We have had surveys that have shown us exactly this in the UK, France, the EU etc for many years What we need to ask ourselves is why have journalists, politicians, academics etc chosen to focus on surveys that hype immigration This is what I explore here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is really the main thing everyone should be thinking about. At this point just being out as trans or "looking like" an immigrant in public or affirming that gender is complicated or that racism & misogyny are bad or that Trump et al are fascists - are all variously risky. So do *something.*

Yes, it’s Genocide

Anyone i know planning to attend the SRHE this year?

This is the racist intimidation outside people’s homes the government and BBC are calling “peaceful protests”

There are many ways in which the U.K. is still supporting Israel which it could instantly stop and under Genocide Convention as a signatory state is bound to stop All else here is a word soup and hubris

THREAD: 1. In May I published my peer-reviewed research into the effects of the Starmer-Streeting puberty-blocker ban. TLDR; lots of children have already been harmed. TW; this is a hard read. There is a term for adult men who deliberately harm children…

Signed - other countries have made this possible

These three headlines tell you everything you need to know about the state of the liberal order

All this discussion about what language is ok to use in opposition to a genocide and IDF is out here shooting people for wanting to eat IDF soldiers are telling the press they feel like the Nazis targeting the Jews And you're worried about a phrase? A PHRASE? fuck you guys

“Students should be ready to be shocked and offended at university, according to the man in charge of ensuring free speech on campuses.” Sorry, but… why? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Excellent work from Natacha. This section on new NHS gender services for children is really worrying. “We (a healthcare service for trans children) may not be gender affirming”

Good on @turn2us.org.uk for putting together a guide for journalists reporting on the benefits system. With the PIP vote coming up, there’s no excuse for the media to use inaccurate or stigmatising language.

To recap: •DOJ orders ICE to arrest people without a judicial warrant •People peacefully protest this illegal act •LAPD confirms people protested peacefully •Trump fabricates claim of violence—deploys National Guard Fascists escalate violence—don’t fall for it. Stand united against Trump's tyranny.

Feeling this today for some reason.

Comment résister intelligemment à une époque dégueulasse ? Réponse revigorante avec l’historienne, professeure à l’université de Californie à Los Angeles, qui vient de quitter les États-Unis de Donald Trump. Par @edwyplenel.bsky.social

Oh God, not this again.

The fight about DEI, CRT, and LGBT+ books in schools is in part about what kinds of voters white kids will grow up to be Some people want white kids to stew uncritically in the psychological wages of whiteness so that they will always vote accordingly

Your occasional reminder that in two years' time, Nigel Farage will be taking his gold plated £73,000 annual EU pension.

Ireland has opinions

"campaigners say". As if there wasn't clear, objective evidence. But tis the transphobic guardian I suppose www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Telegraph printed 42 articles attacking trans people between 24 April and 4 May 2025 (11 days)

🇬🇧 institutions failed to protect trans people when the American Christian-fascist movement attacked them. So now the same movement (and people) are using the same tactics to attack reproductive rights… …so much “women’s rights”.

I'm at a loss for words, except to say that we are witnessing the most absolute evil.

Families' wealth in 1427 predicts their wealth in 2011.

Any money you spend on Harry Potter stuff is directly supporting this www.them.us/story/jk-row...

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."

Lots of quotable lines in here but I’ll stick with ‘Sorry if this is too radical for some people, but I don’t think “female emancipation” and “deploying the discriminatory apparatus of the British state” go together in the same sentence’

Took me a bit to process how big a deal this report actually is--its thus far the only review to look at the entire body of currently available research. It took two years to conduct, stands at 1,000 pages, and completely contradicts the Cass Review and the common arguments for bans on this care.

BREAKING: Labour will formally recognise trans women as ‘men’ tomorrow. It means trans women will be banned from all women shortlists and all Labour women’s groups. Revolting. The party’s relationship with LGBT+ is over.

J'ai le très grand plaisir de vous annoncer la parution le 11 septembre prochain à ‪@edladecouverte.bsky.social‬ de mon prochain livre, "Collaborations - Enquête sur les milieux d'affaires et l'extrême droite"

The complete and utter depravity of this. There are no words. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/isra...

I'd like to tweet a clip of BBC London reporting on 500,000 people marching through the city in support of Palestine, but they didn't cover it. They did, however, have time to tell us that Camden council have approved new cycle lanes on Shaftsbury Avenue.

Every time you call someone that’s uninformed or misinformed “stupid” think of the average, underpaid, overworked person just trying to feed their family and ask yourself how much time they have for researching everything they hear. It’s unreasonable. Capitalism is a tool of oppression and control.

Frustrated with the lack of academic leadership, faculty and staff in Swedish higher education and research are committing to break ties with Israeli institutions complicit in illegal occupation, apartheid, and genocide. uppsaladeclaration.se

Eurovision have banned both the flag of Palestine and lgbtqia+ flags If someone suggests turning it on, please say no and suggest something else

Get your own doomy Keir Starmer sound bite by combining a geographical feature and a late 20th century object of moral panic. An island of strangers. A peninsula of video piracy. A fjord of repetitive beats. An archipelago of chip pan fires.

Should our employers feel like our family? Or can this approach make it harder to escape exploitative and abusive work? @elisabethwide.bsky.social @helsinki.fi on social obligations, feminist approaches to labour, and the experiences of au pairs in Finland. #OpenAccess buff.ly/TMmHkdo

Absolutely wild that you can literally call a minority "ugly" en masse and still expect sympathetic media coverage when you experience consequences for your bigotry.

Harvard’s report “sends a chilling message…If you are a Jew who questions Zionism, you are suspect. If you engage in solidarity with Palestinians, you do not belong. If your scholarship complicates the tidy moral narrative of a beleaguered Israel, you are not just unwelcome—you are dangerous.”

Musk builds Mars escapes. Thiel stocks doomsday bunkers. Trump fuels chaos. Their shared vision? Supremacist survivalism, where they win & the rest burnt. New @naomiaklein.bsky.social interview on the endgame of billionaires who’ve given up on Earth and humanity. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

THIS EVENING: 🇵🇸 PALESTINE: A Sociological Issue 🇵🇸, the second in our Conversations series of online events. 🍉 Thursday 8 May 18.30-20.00 BST/UTC+1 online 🍉 Speakers: Ashjan Ajour, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Cairsti Russell and Rafeef Ziadah 🍉 Register: buff.ly/xE1NHos

This is the UKSC Judge who stripped trans people of legal recognition - Lord Patrick Hodge. In 2011, he headed a Church of Scotland commission to look at gay relationships. The report is full of stuff saying God wouldn’t approve - and even asks for ‘biological proof’ of gay.

Scholars leading research centres and groups devoted to feminist/gender/sexuality research have joined together to condemn the recent UK Supreme Court judgment that erroneously reduces “sex” to biology and claims to represent feminist and gay people while doing so. Well, not in our name!

This is fucking incredible.

Massive trans rights & solidarity demo in Newcastle. Lots of young people. There are many many more of us!!!

A trans woman wrote to Wetherspoons to ask which toilets they're meant to use. Wetherspoons replied acknowledging the Supreme Court's verdict...and that trans customers can use whichever loos they want to but to please lock the cubicle door. Labour now being outflanked on the left by Wetherspoons.

Lovely few days in Manchester for @britsoci.bsky.social annual conference. #britsoc25 Enjoyed presenting prizes to Claire Alexander & Billy Holzberg 🏆 Many thanks to @unsocialtheory.bsky.social, @jkom.bsky.social & @alinecourtois.bsky.social for taking part in my symposium on the future of HE