the advertising of certain clothing as "handmade" unintentionally obscures the fact that ALL clothes are handmade. when "handmade" is reserved for the artisanal, whose hands get to count as real human hands? and whose hands are understood as merely part of the machine?

Never Meant (to be landlords)

I think I have found a solution for the UK university financial crisis

Some people have been asking what will happen if we don't meet the target. It's not great news, I'm afraid. A has shown me emails from last week which make it very clear that they will either have to suspend or withdraw if the full sum is not paid by the deadline 1/

delighted to be welcomed back by my beloved cat whom i have missed so much. i am sure she feels the same

In case you, like me, are wondering about what happened at Stanford University's Creative Writing program.

—Annie Ernaux, Exteriors.

She’s sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook, and by gum, it put them on the map.

will be reading from my new pamphlet alongside several other amazing poets at the august Broken Sleep Books launch: online tomorrow, 8pm. join us: eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sleep… !

got to submit a photo of myself by tomorrow... shall I send them this one of my audition to join oasis

In an hour! Come and listen to some poetry! You can just have it on in the background if you want!

new academic year means big life changes (finally cancelled Spotify)

I cannot comprehend the strength of this woman. It is a strength no one should ever have to summon. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

nothing like writing keywords & abstracts & summaries in every permutation to make me feel like maybe I really don't know what my book is about

also, I have a question. what do the image permissions look like for early modern printed material which has been digitised by google books?

One thing I keep returning to with this case is that Gisele lived in a small town—about 6,000 people—and in that community a high enough proportion of the men were frequenting rapist sites that her husband was able to recruit about 90 men to attack her.

It’s cat approved! & You can get a copy for your own cat at brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/a…!

Look, I’m not saying that Taylor Swift stole my wedding dress,