Very excited to be heading down to London for the launch of the ‘Beyond Misinformation?’ project today! Also excited to have two uninterrupted hours to dig into this much anticipated book on the journey 📚

Sharing our surveys for birth doulas and for healthcare professionals (both broadly defined) for a project with @annanelson95.bsky.social on birth doulas and medical law. Please share widely!

Following from our MLR workshop last year, @zainamahmoud.bsky.social and I are organising a workshop on embodiment & colonialism in November! We are grateful to the @slsauk.bsky.social for supporting this event and look forward to what we hope will be a great discussion.

People often express concerns that birth doulas are entirely unregulated, but the reality is a little more nuanced - as @bevclough.bsky.social & I unpack here: birthdoulas.mmu.ac.uk/2025/09/22/b...

On the theme of countering invisibility, I'm glad to support Black Maternal Mental Health Week UK 2025, led by The Motherhood Group (@TheMotherhoodGroup on Instagram/LinkedIn/TikTok). It’s time to #MakeBlackMothersVisible. #BlackMaternalMentalHealthWeek #BMMHW25 More: themotherhoodgroup.org/bmmhw25/

The Canadian player who is smashing this #RWC25 semi-final in full festival glitter is my new idol ✨

Now more people are back this seems like a good time to give another shout out about this NEW edited collection on consent in reproductive care, including chapters from @drsamhalliday.bsky.social @annanelson95.bsky.social @zainamahmoud.bsky.social @emmacave.bsky.social and more

Surveys are now live - link are in the thread!

People had abortions today and it didn’t affect their local politicians’ lives in any way!

"Obstetrics is one of the most expensive services provided by hospitals, especially in rural areas, which often see a larger portion of Medicaid patients. With financial hits looming, hospitals are primed to close maternity wards first, and rural areas are particularly vulnerable." @19thnews.org

Despite my best efforts, we are back here… if anyone is looking for a socio-legal / medical law researcher do let me know! Particularly interested in all things #childbirth, #obstetricviolence #reproductivetechnology and #consent but absolutely not fussy at this stage 📚

Oh boy do I have *thoughts* on academic job hunting, institutional processes / practices, (lack of) care and candidate wellbeing.

Women's sport and social activism are closely intertwined in many way, which makes the silence about Palestine at the #WEURO2025 all the louder.

All Our Relations are doing brilliant work directly supporting and feeding families in Gaza: www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...

HONESTLY supporting the Lionesses is starting to feel like supporting Scotland. My body can’t handle it.

An important framing here: “This isn’t just a story about a single miscarriage of justice, it’s also a story about how science can shape & reshape the law, and about all the ways that our ideas of women, of mothers, of motherhood shape the law too - often in ways that are invisible, but intractable”

Today, Five X More has published a comprehensive survey of 1,000+ Black and mixed heritage mothers, who were pregnant between 2021 and 2025. Their findings are worrying and shine a light on why Black mothers remain 3x more likely to die in pregnancy & childbirth. 1/6 🧵

“The issue doesn’t get the attention it deserves.” O'Neill's Jennifer Li talks to CRE Daily about the housing crisis threatening US cities ahead of the FIFA World Cup. www.credaily.com/briefs/housi...

New article! Embodied Experiences of Trans Pregnancy. Published in the journal Body & Society, this article is part of a special issue on Pregnant Bodies and Embodied Pregnancy. We draw on interviews with trans men and non-binary people to explore the lived, bodily complexities of trans pregnancy.

New article: ✨Relational dynamite: Engagements with kinship at the interface of donor conception & DNA testing Petra Nordqvist, Leah Gilman, Caroline Redhead, Marie Fox, Nicky Hudson @fimaccallum.bsky.social @lucyfrith.bsky.social from #ConnecteDNA www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'm excited for the day when 'the algorithm' can tell the difference between 'I've looked at this Uni course page repeatedly because I'm considering applying to study' AND 'I've painstakingly poured over this page to prepare for an interview/application for a job from which I've since been rejected'

This advert has stayed with me and the piece has grown legs - none of which are legal or bioethical so I’m not sure where to try and publish it! I’d describe it as a (feminist) close reading of the advert and its visual / textual rhetoric. Any suggestions about where might take it? (2000-3000 words)

Has instagram ever served you an advert so egregious that you immediately lost three hours of your afternoon writing about it? On a totally connected note, does anyone have a suggestion for where might publish a piece that interrogates the framing of labiaplasty in an ad send from neoliberal hell?!

And so abortion will be decriminalised in England & Wales, if partially Great to see support for stopping the prosecution of abortion-seekers Terrible to see it depend on a Bill that increases police powers, criminalises poverty & restricts protest rights www.alliance4choice.com/decrim-in-uk

Don't forget - we are recruiting Artist Collaborators! Learn more about this fabulous opportunity here! These artists will participate in a collaborative residency alongside Artist-in-Residence Dr Louise Atkinson. www.sheffield.ac.uk/cripping-bre...

Feminist liberation and trans liberation are fundamentally intertwined, as are trans justice and reproductive justice. When people seek to restrict trans people’s rights, we cannot take seriously their claim to advocate for women’s rights.

So glad that the Commons has agreed an amendment to partially decriminalise abortion. But this is just a first step, the fight isn't over. goodlaw.social/la2u

I was worried about giving this presentation today, as the funding for the project that it comes from was rejected last week. However, @feministjurisdg.bsky.social created a warm, curious & supportive space to play around with these new ideas - and renewed my faith in the project's potential!

I'm looking forward to sharing some (early!) WIP at the @feministjurisdg.bsky.social Annual Workshop on Fri. I'll be talking about the need to underpin our analyses of barriers to lawful birth with an understanding of midwives as undervalued, gendered care labourers www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

I am just a girl, standing in front of jobs.ac.uk, trying to apply for every lectureship going, asking WHY there is ZERO standardisation of application processes. Cover letter, no cover letter. Narrative supporting statement, structured examples, individual questions. CV, no CV. It's anyone's guess.

Despite my best efforts, we are back here… if anyone is looking for a socio-legal / medical law researcher do let me know! Particularly interested in all things #childbirth, #obstetricviolence #reproductivetechnology and #consent but absolutely not fussy at this stage 📚

The Reset Ethics: Moral Harm project has released its open-access resource package on moral distress and moral injury in healthcare. Free to download. @annanelson95.bsky.social Explore and share: www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/research/pro... #moral #distress #bioethics #nhs

Have never been more grateful to be heading off to Prague for our wonderful little Fringe for the next few weeks. Here's being very adult and literally running away from both impending unemployment and big funding rejections (looking at you, Leverhulme). Na Zdraví!

Our trans and non-binary colleagues, students, friends and siblings enrich our universities, our feminism and our lives in immeasurable and untold ways. We must not let hate win. Feminist academics and educators, add your names here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I long for a Labour Party that instead recognises that what we need to do is to end the *exploitation* of care labourers both from the UK and from abroad, to recognise the invaluable contribution they make to our communities rather than to dismiss their work as ‘lower skilled’.

Exciting things happening at our wonderful little fringe 👏🏻

So pleased to see this brilliant project (for which I can take absolutely no credit!) get the recognition it deserves 👏🏻

I’m indescribably glad that she was acquitted, but it’s heartbreaking by that she had to go through this ordeal in the first place. Abortion is healthcare, and there is no role for the criminal law. #FullDecrimNow www.bbc.com/news/article...

*Stares in legal academic*.

Attendees at the #RDconf last Saturday voted on an emergency motion to show their opposition to the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman. Read the motion below 👇 BMA-wide policy is set at the Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in June 2025.

This @britishacademy.bsky.social / @leverhulme.ac.uk project on #doulas officially starts today: looking forward to getting past the ethics approval stage and on to the fun bits! @bevclough.bsky.social

Our trans and non-binary colleagues, students, friends and siblings enrich our universities, our feminism and our lives in immeasurable and untold ways. We must not let hate win. Feminist academics and educators, add your names here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

In this week’s #Frontiers, Borderlands section, Bev Clough (Manchester Metropolitan) and Anna Nelson (Manchester) introduce a new research network which seeks to explore novel dynamics in - and approaches to - medical law. 📖 Read the full post here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/shifting-dyn...

"Every border implies the violence of its maintenance. It’s just that the border guards differ..."

We know today may feel especially heavy for our trans and non-binary siblings. If you’re feeling overwhelmed or affected by the UK Supreme Court’s decision, please know you’re not alone. We’re here for you every day from 10am to 10pm. #TransRights #Trans #NonBinary #SupremeCourt #Gender

On the way to SLSA Liverpool! Looking forward to presenting work with @annanelson95.bsky.social on Home and the Spatio-Legal Dynamics of Birth in the Shifting Dynamics in Medical Law panel tomorrow @slsauk.bsky.social

Excited to be en route to Liverpool for #SLSA25! A double first for me today- first time presenting as part of the wonderful ConnecteDNA project team & first time presenting in the IT Law & Cyberspace stream (so if you're at the presentation, please be gentle with me!).

In @pet-bionews.bsky.social, @lucyfrith.bsky.social and I reflect on the particular implications of the 23andMe saga for the donor conceived community - and what this means for wider calls for reform in this area of law: www.progress.org.uk/23andme-bank...

Lots coming up for the Shifting Dynamics in Medical Law Network. If you're at @slsauk.bsky.social do come to our panel on Wednesday 11-12.30 @annanelson95.bsky.social Then on 20th May we have an online Network event-Thinking about movement. More info here eventbrite.co.uk/e/shifting-d...