After years of pleading 'Won't somebody PLEASE think of the mermaids' these sirens' calls have finally been heard 🧜‍♀️

Key word here is unarmed, and I don't think being middle-aged, female or a philosophy professor/chair should provide immunity. But when they come for the academics - and students! - it is chilling.

I am watching a toddler die on a table in a field hospital in Rafah with half her face blown apart while listening to college students fight tears reporting on a police assault on their campus for protesting that, and I feel like I am losing my fucking mind.

Sad sad news of Marina Vishmidt’s passing. What a mind she had for aesthetics and its many forms.

Loughborough University London colleagues & friends! The Loughborough IAS team will be on London campus soon - so come to chat to us if you want to know more about the IAS and what we do 🤓
lboro.ac.uk/research/ias/e…

Love this too much

‘Well, sure, it may be a disciplinary, scarcity-based trauma-machine, but it’s my disciplinary, scarcity-based trauma-machine!' Nonstop gold in Sophie Lewis's back catalogue, here expanding on a beautifully truthful/eerily relatable obit for their mum salvage.zone/mothering-agai…

From 'Screams Without Words' and Ziofeminists' October 7, to Andrea Dworkin's 'Scapegoat' and Jenny Bourne's 'Homelands of the Mind.' I've unlocked the edited/extended written version of my conversation with Alex Doherty on imperial feminism. Read it here: patreon.com/posts/when-gen…

Thank you Naomi for calling out the increasingly Draconian environments secondary schools are becoming. As a parent it's heartbreaking but your 'options' are much of a muchness.

How lesbians and clitorises have threatened patriarchy (though not all lesbians have clitorises). Great piece for #LesbianVisibilityDay from Loughborough University blog.lboro.ac.uk/edi/2024/04/26… #lboroblogs