📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.

Today, Canada became the first G7 nation to recognise the State of Palestine, as Prime Minister Mark Carney promised "a peaceful future for both the State of Palestine and the State of Israel." (1/3)

Germany’s abortion law dates back to 1871, and despite reforms over the decades, it remains a criminal offence. Now, as the fight to remove §218 continues, patients and providers in Berlin are pushing for access that treats abortion as essential healthcare.

Ursula von der Leyen: [T]he events in Gaza and the suffering of children and families “has shaken the conscience of the world.” “Man-made famine can never be a weapon of war. For the sake of the children, for the sake of humanity. This must stop”.

Jenny Saville at the National Portrait Gallery is the best exhibition I've seen this year

Join us next week for a free online two-day conference on global 'anti-gender' politics, hosted by the University of Brighton, featuring keynote @reproutopia.bsky.social! ❤️‍🔥 Starts at 09:30 GMT on Thursday 11 September. Further info ⤵️

Sunday Sofa Activism. WRDA is carrying out research on the role of firearms in VAWG in Northern Ireland. If you are comfortable sharing your experience anonymously, please complete the survey at the link: www.wrda.net/blog/wrda-is... Support Services: www.raiseyourvoice.community/helpadvice

Jenny Saville at the National Portrait Gallery is the best exhibition I've seen this year

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

100 Women's Rights Organisations, including @rapecrisis.bsky.social, @refugecharity.bsky.social, & @evawuk.bsky.social have signed a letter warning that attempts to link rape & violence against women & girls to immigration is a racist distraction. They urge the govt to address dangerous narrative

Exactly this

The Trump administration has removed reproductive rights from its annual human rights report, omitting critical data about abortion, access to contraception, freedom from discrimination & coercion in health care, & maternal health. This is a CLEAR attempt to sweep human rights abuses under the rug.

Joint Statement by Australia, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/joint-s...

Palestinian journalist Anas Jamal Al-Sharif was killed along with four Al Jazeera colleagues in an Israeli air strike "This is my will and my final message. If these words of mine reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice." www.opendemocracy.net/en/gaza-jour...

“Gender studies as a discipline…is defined by a set of debates and problematics.” In this 10-Minute Talk, Judith Butler FBA discusses gender as a field of study and its interdisciplinary contributions to research, social analysis and social movements. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...

By contemporary US artist Martha Rich #WomensArt

Love going through my sketchbooks at the end of the semester - these are mostly acrylic ink, some watercolour and pencil

"B’Tselem warns that Israel is already replicating its patterns of destruction and annihilation, currently being implemented in Gaza, in the West Bank as well – albeit on a smaller scale – and that there is a real risk the genocide will spread beyond the Gaza Strip." www.btselem.org/press_releas...

Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

2 in 5 arrested over last summer’s riots had been reported for domestic abuse

In Greenland Danish doctors fitted IUDs in thousands of young Inuit girls throughout the 1960's. They were placed without explanation or consent, with some victims barely teenagers. Watch this investigative piece to learn more: www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/...

View or download a copy of our new Topline Results series report: Gender in contemporary Europe. The report explores #data collected in Round 11 (2023/24) of our #survey on equality, sexist attitudes, gender discrimination, and policies that aim to address #gender inequalities.

“Many of their colleagues and students were killed as the group worked on the article. “This is not some abstract academic exercise,” said Desai. “I can’t keep stressing the urgency of this article as we’re watching universities being blown up.” 😢😢🤬🤬 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

NEW: The Scottish community-owned island of Eigg has announced a boycott of Israel The island of 120 people has backed BDS and its sole shop will stop stocking goods from Israeli firms www.thenational.scot/news/2533509...

Such a great exhibition on experiences of reproductive (in)justices in the north of England at OpenEye gallery in Liverpool until 3rd August @repronorth.bsky.social

Latest Ipsos study finds that the UK is the most transphobic of 26 nations studied when it comes to views on toilets and changing rooms etc Worse than Hungary and Türkiye

Everyone at CHASE (Centre for Health, Arts, Society and Environment) @liverpooluni.bsky.social is really looking forward to working with our partners to support new PhD students on projects related to crafting care for people, place and planet, and living well with water. tinyurl.com/8dr3rea6

I'm posting this as part of the online protest against the Universal Credit & Personal Independence Payments Bill. TLDR: This Bill needs to die so that disabled people don't. #DisabilitySky #TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare #DisabilityRebellion #CripsAgainstCuts

‘Gaza must be eliminated’: Israel’s airwaves are filled with pro-genocide propaganda. Here is a collection of 20 of the more outrageous statements by Israeli lawmakers or public figures since 7 October 2023. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A new report confirms that Israeli forces are routinely ordered to fire on crowds of unarmed, starving Palestinian civilians at food distribution sites in Gaza. It’s the latest damning proof of genocide. It’s past time for an arms embargo and sanctions on Israel. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

A new Dutch report has shown that the world's leading genocide scholars agree that what is happening in Gaza is a genocide. This includes scholars once reluctant to use the term. When will this be acknowledged by those who dismissed those who raised the alarm? www.middleeasteye.net/news/top-gen...

Very proud to know and have had the pleasure to engage with Dr Sarah Elmammeri’s excellent thesis “Trapped between Borders” who is now the very deserving winner of the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence thesis prize for 2025! @sarahelm.bsky.social www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/new...

I did an interview with the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my new book. We talked about contemporary feminism, masculinities, gender-based violence and abortion rights in northern Ireland. @manchesterup.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social Recording here - newbooksnetwork.com/womens-troub...

‘The right change at the right time’: MPs vote to decriminalise abortion

Listening to the discussion of the clause to partially decriminalise abortion in England/Wales and the language both in support and against the clause is so stigmatising - I will do a count later of times the word 'vulnerable' is used @drbloomer.bsky.social parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

MPs have voted to decriminalise abortion, bringing it closer to law This is how members voted on MP Tonia Antoniazzi's amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill by party👇

And so abortion will be decriminalised in England & Wales, if partially Great to see support for stopping the prosecution of abortion-seekers Terrible to see it depend on a Bill that increases police powers, criminalises poverty & restricts protest rights www.alliance4choice.com/decrim-in-uk

Did you know people from Europe have to go to the US and Mexico for most third trimester abortion care? Retired provider Dr Shelly Sella talks about performing third trimester abortions. She is not on Blue Sky but I highly recommend her Instagram channel. time.com/7292801/thir...

Check out this opportunity to work in our dept with my fantastic Media and Politics colleagues. They're really good eggs. Closing date 30th June. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI734/l... @commmedia.bsky.social

IN FOCUS | As MPs call on parliament to vote over decriminalising abortion, one woman tells Bel Trew how the traumatic premature birth of her baby was exacerbated by a year-long police investigation

Étienne-Émile Baulieu, French scientist who invented abortion pill, dies aged 98 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

For @prismreports.org, I wrote some thoughts about the way our funders are abandoning us for sticking to the reproductive justice values we swore to uphold when defending Palestine. prismreports.org/2025/05/28/r...

JOB: We’re hiring a LSE Fellow in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. Details 👇🏽 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/... Do please share with anyone who might be interested to apply!

As we’re in marking season, some thoughts on marking related burnout based on my @isrfoundation.bsky.social research on the exhaustion economy from the perspective of academics with energy limiting conditions @nadsn.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk @alisonallam.bsky.social @equihealthfutures.bsky.social 1/6

A new study has found that countries with abortion restrictions are more likely to have a decline in broader human rights. The study found that social inequality helps to create an environment in which human rights are eroded. Learn more here: buff.ly/m9FPS8V

"Vital abortion-related content is apparently being blocked by Meta – potentially putting women at risk" www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/body/heal...

‘The war in Gaza is not only the story of rubble and airstrikes. It is the story of the girl getting her period under bombardment, the mother bleeding in silence and miscarrying on cold floors or giving birth under drones.’ mondoweiss.net/2025/05/the-...

Israeli troops fired “warning shots” near 25 diplomats visiting Jenin in the occupied West Bank. Footage shows diplomats fleeing mid-interview. They represented 31 nations, including the UK, China, Canada, and Egypt. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Success in academia often has more to do with luck, patronage and the job market than “hard work”. Good academics acknowledge this. I worked hard, but I was in the right place at the right time on occasion. Historians far more talented than I have fallen between the cracks.