"RUN-OUT GROOVE offers offers a blistering coming of age narrative that resists epiphany, gifting us complex, moving life in fiercely honest, beautiful prose.”
– Luke Williams, winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2022
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@txadel_
people largely weren't saying she was transgender either, they were saying that she was a man. there's nothing 'wrong', biologically, with being male, but ofc that's going to be hurtful for all kinds of reasons!
@nickw84
recently there was a yoghurt ad that read 'eat it like you love it'. *like* you love it, so actually you don't love it? you're forcing yourself to eat it?
@resurrecti0ns
plus the fact that so much of horror is a presumed male audience identifying with persecuted women. horror theory exploded this kind of crap thirty years ago, and yet we're still doing "yeah men are dumb idiots and this is for women only" type drivel.
@discoscooby
also i dont know any arts/humanities professor or student who dismisses stem. i've only heard them expressing frustration that they're dismissed by stem people
@studentactivism
yeah, people trying to say that the professor is getting theirs for finally realising that they're not protected/feeling too comforted, or whatever, don't understand. they were trying to protect one of their students
@pulpy_fiction
plus there are plenty of restaurants and bars that don't allow kids, and you're free to use them. and as a longtime hospitality worker, kids are never the problem, it's their inattentive or overly fussy parents that are the total drag
@Damned4you
@benedict_rs
@gothmusiclatam
and likely not universally true, either. i live in a "walkable city" where there are a mixture of modern and historic buildings, both with and without lifts. americans gonna american i guess
further to this, as a promoter, venues used to pay *you* to put on shows. they'd literally say here's £200, book some bands and we'll make money on the bar. now rents are so high that they can't even do that
can’t emphasise enough how one of the biggest changes made to the arts industry was making it so you couldn’t claim unemployment benefits if you were an out of work actor/musician etc., leading to a sector dominated by people with the wealth to survive long periods of downtime
@resurrecti0ns
yes, and even horror texts that, for example, attempt and fail to subvert the presumption of the monstrous male by replacing it with a female are sometimes more advanced than this kind of 'woo you go girl' nonsense
@ecomarxi
I've replied this elsewhere but I think youre misunderstanding the word radical here. It doesn't mean extremist. It comes from Latin "radix" meaning root, and means of the root. If you're a radical you believe in addressing the root of a problem.
@bencsmoke
the 'my parents worked 7 jobs each to send me to private school' is such a lie. it's now the fashionable thing to say, when it used to be 'i got a scholarship'. parents who privately educate their kids can afford it, simple as that
@tsengputterman
i agree, and i've seen people saying that we shouldn't be critical of the sharing of this image, because "support is crucial whenever it arrives" (paraphrasing obv). but the point is that the message itself is so empty that it doesn't even equate to support, it's nothing
@anon_opin
depends what you're defining as pop, for starters. but i'd argue that it's far less diverse in the sense that only already-wealthy people can afford to make records, which wasn't the case in the previous century, so you get less weird/interesting stuff now.
@LouisPeitzman
as badly handled as the screenshot is, i think there's a middle ground here. i was casually seeing someone when i met my now-partner, and so i said to the first person that i'd met someone. no more info than that, but it's ok to explain why you're cutting things short
@JasonAChristian
i would also argue that beowulf isn't really a classic, that it makes more sense to watch shakespeare than it does to read it, also that steinbeck is a very weird one to combine with the previous two
i am extremely chuffed to announce that my debut novel ‘RUN-OUT GROOVE’ will be published by
@the87press
in 2023. more details to follow very soon, but for now i’ll say thank you to
@hollycfaulks
and azad and the 87 team, i love you all 😘
@elginism
i worked there as a trainee for a bit, their official line about returning "discovered" treasures is that it would set a precedent and there'd be no stuff left, and many artefacts' countries of origin don't know how to look after them...
@hayfestival
bit of a grudging statement, no? as a long term supporter of BDS, my thanks go to the writers who have taken the principled decision not to lend their status to those who ally themselves with genocide
she’s arrived! a first look at my first little book, ‘RUN-OUT GROOVE’, from
@the87press
this winter. so pleased to see it in print, and can’t wait to share it with you all ❤️
#coverreveal
@ecomarxi
I turn your attention to the first definition of radical in the OED: "Of, belonging to, or from a root or roots". Those two English degrees have been useful for something!
@RMTunion
it's good that mick is open about his salary, and that he negotiated it down from £120k+ to a more reasonable £84k. but to be fair to old neil, he's not a public figure, so doesn't really have to justify his wages to anyone
@Lucywwatson
the other day i saw a guy with a gangrenous leg begging for change on the tube. i thought, that's an odd choice, but good luck to him. hope he invests the money wisely!
@DannyVegito
@Srirachachau
that's my favourite thing about the show. he was always a normal guy who became increasingly familiar with making insane decisions through fear of being caught, rather than someone who accepted that he had become morally reprehensible.
@katmsinclair
haven't read them, but let me guess: 20-something white oxbridge educated with industry connections? more than slightly sanitised 'retellings'?
@KateFlood
agreed. plus it's possible and fine to have both! the people who are aggressively anti-children and/or aggressively pro-pets are more than a bit odd, however