Roxani Krystalli
@rkrystalli.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, University of St Andrews. Author of GOOD VICTIMS. Gestures vividly about light and loss, care and place, birds and soil, grief and bodies. http://roxanikrystalli.substack.com
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A huge thank you @edbookfest.bsky.social @rkrystalli.bsky.social @atarbuck.bsky.social Rowan Jaines & @portyliterary.bsky.social - everyone who came along & asked wonderful qus & @pollyrowena.bsky.social for photos on stage.
Fantastic to meet people I've long been in touch with & to make new friends
Fantastic to meet people I've long been in touch with & to make new friends
August 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
A huge thank you @edbookfest.bsky.social @rkrystalli.bsky.social @atarbuck.bsky.social Rowan Jaines & @portyliterary.bsky.social - everyone who came along & asked wonderful qus & @pollyrowena.bsky.social for photos on stage.
Fantastic to meet people I've long been in touch with & to make new friends
Fantastic to meet people I've long been in touch with & to make new friends
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I'm heading up to Edinburgh - this is where I'll be this weekend!
Looking forward to speaking to the brilliant @rkrystalli.bsky.social with @atarbuck.bsky.social & Rowan Jaines - what an incredible panel!
#NatureWriting #Disability #BookSky
(It will be recorded)
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Looking forward to speaking to the brilliant @rkrystalli.bsky.social with @atarbuck.bsky.social & Rowan Jaines - what an incredible panel!
#NatureWriting #Disability #BookSky
(It will be recorded)
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Rowan Jaines, Louise Kenward & Alice Tarbuck: Redefining Nature Writing
From Sun 17 Aug - Moving Mountains is a new and compelling anthology of nature writing, from the perspective of disabled and chronically ill authors. Through 25 pieces, deftly edited by Louise Kenward...
www.edbookfest.co.uk
August 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I'm heading up to Edinburgh - this is where I'll be this weekend!
Looking forward to speaking to the brilliant @rkrystalli.bsky.social with @atarbuck.bsky.social & Rowan Jaines - what an incredible panel!
#NatureWriting #Disability #BookSky
(It will be recorded)
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
Looking forward to speaking to the brilliant @rkrystalli.bsky.social with @atarbuck.bsky.social & Rowan Jaines - what an incredible panel!
#NatureWriting #Disability #BookSky
(It will be recorded)
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
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So pleased to see this letter from MPs in support of students in Gaza with offers at UK universities. It's been signed by over 100 MPs and is a real cross-party effort. I hope now that Starmer will respond to our requests.
Students who win the chance to attend our world class universities need that future protected whereever they come from - proud to stand with my colleagues lead by Abtisam Mohamed in speaking up for how we can make that happen even amid the horrors of what is happening in Gaza.
August 7, 2025 at 10:10 AM
So pleased to see this letter from MPs in support of students in Gaza with offers at UK universities. It's been signed by over 100 MPs and is a real cross-party effort. I hope now that Starmer will respond to our requests.
Thank you @iajournal.bsky.social for including Good Victims in your books of the summer! Very much looking forward to reading the rest of the books on this list.
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The International Affairs summer reading list 2025
There is nothing quite like spending the summer lost within the pages of a great book — or ten. Every year, Book Reviews Editor Mariana…
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July 18, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Thank you @iajournal.bsky.social for including Good Victims in your books of the summer! Very much looking forward to reading the rest of the books on this list.
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medium.com/internationa... @standrewsir.bsky.social @ustaresearchimpact.bsky.social
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What a lovely time we had last night, celebrating the paperback publication of Anima: A Wild Pastoral! 🌱
Thank you so much to everyone for coming along, to Kapka for an amazing event, and @rkrystalli.bsky.social for her wonderful chairing, as always! 💚
Thank you so much to everyone for coming along, to Kapka for an amazing event, and @rkrystalli.bsky.social for her wonderful chairing, as always! 💚
June 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
What a lovely time we had last night, celebrating the paperback publication of Anima: A Wild Pastoral! 🌱
Thank you so much to everyone for coming along, to Kapka for an amazing event, and @rkrystalli.bsky.social for her wonderful chairing, as always! 💚
Thank you so much to everyone for coming along, to Kapka for an amazing event, and @rkrystalli.bsky.social for her wonderful chairing, as always! 💚
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We’re delighted that Kapka Kassabova will join us in the bookshop this coming Wednesday (25/06) for an event to discuss Anima: A Wild Pastoral with @rkrystalli.bsky.social. Sign up to join us in person or online: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/kapka... @vintagebooks.bsky.social
June 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
We’re delighted that Kapka Kassabova will join us in the bookshop this coming Wednesday (25/06) for an event to discuss Anima: A Wild Pastoral with @rkrystalli.bsky.social. Sign up to join us in person or online: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/kapka... @vintagebooks.bsky.social
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It's the hottest day of the year so pause for a moment to offer thoughts and prayers for all the Scottish pensioners cooking their Friday mince'n'tatties regardless, because Friday has *always* been mince'n'tatties night these past 50 years and they're not about to change the habit of a lifetime now
June 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
It's the hottest day of the year so pause for a moment to offer thoughts and prayers for all the Scottish pensioners cooking their Friday mince'n'tatties regardless, because Friday has *always* been mince'n'tatties night these past 50 years and they're not about to change the habit of a lifetime now
Hanif Abdurraqib on “the responsibilities of the heart” — one of the most gorgeous essays I’ve read in years.
www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
In Defense of Despair
The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to be so.
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May 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Hanif Abdurraqib on “the responsibilities of the heart” — one of the most gorgeous essays I’ve read in years.
www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
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The Supreme Court is wishing a problem away and so gifting more problems to trans lives. Those lives can, must and will continue being lived in their fullness and their joy. My sisters, please give all your love to each other and none of it to the state.
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/while-the-...
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/while-the-...
While the Supreme Court ruled, I tore up a fence
On being trans and living a life
hjosephinegiles.substack.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The Supreme Court is wishing a problem away and so gifting more problems to trans lives. Those lives can, must and will continue being lived in their fullness and their joy. My sisters, please give all your love to each other and none of it to the state.
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/while-the-...
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/while-the-...
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We’re excited that Madeleine Thien is coming to discuss The Book of Records with @rkrystalli.bsky.social on Wed 28th May! Join us to hear about Thien’s first novel since the Booker & Women’s Prize-shortlisted Do Not Say We Have Nothing. Sign up here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/madel...
April 15, 2025 at 10:26 AM
We’re excited that Madeleine Thien is coming to discuss The Book of Records with @rkrystalli.bsky.social on Wed 28th May! Join us to hear about Thien’s first novel since the Booker & Women’s Prize-shortlisted Do Not Say We Have Nothing. Sign up here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/madel...
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I got to write a short piece – On Compost – for the LRB.
(If you know me irl, you’ll understand that this is a happy thing)
(If you know me irl, you’ll understand that this is a happy thing)
Fraser MacDonald · On Compost
I sometimes wonder whether my love of compost is a response to the dispiriting cleanness of modern life – the spray’...
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April 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I got to write a short piece – On Compost – for the LRB.
(If you know me irl, you’ll understand that this is a happy thing)
(If you know me irl, you’ll understand that this is a happy thing)
Telegram from my garden, an occasional series:
The impossible tenderness of daffodils leaning towards the light.
The impossible tenderness of daffodils leaning towards the light.
April 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Telegram from my garden, an occasional series:
The impossible tenderness of daffodils leaning towards the light.
The impossible tenderness of daffodils leaning towards the light.
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Today's blog post is from my dear friend, colleague, and marvellous co-conspirator @hmberents.bsky.social. Helen writes on "Ecotones And Borderlands Of The Feminist Peace" (@rkrystalli.bsky.social I think you will like this one!): thedisorderofthings.com/2025/04/07/e...
Ecotones And Borderlands Of The Feminist Peace
The next contribution to our symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace comes from Helen Berents. Helen is Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Government and International Re…
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April 7, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Today's blog post is from my dear friend, colleague, and marvellous co-conspirator @hmberents.bsky.social. Helen writes on "Ecotones And Borderlands Of The Feminist Peace" (@rkrystalli.bsky.social I think you will like this one!): thedisorderofthings.com/2025/04/07/e...
A new essay from me on how radio tethers us to time, place, and each other.
It’s really a love letter to BBC Radio 3. I’ll miss @petroc.bsky.social’s “good morning!” so much!
roxanikrystalli.substack.com/p/alone-toge...
It’s really a love letter to BBC Radio 3. I’ll miss @petroc.bsky.social’s “good morning!” so much!
roxanikrystalli.substack.com/p/alone-toge...
Alone together
A love letter to radio
roxanikrystalli.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 6:38 AM
A new essay from me on how radio tethers us to time, place, and each other.
It’s really a love letter to BBC Radio 3. I’ll miss @petroc.bsky.social’s “good morning!” so much!
roxanikrystalli.substack.com/p/alone-toge...
It’s really a love letter to BBC Radio 3. I’ll miss @petroc.bsky.social’s “good morning!” so much!
roxanikrystalli.substack.com/p/alone-toge...
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📢 Exciting news! Good Victims by Roxani Krystalli (OUP, 2024) has been shortlisted for the L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize 2025! 👏🎉
🔗 Read more: www.bisa.ac.uk/news/lhm-lin...
#evertoexcel
@rkrystalli.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social
🔗 Read more: www.bisa.ac.uk/news/lhm-lin...
#evertoexcel
@rkrystalli.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
📢 Exciting news! Good Victims by Roxani Krystalli (OUP, 2024) has been shortlisted for the L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize 2025! 👏🎉
🔗 Read more: www.bisa.ac.uk/news/lhm-lin...
#evertoexcel
@rkrystalli.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social
🔗 Read more: www.bisa.ac.uk/news/lhm-lin...
#evertoexcel
@rkrystalli.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social
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being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
March 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
I am still rarely on this app, but popped in to thank BISA for including Good Victims on its L.H.M Ling prize shortlist. Looking forward to reading the rest of the books on it! 🌻💛
📚SHORTLIST ANNOUNCEMENT 📚
We are thrilled to announce our 2025 L.H.M Ling Outstanding First Book Prize 2025 shortlist!
To read more about all the incredible books and their talented authors 👉 www.bisa.ac.uk/news/lhm-lin...
#BookPrize #BookShortlist
@rkrystalli.bsky.social
We are thrilled to announce our 2025 L.H.M Ling Outstanding First Book Prize 2025 shortlist!
To read more about all the incredible books and their talented authors 👉 www.bisa.ac.uk/news/lhm-lin...
#BookPrize #BookShortlist
@rkrystalli.bsky.social
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March 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I am still rarely on this app, but popped in to thank BISA for including Good Victims on its L.H.M Ling prize shortlist. Looking forward to reading the rest of the books on it! 🌻💛
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Last night we had the pleasure of celebrating @danzep.bsky.social’s new book, Overnight, with the wonderful @rkrystalli.bsky.social! 🌌🌙
It was an incredible event & it was wonderful to see so many of you there!
Get a signed book here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/978183885750...
It was an incredible event & it was wonderful to see so many of you there!
Get a signed book here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/978183885750...
March 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Last night we had the pleasure of celebrating @danzep.bsky.social’s new book, Overnight, with the wonderful @rkrystalli.bsky.social! 🌌🌙
It was an incredible event & it was wonderful to see so many of you there!
Get a signed book here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/978183885750...
It was an incredible event & it was wonderful to see so many of you there!
Get a signed book here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/978183885750...
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Published!
In my first peer-reviewed article, I contend with narrating grief as political action, conversing with the words of Rohith Vemula, Natasha Narwal & GN Saibaba.
Big thanks to @wrawproject with @marieeberry @MilliLake & many others!
Open access!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
In my first peer-reviewed article, I contend with narrating grief as political action, conversing with the words of Rohith Vemula, Natasha Narwal & GN Saibaba.
Big thanks to @wrawproject with @marieeberry @MilliLake & many others!
Open access!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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February 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Published!
In my first peer-reviewed article, I contend with narrating grief as political action, conversing with the words of Rohith Vemula, Natasha Narwal & GN Saibaba.
Big thanks to @wrawproject with @marieeberry @MilliLake & many others!
Open access!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
In my first peer-reviewed article, I contend with narrating grief as political action, conversing with the words of Rohith Vemula, Natasha Narwal & GN Saibaba.
Big thanks to @wrawproject with @marieeberry @MilliLake & many others!
Open access!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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We have these little bird shapes in the windows to keep birds safe, and at night the moon lights them up. They make me feel like a kid again each time I see them.
February 18, 2025 at 6:30 AM
We have these little bird shapes in the windows to keep birds safe, and at night the moon lights them up. They make me feel like a kid again each time I see them.
A new essay from me on the pleasure of using every fork and chair in the house in times of joy and sorrow.
roxanikrystalli.substack.com/p/in-praise-...
roxanikrystalli.substack.com/p/in-praise-...
In praise of gathering
The gift of a crowded table
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February 2, 2025 at 11:10 AM
A new essay from me on the pleasure of using every fork and chair in the house in times of joy and sorrow.
roxanikrystalli.substack.com/p/in-praise-...
roxanikrystalli.substack.com/p/in-praise-...
Friends and colleagues around Oxford, I’ll be in town @politicsoxford.bsky.social on February 4th to talk about Good Victims. 🌻
It would be lovely to see you there!
www.lac.ox.ac.uk/event/histor...
It would be lovely to see you there!
www.lac.ox.ac.uk/event/histor...
Joint LAC-DPIR Seminar: FROM VICTIMHOOD TO LOVE: The political as a feminist question In Colombia
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January 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Friends and colleagues around Oxford, I’ll be in town @politicsoxford.bsky.social on February 4th to talk about Good Victims. 🌻
It would be lovely to see you there!
www.lac.ox.ac.uk/event/histor...
It would be lovely to see you there!
www.lac.ox.ac.uk/event/histor...
Hello friends! What did you love reading this year?
Here is a very incomplete list of favourite books of 2024 (if I can figure out how to create a thread On Here ...).
Because it's impossible to pick among beloveds, the list excludes books by authors whose events I've hosted.
Here is a very incomplete list of favourite books of 2024 (if I can figure out how to create a thread On Here ...).
Because it's impossible to pick among beloveds, the list excludes books by authors whose events I've hosted.
December 19, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Hello friends! What did you love reading this year?
Here is a very incomplete list of favourite books of 2024 (if I can figure out how to create a thread On Here ...).
Because it's impossible to pick among beloveds, the list excludes books by authors whose events I've hosted.
Here is a very incomplete list of favourite books of 2024 (if I can figure out how to create a thread On Here ...).
Because it's impossible to pick among beloveds, the list excludes books by authors whose events I've hosted.
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This is excellent 👇
If you haven't had the chance to watch this lecture or read the article version yet, it is well worth your time.
If you haven't had the chance to watch this lecture or read the article version yet, it is well worth your time.
December 17, 2024 at 11:37 AM
This is excellent 👇
If you haven't had the chance to watch this lecture or read the article version yet, it is well worth your time.
If you haven't had the chance to watch this lecture or read the article version yet, it is well worth your time.
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The exhibition draws a lot on Philipp Schulz and Roxani Krystalli's (@rkrystalli.bsky.social) research project "Centering #Love and #Care in #Peace and #Conflict Studies" (www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue...)
A Different Kind of War Story: Centering Love and Care in Peace and Conflict Studies - Universität Bremen
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December 16, 2024 at 2:04 PM
The exhibition draws a lot on Philipp Schulz and Roxani Krystalli's (@rkrystalli.bsky.social) research project "Centering #Love and #Care in #Peace and #Conflict Studies" (www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue...)