Blue skies over Goose Fair!

Reading Vidocq while putting a load of laundry on

Between the Roman prison and the pool!

After almost a year in Liverpool we finally made it to the beach!

Dreyfus’ spectacles from his time on Devil’s Island

Au « temps béni » du bagne de Cayenne En kiosques // par Samuel Tracol (juillet 2025)

www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2025/07/TRAC... by my excellent friend Samuel Tracol

New club med spotted in Provence!

Marseille vibes

Little trip to Paris to work on a chapter of my book looking at the clinical-carceral gaze so seems fitting to be staying round the corner from rue Charcot - the gaze to end all gazes

Mount Fuji

Today’s view.

By My Prison’s Standards, the Bible Would Be a Banned Book Today, more than 50,000 books are banned in prison. At Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women, the book ban is getting to be ridiculous.

"Prisons all over the United States are withholding books from prisoners, but not because they contain contraband. Books are becoming harder to receive based on their content."

How I Became a Scholar Behind Bars I earned three degrees and am now using my education to build up at-risk youth.

"In my old neighborhood, $300 could get you drugs, alcohol, tattoos, even a used handgun. Feeling guilty for disappointing my family by going to prison, there was no way I’d burden them by asking for money for textbooks."

"[B]est of all, though, is the food. Fans go all out, with buddies pooling their resources for weeks to collect ingredients from the canteen. Some turn to the black market for onions, cheese or spices stolen from the kitchen — whatever it takes to build a meal ... Nachos are a perennial favorite."

After Writing About Prison Censorship, I Got Blocked From Messaging My Sources Censorship in prisons has expanded as a few private companies have increasingly monopolized prison communications.

After Writing About Prison Censorship, I Got Blocked From Messaging My Sources

‘Essential’: nearly 800 incarcerated firefighters deployed as LA battles wildfires The firefighters earn $5.80-$10.24 per day plus $1 an hour when responding to active emergencies, according to CDCR

‘Essential’: nearly 800 incarcerated firefighters deployed as LA battles wildfires.

Call for papers – Islands symposium We invite contributions (in various forms/media) to a symposium which considers Islands as sites of geo-embodied knowledge mediated through experiential engagements with weather. Click here for Isl…

📣CALL FOR PAPERS 📣

Contributions are invited (in various forms/media) to Islands Symposium - Island narratives of kinship, place, and the weather. 3-4 April 2025, at Ceòlas (South Uist) and online.

DL for proposals 15 Jan.

For further details, visit bit.ly/3DKqO3W

French humour.
Vaut mieux en rire, qu'en ... Rire !

First swim of 2025 and there’s nobody else here…

district 7 going all out with the karaoke tonight

Spotted in HCMC - a birthday cake for Serge Gainsbourg

All I want for Christmas is to pull a loose book from a bookshelf and finally, at long last, find that it opens a hidden door.

🔴 Language Barriers Harm Health Care in Prison Plus: Six short essays on holidays after prison.

🔴 Language Barriers Harm Health Care in Prison

checking out of a hotel and somebody actually came
to reception to pick up a fax

Today in HCMC am reminded of @arohelmet.bsky.social ‘s point that only the streets named after
doctors kept their French names after Vietnamese independence

Bilbao’s House of the Basque Language wins Council of Europe Museum Prize - Museums Association Prize honours museums that make ‘significant contribution to the understanding of European cultural heritage’

Congratulations to Bilbao’s House of the Basque Language, Euskararen Etxea, on winning the Council of Europe Museum Prize 🏆

The prize honours museums that make ‘significant contribution to the understanding of European cultural heritage’.

In the sensory overload of HCMC at Xmas, it’s a tough job trying to stand out but Notre Dame might be this year’s winner…

Academic life on the big screen | LSE Higher Education We asked nine film studies academics for their top picks of movies that feature academic life. From The Birds to Wicked, here are their recommendations.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

Le 40e anniversaire du discours de Félix Tiouka à Awala #Guyane pour les droits des peuples autochtones. Un texte d’Hélene Ferrarini.

The Beckett Advent calendar by the inimitable @tomgauld.bsky.social

Senegal and Chad just sent the French military packing. Why? Washington should learn a lesson and ditch the counterterrorism lens now

"Senegalese President Diomaye Bassirou Faye, evoking the 80th anniversary of the massacre by French soldiers of Senegalese troops recently freed from German prisoner-of-war camps...told Le Monde that “soon there will be no more French soldiers in Senegal.”

responsiblestatecraft.org/senegal-fran...