For the last three days, I have been feeling like myself. I hesitate to write this in case it stops being true. It feels strange to suddenly slip back into the place and the routine and the way of moving…
When you expose a problem you pose a problem
The title of this blog comes from the book Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed. I made the mistake this week of posting in a public group about my disappointment that the local paper, the Evening Mail, failed in…
PhD Musings and January Poem 1 – Christina Thatcher
First week of 2018 and I’ve been trying to get back into my routine which has been a bit doomed to failure because of visitors and a left over addiction to a computer game that I started playing over Christmas.…
16 Days of Action Against Domestic Violence #Day8
Trauma is not stored as a narrative with an orderly beginning, middle and end. Memories return….as flashbacks that contain fragments of the experience, isolated images, sounds and bodily sensations that initially have no context other than fear and panic 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000…
Sunday Poem – Matthew Stewart
I’ve had a busy week this week and spent much of it feeling a bit rough with a horrible cold that I only shook off on Wednesday night. On Monday I met my supervisor for a discussion about the poems…
PhD Musings: The Imperfect Victim/Imperfect Perpetrator
As the stories have come out and are coming out about Harvey Weinstein and more and more women are speaking out, I’ve spent a lot of my time feeling sick, with feelings of nerves and anxiety. I haven’t quite been…
PhD Musings
I’m currently reading gendering poetry by Vicki Bertram as part of my reading for my PhD. I’m absolutely loving this book – firstly because I can understand it – although it is academic, it’s very readable, and really interesting. The blurb…
