Sort out your stuff for the new year - and send us your research! Submissions for the special issue of JOMECjournal on 'Secondhand Cultures in Unsettled Times' are due this week. Be in touch if needed, given said unsettled times. Really looking forward to reading all of it!

Really looking forward to disembowelling my darning pile & listening to talks on different mending & repair practices to create 'futures that can be sustained' at this conference Friday 21 Jan - rb.gy/6tbbbc The Centre for Design History Free & online!

Delighted to share that our article is out: 'The morbid romance of the good job: News and the emotional social imaginary in late capitalism' Here's to more collabs, Dr Kerry Moore! JOMEC @ Cardiff Uni The Leverhulme Trust European Journal of Cultural Studies (EJCS) #jomecresearch journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

This article grew from combing through news on poverty for a project led by Kerry Moore. 'The morbid romance of the good job' traces public investments in 'good jobs' through news stories of steel crises, tech unicorns, mumpreneurs, & charity shops. rb.gy/0jpdcu

Rust-buster of a first lecture, but very glad to be back in the 'Diff and working with students again. And I didn't forget to press record.

What do you think of the pictogram system for recycling in the Nordic countries? eupicto.com/about-the-pict…

Speaker highlight 2: Violet Broadhead from University of Bristol will join us to talk about her research - '"Proper shops": professionalism and reuse in charity retail' @ 25th Feb Waste & Reuse Workshop (link in profile)

Scrapstores - Charity shops - House clearances - Art and community entreprise - Policies for Zero-Waste - Gaps in the circular economy - Remaking waste, off-the-grid? Workshop to reimagine waste in the second-hand economy - email me paysonABcardiff.ac.uk to join

Darn it! It's almost time for 'Repair: Materials, Techniques, Communities' 25th March, 2-5pm, free & online Collab workshop for all working on/in secondhand to share ideas and strategies for creating a culture of repair and maintenance Programme here: blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/secondhandcult…

Spring cleaning? Reselling? Sweaty? Our third workshop is on labour and the second-hand economy. A truly mighty line up of speakers will lead us through the issues (programme @ blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/secondhandcult…) 29th April, 2-5pm UK time, online, free

Workshop 4 will be all about community welfare in 2nd-hand. What can we learn from 2nd-hand communities past & present? How are these spaces part of everyday welfare? How might we respond to community in 2nd-hand projects? 20.04, 2-5pm UK, online, free blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/secondhandcult…

It's an exciting day for #FashionFictions! A gang of lovely people are convening in Nottingham to enact #World54, where limited textile production leads to a resourceful yet opulent fashion culture. Looking forward to an afternoon of dressing up and radical thought.

What is it about connecting with people steaming dresses or sorting earrings in the back of a charity shop, or fixing a kettle or a bicycle, or stitching a patch? How have 2nd-hand spaces become where we look after each other? 20.05.2022 - blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/secondhandcult…

Happy to find crackers appealing after this nasty bug. And our online workshop tomorrow will go ahead - Community Welfare in Second-hand. This is the last one in the series, before our final event 17th June. Hope to see you there. blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/secondhandcult…

Feeling a teensy bit drained after a big year BUT looking forward to some in-person connection & futuring - Responding to Second-hand Challenges: Final "How to" workshop Friday, 17th June, 1-5pm - hybrid TheSustainableStudio & online. Free, refreshments provided... eventbrite.co.uk/e/responding-t…

Join us TheSustainableStudio with delicious grub from @aubergine_cardiff (or online) to reflect on the Waste & Reuse, Repair, Labour, and Community Welfare workshops & explore 'how to' create a community project, change ed and policy, & resource projects in 2nd-hand rb.gy/huvc0q

Back at it again today, in the cold and damp - forza, friends! Dump the pension valuation! #ucuRISING #UCU #cardiffucu

Fair workloads = healthy workers! #ucuRISING #cardiffucu #UCU

Time's up for pay inequality! #ucuRISING #cardiffucu

Precarity is so insidious. It shapes how you live, how you feel, what you can think about. On strike today to end a university system fuelled by precarious, fixed term contracts. #ucuRISING #cardiffucu