This Saturday after painstaking research and FOIs by @clairestranstalks.bsky.social with @whatthetrans.com, we'll publish 'The Gender Clinic Files' in our newsletter: A new investigative series exposing deep structural issues with UK Transgender healthcare Sign up 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

New article out by Stephen McLoughlin, @profbode.bsky.social and me 🎉 On the practice of early warning of mass atrocities by practitioners in the UN Secretariat and has important findings on the limitations of current early warning practices. This project was funded by the The British Academy.

Important statement from the Lemkin Institute on the position and status of the EHRC in the UK 👇🏻

So basically Vallance has announced there won't be new announcements/work on REF for 3 months, implying that there will potentially be big changes announced in 3 months time, but the deadline for the REF is going to remain the same?! How er... helpful. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/patrick...

Thanks! 😁 You can read the full 10,000 word open access article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Really interesting article on the history of engagement with women and gender norms in the Liberal Party. Thanks @blairwilliams26.bsky.social for your research!

Well worth a read. Much to ponder as Babel builds its skyscraper and hubris rules www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

THREAD: 1. In May I published my peer-reviewed research into the effects of the Starmer-Streeting puberty-blocker ban. TLDR; lots of children have already been harmed. TW; this is a hard read. There is a term for adult men who deliberately harm children…

The annual global gender survey is live for anyone who’s gender doesn’t fit into the binary 👇🏻 You can share the below post for extra reach 😊

Can’t feel prouder of people in this city on one of the worst weather days so far this year.

Endorsement: WRITING BADLY Writing Badly is a new, print-only, journal of letters on the subject of feminism and transmisogyny. It is written and edited by and for trans women. "By turns profound and infuriating, beautiful and devastating, this collection has it all."

Good news! St. Lucia has struck down colonial-era laws that criminalised homosexuality. While much of the world is edging backwards on LGBTQ rights and acceptance, St. Lucia becomes the 5th Eastern Caribbean country to decriminalise same-sex relations in the last few years.

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

One like, one law and/or gender opinion.

Amen theconversation.com/top-australi...

Alex de Waal, an expert on the politics of famine, discussing the dire situation in Gaza.

Absolutely devastating 👇🏻

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

“LGBTQI+ rights are inseparable from the broader fight against authoritarianism… if you are able, show up for every mass mobilization. Keep queer joy, humor, and defiance alive in your activism long after the parades end.” We should learn from, and keep building, social movements to resist fascism.

Before the pandemic hit, 70% of Republicans said that science has had a mostly positive effect on society. Four years later, fewer than half (47%) said so. 🧪 https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2023/11/14/americans-trust-in-scientists-positive-views-of-science-continue-to-decline/

Ah hello Section 28, my old friend*... *Not my friend, these ideas are toxic (if we are being polite) - and harmful/will result in deaths (if we are being accurate).

Ex-farm worker here. We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing. Not true AT ALL. Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are. The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour. At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

“Adults and young people will no longer have to be examined by a medical professional, require surgery or have to prove to anyone else that we are who we say we are.” In good news, NSW now allows people to legally transition gender without medical evidence. No one should have to prove their gender.

“In the case of trans and intersex people, genocide is often perpetrated by making it impossible for individuals to exist as their true selves… No denial or omission in law can erase the concrete reality that trans and intersex people have always and will always exist.” We must refuse such erasure.

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

New article 🥳! Richard Fosu and I have a new piece in @jisb.bsky.social! Open access! We examine UN docs on #YPS to reveal how ideas of youth are constituted by institutional actors. We pay close attn to discursive contestation over the norm of youth inclusion within YPS. doi.org/10.1080/1750...

Pride was banned in Hungary. This was the response. The fascists never learn. ¡No pasarán! ❤️ 🌈

Get your cis friends to read this. It reveals how the anti-trans hate groups are really part of a web of extremist right-wing hate groups…

From POLSIS colleagues Nick Wheeler and David Dunn on the US attack on Iran theconversation.com/us-attack-on...

“I deserved to make those decisions for myself, and I needed support to help me do that… Everybody deserves autonomy, and everyone deserves community. I hope I get to see that in my lifetime.” Some intersex people need gender affirming care. The political erosion of bodily autonomy affects us all.

For those who need a reminder: the term “gender ideology” was coined by conservative religious and political groups to condemn abortion, same-sex relationships, trans existence, sex education, etc. Authoritarian regimes embrace it. We will only defeat these politics by refusing anti-gender rhetoric.

When I heard the mom of a trans girl say the night her daughter came out to her was the first time she'd ever seen her child happy, I knew it was a story I needed to share. These are the stories the public isn't hearing. An honor to get to report on 3 family's journeys for @teenvogue.com.

Great article by Nicholas Kristof on how to use Gene Sharp’s nonviolent protest methods as tools of resistance against authoritarian regimes. Full list of 198 method here: commonslibrary.org/198-methods-...

I don’t know. I love this Joseph Fasano poem and have it pinned on my office door but I don’t know what to actually do about any of this.

I think this is such a major driver of AI use in university assessments. And also just a real… disconnection between why we think students are here (to learn about history!) and why students think they are here (to get good grades, to get a job)

Want to write for War on the Rocks? warontherocks.com/su...

What does it takes to reform the United Nations? 🤔 📚 I reflected on the perennial debates around UN reform for the recent forum on my @oxunipress.bsky.social book 'Inside the UN Security Council' published by @globalr2p.bsky.social. Here are my thoughts 👇

This thread is the best of Bluesky 😻

My book is published! It’s a critical take on how emotions shape conflicts about LGBT rights and repair in equality law, gender recognition, bans on conversion practices, and sex education in schools. You can download it free via @edinburghup.bsky.social: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...

A ray of light for our timelines 👇🏻

We’ve reached that point in the year where our current hometown and former hometown have the same daily temperature range, despite one being almost winter and the other being almost summer 🙃

We're collecting data and stories on what the appalling Supreme Court decision means for trans and gender non conforming people. Lawyers will review all responses - please share your story because if we don't know we can't act. (And please share with friends.) goodlawproject.org/about/trans-...

A picturesque photo from my parent’s backyard this morning, except that all that water isn’t usually there! They’re flooded in but the flood water is slowly starting to recede 😅

This is why when Australians talk in shock about how abusive immigration policy is in the US, I’m like, “Have you seen us?” Australia may not be a “world leader” in many areas but we were when it came creating an immigration system that enables deportation to offshore camps and indefinite detention.

Very happy to share the forum organized by the @globalr2p.bsky.social journal on my @oxfordunipress.bsky.social book 'Inside the UN Security Council'. Thanks to the reviewers and to Cecilia Jacob, Shannon Zimmerman, and Lucas de Belmont for making this forum a reality! 🌟 The forum comprises:

I’m looking forward to presenting @whereisdean.bsky.social and my project on Queering the Responsibility to Protect at the University of Wollongong tomorrow, organised by Eda Gunaydin and @philorchard.bsky.social 😊

This is a tragic story of environmental degradation but I’m pleased to see that long-running research by our friend @thelabandfield.bsky.social and his colleagues is getting the attention it deserves!