Reading

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Thu, 10/07/2025 - 00:26
Exciting times … I’m coming back to Ireland this October to read some poems in what is set to be my most extensive tour there yet*: 17th: BELFAST, Mandela Hall18th: DUBLIN, Ambassador Theatre19th: LIMERICK, Lime Tree Theatre20th: DERRY, Millennium Forum Tickets are on sale here: https://brianbilston.com/events/. Book now to guarantee disappointment. * previous record =…
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Wed, 09/07/2025 - 23:56
I måndags förra veckan avslöjade Expo att en minister i regeringen har en nära anhörig med bakgrund i våldsbejakande högerextrema kretsar Det statsråd det handlar om är migrationsminister Johan Forssell (M), vars son har kopplingar till högerextrema organisationer. Som Expressen var först med att rapportera om har Vänsterpartiet nu kallat Forssell till riksdagen för att […]
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Wed, 09/07/2025 - 23:00

You’ve Always Been This Way is a column written by Taylor Harris, a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman and 1980s preschool dropout, who identifies every moment from her past that filled her with shame, and mutters, “Yep, that tracks. I see it all now.”

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Before 2013, no one could be autistic and have ADHD. Back then, the DSM followed the one-drop rule for neurodevelopmental conditions. Got a touch of the ’tism? It is settled, then. No hyperactivity of the mind for you! It’s a little ironic, this clutching of the binary, considering black-and-white thinking is what neurodivergent folks get dinged for all the time in our society, known for its rich history of embracing nuance and flexibility.


Me, happy and goofy and relaxed at home.

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Wed, 09/07/2025 - 22:00

Nirvana
“The Spirit of People Aged Twenty and Older Is Odorless”

The Cure
“I’m Not in Love, Which Is How I Know Today Isn’t Friday”

Bruce Springsteen
“Do You Know What It’s Like to Be Someone Who Isn’t on Fire? Because I Don’t”

Beastie Boys
“Pacifists Abdicate Their Right to Party”

Queen
“That Which Is Sane or Large Cannot Be Love”

The Weeknd
“I Feel Something but It’s Not My Face”

Cyndi Lauper
“You Don’t Want to Have Fun; Therefore, You’re Not a Girl”

The Beach Boys
“An Unknowing Entity Cannot Be God”

The Pixies
“Hell Is Monkeyless”

Paula Cole
“If Their Location Is Known, They’re Not Cowboys”

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Wed, 09/07/2025 - 17:06
I’ve owned this mug for twenty-five years now. Bought in the gift shop of the Metropolitan Opera in New York on my first ever trip to America, which I doubt I shall ever visit again. The mug, in art nouveau style, celebrates Pucchini’s La Bohème, which we might have seen there. I forget what we […]
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Wed, 09/07/2025 - 17:00
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Wed, 09/07/2025 - 16:47
Some recent books about postcolonial and anti-colonial social science, and my chapters in them: Connell, Raewyn. 2025. Perspectivas democráticas na educação em Ciências Sociais. Pp. 41-53 in Marcelo Cigales, ed., Ensino de Ciências Sociais em perspectiva internacional. Maceió, Editora Café com Sociologia, 2025. Connell, Raewyn. 2025. The good university. Pp.107-121 in Sinfree Makoni and Chanel van der Merwe, ed., Decolonial Options in Higher Education: Cracks and Fissures. Bristol and Jackson TN, Multilingual Matters. Connell, Raewyn. 2025. Curriculum for revolution: Ali Shariati's Practical Plan and the radical politics of knowledge. Pp. 93-109 in Dustin J. Bird and Seyed Javad Miri, ed., Ali Shariati: Critical Social Theory and the Struggle for Decolonization. Kalamazoo MI, Ekpyrosis Press.