A huge thank you @edbookfest.bsky.social @rkrystalli.bsky.social @atarbuck.bsky.social Rowan Jaines & @portyliterary.bsky.social - everyone who came along & asked wonderful qus & @pollyrowena.bsky.social for photos on stage. Fantastic to meet people I've long been in touch with & to make new friends

I'm heading up to Edinburgh - this is where I'll be this weekend! Looking forward to speaking to the brilliant @rkrystalli.bsky.social with @atarbuck.bsky.social & Rowan Jaines - what an incredible panel! #NatureWriting #Disability #BookSky (It will be recorded) www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

So pleased to see this letter from MPs in support of students in Gaza with offers at UK universities. It's been signed by over 100 MPs and is a real cross-party effort. I hope now that Starmer will respond to our requests.

Thank you @iajournal.bsky.social for including Good Victims in your books of the summer! Very much looking forward to reading the rest of the books on this list. medium.com/internationa... @standrewsir.bsky.social @ustaresearchimpact.bsky.social

What a lovely time we had last night, celebrating the paperback publication of Anima: A Wild Pastoral! 🌱 Thank you so much to everyone for coming along, to Kapka for an amazing event, and @rkrystalli.bsky.social for her wonderful chairing, as always! 💚

We’re delighted that Kapka Kassabova will join us in the bookshop this coming Wednesday (25/06) for an event to discuss Anima: A Wild Pastoral with @rkrystalli.bsky.social. Sign up to join us in person or online: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/kapka... @vintagebooks.bsky.social

It's the hottest day of the year so pause for a moment to offer thoughts and prayers for all the Scottish pensioners cooking their Friday mince'n'tatties regardless, because Friday has *always* been mince'n'tatties night these past 50 years and they're not about to change the habit of a lifetime now

Hanif Abdurraqib on “the responsibilities of the heart” — one of the most gorgeous essays I’ve read in years. www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...

The Supreme Court is wishing a problem away and so gifting more problems to trans lives. Those lives can, must and will continue being lived in their fullness and their joy. My sisters, please give all your love to each other and none of it to the state. hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/while-the-...

We’re excited that Madeleine Thien is coming to discuss The Book of Records with @rkrystalli.bsky.social on Wed 28th May! Join us to hear about Thien’s first novel since the Booker & Women’s Prize-shortlisted Do Not Say We Have Nothing. Sign up here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/madel...

I got to write a short piece – On Compost – for the LRB. (If you know me irl, you’ll understand that this is a happy thing)

Telegram from my garden, an occasional series: The impossible tenderness of daffodils leaning towards the light.

Today's blog post is from my dear friend, colleague, and marvellous co-conspirator @hmberents.bsky.social. Helen writes on "Ecotones And Borderlands Of The Feminist Peace" (@rkrystalli.bsky.social I think you will like this one!): thedisorderofthings.com/2025/04/07/e...

A new essay from me on how radio tethers us to time, place, and each other. It’s really a love letter to BBC Radio 3. I’ll miss @petroc.bsky.social’s “good morning!” so much! roxanikrystalli.substack.com/p/alone-toge...

📢 Exciting news! Good Victims by Roxani Krystalli (OUP, 2024) has been shortlisted for the L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize 2025! 👏🎉 🔗 Read more: www.bisa.ac.uk/news/lhm-lin... #evertoexcel @rkrystalli.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

I am still rarely on this app, but popped in to thank BISA for including Good Victims on its L.H.M Ling prize shortlist. Looking forward to reading the rest of the books on it! 🌻💛

Last night we had the pleasure of celebrating @danzep.bsky.social’s new book, Overnight, with the wonderful @rkrystalli.bsky.social! 🌌🌙 It was an incredible event & it was wonderful to see so many of you there! Get a signed book here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/978183885750...

Published! In my first peer-reviewed article, I contend with narrating grief as political action, conversing with the words of Rohith Vemula, Natasha Narwal & GN Saibaba. Big thanks to @wrawproject with @marieeberry @MilliLake & many others! Open access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We have these little bird shapes in the windows to keep birds safe, and at night the moon lights them up. They make me feel like a kid again each time I see them.

A new essay from me on the pleasure of using every fork and chair in the house in times of joy and sorrow. roxanikrystalli.substack.com/p/in-praise-...

Friends and colleagues around Oxford, I’ll be in town @politicsoxford.bsky.social on February 4th to talk about Good Victims. 🌻 It would be lovely to see you there! www.lac.ox.ac.uk/event/histor...

Hello friends! What did you love reading this year? Here is a very incomplete list of favourite books of 2024 (if I can figure out how to create a thread On Here ...). Because it's impossible to pick among beloveds, the list excludes books by authors whose events I've hosted.

This is excellent 👇 If you haven't had the chance to watch this lecture or read the article version yet, it is well worth your time.

The exhibition draws a lot on Philipp Schulz and Roxani Krystalli's (@rkrystalli.bsky.social) research project "Centering #Love and #Care in #Peace and #Conflict Studies" (www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue...)

We warmly recommend the #Politics of #Love exhibition at the Kunsthaus Hamburg to everyone in the are, which will continue until early February. kunsthaushamburg.de/politics-of-... politics-of-love.kunsthaushamburg.de

A new essay from me about the opening of the Thessaloniki metro after a century (!) of plans. I’ve been thinking about how time moves in different places and about how many clocks one human can keep. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Researching how practices of love and care help people imagine worlds in the wake of loss has filled my life with joy and meaning this year. Philipp Schulz and I loved chatting to @pollypw.bsky.social of @europeanisa.bsky.social about this work. open.spotify.com/episode/4IEC...

I am barely ever here, but it matters to show up for the joys. It was a gift to supervise DR @sarahgharib.bsky.social along with @jasminekgani.bsky.social. I have learned so much from her feminist, decolonial praxis, and the world will too.

Saturday’s are for reading friends’ @rkrystalli.bsky.social and Shirin Rai fantastic work

Learning to love the dark: an ongoing exercise.

Third, a piece on 'Pedagogy as care: Love, loss, and learning in the world politics classroom' co-authored with the amazing @rkrystalli.bsky.social and @drljshepherd.bsky.social in the Journal of International Political Theory in Sep this year (open access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

London friends! I'm giving two talks about my book, Good Victims: The Political as a Feminist Question, next week. Both are free and it would be lovely to see you! Wed, Nov 27, 5 PM, Queen Mary: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-victi... Thur, Nov 28, 5:30 PM, UCL: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/good-victi...

A new essay from me on gardening, rituals, and care, featuring a cameo from my mother with her Nescafé, cigarettes, and geraniums. www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/light... @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social are wonderful editors and I am so grateful for their wisdom.

Follow @rkrystalli.bsky.social as she tells the story of rootedness in place and time, and life that unfolds in bouts of growth and care: “Some plants benefit from light; others, in my mother’s imagination, grew simply out of spite.” www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/light...

Roxani has described her most recent research project to me as “taking love seriously.” She is one of the toughest and and one of the most gracious and joyful thinkers I’ve ever encountered. I often share her essay on teaching in the wake of her mother’s death: jnp.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/de...

My friend @rkrystalli.bsky.social has poured many years of listening, working, love and questions into a crucial new book for Oxford Press and for all of us.

Gorgeous work by colleagues to imagine a science of politics that prioritises life and dignity. I particularly loved the idea of "a principled political joy of coming together to make sense of the world." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

might actually be crying

A new guest post from @rkrystalli.bsky.social from the University of St. Andrews: "Anxiety, excellence, and reflexivity in the classroom" activelearningps.com/2023/11/27/a... Polisky SoTLsky

How did a politics education come to be devoid of geese honking, and where might we begin to put the honks back in? I wrote about reflexive pedagogy and environmental education. Thanks to @drcathyelliott.bsky.social for the invitation! activelearningps.com/2023/11/27/a...

My new essay sprang from Elizabeth Alexander's question: "and are we not of interest to each other?" I wrote about teaching with poetry, and about gathering with care in vulnerable times. www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

Friends in Edinburgh and those further afield who want to join online: The magnificent Teju Cole is launching his new novel Tremor in conversation with me next week. *Note: Clocks change in the UK next week, so double check your own time zone. www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/teju-...

This article, "Teaching and Learning Reflexivity in World Politics," is a gift. Thank you, @rkrystalli.bsky.social, for your care & attention to the acts of doing reflexivity & what they have meant for you.

A different time, a different war. The same beach on which I walk now, the same poetic attentiveness to what sustains light. Grateful for the gifts of John Burnside in this world. www.theguardian.com/books/2001/s...

There is "I am embracing slowness and gentleness" and then there is the speed with which I click on an email about a 2024 garden catalogue of roses.

I recently finished a book and am at the start of another project. I had forgotten how rough and raw beginnings are, compared to the (apparent, if illusory) polish of completed work. I'm sitting with field notes, with half-formed thoughts and bad sentences. I'm sitting with the gift of possibility.

A real change in the air this morning: Visible breath and audible geese and a sprinkling of dew everywhere. Grateful for the accompaniment of robins and dipper song.

I have no way of rendering the beauty of the Norwegian fjords into words, nor do I feel compelled to. I do not need to capture it or pin it down. I am just grateful to be in the company of it all, to be alive in a world saturated with gifts.