Nicola Griffith

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

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Omicron: Don’t panic

Omicron is much more transmissible than any SARS-CoV-2 variant so far. But it could also, just possibly, be the beginnings of the long winding road to Covid becoming less deadly.

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Posted on November 27, 2021 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized
A diagram of SARS-CoV-2 replication and method of action understood in early 2020.

Two years later and 17 million dead

By some estimates Covid has killed 17 million people in two years. What will happen in the next two years?

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Posted on November 18, 2021 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Monstrously good! [video]

A monster video for a monstrously good book! But if you want to make sure you get a delicious, illustrated hardcover, you should pre-order now, because pandemic supply-chain issues.

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Posted on October 19, 2021 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

2020: An unusual year

I considered titling this post 2020: The Fuckening. A lot sucked—but it was also a profoundly liberating year for my work.

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Posted on December 28, 2020 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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

Adventures in homemade hair

Like everyone in Seattle I’ve been reduced to cutting my own hair. My hair needs are simple: cropped close and tidy enough to be able to shampoo, rub it dry with a towel, and leave the house. Except it turns out not to be so simple…

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Posted on May 24, 2020 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

2019-nCoV: the new coronavirus

I’ve been idly following along as the CDC reports on the Wuhan coronavirus, 2019-nCoV. Then my interest sharpened…

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Posted on January 26, 2020 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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Top 15 posts of 2021

Here are the most popular posts of 2021.

  1. Men Are Afraid Women Will Laugh at Them
  2. Huge News: Multiple Sclerosis Is a Metabolic Disorder
  3. Spear
  4. Hild
  5. Spear Cover Reveal
  6. Fuck Off Into the Sun: I’m Done Being Excluded
  7. A List of Bookshops in the UK
  8. Books About Women Don’t Win Big Awards: Some Data
  9. Menewood!!
  10. Kitten Report #11: Seven Months Old Today
  11. So Lucky
  12. Lame is So Gay
  13. Kitties!
  14. About the Real Hild
  15. Ammonite

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