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The first straw man (on writing about Others)

September 12, 2016

On September 8, Lionel Shriver gave a keynote address at the Brisbane Writers Festival that galvanised several people into action, commentary and anger. Yassmin Abdel-Magied walked out of the session and wrote about her reasons for doing so. Others have written in defence of what they saw as Shriver’s key … Continue reading →

Filed under : In The Wild , Miscellaneous Ramblings , On art and other catastrophes , On Living , On Reading
Author : nike
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Tags : Amy Middleton , appropriation , Brisbane Writers Festival , Brooke Hemphill , cultural diversity , Dashka Slater , equality , equity , lesbian , Lesbian for a Year , Magdalene Visaggio , Nisi Shawl , others , queer , Radclyffe Hall , Sarah Waters , Straw Man argument , The Well of Loneliness , Tipping the Velvet , transgender , writing others , Writing the Other , Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Uchronic, or queer in no time: wilful subjects in historical fiction

May 15, 2015

And one more. This is a draft abstract for a paper I hope to deliver at the annual conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP), in Melbourne this November. The conference title is: Writing the Ghost Train: Rewriting, Remaking, Rediscovering. Abstract: Uchronic, or queer in no time: wilful … Continue reading →

Filed under : Fairy Tales , On Campus (and off) , On Living , On Reading , On Writing , Research , Rupetta
Author : nike
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Tags : AAWP , Art Objects: Essays in Ecstasy and Effrontery , Jeanette Winterson , queer , Sara Ahmed , Sarah Waters , The Passion , The Paying Guests , The Wilful Child , Tipping the Velvet , Uchronia , Wilful Subjects , Writing the Ghost Train