home cooked theory

The case for a queer Bella

Spoiler alert: If you intend to see the current Twilight movie, maybe don’t read this til later. After writing the love post this week I went to see Twilight: Eclipse – part of a bonding session with K, who is writing his thesis on feminism and film. The last offering in the series was fairly [...]

Consuming drugs, books, tele

I’ve just uploaded our co-authored article, “Underbelly, true crime and the cultural economy of infamy” on the Other Writing page. We would welcome any feedback while it’s under peer review, especially since there will likely be more to this project than just one paper. Thanks to Tim Laurie for so much help with the background [...]

Remembering Eve Sedgwick

This is something I’ve been working on for the past few weeks. Hope some of you might like to come! We are also looking in to the logistics of recording it – so it would be good to hear if people would find this useful. Remembering Eve Sedgwick: The beginnings, present and future of queer [...]