Oh look, it's almost a new academic year. What fun.

I will never not feel stupid citing myself

I'm at the Men and Masculinities in Transition Conference at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social. I'll be presenting tomorrow, on structures of feeling, "inarticulate Masculinities" and men in the British Left.

Some people go to metal festivals for fun. Some go to make friends. Me? I go because I need a new wardrobe

Delighted to see my paper on masculinities, structures of feeling and the British left in the latest edition of Keywords, published by @r-williams-soc.bsky.social. My thanks to editorial board for their supportive and collegiate comments during the publishing process

I passed my driving test today, with no faults, just in time for the car crash of the liberal democratic order.

I did a thing. It's available in the Sage Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence, available from all good institutional journal subscriptions or my ResearchGate.

In the grim darkness of my office, there is only war(hammer which I painted instead of marking this weekend don't come at me)