Author & Professor @unibirmingham | Author of Against Affect (Nebraska UP, 2026) | 2nd updated/ expanded ed. of Selfish Women forthcoming 2027.
London, England
Joined November 2011
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Solidarity with colleagues @GoldsmithsUCU who are fighting senseless job cuts. Management's plans are an attack on UK arts and humanities and will severely damage the intellectual community that makes @GoldsmithsUoL a special place to study. #NotADoneDeal
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I fancy my chances against either of them. #ITVdebate
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Major event on the eve of #PrideMonth in London -- linking freedom of speech and LGBTQ+ rights and empowerment. Feat. @Eric_Heinze and @ProfLisaDowning at @Juris_North
What link between free speech and LGBTQ+ empowerment? Thrilled to deliver @Juris_North keynote "From Knowledge to Power: Revisiting LGBTQ+ epistemologies" on Fri 31 May at 5pm at @UW_WLS with always-genius discussant @ProfLisaDowning. Tickets here: tickettailor.com/events/univ… (@MDI_UK)
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What link between free speech and LGBTQ+ empowerment? Thrilled to deliver @Juris_North keynote "From Knowledge to Power: Revisiting LGBTQ+ epistemologies" on Fri 31 May at 5pm at @UW_WLS with always-genius discussant @ProfLisaDowning. Tickets here: tickettailor.com/events/univ… (@MDI_UK)
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🚨 Registration to attend the 2024 ROLES: Sexuality and Gender Studies Conference is now open! 🚨 The conference takes place May 29th, 10:30-16:30 (BST) via Zoom. Register and view the preliminary programme here: forms.gle/VHVE4DkeaXvmcbuo9
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Our next event is on April 18th! Reserve your spot at Queer Theory & Bad Objects: buff.ly/3VyIAOq
We're thrilled to announce that our speakers are @kwazana, Joan Lubin, and @ProfLisaDowning
#beyondradical #queertheory #badobjects #queerstudies #queer #ukacademia
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Do you work in #MentalHealth Humanities? Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network (MHHRN) invites you to sign up and become a member of the group and mailing list: jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webad…
#MedicalHumanities #MedHums #Interdisciplinary #MentalHealthMatters
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It’s the greatest medical scandal of the 21st Century. Intransigent doctors and gullible journalists have made the lives of ME/CFS patients a living hell.
A massive and shocking story in this week’s column.
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Hi Rishi, British people here, there seems to have been a problem with our delivery. We ordered a functioning country and you seem to have sent us a spiteful little policy that's harming one of our most successful industries and embarrassing us with the neighbours
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Like removing maths, natural sciences or history, an ancient university without language degrees is no longer ancient or a university.
Managers should own their role in budget positions & lead not by 'doing to' but working creatively *with* students-staff
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-n…
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1/ The sheer depths of Downing Street’s wretched incompetence, arrogance, narcissism & macho posturing revealed this week shock precisely no-one who worked in the NHS during Covid.
Let me remind you (as I did at the time) what those early hellish days of Covid were like for us.
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Marie Darrieussecq is such a brilliant writer, endlessly insightful and inventive. Come hear her talk about her new book Sleepless in conversation with @DCarliniVersini on Wednesday 4 October @CollectedDurham. I can’t wait
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🎀Feminist Theory is running a Special Issue on Barbie (2023). We welcome contributions of 3000-8000 words on any aspect of the Barbie film, its wider influences, and its reception. Publication will be in 2024. Articles are due December 1st (submit to [email protected])🎀
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differences 34.1 is out now! — edited by Jacques Khalip and John Paul Ricco, "Syntax of Thought: Reading Leo Bersani" features essays from Lee Edelman, Amber Musser, Lynne Huffer, and more: read.dukeupress.edu/differen…
ALT A list of contributors to differences 34.1: Bobby Benedicto, S. Pearl Brilmyer, Zahid R. Chaudhary, David Clark, Kris Cohen, Claire Colebrook, Whitney Davis, Ryan Dohoney, Lisa Downing, Lee Edelman, Joel Faflak, Andrea Gadberry, William Haver, Tom Holert, Amy Hollywood, Lynne Huffer, Julia Jarcho, Eleanor Kaufman, Jacques Khalip, Joseph Litvak, David Lloyd, Michael Lucey, Elissa Marder, Ramsey McGlazer, Amber Jamilla Musser, Forest Pyle, Richard Rambuss, Karen Redrobe, Peter Rehberg, John David Rhodes, John Paul Ricco, Adrian Rifkin, Tom Roach, Mikko Tuhkanen, Robyn Wiegman, and Damon Young.
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Excited to be welcoming Prof. Lisa Downing to SMLC Glasgow for her lecture 'Against Affect' 4pm next Wednesday 3 May.
All very welcome in person in the Yudowitz Room, Wolfson Building, or online via eventbrite.co.uk/e/professor…
gla.ac.uk/events/listings/in…
@UofGSMLC @UofGArts
This week I'm getting ready for a little Scottish tour w/ my Against Affect research from 2-12 May. I will be giving a public lecture at @UofGlasgow on 3rd May at 4pm UK time that can also be joined remotely by anyone interested via an Eventbrite ticket: eventbrite.co.uk/e/professor…
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Read Bert and Ernie’s story and tell me you wouldn’t want to offer them a home…
(They say “no other dogs” or I’d be straight on the line.)
alldogsmatter.co.uk/dogs/ber…
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'Feminism in Our Times' today's message from @ProfLisaDowning
pureportal.strath.ac.uk/en/p…
ALT The image shows a woman alone with hands on hips as a seemingly assured stance. Plants provide a luscious green natural background, perhaps reflected in or refused by the solitary woman. Image by Samia Singh, accompanying text by Lisa Downing.
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Printed at last! Feminism in Our Times booklet, also available online: pureportal.strath.ac.uk/en/p…
ALT Illustrated booklet with thoughts and provocations from feminist thinkers on ´feminism in our times’
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We're ending the day discussing the meaning of the word 'queer' in texts across time and place. We never end on small, trifling matters here at ROLES 🤔 #ROLESXI
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This has just gone live! A very special house and garden to host a book launch for UNSEEN CITY @DanyNobus @LyndseyStonebri @FreudMusLondon
freud.org.uk/event/unseen-ci…