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SLAGS ‘N’ SKIN: A Launch
You are invited to join Katie Beswick and Kelly Green at their joint launch event Katie Beswick is launching her new book Slags on Stage: Class, Sex, Art and Desire in British Culture and Kelly Green is launching her online exhibition SKIN. There will be some performance readings, followed by Katie and Kelly in conversation…
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Plumsted Pram Pushers
I’ve been working on a collection of poems – and am pleased to say it’s now available in chapbook form, published by the independent press Red Ogre Review. If you’ve read and enjoyed my writing over the years, I’d love you to buy a copy, or buy one to donate to your local library —…
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Come to My Thing!
I’m presenting an installtion of poems and a bit of prose called BEING SLAGGY at Camden People’s Theatre SPRINT Festival. It’s a development of the work I wrote about in this post. You can book tickets HERE (please do! And bring your friends). I’ll be drinking in the bar…join me Here’s a poem: Hot (adjective) : If…
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Notes from The Winter School (Vienna)
From 12-14 January 2024 Tanzquartier Wien, a centre for choreography and performance in Vienna, held its annual Winter School, on the theme of classism in dance and performance. I attended the three days of workshops and talks, offering a presentation as well as in the role of participant and audience for other’s contributions (I had to miss…
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Slaggy Artist’s Notes
The notes below accompany my performance exhibit, ‘Being Slaggy’, currently showing at Camden People’s Theatre.* The notes in the exhibit are handwritten, they comment on the works of poetry, prose and the drawings and objects that are displayed alongside them. I wrote them quickly as a way to share my in-the-moment thinking about the works…
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Desperate Slag
This is the first in series of blog posts that are part of the thinking process for my project ‘Slags on Stage’, which considers the relationship between class, art, sex, performance and desire through creative and critical writing. In these posts I explore ideas about sex, desire, class and art through writing experiments. Each post…
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Feeling Theatre: Sensation Memories
The first sip of wine from a plastic cup in a bar that’s not crowded, exactly, but we can’t find anywhere to sit down. Hating everyone except the friend I came with — and even him once he tells me my outfit looks like pyjamas. Another sip of the sour wine. I like to look…
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Negotiating Academic Publishing Contracts
My post on academic publishing has been getting lots of reads recently. Serendipitously, I find I have more to add on this subject — since I wrote it, I’ve been putting my own advice into practice. Given that it is still quite rare for academics to share contract negotiating experiences, that (English) people hate talking about…
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(Bear with me, I’m going through a thing)
We went for our favourite walk this morning, the dog and me, across campus and through the woods past the nature reserve. There were students everywhere, about to start university, carrying boxes of things, odds and ends of furniture, lamps, laptops, to their new homes. They were young and happy and beautiful; wide open and…
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Gender Neutral Toilets: Theatre, Diversity and ‘Inclusion’?
In the last few months, visiting theatres in London for work and pleasure, I’ve noticed the widespread introduction of gender neutral toilets — not (in the ones I have visited) as individual totally private cubicles, nor as necessary additional ‘everyone’ spaces for the comfort and inclusion of trans and non-binary people. But as the only option,…
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