Gulls are great! Took this pic on the Causeway Coast in Northern Ireland in 2024. By the way, I like to take pictures of birds, and you can see some here: picturesofbirds.tumblr.com

📣 ACADEMIC JOB: Manchester Law School is recruiting researchers. We are a critical, socio-legal school with specialisms in Rights, Inequalities & Justice; Regulation & Sustainability; Sports & Creative Cultures. Please consider applying and/or spreading the word. manmetjobs.mmu.ac.uk/jobs/vacancy...

Deadline to express your interest in being a participant is Wednesday the 15th!

The Australian Feminist Law Journal (@aflj.bsky.social) published a symposium on my new book. My book explores how emotions shape legal conflicts over LGBT rights and reforms. I’m honoured that some brilliant scholars shared their thoughts on my book and the importance of doing critical legal work.

Marking the first set of assignments for my UG module Global Politics of LGBTQ+ Rights and they are exceptional! I've had them write their essays as reflection pieces. So much more enjoyable and creative a format for them to write, and me to read. Meanwhile, enjoying feeling sun in our kitchen.

Female Emperor Moth, in torchlight, on a Surrey Heath earlier this week. #TeamMoth

Our concerns are grave. That doesn't mean our protest needs to be. The inflatable animals are *such* an upgrade to the whimsy on the picket line.

The report calls for a strengthened UK National Action Plan and long‑term investment. Cuts to development funding risk undermining progress on gender justice and peacebuilding. What changes would you like to see in the UK’s WPS approach? #WomenPeaceSecurity #GenderEquality 🧵5/5

Dr Jamie J. Hagen (@jamiejhagen.bsky.social) stressed the need for the WPS agenda to better protect LGBTQ rights and ensure cross‑government implementation. 🧵4/

Dr Laura McLeod and Dr Georgina Holmes highlighted why strong monitoring and meaningful indicators matter, especially when gender equality efforts face defunding. 🧵3/

Prof Toni Haastrup (@tonihaastrup.bsky.social) advised the inquiry and provided written & oral evidence. Her research on feminist foreign policy is central to the report’s conclusions. 🧵2/

The House of Commons International Development Committee’s report, "Peace Under Pressure", warns that the UK’s commitments to WPS are weakening amid rising global conflict and gender backlash. Let's explore what our researchers had to say about this 👇 🧵1/

Do you research or work in civil society on issues related to queer justice, peace or security? Join me & @sritholtz.bsky.social at @manchester.ac.uk, 12th & 13th October, 2026 for the Security Peace & Justice for Queer Lives in Conflict conference. Express your interest to attend: bit.ly/3NG09dR

In Stockholm April 23rd? Don't miss @jamiejhagen.bsky.social s open lecture "Queers for Peace: Sites of Transnational and Coalitional Solidarity" at @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social. ⏱️13.00-14.30 - Registration required! www.fhs.se/en/swedish-d... #queer #peace #solidarity #queersecuritynetwork

A robin keeps visiting our backyard and motivated me to re-up the garden goodies I have on offer for my bird friends.

Happening tomorrow in Manchester - join us!

Do you research or work in civil society on issues related to queer justice, peace or security? Join me and @sritholtz.bsky.social at @manchester.ac.uk, 12th and 13th October, 2026 for the Security Peace and Justice for Queer Lives in Conflict conference. Submit your abstract here: bit.ly/3NG09dR

For over a month, NYC nurses stood firm and refused to accept half-measures. It was a privilege to join them on the picket line then, and an honor to join them at the bowling lanes to celebrate their victory with a few mores strikes.

Practitioners highly encouraged to apply! Please share with your networks.

Do you research or work in civil society on issues related to queer justice, peace or security? Join me and @sritholtz.bsky.social at @manchester.ac.uk, 12th and 13th October, 2026 for the Security Peace and Justice for Queer Lives in Conflict conference. Submit your abstract here: bit.ly/3NG09dR

EVENT: Queer feminists for peace: Queering Women, Peace & Security 📚Book launch, at @porticolibrary.bsky.social Library in Manchester, Friday, 20 Mar, 18:30 Author in conversation with Maya Sharma, Sarah-Joy Ford & Róisín Read. Talk followed by reception. All welcome, RSVP! 🔗 bit.ly/4kDipk4

📚Announcing a few events where I'll be talking about my book this Spring. More details to follow, but save the dates! Get in touch if you'd like to arrange a time for me to visit your bookstore, policy event or campus to talk about the legacy and importance of queer feminist solidarity against war.

📚Announcing a few events where I'll be talking about my book this Spring. More details to follow, but save the dates! Get in touch if you'd like to arrange a time for me to visit your bookstore, policy event or campus to talk about the legacy and importance of queer feminist solidarity against war.

Just a flavour, but there are currently four 'permanent' jobs on jobs.ac.uk in politics, and **not one** in the UK.

Seen in Minneapolis

Cheryl Rofer (former scientist at Los Alamos): 'It’s time to say it again: It’s highly doubtful that the Iranians were pursuing a nuclear weapon. And they certainly don’t have any.' nucleardiner.wordpress.com/2026/03/01/i...

Ahead of the one year anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling, I am leading a survey on its impacts on people's day-to-day lives. The online survey will run from Monday, 2 March to Monday, 30 March 2026. The responses will form part of an overall report. Survey link: forms.gle/g1578gYHu28k...

A lichen collage on seaside rock. Newfoundland, Canada. Includes Xanthoria (leafy yellow), Physcia (grey), Rusavskia (orange) and Polycaulinia (the other yellow lichen). #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Inhumane, horrifying, disgusting

“Frameworks permitting routine exclusion or discretionary verification of sex based on appearance or stereotypes would raise serious concerns under international human rights law…” UN experts remind the UK that it must avoid gender policing and ensure trans folk can live with safety and dignity. 🏳️‍⚧️

Some exciting upcoming events from EACW's Centre for the Study of Sexuality & Culture! Venues across Manchester, throughout the semester. Speakers include @naoisemurphy.bsky.social, @jamiejhagen.bsky.social, @katiehbarnes.bsky.social, @lizrosenfeld.bsky.social & @noisybits.bsky.social

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