Unfortunately, everything I read of Gayatri Spivak's In Other Worlds passed at least 10 inches above my head. I place the blame squarely at the feet of my brain (so to speak).
I've got a PhD in history which I'm not using as much as I'd like, and also dabble in TESOL. I'm involved in running events in Manchester, in particular as part of Skeptics in the Pub.
Lazy arguments, empty rhetoric and willful ignorance really get my goat. I'm also on Twitter.