"There are many many more of us than you!" A handful of fascists turned up in Bristol again. They were outnumbered massively again. We are the people, they are the tiny fascist minority that has our mainstream media and politicians' attention

Seeing a lot of people I frankly thought better of misunderstanding this. It means case by case re. the service provider not the individuals using the service. This is how the Equality Act has worked for years - with providers having to justify exclusion as proportionate.

📣 New blog 📣 'Anyone opposing racist policies risks being accused of not caring about women’s safety.' Victoria Scheyer discusses white feminism and femonationalism in the German context. reacpol.net/white-femini...

Thinking about Brianna Ghey while reading this article on screen time and bullying. Labour are using her name to push for a crackdown on phone use among teens. But this research indicates increased screen time does *not* correlate with increased bullying for trans kids - unlike their cis peers.

Do you think Trump threatining to sue BBC for $1bn is crazy? Then, you should hear how much time in prison the regime in Turkey seeks for Ekrem Imamoglu, the imprisoned presidential candidate of the opposition: 2,352 years!

Who's Funding the War on Trans Inclusion? “The stated goal of strategic litigation is rarely to win every case. It’s to make the target behaviour—in this case, implementing trans-inclusive policies—expensive, risky, and exhausting”

The far right, the mainstream and mainstreaming: towards a heuristic framework doi.org/10.1080/1356... @k8ebrown.bsky.social · @aurelmondon.bsky.social · @aaronwinter.bsky.social

I’m lucky to teach a wonderful group of postgrads studying gender & politics at Bath 💫 Send your excellent gender & politics students our way 😊 They can find out more about our MSc in International Relations with Gender Politics at the Virtual Open Day on 12 Nov 👇 www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/ex...

In Oct 2023, an FOI revealed an actual wait at my nearest clinic (Exeter) of 17yrs & 3mos, a fact that stunned everyone I told. In one year, that's grown to THIRTY-ONE YEARS. NOT bcos referral rates are ballooning, as the MSM claims, but bcos at last count, each clinician only did 1.6 new appts pcm

'I went on dates with 14 far-right misogynists and was surprised when they all turned out to be far-right misogynists.' Just to save you the read!

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

Must read for anyone who cares about HE "Put simply, the technology that OpenAI and co are pushing threatens the very raison d'être of universities. "

Two teenagers were radicalized by the transphobic political climate into seeing a 15 year old girl as less than human. They killed the girl, and then the girl's grieving mother chose to embark on a moral panic crusade against "self-harm", acquitting the actual perpetrators of her daughter's demise.

Esther Ghey: "It was just that constant pressure of social media and wanting to get those likes. One of the hardest things was learning about what Brianna was accessing online that was encouraging her to self-harm and develop an eating disorder.” Did 'the pressure of social media' stab Brianna Ghey

🚨 Joint Statement This formal challenge to the EHRC’s fitness for purpose has been brought by @transactualuk.bsky.social, @amnestyuk.bsky.social k.bsky.social and @transsolidarity.bsky.social Together they have reported the EHRC to the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI)

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

absolute workhorse of a reaction image from over 100 years ago

⚖️🎓 A top UK university granted anonymity in a sexual harassment case to “protect its reputation.” No hearing. No reasoning. No time limit. Reputation over justice, even though the new Higher Education NDA laws try to protect students and staff, this is how violence against women stays hidden

At the start of this year, I spoke with some Observer journalists about an article they said was a going to be a huge critical piece about the likes of Sex Matters etc. Wonder if we will ever get to see it...

Remembrance season does always bring me a little joy every year

Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

The 2011 EHRC statutory services code was the result of almost two years work. Numerous consultations were held with relevant stakeholders, including many women's and trans groups. By contrast, the proposed 2025 code was assembled within weeks, with a one-month consultation assessed by genAI.

Recently, a sport story went viral: a man had discovered One Weird Trick in betting on women's basketball matches. He claimed to be inferring the athletes' menstrual cycles and believed they performed worse at certain points. So does the menstrual cycle affect sporting performance?

Only took 40 years... youtu.be/nyvj_V7RgMw?...

We’re too smart and abortion rights are too embedded and socially accepted for the ADF to succeed here, say guys who’ve uncritically promoted anti-trans activists funded by the same people and using the same lawyers for a decade

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018. bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage. Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

🤖 If you use LinkedIn, please be aware that they automatically use your profile to train their GenAI. To turn off, go to Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Gen AI improvements.

ICYMI, check out @georgenewth.bsky.social's blog on the limits of Keir Starmer's 'patriotic' discourse and his ongoing enabling of the far right. reacpol.net/starmer-farr...

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long. There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

Peter Dunne, Emily Grabham and I have edited a special section of feminists@law on the Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland. You can find our editorial about this below. The special section has some brilliant critical and feminist takes on the decision journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/fe...

Will be speaking at this a week today along with the brilliant @minakshidahal.bsky.social! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/periods-ar...

Very helpful suggestions for how to reply to an email from a colleague, Outlook, thank you

Solidarity and love to Jewish and Muslim friends and comrades today.

What's really frustrating about this story is that if this woman needs absolute privacy to deal with heavy periods, that was never going to be well served by multi occupancy toilets anyway. We could be demanding better toilets for *everyone* instead of just being transphobic!

If you use, or would like to use, the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds, it is absolutely worth your time to respond to this consultation. www.hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is

'Extreme overvalued beliefs' have often been used to explain cases of terrorism and mass violence, so this will dovetail nicely with the Heritage Foundation agenda about 'Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism'

Newcastle says no to fascism. The far right brought a hundred or so with them, bussed from far and wide. This city turned out 1000s, from local communities, estates and streets. Geordies of all backgrounds coming together and outnumbering the purveyors of hate by some distance. Newcastle united.

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Let that sink in "Despite its extreme population density, Gaza was mostly self-sufficient in vegetables and poultry, and met much of the population’s demand for olives, fruit and milk. But last month the UN reported that just 1.5% of its agricultural land now remains both accessible and undamaged."

📣Call for papers📣 If you are planning to attend the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social annual conference in Oxford (30 March-1 April), please consider submitting your paper to our Rectionary Politics Specialist Group stream at the link below! Deadline: 17th October. www.psa.ac.uk/events/psa-a...

Quoting myself (insufferable) because I am increasingly sure my thesis — that we never hear about a female loneliness epidemic because the only women I know who regularly describe themselves as lonely are in bad heterosexual relationships — is actually true.

New essay: REJECT TRANS DOOM-POSTING. It's about grief, loss, institutional failures, and the horror of the current moment. It's also a love letter to trans community, and the things we do with and for one another.

They've lost the 9yos

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.

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