blog posts

• Merry Christmas! from Queenbot and the Brexit islandersDecember 22, 2020
  Someone told me that Athens is the place where your usual coping strategies reach their limits, and I don’t know if that’s true but 2020 might have been the year that our dreams withered away in the face of sheer chaos. Lulu Miller writes in her book Why Fish Don’t Exist that chaos inevitably makesContinue reading “Merry Christmas! from Queenbot and the Brexit islanders”
• lessons learned from a life less travelled in lockdown BristolSeptember 17, 2020
  It’s over. It’s not over. i left Bristol last week and i cried when i said goodbye to my housemate and the dog in anticipation of the separation anxiety that will ensue without the latter bounding into my room every morning to lick my face. After seven long months of lockdown and the aftermath inContinue reading “lessons learned from a life less travelled in lockdown Bristol”
• Ya Beirut ya haramAugust 6, 2020
  My friend texts me on Tuesday evening: there’s been an explosion in Beirut, and I quickly look up the news to see what happened. I think immediately of a violent attack – a sectarian bomb, hitting the country already on its knees in economic collapse, seeking to take advantage of the corona-caused pause in theContinue reading “Ya Beirut ya haram”