Dr Sophie Duncan
@clamorousvoice
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Research Fellow & Dean for Welfare @magdalenoxford . Write #SearchingforJuliet & coedit @bansheejournal . Lit consultant @EKPshows . Rep @GeorginaCapel . Own views!
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paperbacks arrived! come & see
@suzifeay
and me talk
#SearchingforJuliet
at the
@oxfordlitfest
on Friday morning
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The shameful behaviour of some TERF activists at
#LondonPride
is not in my name. I’m a cis lesbian. Trans women are women. Trans women don’t share all my experiences and i don’t share all theirs but we have much in common and my feminism includes all women.
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The loveliest wedding announcement I have ever read. Congratulations, Margaret and Ann! ❤️
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even ignoring the politics, this is sublime
#UKR
. Own language, folk music, traditional instruments, embroidery, rap, pink bucket hat, mad skirts TO WIN
#Eurovision
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The first Black professional actor on a British stage whose name we know was a Black woman, Rachael Baptiste, who played Juliet in the eighteenth century. All power to
@JamieLloydCo
and their leading lady, Francesca Amewaduh-Rivers. She joins a proud, long tradition.
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I would like to found THE BANSHEE, a journal of screaming women, by screaming women, for screaming women. The leading magazine for women who scream. We have magazines for witches, where are our supernatural yellers.
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are you getting Christmas cards or other stamped post? Please don't throw the stamps away, charities recycle them! Here's a thread of charities which want your stamps. it's also a lovely way to donate to charity for free/extremely cheap in this financially dreadful year: (thread)
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So, I THINK the rule is: 1. Don't go out alone 2. Being frightened to go out alone isn't reasonable 3. Assume all strange men are attackers 4. But don't assume that because it's offensive 5. But don't go out 6. But don't talk about not going out. 7. Smile more?
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Readers of Twitter, have you ever read or encountered Joan Lingard's "Kevin and Sadie"/Across The Barricades series? If so, when/where and how old were you? Grateful for RTs. Thank you!
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I would like to go to a museum gift shop. A very posh and luxurious gift shop of a large museum and then a very small weird gift shop of a completely mad museum.
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It's a thing. We made it a thing. Call for submissions next tweet!
I would like to found THE BANSHEE, a journal of screaming women, by screaming women, for screaming women. The leading magazine for women who scream. We have magazines for witches, where are our supernatural yellers.
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Who else is having Pandemic Insomnia/Not Staying Asleep/Not Going To Sleep/Other Sleep problems?
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Trans people, activists or not, are my queer family! This is such bullshit. These women are supposedly protecting me as a cis lesbian but I don’t want or need saving from my friends.
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I hope
@PrideInLondon
doesn’t tolerate their transphobia. I am passionately against lesbian erasure and I do care about keeping spaces to discuss experiences like menstruation with all those who experience it (regardless of gender) but trans activists are not the enemy!
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@MaddyPelling
!!!!!!!!! also as advice goes – your room is flawless –– but a DESK WITH A GLASS TOP? How WEIRD would that even LOOK and also how horribly smeary and dusty
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New job alert: now that the paperwork is signed, I’m so pleased to say that in September I’ll be returning to
@magdalenoxford
in the newly-created role of Dean for Welfare and Research Fellow! 1/2
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Singular "they" is completely grammatical and well-established in English and EVEN IF THIS WEREN'T THE CASE we could and indeed should just change.... the language.... as people have changed the language for centuries to serve themselves better and describe changing realities
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Where is my proof that toxic masculinity exists, asks Mr Uranus, while helpfully supplying it
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There is an ENTIRE THESIS on Amanda and the invisibility of middle-aged, working-class women
#TheTraitors
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Last night I was admitted as a Fellow of
@magdalenoxford
, along with four lovely colleagues, in the presence of the rest of the Fellowship and also Spangle the College Cat.
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Signed the contract today - I’m moving to Christ Church in October as a Fellow in English! It’s a five-year post and I’m thrilled. Hurrah. Looking forward to teaching, researching and collaborating all over the shop. Also
@andrewsillett
’s sister-in-law is the librarian, fab.
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Have got a visiting fellowship at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice!!! It's my first visiting fellowship anywhere! I am going to do A LOT of duolingo beforehand! Thrilled to a. etc.
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1) it's my father's farm, 2) it's my father's woods, 3) it's my father's Barnard Castle, 4) I was blind, in bed, driving to the hospital, the riverbank, my child was vomiting, Happy Easter
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Hello! I have two free copies of the UK hardback of
#SearchingforJuliet
to give away! Like this post and I'll pick two accounts at random tomorrow. RTs much appreciated to give as many people a chance as possible! You don't need to be in the UK to join in.
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Hey Channel 4,
@BootstrapCook
has been doing this for real and for years. We don't need Jamie Oliver, we need Jack Monroe.
BIG >> Channel 4 has just announced that Jamie Oliver will be presenting a series of teatime shows, for six weeks, with easy-to-follow recipes that people can follow along with at home.
“Jamie: Keep Cooking and Carry On” starts Monday.
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I think to be honest we should all just REALLY REALLY enjoy this bit in case it's the last happy moment for 5 years
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I absolutely hate the Wollstonecraft statue. Not only is it ugly af, we don't commemorate male literary giants through sculptures of men with their bits out. Sculptures need to settle for being either ugly OR degrading, not aim for the big 2 out of 2
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Ditto, and I’d rather live in a time where it’s legal to marry my wife.
I’d rather live in a time when it wasn’t legal to rape your wife.
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I would like to request a Visiting Fellowship. I am reliably informed this is how it works now. I do Shakespeare and/or race, sexuality and gender in theatre history and I’m not an evil edgelord racist misogynist so form an orderly queue, please and thank you.
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I find
@UKShakespeare
's recent tweet transphobic and disgusting. I don't see the point in retweeting it – you can go find it on their page. But I hope
@UKShakespeare
are ashamed of themselves.
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Okay the BBC should give me a gardening show, thanks. I love Monty Don and his acres and his raised beds but people can grow things in Pringles tubes and tin cans in a balcony-less flat.
@BootstrapCook
is right.
#TinCanGardener
it doesn’t have to be cress!
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Chris our college porter informs me that the father of Florence Pugh (AMY in LITTLE WOMEN) is the chap who owns and is now selling Cafe Coco, Kazbar, and Tarifa. I just think this is really important and also very specifically East Oxford news.
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tonight we read The Winter's Tale on Teams. The Freshers did not know how the play was going to end. And then.... (the most magical bit of Shakespeare; image shared with permission)
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Today is my birthday! I am 34. Happy Birthday if you are also a 21st April person.
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Genuinely, I think it’s better if we all pretend that speech didn’t happen and that nothing has changed. Pretend we’re Scottish, yeah?
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Why must writing books involve writing? Why not e.g. writing books = sit in shady spot, drink long drink, charcuterie? why actual sentences and not eg morsels of tasty things on bread?
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Shakespeare’s Props: Memory and Cognition is out now in Routledge’s Studies in Shakespeare series!
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"go and write your late article", said a student, cheerfully, to me this week and honestly I have not yet recovered
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I am furious about this. So we don't let the poor things appeal their individual exam grades because they are all identical little units produced by their schools, but we DO f***ing weigh them?? We pay individual attention to their WEIGHT but not their BRAINS? HORRIBLE idea.
Should schools weigh pupils to make sure they shift the pounds they've put on during the lockdown?
Health experts want two weigh-ins in September and then in the spring to keep kids on track. But could this just create a generation of calorie counters?
#JeremyVine
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Delighted to write this for
@The_Globe
to expand some more on the rich, evolving tradition of playing Juliet – a tradition into which Francesca Amewudah-Rivers will soon step (& in which Felixe Forde is currently shining).
"There is not one Juliet. There never has been"
Dr Sophie Duncan (
@clamorousvoice
) author of Searching For Juliet, gives us the history of Juliet.
THREAD 🧵
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On Monday, I'm running something I've pondered since 2014 – a class on the Old Testament For English Literature students. Excited and quite nervous. For all those interested this, a question: what one thing should I tell them? Replies will be shared with my students! Thanks
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Proofs! Coming in hardback in April & available to pre-order now! 😍🎭✍🏻
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A nice thing in a weird year: my new edition for
@MethuenDrama
of Ibsen's A Doll's House is out now! What festive Scandinavian goodness. What cheer! With thanks to everyone at
@BloomsburyBooks
and
@GeorginaCapel
.
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delighted to be reminded of Professor Biscuits, who frankly could have no other name LOOK AT PROFESSOR BISCUITS.
This just in: St Hugh’s, Oxford have a college cat called PROFESSOR BISCUITS!
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Really disappointed to hear that the Charity Commission has approved the LGB Alliance as a charity. The LGB alliance is an anti-trans pressure group. Sometimes people oppose trans rights supposedly to "protect" cis lesbians like me. I reject this completely.
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Roll on Spring 2023! With many thanks to
@GeorginaCapel
,
@SceptreBooks
and
@BasicBooks
in the US! Feeling v lucky to work with such great people.
"Juliet encompasses everything from feminism to scholarly insight on Shakespeare’s text, from a portrait of the Shakespeare industry in Stratford to questioning gender norms",
@SceptreBooks
bags
@clamorousvoice
's exploration of Shakespeare's Juliet! (£)
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#LwiththeT
I am a lesbian. I am not a figleaf to cover trans-exclusionary views. I don’t want straight trans-exclusionary people to “protect” me from my trans siblings. If you want to support lesbian/bi women, great, I can give you a list of actual issues. Happy Pride!
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revising 1st chapter of next book. Have found a list of all the ships in the Armada. Reply if you'd like to start a new identity as an Elizabethan ship, thanks guys
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Twitter, what's the weirdest ever Shakespeare-in-performance interpretative choice/production aesthetic you've ever seen? I want WEIRD, please and thank you.
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Actually if you genuinely want to be in a magazine called THE BANSHEE a journal of screaming women, please send/pitch me things at sophievduncan at gmail dot com. The leading magazine for women who scream.
I would like to found THE BANSHEE, a journal of screaming women, by screaming women, for screaming women. The leading magazine for women who scream. We have magazines for witches, where are our supernatural yellers.
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Thrilled to share the UK cover for my forthcoming book, Searching For Juliet! To be published 6 April 2023 by the lovely
@SceptreBooks
(and available for pre-order now!!)
🔊Cover reveal!
Juliet Capulet is the heartbeat of the world’s most famous love story - interpreted afresh by each new generation. In Searching for Juliet
@clamorousvoice
explores her legacy, showing us why Juliet is for now, for ever, for everyone.
Coming 6.4.23
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Call for submissions for THE BANSHEE (deadline 18 June)
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Hate to break it to you, Richard, but there's tonnes of us theatre-history-studying-ladies. We're ladies researching ladies. Hot lady theatre history action.
@FernRiddell
#ImmodestWomen
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Wholly not reconciled to deaths for the sake of people being maskless on shops and buses
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A list that I participate on has currently become a PERFECT STORM of older male scholars performing curmudgeonly whataboutery because they don't think 'toxic masculinity' (the subject of a young female PhD's current research) exists.
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It is U.K. publication day for
#SearchingForJuliet
! I am so grateful to everyone who has supported the book and me over the last few years. Thank you so much. I hope you enjoy reading it. I loved writing it!
@SceptreBooks
@GeorginaCapel
@magdalenoxford
@ChCh_Oxford
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Newnham winning with a netball question is the stuff of legend, they are queens, they have overtaken Robert Gordon as my favourite team this series. They are SO JOYFUL.
#UniversityChallenge
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Today I start my Fellowship at Christ Church. Yesterday I sent off my book on theatre props! The SCR has a biscuit tin. These are all good things.
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Updated my bio: yesterday I moved to
@magdalenoxford
as Research Fellow and Dean for Welfare after four enjoyable, lively years at
@ChCh_Oxford
. I'll be saying a proper goodbye to my lovely
@ChCh_Oxford
colleagues at a dinner later this month.
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Delirious about this! What a shortlist 🤩
The Society for Theatre Research is delighted to reveal the shortlist for the Theatre Book Prize 2024 in its 26th year... 🧵
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If you're teaching your children English Lit / anything to do with Shakespeare or C19 literature and they or you have questions, please send them my way! Please RT.
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I'm a trained harassment advisor at my college (ChCh), but available to anyone
@UniofOxford
who wants to discuss harassment & related issues. Just putting that out there (I think sometimes at Ox it's not obvious who's who). If you have a similar role, make a similar post!
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Gather round, finalists. I definitely heard this method from Sos Eltis et al as an undergrad & here, in all its glory, is The Great 3 Essay In 3 Hour Finals Exam Method. DISCLAIMER, if you already have a timings plan that works for you, then obviously don't...
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Viola and Sebastian when
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Imagine being a Met police officer brutalising women as those women protest a woman being murdered by *checks notes* a Met police officer
sorry, "allegedly"
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IMAGINE how elated John Major must be to discover Jonny Lee Miller is playing him in The Crown. IMAGINE being John Major and then having Jonny Lee Miller, Lord Byron!! and Sick Boy!! and Mr Knightley!!, cast as you, YOU.
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10 years today since first I met
@EmilyKOliver
, little did we think we'd even now be married & on lockdown & saying things like "if you ever went on instagram you wouldn't have missed Lucy Bronze teaching her dog agility" (me) and "can I make a pot out of this?" (her)
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I wanted to do a ranking of Oxford college cats, but then I realised wars have been started over less
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Why can’t this absolute piece of shit drag his great carcass out to re-recite what he’s already told his hideous little chums of choice in the press? Get out here, you lazy bastard, or are you still in your other house that we pay for?
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Hello! Today, my
@MethuenDrama
edition of Hedda Gabler is published. Many thanks to everyone at Methuen, and also the students who yet again served as a focus group on the cover image.
We have two new Student Editions out today! First up is
@clamorousvoice
's edition of Ibsen's 'Hedda Gabler' which provides a contemporary lens on the play's gender politics, and considers key 20th and 21st century productions.
Request inspection copy:
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thanks for the multiple condolence messages I have received re: Nicola and Katya, I have booked a small garden landscaping company at which to hold my presser
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Right, let SuRie sing again. Give her the full cast of Strictly as backing dancers and she can jump out of a cake made by Mary Berry WE SHALL OVERCOME
#GBR
#EUROVISION
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Friends! My book on Shakespeare's Juliet comes out in the US & Canada on 6 June. For the next 3 days (until 28 Apr) you can get 25% off pre-orders with the code PREORDER at Barnes & Noble
#BNPreorder25
@BNBuzz
@SealPress
(v grateful for RTs!)
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@garethrussell1
And we could also remember his mother, one of the Righteous Among The Nations
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I am so happy to announce that I'm now represented by
@GeorginaCapel
and her amazing team at Georgina Capel Associates! Really looking forward to working with them.
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Absolutely raging that 2021 census does not allow me to record self as Head and
@EmilyKOliver
as Wife within household, thus frustrating genealogist goals, what is point if cannot record self in manner of 1911 patriarch, also disappointed that no mention on form of eg scullery
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Cardinal Wolsey on his way to Ipswich yesterday morning! Borne (not all the way) by Jake & Rachel. A treat to see this Magdalen Fellow in daylight for a moment.
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Gorgeous to see Searching For Juliet in
@thetimes
roundup of April paperback releases!
#SearchingForJuliet
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What happened to the lesbian couple on the London bus is disgusting and so frightening. Lesbophobia is real, male violence is endemic, I don’t want other gay women and female couples to have to be afraid.
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I mean I’m happy that Jo went to the Lesbian Afterlife with Nice N Easy Hairdye Model, cosy forever in a Gay Girl Autumn (also what is the budget for witness protection housing)
#LineofDutyFinale
#LineofDuty
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I JUST saw a tiny and ancient nun absolutely LAYING IN to a market vendor about the quality of his orchids, we stan a religious crone, go go ancient and tiny sister
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RIP Judith Kerr, the brightest and best. Here is my favourite picture of you with Katinka, the cat the size of a house who is visibly wishing the photographer ill
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Tips for people buying their first homes, please! eg what was your favourite alcohol throughout, do you now live in a yurt
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Happy Pride Month: I wish you bread and roses, by which I mean intersectional liberation of all oppressed people everywhere AND rainbow drinks, banner wit, & Raul Esparza singing West Side Story.
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Retweet/like this post if you had genuinely never heard of David Roy Lidington, our possible next PM, before this weekend.
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I read 53 books this year, and 26 of them I had read before: HURRAH for re-reading, the great literary joy, especially in these [gestures] times.
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It's going to be a shock when things start again and I have to stop dressing like I'm about to catch a long-haul flight
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other excellent research project ideas: A History Of Cake, Very Expensive Jewellery In The Early Modern Imagination (a practice-as-research project), The Hotels Of The Grand Tour And Their Afterlives, The Rise Of The Champagne Bar in Postmodernist Thought
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Here is the email I just sent
@OxfordCity
Council regarding the homophobic hate preachers in Bonn Square this lunchtime. Look forward to a response, and would welcome comments from anyone else affected/involved/equally appalled.
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I've now seen this circulating on my feed REPEATEDLY as friends are casually like "I sleep on cloth of gold and one time I was mistaken for Cara Delevingne, I buy all my knickers in Paris. I learned to tango with the ambassador's daughter" and i have NOTHING. NOTHING. AT ALL.
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