LOL my praxis

Yo, yo! Happy New Year! We're joined by DJ DYScourse, aka dance artist Aby Watson to chat about neurodivergence, academia, and spacehoppers as praxis. Aby is a PhD researcher at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, her practice-based research embraces her dyslexia/dyspraxia/ADHD to challenge the neuronormativity of dance culture and wider academic structures. She is the founder of the Scottish Neurodiverse Performance Network and her solo work has been seen across the UK and internationally at various venues, including the Southbank Centre (London), Sophiensaele (Berlin), Tramway (Glasgow) and the Millennium Centre (Cardiff).

NOTE: To respect, give a platform to, and celebrate neurodiverse modes of expression, we have not edited any tangents or moments of processing from the episode.

You can find Aby through her website abywatson.co.uk or through her project blog disorderingdance.com. Her Twitter handle is @abswatson.

Aby is DJing a virtual neurodivergent-led DYSco as DJ DYScourse through the Southbank Centre on 16th January, find out more here: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/performance-dance/dysco?eventId=862401

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Jingle your bells and set discourse to festive, LOL My Praxis is here to save Christmas!

We're joined by the absolute LAD, Dr Pete Orford, to discuss one of the most underrepresented straight white men of the Western literary canon: Charles Dickens. Pete the course director of the MA by research in Charles Dickens studies at the University of Buckingham and the author of 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Charles Dickens’ unfinished novel and our endless attempts to end it'. Most importantly, Pete attended the London premiere of 'The Muppet Christmas Carol'.

You can find Pete on Twitter @DrPeteOrford and try to solve the Mystery of Edwin Drood at his droodinquiry.com.

Get in touch with us on Twitter @lolmypraxis or by emailing us at [email protected] - tell all your pals and SUBSCRIBE - MERRY CHRISTMAS YA FILTHY ANIMALS!!

This week we're joined by BBC New Generation Thinker Dr Emma Butcher! Emma is a gravy-guzzling military historian, who works on children and war. She is an expert in the juvenilia of the Brontë siblings and her recent monograph, 'The Brontës and War', was published earlier this year. She's a wannabe Emily, but identifies as a Charlotte, and she's here to tell us whether or not ABBA were on to something when they stated 'the history book on the shelf is always repeating itself' (Andersson and Ulvaeus: 1974).

You can find Emma on Twitter @EmmaButcher_ and you can donate to the Brontë Parsonage Museum Appeal here: https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/bronteparsonageappeal

Get in touch with us @lolmypraxis on Twitter or email [email protected].

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We're joined by writer, academic, and badass intersectional feminist witch, Dr Alice Tarbuck. Alice is an award-winning poet who seeks to make poetry accessible through interactions with the natural world. We invite you to settle down with Alice, her perfect kidneys, some fava beans, and a nice chianti as we discuss sex magic, psychotropic plants of Glasgow's East End, and hating the Wordsworth siblings.

You can find Alice on Twitter @atarbuck and buy her new book 'A Spell in the Wild: A Year (and six centuries) of Magic', here: https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Alice-Tarbuck/A-Spell-in-the-Wild--A-Year-and-six-centuries-of-Magic/25135618

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We made it to episode two! This time we're joined by Dr Jen Baker and legions of dead Victorian children. Jen is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick and she works on haunting representations of child dead in Anglophone literature of the long nineteenth century. This episode is brought to you with the confidence of Pip, a smattering of Big Dick(ens) energy, and a murderous strawberry cart.

You can find Jen on Twitter @Jendeavour and read her recently published chapter on monstrous pop-up books in The Palgrave Gothic Handbook of Contemporary Gothic (2020).

Get in touch with us @lolmypraxis on Twitter or email [email protected] - we are always looking for fun interviewees...

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It's our inaugural episode and we're joined by an actual fantasy...Dr Taylor Driggers. Taylor works on fantasy literature and queer theologies at the University of Glasgow. In this episode we ask the important questions ('Is Jesus a queer wizard?'), demand #JusticeForSusan, and talk drag(ons).

You can find Taylor on Twitter @TaylorWDriggers and see him lecture on fantasy and monstrosity here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZeZ7WHWEVQ&t=2856s&ab_channel=Stay-at-Home%21FringeLitFest

Get in touch with us @lolmypraxis on Twitter or email [email protected] - we're always looking for fun interviewees...

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Introducing 'LOL my praxis', the fortnightly academic/comedy podcast - smashing ivory towers one innuendo at a time...

Each episode we'll be interviewing academics from across the arts and humanities and celebrating all things praxis!

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