Soft Verges

Miscellany including fantasies, fears and fiction.

By Sophie K Rosa

· Launched 3 years ago

Keynote on heartbreak </3

This is a talk I gave at the truly special Out of Love festival at the Beursschouwburg arts centre in Brussels last weekend.

Jun 16•Sophie K Rosa

Motherlack: mothering threads for liberation

This is the text for a talk I did at Battersea Arts Centre last weekend, as part of a programme called 'How To Be Many Mothers?'

Apr 27•Sophie K Rosa

Translation as care

Radical Intimacy has even more mothers now.

Mar 10•Sophie K Rosa

A hysterical accusation against men

Men feel like they can't do anything anymore, apparently!

Feb 3•Sophie K Rosa

One sorrow, two joys

My life with a magpie on the final day of 2025.

Dec 31, 2025•Sophie K Rosa

If it has to happen, baby, do you want to know?

Writing with Lily Allen's divorce album and a new psychoanalytic anthology on jealousy in mind.

Nov 11, 2025•Sophie K Rosa

When you know, you know

Some scattered thoughts on claims to romantic knowledge (and singing potatoes)

Oct 8, 2025•Sophie K Rosa

Why psychoanalysis? #2

A second instalment.

Aug 25, 2025•Sophie K Rosa

A feminist archaeology of self by way of words

To me, this is one of the most meaningful things I've ever written. I wrote it for an upcoming Dog Section Press publication. I also read it aloud at La…

Aug 11, 2025•Sophie K Rosa

Dictation #1: overwhelm

Trying something new because I am overwhelmed: speaking-to-writing into my phone as I walk. The audio was recorded afterwards, it's not the faltering…

Jul 25, 2025•Sophie K Rosa

A reformist approach to emotions?

Thinking about 'nervous system regulation' and what Freud made of such things.

Jul 8, 2025•Sophie K Rosa