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Matilda Fitzmaurice

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Bi. Geographer & lecturer: int. climate politics, (non)reproduction and the Anthropocene. UCU NEC LGBTQ+ rep (HE), 25/26 Equality Chair UCU Commons, queerness, food, ABBA. Vera enthusiast. My views. She/her Website: https://linktr.ee/matildafitzmaurice

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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · Aug 12

Bumping this for mid-August reading - I put so much into framing the argument in just the right way, and it's indebted to so many wonderful scholars: Geoff Mann, Joel Wainwright, Stuart Hall, Meera Sabaratnam, Polly Pallister-Wilkins, Ida Danewid and many others

Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · Jul 18

so this came out yesterday! First article from my PhD. Long slog but it was worth it. academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

Whiteness as Epistemological Orientation in International Climate Change Discourses

Abstract. This article argues that in contingent and context-specific ways, international climate change discourses reproduce whiteness as a form of signif

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 2d

Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel.
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Irish novelist Naoise Dolan has been abducted by Israel.

Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, was earlier today abducted and detained by Israeli forces after the aid flotilla on which she was traveling to Gaza was intercep…

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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 1d

What the everloving fuck is this

Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing could possibly go wrong with this. Creating a lifelike digital avatar on a third party platform will definitely not open teaching staff up to career destroying issues in the event of that platform being hacked.

Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 2d

Exclusive: Teachers will use 'deepfake' technology to create an AI avatar of themselves to deliver catch-up lessons for pupils who have missed school

Watch one of the school’s ‘deepfake’ teachers in our story below

schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-trus...

Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 1d

So what is 'identity politics'?

Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 1d

When women workers, Black workers and disabled workers get paid less than white male workers, how is 'identity politics' a distraction from 'economic issues'?

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 1d

BBC Breakfast news covered our analysis of the shocking cuts at universities across the UK

It’s time to stand up and fight for our sector ✊

Vote YES in the ballot

#WeAreTheUniversity

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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 1d

The assumption that 'the average person' doesn't care about climate change is not borne out by the available evidence

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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 1d

Union members care about trans rights. They care about climate change. They care about Palestine solidarity. They care about racial justice.

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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 1d

I have no interest whatsoever in talking unions down. But in my read Dempsey is also just completely out of touch with the profile of the membership of many unions, and what their values are.

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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 1d

I am an active trade unionist who puts a lot of time into my union. But this is so full of red flags I don't know where to begin.

tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/reve...

Reversing the Decline of Union Power

Neoliberalism and postmodernism have torn apart the social fabric that once held us together. But in rebuilding the strength of labour and the organised society, we can be unified, empowered, and dign...

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 2d

Huge win for staff today at Warrington and Vale Royal College!

💪 6.5% pay increase backdated to August

💪 Guaranteed pay increases of up to £1,000 a year

💪 Starting salary for all teachers £29,227

Read more 👇

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1421...

Union pay and conditions victory at Warrington and Vale Royal College

The University and College Union today (Thursday 9 October) hailed improvements to staff pay and conditions at Warrington and Vale Royal College as a victory for its members.

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · Jul 30

- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University

- 1 in 4 people will be made redundant

But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action?

Please read 👇

Sign the petition 👇

chng.it/7F52bThYqn

Sign the Petition

Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for sharing this, Tom, and for the recommendation! @ucucommons.bsky.social

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 3d

A cautionary tale from Australia for governments considering age checks for social media.

CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 3d

We're now finding out that as many as 70,000 people had their government IDs provided to prove their ages leaked by Discord. Like I wrote last week, this is an inherent risk (and made greater by a rushed process) of getting platforms to do age checks

Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

The ID pics had been submitted as part of age-related appeals.

www.theverge.com

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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think numbers really matter to them as long as they can treat them like actual slaves

Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 2d

I do have a citation for this btw it's Bill Schwarz's The White Man's World

Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 2d

*FROM an increasingly diverse UK ffs

Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 2d

White Brits emigrated to e.g. Rhodesia after WW2 in large part to get away an increasingly diverse UK.

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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 2d

I saw a post the other day like 'ironic the far-right hanker after a country with an 85% migrant population'. IMO this isn't ironic as what they hanker after is a country where migrants have basically zero human rights.

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 3d

The subtext of ‘we should be more like Dubai’, beyond the obvious racism, is ‘I should have a servant’.

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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 3d

The newsletter looks great! So glad we've launched it

Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social · 3d

A new initiative from @ucucommons.bsky.social - key updates from our work in UCU, the union more widely, and highlight news from our sectors. Expect it to drop every two weeks.

UCU Commons @ucucommons.bsky.social · 4d

The first issue of our fortnightly newsletter has landed!

Featuring @markpendleton.bsky.social’s discussion paper to this Friday’s HEC, @hagenilda.bsky.social’s plea to Frances Corner’s successor and other interesting links and news. #UCU #UKHE #AcademicSky

ucucommons.substack.com/p/ucu-common...

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Dr Matt Barnard @matthewbarnard.phd · 4d

The first of @ucucommons.bsky.social new fortnightly newsletter bringing news and points of interest around the sector #ucu

UCU Commons @ucucommons.bsky.social · 4d

UCU Commons newsletter #1

A new fortnightly round-up of union and sector specific news

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 4d

It’s revealing how thrown the interviewer is by an answer that is evidently an honest expression of genuinely held political principles, as opposed to the sound bites and weasel words that dominate political interviews in the present.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 4d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 4d

I want to tell all students of the so-called 'rip-off degrees' named below that your critical thinking is important and makes valid contributions to culture and society

Without your skills, we wouldn't be able to unpack toxic discourses and do something about them

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 4d

This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

Badenoch: Curb students taking "rip-off" degrees such as English. The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 4d

it also has betting shops and adult gaming centres but that is because it is a poor area which those businesses pray on like vultures

Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 4d

It has: an affordable gym and pool, a post office, a library, a credit union, affordable restaurants, international food shops and other independent businesses. Awful!!

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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 4d

similarly, if I have a local 'high street' it is Shields Road in Byker. Journos love to shit on the place from their detached houses in Tunbridge Wells but I won't hear a word against it.

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