culture. education. literary studies.
Over the past three years, possibly as an unexpected effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns and social distancing, Iโve found myself exploring something Iโd never expressed much interest in: mushrooms. It began innocently enough: as I started taking my solitary nature walks, I also started noticing these silent and elusive creatures of vastly different colour, …
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I first read this book a few years ago, in the days leading up to Halloween. I remember searching online for books to get me in the holiday mood, and among all the shiny, glossy titles (and there are so many!), there was this one that looked quite different โ a small, unassuming volume, with …
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Unpredictable, emotional, unsettling, relatable on many unexpected levelsโฆ Bart Yatesโ debut novel is a wonderfully written piece of fiction dealing with the complexity of family history, identity and sexuality, written from the perspective of a deeply introverted man.ย โThe Brothers Bishopโ turned out to be a perfect summer read for me, as I love books …
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Neurodiversity is a relatively new term, used to refer to diversity in cognitive functioning. As with other aspects of human experience, it was long assumed that there is such a thing as โnormalโ within a given culture; everything outside the norm was (in many places still is), met with stigmatisation and intolerance. Neurodivergent people have …
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