haven't been on here in a while, but if i was referring to the essay i think i am in this post, it has become one of my favourites i've ever written

700 words left on this essay and i feel like ive not made any sense at all so far... but we keep going 🤷‍♀️

omg 😭 i honestly can't believe it's come to this....

STOOOOP what?? i know a couple of humanities profs (even English) who have said you can use it but only for ideation and you have to declare step by step what you input and what it generates etc. and show proof of sources for the answers it gives but even then......

film photograph of a red panda in a tree yawning

i don't have an intro post at the moment but while i come up with one here's a film photo of a red panda at my local wildlife reserve ❤️

i truly cannot understand this, especially seeing people do this in humanities degrees - it's not even about the accessibility of it etc. bc im sure something similar would help as a disability aid, it is the fact that ch*tgpt doesn't even WORK properly and info is often altered / wrongly generated

John and I identified this phenomenon ages ago, where upstart social media platforms had a hard time working because the first wave of people to leave a platform are the ones who have the most radical positions, are the most aggrieved, and it's very hard to build a coalition of people like that. 1/x

why is my local library SO COLD 😭😭 i live in the tropics i should not be freezing my butt off here

excerpt from "Fans of Feminism: Re-writing Histories of Second-Wave Feminism in Contemporary Art" by Catherine Grant, published in the Oxford Art Journal in 2011 Defining Fandom Within fan studies, fandom has been recuperated from the realms of obsessive loners and theorised instead as a creative, productive space of engagement with popular culture. As a model for re-writing histories, the differences between the fan and scholar seem to be blurred in many of the accounts of fandom, with a central debate being the self-definition of writer as being fans, academics, or 'fan- scholars' - describing the in-between site of their work within an academic context and /or their participation in fan culture.6 In this respect, my consideration of the artist as a fan also incorporates the artist as an art historian, as well as an art historian as a fan. Here the roles are blurred around a shared interest in a fan object, in this case feminism. My position as a writer is equally coloured by my own fandom, my own emotional attachment to the history of feminism and feminist art. As an art historian influenced by the legacies of feminism, the figure of the fan provides a way to think through my relationship to a history of feminist art and writing.

can't seem to escape fan studies 🤭

excerpt from "Fans of Feminism: Re-writing Histories of Second-Wave Feminism in Contemporary Art" by Catherine Grant (Published in the Oxford Art Journal in 2011)

Presented by Sue Flanagan, the artist's former wife 1985

Barry Flanagan, Telephone, 1972
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1116336

The absolute unit sheep; an Exmoor Horn ram

look at this absolute unit

bookish checkpoint 📚

✧ last book you read: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
✧ your current read: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
✧ last book added to tbr: TIUTFFYE by Brigitte Knightley (July '25) 🫶
✧ next anticipated read: 1984 by George Orwell

quote with yours! #booksky #books

Reading is a political act.
Books are tools for liberation.

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