rachelediniOct 22, 202119 min readSex Machines: The Disciplining Apparatuses of Lucy Kirkwood's Adult Material (2020)I've been taking a break from writing since finishing my latest piece (a contribution to The Cambridge Companion to Literature and...
rachelediniJul 30, 202120 min read“Everything Melts”: Anti-Normative Appliances in Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s The Freezer Door The following is the transcript of a talk I had the privilege of giving to the members of the Contextual Studies Department at the...
rachelediniJan 20, 20217 min readDoing Things with the Hoover: "Deep Clean" and Sex in the "All-Electric" Home The wonderful queer waste/collage/craft artist-scholar Daniel Fountain sent me a link the other day to Deep Clean, a film short by David...
rachelediniNov 7, 202022 min read"Day and Night the MixMaster is a Delight": Erotic Appliances Last week I gave a talk at the University of Roehampton on appliances, race, and domestic labour in the twentieth-century American home...
rachelediniSep 25, 202017 min readFrom "Electrical Servants" to #WAP: Appliances, Race, and the American HomeThe following is the transcript of 'Electricity is the modern Lincoln, General Electric is the modern emancipator!': Electrical...