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Kirsty Sedgman
@KirstySedgman
Doctor of Audiences 🎭 🎥 📚 Giles Coren once made an entire podcast about me, aka “some fuckwad on Twitter”. Agent JP Marshall, she/her, opinions: model’s own
Sep 4, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
I see we’re having that debate again about whether academia is hard work or not relative to other jobs, and as someone who’s done a fair bit of different kinds of work (from retail, waitressing, & cleaning to being an office manager) my only concrete thought is this… Academia is one of the only jobs I’ve done that wants me to do lots of things simultaneously to consistently *world-leading* & over-assessed standards (write 4* publications! deliver top-quality teaching! get grants!), while denying me the time to do any of those things WELL.
Sep 3, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
We are drinking caipirovskas & @TomSedgman is helping me to re-orange my hair ready for autumn. An excellent Saturday all round! oh god it’s not gonna work I’m gonna have to shave it all off aren’t I 😭
Aug 19, 2022 • 60 tweets • 12 min read
I thought it might perhaps be useful – & help me procrastinate instead of actually having to proof-read this! – to write a quick thread about the differences* between academic & ‘trade’ (ie. normal, not-academic) publishing 🧵

(* generally speaking! other experiences may vary!) ACADEMIC PUBLISHING:

1. The writer produces a book proposal, usually inc. sample chapters if they’re a 1st-time author, & sends it to publishers directly – no agents are usually involved, unless the academic press also publishes trade-adjacent work to a wider market.
Aug 11, 2022 • 37 tweets • 9 min read
Every time I learn a new fact about Oxbridge I get more convinced you’re making stuff up. “Er, I don’t know what you mean by ‘lecture room’? Here we call them babahibs. Corridors are antiprats. We don’t graduate; we ambrisure. Autumn Term? I think you mean Michaelmas!” OK nerds extremely normal thing for a university to do & not at all horrifying
Aug 11, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
writing trade nonfiction when you’re already famous truly is a WHOLE OTHER BALLGAME than writing trade nonfiction when you simply (*checks notes*) are an actual expert in the actual thing you’re writing about, huh <cough Mutt Hoig’s £600k Comfort Book cough>
Oct 30, 2021 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
a play in 3 acts A Times headline by Giles C...An excerpt: “Even my own 20...From the Bad Sex Awards: W... yeah Giles mate. that’s why your book got mercilessly mocked & ridiculed then pathetically flopped. because you’re a man. sure. that’s why
Jun 11, 2019 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
<Shared with permission> There's a debate unfolding on FB about the microaggressions white audience members inflict on black people in theatres, following this spot-on post about the dangers of #theatreetiquette "policing the responses of black people in our safe creative space" as ALWAYS HAPPENS, this has descended into a lengthy back-and-forth about the precise point at which theatre behaviour goes from appropriate to inappropriate, according to the (predominantly white) commentators' opinions - which AS ALWAYS are framed as common-sense & obvious.