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Member of the Homosexual Underground | Free Palestine | he/him | There’s no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons
FUCKING WHAT DROPOUT?! I need everyone to go watch all three World of Tomorrow films now.
I think I was a twink for about 5 minutes in 2019? Post you in your twink era ✨
The fact that this the quality of analysis that the mainstream British media bring to political commentary is startling. "Do things, write about it, make no mistakes" is an AI prompt, not a political strategy. A child could give a more cogent analysis of this.
Looks like the party strategy of “shaking of the fleas” is going well. Look at them go!
Judith Butler - Precarious Life. Politically and academically, I moved away from Butler over the last few years, but I would be lying if I said they weren’t a huge influence on me. Their analysis of grief has haunted me for a decade now and is more relevant than ever in the current political climate
Virginia Woolf - The Waves I feel like every queer sadboi spends their teenage years reading Plath or Woolf. The Waves is Woolf’s most lyrical novel. Sections of it still moves me to tears, plus it has a sneaky gay sex scene in it, so that’s fun.
Harry Braverman - Labour and Monopoly Capital. A central text in my thesis. If you’re looking for a good introduction to Marxism and have struggled with Marx himself, this is a great place to start. In my opinion, this text is far richer than its academic reception suggests.
(Gonna alternate between non-fiction and fiction) Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things. I read this during my undergrad, and every now and then, when I need to be reminded that one must seek beauty even in the darkest of places, I pick it out again.
Gilles Deleuze - Cinema 2: The Time-Image. This was the book that got me into critical theory. I spent months working my way through it; my original copy is so heavily annotated it’s unreadable, but it gave me the tools to express ideas I couldn’t before. I am an academic thanks to this book.
Just in case you ever foolishly forget, I am never not thinking about that one time Mitski played guitar by screaming loud enough to make the strings vibrate.
Finally got round to watching the new series of The Rehearsal and fuck me, it's even better than the first.
Does anyone else remember D.E.B.S.? That not-very-good-but-surprisingly-sharply-written spy-comedy about lesbian spies? I had completely forgotten about it but now it's been added to the Criterion Channel and I'm going to relive my childhood.
Replaying Fallout 1 as a low-intelligence character, and it's wild that they re-wrote all the dialogue in the game for this one build, and it's consistently hilarious.
Yeah the Liberal Democrats strongly stood up for trans rights by backing the transphobic Supreme Court ruling.
Rivers of Blood references? In *YOUR* Labour Party? It's more likely than you think... Honestly, are we surprised that Starmer is dogwhistling fascists now?
I’m not sure we’ve ever had a more politically illiterate government or press. This BBC journalist thinks the problem for Labour is comms and aesthetic: they don’t look busy enough. But “projecting” activity doesn’t materially improve peoples lives, and without any real plans, what can they deliver?