Thoughts

15
Jun

Writing and existing

This was written when I moved my personal blog onto yorkshirewords.com. Attentive followers will have seen that I previously
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27
Apr

A creative choice

An open letter to James Rhodes, pianist (in reply to his article). James, on the off-chance you do read this
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24
Apr

Plotting

The more I talk and think about actually, concretely starting to write creatively, the more it feels that I'
3 min read
31
Mar

Writing

I'm going to stop being afraid of writing. Neil Gaiman, Rainer Maria Rilke and Gustav Holst are the
1 min read
31
Mar

Conservation and change in Nidderdale

Here's the full text of an opinion piece I've drafted for the Friends of Nidderdale AONB
6 min read
01
Feb

Feminism, subjecthood and the right to desire

As an undergraduate in history of art at Cambridge, I remember struggling with the ‘feminist theory’ class. I found it
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22
Oct

All we like sheep

Although it's poor style to start with an 'incidentally'... It was odd when I googled the
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29
Sep

Some folks' lives

One of my favourite Paul Simon songs is "Some folks' lives" and I was reminded of it
3 min read
25
Sep

Focus

It's been a while - in fact, a month to the day - since I used this blog
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21
Aug

Sexism and the benefit of the doubt

I have always had trouble with the assumption on the part of some feminists that every interaction which is critical
2 min read
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