A bit of news from me: Q IS FOR GARDEN is out with MUP in July 2026! Please stay tuned for event updates…

💥NEW EPISODE!💥 This month Tim is joined by film academic @jennychambles.bsky.social to discuss Jean Vigo's L'Atalante (1934). Available wherever you get your podcasts.

Currently reading Theory of Water. Looking forward to listening to this conversation, then re-reading, then re-listening. 🌊

Lovelies, I’m not getting on with this app. It looks a wee bit too much like the formerly and deceased and I’ve lost my mojo for sharing, spouting, oo-er silliness and reframing good stuff. I can’t sort my algorithm and there’s… All This Going On Out Here. Want to help me get my mojo back?

💯🎯 #TransDayOfVisibility

“Every time you see a headline on “the cost of the benefits bill”, what you are really reading is “the cost of disabled people”.  My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Animalgesics. #art #pills #moles

Oh no it’s me that’s honoured to be a friend and accomplice of @clubdesfemmes.bsky.social

Assessing cool research publications while getting angry about university systems and fending off neighbourhood cats from the frogspawn in the pond. Sounds on-brand.

I got an ellipsis problem so big the first f*cking academic essay I ever published was ABOUT ellipsis.

Was once told by an editor to "tether the meta-effusion" due to a particularly winding sentence that had – ( ) & ; referring to a text, its paratexts, citations of its paratexts & one of its own influences, but also didn't actually close its opening clause, so…

From @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social from her July 2024 appearance on On Being: "So mushrooms, I feel like they’re our great detoxer. They’re the ones who understand that nothing needs to be wasted; that everything can be used in some way..." onbeing.org/programs/adr...

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

“Gaza’s youth are unstoppable in their drive to learn & work. They push forward, even when everything seems against them…You can help turn their determination into real opportunities & lasting change.” ‼️ Help sustain this remote working space in Gaza!

There is a word for this, and it is appeasement.

Statistical misogyny - or the statistical evidence of misogyny - feels at once vindicating and extremely tiring. Because the evidence was always there. Always. I’m so tired of equalities statistics. They show the same thing over and over. And the same abusive senior figures keep on abusin’

Orbital folks. I’m ready for the chat. Who wants to do some #booktalk?

Cool project! Great to click on this and learn about Kate Mackintosh, who designed Dawson's Heights, one of my favourite features of the skyline in my old neighbourhood.

I was beguiled by this sinuous piece in which @jennychambles.bsky.social "asks questions I don’t have words for" #BlueSpaces 💙 www.caughtbytheriver.net/2024/12/shad...

An end of year piece from the height of summer while I was on a residency in North Virginia, published by the gorgeous @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social

'Questions asked by the water don’t always return the same day, or week, or month. Back by the indigo-green waters, questions float to meet hollow circles among the wind-blown ribbons.' @jennychambles.bsky.social on a 2024 of questions, answers and bodies of water https://buff.ly/41CWO3X

Ugh this is so sad. Maybe not her most powerful, but to me, her most moving poem is this one

RIP Nikki Giovanni 💜 my favorite poem of hers, one I shared with my students every year

RIP Nikki Giovanni who my mom read to me as a child. I published a poem for her once upon a time. What a legacy and inspiration 👑🙏

Now with added @telltales.bsky.social @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social @argonautbooks.bsky.social & @poetrybookshop.bsky.social 🥳🥳🥳 We're almost at 60 UK & Irish indie bookstores, keep following, keep buying books & keep em coming #BookSky go.bsky.app/K7P6mVw

MIT has a set of books labelled "Open Access" but it's a little clunky to find them on the MIT Press site, and so I've gone ahead and mirrored 400+ of them here: archive.org/details/mit_...

Put together a starter pack of transfem authors of color! It's small, and a good place to start if you're looking for new writers to read. bsky.app/starter-pack...

I was diagnosed with HIV in 1998, when I was 30. Many of my friends had died but I was told, with the new drugs available, I could expect to live another 20 years. That was 27 years ago. Honour those we lost. Celebrate that we can now treat and prevent HIV. Make HIV stigma history. #WorldAIDSDay

Hey! Did you all know that you can watch tons of indigenous cinema here on the National Film Board of Canada's website? Well, you can, and I thought I'd share just a few of my favorites today for... reasons. www.nfb.ca/indigenous-c...

After months of research and painstakingly connecting the threads of transmisogyny theory, queer activism, and field-wide epistemic injustice, I would like to present "The Third Sex": my treatise on a third-world transfeminism. Read: tinyurl.com/59kzm98k

Reminder that sometimes it's fun to run around in a gang yelling SPARAGMOS & tearing repressive dictators to pieces 🤷🏻 Also excuse for this photo

Anyway here’s a cheerful piece about how the Sun will eventually destroy all life on Earth (but not by exploding, so, you know, there’s that)

I’m game. What would you like to know, friends?

“I knew that the forces of nature were a language, was a way of life, could inform you… In other words, nature really was my teacher right from the beginning” Paul Caponigro (1932–2024).

I made a zine! It's dedicated to Palestinian folklore and folk religion. This first issue is the folktale 'The Promise Kept' which comes from Gaza. It's available for your own set price, or free if you like! soniasulaiman.itch.io/paranormal-p...

Great chance for six artists based in the North to receive financial support, mentoring, coaching, observational placements, peer-to-peer learning and access to the Factory International creative team. Deadline 9th December. Please share

I must again share my favourite version of Kermit the Frog doing Rainbow Connection (with Debbie Harry)

There's a fully-funded Ph.D opportunity - Producing/Curating Global Queer Arts through Digital Platforms: Creative Participatory Approaches to LGBTQ+ mental health and community resilience. Info in link www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-co...

#chaosgardening is my home

On the 1st of January, the #Curae prize for writer-carers opens for a second time. The demise of twitter is making it harder to get the word out, so do share! thecuraeprize.uk There are around 7 million unpaid carers in the UK alone & Curae shines a light on the role & much more. #carers #writing

I have recently become psychologically mute and therefore very bad at this. Please provide tips (again) on how to express oneself into a tiny void (again).

Oh hello! Are you all here then?

Get your delicious Criptörök copies while you still can - limited edition available from Grand Union Gallery. This was a dream project to work on. Let there be more Crip Technojoy in the world...

If in the UK, please sign this petition. At 100,000 signatures it will be debated in the Parliament: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/64...

If I told you I wanted to get Anne Carson good at writing, would you understand what I mean?

300 strong audience at Southbank reading aloud Le Guin's "We live in capitalism, its power seems inevitable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change begin in art. Very often our art, the art of words."

Forays into my mad brain: This morning I nearly set the flat on fire by leaving my *brand new* Moka pot on the hob. Boiling away. For an hour. The handle actually melted off. The lid top is now a black puddle of goo. The flat is filled with toxic smoke. And the smoke alarm is... not there. Um.

Fellow freelancers: would you rather poke your eye out with a muddy stick or do your invoices? And if any of you weirdos out there actually *like* doing invoices: can you inject me with your brain please?