Took my PhD worries on a hike and they couldn‘t keep up.

Between conferences 🫶🏼

Honoured to have presented my work on critical whiteness as part of the Black Literature and Culture in German panel, thoughtfully curated by @kirstingwyer.bsky.social, at this year’s
@ags-gbi.bsky.social German and the World Conference, hosted by @oxfordgerman.bsky.social.

Off to another summer with Walter Benjamin - and my emotional support selection :)

Flower friendship

Re-reading Rose Ausländer

Have chosen the mellow midsummer nights to finally sit down and read Ghostroots by 'Pemi Aguda

life feels less overwhelming when you look at it from Yorkshire
#seasideescapism #academicbreakout #livingthatyorkshirelife

Oh this academic life!

This is crazy. Dehumanizing people through bureaucracy is totally unacceptable, and especially coming from Germany. Stop it now! Let Stella Nyanzi go home to Munich to be with her kids.

After I've bitten my tongue during a sports accident, forcing me into silence, I am rediscovering the beauty of stillness

"no one is coming to rescue you. this is not a tragedy, it’s an opportunity. become the person you were waiting for."

@alokvmenon.bsky.social who helped me to enjoy my survival

Can’t wait to see how the fantastic @phoenixleeds.bsky.social presents Baldwin’s brilliant novel Giovanni’s Room @sadlerswells.bsky.social.

Fellow White folks, get this as an audio book, to have @jallenpaisant.bsky.social's voice in your ear when you look at the world. Listen and learn to see. With the general threat to knowledge from the evil clowns that rule this world, learning lies in the communities we can create.

literature on stage is my favourite thing in this strange world