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Brighton/Techne PhD researcher, writing about 19th century gender roles, medicine, and the surgeon James Barry through a queer and decolonial lens. he/him.
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incredible thing to be greeted with at the top of an internet archive scanned copy of a racist book from 1923
November 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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do you think virginia titled A Room Of One's Own to deliberately make a wolf howl acronym. i do. i think she was thinking about this.
September 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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reading Ramón Grosfoguel's The Epistemic Decolonial Turn, which feels always relevant but especially so as western governments drop bombs in the name of democracy
This epistemic strategy has been crucial for Western global designs. By hiding the location of the subject of enunciation, European/Euro-American colonial expansion and domination was able to construct a hierarchy of superior and inferior knowledge and, thus, of superior and inferior people around the world. We went from the sixteenth century characterization of ‘people without writing’ to the eighteenth and nineteenth century characterization of ‘people without history’, to the twentieth century characterization of ‘people without development’ and more recently, to the early twenty-first century of ‘people without democracy’.
June 24, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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March 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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did you know that she is small and innocent of all wrongdoing
A black cat curled up on a sofa with her head tucked on her paws
March 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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my helpful assistant
February 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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it's very hard to apply oneself vigorously to one's studies when others in the room are modeling alternatives
January 30, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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really love this - "Distant Galaxy Sends Out Radio Bursts" by Diane K Martin - in the latest issue of Cagibi. i always appreciate a zoom-out during woeful times #poetry
Poem: Or anyway, we’ve received them, pulses, intentional or not, emanating from a star three billion light years away— maybe just directions to propel a spacecraft, not some attempt to greet us, the hat tip sent when life was single cell on earth. Is this earthly experiment over? Was it good while it lasted? Blood, fever, cramps, paralysis, pain, panic. Slavery, dismemberment, the rack, the wheel, the stake, also crucifixion. Darkness, always death and dying. And small disillusionments: that Gucci handbag— embossed, polished, still just dead calf. But here: maybe it’s planetary autumn and we’re just deciduous, shedding petals or cells in apoptosis, though what evolves may not be us after all, one teaspoonful of soil holding an eyedropper of stars, antidotes, perhaps, for all that ails: cancer and heartache, Keith’s receding hairline, Mick’s aortic valve.
January 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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i should post more. here's my cat experiencing a moment of wonder
a small black cat on a cat tree looking up at a light effect that resembles a starry galaxy
December 4, 2024 at 10:03 AM