“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...

This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead. Trans People Deserve Better. "Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right open.substack.com/pub/wellread...

Tune to Out-FM on WBAI/NY Tu., 10/21 at 8pm ET as Out-FM speaks with Sarah Schulman about her new book, "The Fantasy & Necessity of Solidarity". In her book she discusses Solidarity w/Palestine, @actupny & the ReproRights mvment. Stream: www.wbai.org/listen-live/ Archived outfm.org/liberation/i...

Pre order print copies here! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

🚨Exciting news! Today is pub day for my book Queering Women, Peace and Security: Expanding Feminist Approaches to Gender in Peacebuilding. 🚨 You can preorder print copies now and the online edition of the book is already available to subscribers to Oxford Academic at this link: bit.ly/4hP3wdc

Gearing up for another day of panels at the Lesbian Lives 2025 conference at CLAGS in NYC. #lesbianlives2025

I'm in New York City for a couple of conferences and seeing pockets of resistance everywhere, from the displays of banned books in libraries to the abolish ice graffiti on the streets.

Please join us for this panel tomorrow with excellent colleagues. "Seeing beyond the core: alternative visions of order in times of global crisis" All welcome: 22 Oct 6.30pm, at LSE @iliasalami.bsky.social @giuliasciorati.bsky.social @lseir.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

In my brief critical reflection for @politicsgenderj.bsky.social I argue for moving beyond rhetoric to meaningfully engage with LGBTQ communities in WPS efforts, and what this means in terms of practical steps for creating space for queer perspectives in peacebuilding. bit.ly/4onUXYZhttp:...

#FirstView from @politicsgenderj.bsky.social - Queering the Gender Perspective in the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda - https://cup.org/3IXpZaM - @jamiejhagen.bsky.social#FirstView

Wildlife biologist Corina Newsome joins me on this week's podcast to talk about how birding is beneficial for racial justice and conservation at large. “ What birds require of us will benefit us in ways that are far beyond bird conservation." Listen @mongabay.com

i don’t really understand why this made me start bawling i just really love seeing people try to help each other in creative ways and that this shit is necessary

This is the quote I want to share at the beginning of any course I'm teaching about human rights, the international system and the UN. Thank you Grace Lee Boggs, who died this day a decade ago, for your 70 years of activism and writing.

New Podcast Episode: The Gender Clinic Files Part 1 In this episode: How Wes Streeting used out of date information A look at the centuries-long waiting list How newer clinics are doing much more with less, compared to the old GIC system. And more! whatthetrans.com/ep141/

This happened last night and I hadn't heard about it until this post, so went to the BBC News homepage. You have to go all the way down the page, below recipes for 30 minute meals, and you find it as a text link in 'politics'.

EXCLUSIVE: At least 20 incidents linked to anti-migrant protests, racism and the far right in the last two months have exposed rising political tensions across Scotland They include attacks on mosques, hotels, alleged assaults – and the jailing of a neo-Nazi for slashing a student with a knife

Spooneration on Brownsea yesterday @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk

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...

A silly little puff of a bird. (Common Yellowthroat just starting to grow in his black eye mask) #birds 🌿

This and other books are available from @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social. All proceeds from the following titles go to The Sameer Project: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/...

Originally published by Drum & Spear, the publishing arm of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Enemy of the Sun: Poetry of Palestinian Resistance links twelve Palestinian poets working in a poetics of refusal and of hope. Available now wherever fine books are sold.

Thread [3] Check out our latest display at the Horton Library for #NationalPoetryDay! In keeping with this year's theme of 'play', we've put out some of our favourite playful, subversive and tongue-in-cheek poems. Unwind and have a read, or (if you're feeling adventurous) try your hand at writing!

Love like a Poet! Happy National Poetry Day!

Book launch: Join Claire Blencowe at @warwickuni.bsky.social for the launch of her new book, Spirits of extraction: Christianity, settler colonialism and the geology of race🔨 🗓️October 9th ⏰4-5:30pm 📍Ramphal Building, R1.15 Find out more on the Events page on the MUP website.

The UK 'just protecting children' "Teachers say trans pupils 'limiting food and drink' to avoid school toilets" news.stv.tv/politics/tea...

That being said Christian Aid staff are incredible and committed and do amazing advocacy,on the ground and also in region. Big up CA Scotland! This is a senior management issue.

I am one of the two staff who resigned over the suppression of the Queering toolkit. There was absolutely no reason, theologically or in terms of research quality or policy to suppress it. The senior management, as with their inability to name a genocide, continue to serve donors, not partners.

Christian Aid instructs staff not to refer to “genocide” in Gaza: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/09... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)