We recorded this episode in March 2026 with Declan Wiffen. We talk about queer history, gossip, mistakes, misremembering, and get a little hot under the collar for our subjects of research.
Declan Wiffen is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Kent in Canterbury and periodically hosts other writing workshops. More information and excerpts of his writing can be found here.
Mentioned in the podcast:
Margery Kempe (1994) by Robert Glück
Lote (2020) by Shola von Reinhold
The Wounded Researcher: Research with Soul in Mind (2007) by Robert D Romanyshyn
Bad Gays podcast
Morgan Bassichis’ ‘10 bad ideas’ - 26’55” onwards from this clip (from Dean Spade’s Love in a F*cked Up World EP08)
Maria Sledgemere’s work
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