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Isabel Waidner


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Isabel Waidner is a writer and critical theorist.

Their books include We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff (2019), Gaudy Bauble (2017) and Liberating the Canon: An Anthology of Innovative Literature (ed., 2018), published by Dostoyevsky Wannabe.

Waidner's critical and creative texts have appeared in journals including AQNB, Cambridge Literary Review, The Happy Hypocrite, Tank Magazine and Tripwire.

They are the co-founder of the event series Queers Read This at the Institute of Contemporary Art (with Richard Porter), and an academic at University of Roehampton, London. ...more

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“A stereotype is like a self-fulfilling prophecy maybe (in the popular sense of the term). You can’t escape this reductive sht, this sht defines you.”
― Isabel Waidner, We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff
tags: definition, generalizations, identity, prophecies, self, society, stereotypes
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“I catch site of a large redbrick building, completed in 1995, which, like the British Library, can't shake the feel of a big Sainsbury's.”
― Isabel Waidner, Sterling Karat Gold
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“We are pacifists, but we have tanks on our sweaters. (The times we live in.)”
― Isabel Waidner, We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff
tags: 21st-century-life, contradictions, fashion, pacifists, symbols
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The Mookse and th...: 2018 RoC Shortlist: Gaudy Bauble 31 45 Mar 28, 2018 06:19AM  
The Mookse and th...: Exciting New Queer Literature 28 91 Jul 24, 2018 02:08PM  
Reading the 20th ...: This topic has been closed to new comments. What books are you reading now? (2017-19) 2003 235 Jun 10, 2019 08:43PM  
The Mookse and th...: 2019 Goldsmiths Shortlist - We Are Made of Diamond Stuff 26 66 Oct 24, 2019 10:42AM  
The Mookse and th...: This topic has been closed to new comments. 2019 Goldsmiths Prize Dynamic Rankings 17 101 Nov 12, 2019 01:00AM  
Reading the 20th ...: The best of 2019 38 32 Dec 10, 2019 10:06PM  
The Mookse and th...: Our favourite books of 2019 - nominations and general chat. 60 99 Dec 15, 2019 12:52PM  


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