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From lemon balm tea in a Martian house to lemon verbena in the woods
Sometimes you don’t know how you feel about something until the morning after. Yesterday I…
The Word for World is Forest symposium
This morning brought news I have had a proposal accepted to present at an online…
Three quick-fire utopian book recommendations
I wore my Just Utopias badge to a school event recently and it proved a…
Badges badges badges badges
I’m planning on handing them out willy-nilly at the conference. If, however, you’re a subscriber…
Brighton build up – two weeks til the Utopian Studies conference!
The Brighton build up has begun! It should have begun a bit earlier if I’m…
Utopian Studies Society of Europe coming to Brighton!
I’m very excited that this year’s conference of the Utopian Studies Society of Europe is…
Literature and Activism: Octavia Butler, farming and community
The People’s Republic of Stokes Croft are putting together their School of Activism programme for…
& Utopia lecture series: David M. Bell review
David Bell’s &Utopia lecture ‘Utopia: Another End of the World is Possible’, recorded on 28…
Saved by the saplings: developing a physical eco-utopian practice
Studying literature can seem like an indoor sport. As an ecocritic, I can spend days…
Glitter Communism or: How to Party in Utopia
How about judging utopias by how they party? Utopia scholar and Bristol Utopian Book Collective…
The Decolonial Thought
Although I can’t entirely articulate it yet, I have started to think the decolonial thought.…
Hey Thomas, what’s with the slaves in Utopia?
Recently, I stumbled across a cartoon about Thomas More’s Utopia on Existential Comics. More is…