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Category Archives: Music
Today on Ujima: The Deep, Interculture & Trans Women in Sport
That was my final Women’s Outlook show for 2019. This is what we talked about. First up I re-ran my interview with Rivers Solomon from last year. We talked mainly about The Deep, and it is published in the UK … Continue reading
Today on Ujima – Books, Theatre, Trans Pride & Tobias Buckell
My first guest on today’s radio show was Kate MacDonald of Handheld Press, a wonderful local publisher based in Bath. Kate will be familiar to people on the UK SF&F circuit as she was at FantasyCon and BristolCon. She doesn’t … Continue reading
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Happy Samhain
The holiday that we call Hallowe’en is something of a mash-up between the Celtic Samhain, the Catholic All Souls Eve, and the Aztec festival in honour of their goddess of death, Mictēcacihuātl. Being a Celt (whatever that means), I tend … Continue reading
An Ideal Prince
Charlotte Bond, who is part of the fabulous team that does the Breaking the Glass Slipper podcast, and also the fearless copyeditor for Airship Shape & Bristol Fashion II, has been doing a series of blog posts about princes. What … Continue reading
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Today on Ujima – PapayaFest, Discrimination at Work, Fungi & Ellen Datlow
I did a radio show today. Here’s what went down. I started out with a visit from my good friend Tamsin Clarke. We kept our clothes on this time. As you may recall, Tamsin is from Venezuela. She has been … Continue reading
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Tourism in Dublin
Some of you are in Ireland already, and many more are on the way. Obviously there is Worldcon to look forward to, and a fair amount of Irish history (particularly if you count yourself as part of the diaspora), but … Continue reading
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Today on Ujima – Mexican Food, Poetry, Fiction & Renewables
Today I was in the studio at Ujima with lots of studio guests. First up I welcomed Graham from My Burrito, a fabulous Mexican eatery in Bristol. We had a great chat about the glories of Mexican food. I was … Continue reading
Today on Ujima – HIV, Time Wars & Art
Today’s Women’s Outlook show was one of those where it seemed mostly calm on the surface, but it was all frantic paddling underneath. Yesterday I had one of my guests drop out, so I had a half hour to fill. … Continue reading
Today on Ujima – Cervical Screening, Interculture, Mental Health Awareness & San Francisco
It was a busy show on Women’s Outlook today, and I didn’t cope as well as I might have done. Apologies again to Ben the Engineer for the various screw-ups which, hopefully, we managed to cover up during the show. … Continue reading
Today on Ujima: Section 28, Masculinity, Hugos & Silence
It was a radio day for me today. I barely got the show together in time having been away over the weekend and had much of yesterday hijacked by the Hugos, but I got there in the end. In the … Continue reading
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Introducing Modern Fairies
Many of my academic friends will know about this project already, but the rest of you will want to catch up too. Modern Fairies is a collaboration between artists and academics to bring fairy tales into the 21st Century. That’s … Continue reading
Today on Ujima – Marlon, Periods, Queer Film & IWD
I began today’s show with some extracts from Marlon James’ Tolkien Lecture. You can listen to the whole thing here. The second segment was an interview with Chloe Tingle of No More Taboo, the period poverty charity. We talked about … Continue reading
Today on Ujima – #LGBTHM Special
The whole of today’s show on Ujima was devoted to LGBT History Month. I began with some interviews I made at the event in Taunton on Saturday. These were with Steven from the Taunton Gay Group Alex from Somerset Libraries, … Continue reading
Dirty Computer & The Hugos
Yes, it is that time of year again: Hugo neepery time. Over the past few days I have seen several people talking about nominating Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer. There has been much confusion over categories, so I’m here to explain. … Continue reading
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This Week on Ujima – It’s All Books
It is ridiculously hard to get people into the studio in the first week of January, because most of them won’t even look at their email until that Monday. So I was happy to have a bunch of interviews pre-recorded … Continue reading
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Up on the Aqueduct
More of the “that time of year” thing. This time it is the review of the year posts on the Aqueduct Press blog. The lovely folks at Aqueduct keep asking me to write these things, so I keep doing them. … Continue reading
Merry Cthulhumass, Everyone
Yes, it is that time of year again. And so, as is traditional, here is a little ditty from the fabulous H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. Be careful out there, little cultists, you never know what you might summon.
Yesterday on Ujima – Maternity, Careers and Mental Health
Yesterday’s show was supposed to start with my interviewing fellow Ujima presenter, Sandra Gordon, about a maternity rights event taking place in Bristol soon. Unfortunately circumstances intervened and I had to spend half an hour talking about maternity all by … Continue reading
Ujima Black History Month Special
I was in the studio today for a very special edition of Women’s Outlook. The entire show was co-presented by, and produced by, my good friend Olivette Otele. If you have been following my tweetage you will know that Olivette … Continue reading
Today On Ujima: Students, Clothing, Theatre & Feminism
Today’s show began with two wonderful guests from the University of the West of England. Noor and Josie are part of a small group who are pioneering an organisation called Equity within the university that will help Black & Minority … Continue reading