How ‘straight’ is a life story, really? Nicholas Royle argues that contemporary life-writing is increasingly drawn to slips, shocks, coincidences, and uncanny turns: what he calls the ‘New Fantastic’. @engfac.bsky.social 📅 10 Feb | ⏰ 17:30 📍 Wolfson College + Online 🔗 buff.ly/NF247Qs

Christmas cracker joke: Why does Derrida always buy the expensive stuff in Sainsbury's? Because he likes to Taste the Differance!

BUTLER: Gender is the effect of endlessly repeated normative acts, a kind of performance. NEARLY EVERYONE ELSE: A performance like a nativity play? BUTLER: How many times do I have to explain this-

I'm dreaming of an unheimlich Christmas Just like the ones that seem vaguely familiar for some reason

Loved moderating a fabulous panel on fabulation this week @theruskin.bsky.social

❗️Tonight❗️Multi-award-winning historian, biographer, and author Lucy Hughes-Hallett talks all things life-writing and scandal with Hermione Lee. All welcome! Join us for a book signing afterwards. 🕠 17:30 📍 Wolfson College 🎟️ shorturl.at/8Gdgn @engfac.bsky.social @torchoxford.bsky.social

How did nurses shape Australia’s response to HIV/AIDS? Join Dr Geraldine Fela for ‘Blood Politics’, 31 Oct, 2.30pm, Schwarzman Centre. Free, all welcome: shorturl.at/MNB95 @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @oxhumanities.bsky.social @hflgbtq.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social

Partner event: From hospital wards to activist networks, award-winning historian, Dr Geraldine Fela tells the story of nurses during Australia’s AIDS crisis. 31 Oct, 2.30pm @ox.ac.uk All welcome! Register here: shorturl.at/MNB95 @torchoxford.bsky.social @hflgbtq.bsky.social

How did nurses shape Australia’s response to HIV/AIDS? Join Dr Geraldine Fela for ‘Blood Politics’, 31 Oct, 2.30pm, Schwarzman Centre. Free, all welcome: shorturl.at/MNB95 @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @oxhumanities.bsky.social @hflgbtq.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social

The call for papers is now open for the 9th Derrida Today Conference in Paris, France - from July 13-17, 2026. Details can be found on the website here: derridatoday.com.au/conference/ All enquiries: [email protected]

Job in Disability Studies!

An opportunity by the University of Oxford’s Intersectional Humanities research hub for recent graduates and ECRs! Please share widely. @engfac.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @torchoxford.bsky.social #CFP

Delighted to be in Sydney as a Visiting Scholar at Macquarie University! I’m here to share my research on “bumping” as a queer ethic— rethinking Derrida & Cixous alongside Queer, Trans & Black Studies. Honoured to see this work resonate across disciplines & contexts. Join my masterclass on Tues!

The #Oxford Centre for Life-Writing is proud to introduce the inaugural cohort of Global Majority and Underrepresented Writing Scholars—marking the launch of a programme designed to recognise, foster, and champion work by marginalised voices. oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/global-major...

Delighted to be heading up this initiative! Please share widely ✍️

OCLW has carved out a space for underrepresented writers with fascinating, untold stories, waiting only for a little room to bloom. There are 8 places open this year. The application window is open. If this speaks to you, or someone you know, please help spread the word

Delighted to be heading up this initiative! Please share widely ✍️

Toni Morrison ❤️

#NationalPoetryMonth #AlphabetChallenge #WeekPforPatterns (rhyme scheme) “We Have Not Long to Love” — Tennessee Williams

Duckie was (as ever) a JOY! Can’t wait to draw on Ajamu X’s interview in next week’s classes on Black queer relationality!

The biggest red flag

Let Every Pansy Bloom!

An opportune time to visit the Cable St Mural. “The girls all went out with pepper pots in their coat pockets to throw pepper into the faces of the fascists. […] They wanted to stand shoulder to shoulder with the dockers – working people the same as they all were, and socialists”. shorturl.at/0F7Ie

Congratulations to Dr Eleri Anona Watson @elerianona.bsky.social who was selected to feature in the Fourth Plinth sculpture 'Mil Veces un Instante' by artist Teresa Margolles. The sculpture commemorates the resilience of the global trans, nonbinary & gender nonconforming communities.

🚨 Publication Day Klaxon 🚨 for * The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading * & it looks like the price is reduced for publication day. I’ll be doing an advent calendar of snippets from each chapter over the coming month. Follow the 🧵 here! #QueerReading #LGBTQStudies

Wendy Cope, ‘As Sweet’

Resolution for the new year: Audre Lorde, ‘I’m going to go out like a fuc*ing meteor!’

DAY 19: #QueerReading Advent @edinburghup.bsky.social CHAPTER 17: 'FRIENDSHIP AS A WAY OF LIFE': QUEERING DERRIDA AND CIXOUS'S AIMANCE Eleri Anona Watson-this chapter offers a fascinating discussion of friendship as queer mode focusing upon the relationship between none other than Derrida & Cixous.

Frank O’Hara, ‘My Heart’

My copy of ‘The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading’ just arrived. So delighted to see my chapter ‘“Friendship as a Way of Life”: Queering Derrida and Cixous’ Aimance’ in print! Huge thank you to the editors, Declan Kavanagh and Jeremy Chow! @engfac.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social