✨MotL 86 is live!✨ moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/02/g... In this episode, we discuss the enduring influence of David Graeber’s debt-centered work in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s election to Mayor of NY City. Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌

For me, one of the highlights of 2025 was launching @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social with my dear friend @robynollett.bsky.social as part of the #GlobalDonutDays. You can catch a glimpse of our event at 0:52 in this video, which beautifully captures the GDDs’ celebration of #DoughnutEconomics.

It has been refreshingly obvious from day one of @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s leadership of @greenparty.org.uk that he rejects the failed economic dogma that has only driven (and can only continue to drive) social and ecological breakdown. The real fantasy is that we can carry on with the status quo.

Each time Will Beaman writes a new essay, I somehow always find the time to read it because they're just that good. Here's the premise of this one: Design can either attempt to insinuate the inevitability of a choice or openly invite contestation—and one is certainly more democratic than the other.

‘Before we complain that any political agenda might “frighten” the financial markets, we need to recognise that all markets are politically and legally constituted in the first place and that ceding power over our democracy to bond traders is a choice, not a necessity.’ 1/4

“institutions with the public authority to do so […] continually create new money, which is thus an everyday occurrence […]. The essential question […] is not if money creation occurs but, rather, how and for what purpose.” Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson, “Green-Lighting Gatsby” (forthcoming).

Our featured image for this post comes from Chuck Jones' deliciously self-reflexive Merrie Melodies short Duck Amuck (1953). We chose it because it so vividly demonstrates how any act of erasure requires fresh and hence contestable inscriptions.

Very excited to be part of the audience for @robbhawkes.bsky.social and Robyn Ollett’s research seminar at #TeessideUniversity

On Weds 26 November from 3.30-4.30pm GMT @robynollett.bsky.social and I will be sharing some of our latest research via MS Teams as part of @teessideuni.bsky.social’s English & Creative Writing Research Seminar series. Why not join us online?

Ha. Appreciated guys! 💚

We had so much fun issuing ‘Curious Credits’ at the second of our Where Credit's Due project events, a making/queering money workshop at A Curious Night At The Museum. Many thanks to all at Curious Arts and The Dorman Museum for looking after us and for organising such a fabulous night 🦄🌈💸

Thanks so much to @robbhawkes.bsky.social & @robynollett.bsky.social for inviting me to participate (remotely) in their inaugural event. We had a quite meaningful post-film dialog that was also a lot of fun.

The Where Credit’s Due team will be issuing ‘Curious Credits’ at the Dorman Museum this time tomorrow! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-curious-...

As Minsky (almost) said, anyone can create Boro Bucks, the problem is getting them accepted

It is time to tell new stories about (and with) money, ones that reject exclusionary violence and instead celebrate our collective capacities and creative potential, stories with room for everyone. It is time to give credit where credit’s due.

If you want to start telling a different story, join us on 18 October 2025 in Middlesbrough, UK.

The UK’s present xenophobic tensions - from flag displays to anti-immigration protests - rely on a logic of scarcity: “there’s not enough to go around.” The same thinking fuels attacks on refugees, disabled people, LGBTQIA+ communities, and benefit claimants. But what if the premise is wrong? 🧵1/6

… and if you want to hear more from the team behind Where Credit’s Due, here’s @robynollett.bsky.social and @robbhawkes.bsky.social in conversation with @greenbackbetter.bsky.social about the vampire sitcom What We Do in the Shadows 🦇

Well I take some hope from this good read.

This is so good. "The false narratives fuelling this combination of nationalistic fervour and xenophobic violence are... that there is only ever an either/or choice between caring for “our own people” and providing basic support to those fleeing war, persecution, and/or starvation overseas..."

For more on the ideas behind Where Credit’s Due, check out this essay by our project organisers @robynollett.bsky.social and @robbhawkes.bsky.social “We hope you will join [... our] movement toward economic systems that recognise the full range of human identities, capacities, and contributions.”

If you’re keen to think beyond the false opposition between caring for ‘our own people’ and providing basic support to those fleeing war, persecution, and/or starvation overseas, check out this new piece, which I’ve co-written with @robynollett.bsky.social

@robbhawkes.bsky.social and I wrote this and we'd like you to read it 🏳️‍🌈

In 2026, the MSA Conference will look a bit different-- weird, even! That's because we're having a joint conference with BAMS @modernistudies.bsky.social in Loughborough, UK from July 1- 4, 2026. The CFP will be out soon! But in the meantime, please save the date.

A starter pack of fabulous folk working in LGBTQIA+ screen studies. If you'd like to be added, let us know! go.bsky.app/Asce99Z

Coming soon to @teessideuni.bsky.social: #FindingtheMoney, the story of an intrepid group of economists on a mission to flip our understanding of money upside down. How could reimagining money transform Middlesbrough and revolutionise our ability to tackle the climate crisis? Find out in October 💷