This is brilliant! “Outsmarting the descendants of its colonial captors, Japanese knotweed destabilises human-centred understandings of value, life and land. It invites new modes of being and relating in the more-than-human world.”

Plants against Property🌱 In our latest blog, @sarahkeenan.bsky.social explores how corporate risk, colonial histories and market logics shape land value - and how plants push back, forcing land to be used as a habitat & resource rather than a market commodity ccccjustice.org/2026/02/02/e...

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@sarahkeenan.bsky.social‬ terrific piece “Plants Against Property” shows how Japanese Knotweed became a nightmare for homeowner’s but not necessarily for home dwellers. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Japanese knotweed is a queer asexually reproducing female alien clone attacking the UK real estate market without actually damaging land. Could we learn from it? My @theoryculturesociety.org article Plants Against Property: Japanese Knotweed as Companion Species journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Thank goodness for lesbians

This is so good. Thankful for the work of feminist colleagues like Emily and Sarah, everyday

Parody Alternative Judgment: For Women Scotland [2025], by Emily Grabham criticallegalthinking.com/2025/05/01/p...

Geographers! Please join 300 of us — at every career stage — who are urging the Royal Geographical Society to reaffirm its commitment to trans inclusion in the face of Supreme Court ruling, and to oppose the EHRC’s interim update. Sign by WED 30 April 1700 GMT docs.google.com/document/u/0...

From Zara Dinnen, a brilliant co-chair of my UCU branch, on the realities of UKHE and life for students and staff www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...

‘Brent University appears to fulfil the meritocratic promise of New Labour’s commitment to increase the number of students in higher education by 50 per cent. But the promise was always false.’ Zara Dinnen on what ‘Big Boys’ gets right about the crisis in universities: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...

I'm sorry to report that I now have a substack. I wrote a post about the Supreme Court stuff and some absurd things I've seen in the wake of it that have been gnawing at my mind.

What will happen to us un-women? My thoughts on today’s UK Supreme Court decision excluding trans women from the legal category of women. Over at Autostraddle: www.autostraddle.com/uk-supreme-c...

We believe the UK is now in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act and the European Convention of Human Rights and we plan to ask the High Court for a declaration of incompatibility. We would be grateful for your help:

Looking forward to hosting Libby Porter, Director of the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT for this seminar on housing crisis under settler-colonialism on Tuesday 8 April 3pm at Queen Mary Law @cclas1.bsky.social @statecrime.bsky.social. All welcome, pls join us www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/precarious...