Shani Cadwallender
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Shani Cadwallender
@overleaf.bsky.social
Intersectional educator, word nerd. Poet- PhD student at Birkbeck, working on trees and marginal identities in C19th women’s poetry.

Working-class, mixed, bi, AuDHD, RRMSer. She/her. Loves beer, records, trees and dogs.
Awww, thanks for this 🥰
October 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Reposted by Shani Cadwallender
Statistically in Britain if you are a cis man and you rape someone you are overwhelmingly likely to get away with it, there is a vanishingly small likelihood that you will be convicted. That is a feminist issue. Trans women wanting to use women’s toilets or play women’s football: not so much.
April 16, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Well, *now* I want one…
March 13, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Yeah I’m with you- &don’t think Star Trek needs to talk down to its viewers, which sexy action revamps often seem to do. My favourite episodes are full of talking in rooms abt ethical problems- cf ‘The Measure of a Man’. They’re already considering complex injustices more subtly- I prefer that way.
January 23, 2025 at 10:27 AM
I feel like Star Trek has had an increasing sense (since TNG) of questioning the motivations of Star Fleet & its limitations that reflects the writers’ sense of the US at the time. This could be a reflection of a (justifiably) pessimistic time, or just maybe a sexy Yeoh moneymaker…
January 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
This is spot on; there’s a difference between a collection that lacks intention or craft-graft & one that simply reflects the unevenness that characterises everything.

Besides, irregularity is a kind of beauty- resistance to the notion of ‘perfection’ that tries to keep us running ourselves ragged.
January 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM