Fraser Riddell

@fraser_riddell

Comp Lit tutor at Uni of St Andrews. PhD in music and sexuality in C19th lit. at Durham Uni. Interested in bodies, sensory perception, queerness, affect.

Edinburgh/ St Andrews/ Durham
Joined July 2011
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  1. 8 hours ago

    Pretty crass low politics here from . I’d come to expect better. Why not have a serious conversation about sustainable public services and responsible spending? Not this sort of cheap school debating society nonsense.

    Earning over £26,000, like a nurse, police officer or teacher? Well, from today, the SNP are taking more money out of your pay packet.
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    18 hours ago

    LAFCADIO Hearn Koizumi YAKUMO books from Takis Efstathiou collection

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    Apr 4

    A friend just showed me this chart from her 8th grade science project and I don't think I've ever loved anything more.

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    11 hours ago

    Why do you assume that you're the smartest in the room? Male students consider themselves smarter than their classmates – even if their grades suggest otherwise, according to a study of students. reports

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    Apr 5

    Saw a parishioner just out of hospital. There he talked to a staff nurse with fifteen years experience, a single mum of two, full time on nights, who depends on food banks to feed her family. FOOD BANKS.

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    Apr 4

    Paraphernalia! Victorian Objects is here in the flesh at last. Feast on what and I describe as "the historical, cultural and literary debris that makes up the background of Victorian life". Essays by & more.

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    Apr 4

    “As dangerous and uncanny as she is intelligent, which is saying a great deal.” Congrats - forthcoming 'Psychology of an Art Writer' by Vernon Lee (aka Violet Paget) - a writer of astonishing range and audacity - reviewed

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    Apr 2

    my favorite subsection of twitter is the 40-60 year olds w established suburban lives & families whose bios are always like “reader, garderner, UofM alumni, proud parent of 2!” that rt my Very Communist tweets and quote w “well said! agreed!” thanks moms & dads

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    Mar 31

    Really dismayed by ’s column in today’s so going to unpack a few of the claims made here and the (not good) implications for feminism

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    Mar 30

    Really excited about rare song cycle, "The Window," music by . Concert Apr 21, part of & . . Recording to be part of . Tenor

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    Mar 31

    The Daily Mail admitted that it made "unfounded" allegations and agreed to pay "substantial damages" for an Islamophobic story - at midnight before Good Friday. Let's help out anyone who missed this! (Ht )

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    Mar 29

    "One firm commitment I make to people who join our Labour Party is that you have a real say, the final say in deciding on the policies of our party... No-one – not me as Leader, not the Shadow Cabinet, not the Parliamentary Labour Party – is going to impose policy": Corbyn, 2015.

    By 73% to 20% current LAB voters tell YouGov it would be WRONG to leave EU
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  15. Mar 30

    Still feeling melancholic after watching focus group from Nottingham last night. Depressing mix of scorn, fear, xenophobia, naivety, paranoia and simple ignorance. Was my country always like this? Was I blind?

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    Mar 26

    KWAIDAN INTERNATIONAL YAKUMO KOIZUMI LAFCADIO HEARN

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    Mar 23

    The kids always write the best poems after they've stopped listening to me. For example, I usually tell them to avoid rhyming couplets, because they govern the poem and tend to be comic - but this has heavy rhyme, and it's heartbreaking.

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    Mar 24

    PhD Studentship: Confronting a Masculine Military Ideal: The Experiences of LGBTQ Service Personnel 1914 - Now at Birkbeck, University of London

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    Mar 22

    Please share our poster widely! Join us for a two-day conference at Oxford in July - "Women Writing Decadence: European Perspectives, 1880-1920" More info:

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    Mar 23

    At Dunelm House for excellent charette. 5 teams of top architects/engineers & MEP professionals all working on imaginative schemes for inspirational new uses

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