Spare me your regrets

UK Supreme Court: You're allowed to discriminate against trans people, but you don't have to cis people: "well, our hands are tied"

rly excited about this one! the last publication from my MA research has been released as part of this new collection of queer geography scholarship, along with the work of such brilliant colleagues as @queergeog.bsky.social @sagebrice.bsky.social & @joejukes.bsky.social !! doi.org/10.4337/9781...

At the @thisisyourparty.bsky.social founding conference this weekend. The atmosphere is one of cautious but committed optimism - neither delusional nor defeatist. Whatever reservations I have, I feel privileged to witness this experiment in mass, deliberative democracy unprecedented in this country

Reminder that lesbians have a more positive view of trans people than trans people do

Good morning, while everyone is waiting for the budget to be announced it’s a good time to say that immigration is a source of prosperity for the UK and painting Britain as a hostile state is sabotaging the country. Thanks!

Trans Safety Network are extremely concerned that DHSC are continuing to solicit input on trans healthcare from Bayswater and other anti trans groups after a reply to our previous concerns stated they would not work with groups who promote harmful practices or discriminatory views

Did you know I have a side hustle? Buy prints of my artwork at sagebriceprints.co.uk. Place an order this week and it should still be with you by Christmas (UK Mainland)

Really enjoyable workshop today at the Newbridge Project, and great to have a print copy of this! A few people have asked if they can buy a copy. Let me know if you would like one (and what you’d pay). If there’s enough interest I’ll look into it! We also read from Reclaim the Hides’ brillant zine

Calling all artists - musicians, visual artists, dancers, clowns, actors, poets. Come join us for a morning of creative play and exploration. UNBOUND is a Travelling Space for artists to gather and create in a relaxed environment at different community venues across the northeast of England

I feel like the last couple decades of "is representation good or not?" discourse missed more important questions of "how fragile is representation?", "what do we do when multiple industries eliminate it as an intentional move against us?" and "how can we sustain queer artists when shit goes south?"

States of Precarity in UK HE Geography: A new report on the long and short term effects of precarity across career stages, with a series of best practice resources to support more equitable working cultures. www.rgs.org/research/hig... @rgsibg.bsky.social @antipodeonline.bsky.social

Sam Tenorio on ‘trans joy’ as liberal apparatus of governance: “it seems as though joy has entered the fray to tend to bad feelings both internally and externally, to usher us back from disorientation and disruption's edge, but also to ease our acceptance.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Is it just me, or do skeets have much shorter lifespans than tweets used to?

On a bit of a roll with the book chapters! My epistolary with the incredible Cleo Wölfle Hazard, "Messing up (in) the field: Finding queer-trans ecologies in geographical fieldwork", is now out in Edward Elgar's Handbook of Queer Geographies www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/que...

Delighted to see a new chapter greet the light of day, alongside a formidable line up of feminist political geographers (expansively defined!). Use code DGBHOLIDAY40 at checkout for 40% off the book, valid till the end of December (or – let your librarian know): doi.org/10.1515/9783...

@geogdurham.bsky.social, #menasky

New publication out, “creative political geography” in the De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography, generously and gently edited by Cordelia Freeman and Sydney Calkin. degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1… ( not open access but happy to send a pdf copy)

At the same time you have Joe Rogan invoking peer reviewed research, as the kind of proof needed if claiming election fraud.

Bless the rain

I wasn’t sure I had anything useful to say. Now I’m struggling to trim it down. These are distressing times but if there is a way through this moment it has to be through building solidarities. Come and help us create the vision: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

Trans-exclusionary feminism falls on its foundational claim - that it speaks for women. Consistently, a majority of women disagree. Yet sadly the campaign is well-funded and persistent. Please respond to the consultation on the Hampstead Heath ponds and help show there is no mandate for exclusion

I grew up riding the 18 bus to School in central Jerusalem and came very close to a horrible death in more than one bomb attack. It hasn’t made me believe that Jewish safety comes from the right to oppress and kill Palestinians. It hasn’t made me scared of Muslims or a supporter of genocide 🧵

Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

Beyond the job losses (!), what do the students think about being ‘relocated’?!

It’s funny how Solidarity with Palestine and trans people were unelectable fringe positions until somebody asked the electorate

Rook hope burn, Weardale, 2 Nov 2025. #Butoh -inspired #improv / #queerecologies practice

I’m honoured to be running this queer/trans ecologies reading session alongside Henna Asikainen’s exhibition at The Newbridge Project. We will explore themes of belonging, nature, and identity: thenewbridgeproject.com/events/not-j...

I will be speaking alongside @jaytoddgla.bsky.social, Ed Kiely & @amkanngieser.bsky.social on this panel: ‘A Sense of the Possible: Trans Geographies in Dystopian Times’, 13 Nov 2025, 12:00-1:30 GMT Sign up for the Zoom link here: rgs.org/events/upcoming-events/trans-geographies-in-dystopian-times

Drawing in progress. Anemone coronaria, Plantae Palestinae 1911

Pretty sure we have #theprince #agaricusaugustus - two of them, big as dinner plates and the caps are maggot-free. #cumbria #mushroomforaging #fungi

Join me in signing the #JewsDemandAction petition calling on governments around the world to do everything possible to end the Israeli military’s assault on Gaza. jewsdemandaction.org jewsdemandaction.org

Today, two years in, these are the words echoing around my head: “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” — James Baldwin

I’m singing Kol Nidre tonight for a small gathering of Jews and friends who stand in solidarity with Palestine. I’m not sure what it means to ask forgiveness, or pray for a sweet new year, in the face of the horrors we have witnessed. Yet this is surely a time for honest reflection, in community

Being in the woods is the only thing that seems to make much sense at the moment #fistulinahepatica #fungi #oak #quercuspetrea

'don't kick Israel out of Eurovision, the arts aren't political' variety.com/2025/film/gl...

for the last two years, I've been a part of the Queering Feminist Geography Collective, a group working to raise issues of queer & trans inclusion within feminist geographic theory and professional practice. to that end, we've drafted a set of viewpoint articles for Gender, Place, and Culture (1/n)

Interested in queer and trans ecologies? Critical geographies of nature and the natural? I’m so pleased this graphic format article finally published and free to read (or better yet - download) at doi.org/10.1080/0966...

Spent a couple of hours this morning correcting proofs for our book chapter on Mycelial love, then strolled up the end of the garden to find chanterelles and brown birch bolettes for lunch - yum! (*Kate Marston, Rich White and Scarlet Hall are my partners in queer polyvocality)

Out of office

I spend an increasingly large % of time as editor of an academic journal processing articles that appear to be mass submitted (with no relevance to journal’s scope) and trying to determine whether articles are (part)written using (undisclosed) AI. This expenditure of labour feels very bleak

At the #RGSIBG25? Staying through to the very end? Why not join us to talk about speculative ecologies? TLB seminar room 202 (and online), 16:50 - 18:30

This is tomorrow! The speculative and the ecological have been cropping up all over the place this RGS, and I’m looking forward to putting them into conversation. Should be a great session - see you there :)

Looking forward to co-hosting a double session on Geographies of Trans Creativity this afternoon with Ed Kiely and Ezgi Yilmaz. RGS-IBG 2025 Birmingham, 14:40-18:30, Muirhead Building, Room 122

My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.

My new studio environs are rather grand… It’s great to be sharing creative space with some good friends and a short cycle up the hill from my house

I'm Jewish and I think about antisemitism all the time. I can't tell you how fucking weird it is that Homeland Security posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda generates less discussion about the threat to Jews than a mayoral candidate who believes Palestinians are human beings.

Lots of beautiful and intriguing mushrooms this weekend. The cep carpaccio is NOT the same species as either of the two mushroom photos, one of which is probably the poisonous caloboletus radicans (lovely blue blush to it) and the other perhaps lurid bolete with an unusual split stem