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Michael Rowland

5 months

A wonderful early Christmas present: my contributor’s copy of Gender, Emotions & Power, a book four years in the making, and including my very first book chapter. Thanks to our wonderful editors Hannah Parker & Josh Doble.

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

5 years

Just had my first experience of being spoken to like shit by an academic because I happen to be doing an admin job at the moment. PSA to academics: do not speak to office staff like that. It’s vile. #academicprecarity

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Michael Rowland

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1 year

@ReggieFMercer @dr_duchesne The guy with Ash there is Aydin Dikerdem, who is a Labour councillor in south London, is not her fiancé and is also not white…

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Michael Rowland

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4 years

@SamuelJJack Being a pain in the arse to low-paid key workers who are already at high risk of contracting covid really isn’t the admirable act of rebellion you seem to think it is.

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Michael Rowland

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8 months

@DrJenIzaakson It’s amazing how often these vanishingly rare events happen to people who are friends with transphobes. Makes you wonder…

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Michael Rowland

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3 years

@ne_al_ Have just walked through Walthamstow with my bf (who is British Iraqi) holding hands and just kept constantly thinking about how much of this is happening atm.

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

4 years

@Lubchansky As a Brit, everything on this thread is lies. Like I’ve honestly never seen so much lying in one place. Peanut butter, for a start, is a national institution. Everyone eats it, just not that horrendous smooth shit.

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

5 years

Who are some historians who use literary analysis in their work? Or critics who straddle the divide between the two disciplines? Am currently on a mission to prove that lit crit has a place in history but feeling under equipped.

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

5 years

My very first journal article has been published! Please do have a read... #18thcentury #queertheory #babysfirstarticle Thank you @ECFjournal !

Eighteenth-Century Fiction (ECF)

@ECFjournal

5 years

For realz! (not April fools) ECF spring (31.3) is now @ProjectMUSE #readecf "Shame and Futile Masculinity: Feeling Backwards in Henry Mackenzie's Man of Feeling," by @MikeRowland84 Michael Rowland, University of Sussex #18thcentury

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Michael Rowland

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4 years

@DMA_DMD @Bethyspencer @nicola_dEU @cockyatom @krishgm Myself and my partner go shopping once a week. We go together because we don’t have a car & it’s too much for one person to carry. Don’t be so judgemental

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Michael Rowland

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4 years

@J0nD0nn @crystalwillseeu I wish you’d wait silently jfc

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Michael Rowland

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4 years

@questionsin2014 @ronravegan @chloetsila You writing the same thing under everyone’s post doesn’t make it any more convincing.

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Michael Rowland

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4 years

@make_trouble This is the most basic secondary school attempt to start some drama I’ve yet witnessed on here today. Grow up.

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

3 years

@jodcoll I went on a date with a guy once who made this ‘my parents worked really hard to put me through private school’ and I just thought how incredible it was that he didn’t seem to realise that implied my parents were slackers?

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Michael Rowland

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5 years

@grumpysteve47 @SadiqKhan @thefabians That is an extremely selective reading of what actually happened, which is that the money used to buy freedom of slaves was spent in reparations to British slaveowners. The slaves didn’t see a penny of it.

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Michael Rowland

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5 years

@rain_later @TheEconomist I have both heard of Lyndal Roper and seen her speak. She was wonderful: erudite, warm and wore her immense learning lightly. I have no idea who Adrian Wooldridge is.

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Michael Rowland

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3 years

@kaifoxy99 @gorjogle Shut up you nubbin.

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Michael Rowland

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3 years

@clxrki @gorjogle It’s not exactly on a par with misogyny or homophobia is it bab?

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Michael Rowland

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4 years

@humblecrofter @HackneyAbbott That doesn’t mean it wasn’t still a brave thing to do?

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Michael Rowland

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1 year

@Gearmaraes @ipa_fan @Doddsyy97 Flag shag brigade’s arrived to tell us all what’s normal 🙄

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Michael Rowland

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4 years

@DDenouncement @graceelavery This is the most deadening insight into heterosexuality I’ve ever had the misfortune to read.

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Michael Rowland

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4 years

@DawnButlerBrent Tbh at this point the fact that you're not anti-white speaks volumes about your patience and strength of character.

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

3 years

@BezzleJuice @ne_al_ That’s so kind! We actually live in Brighton and were just visiting a friend but it seems to be happening everywhere. We definitely need to look out for each other ❤️

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

4 years

@WestminsterWAG Do you have the slightest idea of the harm you could have caused?

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Michael Rowland

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3 years

@martland_beth @biminibabes Here comes the expert

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

4 years

It’s already becoming clear to me that calls for @UKLabour to reconnect w/ ‘working class core’ actually means sacrificing young & BAME people, who were the most dedicated & passionate activists in the campaign. Unacceptable & short sighted

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

4 years

@duncanm @LGBTLabour You seem to have missed the bit where they outline just how much her comments leave trans Labour members feeling unwelcome in the party. That definitely deserves to be addressed by leadership, or Labour’s claims to be trans inclusive is all talk

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

11 months

@TheFamousArtBR @reallorraine Imagine sitting through a heartfelt interview which for once actually gives a trans person the space to discuss their experiences and feeling so threatened you have to instantly be like ‘this trans person looks like shit compared to me in a full face of makeup’

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

5 months

@joseidesu2 @JackDunc1 Who invited you? This is the thing about transphobic so-called feminists. You have to insist you’ve had it worse than anyone else - it’s all a competition to you.

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

4 years

@AshleyJ05771714 @Nigel_Farage These sad old white people clinging to a history they had nothing to do with. If you’ve got nothing else to be proud of then I guess it’s inevitable you try and cover yourself in someone else’s glory.

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

4 years

@HumanGayMale I’m so embarrassed by gays like you.

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

5 years

Now the dust has settled I can reflect on a great time at #ISECS2019 . For such a big conference, it was incredibly warm and generous. Great to hang out with @RobertStearn , @CarolineKoegler , @R_A_Barr & @DrDeclanK & meet the wonderful @zugenia at last.

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

1 year

@DrJamesJBailey My PhD was on shame in 18thc literature, and before I went into my viva my office mates played this to me on repeat. I went in feeling chaotic and fabulous.

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

4 years

@NBPAUK The amount of white people in these comments that need to just stop their whataboutery and start listening. It’s not hard people, we don’t have to be talking all the time, yeah?

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

5 years

Can't wait for this to come out. My first article! And in a really wonderful, supportive journal I wouldn't hesitate to recommend @ECFjournal

Eighteenth-Century Fiction (ECF)

@ECFjournal

5 years

After the special issue excitement, I have to move on: ECF publishes 4 times per year! Today, I'm getting Spring 2019 ready for press. Here's a pic of the ToC & a cover teaser: exciting! It's exciting every time to publish scholars' work. #readecf

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

5 years

My 2nd journal article was published Friday in European Journal of English Studies here: or you can DM me for one of my free copies if you don't have institutional access. It's about James Boswell, shame & Scottishness!

‘Plain, hamely, fife’: James Boswell’s shameful national masculinity

Much has been made in the scholarship of eighteenth-century autobiography of James Boswell’s journals, particularly the London Journal of 1762-3. While critical attention has tended to focus on his...

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

3 years

@Fuzz1993 @zarahsultana I don’t know who this person thinks ‘we’ are but I want them to know, from one Caucasian mf to another, not to include me in this trash.

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

4 years

@benvyle Efistemology

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

4 years

Shame can work as a method of social control but it’s never a healthy way of getting people to change their behaviour. It creates resentment in the shamed & a false sense of superiority in the shamer.

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@benvyle

4 years

if nothing else, shaming people into staying home is ineffectual. shame is *not* a good public health intervention. it tends to drive people into secrecy, avoidance, refusal, denial, to create states of exceptionalism for themselves, and so on.

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Michael Rowland

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4 years

@TimRideout1 @ToryFibs @Thelma_DWalker @chelleryn99 @jeremycorbyn This is a meaningless refrain from the Labour ‘moderates’ - obsessed with winning power, but with no principles to do anything good once you’re there.

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

4 years

@LouloubelleHMC Something that starts ‘I’m not racist but...’ is never gonna end well, and this did not. I feel like the delicate fabric of this nation has been somewhat more damaged by Farage, Robinson, Hopkins & that lot than Stormzy pointing out that racism still exists.

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

3 years

@jasebyjason Yes, except I’m 36 so not that young but I still feel like the kid in a room full of adults.

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

1 year

@PaulEmbery Cheers for setting us queers straight, Paul. What would we do without you?

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Michael Rowland

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3 years

A small thing but today I got a promotion and it made me very happy 😊

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Michael Rowland

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4 years

@ncecire @pamthur I have done the same. There's no way the university should be forcing students & staff to choose between work & health like this.

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Michael Rowland

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4 years

@adamleegreen @NBPAUK Maybe if you did a bit more listening and a little less eye rolling this message might not have to be repeated

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

4 years

Got an encouraging response from series editors of a history of emotions series I’ve pitched a book proposal to. Now just need to submit a sample chapter that isn’t a horrific mess.

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

4 years

University of Portsmouth are closing their English dept. We must resist this discarding of Humanities. We must also support teaching-focused unis, which make huge differences to the lives of students who would never otherwise go to uni via @UKChange

Sign the Petition

Save University of Portsmouth English Literature Department

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

6 months

@SonyaDouglas Have you considered growing up and not being a horrible little transphobic troll? Nah probably not.

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

4 years

@TimRideout1 @ToryFibs @Thelma_DWalker @chelleryn99 @jeremycorbyn By all means cherry pick the best bits of Labour’s track record, even throw in a few bits from decades back dreamt up by politicians who would be denounced as trots by the standards of today’s moderates.

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

4 years

@SamuelJJack @DawnButlerBrent You’re that pleb that went round a supermarket being obnoxious to key workers during lockdown. I’m surprised you’ve got the nerve to slither out from under your rock after the ratio you got then.

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

3 years

@_bassdoll Maybe spend a few years shutting up and listening and then maybe give it a go?

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Michael Rowland

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3 years

@KatieCurtis Christ imagine tweeting this and then sitting back and feeling proud of yourself 😬

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Michael Rowland

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4 years

I know everyone has already read and discussed this, but I read this first thing this morning & ah! What a balm for the soul

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

8 months

@DrJenIzaakson Trans women aren’t men, and are statistically far more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators.

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Michael Rowland

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11 months

@LouiseDistras So you had one admittedly horrific experience with one trans person so now you don’t think any trans people should be treated with dignity and respect. That is bigotry.

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

4 years

When did ‘thrilled to announce’ become so pervasive on academic Twitter and when, for the love of god, will it stop?

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

4 years

@ViralPa25566853 @GEBP1988 Are you saying you think putting pronouns on a badge takes up so much time and money that people die of untreated cancer because of it?

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Michael Rowland

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3 years

@colin_dewhurst @adeelamini No because that would be racist, which is not what Adeel was talking about?

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

4 years

@TimRideout1 @ToryFibs @Thelma_DWalker @chelleryn99 @jeremycorbyn But let’s remember that the Blairites took us into an illegal war, demonised the working classes, those on benefits & immigrants (cf Margaret Hodge) & carried on Thatcher’s legacy of neoliberalism. Really all they gave us was window dressing.

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

5 years

Currently on a train heading up to Edinburgh for #ISECS2019 . For some reason we’re going via Cumbria but it’s so beautiful I don’t mind

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Michael Rowland

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4 years

@noiseresearch @weimingkam Like fuck is she. She’s only out for herself, just like Wes Streeting who I notice is also fawning over Abrams despite not giving a damn when she actually came over here.

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

4 years

A petition has taken off in response to this. You can sign it here: Stop Sussex from Sacking their Staff due to Covid-19 lockdown - Sign the Petition! via @UKChange

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

4 years

After all the work we’ve been doing to support students, way above and beyond our contracts, our VC now wants our contracts terminated early? In the middle of a pandemic? @SussexUni

Kathryn Telling

@KathrynTelling

4 years

We have just received communication from @SussexUni that all temporary contracts should now be terminated where possible. Accompanied by, "I am confident that if we pull together we can get through this and come out stronger the other side." If by "we" you mean permanent staff.

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Michael Rowland

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5 years

@ruth_hunt @AmberRuddHR What about the queer refugees who suffered because of hostile environment? Or do you only care about rich white British queers? Unbelievable disregard for a vulnerable group you should be standing up for.

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

4 years

Yesterday I spoke at this wonderful conference @ucddublin w/ @_hnnhlzbthprkr @em_copestake Josh Doble & @SFoltinek . Lots of emotions, all good!

The Field of the History of Emotions in Ireland

@EmotionsIreland

4 years

Thanks to everyone for coming to @EmotionsIreland conference yesterday, the speakers who made the day worthwhile with their insightful papers and specially our great keynote speakers @DrTiffWattSmith and @virbeatum Thanks @IrishResearch for funding the event.

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Michael Rowland

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3 years

@TwisterFilm @ALLIANCELGB I am so embarrassed for you.

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Michael Rowland

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4 years

@Scaggeh @NadiaWhittomeMP @sleafordmods I can’t fathom the mentality of someone who looks at the state of housing and employment rights in this country and thinks ‘yep, that’s how it should be’

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

4 years

@J_Williams_1985 @OwenJones84 @LozzaFox This was when the presenter & Julia what’s her face repeatedly refused to accept the Orlando shootings were homophobic & lectured a gay man about what homophobia is. I would have lost my shit too.

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Michael Rowland

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4 years

@J_GibsonLabour @neeyulll And then you blocked her? Hmmm.

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Michael Rowland

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4 years

@duncanm @Labour_Trans Trans men often have a cervix too. So do some non-binary people. So do some intersex people.

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Michael Rowland

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3 years

@colin_dewhurst @adeelamini Why are all your references WWII? We’re talking about companies and people who have been and still are actively horrible to work for here. The point of the original post is about whether or not people have felt financially empowered to turn down working with them

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

5 years

Very much looking forward to doing the #ISECS2019 walking tour of Black Edinburgh with @edincarib !

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Michael Rowland

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4 years

We’ve now been reassured that the budgetary directive from @SussexUni yesterday was not an intention to end temp teaching contracts early. The fact that many of us assumed it was isn’t down to ‘misinformation’ but experience.

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Michael Rowland

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4 years

I don't think I'm exactly 20 here, but it's the closest I have - maybe about 21-23? Definitely 22 in the graduation pic.

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Michael Rowland

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4 years

@Dora_Callisto @Keir_Starmer Yes they absolutely are.

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Michael Rowland

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4 years

@jobellerina Far more likely that James is responding to the anti-Scottishness of your ‘sneering Glaswegian’ comment, along with the fact that you’re trying to use homophobia to dunk on Boyle when the only really homophobic thing was your ex’s pissy reaction to the suggestion he might be gay

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Michael Rowland

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3 years

@Robertlewis2000 @HackneyAbbott @jeremycorbyn You know people can care about more than thing at once, right?

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Michael Rowland

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1 year

@alexrubner Go on, embarrass yourself a bit more.

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Michael Rowland

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3 years

@RossNewton_ @planetagnew @FisherAndrew79 The man broke the law. What part of that is acceptable? You do realise how this comes across to the majority of people?

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Michael Rowland

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8 years

Response to Diane Abbott as shadow home sec so far predictably racist & misogynist. Utterly vile. #LabourReshuffle

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Michael Rowland

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4 years

Bf and I are at that point in the evening where we’ve had enough tepid martinis that he’s now exclusively berating me in Arabic

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Michael Rowland

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6 years

Great afternoon on the #picket today for @ucu pensions strike being made all the more positive by donations of cake from lovely people! #ussstrike #ucustrike #strikeforUSS

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6 years

Beautiful people/cake/cause at @sussexucu #ussstrike

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Michael Rowland

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4 years

@GEBP1988 Where do all these angry weirdos come from? Must be deliberately searching the hashtag, in which case have a day off! Why look for things to get angry about?

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Michael Rowland

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6 years

A belated thank you to the organisers of @genderedemotion conference at @sheffielduni and to the great people I met there. The boy from English felt very at home among the History gang

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Michael Rowland

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1 year

@JackDunc1 @ProfessionalJu2 These people are filled with hate, pay them no mind, Jack

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Michael Rowland

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3 years

Please stop dividing millennials into ‘elder’ and ‘younger’ not one of us can afford a house

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Michael Rowland

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4 years

@MrsSueEFeeney1 @donnantwich Haha there’s no disloyalty when it comes to rejecting racism.

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Michael Rowland

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5 years

This is helpful to me actually. Possibly why working class impostor syndrome is often accompanied by anger, whilst middle class version is accompanied by guilt?

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Michael Rowland

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@colin_dewhurst @adeelamini Yeah but not a whole nationality mate - companies or individuals who have bullied staff or made programming that has had a negative impact on people or social groups. It’s not the same thing & the fact you seem to think it is, is a bit dodgy tbh

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Michael Rowland

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4 years

@peterkyle @BorisJohnson @Keir_Starmer Erm, Rosie Duffield?

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Michael Rowland

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3 years

@Iaingr999 @Seunte @dirozevepave There’s plenty of stuff your six year old is going to see that you’d rather they didn’t. It’s called life, Iain.

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Michael Rowland

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5 years

Wonderful talk by @londonmikmaq today at @SussexEnglish on wampum in the 18thc. Also some considered answers to great questions!

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Michael Rowland

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3 years

@Woody63Michael @AmandeepBhogal Sadie Khan is not the boss - Priti Patel is. The Mayor has no power over operational decisions and cannot hire or fire the commissioner. Only the government can do that.

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Michael Rowland

@MikeRowland84

5 years

Never mind students, this is exactly the sort of thing I needed to hear, to be quite honest.

Anita Leirfall

@anitaleirfall

5 years

You weren't born just to be 'useful,’ Irish president tells students Higgins believes that philosophy and history should be a basic requirement forming a core education.

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Michael Rowland

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11 months

@goldenanorak @DrOliverSmith That is the wrong take, sir

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Michael Rowland

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11 months

@eel_wilson @PatsyeStevenson Grow up Lee you cockless wonder

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@JackDunc1 @IvanArden10 Nothing worse than a transphobic gay. Absolute embarrassment to the community

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Michael Rowland

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4 years

@JBHist I...didn’t realise people like this still existed.

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Michael Rowland

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5 years

I used to find Twitter petrifying and baffling, but now it's my go to place to feel supported and cared about when it comes to my work #AcademicTwitter you're the one

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Michael Rowland

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4 years

@jxeker So much rage that I had to find the thread and comment. It’s like walking into Jonestown in there.

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