Rebecca R-H

Avid reader, public policy developer, communicator. PhD on transgression in literature and architecture.

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Riverside walk after the brilliant (brilliant!) Dorothea Tanning exhibition at Tate Modern #southbank #brutalism @ South Bank London https://t.co/p9XqlqKKqo

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@RiaChatter @ileifeo @DrJenGunter So true!

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Devouring @dollyalderton’s book. Here she is being painfully astute about our society and the way it shapes our bodies and brains.

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A kiss like “no herb in particular”... I absolutely love the #badsex award, it is instructive and hilarious every single year.

[Literary Review @Lit_Review]

She holds the kiss, returns it, neither hungry nor maidenly. Her lips are pliant but forceful, there’s will behind her kiss, she’s not desperate but she’s not accommodating. Her mouth is clean in an herbal way, no herb in particular but that sense of green rampancy. #BadSex

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Beautiful piece by Sophie Mackintosh on watching Love Island, and how reality TV can be a confusing solace and pleasure. Her novel The Water Cure is already purchased and up next on my reading list! https://t.co/moGPqfuAh2

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On Saturday I read Amia Srinivasan in @LRB on politics of desire, the bodies our society loves, the impact on those we don’t. Still talking about it with anyone who’ll listen. Brilliant, thought-provoking piece

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Just the one? ... #amreading #jeanettewinterson #feminism

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I do love working from home in my pretty Victorian flat with big windows and lots of light. Also, the heating is on full and I’m wearing four layers on top (of which two are wool) and two pairs of socks, one pair being fluffy and pulled up over my jeans.

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@RiaChatter @Variety Love the sentiment!

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No better authority on how to read Wilde than @Kate_Hext

[The TLS @TheTLS]

Just Oscar | @Kate_Hext considers attempts to define the Wilde we want to see https://t.co/TFhtzotQtP

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@RiaChatter @davidmackau Yes. Yes, we can 📚📚📚📚📚☺️

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I’ve had many jobs over the years from waitressing, a GP reception desk, to working on great policy campaigns, research & national strategies... But the zenith will be the day I finally stop having to fill in DAMN TIMESHEETS #officelife

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I’m so excited about this exhibition of obscene books! A signed first edition of Lady Chatterley 😍

[Guardian Books @GuardianBooks]

From Madonna's Sex to Lady Chatterley: inside the Bodleian's explicit book club https://t.co/oemdnkr3QP

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Season 6 of #HouseofCards is hit and miss, but I definitely want to end every meeting by leading all my female colleagues in solemnly swearing to take no prisoners 💪

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White Cube Bermondsey: Doris Salcedo’s installation Palimpsest. The names of migrants who died crossing to Europe in tear-like droplets of water, disappearing.

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@RiaChatter But it will have to kill off a few things!

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Great talk on feminist myth-making @NewSunsLitFest. Loved the idea of literature being used to spread feminism as a plague/cure. So important we discuss & celebrate such efforts, feels like sustenance

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@goodreads Mathilde in Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies. A modern, relatable and not-always-likeable anti-heroine I loved reading about.

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Lots of Anna Burns articles about but @TheTLS is my favourite. Love her answers on advice & whether writing is political (but shame she chose Bob Dylan over Beyoncé) #amreading https://t.co/71DkAMHhLg

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It’s a particular guilt I feel when I give up on a novel I wasn’t enjoying. Finally stopped reading Donna Tartt’s The Little Friend last night. Lovely writing but I couldn’t get invested #bookguilt #amreading