I wrote this post Cancellers on my newsletter last week before reading about Clanchy et al. Sigh. Solidarity to all those positioned as cancellers, esp. women of colour. substack.com/profile/1324...

"A Stunning Rebuke Of Anti-Trans Politics"—Dems Win Elections Nationwide Despite Anti-Trans Ads www.erininthemorning... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Can’t wait to listen 💜

The Complaint Apparatus open.substack.com/pub/feminist...

A huge thank you to @saranahmed.bsky.social for your book tour and kindly signing my book. Oh my word! If you can go, do. Sara’s such a wonderful writer and speaker, and it always feels like the audience cherishes her words and, of course, her. Details of the book and tour here.

Queer joy! Killjoy joy! Glitter & rage on every page! Thanks Sen for such a sparkly conversation ✨✨🪩🪩

Almost 60,000 women have signed this petition by @nionwomen.bsky.social women to say that the transphobes do not speak for them. Meanwhile the Daily Express front-pages seven transphobes, falsely claiming that they “represent women”. If they do not represent you. Please sign. notinourname.org.uk

I think this might be the first time I’ve ever done a public event in Sheffield! Calling all killjoys! Tonight with Erin Maglaque & hosted by Juno Books. www.outsavvy.com/event/29875/...

“One common strategy of mainstream political parties — adopting the same topics and rhetoric as the far-right — often backfires. Instead of reducing their appeal, it can amplify extremist narratives and legitimise their agenda.” We cannot defeat fascism by platforming it and debating on its terms.

so much more discourse about the compliance of Columbia, but the “agreements” of Penn & Brown set a dangerous precedent w relatively little push back, despite the fact that they ended free inquiry by legally mandating binary gender as an intellectual and spatial paradigm for university compliance

@saranahmed.bsky.social also radicalised me!⚠️ Living a feminist life helped me navigate everyday backlash back when I first started learning about feminism, activism & research. Sara's work continues to be as transformative & energising!

Don't threaten us with a good time, Daily Express.

We mourn. We rest. We renew our strength and commitment. Then we turn up again and again and again. Until liberation and accountability. We won’t forget. We won’t forgive. We can’t. For all our sakes! #FreePalestine

Loved listening to @saranahmed.bsky.social speak so movingly and poetically about some of the ideas behind her new book this evening at @lighthousebks.bsky.social

Looking forward to sharing the work at Gutter bookshop in Dublin! Tomorrow!

“To assemble, to say no, to do no, throws so much open … doing what we can, when we can, however we can, in the wear and tear, for as long as it takes.” Just read @saranahmed.bsky.social’s energising new book on complaining as a collective task of feminist and queer world (un)building. Get a copy!

Such brilliant news! So many congratulations! @mckenziewark.bsky.social @susanstryker.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

People from all walks of life — including many British Jews — are protesting against your government’s complicity in genocide and standing in solidarity with Palestine. Conflating Israel’s genocide in Gaza with British Jews is deeply inappropriate and dangerous. Shame on you.

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

"Most violence happens in the home, not on the streets. [We had] a strategy to address it around four pillars: prevention, engagement, the victim’s journey, and rehabilitation. That serious, practical work has now been pushed aside in favour of fearmongering and scapegoating." goodlaw.social/hudg

At Cornell, the Dean broke policy and ignored the disciplinary committee's findings that there wasn't evidence of discrimination, and forwarded the complaint to the Provost anyway. The Provost then opened an investigation.

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

The Quakers issued this reply to a GC attack on their trans inclusion policy. It’s incredible in its care and certainty. Its examples of transphobia are spot on. And >98% of Quakers surveyed agree with the policy. Anyone implementing trans inclusion policies should take note. This is how to do it.

Rest In Power ✊🏼

my new video, "The Fascism of Happiness", is live now on Youtube!! Featuring the incredible philosophy of @saranahmed.bsky.social 💗 Link: youtu.be/xBLcGQJukF4

Excellent piece by @notrightruth.bsky.social about trans community as the antidote to trans despair. ruthpearce.net/2025/09/25/r...

Heading to Bristol to meet @saranahmed.bsky.social this evening!

I’m looking forward to seeing @saranahmed.bsky.social in conversation with @noreenmasud.bsky.social tomorrow evening in Bristol. I’m not even halfway through her new book, and already it’s essential reading! 💙📚💡 www.thesmallcitybookshop.co.uk/event-detail...

I have the honour of interviewing the fabulous @saranahmed.bsky.social about her new book, No Is Not A Lonely Utterance: The Art & Activism of Complaining next month (22nd October). Come join us at The Whitworth in Manchester for a critical discussion of refusals, community building, and solidarity.

A note on the last event for the #NoIsNotALonelyUtterance book tour at Feminist Library and the next one at Foyles. substack.com/@feministkil....

It’s launch day for No Is Not A Lonely Utterance! So I shared some of my reasons for writing the book 💜💜

"This isn't who we are," says nation whose history books are a bunch of redactions

Enjoy this poetic conversation between Alison Kafer and Eli Clare, author of "Unfurl." via @orionmagazine.bsky.social orionmagazine.org/article/on-t...

Palestinian civil society calls for escalating disruptive BDS actions now against complicit states, corporations & institutions, building up to mass disruption from 18–21 September, the UN General Assembly deadline for Israel to end its illegal occupation & apartheid bdsmovement.net/news/disrupt...

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The right laughs at trans people’s deaths but demands people be sad over Charlie Kirk A hierarchy of the value of people's lives is inherent to the authoritarian project and the GOP is using its power to make everyone comply “To the right, Kirk’s death is an opportunity to discipline the country”

Yikes

This is, I believe, the first official word from the Government on what happened yesterday in London. Not only inaction in the face of violence and hate, but a celebration of it. I passed through London twice yesterday with my two kids & what Labour seem to be missing is that people aren't just...

Where is Keir Starmer? Where is the leadership? Fascists marched on our streets yesterday and he hasn’t said a single word. Instead the Prime Minister spends his time defending the “best pals” of paedophiles. He is a coward. He should resign.

Pleased Wasafiri shared an extract from No is Not a Lonely Utterance! Whole book is out Sept 18th. Gulp. www.wasafiri.org/content/excl...

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Over the course of 12 years, I collected just over 300 complaints from people who had been sexually assaulted in an Australian university context. Sara's work on complaint has kept me sane. If you're in the UK, go along to one of these events. You won't regret it.

A Complaint Collector open.substack.com/pub/feminist...

Get a NO out! I have 15 No events coming up, so getting them to you & receiving them from you is what I am going to be doing. It's such a privilege. In this post, I talk about the first two events. I'll be sharing full details of the tour on Thursday. Solidarity! open.substack.com/pub/feminist...

A killjoy joy that our opening book party for the No is Not a Lonely Utterance Tour is at Round Table Books on September 18th, which is the actual launch day! Thank Lorde and so many more for Black & brown queer spaces! How we need them. www.roundtablebooks.co.uk/events-store...

@dilan-c.bsky.social and I are co-organising a seminar on @saranahmed.bsky.social at next year‘s ACLA! 😱 We want to assemble an international team of Ahmed-nerds and killjoy enthusiasts. Please send us your abstract and join us in The City of Conferences, Montreal! ✨ www.acla.org/seminar/028c...

So much gratitude for Queer Lit!

I was glad to record the audio for No is Not a Lonely Utterance a couple of months back even if was hard on the old voice. That's complaint for you. You can now pre-order: please use a site such as libro.fm. Solidarity from complaint to protest! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Help Tala and her family. Spread the word and if you can please do donate. chuffed.org/project/1336...