Ah now, don't forget the bit where you queue for 40 minutes to wait on some *different* stairs. Always a classic.

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

Horrifying

I mean, I’m not sure what anyone expected from Michael Gove.

Step by step. One sentence at a time is still progress.

It would be like if a character in a play written today was called a bitch, and then centuries later in performance she was depicted as a female dog…

Oh it absolutely is! I think what’s so curious about Tempest is that we see the dehumanising process in action, and it’s so successful that productions even now dress up the character as sub-human or a monster because they take what Prospero say literally!

I can’t wait to get your book! You’re so right about how monsters and racialisation join forces to dehumanise people.

Hi Dr Davies, I’m fascinated by Caliban too! Just a note to say that the punctuation of that bit of the Tempest actually changes the meaning significantly, as pointed out by Christine Dymkowski. I’ve quoted her here, in a work-in-progress piece I’ve been developing this summer.

I knew the day would come when Bloomsbury sent this email, but I’m still very sad and cross about it. Bloomsbury is the home of my books and my scholarship. To see them capitulate to the virus of brain-rot is so disheartening.