I encourage friends, colleagues and followers to support trans youth at a time when moments for connection and belonging are so cruelly being stripped away from them: www.change.org/p/allow-tran...

Heartbreaking news coming from #girlguiding today as they seek to employ an entirely unworkable definition of what constitutes a 'girl'. Ironic really that it is positioned as an 'equality and diversity' statement given that they are seeking to diminish both. www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

Went to the pub last night and *none* of my friends had heard of @halfmoonjoe.com so this is PSA that if you’re not watching him play video games then get on it he’s literally a dream and a gift.

Not the same Jimmy Carr that’s taking Saudi blood money?

Celebrity Traitors just out here showing us the extent of internalised racism.

The new Aussie critique of the Cass Review does not pull its punches about its failures, & makes the point that "gender-critical beliefs" should be declared. Since transphobes have made so much of having these protected by law, they should be required to declare them. archive.is/AqUGz#select...

Deeply ironic that Kimmel's newest book should be published by 'ethics' international press.

Happy Monday to UK academics politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...

Today I changed my foundation year lesson plan on The Frankfurt School at the last minute to incorporate discussion about how we might use critical theory to understand Labubus and let me tell you, the future isn’t all broken, critical theory is still possible.

Come work at @dukegsfs.bsky.social: postdoc ad is live. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30734

I love copyeditors because they make my work look nice but I also deeply resent their smug command of English grammar.

Let's be clear. The proposal to deport hundreds of thousands of people born in Britain to parents legally resident in Britain, just because they are black or brown, is not 'right populism'. It's the cornerstone policy of the 1970s National Front.

Not me thinking I could do anything other student oriented work in the first week of the semester.

All power to Melissa McCoul and colleagues.

My dear pal Jo Beckett-King has just published her first YA/children’s (8-12) novel called The House of Found Objects. It’s a mystery with two smart girls and has lots of puzzles - order in to your local libraries! (Jo is refreshingly offline and would loathe to blow her own trumpet so allow me!)

Here we go…

Birth rate is in decline and nationalism is on the rise - strap in ladies, we’re in for a rough ride.

Had a great time hearing students from Tohoku University present their learning of EDI and reflecting on how this applies to the Japanese context - all in the beautiful space offered by @sainsbury-institute.org

“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...

As Maya Angelou reminds us: “when people show you who they are, believe them”

If an Israeli - or British or American etc - woman who was eight months pregnant was shot dead by any other military, the whole world would know her name. Her name was Sondos Jamal Muhammad Shalabi. She was 23.

We NEED professional creatives - from architects to animators; performers to publishers; game designers to gallerists, & everything in between, to mentor a bright, ambitious young person in 2026. Become an Arts Emergency mentor today 👉 www.arts-emergency.org/get-involved...

What really is there left to say?

Today is Samudaripen (Romani Holocaust) Remembrance Day. Today we remember and honour all the Roma and Sinti who perished targeted by the Nazis. Never forgotten.

UK university staff: keep signing!

If you do research in #girlhood studies then I have written an Oxford Bibliographies entry that will likely be of use! 93 entries sorted into 11 sub-fields, each subsection has its own overview of the field and each individual entry has an overview of the work's intervention doi.org/10.1093/obo/...

I’m reading Federici’s Caliban and the Witch and really feel our contemporary global situation is just another series of dominoes of those early mechanisms of capitalism, enclosure, and primitive accumulation. A nasty nasty chain reaction across history.

We're starting to release the video recordings of our keynote speakers from the FGEN Conference held at Bush House on the 21st June. The first of these is Jolyon Maugham - Director Good Law Project. Now available on our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@feministgenderequalitynetwork

Since establishing the US/Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, not a day has passed that civilians were not murdered trying to get aid. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

I can’t see how any #Wimbledon final this year will be able to compare with this semi-final between Anisimova and Sabalenka

Eating half a banana at my desk and putting the other half down as if I've just played two sets of tennis.

At the Joyce Morris Early Years Literacies conference reflecting on how different contemporary childhoods are from our own. Marvelling at how first words are now often “Google” or “Alexia” and then wondering if they’re actually that different from my “Bruce Willis” and “Cybill Sheperd”

Meme for today... Chapeau: Del Volcano

Preach

Do not engage with anti human rights campaigners in any way.

Last week on The Creep Dive they distilled the Tattle case down, essentially, to the failure of capitalism and you best believe I whooped.

Brilliant talk from Lata Narayanaswamy at the #GenderAndDevelopment2025 conference, charting the cooption of rights and the “defence of women” as a wider globally colonial project to produce the category of woman that produces much deeper systems of oppression.

Today, more starving Palestinians were lured into “aid distribution sites”. They went in hope that they might find a bag of flour. They were gunned down and murdered instead. What utter inhumanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

“This decision demonstrates that trade unions and others can stand up for trans rights and trans inclusivity, and our union is committed to continuing to promote a more equal and safe world for all people regardless of their gender identity" www.ucu.org.uk/article/1404...

Coco Gauff, what a queen.

A few weeks ago we unexpectedly lost Peter Handley, a wonderful colleague of ours at UEA and I wanted to remember him here. Peter was a fantastic disability studies scholar in the field of political science - he took a focus on Australia. But more than that he was a genuinely nice guy...

Amidst the threats of redundancy, attacks on the sector, attacks on our disciplines of study, providing support for students in crisis, the hamster wheel of increased admin, how does anyone have time for research? I'm in survival mode and can't even retreat to the world, it's on fire.

I’m not watching Eurovision. I didn’t watch it last year. It’s a shame because I usually enjoy the camp and ridiculousness of it all. 🌈 I can’t. I can’t sit and watch a country, who aren’t even European, take part whilst ethnically cleansing an entire nation. “United by Music”? Bullshit.

Last day on the picket today (for now), trying everything we can to hold strong and save the jobs of invaluable colleagues at risk - there are other ways to make the savings, this case has been firmly made to management by the branch - moving forward is wanton cruelty.

At this precise moment, scores of humanities colleagues at UEA face an unimaginable process to see if they will be facing compulsory redundancy. An awful stain on @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social, and its management in particular.

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📣Pushing through with compulsory redundancies is not in the moral, strategic or financial interest of UEA. 🚩Join us on the picketline, tomorrow from 8am, as we continue to make the case for a brighter future for our university. #SaveUEA

www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/what-we-do/c... Grim reading - government inaction on the sector's failed funding model is drastically reducing student choice and impoverishing our research capacity. We can't cut ourselves into excellence. Real investment is needed now