Happy Birthday to Helen Ringrow, amazing academic, researcher, teacher, friend, colleague, & collaborator!

I had a dream last night that Andy Street appeared to me and was asking for my vote! Well done, Andy, working both the conscious and subconsciousness of the voter!

Little bit of inside baseball, but I've always hated the one page scrolling view on Feedback Studio. I need to see six pages at once when I'm marking. I realised if you download the file for one window to read and then just annotate on the browser, I can work MUCH more quickly.

Actually believed this as a child.

Augustine

Sometimes I agree to do something, thinking it will be the right thing to do and then it turns out, it was the wrong thing to do.

Fire stuff here Dr Helen Ringrow this is your jam

My exploration of ‘divine motherhood’ at the intersection of single adoption and disability is out today! This is part of an exciting special issue exploring intersecting inequalities, watch this space for the full set! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Read all about the success of our Birmingham Citizens assembly last week! citizensuk.org/chapters/birmi…

I am at the point with this Judith Butler book that I don't want to finish it because I want it to go on and on. It's such an encouraging book, actually. Really reframes gender and sex as something we get to do, we get to make for ourselves. How cool is that. ‍

Honestly.

universalism but everyone is going to hell

I'm always amazed at how Evangelical Christians use someone swearing as a way to immediately delegitimise what they're saying. It is the height of hypocrisy.

Trying to get my personal reading list sorted, which is a good sign that things have calmed down, and/or I'm avoiding things.

The greatest lie the devil ever told was the 3:30pm nap.

It was absolute pleasure co chairing this along the amazing Angela Jeffery Kerry Rickerby from B32_COMMUNITY C.I.C and Caprice Bound from @Blesst @Richard_BLESST the energy at the Great Hall was incredible #communityorganising

Shout out Aston SU
Their VP took to the stage calling for better access to work, turned out 40 people in audience, their students did huge amount of setup and event coordination. Their voter registration work directly led them here. A full write up on this coming.

English degrees matter. Hear from Amy, current MA Forensic Linguistics student at Aston University, as she shares her insights. #EnglishCreates University English English at Aston University