Rowan Fortune
Twitter is Dead
a eulogy to a monster Before I express what I would like to say, I need to caveat this piece. No socialist assessment of the situation...
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Feb 19
- 4 min
Fatigue, the Weight of the Future
In this blog I recount my recent experiences with illness and fatigue. Omicron, my second Covid-19 infection, has got me thinking about...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jan 29
- 5 min
Boris, Bathed in Blood, not Booze
From Covid to Outrage, Neoliberalism to Care... At the time of writing the UK is embroiled in a political crisis. Or, rather, a crisis...
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Rowan Fortune
- Nov 7, 2021
- 1 min
Squids, Climate and Bigotry
An Anti*Capitalist Resistance roundup. Three new(ish) pieces of mine available on the A*CR. Capitalism without a Human Face is a review...
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Rowan Fortune
- Oct 1, 2021
- 1 min
NB at the A*CR
This is a roundup of a group of articles I have recently done for the Anti*Capitalist Resistance on trans solidarity. These were largely...
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Rowan Fortune
- Aug 7, 2021
- 5 min
Too Hot to Blog
A blog inspired by a heat wave, about why I wrote it. Honestly, I was considering cancelling one week’s blogging in response to how much...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jun 18, 2021
- 11 min
Notes on British Transphobia
In this essay I explored a very British oppression and the hope that solidarity can offer. It was first published by the A*CR on 5 Jan...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jun 4, 2021
- 6 min
Eugenics: utopian obscenity to culture war
This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of re-edited and rereleased essays. This essay explored a Twitter controversy around eugenics,...
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Rowan Fortune
- May 29, 2021
- 6 min
A False Renewal
Towards a genuine reckoning. Looking out of a window in West London in my mid-thirties I see myself looking out of another window in...
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Rowan Fortune
- Apr 10, 2021
- 4 min
Rowan Tree Editing Retrospective
Horror, utopia, futures and gender, a look back. My first Rowan Tree Editing blog goes back to July of last year, my first Medium blog...
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Rowan Fortune
- Mar 6, 2021
- 4 min
Hope in the time of Covid
This essay is a personal taking-stock. Not an introspective reflection—I have one of those in the works—but a looking outwards, albeit...
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Rowan Fortune
- Feb 20, 2021
- 3 min
On Collaboration
A brief look at some of my recent collaborative projects. For the last few years, I have worked on various collaborative projects,...
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Rowan Fortune
- Jan 9, 2021
- 4 min
Dare to Hope
Rowan Tree Editing's 2021 agendas... It is so tempting to give up after a year like 2020. That temptation is not likely to go away soon....
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Rowan Fortune
- Jan 2, 2021
- 5 min
A (brief) Journey Around my Lockdown
The spatiality of Covid-19... Amongst my last published blogs of 2020, I appraised my year’s reading and this year’s resolutions (in the...
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Rowan Fortune
- Dec 26, 2020
- 5 min
In Praise of Lists
From resolutions to literary devices... With 2020 coming to an end, I have been thinking a lot about goals, accomplishments, resolutions....
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