Christmas is not a Western story – it is a Palestinian one Christmas is a story of empire, injustice and the vulnerability of ordinary people caught in its path. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Sheffield's 1904 Queen Victoria statue in Endcliffe Park was dowsed in red paint, and the words FREE THE HUNGER STRIKERS written on the pedestal, overnight — in solidarity with and to raise awareness of the six people who remain on hunger strike in British prisons today

"We have to learn to live with our contradictions, ambivalence, self-sabotage, wounds, and aggressive drives while not clinging to the myth of wholeness or goodness. We are not hygienic creatures, thank god" yalereview.org/analytic-lyr... @yalereview.bsky.social

Graduated 🎓

Research Seminar Series: Gender Works in Progress with @rkdasgupta.bsky.social and PhD alumni and Visting Fellows @senelw.bsky.social and @clairelwilmot.bsky.social this afternoon!

If anyone’s around Oxford next Friday, come by for this talk I’m doing! @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social @oxford-anthro.bsky.social

Prof Clare Hemmings interviewed for Affective Socities blog ⬇️ @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social affective-societies.de/2025/sfb-117...

British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview. "when Theroux asked if Vylan stood by the chant and if he would do it again, he said: “Oh yeah. Like what if I was to go on Glastonbury again tomorrow, yes I would do it again." www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

King’s College London accused of putting the life of a second-year student at risk by withdrawing his visa sponsorship after pressure from a pro-Israel lobby group. He would have to return to Egypt – where he is likely to be imprisoned and tortured. novaramedia.com/2025/10/22/k...

Kaushalya Ariyarathne breaks new ground in scholarship on gender and sex-work in South Asia, beyond binaries of victim-hood and empowerment, in a fine ethnographic account of #SriLanka's #Nachchi, writes Zahrah Rizwan. polity.lk/f-zahrah-riz...

Is the use of laboratory animals ethical? Carrie Friese argues that while there are no easy answers to this question, humans can learn a great deal by considering the seemingly faraway life of a laboratory mouse. Read more in @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social ⬇️

Thrilled to be part of the scientific committee for this amazing symposium on the relationship between far-right politics and gender. Send your proposals and share the CfP with your friends, colleagues, and broader networks! More info here 👇

How do we understand this moment where Europe’s largest LGBT+ rights organisation is endorsing Europe's largest Weapons Manufacturer in the midst of an ongoing colonial genocide? Presented this paper at a workshop at SOAS.

The great historian Joan Wallach Scott writing for the Boston Review (@bostonreview.bsky.social); h/t @jvmoltke.bsky.social; #skystorians: www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

14.09.2025, London.

Don’t recall BBC News leading with any of the myriad marches for Palestine, #PeoplesVote or #Rejoin. How very odd. How very strange. How very expected.

My chapter on white, middle-class masculinities in UK national security policymaking is now open access: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

Nepal’s prime minister resigns after ‘Gen Z’ protests over corruption & nepotism sparked by social media ban. At least 19 killedby police brutality. Thousands storm the federal parliament building ..and set it on fire. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

We‘re inviting all LSE students, staff and alumni to attend our WELCOME LECTURE 2025! 📩 Comment for details on how to attend! www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event... @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @sumimadhok.bsky.social

Yesterday the President (Michele Burman) and Executive Board of the European Society of Criminology brought the society into disrepute by refusing to allow a vote on collaboration with Israeli academic institutions complicit in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Statement by Criminologists for Palestine:

Some pictures of people confronting the police state at the @defendourjuries.bsky.social protest in Parliament Square

love this by the quakers: Statement of Policy on Provision of Trans Inclusive Facilities.

We‘re delighted to welcome Dr. Zuzana Dančikova (back) to the department as our new LSE Fellow in Gender, Policy and Inequalities! 🥳 Find out more about Zuzana‘s research and work here: www.lse.ac.uk/gender/peopl...