Rachelle J. Chadwick
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Reading, mostly. Feminist Philosophy Nerd. Living between Bath, UK and Cape Town, ZA.
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New article, ‘Tense Concepts: Obstetric Violence, Structural Injustice and Moral Injury’ published online today in ‘Gender and Justice’ ➡️➡️
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Random musings on joy in academia (from my personal point of view) - i.e. is it possible, what is it worth, does it matter?
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The Question of Joy
And some thoughts on academia
https://open.substack.com/pub/rachellejchadwick/p/the-question-of-joy?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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New article, ‘Tense Concepts: Obstetric Violence, Structural Injustice and Moral Injury’ published online today in ‘Gender and Justice’ ➡️➡️
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Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 got a few spoons back from Zohran's triumph
5 months ago
The real world isn’t carved up into disciplines. Revolutionary thinkers know this
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Amanda Marcotte
5 months ago
Counterpoint: Women are ahead of the curve on knowing AI is bullshit.
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Women are lagging behind on AI but they can catch up
Curiosity, experimentation and learning are crucial if women are to shape the future of work
https://www.ft.com/content/7f0fbd7d-011a-448d-9d23-8a8db2006df4?utm_source=www.garbageday.email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=the-cure-to-male-loneliness&_bhlid=e724948de86fed8383fe8fd5dd8923b805de1ce2
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Potato enthusiast
6 months ago
If you reply to emails at the same rate that they arrive, then email numbers and email arrival rate will increase and increase until that is all you do. Take. Your. Time. Life is the things you do inbetween emails.
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Finally some sense, lol.
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6 months ago
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So I’ve written a short piece (approx 1400 words but could be cut down) on ‘The Question of Joy’ in academia. Any ideas or tips about where I might send this? I’ve written for the LSE Impact Blog before but keen to explore other possibilities. Any advice welcomed. Thank you.
6 months ago
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Mark Chadbourn
7 months ago
Hungary has just passed an amendment to the constitution that allows the government to ban public events by LGBTQ+ communities.
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Glen O'Hara
8 months ago
The university death spiral is everywhere, and for everyone: they're all just on a convoy into the same black hole. Oxbridge, LSE and Imperial excepted, they must all *necessarily and inevitably* end up crushed to the size of an Oxo cube if we go on like this.
www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...
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'The University of Bristol has embarked on a path like a death spiral'
UCU members are opposed to academic departments across the university having to make at least a 50% operating surplus
https://www.bristol247.com/opinion/your-say/university-bristol-embarked-path-like-death-spiral/
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University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies
9 months ago
We're excited to welcome Sophie-Marie Niang for their talk on "In defence of what’s there: scavenging as queer and feminist methodology" on Monday 12:30. Join us in person ARB S1 or online here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-defence...
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In defence of what’s there: scavenging as queer and feminist methodology.
Part of the Multi-disciplinary Gender Research Seminar Series.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-defence-of-whats-there-scavenging-as-queer-and-feminist-methodology-tickets-1110347953619?aff=oddtdtcreator
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First daffodil sighting in Bath. 🩷
9 months ago
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Dr. Diane Tober
9 months ago
Given that the word "women" is on the NSF list of words that flat a proposal for rejection and "men" is not, that seems to be the case. As a women's health researcher this is obviously enormously troubling.
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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨
9 months ago
In October, I wrote about how Trump’s potential presidency could impact reproductive rights in Scotland. Never did I think it would be as explicit as the US veep spouting fear mongering, nonsensical lies about Scotland’s buffer zones.
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
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The US has us asking: where's Scotland’s reproductive health agenda?
The hot-button issue in the 2024 Presidential election remains sexual and reproductive health, specifically abortion rights. But what about Scotland?
https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/viewpoint/24684938.us-us-asking-scotlands-reproductive-health-agenda/
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Neil Renic
9 months ago
Write every day for 1 hour. If you miss a writing day add 1 hour to the next. It’s incredible! Tomorrow I’m writing for 7 years.
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Jules 💛
9 months ago
The one thing that has made my university experience a good one is the staff on the philosophy team. The lecturers and staff at the university ARE WHAT MAKE THE UNIVERSITY. Their plans to cut over 50% of staff are morally horrendous and will lead to the downfall of the university as a whole
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LEX Network
10 months ago
ALERT! We’re reviewing applications for FULL membership of LEX Network Details:
lexnetwork.org
Look for: ‘membership’ Email:
[email protected]
@sharronfitz.bsky.social
@lsoubise.bsky.social
@caitjob.bsky.social
@flsjournal.bsky.social
@legalgeolsa.bsky.social
@aaronjacklin.bsky.social
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LEX Research Network – Law Gender & Sexuality
https://lexnetwork.org
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Amee Vanderpool
10 months ago
An arrest warrant has been issued for a New York doctor indicted on Friday by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing abortion pills online to a pregnant minor in the Deep South state, which has one of the strictest near-total abortion bans in the country.
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Arrest warrant issued for New York doctor indicted in Louisiana for prescribing abortion pill
An arrest warrant has been issued for a New York doctor indicted by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online to a pregnant minor. Dr.
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-indictment-lousiana-new-york-doctor-63ff4d9da8a9b592a7ca4ec7ba538cd3
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University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies
10 months ago
Lent term Multi-disciplinary Gender Research Seminars start next Monday the 27th, 12:30-1:30 ARB S1. Dr Helen Charman will speak about "Absent Mother States: the emotional afterlives of the British welfare state". Come in person or register online!
www.gender.cam.ac.uk/Events/gende...
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Joseph Howley
10 months ago
Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it.
drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...
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Statement from Katherine Franke.pdf
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cOWRtsVB_NDCm0kNQTq6y3dM2o51fa/view
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Dr Alice Storey
10 months ago
‘Unprecedented’ rise in abortion prosecutions prompts call for law change from medical leaders
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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‘Unprecedented’ rise in abortion prosecutions prompts call for law change from medical leaders
Statement from 30 groups including BMA and royal colleges says current law is causing “trauma and cruelty”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/12/unprecedented-rise-in-abortion-prosecutions-prompts-call-for-law-change-from-medical-leaders?CMP=share_btn_url
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Ståle Holgersen
11 months ago
It doesn't get better than this. Historical Materialism Conference, in Paris, 26-28 June 2025.
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Historical Materialism Paris 2025 (26-28 Juin 2025) : Conjurer la catastrophe / Combating the Catastrophe - Historical Materialism
Le dernier « Congrès Marx International » a eu lieu à Paris en 2010. Depuis lors, dans l’espace francophone, aucune conférence internationale s’inscrivant explicitement dans le cadre du marxisme, dura...
https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/historical-materialism-paris-2025-26-28-juin-2025-conjurer-la-catastrophe-combating-the-catastrophe/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaaNamjLpByxrGHT7606aiOxYUC2Xydf-g38k-UQAO9qiguvFFaQrNTH8Cc_aem_QHl8Enn5oa1lLLi7H8qjgQ
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Daniel S. Goldberg
11 months ago
Me, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs. Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this?
#PHEthx
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Infant Mortality Increases Across US Following Dobbs Decision
The Dobbs decision was associated with a 7% absolute increase in overall infant mortality—equivalent to 247 excess deaths—and a 10% increase among infants with congenital anomalies, corresponding to 2...
https://www.ajmc.com/view/infant-mortality-increases-across-us-following-dobbs-decision
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الكسندرا ميراي
11 months ago
Let the record show that the whole world was aware
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Xuan Luu
11 months ago
I have a new paper out with terrific colleagues including
@lachkent.bsky.social
— we analysed 857 university workers’ responses to an open-ended survey question about how the institution impacts their wellbeing.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
(Unfortunately not open access…)
#AcademicSky
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How university climate impacts psychosocial safety, psychosocial risk, and mental health among staff in Australian higher education: a qualitative study - Higher Education
Research has reported an epidemic of mental health concerns among staff in higher education. Universities can improve staff mental health by creating work environments that are more psychologically, s...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10734-024-01376-x
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Rebecca Coleman
11 months ago
Thank you
@sharonlsmith.bsky.social
for your book review. You've really captured how the methods featured were often craftily and imaginatively developed 'to carve out spaces and forge productive relationships' of resistance, respect, collaboration + care
thesociologicalreview.org/reviews/how-...
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How to do Social Research with… edited by Rebecca Coleman, Kat Jungnickel and Nirmal Puwar
Editors Rebecca Coleman, Kat Jungnickel and Nirma Puwar’s book How to do Social Research with… reimagines the art of research, says reviewer Sharon L. Smith
https://thesociologicalreview.org/reviews/how-to-do-social-research-with-edited-by-rebecca-coleman-kat-jungnickel-and-nirma-puwar/
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Glen O'Hara
11 months ago
What a disgrace the university crisis is. University of York has released 272 staff in an attempt to save £34m. All because of central government's stupid, wasteful and thick policies.
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"Difficult and Painful": 272 Staff Members Cut as the University Tackles Financial Crisis | York Vision
Alice Lilley reports on the University’s £34 million financial crisis.
https://www.yorkvision.co.uk/news/difficult-and-painful-272-staff-members-cut-as-the-university-tackles-financial-crisis/13/12/2024
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Peter Tennant
11 months ago
I wish universities would 'start to ask questions' about how many academic 'leadership' roles they can afford! The proliferation of vice/deputy/pro/associate 'leadership roles' over the last 10-20 years has been quite extraordinary.
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Siân Halcrow
11 months ago
Read about our recent research just published. Forgotten histories: what fetal and baby remains tell us about inequality in medical collections
theconversation.com/forgotten-hi...
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Forgotten histories: what fetal and baby remains tell us about inequality in medical collections
Our new analysis of the skeletal remains and records of babies in a NZ museum collection shows they were largely born to unmarried mothers or lower-class families.
https://theconversation.com/forgotten-histories-what-fetal-and-baby-remains-tell-us-about-inequality-in-medical-collections-244931?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=bylinefacebookbutton&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1poCnykyf1H1EFwUSxTxRcMhOHH9Fpv6vWwE6pq9GkBdR6EdW3O0xkNRc_aem_3l3LRpT0hpp1g5XbdXCdsg
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Sorry to have missed this. Looks very nourishing 💗
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Julianne McShane
12 months ago
Dobbs has only worsened the impacts: As I reported for
@nbcnews.com
last year, abortion bans have also contributed to the closures of maternity wards, in part by driving OB-GYNs from red states, like Idaho:
www.nbcnews.com/health/women...
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Shannon Mattern
12 months ago
👀 lots of folks QT'ing to say: women — submit your manuscripts! I think what has to come first is: universities, fix your gendered service and teaching inequities, and society, balance out your care work, so women *have time* to write the damn manuscripts. So many women colleagues are BURNT OUT.
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“…to think and to thank are essentially the same; the very words derive from the same etymological root.” Hannah Arendt
12 months ago
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Miriam Posner
12 months ago
Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.
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Ilse Josepha Lazaroms
12 months ago
Absolutely thrilled to be publishing this book, by feminist philosopher, community midwife, and abortion activist Rodante van der Waal: a much-needed account of obstetric violence, abolitionist care, and gestational justice. Available in Open Access with
@amsterdamupress.bsky.social
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Birth Justice
Reproductive injustice is an urgent global problem. We are faced with the increased criminalization of abortion, higher maternal and neonatal mortality rates for people of color, and more and more res...
https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048562398/birth-justice
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Ilse Josepha Lazaroms
12 months ago
With a brilliant endorsement from
@drrchadwick.bsky.social
: “Deeply thought-provoking, honest, and humane – this book is intellectual nourishment.” & artwork by the author.
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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
12 months ago
"How do false narratives deployed by the Right, such as threats of regret over abortion or gender transition, act to undermine individual transformation and broader social change?" Check out our latest
#CFP
on the politics of regret (deadline 5/1/25):
signsjournal.org/for-authors/...
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Marking some really brilliant 3rd year essays!! Many of my students have clearly become passionately ignited by the topics of repro-politics, repro-criminalisation and obstetric violence!! 🔥
12 months ago
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Jennifer Ashby
about 1 year ago
"My thesis supervisor Jürgen Habermas has told me recently he would not have succeeded in today's academia. He has never applied for a grant in his life and he writes long books" - Patrizia Nanz, President of the European University Institute, in a speech today
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Pulitzer Center
12 months ago
Texas politicians have filed a bill that intends to reclassify drugs used for reproductive health as controlled substances. Physicians argue that these additional steps puts patients’ lives at risk. StoryReach U.S.
@lorenaoneil.com
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@lailluminator.bsky.social
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Texas Follows Louisiana’s Lead To Reclassify Reproductive Care Drugs As Controlled Substances
A Texas lawmaker has filed a bill that would reclassify two drugs used for reproductive health as controlled substances, which would place further restrictions on their access. The proposal mirrors a....
https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/texas-follows-louisianas-lead-reclassify-reproductive-care-drugs-controlled-substances?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=StoryReach-U.S
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Citizen.Coping
12 months ago
It important to know the names of women researchers who've been studying, speaking & writing about bias and AI. Dr Timnit Gebru, Dr Rumman Chowdhury, Dr Safiya Noble, Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Dr Buolamwini And many many more within/outside academia. Free link:
archive.ph/2023.11.22-1...
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And now we have “abortion trafficking” — yet more womb related criminalization, ffs.
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Having a look through this for something I am working on, and it’s such a brilliant collection of chapters! 💗💗 Thank you
@camillapickles.bsky.social
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@jonathanherring.bsky.social
for this book!
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/womens-bi...
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Women’s Birthing Bodies and the Law
This is the first book to unpack the legal and ethical issues surrounding unauthorised intimate examinations during labour. The book uses feminist, socio-legal…
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/womens-birthing-bodies-and-the-law-9781509937578/
12 months ago
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Roxana Pessoa Cavalcanti
12 months ago
Looking forward to our exciting key note event with Sarah Ihmoud, hosted by the Feminist Cities Colab, in person in Rio de Janeiro 16th December!
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Just added some newly arrived OBV peeps to this!
@annanelson95.bsky.social
@luberropizzarossa.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/3QyZ7zV
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12 months ago
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Really enjoying this! A perfect read for decompressing after a busy teaching term.
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End Deportations Belfast
12 months ago
This
#ReclaimTheNight
, remember, state driven gender based violence manifested as reproductive violence is not just a consequence of border regimes but a deliberate outcome. By us: 'Borders & Reproductive Violence' for 16 Days of Activism.
enddeportationsbelfast.wordpress.com/2024/11/26/b...
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Borders and Reproductive Violence: End Deportations Belfast for 16 Days of Activism 2024.
An blog by End Deportations Belfast cross-posted from Reclaim The Agenda’s 16 Days of Activism on Gender Based Violence 2024.Borders built on colonialism, racism and structural dispossession …
https://enddeportationsbelfast.wordpress.com/2024/11/26/borders-and-reproductive-violence/
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Can I mute the word ‘starter pack’ please? 😜
12 months ago
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Not me researching the idea of doing a second PhD on a Friday evening… 😂
12 months ago
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