Author of They Call it Love (2023) and Feeling At Home (2025) versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3212-feeling-at-homehttps://bsky.app/profile/alvagotby.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/alvagotby.bsky.social/post/3mdfftsxf6k2nMy book Feeling at Home is out in paperback today! It's a call for a more radical struggle for housing and a transformed vision of home https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3212-feeling-at-home @versobooks.bsky.social27 Jan 2026 09:07 +0000at://did:plc:2abjs7pvr2ep2stj6ivxmm2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdfftsxf6k2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/alvagotby.bsky.social/post/3mcdlxwjpa22sNice to see my book in this list of very cool theorists! [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Jan 2026 22:26 +0000at://did:plc:2abjs7pvr2ep2stj6ivxmm2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcdlxwjpa22shttps://bsky.app/profile/alvagotby.bsky.social/post/3m65hdwkyic2nIt was a pleasure to appear on A is for Architecture, to talk about how domestic design relates to dominant family forms and reproductive labour. Listen here (or wherever you go for podcasts) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FiVzUETdPs21 Nov 2025 14:07 +0000at://did:plc:2abjs7pvr2ep2stj6ivxmm2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3m65hdwkyic2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/alvagotby.bsky.social/post/3m35mztdycc2rI had the pleasure to speak to the good people of @thesociologicalreview.org about care, social reproduction, and the labour of love. You can listen to the recording here! https://thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/uncommon-sense/love-reproduction-with-alva-gotby/14 Oct 2025 11:33 +0000at://did:plc:2abjs7pvr2ep2stj6ivxmm2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3m35mztdycc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/alvagotby.bsky.social/post/3lt7s7o6rwk2oYet again, a Labour minister committing to being the worst https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jul/05/lisa-nandy-questions-lack-of-bbc-sackings-over-gaza-war-documentary05 Jul 2025 12:49 +0000at://did:plc:2abjs7pvr2ep2stj6ivxmm2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lt7s7o6rwk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/alvagotby.bsky.social/post/3lslip35z5s2wThanks @adamzmith.bsky.social for having me on the Free Sex podcast, where we talk about why housing justice is important for liberating sex https://shows.acast.com/free-sex/episodes/054-affordable-homes-alva-gotby27 Jun 2025 11:06 +0000at://did:plc:2abjs7pvr2ep2stj6ivxmm2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lslip35z5s2whttps://bsky.app/profile/alvagotby.bsky.social/post/3lrn3g7iz2c2kAnother lovely review of Feeling at Home! Get it from the @versobooks.bsky.social website to support an independent publisher https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2025/06/09/book-review-feeling-at-home-transforming-the-politics-of-housing-alva-gotby/15 Jun 2025 08:48 +0000at://did:plc:2abjs7pvr2ep2stj6ivxmm2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrn3g7iz2c2khttps://bsky.app/profile/alvagotby.bsky.social/post/3lojex3opys26A wonderful review of Feeling at Home in @tribunemagazine.bsky.social. It's amazing to have readers who really get what I tried to do in the book, and to see it inform discussions within the housing movement. @versobooks.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2025 17:12 +0000at://did:plc:2abjs7pvr2ep2stj6ivxmm2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lojex3opys26https://bsky.app/profile/alvagotby.bsky.social/post/3lndff5u3o22vEdinburgh friends, come along to this event I'm doing with the wonderful @living-rent.bsky.social on 3rd May! https://www.livingrent.org/in_conversation_with_alva_gotby @versobooks.bsky.social21 Apr 2025 14:39 +0000at://did:plc:2abjs7pvr2ep2stj6ivxmm2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lndff5u3o22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/alvagotby.bsky.social/post/3lknumzspu22rThis feels like one of the most bleak days in a long time. The end of the ceasefire, a new low for the UK government, escalating fascism in the US18 Mar 2025 14:23 +0000at://did:plc:2abjs7pvr2ep2stj6ivxmm2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lknumzspu22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/alvagotby.bsky.social/post/3ljl4brgqp223Today I had a small role in resisting an eviction, alongside comrades from London Renters Union. It took 7 hours but eventually the police and bailiffs backed down. It's so important to have these moments of practical solidarity and winning together!04 Mar 2025 18:37 +0000at://did:plc:2abjs7pvr2ep2stj6ivxmm2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljl4brgqp223https://bsky.app/profile/alvagotby.bsky.social/post/3lir6a6m5tk2xHolly Pester has written a lovely and thoughtful review of Feeling at Home (and Holly's novel the Lodgers is wonderful too!) @versobooks.bsky.social https://www.frieze.com/article/alva-gotby-holly-pester-24822 Feb 2025 11:02 +0000at://did:plc:2abjs7pvr2ep2stj6ivxmm2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lir6a6m5tk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/alvagotby.bsky.social/post/3lii4idayzk2vThis is of course very good and you should all read it [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Feb 2025 20:37 +0000at://did:plc:2abjs7pvr2ep2stj6ivxmm2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lii4idayzk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/alvagotby.bsky.social/post/3lhllf7pdwc23An excerpt from my book Feeling at Home on the @versobooks.bsky.social blog! https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/domestic-violence-is-a-housing-problem07 Feb 2025 12:17 +0000at://did:plc:2abjs7pvr2ep2stj6ivxmm2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhllf7pdwc23https://bsky.app/profile/alvagotby.bsky.social/post/3lglbr7lwf22hFeeling at Home finally came out this week, published by @versobooks.bsky.social. It’s about the everyday experience of housing, how different models of home shape our subjectivities, and how we could make a different kind of home together. Pictured here with my research assistant.25 Jan 2025 15:59 +0000at://did:plc:2abjs7pvr2ep2stj6ivxmm2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lglbr7lwf22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/alvagotby.bsky.social/post/3lgfk64qmj22iLondon friends, come to the launch of Feeling at Home today at Foyles! I'll be speaking about political meaning of housing and home with the amazing Lola Olufemi. @versobooks.bsky.social https://www.foyles.co.uk/events/alva-gotby-lola-olufemi-emotional-politics-of-housing23 Jan 2025 09:14 +0000at://did:plc:2abjs7pvr2ep2stj6ivxmm2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgfk64qmj22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/alvagotby.bsky.social/post/3lfznjw2pkc2pI spotted my new book Feeling at Home out in the world for the first time today, in the company of Pope Francis. It will be officially published on Tuesday (!) by @versobooks.bsky.social18 Jan 2025 15:42 +0000at://did:plc:2abjs7pvr2ep2stj6ivxmm2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfznjw2pkc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/alvagotby.bsky.social/post/3lfwmotbgus2zA good piece by Nick Bano on why we need rent controls ASAP in England and Wales, and what might happen before the Renters Rights Bill becomes law https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/17/england-renters-rights-landlords-exploit-cruel17 Jan 2025 10:49 +0000at://did:plc:2abjs7pvr2ep2stj6ivxmm2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfwmotbgus2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/alvagotby.bsky.social/post/3lfv6i5aaxc2pA nice and short review of my new book Feeling at Home, which comes out next week! https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2025/01/from-marcus-bull-to-alva-gotby-new-books-reviewed-in-short16 Jan 2025 21:02 +0000at://did:plc:2abjs7pvr2ep2stj6ivxmm2n/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfv6i5aaxc2p