So let’s break this down a touch more via the Swedish angle because it has been a thing for years (and I’ll admit it’s a bit annoying to see people notice it only now but hey better late than never I suppose). The exact way this has gotten wielded is psychiatrists pondering statistics aloud

Hey, disability studies people. We need to talk about this: www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/28/n... - because we know where it's come from, right? You know that research behind this has come from people in our field, right?

Genuinely if I had been outflanked on the left by Tim Martin and Wetherspoons and I considered myself to be a left wing politician, I would resign and spend the rest of my career in a cave reflecting on how I let my brain get so rotted by columnists about who shits where

Crip guests in my essay echo @emmas.bsky.social's "There is joy in the ashes of the future-not-to-be, there is pleasure in their discomfort with our joy and our rejection." Also online as a BSL video, with captions & audio description - and an embodied Footnote played by Deaf actor Ciaran Stewart.

Lads, I am very rubbish at posting here, but: I wrote a thing, and it is now out with Feminist Theory. doi.org/10.1177/1464... - it's called The Necessary Pleasures of the Crip Killjoy and it's about thinking with brain fog and discomfort and violence and joy in refusal.

Ending this week in Social Theory with "It Ain't Half Racist Mum" from Stuart Hall (and Box of Broadcasts) - as rounding up Hall's work on TV discourse, encoding/decoding.

And remember, Stock resigned voluntarily, after receiving the full & unconditional backing of the university. Possibly because she thought she was getting a new gig at the University of Grievance, Austin...

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

Magnificently, I have a publication out. Myself, Tamar MacLellan and Erika Hawkes wrote about what an arts approach did for us when talking about trauma in HE. It's in the Journal of Learning Development in HE: doi.org/10.47408/jld...

Oh this is a *really* good point! 🧵

Now taking suggestions for where I left my sunglasses.

Today had one of those seminars which went off track from the beginning, but was nonetheless great. We should have talked about risk as social/cultural. And we sort of did - but we talked about risk vs fear, the orgasm gap, student loans, and crafting.

can Labour please, please just tot up the number of voters with a) more than ten million quid and b) less than ten million quid, and do the fucking maths on what the country would prefer.

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Liz Kendall's speech today laid out plans to cut disability and sickness benefits by billions. ❌ No truly moral choice would leave disabled people without support designed to allow them to lead a dignified life, or facing hardship. 1/4

Today: trying to get my smart meter fixed, organising training, writing seminar. Maybe screaming into the void

Two templates - one for people who are directly affected and one for allies. Please write to your MP and let them know how immoral, counterproductive and devastating- these cuts will be www.inclusionlondon.org.uk/campaigns-an...

The scriptwriters for Doctor Odyssey are trying to make orcas the bad guys and it's not working.

Today's seminar discussed the selfie as cultural product and I am now going to crumble to dust

This is such a vital piece by @davehitchcock.bsky.social on the university funding crisis, which has been a decade in the making. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/education/a-...

I am now *that* person whose pets are busy being absolute clowns while I'm doing a Proper Teams Meeting. Muting myself because SQUONKY TOYS TIME.

We interrupt today's doom scrolling with this, which is very informative

Today I am panic-reading before reading group, meeting a dissertation student, and discussing research and teaching. And preparing for my mum's arrival tomorrow.

Lads, what do you do when you can't procrastinate writing with lecture prep? SEND HELP. I might actually have to write.

Absolutely disgusting. It's ripping support from the most vulnerable. These people are unable to work because they are disabled. They've transformed disability welfare into a work benefit. This "Labour" government deserves to be annihilated. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Doctor Odyssey is back and they've gone in hard on the clichés. Which is just what today requires.

Signs of spring: outside time for old dragons.

Delightful. Vague anxiety for no reason is exactly what I needed today.

So thrilled to say that my new article on the echoes of Section 28 in the moral panic around trans people in the UK is out now, along with the rest of the first issue of @genderandjustice.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1332/3033...

Disability admin

All of my advice to students should come with the disclaimer that I am very bad at following my own advice sometimes.

We've got support from the RGS to make this hybrid (in ways accessible to me!) - new deadline of midnight on the 7th March.

Went for a walk down Tan Y Bwlch, in the sunshine. Hoops enjoyed a paddle in the Ystwyth and the sea.

Being able to hang laundry outside is far more pleasing that it should be

We've got support from the RGS to make this hybrid (in ways accessible to me!) - new deadline of midnight on the 7th March.

Chronic pain clinics have changed a lot since 2014. Not so much in what they can do but the approach today was so very different. I came out feeling *heard*

The real divide between sociology and human geography is whether the theorists are wearing black polonecks or tweed.

THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US. This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Hoops is attempting logic. Walkies is followed by the cat's dinner, which is followed by his dinner, so if he gets me to go outside quicker, his dinner will happen sooner. He is not a smart greyhound.

We've moved the deadline to Monday (3rd March) in recognition that we're not going to start making decisions over the weekend. And also my utter horror at realising March is *next week* and I am wholly unprepared for this fact.

Me: today I am going to Do! things! off my to do list My brain: *magic roundabout theme*

It is truly amazing how no one seems to give a shit in media about how young women around the world are becoming ever more left wing.

My colleages and I are organising a panel at the RGS this summer - please share! CfP - Relentless injustice: trauma, exhaustion and researching zombie problems (or banging your head against a wall) We invite papers that consider the challenges, traumas & exhaustion of conducting research... (1/2)

This is hideous. There's no clarity or transparency, or indeed any attempt to create them. There's no sense of what a university is *for* - or of any care for workers or students. It has my stomach in knots just reading it.

Apparently I have got the one greyhound who doesn't give a fig about rain and would very much like a long walk thank you.

Fucking *finally*. Everything Dyfrig says too, but it's something

Watching Wisting and there's a character called Clifford who is not a big red dog. This is a continuous disappointment

Today I phrased my seminar discussion questions very formally on the slide and then asked the students "is Giddens talking shit here?" because I continue to be a gremlin.

🚨Attention UCU members in HE: we have started an open letter for you to sign in support of a motion we're bringing to the meeting on Weds 19th which calls for a focus on defending jobs, reforming HE, & calling off a national ballot. docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/...

Me, to the foster greyhound: Lady Thortoise does not need investigating! She bites! Foster greyhound: maybe if I sniff her AGAIN she'll be different?