The latest episode of Thinking Borders is out now! In this episode we talk about her extensive work on borders and migration, activism, solidarity an so much more! Available at all podcasting platforms: open.spotify.com/episode/3wfz...

If you wish to join the SDS Board of Directors and would like to ask the current members any questions about the committees they are part of, their email addresses are here: disstudies.org/elected-and-... Nominate yourself or a colleague via docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #DisabilityStudies

In the near future, I'll need to email people about testimonials for a book on work, disablement & capitalism (for the back cover / website). That said, if anyone who sees this post thinks they might be interested in offering a testimonial later this year, pls email me at ioana.chis[at]glasgow.ac.uk

Some errant thoughts from one of the editors ahead of May Day 2026. TL;DR: We need to take the day back and make it mean something again. Go and d o something this weekend and start plotting for 2027. organisemagazine.org.uk/2026/04/30/m...

Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Activist Scholarship 12 May 2026 (4.00-5.30pm BST) Online Speakers: Akwugo Emejulu (Sheffield) Panos Theodoropoulos (KCL) AK Thompson (Movement-based scholar and organizer) Register: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Register below for this online discussion, taking place 27th May, 18.30, (UK time), with Gurminder Bhambra, Imogen Tyler and our own @academicdiary.bsky.social, organised by the @thesociologicalreview.org.

The nomination period for SDS’s 2026 elections is now open. We encourage self-nominations and nominations of colleagues who would be a strong fit for the organization. If you are interested in serving, or know someone who may be, please use the nomination form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#OtD 24 Apr 1932 the Kinder Scout trespass took place in protest to a lack of access granted to ramblers, with Benny Rothman being key to the movement. Rothman was imprisoned for 4 months but rallies continued, and access was granted in 2000 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7888...

Nancy Spero, Screw Corporate Art, 1974

Please join us next month for a community discussion. The SDS Board is excited to hear your thoughts and suggestions regarding how we might tackle challenges and build community together. ASL and CART will be provided. Register today at bit.ly/SDSCollaborate.

Call for Abstracts - submit by 15 May Marxism & Disability Stream at the Historical Materialism conference 2026 MDN looks forward to hosting the first designated stream related to Marxism & Disability at the HM London conference (5-8 Nov) Details here: www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/twenty...

Despicable while also unsurprising

THREAD 🧵 A joint investigation by Al Jazeera English and Liberty Investigates found that 12 UK universities paid Horus Security to monitor pro-Palestine activity online. Using AI tools, it flagged organisers and profiled academics. 🔗: aje.news/30ic1p | #Infograph

Peak mainstreaming: A so-called festival of philosophy with all the most reactionary speakers the UK has to offer fooling some left-wing speakers into thinking this is a debate rather than a way to make their extreme ideas seem part of the conversation... howthelightgetsin.org/festivals/ha...

I don’t usually big up my work & find it cringe to talk about my research. But forcing myself to ignore that. For people who are genuinely interested in relationships between trans, intersex & LGBT/LGB/LGBTI activists you might want to watch this film/read this: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This year, Prof. Mark Steven (Exeter) is delivering the RWS annual lecture. Join us on 27 May 2026 at the University of Westminster. More details and free tickets available here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2026/04/17/2...

As the crowdfunder for the first radical bookshop icon Newcastle for 40 years gets closer to the end I’m making the bold move of calling on all the academics I sort of vaguely know and also those I don’t to share the link for our crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

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I think if I worry about it a little bit more it'll solve everything

BBCs coverage isn't just misleading, it is inflammatory. It has predictably been latched onto by the far right and others, including this government, to call for even more restrictions on those seeking asylum. Along with others, I explain here how wrong it is 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2602505...

It's same thing with benefits fraud, a few cases to attack an entire system to feed a reactionary agenda. Do not indulge this shit, fight them every goddam step.

Actually I think we should all be ruder to judges who think it's okay for the secret police to racially profile the people they're kidnapping and murdering and I further think we should not apologize if their feelings are hurt and if we have a job with lifetime tenure we should publicly mock them.

We’re asking companies to - Publish information about the algorithms they use - Provide personalised explanations of how algorithms were involved in decisions - Let workers & their reps test how management algorithms function Find out more:

Maybe it's the ADHD in me… but nothing quite hits the spot like having an epiphany at 3am after hours of wikipedia rabbit holes. ...but why do they only ever happen on days that I need to be up for 6:30 though?

21 April 14:30 BST Online Theorizing from Lived Experience: Feminist and Queer Theory A roundtable with: Jo Littler (Goldsmiths) @jolittler.bsky.social Billy Holzberg (KCL) Nicola Smith (Birmingham) Lois McNay (Oxford) Free and open to all. To register, follow the link tinyurl.com/4dw285x6

In ‘The tragedy of leisure’, the author laments for The Times what he perceives as an increase in people’s time for leisure, attributes people’s increased interest in ‘populism’ to this extra time, has a go at people for not having more children & more. Free time has become the right’s latest target

In today’s episode of Centering All of Life Around Profit Hurts Disabled People. I can’t go to my local Barnes and Noble because there is nowhere to sit down in the bookstore. Imagine being able to sit down and browse through a stack of books in a bookstore. Thorn wanted to go and now I feel bad 😞

[County Clare, Ireland] A man scales an American C-130 with a hatchet and puts it out of commission, even if for a short while. People are reminding themselves that anti-militerism, the opposition to ongoing genocides, and wars of aggression are best presented as actions not sentiment.

#OtD 11 Apr 1972 over 200,000 public sector employees in Quebec took part in a general strike. After a government crackdown, 100,000 more joined them: factories were occupied and even a radio station was taken over and broadcast from by the strikers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8269...

Finally got around to reading this incredible analysis of the broader context of the genocide in Gaza. Learned so much. Will definitely be useful for teaching too!

Solidarity with UofG UNISON @unison-uofg.bsky.social & UofG Unite branch members who are taking strike action today and fighting for for all university workers! #TradeUnions #HigherEd

'Workers and the World: Fighting Ecological Crisis from Within' by Lorenzo Feltrin @lorenzo-feltrin.bsky.social coming out on 2nd June 2026! Have you pre-ordered it yet? If not, here's the link - you know what to do next: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

some forthcoming @versobooks.bsky.social releases! + WORKERS AND THE WORLD: Fighting Ecological Crisis from Within by Lorenzo Feltrin, out June 2 + THE RULERS: Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud by Cecilia Rikap, out August 4 let me know if you’d like a review copy!

1/ What is jury equity? Jury equity is the principle that juries have the power to acquit a defendant even where they think that the defendant has broken the law, and the defendant has no legal defence to the charge.

This does not go far enough, not least because it's the police powers, not the definition, that enables the practical targeting of Muslim communities and alleged 'subversives'. But it's a start – perhaps the beginning of a long overdue debate about the merits of abolishing the Terrorism Act 2000

Excellent public service via this account 👇

Most if not all of my chronic health problems both physical and psychical are probably caused by the stress of forcing myself not to be nocturnal. No doctor would confirm that though. Because of the naturalistic fallacy.

Meanwhile, on the moon...

“Habermas’s statement was a refusal to look at the world for what it was, or was becoming.” -Amelia Horgan

Oh yeah and 30,000 Households (so more than 30,000 people) have disappeared from the rolls through ESA to UC migration. Saving the Treasury approx £780million at least. Meanwhile DWP destroy evidence of deaths caused by their system. Happy Easter!

"Animated short film on the alienation of work" #video #lavoro youtu.be/5KyifKNlY7A

More than 100 legal experts warn the US may be committing serious violations of international law, including potential war crimes, during its assault on Iran.

A third of terminally ill people living in the most deprived parts of England and Wales are not claiming benefits they’re entitled to in the final 12 months of life. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/one-in-three...

Today the judge has ruled that PSC Director Ben Jamal and Chris Nineham of Stop the War Campaign are guilty on all charges. This is a disgraceful decision. Our right to protest is precious, and is undermined by this decision, but the fight is not over.

Solidarity with Chris Nineham and Ben Jamal, scandalously convicted for protesting peacefully in Starmer’s UK.

‘When I look at how everything works at an agency, it becomes clear that it is a mini-system of quite real oppression designed or evolved in practice to control the immigrant workforce better’ theclassworkproject.com/talking-abou...

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