please feel free to introduce yourselves to each other in comments!

9. Are there two people on your reading list that you think should meet?

I am grumpily unconvinced by this one - I think public introductions are incredibly high-pressure and generally a rubbish thing to do to people - and even a list of people I think are awesome and worth subscribing to inevitably means I will miss people off. SO INSTEAD let us have a tiny subscription meme: introduce yourself in one alliterative sentence (if you feel like playing a game, and don't bother with the alliteration if you don't) and then feel free to expand (minus the alliteration) in conversation. I like it when you lot talk!

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I am teeth-grinding and nightmaring and insomnia-ing. Slightly to my surprise, this appears to be the form my pre-period mood crash is taking this month; "surprise" because I'm not used to it being this mild. On the downside, this means that back-of-enveloping it, I'm... kind of due to be in pain and misery during Finals, but hey, what can you do, if I'm lucky stress and the vagaries of a slightly irregular cycle will see me through, and if not I shall just take LOTS OF DRUGS.

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[lashings] fundraising

So: I know money is tight at the moment. I know lots of people are asking for money for charity and the like, and to that extent I feel a bit guilty for asking, but --

Lashings of Ginger Beer Time, a radical queer feminist burlesque[1] collective, is fundraising for our Edinburgh show this year.

We're over halfway to our goal, but there's only four days to go.

Obviously I think you should donate to Lashings because of how much it means to me - the stories we tell, and the spaces we make, that are both For People Like Us and to educate. This time round the panto's entitled Fanny Whittington - and a better blurb than I can write is given at the fundraiser page.

For last year's Edinburgh, we made a small loss - and a lot of people very, very happy. We'll have an Oxford run in early June, and a London preview show (probably) before we go up to Edinburgh. We feature poly people and queer people and bi people and trans people, and we talk about benefits and immigrants and sexism and power dynamics and politics, and quite a lot of it we do in song via the magic of panto villains.

-- and on a personal level: if you enjoy my essays? I'm writing them because of Lashings. I mean that on two levels: firstly, that Lashings was one of the absolute bright spots in early 2012 for me, and helped pull me back out; and secondly, that writing for the LashBlog is directly responsible for getting me writing Thinky Thoughts again. But Lashings is also in large part responsible for me getting the PhD offer I did, and in large part responsible for a huge amount of insight and self-reflection.

So. Yes. Lashings. I love it to pieces, and this panto is going to be amazing, and you want a DVD. ;)

(Plus? Special for my readers: donate more than a tenner and put in a request for an essay on the topic of your choice. ♥)

[1] in the sense of Victorian music hall - making serious points to funny music, or vice versa; inversion of expectations - rather than in the sense of nipple tassles