This is an edited version of a paper I presented at the TaPRA Annual Conference as part of the Performance and New Technologies working group at the University of Leeds, 30 August – 2 September 2023
I am impatient for …
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Staging Free Speech – Monograph
I have signed a contract to write my first monograph: Staging Free Speech: British Culture Wars and the Battle for Representation. It will be published as part of Palgrave’s series, Cultural Censorship.
Debates about the threats to free speech …
Performing Otherness and the War on Woke
“Or is anyone’s identity a matter of fragments held together by convenient or useful narrative, that in ordinary circumstances never reveals itself as a fiction? Or is it really a fiction?”
Leckie 207
Woke has become an almost perfect …
Islamaphobia and Gay Rights
I’m Being Cancelled! has become a much bigger project than I anticipated. I’m finding it difficult to get Gaming Democracy up and running (I recently got a rejection from AHRC for network funding and am now waiting for news from …
I’m Being Cancelled! Update 9
My research lead me to the NT Archive a couple of weeks ago to watch Platform events with DV8’s artistic director Llyod Newson on the topic of religion, free speech, homosexuality, and the limits of tolerance. These were in relation …