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Jon Stone

@shotscarecrow.bsky.social

Undercover skeleton. 💀 Writer/researcher/lecturer. Ludokinetic/interactive poetry 🃏, collaborative and amalgamatic writing. Editor at @SidekickBooks. 📚 He/him. www.gojonstonego.com

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flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · last mo.

I’d reiterate that the key incident that drove the Cancel Culture panic - a wholly elite project, imposed from the top down - was the sight of Harvey Weinstein being dragged sobbing from court to jail, unprotected by his wealth, and the internet-based movement for justice that went with it.

Here is the news from the US: Woke 1.0 is over. But what did progressives do wrong? | Nesrine Malik

A movement with safety, dignity and equality at its heart has been blamed for the rightwing backlash. But within it were principles worth carrying forwards, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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Jon Stone@shotscarecrow.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thanks to Poetry Wales for including me in their special teaching issue! I have a brisk article about using card games in poetry classes, plus an ekphrastic garden poem which adds a dash of danger to the original painting.

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SoMrHarris@somrharris.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Rod Liddle has died. Odious columnist for The Times & Spectator who hated on minorities including the disable, immigrants, and trans people. Here are Rosie Duffield, Kathleen Stock & Julie Bindel mourning his death, coupled with screenshots from two articles Rod wrote defending paedophilia.

Screengrabd of Rosie Duffield's twitter mourning Rod Liddle, and retweets of Kathleen Stock and Julie Bindel doing the same.Spectator article written by Rod Liddle where he says he couldn't be a teacher as he couldn't imagine not shagging kids.Screenshot from a Guardian article by Rod Liddle defending people watching child SA porn.
Dr Harriet Fletcher@harrietfletcher.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I wrote a guest blog for Open Graves, Open Minds about my book #Gothic #Celebrity: Fame and Immortality from #LordByron to #LadyGaga - a study of the relationship between the modern phenomenon of celebrity and the Gothic mode. You can read it here 👇 www.opengravesopenminds.com/books-and-ar...

Gothic Celebrity: Fame and Immortality from Lord Byron to Lady Gaga

Our guest blog is by Dr Harriet Fletcher, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Anglia Ruskin University. Her new book, Gothic Celebrity: Fame and Immortality from Lord Byron to Lady Gaga (…

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Aurelien Mondon@aurelmondon.com · 3mo ago

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, there can be no mainstreaming of far-right politics without the active complicity of the mainstream elite The rise of the far right is therefore not irresistible, inexplicable or people-driven but carefully orchestrated in a top down manner

Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

BBC Radio 4's Common Ground just now investigating whether "woke has gone too far." At this point it feels like the national broadcaster is nothing but a threat to democracy.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3mo ago

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

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Lisa Rullsenberg@rullsenberg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This has been utterly destructive for post-92 HEIs, who have seen their cohorts poached, wrecking the opportunities for the talent of both staff + students to thrive at local institutions. The original language talked about caps - something constraining HE. It forgot it was really DISTRIBUTION 3/