What a day for AI resistance resources! 1) The AI Resist List from @karenhao.bsky.social and colleagues at DAIR at airesistlist.org 2) The Luddite Lab from @alexhanna.bsky.social and colleagues at DAIR at labor.dair-institute.org

With the EHRC guidance looming. I just want to remind people that any actions, protests, letter writing campaigns that we hear will be organised will be published on this website: whatthetrans.com/compilation-...

New post: LABOUR'S SECTION 28 IS HERE - ACT NOW. I explain how the Labour government's proposed revisions to the guidance on "keeping children in education" are designed to erase trans children in England. But it's not a done deal - there is plenty we can do to oppose this.

Huge thanks to @thecanaryuk.bsky.social for covering our call to allies to complete the Government's 'earned settlement' consultation. Find out more and how you can challenge these cruel new proposals: www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

In light of the Levy Review potentially giving transphobes oversight of medical research on trans healthcare, Trans Safety Network recommend English trans people OPT OUT of their healthcare data being used in research. Information on how to do this can be found in the quoted post and thread.

What forms of inclusion and exclusion does neurodiversity perform as a concept, field, and movement? How may lines of queer, trans, crip, decolonial, posthumanist, or Mad thinking shake up and overspill the conventional boundaries of neurodiversity? Please join us for this important discussion! 🔥

Latin American Plays in Translation is out in the world today! This anthology, which I edited, contains six incredible plays translated into English, alongside an introduction by original event curator Malú Ansaldo and stunning cover art by Soma Difusa

The message on IG from Alice (posted by her friend Sandy Ho). As always, Alice blazes a path for the rest of us, fearlessly & with humor: "I'm honored to be your ancestor & believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all."

I have been waiting for Lizzie to post this so I can tell them publicly how proud I am of them (and Robin) for this article. It's a landmark contribution to Mad and crip studies, disability and time studies, and UKHE analysis. More than that, it's a very personal exploration of failure and feeling.

Published yesterday with The Sociological Review: 'Research failure, crip temporalities and bipolar time in UK higher education' I'm honoured to be co-author of this article with wonderful first author @lizziereed.bsky.social ☺️ Available to read here, open access: doi.org/10.1177/0038...

Interception of the #GlobalSumudFlotilla is likely tonight. 📍 Join us TOMORROW at Parliament Square ⏰ 5:30pm mobilising | 6pm speakers We demand: - End the siege on Gaza - Release flotilla hostages - End arms sales to Israel - Decolonise Palestine #FreePalestine

Global Sumud Flotilla is live as Israel threatens to stop them from breaking the starvation siege of Gaza. A reminder that they are not entering Israeli waters, but Palestinian waters. Israel intends to violate international law once again. www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...

Apropos of nothing, here's a free pdf copy of my book Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement. It focuses on #LosAngeles direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

I made a new zine! It's full of advice on how allies can work alongside trans people to take action in the current moment, lovingly cut-and-pasted over the words of my enemies. Plus lots of nice pictures and memes. Available as a free PDF! Read online or print your own copy! Share with everyone!

We can finally announce our full schedule for Intersections of Sociology with Crip Theory and Critical Disability Studies and Mad Studies Symposium! 11th June, Hybrid, Free. #MadCrip2025

We are hosting a free one-day event for PGR researchers interested in Sociology, Crip Theory, Critical Disability Studies and Mad Studies. Join us online or in person at the University of Southampton on 11th June. Ticket link here: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

“Palestine: A Sociological Issue is a way to reflect on the role of sociology in times of genocidal violence & settler colonialism" @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social All the articles in the special section are free to access here journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOR/73/2/

Compilation of Protests Against the Supreme Court whatthetrans.com/compilation-...

Okay. Not-a-lawyer-butt. This to me is the tell. Women's oppression defined explicitly as a "shared disadvantage" resulting from "shared biology". These are steps to formalize womanhood as a reproductive role, synonymizing it with certain features of anatomy that are "naturally" disadvantaged.

It is now even more important to foster #MutualAid in our communities. The lovely people at Shareable have put together this excellent series of 4 online learning sessions, primarily for those starting out on this journey. See also their other wonderful resources. www.shareable.net/mutual-aid-1...

🧵 While Gaza is being destroyed, Israel’s parliament is quietly advancing apartheid laws against Palestinians — both inside Israel and across occupied Palestine. Here’s what they just did:

Yesterday was wonderful: the UoS PGR LGBTQIA+ network spent a morning making mini-zines with @megenjm.bsky.social, amidst Queering Connections: Glitchy Kinship at the Winchester Gallery (created and curated by the excellent @lizziereed.bsky.social and @miloustella.bsky.social).

Very well done to first author @robinskyer.bsky.social on publication of this article. With @silkeroth.bsky.social, we argue that mutual aid can be prefigurative beyond anarchist thought and praxis. Read it open access here: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #Sociology #AcademicSky

Planning our Mad / Crip / Critical disability conference for April. Exciting stuff 💪 #AutRes #Mad #Crip

With an excellent contribution by @obscureottomanist.bsky.social 💜

Join us at the Winchester Gallery from 5pm on Thursday 30th January for the opening of Queering Connections: Glitchy Kinship. We've also got an 'In Conversation' with me (curator) and Milou (artist) on Thurs 6th Feb at 5pm. @unisouthampton.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social

I know everyone is already very bored of examples of google AI lying and making stuff up but I just made the mistake of doing a work-related google of "Harry Benjamin Syndrome" (a non-diagnosis made up by transitioned women opposed to trans language in the early 2000s) and HO BOY

What a dream of a CFP @ndhumanities.bsky.social! ndhumanities.com/2024/12/17/c...

#BIPOC voices are often missing from autistic spaces, so here is a BIPOC starter pack! 😊 go.bsky.app/TtXfpAt #racialequality #antiracism The image of autism as “only white boys” leads to underdiagnosis, discrimination & isolation for many Our autistic community is much more diverse than that! ❤️

In winter through early spring, you can sometimes find unspoiled, still-bright groundcherries sitting in the latticed remnants of their husks, like hearts suspended in paper ribcages

call for papers Sociology in the Times of Genocide @sociologicalreview.bsky.social thesociologicalreview.org/announcement... #sociologysky #conteniousky

New review of "Spaces on the Spectrum" (@columbiaup.bsky.social) by Robin Skyer in Soc Forum! "Drawing upon a rich dataset of interviews and ethnographic observations, Tan's empirical writing is compassionate but refuses to shy away from painful realities." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Israeli airstrikes have unleashed devastating attacks across Gaza, with 34 bombings in the past 24 hours alone, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office. At least 71 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed so far in 2025.

My review of TJ Billard's 'Voices for Transgender Equality: Making Change in the Networked Public Sphere' has been published in Sage Journals Sociology. Link below! @billard.bsky.social

How can teachers be "clear that gender ideology is contested" when no bastard knows what "gender ideology" even means? Great to hear section 28 is the model for future harm. Good job guys.

Global Voices Theatre are collaborating with Botswana-born artivist Kat Kai Kol-Kes, to bring you QUEER AND DECOLONIAL ARCHIVES: a queer history walking tour of Whitechapel & writing workshop. Sunday 24 March, London. Pay What You Can. Tickets and info: www.ticketsource.co.uk/global-voice...

"What happens when trans* people seek to distance themselves from biomedical and state institutions, and find self-supporting solutions?" @robinskyer.bsky.social reviews Care Without Pathology: How Trans- Health Activists Are Changing Medicine by Christoph Hanssmann wp.me/p2MwSQ-h6o

Our article, "Mapping lesbians’ everyday community-making in a small city: (In)visibility, belonging and safety" is online first. The perfect read for the last day of term? I really couldn't say. #Sociology #AcademicSky 🌈🎓

Happy to share my review of "The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet" by Avery Dame-Griff, published in Cultural Sociology. 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Reclaim Croydon and AWS, part of Autonomous Shelter Network, run mutual aid projects throughout winter in London. Housing, food, warmth, books, coffee, community: all available. Donations also welcome, visit their Instagram page for further details.

Standard response email to my MP Dear Mr Lammy Thank you for sending me lines of party political rhetoric with regards to [insert issue]. In your previous email, you include a lot of emotive language but fail to outline any decisive actions. [Point out gaping holes in Mr Lammy's arguments]