Thank you @profmitchtravis.bsky.social ! I had no idea! So excited! Closer to holding it in my hands 💕 #books #intersex #ageing #aging #intersectionality #routledge www.routledge.com/Intersex-Age...

Had a nice time at the FeME & @diveincdt.bsky.social ‘No boundaries’ festival of cross-disciplinary collaboration at @uofgarc.bsky.social. Loved hearing cool things people are up to. Would be great to bring some sociological and artsy approaches co-supervise future PhD projects. Also I made this:

I still think we should categorise toilets based on activity: pissing, pooping, chatting, and changing. No I haven’t read the guidance yet and I don’t want to. I’m putting it off. Poocrastinating if you will.

Timid librarian in plea to save my workplace from making a huge mistake. A whole floor of Cardiff University's main library is under threat of being repurposed to teaching facilities with the removal of 7km of shelving holding valuable books. Pls share x you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Not the ASS Library! Cardiff Uni wants to scrap the Arts and Social Studies Library 2nd floor. 7km of books & vital study space gone to make way for classrooms. Please help save this crucial campus resource before it's ripped out in June! Add your name here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Writers, write “I waited” without using those words. The letter landed on the bare floor without any fuss or ceremony. The distinctive off-white colour peeking through the envelope window tells me who sent it from first glance. The top of my CHI number just poking out of the bottom of the frame.

Update: I have been gifted a full colour physical copy of the zine. Look at this! They understood the assignment (did I speak the Gen Z right?). Please enjoy the front cover, contents page and the submission of mine they included. [Shared with permission]

Heading to Newcastle for “Queer Crip Guts: Towards an Inclusive Sociology of the Gut” at Northumbria University today. Really excited to hear from a bunch of cool people working in the intersections of queer studies and disability studies in sociological approaches to understanding guts.

Great to be at a book launch for 'Insights Into Creative & Participatory Research’ edited by @drlinziladlow.bsky.social & Laura Way & hear about some of the cool work our chapter sits alongside. If you like your research creative &or participatory: policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/insights-int...

My partner was playing a guess the song game with me. I was unusually good at it. So many familiar songs. Then he asked me to guess the theme of the playlist he was using. It was songs that are 20 years old this year. Was not ready for that.

Do you remember the day before the 2016 Scottish Parliament election where you could genuinely say things like “I don’t care who you vote for just vote” and mean it? In that election there was an LGBTI hustings and all the main parties supported GRA reform. 10 years ago and feels like another planet

What if marking and moderation was done and we went to frolic in the sun? Alas, it is cloudy. If I owe you an email I may actually respond soon. Also I think I’ve been misspelling frolic for my entire life.

I really need to learn to stop checking my work email on days I don’t work. Nothing good comes from this. There’s strong possibility nothing good comes from email. Please send all future correspondence via post card.

The dreadful OFS has had its terrible decision regarding "gender critical" reactionary Kathleen Stock quashed by the High Court. Will have more thoughts once I have read the judgment.

I made a short film! It’s called ‘DUCKS’ (Music and Sound by the incredible Megalithic Sound, everything else by me) youtu.be/L8vZbIeAdAw?... #animation #ducks #shortfilm #independentfilm #3d #cgi

So excited to announce we've got the funds to release a final drop of patches! The absolute final return date is May 6th, so this is our challenge: decorate your patch in one week! We're ready to send them out: just comment below or email [email protected] and we'll get you one!

Trans people and friends, can you help us get the word out? Only 15 left of our final patch drop and all have to be sent out tomorrow/Monday so that we can meet our archiving deadline before sending to the fabricators. Do you want to contribute to an enormous national trans art/activist project?

I don’t check my work junk email often. In amongst the usual nonsense is an advert for a “castration simulator for horses” with an “integrated gravity-based blood system”! It’s “ideal for group use”! For too long I my castration simulation has defied gravity. No idea why I got this but I’m delighted

Happy Monday from jobs.ac who just emailed me “There have been no new jobs matching your chosen search criteria within the last 3 months.” The search criteria are “Scotland” & “social science”. So no social science jobs (of any contract length, level or fraction) in scotland for over 3 months. Grim.

I do find it really weird that anyone in conversation about their LGBT org’s work would spend that time discussing the opinions of someone who as far as I know isn’t LGBT and as far as I know doesn’t have an LGBT partner or child or any other kind of connection to the community. Who is the work for?

I don’t usually big up my work & find it cringe to talk about my research. But forcing myself to ignore that. For people who are genuinely interested in relationships between trans, intersex & LGBT/LGB/LGBTI activists you might want to watch this film/read this: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I wasn’t going to do #RecordStoreDay because I’m recovering from hospital treatment but we needed to go to Tesco anyway so went to Good Vibes which is round the corner. Found the Self Esteem vinyl I wanted & visited a record shop I’d not been to before. Win. Extra bonus of a late afternoon stroll.

👀 A full time ongoing role as a Lecturer in Theatre in the UK! 🦄

Heading back home after a nice queercrip snaily time at Leeds disability conference. Really enjoyed all the bipolar time chat from @lizziereed.bsky.social and the crip time keynote from @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social and of course snail time chat with Ned (informed by Tig & Charlotte absent snails). 🐌

On a train home from #BSA #britsoc2026 Thanks to so many folk for such rich stimulating conversations. Thanks for all the supportive engagement with my own work. It was great to hear about so many cool creative projects and some great work in sociological approaches to trans and disability studies.

I’ve had the same Kindle since Christmas 2013. Still works absolutely fine. I use it for train journeys. I guess I’ll use it until I’ve read all the books currently on it. Unless it breaks before then. I have no intention of replacing it with an ad-filled one designed to be replaced every few years.

This is also what I’m doing this week! The only difference is my chapter in Yvette’s book is a co-authored conversation on an ethnodrama about trans & intersex activism. I didn’t bring that leaves shirt so people don’t think I only own one shirt. Anyway say hi if you’re at BSA (or in Manchester)

Got a free coffee this morning. But then I got misgendered by the person who gave it to me so I still paid the trans tax of socisial interaction. Still free coffee!

Went to London. Still big and busy and overwhelming. Don’t care for it. Saw the Tracey Emin ‘A Second Life’ exhibition at the @tate.bsky.social Tate Modern. Worth it. Feminist, political, moving. I hope “I Watched Myself Die and Come Alive” haunts me forever.

ALCS statements are up. Happy free money day to all who celebrate. Nice to get money from stuff I’ve written. Also very nice to know that someone somewhere is reading my work (and photocopying it?!). Thanks @alcs.co.uk for all the work to make this happen.

I am on holiday for the next 10 days. So far I have eaten ice cream for breakfast. One of those Lidl versions of a Mars bar ones. I will continue to make excellent life choices and not check my email. I’m going to read fiction! I’m also going to visit my family and see some feminist art with my Mum.

I wrote a post about the extremely unexpected award I received recently, and the context in which I received it. From the stress, exhaustion, and overwhelm of academia, to the power and joy of social movements and coming together with other women.

The GLINTS patch for the trans unity quilt is coming along nicely. @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social made me laugh when we were trying to pose with it😅

It says everything you need to know about @notrightruth.bsky.social that her quote celebrates the work of others and that trans and women’s liberation need each other. And that she is celebrated for her kindness and generosity as much as her research. An honour to call her a friend and a colleague ❤️

Everyone should stop what you are doing and read about @notrightruth.bsky.social receiving an important award for her excellence in trans and feminist scholarship and action. Ruth has been setting the bar for years & its great to see that recognised: www.scenemag.co.uk/trans-femini...

We went to a local steam powered pumping engine that had been used to drain the fens. We also had a day in Stibbington in an old school pretending to be WWII evacuees. We were given characters in advance we were to remain in throughout. Had a mock air raid we had to sing through. Tried on a gas mask

Today I got to hang out at the MakerSpace @uofgarc.bsky.social for the first time. Such an excellent space to work on a GLINTS patch for the @transunityquilt.bsky.social. Very up for future research and teaching plans that involve using this space again.

Great listening to @joshuaidehen.bsky.social chatting to @laurenlaverne.bsky.social on 6 music just now. Two people chatting about music and the world having a lovely time. This is the kind of joy we need just now.

I love reading other academics’ out of office replies. I do not have an urgent question about Russian but now I really want to know what kinds of urgent questions about Russian you get. No one has urgent questions for me about methods.

Looking afresh at these reviewers' comments on our paper on trans disabled people, it's even more obvious that the paper was rejected because of transphobia

It’s an honour to be asked to review fab manuscripts about queer things ahead of their publication. One of the books I’ve had the pleasure of endorsing is Yvette Taylor’s edited collection, “Queer in a Wee Place: Small Nations, Sexuality and Scotland.” Pre-order: www.bloomsbury.com/au/queer-in-...

It’s March. That means it is the right time of year for ice cream meetings. (For a long time I believed it was ice cream season all year round but also I live in Scotland). It will be ice cream meeting season for approx 6 months. Please invite me for ice cream meetings. Work chat optional.

Coming in November from @brisunipress.bsky.social, In the Aftermath of Empire explores the impact of British imperialism on gender and sexuality law in four jurisdictions. Please tell your libraries to pre-order! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/in-the-after...

Such a nice day at work today. Hearing @kevinguyan.bsky.social talk about his work for a GLINTS event; catching up with some of my favourite colleagues; meeting new colleagues for interesting research & teaching plans; & being called out on my fashion choices /dressing smart by @kenglish.bsky.social

My work Outlook added Text Predictions. When you type “Hi” it suggests the name of a person in a ‘to’ line. I had to turn it off because every time I sign off an email it suggests Heather as my name. I don’t even have any colleagues called Heather. Kinda miss Microsoft Clippy. Probably knew my name.

'Early findings from the first National Disabled Staff Survey (NDSS), completed by 837 disabled staff across 127 institutions in 2025, expose deep structural barriers that undermine wellbeing, career progression, and retention.' 1/2

My excellent academic pal @carolineleicht.bsky.social (former colleague now working elsewhere) has students working on zine assessments for a queer & feminist class. It will be submitted & they will share them in a zine party(omg!). So I just submitted to one because that’s true academic friendship.

Call for book chapters: abstracts by 16th March 2026 Rethinking queer ageing: The significance of geo-temporal contexts. Edited by Linn Sandberg, Rebeka Põldsam and Rebecca L. Jones (me!) Academic understandings of LGBTQ+ ageing are dominated by Anglo-American contexts, which means that [...]

Sociology of class lectureship @uomsociology.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL973/l...