The lovely Amy King joins us to discuss her research on linguistic violence, fourteen-year-old poetry, and obsessions with Greek mythology. We also go through some of Kirstyn's new novel, disappearing plot maps, and the best-backhanded compliment Nathan has ever received.
Amy is a PhD researcher exploring the nature of linguistic violence on social media, and digital communications professional for an intersectional feminist organization. Her undergrad degree in Linguistics fuelled a fascination for syntax and semantics, leading to her first exposure in editing - a play on the life and times of Francis Bacon - and further afield to theatre reviewing; scratching a musical theatre-shaped itch. In 2018 she founded The Feminist Fringe as a response to the often lackluster lists of Feminist Fringe Shows, and to inject a little feminist analysis in show reviews at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. With so much of her time spent pondering the nature of violence, both online and AFK, she often finds escape through poetry, short story collections, and her recently rekindled obsession with fanfiction. In her own poetry and creative non-fiction she explores the uncertainty, discomfort and frustration of daily life with anxiety and depression - a habit she only got back into as the angst of her teens only heightened in an adulthood fraught with escalating political violence, societal decay and personal loss of recent years. She's also fond of embracing the rage of the now in-game by killing skaven, smashing chaos warriors and surviving the After Times through Vermintide 2.
You can find her on Twitter @Amy_CKing1
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