DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social
@drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in 18th-century Studies (Queer & Disability Studies). Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2025). Views my own, not employer’s.
I wrote about Berlin and Pride and solidarity, especially within our community. I hope it helps. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
Damian Barr: I can’t say if it’s safe to march at Pride. I know it’s dangerous not to
Last week’s fatal attack in Berlin is the latest in a long line of tragedies that the LGBTQ+ community has had to overcome. Speaking out and standing together is vital
observer.co.uk
The hill I will die on: according to a faceless old man who just spoke to me in a dream.
So a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.
I spent the past day sitting with the work of @mistykrueger.bsky.social who we lost yesterday. I have taught her memoir about breast cancer nearly every semester, and it was a constant reminder of the crip kinship that we shared.
Delighted to have a poem accepted for publication in The Alchemy Spoon : Poetry Magazine, Issue 19, published by Clayhanger Press. Issue 18 on ‘Bugs’ is available to order here: www.alchemyspoon.org
The Alchemy Spoon
The Alchemy Spoon
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Apart from Blair, I can't think of a Labour leader who has done more than Starmer to create division and polarisation. Pandering to Reform on immigration, complicity in genocide, attacks on the right to protest ... Now he presents himself as a great healer. His speech was not "moving" but sickening.
Unless this “honesty” involves the recognition that immigrants are *not* the root cause of the UK’s problems *but* actually a part of the solution to them, this will be completely pointless. I cannot stress this enough. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Burnham to say UK must be honest about its challenges as he prepares to become PM
Labour leader will visit king to accept role on Monday and will start making cabinet appointments that afternoon
theguardian.com
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey was ok.
It’s been a while since I read The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and I had forgot how childlike it is.
Congratulations to the government on saving 2700 jobs by nationalising British Steel. Now, about the 18,000 university jobs lost in the last 18 months, with more coming…
Very excited to receive proofs for my forthcoming article in Eighteenth-Century Ireland, Issue 41. Coming out later this year all things going well. #disability #eighteenthcentury #memoir #GulliversTravels #MichaelClancy #JonathanSwift
Have to say, I really, really don't like that we seem to have settled on a policy of publicly announcing people's race so the public knows how to respond to the crime they're accused of.
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Lecturer in Medieval History (Research & Teaching Track) at University of Glasgow
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Lot to think about here in terms of all those academics who've lost their jobs (or will in the next few years). What responsibility does the sector have for their health/ mental health support? For helping them into early retirement or another sector? Finding ppl a liferaft role at another provider?
Daniel Benneworth-Gray@danielgray.com · 3w agoSam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.
Burnham talks as if the genocide in Gaza is in the past, but it's happening NOW. Britain is arming Israel NOW. This UN report is from two weeks ago. Burnham must commit to fully ending UK complicity NOW.
Really pleased with St James’ Gate up on my wall in my Canterbury flat. Art by: stevenfarrell.ie/password?srs...
Obviously I shouldn’t have to say this but for the avoidance of any doubt two things can be true at once: people shouldn’t be murdered and people can be bigots. I abhor violence in all its forms.
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social@drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 4w agoAnne Widdecombe, god rest her soul, embodied and performed a very English form of cruelty and narrow mindedness that really helped me to understand Britain’s history of colonialism. I often remember hearing her speak and thinking: this is the frame of mind that produced everything that shames us.
Kent SE Water has a hosepipe ban. Kent is awash with leaks, everyday SEW wastes millions of gallons.. This leak has been going for 5 days+ with no one working on it CEO David Hinton was paid £400,000 last year despite 24,000 homes having no water pre Xmas Fat Cats get paid & residents screwed❗️😡
Anne Widdecombe, god rest her soul, embodied and performed a very English form of cruelty and narrow mindedness that really helped me to understand Britain’s history of colonialism. I often remember hearing her speak and thinking: this is the frame of mind that produced everything that shames us.
I see Ann Widdecombe has died. When she was Home Secretary I showed her round Drake Hall womens’s prison. There was a pregnant woman on a bed in the early stages of Labour and she asked the prison officers why she wasn’t handcuffed to the bed. That’s the kind of woman she was.
