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Douglas Pretsell
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Historian, Queer, Scot, Australian, Quaker - a minority of one. Living in Melbourne at present but imminently moving to take up a post at Keele University. He/him 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉🇺🇦
March 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Just received my copies of the newly published “Invictus - Unbesiegt” - my character typology essay is in this book
February 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Seems AfD have underperformed. Thank fuck for that. So it will be a CDU led coalition
February 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Just as was the case with Matthew Shepard, the case of Sam Norquist is the direct consequence of prevailing bigoted discourses. Given that the UK is also awash with even middle of the road people publicly voicing anti trans rhetoric, how long before cases like this start happening here too?
February 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Why not preorder this beautiful art book, perfect for your coffee table and with an essay by me in it 😀. www.phaidon.com/monacelli/ar...
February 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The Jewel Singapore is just spectacular when seen in tge flesh
January 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Singapore has been experiencing a consequence of Climate change: an unprecedented tropical storm that has been going on for three days depositing huge amounts of water and causing flooding.
January 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Quokktastic! Loving the friendly Quokkas on Rottnest Island, WA
January 4, 2025 at 5:32 AM
At a New Year’s Eve concert in the Quarry Amphotheatre, Perth, Westernn Australia. Lovely hot evening with my husband on the way to the next stage in our lives
December 31, 2024 at 1:32 PM
It’s a wee bit warm here . . .
December 16, 2024 at 8:06 AM
Whenever I contact an org X where I don’t know contact/location etc I imagine it my minds eye as a monolithic, kafkaesque building I refer to as “X Towers”. I figure this low expectation helps me be pleasantly surprised if they reply or are helpful

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December 3, 2024 at 11:46 PM
November 23, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Didier Eribon’s beautiful book “Insult” helped me finally make peace with Foucault. I’d recommend it, particularly part 2 where Eribon does a Foucauldean genealogy of Foucault himself, to anybody who has wrestled with Foucault over 19th century German queer history
November 21, 2024 at 11:03 PM
This book, more than any other, gave me a theoretical framework to appraise nineteenth century German queer identities. It was such a relief after Foucault, Butler and Berlant to find a queer theorist who could make me smile and nod while I read
November 21, 2024 at 10:59 PM
November 21, 2024 at 6:10 AM