Also we've fetishized "debate” in these spaces as some kind of civic good, when what matters is competence, trust, shared purpose. Medicine, engineering, boardrooms aren’t organized around debate or requirements of false balance. We've poisoned public discourse by insisting it be adversarial.

Very few women in responses to a post about actors with iconic voices, so: Holly Hunter, Jennifer Tilly, Joey Lauren Adams, Cate Blanchett, Jodie Foster.

Hello! I’m seeking volunteers to be interviewed for my PhD thesis on the cultural significance of the tailored suit within queer communities during the 1970s and 1980s. If you’re interested and would like more information, please contact me. Thank you, and feel free to share this with your networks!

🗓️ Mark your calendars for Trans+ History Week 2026 04–10 May Get the history lesson you never had, find our what’s in store, early-bird ticket alerts and a history article every day of Trans+ History Week with @wearequeeraf.com Sign up www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistory...

📣 New publication! The second article of my postdoc project on the far right and anti-gender mobilization is now out #openaccess in #GermanPolitics doi.org/10.1080/0964... It examines antifeminism in far-right party politics through the case of AfD Key findings: Antifeminism ✅ Radicalization ✅

What an amazing sci-fi archive! 💙💙🟦

Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)

Me: *Tells a joke that gets a slight chuckle from a room full of students* Also me: Yeah, I could do stand up comedy.

This is a gorgeous history of dogs - and a perfect present for dog lovers!

This month’s suitably spooky blog post is from our Research Associate, who has been speaking with the dead in the archives of the Society for Psychical Research! Read here: www.thevictorianhand.uk/gallery/spir...

Tfw when a student cites people I know

Feels a bit early in the day to be posting this, but if I'm spending the morning with 18th-century sex therapist & supposed 'Prince of the Quacks' Dr James Graham then so can you 🍆

If anyone needs a freelance researcher in London (or across the UK), I'm your person! I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!

This week, some of my classes are going to be thinking about @sarahebull.bsky.social's 2021 research on adult entertainment and early sexology. I highly recommend this article to anyone interested in the topic. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Trump has strong opinions on your fanfic.

📣🏳️‍⚧️ 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.

This is, I believe, the first official word from the Government on what happened yesterday in London. Not only inaction in the face of violence and hate, but a celebration of it. I passed through London twice yesterday with my two kids & what Labour seem to be missing is that people aren't just...

This is class solidarity. In case you’re at all confused.

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

Dear me, "students need to be exposed to challenging beliefs" season is over already

This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?

This is a timely article on the broader significance of trans-exclusionary writers for contemporary anti-trans politics.

People would have said The Thick of It had jumped the shark if they had Peter Mannion doing a Robert Palmer-style number.

Starmer's Britain. A place where peaceful protest is criminalised, the right to use a gender-appropriate toilet is prohibited, people persecuting refugees are told they have 'legitimate concerns', and the state backs a genocide. Some legacy that for the 'human rights lawyer'.

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)

I reviewed Eli Erlick's new book Before Gender for @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... This was the smoothest production process of all time and I'm grateful to see a venerable women's history journal making space for trans history!

Trans people have been prosecuted for non-disclosure in the UK since the 90s - but this is the first case I have heard of in which a trans woman is being charged, it’s usually transmasculine ppl. The UK is the only country that charges trans people for this, and it’s difficult to prove innocence.

I recently learned about Russian painter Ivan Aivazosky and I may never recover. I don't think I've ever seen water done like he does it. I don't think I've ever felt an artist loved water as much as I feel he must have. It's so incredible I could vomit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Ai...

My new article on creative assessments, queer pedagogy, and authenticity, drawing on historians like @julialaite.bsky.social, @willpooley.bsky.social, @tricksterprince.bsky.social. Also, huge thanks to @luciejones83.bsky.social and @cathfeely.bsky.social for putting this issue together!

🎶 It's been a long road 🎶 but this sounds cool!

“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...

The Offspring > The Foo Fighters medium.com/the-monthly/...

palestinian self-determination is the inalienable right of the palestinian people and should not be conditional on whether israel do or do not decide to finally abide by some actual rules

SO excited to have my hands on advance copies of Queer Georgians by the brilliant Dr Anthony Delaney. What a beauty! Hugely recommend to anyone interested in the 18th/19th centuries, queer history, social history, British history or the history of love ❤️ Out Sept > uk.bookshop.org/p/books/quee...

I'll take any excuse to post 'My Girl's Pussy' from 1931! www.youtube.com/watch?v=x359...

A story I cut from my book, annoyingly, is when Phil DeFreitas and Devon Malcolm sued Wisden Cricket Monthly in 1995 for describing them and other Black cricketers as not “unequivocal Englishmen”. And they won: Malcolm was awarded damages, DeFreitas settled out of court.

Deadline Extension!! Call for Proposals! Are you a librarian, archivist, historian, or memory worker preserving LGBTQ history? Join us for the 2026 Queer History South Conference! Submit a proposal by visiting invisiblehistory.org/qhs2026.

And see also Adrian’s amazing and important essay in Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain (open access so dig in everyone): www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

The harm of AI is hitting me profoundly tonight, as OUP announces it will be using AI to summarize/check academic articles. It's b/c I've just taught a class where we looked at how ideas, language & culture around an issue changed over time through the gradual & uneven exchange of human ideas. 1/3

My MP (Labour) has, at last, written back to me. My MP informs me in vague terms that trans people are still covered by the Equality Act 2010 and ignores all my questions about what the Supreme Court ruling means for trans people in practice.

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

Weird (apt?) timing but, in the new issue of Contemporary Sociology, I wrote about Judith Butler's latest work and how it highlights the importance of historicising trans feminism. Hugely grateful to Butler for responding to all the reviews of their book. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Since we are back at work in the UK today - it's a GREAT time to email your MP about the Supreme Court ruling and the threats to trans people as a result. I used this helpful guide to write to my MP. You should too. www.translegalproject.org/post/urgent-...

Weird (apt?) timing but, in the new issue of Contemporary Sociology, I wrote about Judith Butler's latest work and how it highlights the importance of historicising trans feminism. Hugely grateful to Butler for responding to all the reviews of their book. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I have written a long email to my MP protesting the way Labour have used the Supreme Court ruling to further marginalise trans people. I cannot vote for the party anymore. Women's rights are not opposed to trans rights. Gender policing will never liberate anyone.

The review @franamery.bsky.social and I wrote about Judith Butler's Who's afraid of gender? is out! While the book is a vital contribution, we warn of the dangers of exceptionalising reactionary politics and ignoring their mainstream roots journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....