Latest publication: ‘An Inclusive History of LGBTQ+ Aversion Therapy: Past Harms and Future Address in a UK Context’. Co-authored with four excellent collaborators including @rebeccawynter.bsky.social (the others are not here yet). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

So proud of fantastic Edinburgh UCU comrades and friends 🥲 an important win in a thoroughly bleak landscape

Namibia to mark German colonial genocide for first time with memorial day as claims for reparations continue www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It’s taken the English-language media a few days to report this but I think it’s major. Olmert was a hawk from the Israeli right, sidekick of Sharon, rejected Camp David, oversaw the 2009 Gaza war — so when even he is talking about war crimes, that’s significant www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Powerful words from @the1752group.bsky.social, who work to end sexual misconduct in universities: "The Supreme Court judgement risks making trans and non-binary people even more unsafe...these shameful figures on the prevalence of sexual violence and harassment...are likely to grow even higher."

Can't pretend I'm not bitterly disappointed that this fell off the agenda due to time. It's painful for survivors to bring these issues and to have to repeat often vexatious and triggering debates. But, we'll try again next year.

Reminder that this is on the agenda at UCU Congress this coming weekend Cc: @lottelydia.bsky.social @annabull.bsky.social @alixdietzel.bsky.social @vickyblake.bsky.social @the1752group.bsky.social

Delighted to be one of those elected as Associate Fellow yesterday 🥳

Do I know any #skystorians heading to the Oxford Weston Library anytime soon who might be able to take photos of a file?

For colleagues attending @ucu.org.uk Congress this week, a 🧵 Motion HE38 - thanks @leedsucu.bsky.social for bringing it. The motion is based on work with @the1752group.bsky.social around abuses of power in staff-student intimate relationships

Yesterday @ducu.bsky.social passed this motion in solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social. I didn't write this lightly, but at this point I wasn't sure what else to do. @ucu.org.uk staff are essential to letting the union run. They back us so we back them. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Entirely stand by this despite the attempts of paid bureaucrats to discredit us in the Times Higher. Shameful behaviour from highly paid senior managers on International Workers Day yesterday. Solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social

Glad @timeshighered.bsky.social is covering @uniteucu.bsky.social's dispute with @ucu.org.uk -resolution is beyond urgent (has been for over a year). But the content & tone of the UCU's anon quoted spokesperson feels emblematic of the underlying issues... www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ucu-mem...

In the 20 years that I have been a member of @ucu.org.uk never have I know such a lamentable state of affairs. I won't be crossing any picket lines. Calling on the SMT of UCU to work to resolve the dispute. reclaimucu.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/s....

Hands up who thinks trade unions should be model employers? ✋🏽 ✋🏾 ✋🏻 ✋🏿 ✋🏼 #ThriveNotSurvive

STATEMENT RE UCU NEC 2 MAY reclaimucu.wordpress... I am proud but saddened to be a signatory to this: I will not cross a picket line and I am in full solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social, on strike again this week. So I will not attend #UCU NEC on Friday this week. We all urgently need resolution.

This explains why I will not be attending NEC on Friday. This dispute has to be resolved if we are to stand a chance of addressing the multiple crises in post 16 education. And a union management should practice what it preaches reclaimucu.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/s...

I won't be at UCU NEC on Friday unless @drjogrady.bsky.social and UCU's SMT resolve the dispute with workers. Not crossing a picket line is a principle of trade unionism as is accountability to members. Sad but proud to contribute to and sign this statement reclaimucu.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/s...

📣 May Day Rally 📣 We remain on strike. With our employer continuing to refuse to meet for talks, join our strike rally on Thursday 1 May, 12-1pm outside UCU head office, Carlow Street, London. All welcome to show your support for making UCU a safe & professional workplace. #ThriveNotSurvive

When our union is in dispute and when we take action we ask for solidarity from across the movement and our communities because we are all connected in struggle. So it matters that we also practice solidarity with sibling unions in dispute and when taking action. Solidarity @uniteucu.bsky.social

See Anna Bull's blog post for the Good Law Project. Sexual misconduct strikes at the heart of university life. goodlawproject.org/sexual-misco...

Deeply, deeply frustrated to once again have to disclose trauma in trade union spaces in order to explain to other trade unionists why staff-student relationships are exploitative, but here we are.

I am also in a trade union. The statement above does not breach GDPR.

DIPAs "under [GDPR], your employer should conduct a privacy impact assessment before introducing any intrusive policy such as covert monitoring of internet and email use." In case that info is of use to anyone currently being targeted. www.tuc.org.uk/guidance/im-...

I’m hearing this is getting better. SMT are now actually threatening staff with disciplinaries if they dare to mention strike action in future out of office replies. Citing some rubbish about GDPR? Fucking nuts.

To be additionally clear: those in our union's lay leadership who are publicly undermining the workers in this dispute are siding with aggressive senior managers and undermining our members' own industrial action tactics. Enough.

Our employer is editing our members’ out-of-office replies to remove reference to our strike action. They are choosing to censor us rather than talk to us.

Full solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social in their dispute. Our branch has already had intimidation tactics and “legal threat” rhetoric in relation to this motion - this is not what I would expect from a trade union. It’s all so deeply disappointing

Solidarity to @uniteucu.bsky.social - standing up for its members in the face of huge pressure. As everyone who has ever taken IA knows, those with power often control the narrative & this makes it even harder but I know that every member of the Unite Committee wants to resolve this dispute.

We deeply regret our strike action which begins today in our Campaign for A Safe and Professional Workplace. With our dispute now a year old we remain resolute that the toxic bullying culture, racism and victimisation that our members and officers are experiencing must end. uniteucu.wordpress.com

As a member of the Education Committee, I share Vicky's disappointment that it's come to this. Solidarity with the workers taking action.

Please support ending UCU's dispute with UCU Unite and uphold the union's commitment to equality. We need Jo Grady, UCU General Secretary to end the dispute and act on the union's commitment to equality, especially to Black staff and members tinyurl.com/UCUUniteSoli...

I hear UCU senior managers are going to impose a pay award that again gives themselves & their GMB buddies a nice pay bump. No progressive pay offer to help lower paid staff when they can line their own pockets. Time to take a closer look at how SMT uplifts are decided, including that of the GS.

Presumably 3.6% weighted towards higher earners is just enough though? Asking for a friend Solidarity @uniteucu.bsky.social

Solidarity with @newcastleucu.bsky.social 💕

Not much else to say.

Resolution of the dispute between @uniteucu.bsky.social and UCU (as employer) is now far beyond urgent. Reading these testimonials (linked in post⬇️) from UCU staff is heartbreaking & reading the recent 'management instruction' excerpt v unnerving, esp in the wake of the Hon Treasurer's resignation.

This dispute needs to be resolved - we cannot function as a union when the internal culture is so broken. It is in everybody’s interest to find a way through that restores trust & achieving this in a constructive way requires properly listening to staff voices uniteucu.wordpress.com/unite-voices/

#OtD 28 Feb 1948 British Labour Party-controlled colonial police in Ghana killed 3 people and injured many others after they opened fire on a procession of unarmed ex-servicemen protesting the rising cost of living. Learn more about global Black revolt: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...

For info. This 👇 is the full text of one of the motions that was carried at last week’s HEC (text in Alt text). Note that it is clear that the union is not now balloting on this year’s pay & that it uses words such as “prepare for” and “potential” in relation to any future decision to ballot 1/4

Kenya’s youth are turning to theater, music, and film as tools of resistance against political injustices and systemic failures. africasacountry.com/2025/02/the-...

Statement signed by 15 HEC members listing all the resolutions passed at our meeting last week in context. UCU members wishing to know the totality of what was decided at HEC last week, please read. drive.google.com/file/d/1tfVJ... Feel free to share with others.

Bump for something to read over coffee.

Shocking (unsurprising) if true

There’s half a story circulating about one motion that fell at HEC & its implications - it is essentially misinformation & it is really concerning that it is being used to electioneer. I also hope that members will be informed asap. And to be clear I don’t support an immediate ballot on pay.

Really, really hoping that members are informed about what happened at the HEC meeting this week soon because there are some wild misrepresentations of the meeting's decisions and next steps circulating here.

In midst of heavy redundancies, with branch reps working into night & weekends, it’s v difficult to see how this q doesn’t: - position union members as passive consumers right when we need action - treat unpaid work of volunteers as something to be performance managed Is this trade unionism?

I’m standing for President of UCU Scotland. Please consider voting for me and for others I list. In the current crisis, with challenges around cuts and redundancies affecting every branch directly or indirectly, it is more important than ever that we fight back together ….. 1/2

With the new year comes a new strike mandate. We'll be moving to further strike action in February unless our employer agrees to emergency negotiations and makes meaningful moves to resolve our dispute. For more about our ongoing dispute see: uniteucu.wordpress.com/dispute-over... #ReclaimUCU

Any other working class women who were working class girls feeling extremely talked over with the current discourse?