Nicola Griffith

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

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Love and isolation: 31 years ago

I moved to the US to be with Kelley exactly 31 years ago. Life then felt weirdly similar to pandemic life today.

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Posted on December 11, 2020 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

30 years ago: a love story in photos

Thirty years ago today Kelley and I met in East Lansing, Michigan. Here’s our story in photos.

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Posted on June 26, 2018 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Brexit-related death and decline: a rant

The day after the UK voted to leave the European Union I posted my opinion to the effect that many people would die as a direct result. I have not changed my mind. In fact, after the events of this week, I’m more certain than ever.

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Posted on October 8, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

38% of English ancestry derived from Anglo-Saxon migration

Over on Gemæcce I’ve just posted a piece about a new study of English ancestry.

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Posted on January 21, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Immigration and same-sex couples

From: Isabelle in the EU The reason I am getting in touch is that I have fallen in love with an American…

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Posted on October 14, 2013 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

I am now an American citizen

I took the oath yesterday. It was a surprisingly moving ceremony. I’ll blog all about it in a few days. Right now…

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Posted on February 27, 2013 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

A step forward: same-sex couples are ‘family’ for immigration purposes

My immigration story was difficult, stressful, and expensive. Which is the understated English way of saying, Nightmarish, terrifying, and financially crippling. Kelley…

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Posted on September 29, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Anniversary

Today is the 22nd anniversary of the day I moved to the US permanently to live with Kelley. I intend to spend…

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Posted on December 11, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Maintaining my interesting status

From: Pia I have read some of your recent Ask Nicola blog entries which support epublishing. I have become inseparable from my…

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Posted on September 10, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

I arrive in the US–a cartoon

Friend of Ask Nicola Angélique Corthals drew this cartoon of me arriving for the first time in this country (in 1988) to…

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Posted on December 13, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

twenty years ago

Twenty years ago I was watching the Berlin Wall coming down, beginning a five-week process of selling my stuff, saying my goodbyes…

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Posted on November 9, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Virgin birth (yes, really)

An AP report about a blacktip shark, Carcharhinus limbatus, giving birth to a shark pup by parthenogenesis (or, as the Wall Street…

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Posted on October 13, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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