Nicola Griffith

Writer. Queer cripple with a PhD. Seattle & Leeds.

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Month: June 2017

My PhD thesis: Norming the Other: Narrative Empathy Via Focalised Heterotopia

I’ve had many requests to see the thesis I wrote for my PhD, “Norming the Other: Narrative Empathy Via Focalised Heterotopia.” While…

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Posted on June 30, 2017 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

29 years ago

Exactly 29 years ago, on a hot summer day in East Lansing, on the first day of the Clarion Writers Workshop, I…

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Posted on June 26, 2017 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

I am now Doctor Griffith

Today I had my viva voce at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge (UK). I successfully defended my PhD thesis, “Norming the Other: Narrative Empathy Via Focalised Heterotopia.” I am Doctor Griffith.

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Posted on June 23, 2017 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

A sled chair pulled by direwolves

This latest trailer looks fabulous! In addition to all the essential tropes of great fantasy—swords and ponies! dragons and seers! queens and kings!—we now have an important and powerful character in a wheelchair.

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Posted on June 21, 2017 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Music of early 1981: what I was listening to

This weekend the Guardian did a 6-page spread on Visible Girls: Revisited, the retrospective-and-redo of the famous 1981 series. Here’s a playlist of the music I was listening to when that original photo was taken.

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Posted on June 18, 2017 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Silenced voices: relative representation in the House of Commons

In a perfectly just world, we might expect to see the demographics of the electorate reflected in the demographics of their representatives. It is not a perfectly just world. To find out just how unjust it is, I’ve been doing some counting, using population numbers as a proxy for electorate and comparing them to the newly-elected MPs.

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Posted on June 12, 2017 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

One-day workshop Sunday 8 October: Registration now open!

I’m teaching a one-day workshop for Clarion West on Sunday 8 October, 10am-4pm: What Readers Like—And Why. It will be held in an accessible space (I will most probably be in a wheelchair) in the U District of Seattle, and costs $150. Fourteen participants will be selected on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration is open.

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Posted on June 11, 2017 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Good music for hard times

It’s been a day of hard news. But here’s a song I love, I’ve always loved. It always helps me. Perhaps it…

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Posted on June 1, 2017 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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