Very excited to be a new co-convenor of GIRWG! Stay tuned for our plans for the year

Yesterday morning I woke up from a being chased dream where the only escape was on the ferry to "dissertation island" (no joke) but I couldn't get on the ferry... In unrelated news, today I submitted my PhD thesis

Keep in mind that when we talk about family reunification routes, they only apply when someone has been granted refugee status. That means this government is saying, "we know you have fled persecution. We know your family remains at risk therefore. We are going to ensure you cannot see them again".

This is a 5-year postdoc position! One for the queer STS / medical humanities and other scholars out there. What a cool opportunity

Proud of the work we've done on this report and hope it's useful for people in the youth sector!

Important that you keep any protests against this quiet and discreet, so that nobody notices.

Feinberg, Leslie; Fianna Fáil is a personal fave

Reading this immediately after receiving another rejection At a recent conference, everyone else I spoke to who's on the market this year talked about it being harder than other years Glad 10 years of higher education are paying off!

👀👀👀 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

None of those newspapers (or the BBC) that gleefully ran stories when the EHRC gave trans people a shoeing will now report on the EHRC admitting they (and hence those stories) were wrong. Are those outlets craven - or dishonest? Thank goodness for the legal press. www.law360.com/articles/235...

Short thread on Yvette Cooper's decision to ban Palestine Action. 🧵

In the Linen Hall library finishing prep for this roundtable and panel I am very excited to be on tomorrow at #BISA2025 If you're also in Belfast, come and join us! 🌈🎓

"diverted" is when the 75 bus goes through an alternative route due to roadworks, not when a boat is seized in international waters

Very proud seeing some former students' work included here!

An academic in our department gave a "trans-sceptical" talk on campus today. We have written an open letter to the Principal and University Secretary expressing our opposition to transphobia on our campus - we hope others in the RHUL community will sign: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

An academic in our department gave a "trans-sceptical" talk on campus today. We have written an open letter to the Principal and University Secretary expressing our opposition to transphobia on our campus - we hope others in the RHUL community will sign: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Today! Oxford people, see you there!

This has gone some way towards dissuading me from my (I hope) most reactionary opinion that you should have to pass a cycling proficiency test before renting a lime bike...

Just going to slowly introduce some of my research to BlueSky. I'm a critical theorist interested in political possibilities of new media, particularly memes. My first journal article was a theoretical framework for the political study of internet memes. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I have just signed the open letter "Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia" in response to the recent hateful and harmful Supreme Court ruling I hope others will too: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Trans women are women and no court judgement can change that. Without wanting to diminish the negative effect that legal oppression has on trans lives, there is no reason why lawyers and judges are qualified to make this argument over actual experts in the field.

regardless of today’s outcome, it is morally indefensible to have a court ruling on something that affects a population, using evidence and findings that did not consult a single member of that population.

And then we were 91. Royal Holloway already has had so many interventions and threats of redundancies in recent years. 😥

“Research into sexuality and gender is vital for identifying social, cultural, and medical needs of populations, and addressing inequalities across populations.” It’s good to see editors of academic journals refuse to comply with increasing state censorship of sexuality and gender scholarship. 🌈🎓

I have signed this statement "Against the Repression of Academic Freedom in the United States and its Disproportionate Impact on Racialized Peoples" and strongly encourage fellow academics to do so too: twailr.com/statement-ag... Thank you to the organisers for bringing this together

The unspeakable evil of this settler colonial genocide 💔 www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...

For the @theguardian.com I wrote about the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil & Trump's exploitation of anti-Palestinian racism to descend the nation into authoritarianism, with the full collaboration of academia. No one is free until Palestine is free. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Along with @jesshardie.bsky.social I wrote for @truthout.org about the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, and how universities are sowing their own demise, and that of the country's by continuing to suppress pro-Palestine campus movements. truthout.org/articles/as-...

Pretty thrilling being cited for the first time!!!

Couldn't recommend Henry's newsletter more - saves you ever scrolling mindlessly through hundreds of meh films again, and comes with thoughtful and political commentary on the state of cinema!

Just look at those big beautiful windows! And our gorgeous community! A far cry from @luciafrigo.bsky.social @tombarton.bsky.social and I alone in "the dungeon" three years ago

Excitedly tucking into my brilliant friend @contentking.bsky.social 's new book, as should anyone else who's ever wondered why women might join the far right 🤔🩷💊 Out today!

Call for papers! Myself & @daliasaris.bsky.social are planning to run a panel on knowledge and expertise in humanitarian practice at #EISAPEC25 in Bologna 25-29 August, details below. We will be welcoming paper contributions until 7 March, DM for questions! @europeanisa.bsky.social #EISAPEC2025

The Lancet, the world's most trusted medical journal, has published a new study showing that life expectancy in Gaza has dropped by almost half during the first 12 months of Israel’s live streamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians. loom.ly/OuzGfEc

Just found out about narrative CVs. What do you mean I have to write two cover letters??

Really looking forward to this!

Today at 1pm, the inimitable @mixosaurus.bsky.social is presenting "Eroticising the trans body: labels and descriptions of queer bodies in online erotica" as the Gender Institute's Scholar of the month🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ Join us in McCrea 1-17 or on Teams for what is sure to be a fascinating talk

Joe is underselling here that their article is about Bend It Like Beckham!

Trippy feeling finding yourself in the source you're analysing...

Colleagues making cool things!

Really, truly hope that the ceasefire holds - but this must not be the end of demanding accountability and redress for the genocide that has been perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinians, and the material and ideological support our governments lent it to do so.

A few shots of our PhD students in action at the Gender Institute and HARI lightning talks yesterday. They were joined by MRes student Josephine Carr and Dr Lyn Johnstone from our department as well as fantastic scholars from across the college. A great start to the term!

259,572 words later and the interview transcripts are finally finished! Turns out the one thing I procrastinate even more is writing...

Absolutely massive CfP for *The Handbook of Trans Cinema*: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/07/...

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I haven't posted much on here yet, but looking to connect with youth workers, practitioners, social workers, teachers etc for the project I'm working on at the moment - Challenging Justice Inequalities. We are looking to co-produce a research project with 14-17 year olds about justice inequalities.

Realising I need to renew my British Library card is really the moment that has brought home how far into the PhD I am 🤦‍♀️

We're kicking off the new year with five members of our department presenting at the Gender Institute and HARI's lightning talks on 14th Jan at 12 in EWD-1-04! Please join us to hear from them alongside networking and lunch 👩‍🏫🥪

Call for Papers: @kawezel.bsky.social and myself are organizing an early career workshop on 'International Political Sociologies of Planetary Crises' - please send us your abstracts and share widely!

Looks like sexualities book aesthetics go in 25 year cycles