Lauren PikóNov 19, 2022

Doing a proper #introduction post to goad myself into posting here more...

I'm Lauren. I trained as a #historian, though I'm often somewhere in critical #interdisciplinary #CulturalStudies spaces these days, via a patchwork of casual/sessional roles.

I wrote a PhD and book about the history of #MiltonKeynes and its negative cultural reputation. I work on contested landscapes, and how they reflect temporal orientations. I also give workshops on #ResearchMethods , #DisabilityStudies , writing, #reflexivity, and #history for non-historians. My current project is on #eco-crip #QualitativeMethodology and fatigue epistemologies, which is unfolding at an extremely #CripTime pace.

While I joined here to follow #histodons, I will also sorely miss #CriticalRole and #Dimension20 loreposting (and #TTRPG liveplay livetweets in general). If you have elaborate theories about #ExUCalamity I am all ears.

Having never used so many hashtags in one space before, I think I need to go lie down.

Show threadLoukas (They/Them) 🏳️‍⚧️
@booklearning your research sounds interesting! I come from the far north of London and we definitely used to talk a lot of trash against the New Towns nearby. On a related note, did you know Una Stubbs was the great granddaughter of the founder of the garden city movement?
Nov 19, 2022 at 6:44amWeb
Show threadLauren PikóNov 19, 2022
@Loukas that seems like a very common experience (the trash talk part at least!) I definitely had lots of material to work with, which was fun. It's so interesting though how new towns connections turn up everywhere when you know to look!