We have to write opinion columns for the next seminar, and as luck would have it I spotted an article in the Metro paper (it's that free one that comes on the buses) about Nick Griffin getting ~racially attacked~. If you snorted into your coffee just then, we are of a like mind ( Read more... )

A lot of discussion has been going on about cultural appropriation and writing about "the Other", and (perhaps a little late to the party) I’ve been trying to follow it, for the very basic reason that how to not hurt people is an indescribably important thing to understand. A few of the discussions I've found especially helpful/interesting have ( Read more... )

Well, when I woke up this morning, all I had to say was that I'm re-writing my PPC stories now that my characters have, well, character.

But now?I have to say that it's made me pretty nervous about flying to Germany this Monday. Mum reckons it'll have settled down a bit by then, though the security measures will most likely still all be in place. ( Read more... )