How I became a psychoanalyst by losing my keys
What are we really doing when we sit in a room with our patients and exchange some words?
Psyche
A contribution to Psyche magazine’s ‘Stories of Change’ series.
16 Jun 2025
Israel Has Weaponized Trauma. Should We Talk About It?
Mourning and Motherland
Public Seminar
A reflection on October 7, Israel's assault on Gaza, and how to talk about Jewish identity and trauma when they are so readily weaponized in the service of Israeli aggression
20 Jun 2024
Why Are Intactivists Up In Arms About Male Circumcision?
Novara Media
In 2018 Eric Clopper, a systems administrator at Harvard, staged a one-man show at the university’s Sanders Theatre. In Sex and Circumcision: An American Love Story – a two-and-a-half-hour-long mixture of monologue, PowerPoint and performance art – Clopper made a passionate, if factually questionable, case against male circumcision, accusing his Jewish faith of being a […]
14 Feb 2022
Our Consciousness and Theirs
Further Thoughts on the Class Character of University Worker Activism
Viewpoint Magazine
In a recent editorial in Radical Philosophy we explored ongoing debates around the class character of professional work, and the prospects of casualized (/adjunctified, or otherwise insecurely employed) university worker activism. We endorsed Gabriel Winant’s view that professional workers are part of the working class. However, we received the criticism that to describe, as Winant […]
8 Jan 2022
Who will survive the university?
Radical Philosophy
We write as organisers of #CoronaContract, a campaign we co-founded shortly after the UK’s first COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020, demanding a two-year contract extension for all casualised university staff (academic and non-academic). In the early days of COVID-19, when previously unthinkable forms of economic rescue took place, this demand functioned as a ‘transitional demand’ […]
Aug 2021
Index of Evidence – Circumcision
The Index of Evidence explores how established notions of fact and evidence are changing in the so-called post-truth era, when it seems we have more information at our fingertips than ever before, but also more misinformation, disinformation, lies and fakery. On the Internet, of course, hierarchies of knowledge are being levelled and top-down expertise is […]
Jul 2021
The Struggle for Somerford Grove
Tribune
In Hackney, a group of tenants have been threatened with eviction if they fail to pay extortionate rent to their billionaire landlord – but their fightback shows the power tenants can have if they decide to organise.
5 Dec 2020
On the Foreskin Question
Circumcision present. Circumcision past. Circumcision future?
Blunderbuss Magazine
Last year, a woman in South Florida spent nine days in jail for refusing to allow her son to be circumcised. The father of the child called circumcision “just the normal thing to do,” and the courts sided with him in the parents’ long running dispute over the matter. Forced to sign over consent for […]
5 Oct 2016
The 2013 Indian Supreme Court decision on section 377
Beyond the law
Sexuality Policy Watch
While many LGBTQ activists across the globe expressed mourning, rage and sympathy with the Indian queers who lost the Supreme Court battle against Section 377 (the British colonial-era law widely understood to criminalize same-sex intercourse), some used the opportunity to express their criticisms of the anti-377 campaign. These critics – largely speaking from within Indian […]
3 Jul 2014