A huge thank you @edbookfest.bsky.social @rkrystalli.bsky.social @atarbuck.bsky.social Rowan Jaines & @portyliterary.bsky.social - everyone who came along & asked wonderful qus & @pollyrowena.bsky.social for photos on stage. Fantastic to meet people I've long been in touch with & to make new friends

I'm heading up to Edinburgh - this is where I'll be this weekend! Looking forward to speaking to the brilliant @rkrystalli.bsky.social with @atarbuck.bsky.social & Rowan Jaines - what an incredible panel! #NatureWriting #Disability #BookSky (It will be recorded) www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

Rowan Jaines, Louise Kenward & Alice Tarbuck: Redefining Nature Writing

From Sun 17 Aug - Moving Mountains is a new and compelling anthology of nature writing, from the perspective of disabled and chronically ill authors. Through 25 pieces, deftly edited by Louise Kenward...

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So pleased to see this letter from MPs in support of students in Gaza with offers at UK universities. It's been signed by over 100 MPs and is a real cross-party effort. I hope now that Starmer will respond to our requests.

Stella Creasy MP@stellacreasy.bsky.social · last yr.

Students who win the chance to attend our world class universities need that future protected whereever they come from - proud to stand with my colleagues lead by Abtisam Mohamed in speaking up for how we can make that happen even amid the horrors of what is happening in Gaza.

Thank you @iajournal.bsky.social for including Good Victims in your books of the summer! Very much looking forward to reading the rest of the books on this list. medium.com/internationa... @standrewsir.bsky.social @ustaresearchimpact.bsky.social

The International Affairs summer reading list 2025

There is nothing quite like spending the summer lost within the pages of a great book — or ten. Every year, Book Reviews Editor Mariana…

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What a lovely time we had last night, celebrating the paperback publication of Anima: A Wild Pastoral! 🌱 Thank you so much to everyone for coming along, to Kapka for an amazing event, and @rkrystalli.bsky.social for her wonderful chairing, as always! 💚

We’re delighted that Kapka Kassabova will join us in the bookshop this coming Wednesday (25/06) for an event to discuss Anima: A Wild Pastoral with @rkrystalli.bsky.social. Sign up to join us in person or online: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/kapka... @vintagebooks.bsky.social

It's the hottest day of the year so pause for a moment to offer thoughts and prayers for all the Scottish pensioners cooking their Friday mince'n'tatties regardless, because Friday has *always* been mince'n'tatties night these past 50 years and they're not about to change the habit of a lifetime now

Hanif Abdurraqib on “the responsibilities of the heart” — one of the most gorgeous essays I’ve read in years. www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...

In Defense of Despair

The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to be so.

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The Supreme Court is wishing a problem away and so gifting more problems to trans lives. Those lives can, must and will continue being lived in their fullness and their joy. My sisters, please give all your love to each other and none of it to the state. hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/while-the-...

While the Supreme Court ruled, I tore up a fence

On being trans and living a life

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We’re excited that Madeleine Thien is coming to discuss The Book of Records with @rkrystalli.bsky.social on Wed 28th May! Join us to hear about Thien’s first novel since the Booker & Women’s Prize-shortlisted Do Not Say We Have Nothing. Sign up here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/madel...

I got to write a short piece – On Compost – for the LRB. (If you know me irl, you’ll understand that this is a happy thing)

Fraser MacDonald · On Compost

I sometimes wonder whether my love of compost is a response to the dispiriting cleanness of modern life – the spray’...

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Telegram from my garden, an occasional series: The impossible tenderness of daffodils leaning towards the light.

Today's blog post is from my dear friend, colleague, and marvellous co-conspirator @hmberents.bsky.social. Helen writes on "Ecotones And Borderlands Of The Feminist Peace" (@rkrystalli.bsky.social I think you will like this one!): thedisorderofthings.com/2025/04/07/e...

Ecotones And Borderlands Of The Feminist Peace

The next contribution to our symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace comes from Helen Berents. Helen is Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Government and International Re…

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A new essay from me on how radio tethers us to time, place, and each other. It’s really a love letter to BBC Radio 3. I’ll miss @petroc.bsky.social’s “good morning!” so much! roxanikrystalli.substack.com/p/alone-toge...

Alone together

A love letter to radio

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📢 Exciting news! Good Victims by Roxani Krystalli (OUP, 2024) has been shortlisted for the L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize 2025! 👏🎉 🔗 Read more: www.bisa.ac.uk/news/lhm-lin... #evertoexcel @rkrystalli.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

I am still rarely on this app, but popped in to thank BISA for including Good Victims on its L.H.M Ling prize shortlist. Looking forward to reading the rest of the books on it! 🌻💛

BISA - British International Studies Association@mybisa.bsky.social · last yr.

📚SHORTLIST ANNOUNCEMENT 📚 We are thrilled to announce our 2025 L.H.M Ling Outstanding First Book Prize 2025 shortlist! To read more about all the incredible books and their talented authors 👉 www.bisa.ac.uk/news/lhm-lin... #BookPrize #BookShortlist @rkrystalli.bsky.social

Last night we had the pleasure of celebrating @danzep.bsky.social’s new book, Overnight, with the wonderful @rkrystalli.bsky.social! 🌌🌙 It was an incredible event & it was wonderful to see so many of you there! Get a signed book here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/978183885750...

Published! In my first peer-reviewed article, I contend with narrating grief as political action, conversing with the words of Rohith Vemula, Natasha Narwal & GN Saibaba. Big thanks to @wrawproject with @marieeberry @MilliLake & many others! Open access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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We have these little bird shapes in the windows to keep birds safe, and at night the moon lights them up. They make me feel like a kid again each time I see them.

A new essay from me on the pleasure of using every fork and chair in the house in times of joy and sorrow. roxanikrystalli.substack.com/p/in-praise-...

In praise of gathering

The gift of a crowded table

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Friends and colleagues around Oxford, I’ll be in town @politicsoxford.bsky.social on February 4th to talk about Good Victims. 🌻 It would be lovely to see you there! www.lac.ox.ac.uk/event/histor...

Joint LAC-DPIR Seminar: FROM VICTIMHOOD TO LOVE: The political as a feminist question In Colombia

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Hello friends! What did you love reading this year? Here is a very incomplete list of favourite books of 2024 (if I can figure out how to create a thread On Here ...). Because it's impossible to pick among beloveds, the list excludes books by authors whose events I've hosted.

This is excellent 👇 If you haven't had the chance to watch this lecture or read the article version yet, it is well worth your time.

The exhibition draws a lot on Philipp Schulz and Roxani Krystalli's (@rkrystalli.bsky.social) research project "Centering #Love and #Care in #Peace and #Conflict Studies" (www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue...)

A Different Kind of War Story: Centering Love and Care in Peace and Conflict Studies - Universität Bremen

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We warmly recommend the #Politics of #Love exhibition at the Kunsthaus Hamburg to everyone in the are, which will continue until early February. kunsthaushamburg.de/politics-of-... politics-of-love.kunsthaushamburg.de

Politics of Love - Kunsthaus Hamburg

Bildcredits siehe unten Politics of Love 30.11.2024–2.2.2025 Teilnehmende Künstler*innen: Mounira Al Solh, Francis Alÿs, Isaac Chong Wai, Anna Ehrenstein, Amna Elhassan, FAIRY BOT (Jon Frickey, Thies ...

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A new essay from me about the opening of the Thessaloniki metro after a century (!) of plans. I’ve been thinking about how time moves in different places and about how many clocks one human can keep. substack.com/home/post/p-...

The promise of modernity

On places (un)frozen in time

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Researching how practices of love and care help people imagine worlds in the wake of loss has filled my life with joy and meaning this year. Philipp Schulz and I loved chatting to @pollypw.bsky.social of @europeanisa.bsky.social about this work. open.spotify.com/episode/4IEC...

What is...Love and Care in International Relations?

Voices: The EISA Podcast · Episode

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I am barely ever here, but it matters to show up for the joys. It was a gift to supervise DR @sarahgharib.bsky.social along with @jasminekgani.bsky.social. I have learned so much from her feminist, decolonial praxis, and the world will too.

Sarah Gharib Seif@sarahgharib.bsky.social · 2y ago

I passed my viva earlier this week! Thank you to Prof Gurch Sanghera and to Prof Richard Jackson for the generous engagement & a stimulating viva experience! I’m so grateful to @jasminekgani.bsky.social & @rkrystalli.bsky.social for being the best supervisory team - and to everyone at St Andrews IR!

Saturday’s are for reading friends’ @rkrystalli.bsky.social and Shirin Rai fantastic work