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Ruth Fletcher
@ruthfletcher.bsky.social
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Legal academic and feminist interested in reproducing life otherwise at Queen Mary University of London, and elsewhere | #Repealedthe8th | Chairperson, Abortion Support Network | Branch committee, QMUCU | Leverhulme Research Fellow
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Ruth Fletcher @ruthfletcher.bsky.social · Jul 27
A note from me on the significance of the recent move partially to decriminalise #abortion in England and Wales

Against a backdrop of rising prosecutions for ‘later’ pregnancy endings, #decrim in Northern Ireland through human rights mechanisms, and uneven commitment to decriminalisation as a whole
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · Jul 21
British MPs recently decriminalised abortion-seekers. But this success occurred in a Bill that threatens to criminalise poverty and restrict protest rights.

RUTH FLETCHER explains on what a holistic legal approach to reproductive freedom ought to look like.

verfassungsblog.de/decriminalis...
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 17h
New from me on @autonomynews.co: The popular abortion pill resource Plan C relaunched this week with a new design that better displays the many, many options for medication abortion in all 50 states
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Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 17h
The online abortion pill guide @plancpills.bsky.social has been redesigned to make it even easier to learn where to get pills, including at no cost. The redesign comes as state officials have threatened investigations and potential lawsuits against the organization.

An Autonomy News exclusive:
Exclusive: Plan C Doubles Down on Abortion Pill Info Amid Political Attacks
The online abortion pill guide has been redesigned to make it even easier to learn where to get pills, including at no cost.
www.autonomynews.co
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Marita Hennessy @maritahennessy.bsky.social · 22d
"ongoing need to examine femtech’s role in shaping global dynamics of reproductive, labor, & environmental justice, in addition to neoliberal approaches to healthcare more broadly"

Danica Facca, Jodi Hall, Gail Teachman, Joanna Redden, Lorie Donelle

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

#FemTech
Femtech in context: A critical conceptual (re)view - Danica Facca, Jodi Hall, Gail Teachman, Joanna Redden, Lorie Donelle, 2025
Emerging as a commercial category in 2016, ‘femtech’ has been publicly celebrated as a category of consumer-based digital health technologies designed to suppor...
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Marita Hennessy @maritahennessy.bsky.social · 3d
My fight for equality that shattered Ireland’s academic glass ceiling | Dr Micheline Sheehy Skeffington

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
Micheline Sheehy Skeffington: My equality fight that shattered the academic glass ceiling
It is 10 years since I won a landmark gender discrimination case. Was it all worth it?
www.irishtimes.com
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Pregnancy Loss Research Group @pregnancylossie.bsky.social · 1d
Tonight in City Hall, Cork we published "Words at Work"

Each text in the book is a direct quotation from a person with experience of pregnancy loss who participated in the PLACES Project
www.ucc.ie/en/pregnancy...

@keelinodonoghue.bsky.social @maritahennessy.bsky.social #PLRG_WordsAtWork
Abstract image of two black pencil-drawn circles on white background with black text Words at Work: Experiences of pregnancy loss in the workplace {up to 23 weeks}
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Ruth Fletcher @ruthfletcher.bsky.social · 1d
Still waiting
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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · Jan 14
"I've been waiting for over 26 years now for my compensation."

The oldest victim of the Post Office Horizon scandal, 92-year-old Betty Brown, says she is 'disgusted' that sub-postmasters have not received full compensation yet.

#Newsnight
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 1d
I chickened out of my long-time working title:

Trains and Borders and Orangemen, Oh My!

But the first sight of a new publication in the wild still feels nice. Thanks to @conormccormick.bsky.social, David Capper and Norma Dawson for assembling this collection:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 2d
Peter Dunne, Emily Grabham and I have edited a special section of feminists@law on the Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland. You can find our editorial about this below. The special section has some brilliant critical and feminist takes on the decision journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/fe...
How can critical and feminist scholars respond to the decision in 'For Women Scotland'? | feminists@law
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 4d
Boycott TEVA, and come to our workshop, "Medical BDS: On Boycotting Israeli Pharmaceuticals" online on October 23rd to learn how.

www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/med...
flyer for Medical BDS: A Workshop on Boycotting Israeli Pharmaceuticals, by Boycott TEVA USA Thursday, October 23 7:30-9:30 PM EST on zoom Workshops for Gaza X Healthcare Workers for Palestine
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 4d
An Israeli pharmaceutical company that operates at the heart of the NHS has been aiding the Israeli military during its genocide in Gaza, Declassified can reveal.

Teva supplies around 14% of the prescribed medicine packs in Britain, and supports the IDF👇
www.declassifieduk.org/the-israeli-...
The Israeli firm aiding the NHS and IDF
Drugs corporation Teva makes one in seven of the medicines prescribed in the UK. It’s also backing the Israeli military during the genocide.
www.declassifieduk.org
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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · 18d
On 21 October, co-hosted by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture, our speaker will be Dr Brandy Schillace, on Hope in the Dark: How a daring team of sexologists built the world’s first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich.

blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...
CSSC and CHSTM Joint Seminar, 21 October 2025
Dr Brandy Schillace Hope in the Dark: How a daring team of sexologists built the world's first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 2d
So great to see the special issue on "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" that @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & I edited published today! A big thanks to all contributors & to JHMAS editors & reviewers for their support & guidance in this process academic.oup.com/jhmas/issue/...
Volume 80 Issue 4 | Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences | Oxford Academic
Publishes original research on the written beginnings of medicine in all its aspects. It focuses on what practitioners of the healing arts did or taught, and how their peers, as well as patients, rece...
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 5d
Universities of Dundee, Kent, Brunel, Coventry & Swansea defer pay rises

Kent’s “review in the coming months” is temporal evasion at its finest, while Coventry’s “break even position” heroically rebrands “we won’t pay” as “fiscal courage”

The academic austerity opera continues
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 5d
At least five UK universities have told staff they will not be paying them the sector-wide uplift that was due in August for almost a year. Juliette Rowsell reports
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/five-uk-universities-tell-staff-they-cant-afford-pay-rises
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Feminist Miscarriage Project @miscarriageproject.bsky.social · 10d
Our first public event! Film screening of Zurawski v Texas, followed by a panel discussion about the impact of abortion bans/restrictions on all kinds of pregnancies, with the film's producer and others. Friday 17 October, UCL East Cinema, 2pm-5pm.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/zurawski-v...
'Zurawski V Texas' Screening at UCL
A screening of the new critically acclaimed documentary that reveals the impact of abortion bans and restrictions in the US.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
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Feminist Miscarriage Project @miscarriageproject.bsky.social · 4d
Conference alert! Thursday 18th-Friday 19th June, 2026, London campus of Loughborough University. Online day: Monday 22nd June, 2026. Please see Call for Papers here:

feministmiscarriageproject.org/conference
Conference — The Feminist Miscarriage Project
Information on the conference 'New Directions in Miscarriage Research: Intersectional, Interdisciplinary and Full-Spectrum Perspectives', Loughborough University London Campus, June 2026.
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The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · 4d
Drawing on her fieldwork, Pragya Roy critically analysis the everyday embodied material realities of Dalit motherhood(s) through the nexus of caste, gender, and economic class.

thepolyphony.org/2025/10/06/n...
No Room To Rest: Dalit Motherhood(s) In An Urban Indian Slum
Drawing on her fieldwork, Pragya Roy reflects on Dalit motherhood(s) as demanding, undervalued, embodied (re)productive labour. She critically explores health research, arguing that Dalit health is…
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Jae Page @jaepage.bsky.social · Jun 19
Please check out my latest publication in Geoforum. In the article, I discuss how the law of the dead is theologically inspired and secularly adopted to legitimate land claims.

Title: The dead as property marker: a legal geography of the cemetery

doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
Redirecting
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Critical Legal Geographies Network @legalgeolsa.bsky.social · 22d
We are excited to announce the Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography at the University of Concepción, Chile, 17-20 March 2026. The call is now live @ www.clg.place on our conference page. Deadline for submissions 10 November 2025.
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Sarah Klosterkamp @sklosterkamp.bsky.social · 7d
📢 CFP | AAG 2026, San Francisco
Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism

In many cities, crisis isn’t rupture—it’s everyday life.
Evictions, debt, precarity, housing struggles.
But also repair, care, solidarity.

@geographers.bsky.social #geosky
Schwarzer Hintergrund mit weißem Text: „Call for Papers – AAG 2026, San Francisco. Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism. Deadline: October 20, 2025.“ With email addresses from both organizers: klosterkamp@geo.uni-frankfurt.de & cristina.temenos@manchester.ac.uk
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 8d
Care as a human right?

The IACtHR recently recognised this right and specified respective state obligations.

MIRIAM L. HENRÍQUEZ VIÑAS & SABRINA RAGONE explain what this entails – and why we may soon witness a proliferation of norms at the domestic level.

verfassungsblog.de/right-to-car...
Quote from the piece by Miriam Henriquez Vinas & Sabrina Ragone: “The Court provided a comprehensive interpretation of the right to care as implicitly embedded in the Convention, connected to other conventional rights, and multifaceted in nature.”
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@HaringeyWelcome @haringeywelcome.bsky.social · 5d
Whatever your faith, no one should have to risk their lives to pray.
Faith or no faith, all people should feel safe, welcome, and included in our communities.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'
Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.
www.bbc.co.uk
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@HaringeyWelcome @haringeywelcome.bsky.social · 8d
The violent attack in Manchester today is abhorrent as well as divisive.

We stand in solidarity with the Jewish community, in Haringey and across the UK, and with all who are frightened and worried.

Our communities must be safe, welcoming, and inclusive places for all who live in them.
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WHO @who.int · 12d
Access to safe abortion protects the health of women and girls.

As with all other health services, women and girls should be able to access safe and respectful abortion care, when they need it, without fear of harm, punishment or recrimination.

#HealthForAll
Restricting access to safe abortion drives women and girls to unsafe procedures.
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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 6d
The Battle of Cable Street.

A thread 🧵 with pictures and ALT text.

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On this day in 1936, the East End of London rose up against fascism. The Battle of Cable Street.

#TheyShallNotPass #NoPasaran
A packed East End street in 1936: thousands of anti-fascist residents filling the road and pavements, shopfronts behind them.
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 6d
Today is the 89th anniversary of The Battle of Cable Street when the people of the East End of London halted the march of Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts through Stepney.
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Alliance for Choice @all4choice.bsky.social · 7d
Last Saturday activists in Malta gathered outside the courts in Valletta, calling for the decriminalisation of abortion. The Voice For Choice coalition are calling for change, to allow women and pregnant people to access the care they need. 👉 timesofmalta.com/article/acti...
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