It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable. This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.

Good morning everyone. I wrote a bit about abolition, imagination and the toyery event that I organized in August. open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

Should we be calling them in? I don't know. It feels like a distraction (shout out Toni Morrison). The people who wanted to march but didn't and who might now feel emboldened...can they be called in? What is all this for if not the belief that we all deserve freedom? And can we win without them?

If I was still on Twitter (or rather, if Twitter still existed) I probably would've posted something about Saturday's march. Others have already said it but it's dangerous to dismiss the marchers (not the organisers) as stupid and jobless. I don't think it's true and it doesn't call them in

That FICTIONAL text about an all-powerful corporation partnering with police to surveil us all. Good times.

I'm sure I read about this in Dave Eggers' The Every

What does it mean to call Ireland 'home'? This is what I'm trying to find out - still looking for suitable participants! Please get in touch if you or someone you know might be interested in sharing their story. #identity #ireland #spéirghorm

“The curation of these histories can be interpreted as a defiant claim on the city. Yet it is not always women who retain control of the process.” Miranda Armstrong and co-authors @uoy-sociology.bsky.social on ambivalences of control in feminist heritage. @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/Z0v03zt

Download your free copy today! #fathers #care #masculinities policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/caring-fathe...

What is the role of race in defining and policing our understanding what it means to be a good parent? @patriciahamilton.bsky.social & Charlotte Faircloth @tcru-ucl.bsky.social on Black feminism, the idea of “parental determinism” and the value of intersectionality. #OnlineFirst buff.ly/AptYdDY

“I’m struggling by making this choice. I’m sacrificing things that I could do if I just put my kids in day care.” – Olive, Canada @patriciahamilton.bsky.social & Charlotte Faircloth @tcru-ucl.bsky.social on how Black mothers invest in their children’s development. #OnlineFirst buff.ly/AptYdDY

The EHRC shocked a UN discrimination expert by stating what the intent behind using "biological sex" is back in 2023 Of course they didn't define it - just as the Supreme Court didn't - because it is meaningless other than as a "get out of jail free" card for discriminating against trans people

"It's like they're saying "we don't want any more of your babies"" - this is a quote from Adele, a black woman in her 40s, that I interviewed as part of a pilot research project exploring black people's experiences of fertility care. #reproduction #blackmotherhood

www.change.org/p/stop-the-d... Please use this as an opportunity to live up to the claim that you're offering something different to the tories, @teamlabouruk.bsky.social #FreeFatou #NoOneIsIllegal #AbolishReporting #EndDetention

STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia' Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29 Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...

“I’m struggling by making this choice. I’m sacrificing things that I could do if I just put my kids in day care.” – Olive, Canada @patriciahamilton.bsky.social & Charlotte Faircloth @tcru-ucl.bsky.social on how Black mothers invest in their children’s development. #OnlineFirst buff.ly/AptYdDY

Imagine taking cutesy pictures of your baby with a man who hesitates to condemn genocide, cuts welfare payments for disabled people, allows his cabinet to make unsubstantiated statements about mental illness and celebrate legal victories against trans people. Is it worth it? Can it ever be worth it?

The @socialpolicyuk.bsky.social Family Policy group are excited to host @joelib.bsky.social, Founder of Pregnant Then Screwed and expert on the motherhood penalty. Join to hear about her career and campaigning work, her thoughts on recent family policy and her podcast with Elliot Rae 18/5/25 12-1pm

New blog post! Dr Moldir Kabylova reflects on her research findings and lived experience to highlight how policies in Kazakhstan encouraging women to reduce their working hours reinforce traditional gender roles and contradict women’s aspirations for equality and professional grown.

Popping on here to say that I agree that government can be more efficient...at taxing the rich

📣 We are inviting parents to join a group discussion about perinatal death reviews that happen in maternity hospitals / units in Ireland 🔗 More information: www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy... @emilyoconnor.bsky.social @keelinodonoghue.bsky.social 🦋 Funded by Féileacáin 🙏 Please share if you can

Pinning my new project: blackness and assisted reproduction. Looking to interview Black parents, Black egg/sperm donors and clinicians and fertility workers who've worked with Black patients. Drop me a DM! #sociology #reproduction #interviews #research

On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.

Happy New Year! In 2025, I'm running a research project on blackness and ARTs. I'd like to talk to: 1) black egg/sperm donors, 2) black surrogates, 3) black parents who plan to or have used IVF, IUI etc 4) clinicians & managers who've worked with black families #fertility #sociology Repost at will!

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Does division of household labour influence gender attitudes among children? 🤔 Patricia Kamper provides the answer with evidence from Germany 🇩🇪 in: “Mommy in the kitchen, Daddy in politics?” #gendersky doi.org/10.1332/2515...

Broadly Conceived (not yet on BlueSky) is hosting Lisa Campo-Engelstein and me to talk about our forthcoming edited volume "Seminal: On Sperm, Health, and Politics" on Fri Dec 12 at 2pm EST. Register for an online link to join the conversation here: broadlyconceived.wordpress.com/2024/11/27/s...

bluesky is all about having a thousand followers and getting 1 like

🎤 Focus aujourd'hui à 16h30 sur les fausses couches. La présentation de Lison Merville-Boudjema sur les fausses couches et droits reproductifs des femmes roms à Marseille. 💻 A suivre en ligne : www.youtube.com/live/wB1oiTJ...

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

Perhaps it can be a place for organising my thoughts (within 300 character limits). It's both quiet and busy enough to get away with posting occasional musings

At the risk of repeating myself, I'm not sure how I want to use Bluesky. So far I've avoiding browsing or posting because it's full of enraging content (at least it's not rage bait so...swings and roundabouts, I guess?). Until I figure that out...who knows what I'll be posting or not posting here

My book The Return of the Housewife is now available to pre-order, has an appropriately angry front cover and some lovely early endorsements @manchesterup.bsky.social

i went out atop my shield, flaming arrows adorned the funeral boat

We've written a Researcher's Guide to Bluesky! It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide... >> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024... 🧵 below

Why is The Guardian like this?

Day 1 of the 2024 Re-worlding Reproduction conference is under way! We have an exciting line up of speakers for both keynote addresses and parallel sessions, bridging reproduction practices and politics with global decolonisation dialogue. #day1 #reworldtheglobalsouth #futureafricaup

Thank you to all the artists who make their work available on CC licenses on platforms like Unsplash and Wikimedia Commons. You've helped to create brighter and less-text heavy slides and virtual learning environments. Kudos to you!

#UndiscipliningII: it all starts in #Salford on Tuesday – so it's time to share our final conference programme: all the details of times, locations, tea breaks, provocative interventions, timely subjects, compelling speakers! 📖 Download the pdf: thesociologicalreview.org/projects/doc...

I didn't WANT to be right about Keith's commitment to leading a red Tory government. The point isn't that I'm right, the point is why so many apparently intelligent people refused to see it?! I mean, I'm clever but I'm not *that* clever.

Wild story here from a NYT freelancer--he found that a city councilmember seemingly lied about her house being broken into (complete with police reports and a police executive quote) and editors refused to correct the record. www.dropsitenews.com/p/i-reported...

Yeah, Musk’s intervention was the last straw for me. Either he profits from tweeting like that or he just likes shit-stirring. Whatever the reason, I didn’t want any part of it.

However things go, Imane Khelif will medal! The gold medal match is this Friday. whether gold or silver, love to see it

I'm so torn. I don't know if I want bsky to be exactly like Twitter because look how that ended up. But I also miss the jokes.

It allows them to take zero responsibility for naming strengthening the border force as one of their key electoral promises and what role that played in normalising the idea of a 'mass immigration problem'

There's something unsettling in the tone of these politicians' statements celebrating the convictions and sentencing of the rioters. As if we can discipline and punish our way out of this situation.

The longest sentence handed down to a violent racist rioter this week is shorter than the sentences imposed on entirely peaceful environmental protesters last month. Labour must repeal the Tory laws that treat peaceful protest more severely than violent disorder and assault.

Leaving Twitter in the middle of fascist rioting is both the best and the worst time to exit. Best because I can save what's left of my sanity. Worst because I won't have access to as much (and as quick) info about where to avoid if the riots come any closer

Genuinely cannot believe it's April next month. What is time?! etc

Pleased to announce that registration for Radical Mothering in Europe is open: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/soci... Join us for an excellent keynote by @feministnoire & 4 sessions exploring birth & other experiences of care from queer, anti-racist, anti-fascist & anti-carceral perspectives