🚨Another publication dropped🚨 For a special issue on Critical Camp Studies in the journal Population, Space and Place I have written the afterword entitled “Epilogue: Towards an Abolitionist Camp Studies”. It’s open access, please check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

📢 Call for abstracts! 📢 'Accessing the Carceral Continuum: Success, Denial and Negotiation' at the RGS-IBG AC2026! Please send abstracts of up to 250 words to Renzo Szkwarok ([email protected]) and myself ([email protected]) by Friday 13th February 2026!

Please to see the pre-print of my graphic article has had has nearly 2,000 unique views. 🐧 It’s out now in print, vol 33 issue 2, and remains open access onine! @tandfresearch.bsky.social @geogdurham.bsky.social @durhamuniversity.bsky.social

📢 Call for abstracts! 📢 'Accessing the Carceral Continuum: Success, Denial and Negotiation' at the RGS-IBG AC2026! Please send abstracts of up to 250 words to Renzo Szkwarok ([email protected]) and myself ([email protected]) by Friday 13th February 2026!

20.11.2025

One thing I love about @prismreports.org is that they work so closely with incarcerated writers, and surface things I had never thought about before. This piece on how extended incarceration is a violation of reproductive rights by functionally serving as involuntary sterilization is fantastic.

I will be speaking alongside @jaytoddgla.bsky.social, Ed Kiely & @amkanngieser.bsky.social on this panel: ‘A Sense of the Possible: Trans Geographies in Dystopian Times’, 13 Nov 2025, 12:00-1:30 GMT Sign up for the Zoom link here: rgs.org/events/upcoming-events/trans-geographies-in-dystopian-times

Today I co-hosted @geogdurham.bsky.social’s first event for the newly founded Queer and Trans Thematic Group. We shared questions, insights and potential opportunities for using queer and trans theorising within our own research and produced some wonderful collaborative mind maps (as shown below)!

Really enjoyed working on this with current PGR - Liv Robinson. We reflect on the archival encounter, with specific comments around industrial violence and working with troubling material: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A huge thank you to the wonderful people at Metropolis for this award! I was so honoured & grateful opportunity in Seoul to focus attention on the global urban sanitation crisis. Thank you to @versobooks.bsky.social for nominating the book, & to Pattis. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

I'm so grateful to @spaceandpolity.bsky.social for coordinating a book review forum on Critical Geographies of Resistance. Thank you so much to Malene Jacobsen, Nicole Printy Currie and Bridget Shaffrey @bshaffrey.bsky.social for your thoughtful pieces. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#OpenAccess in Area: 'Networks of securitisation in the academy: The role of friendship, solidarity and radical geographies' by @shereenfdz.bsky.social This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'. doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

looking through riot grrrl zines to prep for my zine making workshop and found this gem

Being tourists in Roma 🇮🇹

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

It shouldn't need saying that 'military and industrial sites' are not, and never have been, 'more appropriate sites' for asylum seekers. The record of such carceral accommodation is nothing but spectacles of harm designed to appease a desire to punish refugees. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Really happy to see this out "Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK"

My book is published! It’s a critical take on how emotions shape conflicts about LGBT rights and repair in equality law, gender recognition, bans on conversion practices, and sex education in schools. You can download it free via @edinburghup.bsky.social: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...

One cancelled train later…I’m finally en route to Birmingham for the RGS AC2025 !

And that’s a wrap! My heart is very full by how caring, gentle and connected our group was able to become over 3 short days. Thanks to everyone for co-creating this event with us! I hope that this network of collegiality, care and consideration can serve us into the future too 💛

Queer writing retreat (day one) ✅

Talking to @prisonculture.bsky.social about her idea that hope is a discipline. How do we practice that discipline? From Ep 5 of my new podcast, which you can listen to here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m... Please subscribe and review--it helps others find us.

Picked up the mug I decorated! 🕺

My trip to Portugal was a nice break away from thinking and writing about carceral atmospheres.. except when navigating the security apparatus of the airport…

Faro!

Lisbon!

Back in January I had the honour of discussing Aslı Zengin’s powerful and generous book ‘Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World’. @geogdurham.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social I’ve now published a summary of my comments: doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2025.2531713

A short piece from me looking at the politics of 'asylum hotels' in Britain and the challenges for government in finding alternatives @geogdurham.bsky.social

We are lucky to have Paula Harriott as one our keynote speakers at our workshop on 26 August at University of Birmingham. Paula's work exemplifies the power of lived experience and her recent books show how understudied and underappreciated women's leadership, in particular, can be.

I am honoured to be a finalist in the DCAD (Durham Centre for Academic Development) 2025 poster competition! My entry outlines the aims and intentions for my PhD research, grounding the importance of research surrounding queer experiences of prison spaces.

Some fabulous presentations last week at our postgraduate research conference, great learning more about the exciting & cutting edge research being undertaken in human & physical geography by our community of postgraduates. Find out more about postgraduate study in our Dept here tinyurl.com/48kdnbyn

Congratulations to Shivona Chellakootty who is the winner of our 2025 undergraduate photo competition for this image titled 'Canal co-habitants'. All the 2025 entries and their accompanying captions are available on our website here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Join us at the @carceralgeography.bsky.social 'Creating in Confinement' workshop at Birmingham University! We will examine how creative practice and research fosters new knowledge in carceral settings. Follow the link to learn how to register: carceralgeographies.co.uk/creating-in-...

New Online 1st Commentary “Non-reformist reforms towards abolition” by Carissa Honeywell doi.org/10.1177/2043...

The Politics of Feeling with @benandersongeog.bsky.social comes out the 1st of July! So excited for readers and grateful for the lovely blurbs from Will Davies, @jemgilbert.bsky.social and @carolynpedwell.bsky.social

LAPD when they think no one’s looking

Reading up on our keynote speakers' amazing work ahead of the @carceralgeography.bsky.social workshop in August. Very inspired by Maria Adams' Doing Porridge project, which produced this cookbook. Can't wait to learn more: www.waterstones.com/book/beyond-...

Started engaging with ‘male’ gym oriented TikTok content and suddenly my algorithm is showing me misogynistic posts…

Our first post is an invitation! Join is to explore creative methods in carceral geography with these amazing people. Register here: events.humanitix.com/cgwg-worksho...

The Carceral Geography Working Group (CGWG) are honoring the work of our international network at our August "Creating in Confinement" workshop. If you have published/edited a book, article, or creative work over the last academic year, let us know by sumbitting sugestions using the link below!

Please sign this petition r.e. redundancies at Newcastle University: chng.it/Z7gRGZwNWx

Today we hosted a 'creative methods' workshop with Durham’s 2025 Sir William Luce Fellow, Mariasole Pepa, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Padova. This was a great space to share creative pieces and our thoughts about using creative methods when studying sensitive topics.

Mahmoud Khalil’s letter from detention to his newborn son: “Deen, my heart aches that I could not hold you in my arms and hear your first cry, that I could not unfurl your clenched fists or change your first diaper. I am sorry that I was not there to hold your mother’s hand […].” Heartbreaking.

Spent yesterday afternoon scouring the Baltic’s zine library. Some fantastic pieces and great inspiration for my work!

Happening today @ 1600-1700, 'Climate Mobilities and Role of Borders and Bordering' with speaker Professor Ingrid Boas (Wageningen University), all welcome. Registration required using the QR code

533 geographers worldwide call for action on transphobic developments in the UK, its Supreme Court, and the EHRC - out now with intro in @antipodeonline.bsky.social. Do share & show how academic geographers stand united & ready to defend trans liberation antipodeonline.org/2025/05/06/5...

Hell yeah