Aine Bennett
@ainebennett.bsky.social
PhD researcher at Royal Holloway working on sexualities and asylum in the UK and France (she/her)
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Aine Bennett
@ainebennett.bsky.social
· Nov 13
📢Calling frontline migrant support services📢
Does your organisation work supporting migrants? Do you want more resources when you encounter gender and sexuality in that work? 👩👨🧑🦱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
We have 100 physical copies of the training workbook for you - get in touch for a copy 👓
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Does your organisation work supporting migrants? Do you want more resources when you encounter gender and sexuality in that work? 👩👨🧑🦱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
We have 100 physical copies of the training workbook for you - get in touch for a copy 👓
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Very excited to be a new co-convenor of GIRWG! Stay tuned for our plans for the year
The @mybisa.bsky.social Gendering IR Working Group is now on Bluesky (and LinkedIn)! 🥳 Follow us here for updates and upcoming events.
October 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Very excited to be a new co-convenor of GIRWG! Stay tuned for our plans for the year
Yesterday morning I woke up from a being chased dream where the only escape was on the ferry to "dissertation island" (no joke) but I couldn't get on the ferry...
In unrelated news, today I submitted my PhD thesis
In unrelated news, today I submitted my PhD thesis
September 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Yesterday morning I woke up from a being chased dream where the only escape was on the ferry to "dissertation island" (no joke) but I couldn't get on the ferry...
In unrelated news, today I submitted my PhD thesis
In unrelated news, today I submitted my PhD thesis
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Keep in mind that when we talk about family reunification routes, they only apply when someone has been granted refugee status. That means this government is saying, "we know you have fled persecution. We know your family remains at risk therefore. We are going to ensure you cannot see them again".
September 1, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Keep in mind that when we talk about family reunification routes, they only apply when someone has been granted refugee status. That means this government is saying, "we know you have fled persecution. We know your family remains at risk therefore. We are going to ensure you cannot see them again".
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This is a 5-year postdoc position! One for the queer STS / medical humanities and other scholars out there. What a cool opportunity
Exciting new post-doc fellow post just announced at University of Edinburgh - working alongside The Love Tank on the new Medicine Without Doctors collaboration.
Closing date 02 Oct 2025.
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Closing date 02 Oct 2025.
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoctoral Fellow LGBTQ
The Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society at the Usher Institute within The University of Edinburgh is looking for a 5-year postdoctoral Fellow to work on the Wellcome funded Discovery Award Medici...
elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:16 AM
This is a 5-year postdoc position! One for the queer STS / medical humanities and other scholars out there. What a cool opportunity
Proud of the work we've done on this report and hope it's useful for people in the youth sector!
Kaat Smets, @jamessloam.bsky.social and @ainebennett.bsky.social are today launching their report "Pathways to Participation for Marginalised Young People" in collaboration with Partnership for Young London and the Pan-London CiCC
hollodec.github.io/images/ssia_...
hollodec.github.io/images/ssia_...
July 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Proud of the work we've done on this report and hope it's useful for people in the youth sector!
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Important that you keep any protests against this quiet and discreet, so that nobody notices.
Israeli plan for forced transfer of Gaza’s population ‘a blueprint for crimes against humanity’
Military ordered to turn ruins of Rafah into ‘humanitarian city’ experts call an internment camp for all Palestinians in Gaza
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Important that you keep any protests against this quiet and discreet, so that nobody notices.
Feinberg, Leslie; Fianna Fáil is a personal fave
indexing is boring so here are the most fun/incongruous pairings that the alphabet is throwing up for me (my book is weird)
July 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Feinberg, Leslie; Fianna Fáil is a personal fave
Reading this immediately after receiving another rejection
At a recent conference, everyone else I spoke to who's on the market this year talked about it being harder than other years
Glad 10 years of higher education are paying off!
At a recent conference, everyone else I spoke to who's on the market this year talked about it being harder than other years
Glad 10 years of higher education are paying off!
Friend was round last night depressed and despondent to be rejected from job interview. Bars and shops full of frustrated workers with postgrad degrees. Potential unfulfilled in dismal economy. Downward mobility. At least we have political leadership committed to sorting this out, eh?
July 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Reading this immediately after receiving another rejection
At a recent conference, everyone else I spoke to who's on the market this year talked about it being harder than other years
Glad 10 years of higher education are paying off!
At a recent conference, everyone else I spoke to who's on the market this year talked about it being harder than other years
Glad 10 years of higher education are paying off!
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None of those newspapers (or the BBC) that gleefully ran stories when the EHRC gave trans people a shoeing will now report on the EHRC admitting they (and hence those stories) were wrong. Are those outlets craven - or dishonest?
Thank goodness for the legal press. www.law360.com/articles/235...
Thank goodness for the legal press. www.law360.com/articles/235...
EHRC Drops Workplace Toilet Advice Amid Legal Threat - Law360
Britain's equal rights watchdog has dropped its advice to employers that they must provide single-sex toilets in the wake of a landmark U.K. Supreme Court decision in the face of a court challenge.
www.law360.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
None of those newspapers (or the BBC) that gleefully ran stories when the EHRC gave trans people a shoeing will now report on the EHRC admitting they (and hence those stories) were wrong. Are those outlets craven - or dishonest?
Thank goodness for the legal press. www.law360.com/articles/235...
Thank goodness for the legal press. www.law360.com/articles/235...
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Short thread on Yvette Cooper's decision to ban Palestine Action. 🧵
June 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Short thread on Yvette Cooper's decision to ban Palestine Action. 🧵
In the Linen Hall library finishing prep for this roundtable and panel I am very excited to be on tomorrow at #BISA2025
If you're also in Belfast, come and join us! 🌈🎓
If you're also in Belfast, come and join us! 🌈🎓
June 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
In the Linen Hall library finishing prep for this roundtable and panel I am very excited to be on tomorrow at #BISA2025
If you're also in Belfast, come and join us! 🌈🎓
If you're also in Belfast, come and join us! 🌈🎓
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"diverted" is when the 75 bus goes through an alternative route due to roadworks, not when a boat is seized in international waters
BREAKING: A Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists has been diverted to Israel, Israel's Foreign Ministry says.
A Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists has been diverted to Israel
Israel’s Foreign Ministry says a Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists has been diverted to Israel.
bit.ly
June 9, 2025 at 6:30 AM
"diverted" is when the 75 bus goes through an alternative route due to roadworks, not when a boat is seized in international waters
Very proud seeing some former students' work included here!
The in-person exhibition of student work from the Visual Writing module was a huge success and you can now see the students' work exhibited online: visualwriting.org/exhibition/ 🧑🎨🖼️
May 30, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Very proud seeing some former students' work included here!
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An academic in our department gave a "trans-sceptical" talk on campus today. We have written an open letter to the Principal and University Secretary expressing our opposition to transphobia on our campus - we hope others in the RHUL community will sign: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter to Julie Saunders, Vice Chancellor and Principal and Andrew Boggs, University Secretary, about the hosting of a talk on "Trans-scepticism"
Please note: Dr Gascoigne is an active member of teaching staff. We have therefore allowed the option for anonymous signatures. We would encourage initials for those who are comfortable, or otherwise ...
docs.google.com
May 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
An academic in our department gave a "trans-sceptical" talk on campus today. We have written an open letter to the Principal and University Secretary expressing our opposition to transphobia on our campus - we hope others in the RHUL community will sign: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
An academic in our department gave a "trans-sceptical" talk on campus today. We have written an open letter to the Principal and University Secretary expressing our opposition to transphobia on our campus - we hope others in the RHUL community will sign: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter to Julie Saunders, Vice Chancellor and Principal and Andrew Boggs, University Secretary, about the hosting of a talk on "Trans-scepticism"
Please note: Dr Gascoigne is an active member of teaching staff. We have therefore allowed the option for anonymous signatures. We would encourage initials for those who are comfortable, or otherwise ...
docs.google.com
May 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
An academic in our department gave a "trans-sceptical" talk on campus today. We have written an open letter to the Principal and University Secretary expressing our opposition to transphobia on our campus - we hope others in the RHUL community will sign: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Today! Oxford people, see you there!
Looking forward to hosting some absolutely brilliant thinkers next week in Oxford, on a topic that only seems to get more and more urgent. All welcome - please share with comrades and friends!
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/why-cr...
www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/why-cr...
Why Critiques of Gay Imperialism Still Matter
www.torch.ox.ac.uk
May 15, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Today! Oxford people, see you there!
This has gone some way towards dissuading me from my (I hope) most reactionary opinion that you should have to pass a cycling proficiency test before renting a lime bike...
New Substack from me, about why the most annoying cyclists on the road are actually helping make everyone safer open.substack.com/pub/danhanco...
Forwards! To the Lime-bike critical mass singularity
In defence of the most annoying cyclists in London
open.substack.com
May 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This has gone some way towards dissuading me from my (I hope) most reactionary opinion that you should have to pass a cycling proficiency test before renting a lime bike...
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Just going to slowly introduce some of my research to BlueSky.
I'm a critical theorist interested in political possibilities of new media, particularly memes. My first journal article was a theoretical framework for the political study of internet memes.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I'm a critical theorist interested in political possibilities of new media, particularly memes. My first journal article was a theoretical framework for the political study of internet memes.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Theorising the memescape: The spatial politics of Internet memes | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Theorising the memescape: The spatial politics of Internet memes - Volume 50 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
April 30, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Just going to slowly introduce some of my research to BlueSky.
I'm a critical theorist interested in political possibilities of new media, particularly memes. My first journal article was a theoretical framework for the political study of internet memes.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I'm a critical theorist interested in political possibilities of new media, particularly memes. My first journal article was a theoretical framework for the political study of internet memes.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I have just signed the open letter "Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia" in response to the recent hateful and harmful Supreme Court ruling
I hope others will too: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I hope others will too: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia
We call on all trans-inclusive feminist academics and educators to sign this statement:
‘Not In Our Name’
We are non-trans feminist academics and educators. We write in support of trans rights, tran...
docs.google.com
April 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I have just signed the open letter "Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia" in response to the recent hateful and harmful Supreme Court ruling
I hope others will too: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I hope others will too: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Trans women are women and no court judgement can change that. Without wanting to diminish the negative effect that legal oppression has on trans lives, there is no reason why lawyers and judges are qualified to make this argument over actual experts in the field.
April 16, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Trans women are women and no court judgement can change that. Without wanting to diminish the negative effect that legal oppression has on trans lives, there is no reason why lawyers and judges are qualified to make this argument over actual experts in the field.
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regardless of today’s outcome, it is morally indefensible to have a court ruling on something that affects a population, using evidence and findings that did not consult a single member of that population.
April 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
regardless of today’s outcome, it is morally indefensible to have a court ruling on something that affects a population, using evidence and findings that did not consult a single member of that population.
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And then we were 91.
Royal Holloway already has had so many interventions and threats of redundancies in recent years. 😥
Royal Holloway already has had so many interventions and threats of redundancies in recent years. 😥
@qmucu.bsky.social sadly, time to add Royal Holloway to your master list royalhollowayucu.wordpress.com/2025/03/31/h...
How Not To Announce A Voluntary Severance Scheme: A Contextual Q&A
What is happening? A Voluntary Severance (VS) scheme has been launched, asking members of staff to volunteer for redundancy. The announcement of this scheme were emailed today, on Monday 31st March…
royalhollowayucu.wordpress.com
March 31, 2025 at 12:43 PM
And then we were 91.
Royal Holloway already has had so many interventions and threats of redundancies in recent years. 😥
Royal Holloway already has had so many interventions and threats of redundancies in recent years. 😥
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“Research into sexuality and gender is vital for identifying social, cultural, and medical needs of populations, and addressing inequalities across populations.”
It’s good to see editors of academic journals refuse to comply with increasing state censorship of sexuality and gender scholarship.
🌈🎓
It’s good to see editors of academic journals refuse to comply with increasing state censorship of sexuality and gender scholarship.
🌈🎓
Statement on the Importance of Sexuality and Gender Research
Published in The Journal of Sex Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
March 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
“Research into sexuality and gender is vital for identifying social, cultural, and medical needs of populations, and addressing inequalities across populations.”
It’s good to see editors of academic journals refuse to comply with increasing state censorship of sexuality and gender scholarship.
🌈🎓
It’s good to see editors of academic journals refuse to comply with increasing state censorship of sexuality and gender scholarship.
🌈🎓
I have signed this statement "Against the Repression of Academic Freedom in the United States and its Disproportionate Impact on Racialized Peoples" and strongly encourage fellow academics to do so too: twailr.com/statement-ag...
Thank you to the organisers for bringing this together
Thank you to the organisers for bringing this together
Statement against the Repression of Academic Freedom in the United States and its Disproportionate Impact on Racialized Peoples
Please fill out the Google Form hyperlinked in the statement to add your name as a signatory to this statement.
twailr.com
March 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I have signed this statement "Against the Repression of Academic Freedom in the United States and its Disproportionate Impact on Racialized Peoples" and strongly encourage fellow academics to do so too: twailr.com/statement-ag...
Thank you to the organisers for bringing this together
Thank you to the organisers for bringing this together