@abortionbookclub.bsky.social is back on the 15th! We’re (re)reading The Incendiaries by RO Kwon- sign up & come along for pro-abo chats (& we don’t even require you to have read the book!) www.otherabortionstories.space/2026

Some people spent five years reaching a conclusion that anti-racists have been saying for decades: "an external framework is incapable of overcoming a culture that does not want to change.” Policing is institutionally racist and impossible to reform www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

We have two full bursaries available to Early Career Researchers and PhD students from least developed, low & lower middle-income countries to attend and present in our summer conference in London. Find out more at our conference website. Deadline 20th April centreforwildfires.org/leverhulme-w...

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I love the ALCS. If you’re a UK-based academic, you really should sign up & try get ££ for your writing!

i still can't figure out *why* there has been an uptick. it isn't just telemedicine, it isn't just introduction of medical abortion - there have been more sporadic investigations (not as high-profile) over the years, a steady ticking of numbers.

It’s impossible to convey how important Our Bodies Ourselves was to the generations of women before the internet. Monumental, positive impact for American women.

The American Export of Authoritarianism and Christian Nationalism Worldwide globalextremism.org/reports/proj...

The National Theatre's production of The Importance of Being Earnest (with its first cast, including the irresistible Ncuti Gatwa and the divine Sharon D Clarke) is streaming for free for a week.

I’m really enjoying Dabba Cartel

and what a fantastic team to work with too! Responsive, supportive, and just really all round fab folks to trust your hard gotten qual data with- you know they’ll treat with the care & thoughtfulness it requires!

So ChatGPT tells people to kill themselves, and OpenAI's response is to shift responsibility to unpaid, untrained, non-professional friends and family members. So if you get designated as the "trusted contact," you're doing terrifying unpaid work for this evil company. Shut it all down.

Mind you these workers are specifically Kenyan workers who are made to view and annotate the absolute worst things created by man and machine for extremely low pay and absolutely no support or care from Meta for the trauma they endure every day at work

the funniest misspelling I’ve seen in ages is ‘Dave Patel’ for Dev Patel. 😂😂

I'm co-running a weekly online reading group on trans philosophy. We're now meeting Thursdays, 16:00-17:00 UK time. If you want to be added to the mailing list, please drop me a message :) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

it’s weird, always being some kind of diaspora/linked to lands you’re not in/from. i grew up in Abu Dhabi. i haven’t been back since 2012 & it already wasn’t the town of my childhood & early adulthood then, let alone now. 1/

absolute brass neck of Goodwin, what a charlatan.

Happy to see my piece published in Archive Stories. I talk about how documents and archival practices mediated the formation of political power for the rondas campesinas, a grassroots peasant organisation in the Peruvian Andes archive-stories.com/To-raise-one...

Like most rational and scientific minded people, I take my cues on the healthcare needs of minority groups from the Catholic Church, the Alliance Defending Freedom, and sundry rightwing influencers with a weird fixation on birth rates. I am the New York Times, a serious newspaper.

After 2 years of work, our special issue in @contraceptionjl.bsky.social on "Emergency of FemTech in the SRH Landscape" is out! It includes 14 papers on fertility tracking, contraception, and abortion in the digital age, plus our summary Editorial. A 🧵on what we found; please help us share! 1/8

lol The really question is how much did it cost us all? Too fucking much.

this is an absolutely astonishing feat of independent journalism, top to bottom, and proves that the only way to truly fight billionaires is not being funded by them. just…read the whole thing.

Good to see journalists covering the links between University of Buckingham’s Centre for Heterodox Science and race science networks. It ought to be pretty shocking to see a university openly affiliate with pseudoscience peddlers such as Aporia

anti-abortion groups don't see abortion as a single-issue - they are simultaneously funding & driving anti-trans, anti-LGBTQI, anti-migrant [...] efforts in the UK and transnationally. it isn't just 'what happens in the US', it's also what they've funded in Uganda, Hungary, Mexico, Poland [...] 1/

And here’s why all that Reform being the party of freedom and liberty shtick is bullshit, too…

The US shows that abortion rights can be curtailed without sudden shifts in public sentiment. A small organised political movement can restrict rights without ever winning a majority. Enter Reform UK @thenewworldmag.bsky.social www.thenewworld.co.uk/zoe-grunewal...

The lesson from the US is not that abortion rights were uniquely fragile, or that the public secretly opposed them. It is that rights can disappear even when most people support them ✏️ @zoegrunewald.bsky.social

🚨 You may have seen the news that N Ireland has pulled out of the puberty blocker trial due to a judicial review attempting to halt it. You may not have seen is that the lawsuit is funded by a global anti-abortion Christian Right group. My investigation: goodlawproject.org/from-russia-...

"The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women & girls apparently knew no bounds, whether they actually slept with the women on offer or simply shared Epstein’s fantasies in order to gain influence or funding."

begging writers and journalists and commentators to please find another reference for repro rights dystopia than bloody‘handmaid’s tale

The casteism & classism is so clear in this puerile piece - of course you don’t think you should thank deliveroo drivers or bus drivers or maids. ‘Why would you thank someone for doing their (‘menial’) job’ is caste in action.

any musicians wanting to do an album about global feminist reproductive health stuff

📆 GHI Event: Thursday February 5th at 6:30pm on LSE campus Grief, Joy, and Laughter: Reimagining Abortion Through Creative Activism in Latin America W/ Dr Nayla Vacarezza, @eecoast.bsky.social, @rishie.bsky.social Open and free for all. Register if you are a non-LSE affiliate: bit.ly/3Y2n193

Do NOT use an app to track your hormones

pals, @joestrong.bsky.social & i are bringing our beloved @abortionbookclub.bsky.social back from hiatus! we're meeting every quarter (ish), & chatting abo books. join us! www.otherabortionstories.space/2026

why, have we all magically forgotten how to write emails or edit or use a calculator or apparently create lesson plans (!!!!) or something? this isn’t upskilling anyone, it’s actively *de*skilling

The Trump administration is extending the Global Gag Rule beyond abortion to include “diversity, equity and inclusion” and “gender ideology" - just how broadly this will be interpreted is unknown but it will further expose and heighten violence towards trans & LGTBQI folks globally.

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anyone else have weird explicit/harrass-y e-mails sent to their work e-mail that feels like a sort of social engineering scam but also worried it's something more sinister? (yes, i've reported it to work already...)

how am i ALREADY behind on everything at work? I've only been back for six days.

New Job alert 📣 Qualified #Archivist role at our sister union @bma-library.bsky.social based in #London Closing Date 28 January @araukie.bsky.social careers.bma.org.uk/jobs/job/Arc...

we saw & struggled with it- not only did it miss the political beats, it was very confused about what its message was & what it was attempting to say in this particular political moment. &, I LOVE Springsteen but it just didn’t work here (& like they didn’t understand his music either). Just a mess.

Perhaps (critical) demographers would also like to weigh in, as experts in population studies (!), on the populationism nonsense of Greenwashed?

I’m amazed at how many experts of Venezuelan politics, history, & economics I know.

“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate." ― Edward W. Said

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

@thebodyserve.bsky.social were fantastic and on point in the ‘I said no’ episode- not just on how anti-trans & deeply problematic the stupid Sabalenka/Kyrgios thing is, but ALSO for the deep cut on early tennis twitter & the BS of now big-name tennis ‘journos’. Never forget.

Catching up on Kermode & Mayo, & how does Winslet speak so clearly about how Goodbye June was made… & still think nepotism didn’t play a role? Sure, you can be super talented etc but you still get a break cos of who your mum & dad are & the capital they have. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/k...