New article out 🎉 Drawing on my PhD research, I explore the construction of the 'prostitute' and the 'client' within England's AIDS Policy in the late 1980s.

Published with the @sshmedicine.bsky.social and now available to read here (though sadly not open access!):

#histmed #histsex #AIDShistory

Absolutely must know more about Foucault's theory of pasta

In a world of academic enshittification this is one of the worst jobs I've seen. *Four* specialist modules for *immediate* delivery and we'll only pay you for eight months. Way to go Bishop Grosseteste University!

"UK's nuclear expertise ..."

Watching the far-Right rise across the world, it is very easy to sink into self-pity, and I don’t always escape that temptation. The trick is to treat the pain as terrible but not total: to go for a short walk or a quick drink, preferably a hot tea, then to get back to the desk to write, to help.

Subversion and sexuality, feminism and women’s liberation, race, class, Punk: the Radical 1970s
Join us on 9 December. More information here culturepowerpolitics.org/the-radical-1970s/

Thank you to Françoise Daucé for a thoughtful and perceptive review of News from Moscow in the latest Cahiers du Monde russe

journals.openedition.org/monderusse/1...

The High Court of Australia has ruled that indefinite immigration detention is unlawful, overturning a 20-year-old precedent allowing detention even where there is no prospect of deportation. Let’s hope it influences UK, which also has no time limit on detention www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

UKRI have responded to Michelle Donelan's disgraceful attack on academic independence.

They have caved completely and are organising a witch-hunt.

www.ukri.org/news/respons...

I encourage those who are concerned with academic freedom in the UK to sign.

There are worse places to do research than the UNESCO archives...