Mine and @dvandebroeck.bsky.social’s paper on ‘The Labor of Distinction’ is out now in ASR. Drawing from an ethnography that involved training and working as a butler, we tell a larger story about elites and inequality (1/18) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

➡️ "The Class Politics of Fine Dining" @victorerikray.bsky.social contexts.org/blog/the-class-politics-of-fine-dining/

BREAKING NEWS Trans Kids Deserve Better are occupying Wes Streeting's Office at Ilford North. Get down there and support everyone. For folks who want to support. Signal announcement group: www.transkidsdeservebetter.org/adult_suppor... We've Been advised to share this.

In today's The Conversation, my and @lauraclancy.bsky.social's article on our findings from the project Cultures of Digital Hate: theconversation.com/death-threat...

We are doing it again, again! Mini-conference on Elites and Power Structures at the @sasemeeting.bsky.social organized with, amongst others, @brunocousin.bsky.social @thierryrossier.bsky.social @vereta-nahoum.bsky.social Hard deadline for abstracts in a week sase.org/event/2025-m...

Super excited to announce our next season theme for @britishacademy.bsky.social public events is ‘the Age of Mistrust?’ We’ve a range of free events on: the history of misinformation, the year of elections, the role of AI and mistrust in sci-fi. Book here www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/the-a...

Our latest special issue is the brilliant Affect & Ideology, guest edited by @ajsecor.bsky.social and Ben Anderson. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/newformation...

Calling everyone concerned with ‘elite takeover’ driven by excessive concentrations of wealth: don’t miss this LSE event next Wednesday evening!

Surrealism, cafes and lots (and lots) of cats: why Japanese fiction is booming

We are the Centre for Gender Studies at Lancaster University - follow us for feminist events & chats 🫶 You can find out more about who we are on our website wp.lancs.ac.uk/centre-for-g...

Feeling the “first post pressure” so here’s Ginny posing