Interview with the wonderful Sarah Stein Lubrano in the Irish Journal of Sociology, on politics, engagement, coffee, social atrophy and much more: @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social , @sociologyireland.bsky.social
Since people liked the substack piece, I'ma go away and find many more historical examples and ideas and let's do a lecture! If you can't afford the small cost, just DM me. See you all there!
Excellent article about the social skills needed for political organization from @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social. Thinking about this sort of thing a lot in my tenants organizing right now.
I have a letter in @theobserveruk.bsky.social today on the importance of 'third spaces': observer.co.uk/opinion-and-... highlights the work @themiracleinn.bsky.social is doing to help combat what @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social calls 'social atrophy' all inspired by @willhutton.bsky.social 'we' work
Starting soon!
I've been reading and listening to @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social and I think she is really on to something when she tells us, "Don't TALK about politics."
www.bloomsbury.com/us/dont-talk...
LECTURE ONE THIS SUNDAY: luma.com/fdkaa2a9
ALL LECTURES: luma.com/40ldgzgf
We're offering open registration to individual sessions of our super popular course, Fighting Fascist Feelings, this time around as it's likely the last time we'll run it for a little while. I'll put links below :) Price is flexible. With @maxhaiven.bsky.social
Speaking at this in Berlin in October with Catherine Liu
Join @kojokoram.bsky.social and @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social to discuss who wins and who loses as Britain's relationship with drugs is remade and, as cannabis and psychedelics move towards commercialisation, who really owns the emerging drug economy.
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
