Rowan Fortune
Feminine Power
From Lilith to Mami Wata Depictions of the feminine are wrought with conflict over what is even meant by the word. The enculturation of...
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Rowan Fortune
- Sep 24
- 5 min
Speaking of Fire and Hate
How are two dissimilar things, dissimilar? With the Queen’s death, free speech has come back on the agenda. Only this time, rather than...
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Rowan Fortune
- Sep 17
- 4 min
Excuses for Grief
From reactionary grief to revolutionary joy. The UK is gripped in an inflationary cost of living crisis, driven in part by energy costs...
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Rowan Fortune
- Sep 10
- 5 min
A Hacked Life
From Skill Share to afterlives and alienation. ‘Life Hack’ is a term I broadly loathe. But equally, I do a lot of what falls under that...
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Rowan Fortune
- Sep 3
- 6 min
Queer Poetry
Reviews of three LGBTQ+ Poetry Books. Poetry is a form of writing well placed to capture the liminal, achieving this because poems are...
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Rowan Fortune
- Aug 27
- 5 min
The 56 Genders
From a drop down menu to infinity... In the long ago of 2014, Facebook extended its gender options with a drop-down menu for the first...
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Rowan Fortune
- Aug 20
- 7 min
Cultivating Shared Agency
The process of revolutionary consciousness. Lately, I have been thinking a lot about those political activities that inspire me, and...
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Rowan Fortune
- Aug 13
- 7 min
The Story of Edward Nashton
A delve into the villain of The Batman (2022) and what he says about this strange film. Spoilers ahead. There are a lot of opposing...
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Rowan Fortune
- Aug 6
- 5 min
Why so Political?
From Maverick to Star Trek, what is political? The word ‘political’ is frustratingly vague. Its usage, more than most words, is highly...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jul 30
- 3 min
Do Stars Have a Gender?
A look at two comic books and how they navigate gender, trauma and embodiment. The comic book medium has fewer restrictions than most...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jul 23
- 5 min
Distracting Cultures
From culture wars to the materiality of culture. “A mind cannot be independent of culture.”—Lev Vygotsky Cultures are a totality of the...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jul 16
- 4 min
Heat and Despair
If we are to survive the crisis we that face, we need more than just survival for its own sake. Pointless gadgets are a guilty pleasure...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jul 9
- 5 min
Free Speech, Beyond Clichés
In which I solve the problem of free speech, with reference to the so-called trans debate and beyond. Clichés are not only undesirable...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jul 2
- 3 min
Dialogic Consciousness
From conversations to theory and art. In conversation, we can hold thoughts and reflect on problems sometimes for hours on end. This is...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jun 25
- 4 min
Trans Q&A
On Being Trans I did this questionnaire on Twitter (1 like for 1 answer) and said to my followers that if I received a certain number of...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jun 18
- 5 min
Triviality and Ordinariness
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. The above quote from Blaise Pascal is one I used in last...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jun 11
- 5 min
Thinking About Desks
A Journey Around my Desks, in the spirit of Xavier de Maistre I have now examined my desk more closely and have seen that nothing good...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jun 8
- 1 min
How to Stay Safe Online
One of the nicer sides of keeping a blog, posting articles through various platforms and especially for a membership political...
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Rowan Fortune
- May 14
- 5 min
How Elden Ring Taught me to Love Games Again
Overcoming Perfectionism in Play Not since I was a teenager playing Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn has any computer game obsessed me as...
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Rowan Fortune
- Apr 23
- 5 min
A Radical Mask
On myths, masks, and a sensuous materialism. Despite the amount of academic reading and citations[…] it should also be remembered that...
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