A moment of gratitude for the Green Party greyhounds

So happy 💚

Expect weeks of "family voting" rhetoric from Reform. They're out of the gates on it already. It mustn't be allowed to wash because look at the scale of that win. Tactical voting has obviously played a massive part. Gorton and Denton rejected Reform and its hateful agenda.

Hello friends this February I will be running a total of 100k over the course of the whole month. I'm trying to raise money for #Dementia UK and the amazing work their specialist nurses do. Appreciate if you could donate or share. Thank you ! fundraise.dementiauk.org/s/32377/3307...

Hey Manchester! Join us Friday 20 March, at the @porticolibrary.bsky.social for the public launch of my book Queering Women, Peace and Security, with artist Sarah Joy Ford, followed by a reception. 🥂Free & open to all! Please RSVP here: bit.ly/4kDipk4 @uompols.bsky.social @oupprimary.bsky.social

Hey Manchester! Join us Friday 20 March, at the @porticolibrary.bsky.social for the public launch of my book Queering Women, Peace and Security, with artist Sarah Joy Ford, followed by a reception. 🥂Free & open to all! Please RSVP here: bit.ly/4kDipk4 @uompols.bsky.social @oupprimary.bsky.social

Now you can get my book Queering Women, Peace and Security for 30% off with a promotional code! (AUFLY30) Pass it on.

Aston uni Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement is looking for participants for a workshop on centring abolition as transformative practice in our daily lives within and outside of academia🌟 Deadline 26 Jan & workshop on 12-13 May 🎉 👉 More info on sheet attached below! Dr Amal Abu-Bakare

One of our reporters, @alyssaur.bsky.social, is in Minneapolis. She wrote this week about Renee Good's queeness and the queer and trans people out in the streets of her city observing and protesting against ICE. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

“There are various queer events in Lagos that thrive in spaces free from the burdens of visibility. Yet the recent interest from Western media and content creators in documenting and broadcasting these spaces transforms them into public spectacles.” Visibility is not always key to queer survival.

The book examines the experiences of queer and trans displaced people across the world, asking how their lives and actions challenge the political theory of refuge. In doing so, we follow an imagined journey through home, persecution, flight, assessment, containment, reunion, and sanctuary.

It's officially publication day for our book, The Way Out. It's been a long road. Rebecca and I started working together in 2019, and it's fair to say that the context shifted under our feet as we wrote and thought. Get the text 30% off with code UCPSAVE30 at www.ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...

The constant reassurances that Rebecca “wasn’t political” grate, because so what if she was? That said, I do feel the ICE raids are activating people who otherwise don’t do much. When you come to people’s homes, they are going to get angry. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Great piece by my Cato colleague. “Since July, immigration agents have shot at least six people behind the wheel of a vehicle. The same playbook is used each time: the agent says they “feared for their life” as a vehicle was “weaponized” against them. Juries should decide, but we tie their hands.

“Our analysis shows that the platform is boosting right-wing content, extreme content, and politicians X owner Elon Musk favours.” X is a platform of disinformation and AI generated abuse material. The content it boosts corrupts our capacity for informed conversations and furthers fascist politics.

Today, we will be starting off 2026 by attending what might be the first protest for trans rights of the year. GATE (Guiders Against Trans Exclusion)'s Birmingham protest against Girlguiding's ban on trans girls will begin at 12:00 noon. Come back to the thread closer to the time for updates.

This looks like 1,000 videos I've seen from authoritarian states

NEW from Important Context: Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S. www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...

ICE is a reproductive justice problem.

These students are being brutally harassed by their government and still showing more bravery and integrity than most college presidents.

Six months ago @profmichaelross.bsky.social and I wrote in Foreign Affairs that the US is increasingly behaving like a petrostate. Seems relevant today

Five years later, the insurrectionists have received presidential pardons and the man who led the attack is back in power apparently trying to destroy the world as we know it. Many of us didn’t vote to elect this leader; but many more did. Now here we are… foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/08/g...

There’s a lot going on right now, but I can’t end the day without publicly acknowledging the January 6 insurrection. Five years ago, the idea “this is not who we are” was laid bare for what it is: a great American myth. I wrote about it in @foreignpolicy.com (link below)…

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

The admin is proposing indefinite control of Venezuelan oil, but evidence suggests that Venezuelan cooperation will only extend as far as it‘s coerced - and can’t extend past what the crumbing infrastructure can generate. Meanwhile ordinary Venezuelans continue to suffer. @goodauth.bsky.social

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Becca Good, the wife of Renee Good, has released her first public statement since the shooting “We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness. Renee lived this belief every day.”

On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.

“More than 250 people were subjected to painful electric shocks, designed to change their sexual preferences and gender identity, in NHS hospitals between 1965 and 1973…” And in 2025, conversion practices remain legal in the UK and the government is abusing trans youth by denying them healthcare.

We’re doing a book launch for COOP at @pagesofhackney.bsky.social on 28 January and you can book your spot now! Nida Sajid will be in conversation with Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi — we can’t wait 🥹🥹 events.humanitix.com/coop-nida-sa...

It’s publication day for Ideas on Fire author Jamie J. Hagen @jamiejhagen.bsky.social! 🎉 Queering Women, Peace and Security: Expanding Feminist Approaches to Gender in Peacebuilding is out now from Oxford University Press. global.oup.com/academic/pro... #IoFAuthors

Check out my piece on the @mybisa.bsky.social blog. I reflect on The best books on queer movement building: +Queer Migration Politics +Transnational LGBT Activism +But Some of Us Are Brave +Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique +The Revolution Starts at Home www.bisa.ac.uk/articles/bes...

🚨NEW: England wide strike action to hit 33 colleges Our members will down tools for 3 days in January in a fight for pay unless we get decent offers. Time for management to start negotiating! www.ucu.org.uk/article/1427... #NewDealForFE

Tks to @reclaimtheagenda.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute to 16 Blogs for #16days. I revisit the roots of this campaign, & the many voices who were part of starting this transnational movement. I end my post by naming those who were part of launching the campaign in 1991. #16Days #16DaysNI

In discussion: Jamie J. Hagen 🎉 Get to know Jamie, our EDI officer, a little better through our interview series as she talks about why she wanted to be a BISA trustee & wants to achieve, her area of research & more! 🌟 Full article here! 👉 https://ow.ly/176Z50XCAYH @julietdryden.bsky.social

Such a lovely bunch of people to spend time with at a holiday party. Thank you to @tonihaastrup.bsky.social for helping me to showcase the fancy vegan treats on offer, as one must. Cheers also to a party with non-alc options aplenty. 🥂

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "Queering the Gender Perspective in the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda", @jamiejhagen.bsky.social considers the challenges involved in forging a queerer future in WPS. gendersky polisky buff.ly/qvNpibx

So glad that @kevinguyan.bsky.social joined us in @uompols.bsky.social this week! Really appreciate his work complicating how and why we collect queer data. Grateful that he also took some time for cuppa with a group of staff and students in a very festive Christie's Bistro!

Read this. Audi is a friend of mine, and we really got to know each other during that 2019 time period. We lived across the park from each other, sharing meals, going for walks, organizing queer & feminist happy hours. In the back of her mind I know she was also thinking about her green card status.

On Wed 29 Jan 2025, the Univ of Manchester’s UCU branch passed a BDS motion, calling on the institution to support BDS & academic and cultural boycott of Israeli institutions. To read the motion in full, follow link or scan QR-code in visual. #Palestine 🇵🇸

Now or never. We’re heading into the final stretch of the ballot and every vote matters. Join us live on Monday at 7pm as we break down what’s at stake, answer your questions, and keep the momentum going. Vote or lose your say.

I love this thread - including photos of lesbians organizing at Beijing in 1995! In my book I look at this lesbian advocacy as it relates to the movement for women's peacebuilding globally. Check it out here, and message me if you have any trouble accessing it. academic.oup.com/book/61612/c...

To the lesbians on the frontlines and those who can't be, to lesbians everywhere: Thank you. Here's to you—past, present, and future. 🩷

2. Global humanitarian funding has collapsed 53% in two years - from $43.3 billion in 2022 to $20.3 billion today. The US alone dropped from $14.1 billion to $3.06 billion. No donor bloc is positioned to replace what's been lost. (2/x)

The global humanitarian system is disintegrating in real time; this is the reality for @unhcr.org: 1. UNHCR is ending 2025 with $1.3 billion less than last year, a 30% workforce reduction, and 185 offices consolidated or closed. (1/x)

“This courage to withstand, as feminists, the reformulated myth of the black rapist at the core of Zionism’s femonationalist gambit is also a profound antifascist commitment. We are, quite simply, drawing a line and then holding it, until our … demands are met.” www.newarab.com/opinion/no-o...