"Sussex University has overturned a £585,000 fine by England’s higher education watchdog after the high court rejected claims the university had breached free speech regulations involving its former professor Kathleen Stock." www.theguardian.com/education/20...

“Training was key. The civil rights movement was often creative, but it was rarely spontaneous. Its members did not just take to the streets to roll the dice and see what would happen.” www.liberalcurrents.com/lessons-in-t...

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social If you read nothing else today, pls read this long-form interview with Kimberle Crenshaw about her work, her early life, the Obama years, and how she saw the white backlash on critical race theory and intersectionality coming. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

New publication! Many feminists want to come together but lack the tools to navigate complex discussions constructively. This toolkit is our response. Grounded in research and focus group testing, it offers strategic messages that build transfeminist solidarity. Download: tgeu.org/tgeu-launche...

Happy St George's Day to all who celebrate.

The EU’s Court of Justice has just ruled anti-LGBTQ+, including anti-trans, laws are ‘contrary to the very identity of the Union as a common legal order in a society in which pluralism prevails’.

Everywhere on global peripheries turns out to have a music genre like this.

Including the 🇵🇸 association’s president, who’d planned to respond to FIFA’s report recommending no action over 🇮🇱 clubs playing matches in occupied West Bank. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories. Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...

It's a year today since the Supreme Court decision on the meaning of "sex" under the Equality Act 2010. Jolyon Maugham and I have written a reflective piece with our thoughts on the judgment, everything that has happened since, and why it's so important that we are still fighting - together 👇

"Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" is published TODAY by @cornellupress.bsky.social! I tell the story of how queer men didn't just exist in Belfast but could be accepted by friends, family & colleagues... at least until a moral panic about homosexuality in the 1950s. 🧵

‘Perhaps this seeding of ideas is the point – because The Music is Black establishes an exhibition model well suited to the institution. A story pertinent to the V&A’s own colonial history is told through the culture that emerged from and contests it’

Magyar has threatened to suspend the state broadcaster following a heated on-air clash, accusing it of spreading “North Korean-style” propaganda and false claims about his family during the election campaign. #EuropeNews

RIP Moya Brennan, a wonderful singer, composer, harpist, sister of Enya, and gave - with Clannad - the first ever performance in Irish on Top of the Pops. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zHT...

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project: 'Cold War Socialism, Non-Alignment and Anti-Colonialism in the Yugoslav Press, 1961-1979' - British Library & University of Exeter www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... Deadline for student applications: 5 May (noon)

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

What a moment - Orban concedes defeat… www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

I have a new article in @historyworkshop.org.uk that explores the resourcing of feminist activism in the 1970s. Come for the rants about typing, stay for the study of jumble sales as feminist praxis! 🗃️ academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

"She told me we would be roommates when we moved to Zagreb. She promised we’d travel across Europe come summer. I knew we wouldn’t" www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/sleep... via @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social

In The Return of Russia, @jmacrodgers.bsky.social charts Russia’s return to prominence on the world stage. This extract explores one of the most visible expressions of that ambition: the use of the World Cup, as a platform for power, prestige, and political messaging. yalebooks.co.uk/how-putin-us...

The darts thing has really depressed me. It’s ridiculous. How can anyone seriously think it’s reasonable? It’s worse knowing that the ultimate goal of these bigots isn’t sports, it’s just cutting us out of society and any avenue for camaraderie with other women.

QMUL is advertising an exciting opportunity: a fully funded PhD studentship, working on European politics, ideology, and political 'myths' with @karlpike.bsky.social and @timbale.bsky.social. Details below. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRB421/p...

OUT NOW: The Queer Scrapbook tells our history through the playful, messy, personal stories we save. Huge thanks to MUP and 'dream team' co-editors Matt Cook, Rebecca Jennings and E-J Scott. Check out the book, recommend it, and please share widely! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165312/

Ra'il I'Nasah Kiam co-founded YourSlipisShowing, which played a key role in anti-racist and antifascist organizing online. But his work, like that of so many Black trans organizers, was thoroughly erased — when the movement he helped found was even mentioned at all. This is his story:

The dangers of IT in the courtroom before the days of AI - Judge Prandler drops a heavy binder on his colleague's screen, from Prlić et al hearings at ICTY in January 2009

this feels like time for one of my periodic rants about how Judaism gets some stuff wrong - like all religions - but one of the things we are REALLY GOOD ON is the nature of forgiveness. which is to say: first, unless they have come to you with sincere repentance, you don't have to forgive anyone!

'In 2023, UK universities spent a total of £500m on education agents – but there is very little oversight of how these agents operate.' 'Once students got their offers, they were passed on to the visa team, and finally delivered to universities as a fully wrapped, fee-paying package.'

It's essential that any Code of Practice explains to organisations like Girlguiding that they are fully legally entitled to remain trans-inclusive, and that the Government steps in to ensure that they will not be bullied and harassed into adopting positions contrary to their values.

‘The flag is ours. Not in spite of where it came from, but because of it … The history is longer, stranger and more international than the people currently waving it would ever want you to know’: why Bimini wants to reclaim the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 flag biminibabes.substack.com/p/palestine-...

The original reason for Australia joining Eurovision in 2014-15 was so that its Special Broadcasting Service could become franchise holder for this. Now launching more than a decade later, without SBS.

Regular reminder that the UK’s ban on gay people serving in the armed forces was only lifted after a judgment from the European Court of Human Rights👇 🔗 www.bbc.com/news/article... Surprising how often people don't mention that.

NEW on Wonkhe: Media literacy is changing – again. And this time the answers are not clear wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

Since writing about myths and monsters I've been wrestling with the dark side of the stories I love: Whilst we joyfully reclaim our monsters... are the pitchforks being sharpened? Thanks to @bearlypolitics.co.uk for the space to write something on this. www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/queer-be-d...

This iron age man buried in Sussex was so proud of his awesome helmet that he developed an archaeologically detectable neck injury from wearing it so often.

Curating Japan's aesthetic for the world - a look at the thinking behind the Japanese Government's Japan Sui Collection. www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2026/03...

protesting in this outfit is a real “heads I win, tails you lose” moment when it comes to the optics

What happens when an author you love becomes a monster? For Vulture, I shadowed a retreat for Potter fans who've divested themselves from ever giving JK Rowling another red cent, while remaining eager to read and analyse the books, and their values, regardless. www.vulture.com/article/harr...

🧵Just five years ago, the IOC put an entire trans participation framework in place recommending that sports move away from exclusionary policies & to stop focusing on testosterone levels. I wrote about the framework when it was passed: www.si.com/olympics/202...

if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com

My grandfather worked at a Jewish restaurant in Golders Green for twenty years. When he was taken ill at work one day, this ambulance service rushed him to hospital. This is such a cowardly, immoral, hateful act.

do I really have the energy for another round of 'why the Easter elements you think are pagan aren't, and why a load of Easter elements most people haven't even heard of probably are'

A school leadership team has misused safeguarding procedures against a librarian for stocking 'controversial' books - which, by the way, are not controversial at all. This makes me feel sick to my stomach.

Oh good, this nonsense is back. As the obvious little poof, I was the kid selected by my school's library to take all the Oscar Wilde books to a skip when Section 28 came in in 1988. Because it wasn't enough to just remove a gay author's works: cruelty required making a closeted gay kid do it.

In an ancient forest, shallow pools reflect not the trees above, but a luminous city of elsewhere. My shortlisted entry for the Cheltenham Illustration awards. Inspired by the changing landscape, childhood (and adulthood) fantasy, reflections, exploration of strange places... #art #illustration

‘I think I have become too acculturated to the idea that there is no external recognition for trans liberation work. This is an important reminder that people outside of trans communities care about us, and care about our role in wider struggles for social justice’

I did my first 'proper' historical research here as an 18-year-old A-level student - taking the 350 bus to-and-fro across the Humber Bridge to read about May '68 in Paris.

The art to what Mamdani does is that he doesn't assume you know anything of the story he's telling. But he also doesn't assume you don't know. He tells it in a way that is a compelling retelling to those that know and a compelling first telling to those that don't. (hint: this is very hard)