Robyn Ollett
@robynollett.bsky.social
Lecturer in English and Creative Writing
ECR
Author of The New Queer Gothic | UWP https://share.google/thibXEa8pOuYH03v7
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Author of The New Queer Gothic | UWP https://share.google/thibXEa8pOuYH03v7
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@robbhawkes.bsky.social
We could all use a little more imagination, play, flexibility, and compassion.
We could all use a little more imagination, play, flexibility, and compassion.
August 28, 2026 at 2:51 AM
@robbhawkes.bsky.social
We could all use a little more imagination, play, flexibility, and compassion.
We could all use a little more imagination, play, flexibility, and compassion.
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I'm thrilled to announce that my very first heterodox economics article has been published in the Journal of Economic Issues.
See the thread below for a sneak peek at what I argue. 1/7 🧵
See the thread below for a sneak peek at what I argue. 1/7 🧵
Endogeneity without Exception: Modern Monetary Theory and the Promise of Heterodoxy
This article proposes novel definitions of endogenous and exogenous money. Such definitions are designed to eschew heterodoxy’s underexamined tendency to equate money’s endogeneity with the operati...
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August 25, 2026 at 1:14 PM
I'm thrilled to announce that my very first heterodox economics article has been published in the Journal of Economic Issues.
See the thread below for a sneak peek at what I argue. 1/7 🧵
See the thread below for a sneak peek at what I argue. 1/7 🧵
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When the mainstream gives you only ☠️ Doom Loops ☠️, y’all know it’s time for the 🌈Public Banking Loop 🌈.
moneyontheleft.org/2026/04/08/t...
moneyontheleft.org/2026/04/08/t...
August 20, 2026 at 1:18 PM
When the mainstream gives you only ☠️ Doom Loops ☠️, y’all know it’s time for the 🌈Public Banking Loop 🌈.
moneyontheleft.org/2026/04/08/t...
moneyontheleft.org/2026/04/08/t...
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You know, universities should do this, too.
Reclaiming the Public Interest: Cities Should Sell Municipal Bonds to Their Own Public Banks
By Tyler Suksawat & Scott Ferguson Editor’s Note: The following essay, originally published on February 22, 2026, offers a foundational theoretical framework for what has since been concretized…
moneyontheleft.org
August 19, 2026 at 10:52 AM
You know, universities should do this, too.
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Milestone moment: Maine People's Alliance is the first major power-building org to engage @moneyontheleft.bsky.social's radical + potentially transformative approach to public finance.
Kudos to @mainepeople.bsky.social for meeting the cutting edge of economic justice; may your 32k members be moved.
Kudos to @mainepeople.bsky.social for meeting the cutting edge of economic justice; may your 32k members be moved.
The Money on the Left Collective joins the Beacon podcast to rethink how we talk about money and public spending. They dig into public banking, why money doesn’t have to be treated as a scarce resource, and how states like Maine could use public finance to invest in public needs. Listen now!
What if we rethought money through public banking? - Maine Beacon
The Money on the Left Collective joins the Beacon podcast to rethink how we talk about money and public spending. Will Beaman, Tyler Suksawat and Rob Hawkes of the collective join MPA legislative stra...
mainebeacon.com
August 15, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Milestone moment: Maine People's Alliance is the first major power-building org to engage @moneyontheleft.bsky.social's radical + potentially transformative approach to public finance.
Kudos to @mainepeople.bsky.social for meeting the cutting edge of economic justice; may your 32k members be moved.
Kudos to @mainepeople.bsky.social for meeting the cutting edge of economic justice; may your 32k members be moved.
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The Money on the Left Collective joins the Beacon podcast to rethink how we talk about money and public spending. They dig into public banking, why money doesn’t have to be treated as a scarce resource, and how states like Maine could use public finance to invest in public needs. Listen now!
What if we rethought money through public banking? - Maine Beacon
The Money on the Left Collective joins the Beacon podcast to rethink how we talk about money and public spending. Will Beaman, Tyler Suksawat and Rob Hawkes of the collective join MPA legislative stra...
mainebeacon.com
August 14, 2026 at 5:46 PM
The Money on the Left Collective joins the Beacon podcast to rethink how we talk about money and public spending. They dig into public banking, why money doesn’t have to be treated as a scarce resource, and how states like Maine could use public finance to invest in public needs. Listen now!
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You ever have groundless periods where you’re not sure what you’re doing with your life or what you care about and worry that you’ll never read and write again b/c job and kid and then you see an essay or book and you’re like oh yeah that’s what I used to spend time geeking out about? Yeah, that.
August 11, 2026 at 12:28 PM
You ever have groundless periods where you’re not sure what you’re doing with your life or what you care about and worry that you’ll never read and write again b/c job and kid and then you see an essay or book and you’re like oh yeah that’s what I used to spend time geeking out about? Yeah, that.
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✨MotL 91 is live!!!✨
In this episode, we speak with Walt McRee (President) & Peter Winslow (Vice President) of the @publicbanksnow.bsky.social (PBI) about their past & ongoing advocacy for public banking.
moneyontheleft.org/2026/06/01/t...
Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌
*Transcript forthcoming ...
In this episode, we speak with Walt McRee (President) & Peter Winslow (Vice President) of the @publicbanksnow.bsky.social (PBI) about their past & ongoing advocacy for public banking.
moneyontheleft.org/2026/06/01/t...
Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌
*Transcript forthcoming ...
June 1, 2026 at 7:27 PM
✨MotL 91 is live!!!✨
In this episode, we speak with Walt McRee (President) & Peter Winslow (Vice President) of the @publicbanksnow.bsky.social (PBI) about their past & ongoing advocacy for public banking.
moneyontheleft.org/2026/06/01/t...
Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌
*Transcript forthcoming ...
In this episode, we speak with Walt McRee (President) & Peter Winslow (Vice President) of the @publicbanksnow.bsky.social (PBI) about their past & ongoing advocacy for public banking.
moneyontheleft.org/2026/06/01/t...
Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌
*Transcript forthcoming ...
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I just increasingly want to make this happen
“Universities and colleges […] already function as preeminent choreographers of credit. The problem is that a punishingly private vision of finance has long concealed higher education’s real capacities and potentials.”
The Uni Currency Project: Resource Page
Since 2020, the Money on the Left Editorial Collective has been arguing for a new approach to university finance that we call the ‘uni’ proposal. Below are links to our essays and interviews relate…
moneyontheleft.org
May 23, 2026 at 11:42 AM
I just increasingly want to make this happen
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This!
This to the power of a bazillion fucks.
This to the power of a bazillion fucks.
Stop fucking firing people, ruining lives, & destroying student learning conditions.
UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance
by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…
moneyontheleft.org
May 19, 2026 at 6:41 PM
This!
This to the power of a bazillion fucks.
This to the power of a bazillion fucks.
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That BBC Question Time man thinks @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s Greens are to blame for @bankofengland.bsky.social’s plans to redesign our money, while Farage has already predicted the animal to be depicted on the new fiver 🦫
Why are they both so afraid of inclusive and democratic public finance? 💷
Why are they both so afraid of inclusive and democratic public finance? 💷
Animal Spirits and Public Promises: Phantom Beavers and the Politics of Monetary Design
By Rob Hawkes There is a spectre haunting Nigel Farage. The spectre of a beaver. On 11 March 2026, the Bank of England announced that, following a public consultation, its next series of banknotes …
moneyontheleft.org
March 16, 2026 at 7:22 PM
That BBC Question Time man thinks @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s Greens are to blame for @bankofengland.bsky.social’s plans to redesign our money, while Farage has already predicted the animal to be depicted on the new fiver 🦫
Why are they both so afraid of inclusive and democratic public finance? 💷
Why are they both so afraid of inclusive and democratic public finance? 💷
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Who wants to make some money with us at the Dorman Museum in Middlesbrough this weekend?
@wherecreditsdue.bsky.social @moneyontheleft.bsky.social
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@wherecreditsdue.bsky.social @moneyontheleft.bsky.social
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March 6, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Who wants to make some money with us at the Dorman Museum in Middlesbrough this weekend?
@wherecreditsdue.bsky.social @moneyontheleft.bsky.social
forms.gle/XZpWHrwh5b7Y...
@wherecreditsdue.bsky.social @moneyontheleft.bsky.social
forms.gle/XZpWHrwh5b7Y...
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Our next workshop at the Dorman Museum in Middlesbrough, UK, is coming up on Saturday 7 March.
Join @robbhawkes.bsky.social and @robynollett.bsky.social to tell new stories about money and give credit where credit’s due!
Sign up here: forms.gle/xHALrL6xspdp...
Join @robbhawkes.bsky.social and @robynollett.bsky.social to tell new stories about money and give credit where credit’s due!
Sign up here: forms.gle/xHALrL6xspdp...
February 19, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Our next workshop at the Dorman Museum in Middlesbrough, UK, is coming up on Saturday 7 March.
Join @robbhawkes.bsky.social and @robynollett.bsky.social to tell new stories about money and give credit where credit’s due!
Sign up here: forms.gle/xHALrL6xspdp...
Join @robbhawkes.bsky.social and @robynollett.bsky.social to tell new stories about money and give credit where credit’s due!
Sign up here: forms.gle/xHALrL6xspdp...
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NB: The UK govt owns the Student Loans Company, via which it directly funds most home students’ university places.
Framing graduates as indebted to this ‘company’ for the rest of their working lives is an accounting trick that both punishes the pursuit of education and undermines its public value.
Framing graduates as indebted to this ‘company’ for the rest of their working lives is an accounting trick that both punishes the pursuit of education and undermines its public value.
Tinkering with interest rates and repayment thresholds is not the solution to UK’s HE funding/student loans nightmare. We need to rethink higher education finance from the bottom up.
UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance
by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…
moneyontheleft.org
February 4, 2026 at 7:20 AM
NB: The UK govt owns the Student Loans Company, via which it directly funds most home students’ university places.
Framing graduates as indebted to this ‘company’ for the rest of their working lives is an accounting trick that both punishes the pursuit of education and undermines its public value.
Framing graduates as indebted to this ‘company’ for the rest of their working lives is an accounting trick that both punishes the pursuit of education and undermines its public value.
Ah that's nice ☺️
Think it's still half price @waterstones.bsky.social too
Think it's still half price @waterstones.bsky.social too
An insightful review of the 'brilliant scholar' @robynollett.bsky.social's 'The New Queer Gothic' in the European Journal of Women's Studies!
Read the full analysis of this 'meticulous' and groundbreaking work: uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/jo...
📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/the-new...
Read the full analysis of this 'meticulous' and groundbreaking work: uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/jo...
📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/the-new...
January 22, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Ah that's nice ☺️
Think it's still half price @waterstones.bsky.social too
Think it's still half price @waterstones.bsky.social too
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We first published this exactly a year ago and (as our colleagues @qmucu.bsky.social continue to document via their ‘UK HE Shrinking’ page) things have only deteriorated further since. It doesn’t have to be this way. We can redesign public finance tomorrow if we choose.
UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance
by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…
moneyontheleft.org
January 16, 2026 at 7:05 AM
We first published this exactly a year ago and (as our colleagues @qmucu.bsky.social continue to document via their ‘UK HE Shrinking’ page) things have only deteriorated further since. It doesn’t have to be this way. We can redesign public finance tomorrow if we choose.
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✨MotL 86 is live!✨
moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/02/g...
In this episode, we discuss the enduring influence of David Graeber’s debt-centered work in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s election to Mayor of NY City.
Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌
moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/02/g...
In this episode, we discuss the enduring influence of David Graeber’s debt-centered work in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s election to Mayor of NY City.
Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌
January 3, 2026 at 1:48 PM
✨MotL 86 is live!✨
moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/02/g...
In this episode, we discuss the enduring influence of David Graeber’s debt-centered work in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s election to Mayor of NY City.
Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌
moneyontheleft.org/2026/01/02/g...
In this episode, we discuss the enduring influence of David Graeber’s debt-centered work in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s election to Mayor of NY City.
Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌
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For me, one of the highlights of 2025 was launching @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social with my dear friend @robynollett.bsky.social as part of the #GlobalDonutDays. You can catch a glimpse of our event at 0:52 in this video, which beautifully captures the GDDs’ celebration of #DoughnutEconomics.
A quick look at #GlobalDonutDays 2025 — a community-led festival centred on #DoughnutEconomics, and how it came together around the world:
Global Donut Days 2025 Aftermovie
YouTube video by Doughnut Economics Action Lab
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December 30, 2025 at 10:46 AM
For me, one of the highlights of 2025 was launching @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social with my dear friend @robynollett.bsky.social as part of the #GlobalDonutDays. You can catch a glimpse of our event at 0:52 in this video, which beautifully captures the GDDs’ celebration of #DoughnutEconomics.
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It has been refreshingly obvious from day one of @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s leadership of @greenparty.org.uk that he rejects the failed economic dogma that has only driven (and can only continue to drive) social and ecological breakdown. The real fantasy is that we can carry on with the status quo.
Zack Polanski offering voters fantasy solutions, says head of Fabian Society
Zack Polanski offering voters fantasy solutions, says head of Fabian Society
Joe Dromey, head of the Labour thinktank, urges his party to take on the ‘twin populisms’ of Reform UK and the Greens
The Green party leader, Zack Polanski, is offering voters “unicorns” and Labour must confront his “fantasy” solutions such as the idea that a wealth tax would fix the public finances, according to the Fabian Society’s general secretary, Joe Dromey.
Much of the government’s fire is trained on Nigel Farage. But in an end-of-year interview, the head of Labour’s internal thinktank urges his party to take on the “twin populisms” of Reform and Polanski. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2025 at 11:58 AM
It has been refreshingly obvious from day one of @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s leadership of @greenparty.org.uk that he rejects the failed economic dogma that has only driven (and can only continue to drive) social and ecological breakdown. The real fantasy is that we can carry on with the status quo.
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Each time Will Beaman writes a new essay, I somehow always find the time to read it because they're just that good. Here's the premise of this one:
Design can either attempt to insinuate the inevitability of a choice or openly invite contestation—and one is certainly more democratic than the other.
Design can either attempt to insinuate the inevitability of a choice or openly invite contestation—and one is certainly more democratic than the other.
✨ New Essay! ✨
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social argues that the current turn toward the analog isn't simple nostalgia. It's a rejection of design as inevitable. From frictionless UX to balanced budgets, it's time to stop treating the politics of design as natural constraints.
Please read & share! 👩💻 🙌
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social argues that the current turn toward the analog isn't simple nostalgia. It's a rejection of design as inevitable. From frictionless UX to balanced budgets, it's time to stop treating the politics of design as natural constraints.
Please read & share! 👩💻 🙌
Touch Grass, Touchscreens, and Public Design
By Will Beaman A small design story from May 2025 has been making the rounds on my newsfeed: car manufacturers, after years of migrating controls onto touchscreens, are re-embracing physical button…
moneyontheleft.org
December 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Each time Will Beaman writes a new essay, I somehow always find the time to read it because they're just that good. Here's the premise of this one:
Design can either attempt to insinuate the inevitability of a choice or openly invite contestation—and one is certainly more democratic than the other.
Design can either attempt to insinuate the inevitability of a choice or openly invite contestation—and one is certainly more democratic than the other.
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‘Before we complain that any political agenda might “frighten” the financial markets, we need to recognise that all markets are politically and legally constituted in the first place and that ceding power over our democracy to bond traders is a choice, not a necessity.’ 1/4
Zack Polanski’s Bold Politics Requires an Even Bolder Economic Vision: The Case for Democratic Public Finance
by Rob Hawkes The Green Party of England and Wales is attracting new members in unprecedented numbers and achieving polling percentages that would have seemed impossible a year ago. However, tensio…
moneyontheleft.org
December 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
‘Before we complain that any political agenda might “frighten” the financial markets, we need to recognise that all markets are politically and legally constituted in the first place and that ceding power over our democracy to bond traders is a choice, not a necessity.’ 1/4
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“institutions with the public authority to do so […] continually create new money, which is thus an everyday occurrence […]. The essential question […] is not if money creation occurs but, rather, how and for what purpose.”
Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson, “Green-Lighting Gatsby” (forthcoming).
Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson, “Green-Lighting Gatsby” (forthcoming).
A key counter-argument to this trash is that money creation is the rule, not the exception. Also, if excessive so-called “money printing” has shown anything, it's that depoliticized out-of-control credit creation for private speculation & profit leads to profound political inequality & instability.
Zack Polanski’s high-spend daydream is too good to be true
Who wouldn’t want to ignore the bond markets? But to apply modern monetary theory you need low government debt — you wouldn’t start from here
www.thetimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“institutions with the public authority to do so […] continually create new money, which is thus an everyday occurrence […]. The essential question […] is not if money creation occurs but, rather, how and for what purpose.”
Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson, “Green-Lighting Gatsby” (forthcoming).
Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson, “Green-Lighting Gatsby” (forthcoming).
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Our featured image for this post comes from Chuck Jones' deliciously self-reflexive Merrie Melodies short Duck Amuck (1953). We chose it because it so vividly demonstrates how any act of erasure requires fresh and hence contestable inscriptions.
"[R]efusal, too, leaves people entangled, and therefore requires mediated care and empowerment both for those who refuse and for those who live with its aftermath."
The Utopia of Refusal: David Graeber, Debt & the Left Monetary Imagination
by Will Beaman & Scott Ferguson Note: David Graeber leaves behind a rich and complex body of work that remains influential for leftist thought and practice. Since his passing in 2020, however, …
moneyontheleft.org
November 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Our featured image for this post comes from Chuck Jones' deliciously self-reflexive Merrie Melodies short Duck Amuck (1953). We chose it because it so vividly demonstrates how any act of erasure requires fresh and hence contestable inscriptions.
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Very excited to be part of the audience for @robbhawkes.bsky.social and Robyn Ollett’s research seminar at #TeessideUniversity
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Very excited to be part of the audience for @robbhawkes.bsky.social and Robyn Ollett’s research seminar at #TeessideUniversity