Madame Vastra has a thing or two to say to trans-exclusionary non-feminists who haven't studied science in 40 years. #DoctorWho

If they don’t keep the deliciously camp sword fight in #DoctorWho’s the Sea Devils in colour I’m going to turn into a rhino.

I worked with a former special education teaching colleague, Yvonne Williams, to write about how curriculum and pedagogical expectations “narrow” what it means to be neurotypical in schools in England. It’s in our new edited-collection (linked below). www.routledge.com/Language-Pla...

There is no amount of money in the world that can fix the SEND system. We need curriculum reform and to give teachers the time to adequately and strategically differentiate learning. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/education/20...

There is no amount of money in the world that can fix the SEND system. We need curriculum reform and to give teachers the time to adequately and strategically differentiate learning. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/education/20...

I had a realisation about the idea that #DoctorWho has "gone" woke. It's never made much sense because #DoctorWho has always been left-leaning. I wonder if the problem is that fans watch old episodes without context. The second ever story, "The Daleks," is a good example of this: a thread...

So proud to have contributed!

@abihackett.bsky.social, Christina MacRae, Maggie MacLure and I have a new article out open access in Journal of Early Childhood Literacies, sharing data from a collaboration with the Humber Museums Partnership.

This was such a wonderful project to be a part of, thinking and writing with colleagues in the university and in practice.

What the study shows is that white, well-off, gays and lesbians in mid-to-senior roles in workplaces that self-select for a hate group's mailing list do not like being included under the LGBT+ banner. Shocking! I don't have to run a survey to know everybody else doesn't like them, either!

Absolutely!

“No denial or omission in law can erase the concrete reality that trans and intersex people have always and will always exist. Attempts to erase them as a class constitutes an intent to commit genocide.”

Toilet Access & Inclusion: Research Evidence to Guide Decision-Making After the Supreme Court Ruling A downloadable PDF which uses our research evidence from the last decade to help guide organisations in their approach to toilet provision since the Supreme Court Ruling tinyurl.com/toiletresearch

Yeah this is going to thoroughly doink staff on fixed-term contracts. Why give anyone a permanent job when you can just employ them for a day a week six years ago and still submit their papers?

Not all cis men have XY chromosomes Not all cis women have XX chromosomes 🧬✨

“No doubt the clarity of its conclusion will be welcomed by some, but reducing a complex subject to an overly simple one is not what is needed. Their Lordships would have benefited from a refresher course on sex and gender differentiation.”

"The government does not support self-identification. We want to support the robustness of the process of gender recognition certificate applications" - we like making trans people jump through hoops and fill out endless forms for no reason

I taught in a system where funding for inclusion was separate from the EHCP and it was an absolute shit show. Please consider signing.

Grumpy Doctor Who fans calling him riding a confetti cannon across interstellar space "camp trash" as if that's not literally my favourite type of Doctor Who story.

Using a confetti cannon to fly through space is only the third most ridiculous method the Doctor's used so far. Doctor 5 used a cricket ball, and Doctor 3 used his own oxygen supply.

I taught in a system where funding for inclusion was separate from the EHCP and it was an absolute shit show. Please consider signing.

The government is considering removing EHCPs for pupils with SEND in mainstream schools. This is potentially really harmful for every child with SEND in UK. Please consider signing and sharing. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71... Shared via: @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social

I was thrilled to share survey and interview findings from the Eloping Project at the University of Sheffield yesterday. Thanks to @davidbenshannon.bsky.social and the School of Education for hosting! Slides available through the link. uwaterloo.ca/scholar/m23g...

In spite of everything, I had the most wonderful first day at #AERA.

We've known since Remembrance of the Daleks in the late 1980s that there is a show called DOCTOR WHO in the universe of #DoctorWho.

Watching Angels in America on National Theatre at Home and it is awesome. I forgot how much I love this play. (Also, I’ve always wanted to write for it, so someone please produce it.)

Look at this PhD opportunity with the best of people!

If anyone hasn't seen this, here is our critical neurodiversity studies conference call for abstracts. "We will focus on scholarship that synthesises a concern for neurodivergent liberation with other critical traditions and liberation movements globally." medhumsplatform.org/call-for-abs...

Looking for applications for this funded PhD. ‘Re-imagining Design for Critical Access in Museums and Cultural Spaces with Neurodivergent Youth’ It is co-supervised with the wonderful @davidbenshannon.bsky.social and consists of a collaboration with Pinc College. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLW348/p...

Come and do a funded PhD with me, Dr Laura Trafí-Prats @lala-trapra.bsky.social and Pinc College! Re-imagining Design for Critical Access in Museums and Cultural Spaces with Neurodivergent Youth www.mmu.ac.uk/study/postgr...

We have decided to create an account over here for those who are using this platform instead of (or as well as) X! Posts will continue to be made on both sites for now!

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

Come and do a funded PhD with me, Dr Laura Trafí-Prats @lala-trapra.bsky.social and Pinc College! Re-imagining Design for Critical Access in Museums and Cultural Spaces with Neurodivergent Youth www.mmu.ac.uk/study/postgr...

I'm really stunned at how many scholars I know who use queer theory (or the word "queer") in their work, but don't know what PrEP is.

I am pretty happy with my new chapter, written more than one year ago, ‘Teen’s Creative Experiences in TikTok as an Infra-Structure of Feeling’. It is part of this book that maybe you can order through your library www.bloomsbury.com/uk/postdevel...

Ecosia is a great search engine and (unlike Google) they haven't been drinking the Kool-aid. www.ecosia.org

Dr Lea Rackley discussed her research reframing 'attention deficit' as 'attention abundance.' We discussed some of its implications and practicalities for education in England.

Liverpool artist @lotierneyart.bsky.social shared some of her work and talked about her artist-activist practice. We thought about how Disability Arts might be celebrated in inclusive and specialist education.

At last year's event, @wardasworld.bsky.social shared insights from her anti-racist SaLT practice in a presentation entitled “Possibilities of Ethical Resistance and Liberatory Praxis in Speech and Language Therapy.”

Is #neurodiversity a Global Northern White paradigm?. another eye-opening article I've come across while writing my #neuroqueering digital youth work chapter. Nair, V. K., Farah, W., & Boveda, M. (2024) #Autism, LINK:https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13623613241280835

Good good news.

@davidbenshannon.bsky.social and I have received some good news today that we will soon share with everyone. At this moment, just smiling and kicking 🥰🥳🤩

So long Xitter!

"it is the job of the school to rehabilitate divergent body(mind)s by imprinting new capacities that more closely mimic those of the idealised capitalist human" @davidbenshannon.bsky.social's powerful article on #neuroqueer failure www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #neurodivergence

Last minute prep before my first presentation at #ECQI2025 today…

Our book, “Research Mobilities in Primary Literacy Education: interrogating how teachers encounter research in an age of evidence-based teaching,” is out today and free online. www.routledge.com/Research-Mob...

‘Though some people want the right to die, many of us are still fighting for the right to exist.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Join us next May 2025 for the International Gender and Education Association Conference 🦋 www.mmu.ac.uk/about-us/fac...

The perfect meme to explain homonormativity?

POSTDOC IN PALESTINE STUDIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO. Share WIDELY! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 palestinestudies.artsci.utoronto.ca/wp-content/u...