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Alva Gotby

@alvagotby.bsky.social

Author of They Call it Love (2023) and Feeling At Home (2025) versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3212-feeling-at-home

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@journalspectre.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Hey y'all! This week we have @alvagotby.bsky.social interviewing @reproutopia.bsky.social about Sophie's Enemy Feminisms ( @haymarketbooks.org ), the potential for liberatory feminism, and the necessity of reckoning with reactionary feminisms. spectrejournal.com/feminism-is-...

“Feminism Is a Sine Qua Non of All Genuinely Liberatory Struggles…” – Spectre Journal

Alva Gotby interviews Sophie Lewis about the potential for liberatory feminism and the necessity of a reckoning with reactionary feminist thought.

spectrejournal.com

Eman Abdelhadi@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · last yr.

It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.

Alva Gotby@alvagotby.bsky.social · last yr.

Another lovely review of Feeling at Home! Get it from the @versobooks.bsky.social website to support an independent publisher blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

What makes a home? A transformational politics for housing justice - LSE Review of Books

Alva Gotby's Feeling at Home explores the complex interplay of practical and emotional concerns that a home involves, which are often flattened in debates around housing justice. Showing how domestic ...

blogs.lse.ac.uk

Alva Gotby@alvagotby.bsky.social · last yr.

Today I had a small role in resisting an eviction, alongside comrades from London Renters Union. It took 7 hours but eventually the police and bailiffs backed down. It's so important to have these moments of practical solidarity and winning together!

Alva Gotby@alvagotby.bsky.social · 2y ago

Feeling at Home finally came out this week, published by @versobooks.bsky.social. It’s about the everyday experience of housing, how different models of home shape our subjectivities, and how we could make a different kind of home together. Pictured here with my research assistant.

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Helen Hester@helenhester.bsky.social · 2y ago

Tomorrow, @alvagotby.bsky.social launches her new book 'Feeling at Home' at Foyles on Charing Cross Road. I was so fortunate to supervise her PhD, & her work just goes from strength to strength! If you're in London, come & talk about the emotional politics of housing www.foyles.co.uk/events/alva-...

The Emotional Politics of Housing: Alva Gotby and Lola Olufemi

The acclaimed writer and thinker behind 'They Call It Love' talks to Lola Olufemi about the emotional politics of the housing crisis.

foyles.co.uk

Alva Gotby@alvagotby.bsky.social · 2y ago

A good piece by Nick Bano on why we need rent controls ASAP in England and Wales, and what might happen before the Renters Rights Bill becomes law www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

England’s renters are about to gain more rights, but until then landlords may exploit weak regulation even more cruelly | Nick Bano

There are fears that landlords will capitalise on the last remaining no-fault evictions before the new scheme comes into effect, says Nick Bano, a barrister specialising in renters’ rights

theguardian.com

Ruthy Gourevitch@ruthygourevitch.bsky.social · 2y ago

The LA Tenants Union (LATU)'s response to the wildfires shows us the huge value of tenant organizing in the face of climate disasters. Networks of organized tenants are helping their neighbors, doing mutual aid, enforcing tenant protections, and demanding the policies tenants need to stay safe 🧵