Sam Caslin
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Historian at the Uni of Liverpool. They/she. π³οΈββ§οΈπ
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Fantastic funded PhD opportunity here in the School of Humanities at Reading - please share widely!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Young Refugees to Britain in the early Twentieth Century at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Young Refugees to Britain in the early Twentieth Century at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/young-refugees-to-britain-in-the-early-twentieth-century/?p194690
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Zack Polanski
6 days ago
A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful. Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.
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Alejandra Caraballo
20 days ago
If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.
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π Dr Ross Brooks
20 days ago
My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! π UK:
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
@yalebooks.bsky.social
π³οΈβπππ΅ US:
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
@yalepress.bsky.social
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Charlotte Lydia Riley
21 days ago
my dad didnβt go to university and he was extremely happy to pay taxes for his four children to do so; and, indeed, for the doctors who treated him at Addenbrookes to have gone to university as well.
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Grumpelstiltskin
23 days ago
The Claudia Wickerman (1973)
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Natalia Cecire
23 days ago
There is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree
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David Allsopp
23 days ago
If you feel "hamstrung" by human rights laws and by health and safety laws - you are the person those laws were designed to protect us against. You need to be obstructed by those laws. Also, she's lying.
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Liam Thorp
26 days ago
Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
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James Fallows
26 days ago
From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
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π Dr Ross Brooks
28 days ago
π€© This is how it's done, folks! 'A lesbian couple at the centre of their community and a pair of brothers said to have been among the first people to medically transition are among the people whose stories are told in the Queer Norfolk archive.' π³οΈβπππ³οΈββ§οΈπποΈ
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Archive reveals hidden stories of Queer Norfolk
Figures such as Barbara Ross and Anna Gurney were ahead of their time, says archivist Adam Baker.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c301d1np9jjo
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Ashleeee ππͺ
28 days ago
Iβve seen drafts of this guidance several times before, but Iβve only just come across it in its published leaflet form.
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Adam Payne
about 1 month ago
Sky's Rob Powell asks Nigel Farage that, given Robert Jenrick is the 7th person to have served in Boris Johnson's government to defect to Reform, how can his party be "a new, reforming force" when it is "bringing in so many people who caused the mess that you're trying to clean up"
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Dr Sam Hirst
about 1 month ago
I'm running a popular romance course at the University of Liverpool... but only if enough people sign up! Come and join us!
www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...
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A great 'how not to approach data' example for anyone teaching research methods!
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Max Kennerly
about 1 month ago
Yesterday I saw MAGA freaks arguing that liberal women are on SSRIs and hallucinating so they're attacking ICE agents. In my naΓ―vetΓ©, I thought "that's the most delusional explanation I'll see for awhile" just for this to come sliding in less than 24 hours later. These people's brains are gone.
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BeijingPalmer
about 1 month ago
good that they got coverage away from the politics team (chronic bothsiders) and to visual investigations (consistently excellent)
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Jack Mirkinson
about 1 month ago
the nyt says that no version of events in minneapolis can be "verified independently." but that's not true! there are multiple videos proving that the ICE version of events is a total lie. maybe the nyt can, y'know, watch one of them?
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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Sarah Churchwell
2 months ago
Also we've fetishized "debateβ in these spaces as some kind of civic good, when what matters is competence, trust, shared purpose. Medicine, engineering, boardrooms arenβt organized around debate or requirements of false balance. We've poisoned public discourse by insisting it be adversarial.
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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.
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Samantha :)
2 months ago
Hello! Iβm 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 youβre interested and would like more information, please contact me. Thank you, and feel free to share this with your networks!
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Trans+ History Week
3 months ago
ποΈ Mark your calendars for Trans+ History Week 2026 04β10 May Get the history lesson you never had, find our whatβs in store, early-bird ticket alerts and a history article every day of Trans+ History Week with
@wearequeeraf.com
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www.wearequeeraf.com/transhistory...
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Sabine Volk
3 months ago
π£ New publication! The second article of my postdoc project on the far right and anti-gender mobilization is now out
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It examines antifeminism in far-right party politics through the case of AfD Key findings: Antifeminism β Radicalization β
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What an amazing sci-fi archive! πππ¦
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Emily Hamilton
3 months ago
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)
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Me: *Tells a joke that gets a slight chuckle from a room full of students* Also me: Yeah, I could do stand up comedy.
3 months ago
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This is a gorgeous history of dogs - and a perfect present for dog lovers!
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The Victorian Hand
4 months ago
This monthβs 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...
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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier
5 months ago
Tfw when a student cites people I know
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Emily Brand
5 months ago
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 π
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Anna Cusack
5 months ago
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!
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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.
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0952695120903954
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Ian McKellar
5 months ago
Trump has strong opinions on your fanfic.
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Feminist Legal Studies
5 months ago
π£π³οΈββ§οΈ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, βFeminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.β The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.
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Julia Laite
5 months ago
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...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
5 months ago
This is class solidarity. In case youβre at all confused.
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Don Moynihan
5 months ago
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.
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Dan Davies
5 months ago
Dear me, "students need to be exposed to challenging beliefs" season is over already
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Professor Peter Matthews
6 months ago
This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?
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This is a timely article on the broader significance of trans-exclusionary writers for contemporary anti-trans politics.
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6 months ago
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People would have said The Thick of It had jumped the shark if they had Peter Mannion doing a Robert Palmer-style number.
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punkacademic
6 months ago
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'.
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Sarah has a suggestion
6 months ago
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)
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Sam Rutherford (he/him)
6 months ago
I reviewed Eli Erlick's new book Before Gender for
@womenshistoryrev.bsky.social
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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!
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Before Gender: Lost stories from trans history 1850β1950
Published in Women's History Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09612025.2025.2549861
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Morgan M Page
6 months ago
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, itβs usually transmasculine ppl. The UK is the only country that charges trans people for this, and itβs difficult to prove innocence.
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Evan
6 months ago
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