So thrilled to share my latest article, Troubling Dystopia in Octavia Butler’s Kindred! Read it in the new issue of Textual Practice: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/257VP...

I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump, but a dear friend recommend Wild Dark Shore and I devoured it over the long weekend. If you’re looking for a fragment of hope on the climate crisis, woven into a compelling narrative with some deadly twists, this one’s for you.

On Tuesday I had the privilege of graduating from UoN with my PhD in English Literature ✨

Great news! Our latest issue is now ready to download in full from our website: www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/gro... ✨ Start your weekend right by delving into some brilliant research by postgraduate and early career researchers 🥳

“It’s not just the students: Multiple AI platforms now offer tools to leave AI-generated feedback on students’ essays. Which raises the possibility that AIs are now evaluating AI-generated papers, reducing the entire academic exercise to a conversation between two robots — or maybe even just one.”

and are those Other Countries with thriving academic job markets and healthy higher education sectors in the room with us now?

is the “masculinity crisis” currently going around not just a more paranoid patriarchy

as a text-based creature in an increasingly video-first world I'd like to be cherished as a sort of charismatic but doomed animal, to be fed treats in my enclosure until I meet my inevitable demise, after which my taxidermied corpse might greet visitors in a lobby somewhere

Happy International Women's Day to my ECR friends especially. I admire your courage, kindness & wit every day & I would not be where I am today without you ❤️ (not everyone is on here but shout out to @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social, @amybouwer.bsky.social, & @diddykeats1.bsky.social who are)

Important words from Dorothy Roberts in my morning reading today.

My life is going great thanks I drunkenly did the NYT Mini Crossword in 14 seconds today.

Now more than ever 🏳️‍⚧️

#CFP Contemporary #WomensWriting Annual Conference! Please share! #TV #film #creativepractice #literary #genre #romance #scifi #crimefiction #gothic #poetry #screenwriting #fanstudies #biography All welcome!

First books of 2025: 1. The Neighbour’s Secret — Sharon Bolton ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 2. American Psycho — Bret Easton Ellis ⭐️⭐️ 3. The Familiar — Leigh Bardugo ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Speaking of Luigi Mangione and entertainment in prison, I would like to direct people's attention to a charity that's really cool, The Prisoners Literature Project. They're looking for year end donations! www.prisonlit.org

But, that survival-of-the-fittest mentality shouldn't surprise us. Because we treat health as a private good in this country. Because we equate health with morality. And because we tell people that the way to be healthy is to make "good choices" that minimize risk.

Check out our website for more information and email us at [email protected]! Our editors would love to talk you through the submissions process, advise you on article ideas, or discuss other options for publishing your work. nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/languagestextssociety/lts-journal/

Hello Bluesky! We’re LTS, an interdisciplinary journal based at the University of Nottingham and spotlighting cutting-edge postgraduate and early-career research. Get to know us in the short 🧵 below 👇🏻

i've had enough of unexplained mysteries. i want all the explained ones. give me answers. give me endings. give me resolution

Just found out, 7 years into taking sertraline, that it causes manic episodes (in addition to the long list of other side effects)! Love that for me. Love that I believed this was normal and okay and how not-depressed people felt (spoiler: it’s not! It doesn’t have to be like this!).

So you’re telling me he took violent action against hyper capitalism without reading a *single Verso e-book*?

Possibly an unpopular opinion but after finishing the audiobook yesterday I think Bridge is my favourite Lauren Beukes novel. Tight prose, brilliant world building, intrigue balanced with ethical inquiry… not to mention all the sf/f tie-ins. Beukes is a fucking force.

Just saw this CfP on the Other Site and thought I’d share here for anyone that missed it! The @bacls.bsky.social What Happens Now Conference will be held in Stirling on 10-12 June 2025 🤩 Proposals due 24 Jan. forms.gle/Jmx4BBpdB7L3...

Elle Nash’s Deliver Me was weird as hell but I couldn’t put it down. Highly recommended if, like me, you need something queer and thrilling and horrifying every once in a while. (Big CW for pregnancy, miscarriage, Pentecostal trauma and bugs.)

Still uneasy about pandemic-related stories (/novels set during Covid) but I’m glad I gave Delphi by Clare Pollard a chance. Skilful handling of mundanity and anachronism in ‘unprecedented times’, all while meditating on prophetic methods and myths.

Arrived home-home to this little one today 🥰 I’m away for 8-10 months at a time and she still comes to sleep on my childhood bed whenever I visit my parents.

Prepping for a five-year-old’s birthday party is no joke. How many dinosaur stickers is enough? (Answer: the limit does not exist.)

My girlfriend’s album club was discussing songs that were/had a cultural moment, and nobody said Welcome to the Black Parade. Or Unwritten. Or Sk8er Boi. Do I sit here and fume silently or shall I unleash my rage.

Covid vaccines saved millions of lives Millions more could have been saved if the vaccines had been equitably shared with Global South countries

Still processing this news. The very first work of lit crit I ever purchased was Madwoman. I was 19 & inspired by a course on feminist lit studies. I was not an English major. I did not know what a PhD was. That book was part of a swerve I was making—tho I didn’t know it yet. It was an invitation.

A great opportunity for Black UK-based PhD students working in history or related disciplines

Finally spotted DUDE WIPES in the wild and I cannot stop laughing. $5 plus tax to protect you from germs, mess, AND emasculation. (Alternate caption: chapstick lesbian fall starter pack.)

Usually ‘this radical thing is fucked actually’ (with a sprinkling of ‘this fucked thing is radical actually’ to keep me from going insane).

Had the best time at Day 1 of the NWSA annual conference yesterday! Ready for a full day of panels and discussions about feminist scholarship, reproductive activism, and the traps of neoliberal feminism today ✨

I’ve touched down in Detroit and I am. So tired.

How I arrived on Bluesky:

It is very early, but I am conference-bound! Fitting that the theme is ‘The Journey Not Only the Arrival, Critical Connections Not Only Critical Mass’ because I have a lot more traveling and connecting ahead of me… (Friends who are also heading to Detroit for NWSA, get in touch 👀)

Hey new users— we’ve been trying to build a strong culture of expecting alt text. Take it from me, because I’ve heard from them: there are blind people on this app and they appreciate being included. You can also turn on a setting that prevents you from posting images without it, if you forget

Now with ALT text.

Waking up and checking the news like

Deeply unsettling experience applying for a visa to attend a conference on gender in Detroit. Imagine engraving a quote about peace* into the marble floors of your embassy whilst discouraging everyone from looking out the window at a protest encampment for Palestine.

Pals, I’m writing about Gamergate, Comicsgate, and Puppygate again (I know, the horror). If you have any resources/articles about online harassment in SF/F spaces (esp. about the interplay of gamers, comic fans, Sad and Rabid Puppies etc.), please please please shoot them my way!

I wrote an article about Leonora Carrington's Down Below earlier this summer. Link if you're interested in literature & art history, the medical humanities, surrealism, & the occult 💜💫 open.substack.com/pub/jodielma...

Thrilled to be launching @freeandequal.bsky.social journal at @openlibhums.bsky.social today with the former editors of Philosophy & Public Affairs. Here's the new journal site: freeandequaljournal.org. Another diamond #OpenAccess journal to celebrate!

I guess this would be a good time to plug my other work, but I’m on a train and have very few academic spoons today. Check out my PhD profile for a recent-ish summary of what I’m up to, though! www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/student_prof...

My article about decolonial poetry and Judith Wright has just been published in the Journal of Postcolonial Studies! Technically my first ever article (I submitted it just after starting my PhD in 2021) and I’m overjoyed to finally release it into the world: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The past month has been chaotic (moving, deadlines, extensions, stress, more moving) but tonight! I’m seeing Chappell Roan in Manchester!! and will kiss my girlfriend during Pink Pony Club!!! and that will fix everything.

folks are agog and aghast that anyone's believing trump's 'haitian immigrants eat their pets' lie but like, you know shit like this happens to people of color every day right. that's basically all racism is, is making up ridiculous shit about people of color and everybody else believes it.