Are you trans, aged 16-25 and based in the UK? Are you interested in taking part in a project to explore your experiences of community and belonging? Do you want to receive a free art box in the post filled with activities and creative materials? Find out more about Create/Connect here!🧵 1/

🏳️‍⚧️ Prayer motions against the EHRC code are important, but the fight from here is legislative. Will you join us inside Parliament on 25th June 11-4 to demand better? www.transsolidarityalliance.com/mass-lobby-2...

✨Open-access publication @ersjournal.com✨ Drawing on intersectionality, spatial & standpoint theory, I propose the framework of 'locational intersectionality' as a decolonial margin standpoint on structural inequality across scales. doi.org/10.1080/0141...

June is Pride Month. We’re sharing free access to LGBTQIA+ research exploring identity, equity, health, and more. Explore here: https://ow.ly/11q450Z4lk4 #LGBTQIA #AcademicResearch #PrideMonth

Happy Pride Month! Remember to wave your flags with your non-dominant hand so that you're free to offer help and kindness to those in need or strike a blow against fascism with your dominant one. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Does anyone have a personal recommendation for books about Schiaparelli? Histories, biographies, anything that's well researched and well written? We're off to the exhibition at the V&A soon and I want to do a bit of reading beforehand. Bonus points for anything about Daniel Roseberry! Thanks! 🩷

NEW RESOURCE! Media folks: check out our new guide on covering anti-trans rhetoric & the criminalization of trans people. By Arielle Rebekah of Trans & Caffeinated Communications, IC Abolition Journalism Fellow Lewis Raven Wallace, & our cofounder Andrea J. Ritchie. bit.ly/TransCrimina...

You'll need to go for a long walk to calm down after you read how the UK got to here on trans rights. If you're only ever going to read one piece on trans people, this would be the one.

Just managed to put in a last-minute abstract for the @tvce.bsky.social/BiGS symposium this year. Thank you so much for having extended the application deadline! Fingers crossed! 🩵🩷🤍

You’re not alone. Our trained LGBTQIA+ volunteers are here to listen to any concerns you may have as a result of the revised EHRC guidance being laid before parliament. We’ve supported the community through trials and tribulations for over 50 years, and we’re here for you today.

Here's my first impressions FAQ on the EHRC document. Questions welcome. sandraduffy.blog/2026/05/21/f...

The updated code of practice for services, public functions and associations has been laid before Parliament. The guidance tells organisations how they should approach trans inclusion. Here’s what that means.

How should the #sociology of #sexuality incorporate #race into research in meaningful ways? And how should we also focus on pleasure, joy, and desire? Check out this work by Terrell J.A. Winder and Kendall Ota. doi.org/10.1177/3033...

My PhD research questionnaires and interviews have been reopened ONE LAST TIME until 23/04/2026 for more UK non-binary participants: - from global majority backgrounds - from working class backgrounds - aged 15, 16 & 17 Let's talk about how you use clothes, accessories etc. as a non-binary person!

The government's draft of Keeping Children Safe in Education 2026 sets out proposals that would have a profoundly negative impact on trans, non binary and gender diverse children in schools and colleges. Please respond, and speak up for trans+ children's right to learn (links in comments)🧵

By getting Vic and Bob to lure the ships through with the 'dove from above' routine from Shooting Stars.

My new article "Kant as Methodology: Race, White Ignorance, and Intellectual Responsibility" is now out in Critical Philosophy of Race (Penn State University Press). Open Access copy here: jasminekgani.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... (summary of core arguments in thread below) @lseir.bsky.social

Picking a film at our house... Him: Let's watch this one. Me: Why? Him: We liked the trailer. Me: Never watched it. Him: It's got her in it. Me: Who's her? Him: The blonde one. Me: Which blonde one? Him: She has teeth. We watch the film. Never remember seeing a trailer. Don't ever recognise 'her'.

Completely by chance, I came across Neuroqueer Heresies by Nick Walker, and appear to have answered my own question. I'm really quite excited to make the time to read this next week. Trying to find a way of engaging with my PhD thesis that respects how my brain processes and produces information.

Almost a 100% hit rate on students citing Gender Trouble in their essays. Imagine if Butler got royalties that way. Makes me laugh that, one year, I'll get about 15 near-identical definitions of performativity, and the next, every single student off-roads and gives me a brand new interpretation...

Hey, academic Bluesky! Am I hallucinating, or had someone out there written about 'working neurodivergence into research methodologies'? Something along those lines? Something kind-of-but-not-quite using the experience of having ADHD or ASD, for example, to almost 'queer' doing your research? No?

Nearly 10,000 online and open access collections of material related to radical, labour and anti-colonial history from around the world now available. Browse the full list here: hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...

Bookshop Lady (grumbling): 'You don't look very wet.' Me: 'Oh, I run between the drops.' Her: ... Me: ... Her: >:( Me: :D

Run, don't walk, to get copies for your local and university libraries, and your bookshelves at home!

There is something so unsettling to me about Valentine's Day stuff and hot cross buns on the shelves by 9 Jan, only summer clothes in some shops, and TV ads for 'savings schemes' for Christmas 2026. There must be something somewhere written about capitalism and the collapse of the cultural calendar.

Shocked, but not surprised, by the way in which the US invasion of Venezuela is being spoken about on BBC news. Language in the 10:30 Radio 6 bulletin arguably legitimised actions taken, the authority the US claims over Maduro and their allegations against him. Bizarre and horrific in equal measure.

Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops

Stop whatever you're doing and go and download yourself a copy of this: Decolonial Approaches to Gender Nonconformity! It's open access! It's right there!

Another important and timely thread about student and lecturer experiences. It's been getting harder both to learn and teach for a long time.

Just seen this thanks to @kariebookish.bsky.social. I've been involved in HE as student/staff for most of the past 20 years and the rise in student disengagement - and its spiking over the past couple of years in particular - has been an absolutely heartbreaking experience. This thread hits me hard.

My PhD primary research questionnaires and interviews have been reopened until 23/01/2026 - after more UK non-binary participants: - from global majority backgrounds - from working class backgrounds - aged 15, 16 and 17 Let's talk about how you use clothes, accessories etc. as a non-binary person!

We've just been to see Predator: Badlands. It's as though someone handed the franchise over to the Star Trek: Lower Decks writers, who then wrote the whole script the furthest off their tits on shrooms that any human could ever be whilst nudging each other in the ribs and going, 'omg what if'.

Both @lizziereed.bsky.social and @robinskyer.bsky.social are pretty great - and so is their article!

This is a great article by Alex Adamson for Philosophy and Global Affairs that bridges trans studies, intersex studies, and decolonial feminism. #AcademicSky #AcademicResearch #TransStudies #IntersexStudies #DecolonialStudies #PhilSky #GenderSky #Wynter #Lugones #TransSky doi.org/10.5840%2Fpg...

Researchers from the University of Birmingham are recruiting transgender or non-binary individuals who were born into a Sikh family. To explore intersecting domains of gender and religion. Please email them for further information on [email protected] #TransResearch

And another one for the big birthday book list! This looks like an incredibly exciting addition to everyone's queer bookshelf.

The winter term is about to start, and with it our lecture series on "Global Politics, Gender, and (In-)Equality". The lectures will take place on selected Thursdays via Zoom. The series unpacks the complex entanglements of global politics, gender, and (in-)equality in contemporary societies. [1]

☎️ Call For Papers ☎️ 🔹International Symposium: Far Right, Gender and Femonationalism🔹 Mid-March 2026, Lausanne CRAPUL and CEG (UNIL) invite scholars to submit proposals for a three-day symposium on far-right politics and gender. 👉 Full CFP text: urlr.me/35GyhK ⏰ Deadline : 30th October 2025

20th Nov 2025 at 2.00 pm (Paris time), I'll be giving a talk on queer & decolonial thinking & how it is evolving in our times. It's co-badged by Université Paris Cité & CLAGS, CUNY. Everyone is welcome. Image courtesy: Mario Patiño Hybrid event. Registration required: u-paris.fr/universite-o...

The EHRC Code will devastate trans people's lives. This is an emergency. Here are three ways to fight back. Take action now: www.transsolidarityalliance.com/ehrc-code

🚨 New police powers could ban face coverings at Pride protests even if you need to protect your identity because: 🔴 Risk of domestic abuse 🔴 You're not out as queer/Trans+ 🔴 Fear of political views being made public Health and disability reasons also won't prevent you getting arrested 🧵Here's why

I know I should be neither shocked nor surprised at how the BBC news bulletins are being used to very clearly stir up anti-immigrant and anti-trans hate, but FUCKING HELL. The last two days' worth on Radio 6 have really felt like getting punched in the guts every hour. It's abhorrent.

Semi-regular reminder that if you want to understand and combat our current transphobic moment in the UK, then 'TERF Wars' from @notrightruth.bsky.social and many other incredible activists and academics is essential reading - and nearly all available for free: ruthpearce.net/books/terf-w...

This has emerged as the account of the employee targeted following the recent transphobic incident in a branch of M&S: www.reddit.com/r/transgende... I sincerely hope the following four things: 1. This really is the person involved, and that no one online has been low enough to fake this 1/

I have a piece in this quarter's Sonshine Magazine, in which I reflect on a boyhood that didn't lead to the manhood of my father's dreams. If you're interested in writing that explores and encourages a better world for people raising sons (or trying to), check it out: sonshinemagazine.com

Just been to see Weapons. It's great - a bit of a slow start, but things get tense and intelligent, with what I'm thinking of as a gentle squeeze of contemporary folk horror and a smidgen of small town gothic. Come for the vegetable peelers, stay for the Naruto runs. Go and see it on a big screen!

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

Overjoyed to make it to the letterbox before the dogs this morning to finally get my hands on a copy of 78 Acts of Liberation by @leftlanesmith.bsky.social. Omelette was clearly disappointed I snatched the parcel away before she could drag it under the sofa and chew it to pieces.

Would you know what to do if you experienced transphobic discrimination at work? We’re running free Know Your Rights at Work Zoom workshops. Come along and hear how UK law protects you. The next session's on 25th August. Sign up at: buff.ly/yuKaqiP #KnowYourRights #workshop #transrights