links to other bits of writing, some professional and some for fun, that i’ve judged don’t fall into the ‘academic publications’ box:
Blaxter, Tamsin, Tara Garnett, Francesco Buscemi, Eira Carballo Cárdenas, Tripti Agarwal & Maíra de Jong van Lier. 2023. Protein meaning maps. Oxford, UK: TABLE.
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interactive maps of the meanings associated with 'protein' in different countries |
Meat: the Four Futures Quiz | April 2023 |
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interactive quiz exploring values around four scenarios for the future of meat consumption and production, as part of the Meat: the Four Futures podcast |
Blaxter, Tamsin. 2022. Where does protein get its power? TABLE.
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Blaxter, Tamsin. 2022. What place does whaling have in a sustainable food future? TABLE. | July 2022 |
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Blaxter, Tamsin. 2022. Process and power at TABLE. Oxford, UK: TABLE. | January 2022 |
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Slate-os and sow-bugs and wood-pigs, oh my | September 2021 |
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blog post describing the interim results of our survey on names for terrestrial isopods and exploring the stories behind a few of the names we've found |
Dialect loss as ecological loss | August 2021 |
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a piece thinking about how misconceptions and miscommunications in academic-public discourse about dialects, and how a good parallel for the reality of dialects in the modern world can be found in the ecological crisis |
Seeing desire through a clear glass | February 2021 |
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a piece of personal writing on the movie Carol and the way different kinds of desires can be confused and interact |
Perhap's we're wrong about the history of the word queer | January 2020 |
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originally a talk delivered at the Cambridge Junction, this piece thinks about the history of the word 'queer' and how that history shapes our self-conception as a community |
How can universities support trans students and staff? | October 2019 |
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blogpost for WonkHE written with Emrys Travis |
Afterword: on inference | August 2019 |
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originally the afterword to my chapbook after the great death, this piece thinks about (and performs) the difficulty in capturing meaning across deep gulfs of time |
On testing for trans brains | May 2018 |
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short piece thinking about the research being done looking for neurological correlates of gender and/or trans identity |
Response to Hadley Freeman's piece on Trans visibility | March 2018 |
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blogpost on medium, responding to Freeman's Guardian article on TDoV 2018 |
Diversity and the future of the college | March 2018 |
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talk on International Women's Day for the Joyce Frankland Society at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge |
What are we doing about trans women dying in our prisons? | June 2017 |
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article published in GetReal magazine |
If gender is a spectrum, isn't everyone genderqueer? | April 2016 |
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article published in GetReal magazine |