Fandom is the reason I can’t give up the internet
I can’t be the only one stuck in this loop… Oh god, do I want off the internet. The list of things I need a phone to do is so small that I am seriously considering going back to a…
Library Fashion
Or, If I’m Staring At You It’s Because I Want To Be Friends Did anybody tell you, when you were young, that ‘it’s not a fashion parade’? I see you. I see you and your meticulous eye for detail, your…
“What Are My Words Worth”: the role of academia’s ivory tower in cultural transmission
my talk given at the Creative Industries Festival 2026 “What is left, what is remembered and what is still fit for use in the heritage of classical bourgeois culture?” It is with these words that Eric Hobsbawm opens his 2012…
How to be an It Girl
What, like it’s hard? Everyone glamorous is pretending. For sure. It’s easy to look good if everyone wants you to: when the designer fits the dress to you, when somebody is paid to make sure your shoes match your look,…
Girl Dinner with Late Romantic
A recipe that isn’t a recipe. It’s the moments we are alone that we truly decide who we are. When my husband went away this week, I found myself living just as quietly as I do when he’s here: I…
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