Have you ever considered how social researchers may contribute (knowingly, intentionally or otherwise!) to epistemic injustice and oppression through research practices? Dr Zara Bain has, and will be hosting a free webinar to bring this discussion to life. Join us on Tues 24 Feb @ 7pm GMT.

My full PhD thesis on disabled people's encounters with strangers in accessible #BlueBadge parking spaces is now publicly available: etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/17... TLDR? Here's the summary report instead: drive.google.com/file/d/1wmfK... #DisabilitySky #DisabilityStudies

US post about considering trans people as disabled for legal purposes 19thnews.org/2026/01/disa... and how the current US fascist administration is trying to reverse that and how it's not the end of the fight. Often what trans people need is flexibility and 'reasonable accommodations'.

My full PhD thesis on disabled people's encounters with strangers in accessible #BlueBadge parking spaces is now publicly available: etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/17... TLDR? Here's the summary report instead: drive.google.com/file/d/1wmfK... #DisabilitySky #DisabilityStudies

Lot of people (men) waste their time and mine telling me the government and media haven't deliberately turned the public against disabled people. Lemme save you the trouble lads, I literally wrote the book on it. And I report on it nearly every day.

Abudagga said: “When I read that they link bringing my family to the UK with UK security, and suggest the children are better off in Gaza, I simply could not believe in British values and norms any more. I expected the British government cared about family life, about human rights.” I am ashamed.

It was a pleasure to read your thesis and be your examiner. It was such a well written thesis and brilliantly defended during the viva. Huge well done! This is such an important piece of research, can’t wait to read more of your work!

I'm excited to announce I have just passed my PhD viva with no corrections! So pleased that 4 1/2 years' work has paid off and thank you to my lovely examiners @kirstyliddiard1.bsky.social and @leahfburch.bsky.social and Chair Jennifer Allsop for a great discussion.

How the banning of 37 international aid organizations in Gaza is being felt by Palestinians mondoweiss.net/2026/01/how-...

The findings of my PhD my research are covered in @theipaper.com today, highlighting the level of hostility faced by #BlueBadge holders and how this may get worse due to the rhetoric around the Motability cuts ⤵️ inews.co.uk/news/motabil...

Disabled drivers who use blue badges are facing “terrifying” levels of threats, verbal abuse and violent attacks trib.al/7aT9pLO

The findings of my PhD my research are covered in @theipaper.com today, highlighting the level of hostility faced by #BlueBadge holders and how this may get worse due to the rhetoric around the Motability cuts ⤵️ inews.co.uk/news/motabil...

Delighted that I’m going to be doing a guest lecture at a U.K. philosophy department in the spring about being a philosopher specialising in social justice who also runs a social enterprise If you or your department would also be interested in having me along to talk to your students, let’s chat

The recording of my dissemination event from my research on disabled people's encounters with strangers in Blue Badge bays is nowavailable on politicsofparking.com, alongside a summary report of the research findings #DisabilityStudies #BlueBadge #DisabilitySky

The recording of my dissemination event from my research on disabled people's encounters with strangers in Blue Badge bays is nowavailable on politicsofparking.com, alongside a summary report of the research findings #DisabilityStudies #BlueBadge #DisabilitySky

I'll be holding an online workshop on findings from my research into disabled people's encounters in #BlueBadge parking spaces & how encounters can actively exclude people Fri 12th Dec 12-1pm on Teams with captions, register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/20a4a6... #DisabilitySky

Great to see my research coveree by @johnpring.bsky.social! For anyone interested in finding out more, I'll be talking about my research at an online event on 12 Dec, 12-1pm, alongside guests @christiane.link and Anjna Patel MBE from Disabled Motoring UK: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/20a4a6...

Years of scapegoating rhetoric has led to ‘envy and resentment’ of those with blue badges, research finds #BlueBadge #Motability #DisabilityHateCrime www.disabilitynewsservice.com/years-of-sca...

Great to see my research coveree by @johnpring.bsky.social! For anyone interested in finding out more, I'll be talking about my research at an online event on 12 Dec, 12-1pm, alongside guests @christiane.link and Anjna Patel MBE from Disabled Motoring UK: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/20a4a6...

Reminder: I will launch the results from my research into disabled people's encounters in #BlueBadge parking spaces in an online workshop on Fri 12 Dec, 12-1pm, on Teams with captions Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/20a4a6... #DisabilitySky #DisabilityStudies

Reminder: I will launch the results from my research into disabled people's encounters in #BlueBadge parking spaces in an online workshop on Fri 12 Dec, 12-1pm, on Teams with captions Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/20a4a6... #DisabilitySky #DisabilityStudies

I'll be holding an online workshop on findings from my research into disabled people's encounters in #BlueBadge parking spaces & how encounters can actively exclude people Fri 12th Dec 12-1pm on Teams with captions, register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/20a4a6... #DisabilitySky

Incredibly sad to hear of the death of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social. I was always amazed by her generosity in our (small) interactions, and I've got a lot from her writing. Rest in power, what a force.

The philosopher D. R. Parton said: Tumble out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen Pour myself a cup of ambition And yawn and stretch and try to come to life Jump in the shower and the blood starts pumpin' Out on the street, the traffic starts jumpin' With folks like me on the job from 9 to 5. 1/2

It's done! After four years (end of my minimum period), I have just submitted my PhD thesis on disabled people's encounters in accessible parking spaces 🥳♿🅿️ #DisabilitySky #DisabilityStudies #BlueBadge #PhD #PhDlife

Speaking from Gaza, Manar Al Houbi told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show she was informed just days before her evacuation from Gaza that her family would not be allowed to come with her – despite the Labour Government allowing other students' families to enter the UK.

With another 9 @ucu.org.uk branches now calling on UCU to do the right thing we wonder if @drjogrady.bsky.social is listening to her members.

Great to hear a robust challenge to DWPs misleading stats on out of work benefits. Thank you as ever @benbgeiger.bsky.social

When we talk about how "Magneto was right," this is why -- here he is, correctly predicting how this is going to go. It starts with dehumanizing; then that leads to tracking; tracking leads to arrests; arrests lead to camps; camps lead to genocide.

Oh nothing gets racists more puce than having a better car than them. I have STORIES

Just today Anas tweeted this:

The #IDF has just murdered #AnasAlSharif & several #AlJazeera colleagues in a targeted strike on their tent. After weeks of harassment. What consequences? @peninternational.bsky.social @indexoncensorship.org @ifjglobal.bsky.social @cpjunion.bsky.social @nujofficial.bsky.social

As a disabled activitist grieving for the deaths to come because of Wednesday's vote, who's had to see the front page media headlines saying we *still* are getting too much, this is the true face of Britain. They want us dead. We're inconvenient and unprofitable. Glad JM has joined us.

Read the thread and don’t be an asshole! #SupportTransKids (& adults)

Men deserve safety too you absolute ghoul

Incontrovertible evidence, now, of *police* investigating families supporting their kids with gender affirming healthcare in the UK. For trying to do the best for your child, following best practice in most of the world, here you get a visit from the police. Thank you, Wes Streeting.

Four disabled Labour MPs stood up to their government’s attempts to reduce vital disability benefits, despite ministers’ chaotic last-ditch concessions to rebels that removed a significant chunk of their cuts bill. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/four-disable...

My new paper in @urbanstudiesjournal.com highlights how having their legitimacy challenged in accessible parking space can actively stop disabled people from using these spaces, meaning there is no such thing as an 'accessible' space. Full paper is open access below ⤵️ #DisabilitySky

🏙️ NEW article in our Special Issue on "Infrastructural encounters: Disability in urban lives" Take a look 👇🧵 #UrbanStudies

Funny how they went for the Black and Irish bands isn’t it (white Irish people: welcome back!)

A 2nd paper from my PhD on #BlueBadge parking encounters is now published in @urbanstudiesjournal.com This one focuses on 'faking' encounters and how no space is truly accessible while disabled people are under constant surveillance Available open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A 2nd paper from my PhD on #BlueBadge parking encounters is now published in @urbanstudiesjournal.com This one focuses on 'faking' encounters and how no space is truly accessible while disabled people are under constant surveillance Available open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Stephen Kinnock is lying. People don't lose PIP when they get a job, its not an out of work benefit & plenty of people on PIP work Kinnock knows this. What he's doing is part of a wider govt strategy to paint disabled people as shirkers & scroungers stealing from working people

It's not MP's Starmer needs to talk to it's disabled people and our orgs, the fact his entire discussion with MP's of his own party shows he has learnt nothing. He is playing politics with our lives and does not even respect us enough to involve us. Kill The Bill.

[email protected]’s resignation is a stark warning. An MP with a decent knowledge of the welfare system & employment struggles of Disabled people sees the truly devastating impact of the proposed cuts – and acted on it. @johnpring.bsky.social #TakingThePIP

I wrote about how two icons, Beyoncé and Karen O, helped me through the ordeal of hitting puberty in the early 2000s for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social Beyoncé, Karen O and getting past the male gaze app.theneweuropean.co.uk/story/137746...

I considered quitting 2 weeks into my PhD after being told I'd have to sit in a building off campus because my school couldn't meet my accessibility needs: a chair with armrests plus a desk not directly underneath a light. I complained. PGR lead told me to calm down bc they were "trying to help me".

None of those newspapers (or the BBC) that gleefully ran stories when the EHRC gave trans people a shoeing will now report on the EHRC admitting they (and hence those stories) were wrong. Are those outlets craven - or dishonest? Thank goodness for the legal press. www.law360.com/articles/235...

We have deep concerns about government plans to designate Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. Nonviolent protest, and even acts of vandalism, should not be labelled as terrorism. Civil disobedience has been a powerful force for positive social change. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

You can repair a plane. You can replace a broken window. But you can’t bring back the dead. We must defend the right to protest. Solidarity with Palestine Action 🇵🇸