HeyJaredThe Avid Pedestrian
UK Midlands-based historian, creative writer, and sociologist interested in Black British histories in the town and countryside, racism and disability, popular culture, life writing, as well as the ephemeral, strange and weird.
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“It’s Not an S”: On Being ‘Uncool’ and Still Black (opens the original)
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Oxford's Black Poltergeist: The Haunting of Worcester College (opens the original)
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Note: It’s been pointed out to me that there is a racial politics of naming of Jane Doe, especially in legal document. Those ‘imagined’ in ‘Jane Doe’ are often imagined as white. I did not think about this so much because I’ve met Black women called Jane over the course of my life especially living and growing up in Black proximity to whiteness. So, whenever I hear these names, I do imagine them as Black because that is my normal. However, I’m grateful for the critique an
Brand New Day: Spider-Man, Adaptation, and Neurodivergent Shedding (opens the original)
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THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS!Introduction: Marvel’s Silly ArchiveFrom the original Spider-Man comics, introduced by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, during the early years of the 1960s, Peter Parker has long been a character whose relationship with his body has always been one
Black Feminism is For Everybody?: Notes From The Open University (opens the original)
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