OUT TODAY: Our new report explores inclusion and belonging in Newham, the most super-diverse borough in the UK and possibly in Europe. It shares the findings and recommendations of an independent commission established by the Mayor and chaired by @sundersays.bsky.social

A lovely evening with @sarahowen.org.uk who is truly a powerhouse. Honoured to host her at @lsegender.bsky.social. Our conversation ranged across trans rights and the politics of moral panic, race and migration, and the emotional as well as political labour that the work of ‘doing equality’ demands

We loved hosting @sarahowen.org.uk last night for a conversation with @rkdasgupta.bsky.social! Sarah and Rohit talked about creating a fairer Britain, the online life of a politician, moral panics, the right to protest, and supporting rights of trans folks and migrants. Podcast out soon! 🎧

Lovely to come to work and see the department taking over LSE‘s homepage! Celebrating the fantastic achievements of our student Mahnoor Omer and Head of Department @sumimadhok.bsky.social, as well tomorrow’s event with @sarahowen.org.uk and @rkdasgupta.bsky.social 🎉 More here: www.lse.ac.uk

We‘re very excited to host @sarahowen.org.uk in conversation with @rkdasgupta.bsky.social this Wednesday! Drinks reception after 🥂 Tickets here: www.lse.ac.uk/events/gende...

On the COVID-19 Day of Reflection, I joined colleagues and residents at the memorial in Plaistow Park. We honoured those we lost, stood with those still grieving, and remembered the care and solidarity that carried Newham through the pandemic, reaffirming our shared values of compassion & community

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Hello! I'm looking for queer and trans people to tell their positive stories please! About love, dating, euphoria, hobbies, family - just really nice stories - for @metro.co.uk Real Life section 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ More PoC, faith, disabled & working class voices pls ❤️ PAID£ Email me: [email protected]

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

We‘re very excited for our next department event with @sarahowen.org.uk and @rkdasgupta.bsky.social 🥳 Get your tickets now ⬇️

John's Labour blog: Canning Town South Street Surgery johnslabourblog.org/2026/02/cann... @newham_labour @4Hussain @plaistovian.bsky.social @rkdasgupta.bsky.social

Newham is a place for all! Participated in a fabulous queer zine making workshop today in Canning Town library as part of our LGBT History month events trawling through the newham archives making this!

Pleased to see two of my favourites taking on this role!

New Issue from #Identities! Vol 32 No 1 (February 2026) Including a Symposium on Catherine Hall's Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism Explore the issue: www.tandfonline.com/... @nasarmeer.bsky.social Aaron Winter Taylor & Francis Research

This is horrendous “A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare”

Well well well

Is it just me or the media bubble I live in but all the people falling from Epstein are Brits. Are you telling me that the Umreekans don’t exist in it or is the media sphere so compromised that there is no public backlash calling for heads to roll?

Oh well, wasn’t he on the board of Sex matters? Good riddance.

In case you'd like to read on the current 'race' conversation re Wuthering Heights. My claim to fame is that I had the privilege of having coffee w/ Prof Jo Macdonagh when she was invited to our uni. Just the two of us at Café de la Paix 😀 A great scholar. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/jacob-...

Join us for an evening with Sarah Owen MP, chair of the Women and Equalities Select Committee! In dialogue with @rkdasgupta.bsky.social, Sarah will share insights from her work and open discussion on how we can collectively push for a fairer and more inclusive Britain. Tickets via the website!

@rkdasgupta.bsky.social has received the Freedom of the City of London, recognising outstanding contributions to civic society. Congratulations from everyone at the Department 🎉

POV: YOU JUST GRADUATED FROM LSE GENDER 👨‍🎓❤️ @sumimadhok.bsky.social @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @aikoiiris.bsky.social @hsw.bsky.social

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR FANTASTIC CLASS OF 2024-25! 🥂🎉❤️ We absolutely loved celebrating this wonderful cohort and all their amazing achievements last night! @aikoiiris.bsky.social @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @hsw.bsky.social @sumimadhok.bsky.social

Research Seminar Series: Gender Works in Progress with @rkdasgupta.bsky.social and PhD alumni and Visting Fellows @senelw.bsky.social and @clairelwilmot.bsky.social this afternoon!

@rkdasgupta.bsky.social is speaking at Kolkata Literary Festival in January! ⬇️ www.aklf.in/index.html

Gender Department Christmas Lunch! 🍴🎄 @smrodriguez.bsky.social @asiyaislam.bsky.social @hsw.bsky.social @rkdasgupta.bsky.social

✏️📚 PROGRAMME SPOTLIGHT: MSC GENDER (SEXUALITY) The interdisciplinary MSc Gender (Sexuality) programme foregrounds the relevance of theory to transnational issues of sexual activism and legal frames. Find out more about our MSc programmes and apply now on our website! 🔗 @rkdasgupta.bsky.social

On Remembrance Sunday, we honour all those who gave their lives in the service of peace and freedom. As we remember, we must also acknowledge the extraordinary diversity of those who served from every corner of the Commonwealth, of every faith and background.

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

ChatGPT gave a significant portion of my students the wrong answer to an easy quiz question that everyone used to always get right I had two groups of students turn in annotated bibliographies that were ChatGPT generated - not a single citation actually existed

A 2024 survey shows 57% of inhabitants of Dal Lake experienced decreasing rainfall, 75% saw less snowfall, and 60% saw a decline in stream discharge. Nearly 75% are experiencing more frequent and stronger extreme weather occurrences, significantly impacting agricultural output and livelihoods.

🚨 Starting today, you can apply to join LSE Gender in September 2026! 🎓 Choose between eight specialised MSc degrees or our internally competitive PhD Programme and join this globally recognized hub for agenda setting gender research!

WELCOME 2025? COMPLETED IT MATE ✅🎉 We’re delighted to welcome our new cohort and our brilliant new LSE Fellows R and Zuzana! Special thanks to our PSS colleagues, our HoD @sumimadhok.bsky.social and @rkdasgupta.bsky.social for a fantastic Welcome Lecture. Bring it on!

The recording of yesterday’s brilliant Welcome Lecture is now available on our YouTube channel! 📺 🍿 @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @sumimadhok.bsky.social

NEW ARTICLE out now. That’s my service to the discipline sorted for the next decade! A collection of 50 articles, books, and chapters that I hope will be a useful resource for anyone researching queer digital cultures in non-Western contexts. www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...

@rkdasgupta.bsky.social speaking on South Asian Diasporic Cultural Production and Queer Organising for this year‘s Welcome Lecture chaired by @sumimadhok.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Yesterday marked 8 years since the late Sarah Hegazi raised the rainbow flag at a Mashrou' Leila concert in a moment of uncalculated joy so threatening to Egyptian authorities that they arrested, tortured, prosecuted her, and sent her to exile. Sarah in my heart today. 🌈

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐

@sumimadhok.bsky.social welcoming our new cohort this morning ❤️ @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @aikoiiris.bsky.social @asiyaislam.bsky.social @hsw.bsky.social

A year on since we have been raising the alarm. We have been shouting Labour can’t out reform Reform and with the far right rising I have seen my communities divided and this is what we have now. I hope this ‘progressive fight back’ is not too little too late. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Happy Welcome everyone! 🎉 Last chance to sign up to our WELCOME LECTURE 2025! Start the academic year off right with @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @sumimadhok.bsky.social and a drink on us! 🥂 Comment for details on how to attend! 💌

What an absolute privilege it was to join Ambassador Dr Husam Zomlot at the Palestine Embassy today to raise the flag and mark this historic recognition of the State of Palestine. As he reminded us, this is just the first step, we still need the violence to end and a permanent ceasefire.

Next week! Start the academic year off with @sumimadhok.bsky.social and @rkdasgupta.bsky.social! (And a drink on us 🥂)

Queerbeat Media have published an extract from our book focusing on how Desi queers navigated the club scene, including racism, in Britain during the 80s and 90s. You can read the complete excerpt here: www.queerbeat.org/stories/in-b...

Tooley's the guy that, if you reconstructed the public timeline of events, was previously removed from his position after he (almost definitely) threatened his ex-wife with a weapon, then the police immediately searched his house and found an unregistered weapon in his bedside table.

You‘re invited to this years WELCOME LECTURE delivered by the one and only @rkdasgupta.bsky.social and chaired by Head of Department @sumimadhok.bsky.social! Start the year with a great talk and drink on us! 🥂 Details below! ⬇️

We‘re inviting all LSE students, staff and alumni to attend our WELCOME LECTURE 2025! 📩 Comment for details on how to attend! www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event... @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @sumimadhok.bsky.social

Desi Queers review out now by @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social 🇮🇳🏳️‍🌈 ⬇️⬇️

NEW✨ Untold Stories of Britain's queer South Asians Desi Queers by @churnjeet.bsky.social @unistrathclyde.bsky.social @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social & @djritu.bsky.social @hurstpublishers.bsky.social Read the #review by Kanchan Panday 👉 blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb... #SAHM2025