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UoM Politics @uompols.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing opportunity to join the Politics Department and the JUST centre at the University of Manchester!

Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 1d

PhD scholarship opportunity, to work with @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social and myself on the 'local politics of climate backlash' at @uompols.bsky.social and @justcentre.bsky.social. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project....

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 1d

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

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Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social · 1d

I also had to get it privately, despite being considered clinically vulnerable enough to get the free flu jab. Next they will complain that too many people being on sick leave is harming the economy, and never bother connecting the two.

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Dr Élaina is cripping out @elainagmamaril.bsky.social · 1d

I’m excited to announce the first two webinars in the WAARC series “Dreaming Up A Disability-Inclusive Workplace”.

29 Oct: Intersecting Identities and Disabled Joy with Amelia Lander-Cavallo
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26 Nov: Complicated Pride: Disability, Neurodiversity and Ambivalence
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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 23d

📣🏳️‍⚧️ 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.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies

Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope

Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights.

While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…

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UK HE News @ukhenews.bsky.social · 6d

Is it dystopian science fiction or UK HE? Always hard to tell.

QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 6d

As our students have been told by security trying to intimidate them that “we know who you are & your socials”, and management volunteered to spy to the Met in 2024, relieved (suspicious?) there isn’t more of QMUL in this latest shocking reveal.

2024: libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/rev...

Email from qmul to the met offering to pass on info about students

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Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 6d

Tracing Antifa back to Weimar is definitely not the pwn he thinks it is.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 7d

If you had written this as a fake news headline a year ago, you would be called hysterical.

Reuters today. Fascism.

Reuters story headlines:

Trunp calls for jailing Democratic leaders as troops prepare for Chicago deployment

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 7d

Yet more proof that despite our romantic idealisation of universities, in practice they are run by people who volunteer to call the cops on their own students and staff. I say this as someone given a written warning for a tweet about what seagulls and managers have in common.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7d

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests, according to internal emails. One university said it would conduct “active monitoring of social media” for any evidence of plans to demonstrate against Rolls-Royce at a careers fair. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social · 8d

The irony of asking the man who tells physically ill people they're actually mental ill whether mental illness is over-diagnosed would be funny if it wasn't likely about to push vast swathes of people (further) into poverty.

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Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social · 8d

This is 100% the man you would appoint if you already knew what answer you wanted from the review. His grift of policy-based evidence-making has ruined many lives. I highly recommend Joanne Hunt's work on the history and politics of it: citizen-network.org/uploads/atta...

citizen-network.org

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Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social · 8d

Streeting has appointed Simon Wessely, a man who has spent his career persuading the government that people with chronic physical illnesses are malingers and it's all in their heads, in charge of deciding whether mental illness and neurodivergence are over-diagnosed.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Labour is trying to prove mental health is over-diagnosed so it can cut DWP benefits further

Wes Streeting's new review into mental health and neurodivergency will be vice chaired by “the most hated doctor in Britain”, Simon Wessely

www.thecanary.co

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Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social · 12d

Very excited for this tonight

Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social · 23d

I'll be in Manchester on October 3rd at 6:30pm with Wu Tsang at @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social. Thanks to the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture and the Centre for New Writing for co-sponsoring.

Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/love-in-a-...

A picture of me smiling next to a photo of the cover of Love in a Fucked-Up World. Text reads: Blackwell's Manchester presents...Dean Spade in conversation with Wu Tsang, Friday 3rd October at 6:30pm, blackwells.co.uk/events

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chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 12d

This is HORRIBLE.

It's not Jewish people's fault, what's being done to Gaza.

And it's not Gazans fault, What's been done to Manchester.

It's not hard to avoid victim blaming both sides, and it's beyond disappointing that apparently Mahmood isn't capable of understanding that.

Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 12d

NEW: Home secretary Shabana Mahmood urges pro-Palestine protesters to consider not taking part in marches this weekend.

"Imagine if you lost a loved one to a terror attack in this country ... sometimes a little unity, a little solidarity, some love to other people is required"

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Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social · 12d

Conflating Jewish people with the actions of the Israeli state is antisemitic, but after years of expelling left-wing members over antisemitism, I don't imagine anyone in the Labour leadership will call this what it is.

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Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social · 12d

The words of Manchester Jewish Action for Palestine (posted on Instagram) seem particularly prescient in light of the Home Secretary’s comments framing pro-Palestinian protests as insensitive to the victims of this terrible attack.

Manchester Jewish Action for Palestine is deeply saddened by the attack on Heaton Park Synagogue today, and our thoughts are with all members of the communities who have been affected. While all the details are not yet clear, we do not wish to speculate on the motive behind the attack. However, we must stand together against those who would seek to use the pain and grief of Jewish communities to score political points.

Israel, which is totally dependent on the support of its Western allies, routinely exploits antisemitism in order to create fear, helping to sustain its occupation and genocide. The actions and words of Netanyahu and the Israeli state, claiming to represent all Jews worldwide are placing diaspora Jews at increasing risk of violence. We must not allow ourselves to be divided by religion or ethnicity - what unites all of us is our common humanity.

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Tomás Ojeda G. @tiojeda.bsky.social · 12d

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 👇

Centre en études genre, UNIL @ceg-unil.bsky.social · 12d

☎️ Call For Papers ☎️
🔹International Symposium: Far Right, Gender and Femonationalism🔹
Mid-March 2026, Lausanne

CRAPUL and CEG (UNIL) invite scholars to submit proposals for a three-day symposium on far-right politics and gender.

👉 Full CFP text: urlr.me/35GyhK
⏰ Deadline : 30th October 2025

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13d

You’ll recall that the selling point for organising our societies like this is that this is the best, fairest and most efficient way to determine value and allocate resources

BBC News (UK) ₺
@BBCNews• •1h
Musk becomes world's first half-trillionaire

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Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social · 13d

Do any academic friends have access to this by any chance? I'm looking for some chapters beyond the one that is open access.
doi.org/10.4324/9781...

Routledge Handbook on Men, Masculinities and Organizations | Theories,

This Handbook provides new theoretical and empirical insights into men, men’s practices and masculinities across many kinds of organizations and forms of

doi.org

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Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social · 13d

Please keep sharing and donating if you can - like many Palestinians, Mohammed's Bluesky account was banned so he can't post here himself. He is on Instagram as moh.ammedalsibakhi.
chuffed.org/project/1315...

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Rebecca Jane Morgan @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social · 14d

My next book Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism in Britain is in the @plutopress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalogue (for a May '26 release)!

This book is the first joined-up history of trans activism in the UK all the ways from the 40s to the present.

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Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social · 14d

Year 5 of the Black Feminist Theory Summer Institute: Applications are open, more info on our website. Please spread the word.

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ISraa🍉🫒 @sooo37.bsky.social · 14d

I am Israa, a journalist from Gaza. The war has taken my family, my home, my work, and my only means of living. Still, I refuse to give up. I am fighting to rebuild my life and continue my mission.

Your support can make all the difference. Please share and donate.

💙 Donate here:
gofund.me/2b2f55f6

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 16d

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

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