new issue of Mediations, "Total Sexual Difference" and damn mediationsjournal.org/toc/volume-3...

New article (open access!!) online now with Contemporary British History www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ny publikation!!! Jag medverkar med ett kapitel i antologin ”Antifascistisk kritik”! Mitt bidrag handlar om ”den antifascistiska blicken” eller hur antifascistister har visuellt tolkat fascismen och antifascismen i Sverige och Europa under mellankrigstiden:

Juliet Jacques on Labour's Section 28: "Civil disobedience and trans organisation will flush this contemptible code down the toilet of history, and we can push for a full inquiry into how the EHRC became captured by transphobic fanatics and ask how we can safeguard such bodies [...] in future."

[two people with the same opinions] strange bedfellows

The new issue of @jhistsex.bsky.social is an embarrassment of riches!! So excited to read all these articles! muse.jhu.edu/issue/56922

Can't believe THIS has been labelled as "intolerant".

This legislation is most going to affect us in terms of the cultural climate, in emboldening institutions and bad actors itching for an excuse to justify their litigious urges and bigotry. But we still have friends, family, allies, advocates, and each other. Put that in your fucking paper.

I don't really share many of the views here on liberal democracy, but this amounts to a very useful summary of how the UK's anti-trans movement has worked in the past decade, and how it works towards authoritarian & reactionary outcomes.

I lied, because “it is a stereotype that gender critical people are nasty bastards” is actually written into this code and sorry you can’t legislate to make people like you

You could print these out and put them in places you know.

Deviants and Trailblazers is now out! 🎉 If you're looking for a long-form, joined-up history of trans activism and trans rights in the UK going all the way back to the 1940s, this is it! D&T covers many events, groups, and people never before chronicled. www.plutobooks.com/product/devi...

Ny rapport fra det store europeiske forskningsprosjektet #RESIST peker på hvordan retorikk + framstillinger av LHBTQI+ stadig hardner til. Dette er dessverre i tråd med vår forskningskronikk i fjor – behovet for kunnskapsbasert, ansvarlig offentlighet er akutt. Rapport: zenodo.org/records/1850...

New research on the sheer shamelessness of NS propagandist Leni Riefenstahl, who continued to earn thick coin from her films in the postwar period. www.cargo-film.de/heft/69/essa...

Wes Streeting has resigned to take the job he was born to do…regional sales manager for Moss Bros

I wish nothing but the worst for Wes Streeting in all his future endeavours.

I spoke to the historian @ajawoods.bsky.social about their new book, The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy, for @vashtimedia.bsky.social. www.vashtimedia.com/the-go-to-co...

Surprising amount of decolonial scholarship out there that goes "unlike the regressive binarist West, this non-Western culture celebrates women <3 (as mothers. moms. life givers a.k.a babymakers. exclusively. don't ask what happens to women who don't want kids. those don't exist. not a thing.)"

Happy make Labour cry day for all those who celebrate.

Unser Buch "Postpandemischer Populismus" ist seit wenigen Tagen als Taschenbuch oder OA verfügbar. ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

For anyone interested in the anti-trans movement in the UK, here's a thread of all my investigative work on the topic. 🧵 Starting with Bayswater Part 1: How the Tories let abusive anti-trans parents dictate education policy www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024...

The dreadful OFS has had its terrible decision regarding "gender critical" reactionary Kathleen Stock quashed by the High Court. Will have more thoughts once I have read the judgment.

📣 New Voices returns with a blog from Clément Ferrier, @clementferrier.bsky.social Clément's blog explores Rexism and the reworking of fascism in interwar Belgium. www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

⏳ Still time to apply! Our Research Bursary (£500) is open to master’s students, doctoral researchers, ECRs, and independent historians working on women’s and gender history (especially Scottish themes). 🗓 Deadline: 31 May 2026 Details here 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

New book review published advance access by @jich.bsky.social Benjamin Harris reviews 'The Colonial Way of War: Violence and Colonial Warfare in the British, German, and Dutch Empires c.1890-1914' by @tommenger.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sonia Corrêa’s article “The Escalation of Essentialist Feminism in Times of the Ultra-Right in Brazil” unpacks a 2023-2024 study on Brazil’s anti-gender politics, the swell of attacks on trans rights & the role of essentialist feminism www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

New Special Issue on "Masculinity, masculinist politics, and political extremism" in Journal of Gender Studies, edited by C-REX theme leader @katrif.bsky.social and colleagues. Check it out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Today is the one-year anniversary of the publication of my book, Teaching Gender! It's been fab to hear from people who have read, & taught, it in the last year. If you have institutional access, you can read it here: academic.oup.com/book/59787 - or ask your library to acquire a copy!

@michellelkahn.bsky.social chose Annalisa Martin's 'Prostitution as Profession', which "compellingly examines commercial sex as an unrecognized form of labour... [making] an important case for the need to consider prostitution as a legitimate profession". [3/7] tinyurl.com/yc6btkss

Call for abstracts, special issue of Kvinder, Køn & Forskning / Women, Gender & Research, “The Lesbian Issue” tidsskrift.dk/KKF/announce...

I am OK with copy-editors Americanising my beautiful manuscript text.

Idaho has the most punitive anti-trans bathroom ban in the country, with up to five years in prison for a second offense. I spoke to the folks pushing back—over what just a few years ago led to calls for boycotts, the state legislature shamed on the national stage—on how they fight.

Rechtsextreme Ideologie kommt heute als „Tradwife“-Ästhetik, nachhaltiger Lifestyle oder ironisches Meme daher. Über diese kulturelle Tarnung, ihre Funktion & ihre Wirkung spricht @maik.machine-vs-rage.net mit Elke Gaugele & @gretajasser.bsky.social. Infos: www.idz-jena.de/vadet/hip-co...

NEW ISSUE IS NOW OUT! 📄 Read our latest issue, "Female Humanitarian Aid in Europe During the Greater War (1912-1925)" out now on Project Muse. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56459

TERF-miljøet utvikler seg omtrent akkurat som forventet, del 22: Glimrende kartlegging av TERF-bevegelsen signert @annadahlqvist.bsky.social. Eneste svakhet er at alliansen mellom radikalfeminister og kristenhøyre fremstilles som noe uventet. Det er tvert 100% forventet. www.ottar.se/svenska-femi...

Special themed section of @signsjournal.org on transnational anti-gender politics and resistance, edited by Clare Hemmings and @sumimadhok.bsky.social out now! Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/signs/cu...

I wanted to know the backstory of the executive order that defined "man" and "woman"—the foundation for the Trump admin's targeting of trans people. So I took a deep dive into the conservative strategy & distorted feminism behind it. And I talked to the author. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New online portal with documents on the post 1945 German far right. radikale-rechte.de

The story has been picked up by mainstream press. Great work by @transactualuk.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

- Since the pandemic, anti‑trans mobilization has become one of the sharpest weapons of the far right - and, as the UK shows, its damage extends far beyond the far right. New blog post by former C-REX postdoc @celestinekunkeler.bsky.social #TransRights #UKPolitics www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

I wrote down some preliminary thoughts on how to understand the place of anti-trans ideology in far right as well as left-wing and liberal politics. This form of reaction is fundamental to the right, but its potential is much broader, as the UK demonstrates.

While Grok faces investigations for generating sexualized AI images, including of children, Alliance Defending Freedom International is backing Elon Musk in X’s fight against EU regulation. A group that brands itself as pro family is defending a platform under scrutiny for AI driven exploitation.

these laws are a political project by which the state attempts to assume the power to decide sex and gender, power it does not have—and power it will express “incorrectly” because that’s power, too

Call for papers open until March 15, 2026.

I was at the count in Gorton and Denton last night and we all saw Matt Goodwin eat ballot papers. His girlfriend and team begged him to stop but he kept stuffing it into his mouth and making grunting sounds like the Cookie Monster

*deep breath* a hahah ahHahahahahHAhahahhahhhaaaaaaaaaheeheeeeee heehehe

MATTHEW BADLOSS IS IT

🟥 Red Lines 🟥 "Sexual violence and sexual fear are means by which life, death and living-death are organised to support accumulation" Alison Phipps on The coloniality of sexual violence, based on her forthcoming book reacpol.net/why-red-line...

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.