Sunday Sofa Activism 🛋️ Design Reclaim the Agenda's International Women’s Day 2026 poster! The theme for 2026 is ‘Strength in Solidarity. Open to ages 12-25, deadline 31 January 2026. Learn more: www.reclaimtheagenda.com/iwd-poster-c...

⚡ Our @ccindle-eu.bsky.social book on ‘Anti-Gender Politics in Europe: A Literature Review of Seven Countries and the EU’ is out open access! Eds Elżbieta Korolczuk Andrea Krizsan⚡ We worked at the chapter on Spain with @ilheenk.bsky.social & @pcaravantes.bsky.social Access 👉 ccindle.org/ebooks/

Delighted about this - Humanitarian Scholarship in our department at MRes level . Palestinian eligibility. please share www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a... #gaza #palestine #humanitarian #irish #masters #academia

The abortion pill is a revolution 'A Global Telehealth First: Women Help Women Begins Producing Abortion Pill Combipack' msmagazine.com/2025/12/14/g...

The abortion pill is a revolution 'A Global Telehealth First: Women Help Women Begins Producing Abortion Pill Combipack' msmagazine.com/2025/12/14/g...

We are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference! We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.

#OnThisDay, 11 Dec 1983, tens of thousands of women take part in 'reflect the base' at Greenham Common, UK. They encircle the 9 mile fence of the nuclear missile base, tearing it down in at least one place. Hundreds of women are arrested. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️ 1/2

Stockholm in mezzotint, a copper plate etching technique

“On average, Israeli weapons now kill seven people a day. That rate of violent death would be considered an active conflict in many other contexts, raising questions about how accurately “ceasefire” describes the new status quo.” www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Justyna Faszcza highlighted the consequences of one of Europe’s most restrictive systems: “We have lost Izabela, Dorota, Justyna and others. Criminalisation forces women to travel abroad, and only those who can afford it are safe. ‘My Voice My Choice’ offers dignity, equality, and real support.”

‘Hope on small scales’: Women’s Troubles book explores gender and feminist politics in post-Agreement #NorthernIreland Read our article by Jessica HADDEN 👉 sharedfuture.news/hope-on-smal... @centreforgender.bsky.social @clairepierson.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social @mhairiclaire.bsky.social

brilliant conversation on feminist activism and gender politics celebrating @clairepierson.bsky.social new book with @mhairiclaire.bsky.social @frecklescorp.bsky.social @centreforgender.bsky.social

Lovely to launch my book this evening at Queens Belfast @centreforgender.bsky.social thanks to everyone who came along and to @drdeiana.bsky.social @frecklescorp.bsky.social @mhairiclaire.bsky.social for organising and commentary 💚 @manchesterup.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social

Belfast book launch today! 📚

The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an international campaign that kicks off on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women & runs until Human Rights Day. Over the 16 Days Reclaim the Agenda will be sharing Blogs www.reclaimtheagenda.com/16-blogs-for...

We dream of our freedom, Lou Miller @thebluecoat.bsky.social Liverpool

Join us in Belfast @centreforgender.bsky.social next Friday 28th 4-6pm for launch of Women's Troubles @frecklescorp.bsky.social @drdeiana.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/womens-tro...

Random musings on joy in academia (from my personal point of view) - i.e. is it possible, what is it worth, does it matter? open.substack.com/pub/rachelle...

The High Court in Malawi has ruled that survivors of sexual violence can access abortion care. Women's groups are working to ensure all women and girls can access safe abortion care, despite opposition from religious groups. Learn more: www.dw.com/en/its-women...

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Poland violated the rights of a pregnant woman who had to travel abroad to obtain an abortion after her foetus was diagnosed with a birth defect.

Thank you to everyone who attended Dr Claire Pierson’s 📖 launch this afternoon and celebrated her long awaited text ‘Women’s Troubles: Gender and feminist politics in post-Agreement Northern Ireland’. It is now available with @manchesterup.bsky.social ! @clairepierson.bsky.social

We will host @clairepierson.bsky.social's 📘 launch this Wednesday (12 November) 3:30-5pm The launch will take place in 126 Mount Pleasant Room 113. Join Pierson and Professor Liz Evans (University of Southampton) for a conversation on contemporary feminist and gender politics:

Fantastic weekend taking about abortion, creative methods and making our own embroideries and prints. First time I've been drawn on a panel!

For anyone in the Liverpool area, we are hosting a conversation and hands-on workshop on abortion rights and creative methods as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science - come join us! Sign up here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/claire-piers... @livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social

Was prehistory a feminist paradise? www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Was prehistory a feminist paradise? www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

How do feminist movements develop and organise in ethno-nationally divided societies? How does this challenge our understandings of fourth wave feminism? 🎧 Claire Pierson discusses feminism, Northern Ireland, and her book Women's Troubles with @NewBooksNetwork👇

The Alliance Defending Freedom, an American conservative christian group, is organising in the UK. This group aims to roll back abortion rights in the UK, and is using politicians such as Nigel Farage to gain traction. This must be opposed at every level. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

I wrote about my five days in Israeli prison for the LRB. Remember with every paragraph that this is the cosseted version of the experience; it is infinitely worse for Palestinians www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Congratulations to Dr Sarah Elmammeri, our former PhD candidate and the winner of the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of ExcellenceDoctoral Thesis Prize.Her lecture titled ‘Between Layers of Borders: Reflecting on EU Policies and Asylum Seekers’ reflects the very best of our PhD student scholarship.

‘My heart is broken’: Palestinians begin searching the Gaza rubble for their dead. Using manual tools and their bare hands, people start the immense task of trying to find their loved ones’ remains. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage. Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

Book launches! 🚨Women's Troubles will be launched in Liverpool on 12th November in conversation with Prof Liz Evans, and Belfast @centreforgender.bsky.social on 28th November (details to follow). Liverpool launch: www.ticketsource.co.uk/claire-piers... @livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social

Carrots that are too beautiful to cook

The @livunihss.bsky.social AHRC-funded ‘Crafting Care’ Doctoral Focal College is accepting applications for 2026. EOI due by 1st Dec. I am keen to supervise a project on the politics of abortion care. Get in touch with your project idea! www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... @livunipol.bsky.social

The @livunihss.bsky.social AHRC-funded ‘Crafting Care’ Doctoral Focal College is accepting applications for 2026. EOI due by 1st Dec. I am keen to supervise a project on the politics of abortion care. Get in touch with your project idea! www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... @livunipol.bsky.social

For anyone in the Liverpool area, we are hosting a conversation and hands-on workshop on abortion rights and creative methods as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science - come join us! Sign up here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/claire-piers... @livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social

Thinking of Sarah. @simonharrisireland.bsky.social must intervene.

Access to safe abortion is a matter of health, rights, and equality. The UK has made the top 10, but at 73% we're a whole 21% behind the leader! Where does your country stand? 🗺️ 🔗 Check the @epfsrr.bsky.social Abortion Atlas to find out: www.epfweb.org/node/1156 #abortionatlas

📣🏳️‍⚧️ 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