✊🇵🇸 Oxford City Council has voted to call for the de-proscription of Palestine Action and for the government to cease attempts to uphold the ban, as well as for further protections for pro-Palestine prisoners Mondays’ full council meeting.

Brilliant inaugural professorial lecture by @michaellister.bsky.social this evening: 'Who Cares What You Think? Public Voices, Politics and Security'. Highlighted the disconnects between people's attitudes and policy frameworks; complexity of academic researchers and simplicity of political elites.

Keep an eye out for these posters appearing in cafes, libraries, and other public spaces for my @thinkhumanfest.bsky.social event with @matthewhodson.bsky.social in the East Oxford Community Centre! Please share and register to attend here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/recentring... #HIV #UequalsU #Oxford

We'll be hosting the next one! 🏡

Join me and @matthewhodson.bsky.social in the East Oxford Community Centre 4 WEEKS from today for this @thinkhumanfest.bsky.social event on 'Recentring the Human in Representations of HIV' Tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/recentring... Other events: www.eventbrite.com/cc/think-hum...

Join me and @matthewhodson.bsky.social in the East Oxford Community Centre 4 WEEKS from today for this @thinkhumanfest.bsky.social event on 'Recentring the Human in Representations of HIV' Tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/recentring... Other events: www.eventbrite.com/cc/think-hum...

Amazing to speak to @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social regarding my book ‘Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration‘ for the New Books Network. Thanks so much to Rine for a really fascinating and engaging discussion! newbooksnetwork.com/queering-uk-...

Another AMAZING turnout for our East Oxford Action day - 20+ Green activists knocking on 1200+ doors in just 5 hours!!! All for our amazing candidate Ahalya in St Clements - followed by a lovely (very long) pub trip after😋.

☀️ Sunshine&blue skies, lots of Green support on the doorstep, delicious lunch & incredible energy from all the new & old volunteers. That was my favourite action day this year! 🚪 Come and join us at our next action days for door knocking and leafletting. Everyone welcome ⬇️ greenoxford.com/events/

Gorgeous day of doorknocking in sunny St Clement's ward for Ahalya Bala in East Oxford today! 💚 @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social @apowelllaw.bsky.social

We are pretty savage 🥺

I am really looking forward to our campaign day this Saturday! ☀️ 1) The sun will be shining (touch wood) 🗳️ 2) Ahalya would be an *incredible* city councillor 🍛 3) @chrisjarvisdiy.bsky.social will be cooking and his food is always delicious ⬇️ See you there? Sign up here!

Perhaps a sign that we've left the washing up too long!! 🌱

"Get men out of women's spaces!" - screams the man violently invading a woman's personal space. Transphobes attack Green Party supporters right in front of newly elected MP Hannah Spencer.

Blending into the capital city 🌆

Our successful amendments will shape Oxford's long-term planning strategy, helping make a fairer, greener city as Oxford develops over the next 20 years. 💚 We did all this with just 9 councillors - imagine what we could do with a few more!!! Help make this a reality: join.greenparty.org.uk

Dear Shabana, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

The Green Party has been consistent on our position. We support the Iranian people in their struggle against the brutal Regime. And we oppose illegal bombing from the USA and Israel that has already killed countless civilians and risks an all out Regional war.

Even further and faster than I expected. news.sky.com/story/greens...

Important to draw attention to this hypocrisy by the current government. As someone raised in the Baháʼí Faith, I grew up surrounded by Iranian families who fled persecution after the 1979 revolution. You can't back illegal wars without providing necessary protection for the refugees caused by them.

It was an absolute pleasure to appear on The Queer(y)ing Asylum Podcast recently to talk about my book Queering Refugee Law with Dr Diego García Rodríguez. The episode is accessible now via Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/211r...

It took just one phone call from Donald Trump for Starmer to jump into yet another Middle East illegal war, failing to learn the lessons of the tragedies of Iraq, Libya and Syria.

Get in, we're making hope normal again.

💚 Door knocking with @apowelllaw.bsky.social in Cowley and Donnington in East Oxford today included lots of congratulations for Green Party's recent success! Joined by long standing and brand new members of @oxfordgreenparty.bsky.social. Sign up for the next one here: greenoxford.com/events/?utm_...

This is just the beginning. Join the Green Party today ⤵️

It's clear Hannah Spencer's election to Parliament has already begun to cause ripples that "the establishment" can't fully comprehend, let alone contain (much as they'd like to). Colleagues, friends and family have been sending their congratulations to the Green Party all day. Wide appeal to hope! 💚

Is hope starting to feel... normal again!? #GortonAndDenton 😍

If only desperate Labour Ministers could be bothered to "... look at the difference decriminalising drugs has made in Portugal" For "an evidence based policy which had consulted hundreds of experts in the field" go to @greenparty.org.uk meme via Glyn Goodwin

Thanks to the Daily Mail for the free publicity, I guess. If the Daily Mail doesn't like it, it's usually the right thing to do.

On the eve of the Gorton & Denton by-election the Labour Party have invented a fake tactical voting organisation to put on their leaflets. Lying to voters is all they have left. All the (real) tactical voting organisations agree: only a Green vote can stop Reform on Thursday.

This is just embarrassing for the government's spokespeople. 😳

Delighted to hear from @causingascene.bsky.social in Full Council today - they are the grassroots champions for Oxford's Music Scene and want to help young artists and keep our music venues open. Follow them (or join them!). Also Oxford is the UK's rock capital. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Portugal decriminalised personal possession of *all* drugs a quarter of a century ago, and has seen nothing resembling Labour's fear-mongering. Health outcomes improved, including a reduction in drug related deaths, HIV diagnoses, and unnecessary costs to the criminal justice system. Evidence-based.

I found teaching students about the Social Model of Disability difficult today because successive governments (and employers) have got it so badly wrong; constructing disabled people as "fraudulent", "scroungers", or "work shy" while hypocritically worsening the conditions that (further) disable us.

Something the Government want you to forget...

Reform's threat to equalities law is deeply cynical. If they truly cared about "white working class boys", as claimed, they'd expand it to make socio-economic status a protected characteristic, rather than throwing minoritised groups and women (who are more likely to be working class) under the bus.

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At the Think Human Festival 2026 join me and @matthewhodson.bsky.social in the East Oxford Community Centre, 5pm April 16th, to discuss representations of HIV in a world where treatments have made the virus managable and untransmissible. #UequalsU Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/recentring...

Thanks so much to @bordercrim.bsky.social for hosting this blog. One of the core findings of my book was around how models which were intended to support legal practitioners in helping their clients to show that they are, for example, a gay man were actually often working as a reason for refusal.

At the Think Human Festival 2026 join me and @matthewhodson.bsky.social in the East Oxford Community Centre, 5pm April 16th, to discuss representations of HIV in a world where treatments have made the virus managable and untransmissible. #UequalsU Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/recentring...

Palantir, a US spy-tech firm, has been given access to millions of NHS patient records. Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'. Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Next Wednesday (18th February) 5-6pm, I will be doing an online book launch hosted by the Borders, Race, Ethnicity, Migration cross faculty group at the University of Warwick. The event is free and open to the public. If you sign up the link will be circulated. warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

This Wednesday, I will be giving a public talk about my new book 'Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration' in London. The event is open to the public and free. More details and registration via the link below! www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

So important to hear the voices of those who don't usually have their stories heard This is what solidarity looks like 💚 🌎

Drug laws have never stopped people from using drugs. They've stopped people from using drugs safely. It's time to legalise *and* regulate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is very exciting news and I honestly can't think of anyone better placed to take on Reform, including their candidate's nonsense claims about there being an out-of-touch "new elite" with leftist, progressive values.

I've been unwell for almost all of January, which feels ironic given that I'm still editing tomorrow's Intro to the Sociology of Health and Illness slides. Perhaps I should make it a class discussion: Is your lecturer suffering from the effects of post-viral fatigue or marketised higher education? 🤔

On Wednesday 11th of February, I will be giving a talk about my book 'Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration' at City St George's, University of London (where I did my own PhD). If you're in or around London, come along! www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

We need YOU (yes you) at our next action days - the only way we stand up to Starmer and Farage is by hitting the streets, organising our communities, changing hearts/minds and building change. We need you to get involved to make that happen! Sign-up here: greenoxford.com/events/?utm_...

The right/far right always bleat endlessly about "free speech" but they only mean free speech for people like them. For everyone else they censor, de-platform, silence and otherwise proscribe. See also "Free Speech Alliance" in the UK.