“Over the past thirty years, capitalist realism has successfully installed a ‘business ontology’ in which it is simply obvious that everything in society, including healthcare and education, should…

Simon Baron Cohen writing in the Financial Times supposedly about the politicising of Autism, as a means of pushing for more subcategorising – itself a politicised position, if only he could …

Tice was outlining Reform’s Doge (Department of government efficiency) unit’s progress

‘You were not just born to center your entire existence on work and labor. You were born to heal, to grow, to be of service to yourself and community, to practice, to experiment, to create, t…

‘You can’t keep waiting for progress But I’m not willing to accept it all’  – Idlewild, ‘These Wooden Ideas’  Placards, 19.11.25 A really cold pi…

‘…. it’s still unfashionable to believe in principles’ Manic Street Preachers, ‘South Yorkshire Mass Murderer’ Great picket today that felt quite animated, in sp…

“What we do is more important than what we say we believe.” — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress (1994) This week sees coordinated UCU strike action  by both Sheffield Hallam University and th…

“The decline of the unions is probably the biggest factor in the rise of capitalist realism for ordinary people … The effect is that discontent can be widespread, but without such an agent it will …

“The decline of the unions is probably the biggest factor in the rise of capitalist realism for ordinary people … The effect is that discontent can be widespread, but without such an agent it will …

Explore music, neurodiversity & queer identity—join the Ruling Passions session and create your own Queer the Landscape lyrics.

David Shannon and I are organising two events in Sheffield, both called Feeling with Theory: Exploring the Meaning of Music around Neuroqueer identities. More info on the respective links below, bu…

Ruling Passions · Episode

Ruling Passions · Episode

KCC says the move came after a

Podcast Episode · Weird Studies · 21/05/2025 · 1h 28m

Critical Neurodiversity Studies takeover: Natasha Downs calls for literary scholars within Mad Studies and Neurodiversity Studies to engage with one another, exploring the possibilities of and just…

Podcast Episode · Acid Horizon · 29/06/2025 · 1h 7m

Last year, I made a series of short films by splicing together archive footage, music, and quotes from various cultural theorists. We often think with theory, but this was more of an exercise in fe…

Exclusive: Leading rebels say they have been promised significant changes to planned cuts which could help bill avoid defeat

Last year, I made a series of short films by splicing together archive footage, music, and quotes from various cultural theorists. We often think with theory, but this was more of an exercise in fe…

Ruling Passions · Episode

Ruling Passions · Episode

Ruling Passions · Episode

This article reports on the ‘Whose Rainbow?’ project, exploring LGBT+ staff and students’ conflicted relationships to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) work in UK Higher Education (HE). Drawi...

I write this statement as a former staff member within the IMH/DRP at Durham University, who has witnessed and been directly harmed by a…

I write this statement as a former staff member within the IMH/DRP at Durham University, who has witnessed and been directly harmed by a…

Podcast Episode · Acid Horizon · 19/05/2025 · 1h 15m

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

Stop the cuts to Arts, Design & Architecture courses at University of Plymouth

We call on all trans-inclusive feminist academics and educators to sign this statement: ‘Not In Our Name’ We are non-trans feminist academics and educators. We write in support of trans rights, tran...

The University and College Union says up to 1,000 jobs will be put at risk by planned cutbacks.

Delaney · Single · 2025 · 1 songs

Delaney · Single · 2025 · 1 songs

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. 'Groundbreaking . . . [provides] a deep history of the invention of the "normal" mind as one of the most damaging and oppressive tools of capitalism. To rea...