself brain freeze by drinking 12 tiny cones of preternaturally cold water in rapid succession so you don’t pass out from dehydration
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Very much looking forward to presenting my work on stratigraphy as resistance to military temporal discipline in prose accounts of the Western Front next Saturday ⛏️⌚️🪖
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One thing I adore to do is drink an enormous coffee then write some of the most deranged sentences ever committed to paper
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1.5 million Indian and Pakistani men fought in WW1, including on the Western Front. Around 300,000 of them were Punjabi Sikhs. There was also an established British Sikh population in 1914. Ethnic diversity does not have to be ‘forced’ onto British history: it’s a material fact.
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Just got sent a rose on Hinge by the same man who one month ago told my boss that he wished he was dead after we stopped serving him for being too drunk at his girlfriend’s birthday drinks
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I'm writing about Wilfred Owen's 'Miners' (1918) today, which, I am delighted to find, my 14-year-old Dad marked up as one of his favourites in this copy of the Collected Poems he stole from his school library half a century ago. It's one of my favourites too.
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the German for 'doctoral supervisor' is 'der Doktorvater' or 'die Doktormutter' (doctoral daddy/ mummy) and honestly I'm so into that
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It’s the hottest ticket in town
Lizzie Hibbert, who will be sharing her work on Geological Time and First World War Writing... (2/5)
@HibbertLizzie
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I am simply FURIOUS at my Mum for replacing my year 6 school portrait with my graduation photos: to tear down that picture is to LIE about my education, ERASE my SATs and IMPOVERISH her house guests' understanding of my starring role in the 2005 Dean Row Junior School Xmas Play😡
They had different perspectives, different understandings of right and wrong. But those statues teach us about our past, with all its faults. To tear them down would be to lie about our history, and impoverish the education of generations to come. 4/8
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Sources say that they’re “in Berlin” and “having a laugh”
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There’s so little going on that
@annaparker_
has started writing the plot of whatever Vicar of Dibley episode we’ve just watched on our calendar
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Funny, isn't it, how D. H. Lawrence has for so long been branded a "misogynist" by media and the academy when almost all of his works are concerned with the ways in which the subjugation of (esp. working-class) women is baked into the structures of modern capitalism...?
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I'm writing something fun for the
@kingsenglishdpt
blog today, about Sam Mendes' excellent
@1917FilmUK
and the significance of wristwatches to the experience and culture of war on the Western Front
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Apparently there has been some sort of grave miscommunication between me and my gynaecologist because she's sent my GP a letter reporting that I drink 10 units of alcohol (a bottle of wine) every day
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Very, very happy to be teaching a first-year 'Introduction to American Literature' module this year that includes works by Native, enslaved, African- and Japanese-Americans alongside Irving, Melville, Crane et al
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Honestly is there a bigger red flag than the fact that Cummings literally talks about his wife as if she’s a four-year-old girl? Imagine being an adult woman whose partner paints you as “chewing your thumb”, earnest about sequins, and babbling the same nonsense as your own 4 y.o.
This is precisely what Dominic Cummings wrote in the Spectator about the same time. Again: JAUNTY.
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This of course is a typo: King’s College London has a £300,000,000 endowment
I am a teaching assistant and I get paid £75 a week on a freelance basis, including all prep (which will often include reading a whole novel so works out as less than minimum wage), to teach a compulsory undergraduate module at an institution with a £3,000,000 endowment
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pov: you're finishing off a PhD about the First World War
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250,000 Belgian refugees were housed all over Britain and Ireland during the First World War, in people's homes, in schools, in industrial buildings, at public buildings including Alexandra Palace (3) and in new refugee homes set up by charities (4).
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One month out from my thesis deadline and I could really do with an enormous dose of whatever they’ve got Joe Biden on
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If only there was a word in the English language for being “forced to have sex”.....
Underage girl forced to have sex with Prince Andrew, US court document claims
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I know that ultimately this is a bleak reminder of the extent to which capitalism invades our bodies and souls but I am very relieved Cheadle isn’t one of the 8. I have so many detailed, sensory (and happy) memories of that generic, windowless building off the A34...
John Lewis closes eight stores with expected loss of 1,300 jobs
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My thoughts on the new Sebastian Faulks, a novel which held such promise for this psychotherapy and ww1 enthusiast, but which ended up leaving the sour taste of Forrest Gump in my mouth
★★ Sebastian Faulks' new novel Snow Country is incapable of saying anything about humanity as a whole writes
@HibbertLizzie
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one of those amazing between-season days in London where half of people have bare arms and sandals on, the other half’s in wool coats and ankle boots, and there’s absolutely no in-between
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Thank you
@Mod_Ireland
- I had a blast talking about Lawrence and Nietzsche at
#MSI19
👩🏫
Where did Lawrence 'find' Nietzsche? In Croydon - as you do! Or down here, on this Broadside
@Mod_Ireland
#MSI19
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Looks as though this girl's about to be headhunted!!!! 🤸♀️
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Today I learnt that W. E. B. Du Bois wrote short stories... and today 'The Comet' (1920) by W. E. B. Du Bois became became the best short story I have ever read. I have never read prose like this before.
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An enormous family of American Christians overheard me talking on the phone in a shop about my root canal issues and now they’re all praying for me
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me bonding with my PhD supervisor and his 5 other (all male) supervisees
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oh no..... i am theresa
I am......quite here for the Flirting Theresa pose:
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Has anyone ever tried offering enormous mortgages to people who can’t afford to pay them back at a time in history when house prices are inflated to unprecedented highs before? Feel like this could only end well!
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is drawing up plans for a 99 per cent mortgage scheme ahead of the Budget as the Conservatives seek to reassure voters that the party is on the side of homebuyers
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It never ceases to amaze me how many modernist critics simply don't believe that bisexuality exists + happily assume that writers like H.D., Stephen Spender and Katherine Mansfield (who were openly bisexual in the 1920s!) must really have been gay and would identify as such today
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Marking BA English exam papers combines my two favourite activities: correcting other people’s writing and telling teenage girls how clever they are.
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I can think of no better artefact of the rot at the core of Britishness than this stomach-churning cereal bar advert comprising a letter from an Iranian asylum seeker thanking us all for being British
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A nice little holiday to Scotland with friends!!! Has anyone ever tried one of these before?
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Struggling to come to terms with the fact that I have been on this planet for 25 years yet am only today learning of the existence of these 167-year-old life-sized dinosaur sculptures in Crystal Palace Park...?
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A Punjabi Sikh regiment marching in Mesopotamia (Iraq) in 1918, with the Guru Granth Sahib. Although Sikhs accounted for less than 1% of the population of undivided India, they made up around 20% of the 1.5 million who served in the British Indian Army in WWI (of whom 70000 died)
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hashtag: my PhD
Africa's Great Green Wall just 4% complete over halfway through schedule
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Hugh Cecil's 'Grief', in the November 1919 'Tatler': the first anniversary of the Armistice.
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We write off the ‘non-places’ of supermodernity as sites where identities, relations & histories are undone. But my suburban, millennial childhood unfolded in places like John Lewis, the Trafford Centre & Pizza Express, and to my mind it was as rich and as romantic as Swann’s Way
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One thing about teaching at a university as a woman under 30 is that female students will sometimes decide to email you about their period
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Hi
@guardian
@GuardianAus
, I would be interested to know how you consider it remotely appropriate to publish this sort of language about food. 1.25m people in the UK and 1m in Australia live with eating disorders, which have the highest mortality rate of all psychiatric disorders
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This, in my experience of teaching, has been the effect of the Gove reforms: students spend all their time learning facts and doing short-form practice exam papers, so they never get the opportunity to learn how to extend their ideas or how to develop basic writing skills
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I have always thought that there is something extremely sinister about the qualifier "if you work hard & play by the rules". It negates whatever that comes after it: those with the power to say what constitutes "hard work" & to set "the rules" can just move the goalposts forever.
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A couple breaks up in ‘A Passage to India’: “They were softened by their own honesty, and began to feel lonely and unwise.” Nobody’s ever done it quite like Forster 💔
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: not going to Andy Burnham’s DJ set at Electrik in Chorlton when I had the chance has been one of the biggest regrets of my life
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Gratifying, at least, to watch Cummings discover- as I did about two years into university- that the old “I’m not posh, I have a northern accent” defence can only last you so long
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An absolutely essential companion piece to ‘The Right to Sex’, over which the tired axiom “Man fucks woman; subject verb object” looms depressingly large
In the last decade, the classroom has replaced the boardroom as the terrain of feminist analysis. The risks of this manoeuvre are evident in Amia Srinivasan’s book, which generalises outwards from the university.
@caitdoherty
on 'The Right to Sex'.
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Not my therapist’s upstairs neighbour playing ‘Amazing Grace’ on the bagpipes halfway through my appointment
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Absolutely tragic to think that this time last year
@annaparker_
and I were swanning around the south of France with free abandon and now we’re arguing over which tree in Hyde Park to piss under
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Lovely to see my little piece on Richard Aldington my one true love featured in
@EngelsbergIdeas
Year of Ideas. Thank you so much to
@alastair_benn
for commissioning it this time last year on a train from Oxenholme to London 🛤️
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We are so proud of this!! 🥰🥰🥰
The Still Point Journal 🌍 Issue 5 🌎 PRESENCE
Get a free copy now by sending your name and postal address to orders.stillpointjournal[at]gmail[dot]com
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I’m a lot like Virginia Woolf in that I’m prone to nervous breakdowns and I’ve made it into my late 20s without really accomplishing anything
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