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

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...