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Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social · 4h

Carrots that are too beautiful to cook

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Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social · 4d

For anyone in the Liverpool area, we are hosting a conversation and hands-on workshop on abortion rights and creative methods as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science - come join us! Sign up here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/claire-piers...
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Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social · 3d

The @livunihss.bsky.social AHRC-funded ‘Crafting Care’ Doctoral Focal College is accepting applications for 2026. EOI due by 1st Dec. I am keen to supervise a project on the politics of abortion care. Get in touch with your project idea! www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... @livunipol.bsky.social

Project Areas 2026 | Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences | University of Liverpool

www.liverpool.ac.uk

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Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social · 3d

The @livunihss.bsky.social AHRC-funded ‘Crafting Care’ Doctoral Focal College is accepting applications for 2026. EOI due by 1st Dec. I am keen to supervise a project on the politics of abortion care. Get in touch with your project idea! www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... @livunipol.bsky.social

Project Areas 2026 | Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences | University of Liverpool

www.liverpool.ac.uk

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Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social · 4d

And sign up for workshop here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/claire-piers...

www.ticketsource.co.uk

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Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social · 4d

For anyone in the Liverpool area, we are hosting a conversation and hands-on workshop on abortion rights and creative methods as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science - come join us! Sign up here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/claire-piers...
@livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social

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Máiréad Enright @maireadenright.bsky.social · 8d

Thinking of Sarah. @simonharrisireland.bsky.social must intervene.

The Clare Champion @clarechampion.ie · 8d

Update: Clare Champion columnist Sarah Clancy confirmed as detained by Israeli forces

Update at 23:35 GMT: Sarah Clancy confirmed as detained In the last few moments the Irish media contact for the Global Sumud Flotilla has confirmed that Sarah Clancy as well as Sinn Féin Senator Chris Andrew,…

Update: Clare Champion columnist Sarah Clancy confirmed as detained by Israeli forces

Update at 23:35 GMT: Sarah Clancy confirmed as detained In the last few moments the Irish media contact for the Global Sumud Flotilla has confirmed that Sarah Clancy as well as Sinn Féin Senator Chris Andrew, Louise Heaney and Tadhg Hickey have all be confirmed as detailed. Sarah Clancy and Senator Andrew were both aboard The Spectre, and both gave interviews to The Clare Champion from the deck of that vessel a few hours ago.

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APPG on Global SRHR @appgonglobalsrhr.bsky.social · 16d

Access to safe abortion is a matter of health, rights, and equality.

The UK has made the top 10, but at 73% we're a whole 21% behind the leader!

Where does your country stand? 🗺️
🔗 Check the @epfsrr.bsky.social Abortion Atlas to find out: www.epfweb.org/node/1156 #abortionatlas

European Abortion Policy Atlas 2025

The European Abortion Policies Atlas 2025 is a comprehensive mapping of abortion laws, policies, and access across 49 countries and territories in Europe. It serves as a critical tool for policymakers...

www.epfweb.org

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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 18d

📣🏳️‍⚧️ 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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My Voice, My Choice @myvoicemychoice.bsky.social · 19d

Today, Canada became the first G7 nation to recognise the State of Palestine, as Prime Minister Mark Carney promised "a peaceful future for both the State of Palestine and the State of Israel." (1/3)

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Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social · 19d

Ah but I'm jealous you're getting to watch it for the first time

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Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social · 19d

Does that mean you've not seen 'the way we were'? Watch that next!

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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 24d

Germany’s abortion law dates back to 1871, and despite reforms over the decades, it remains a criminal offence. Now, as the fight to remove §218 continues, patients and providers in Berlin are pushing for access that treats abortion as essential healthcare.

Why is abortion still a crime in Germany? - The Berliner

Germany’s abortion law dates back to 1871, and despite reforms over the decades, it remains a criminal offence. Now, as the fight to remove §218 continues, patients and providers in Berlin are pushing...

www.the-berliner.com

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Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social · 25d

Congrats Leanne!

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Sumi Madhok @sumimadhok.bsky.social · Sep 10

Ursula von der Leyen:

[T]he events in Gaza and the suffering of children and families “has shaken the conscience of the world.”

“Man-made famine can never be a weapon of war.

For the sake of the children, for the sake of humanity. This must stop”.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · Sep 10

BREAKING: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she plans to seek sanctions and a partial trade suspension against Israel over the war in Gaza.

EU commission president seeks sanctions, partial trade suspension against Israel over war in Gaza

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says she plans to seek sanctions and a partial trade suspension against Israel over the war in Gaza.

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Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social · Sep 6

Jenny Saville at the National Portrait Gallery is the best exhibition I've seen this year

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christopher griffin @chris-brighton.bsky.social · Sep 7

Join us next week for a free online two-day conference on global 'anti-gender' politics, hosted by the University of Brighton, featuring keynote @reproutopia.bsky.social! ❤️‍🔥 Starts at 09:30 GMT on Thursday 11 September. Further info ⤵️

Page 1 of the schedule for an online conference called Global 'Anti-Gender' Politics: Nationalist, Populist and Feminist Convergences. Starts on Thursday 11 September, 2025.

Page 2 of the schedule. The conference continues on Friday 12 September, 2025.

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Alliance for Choice @all4choice.bsky.social · Sep 7

Sunday Sofa Activism.

WRDA is carrying out research on the role of firearms in VAWG in Northern Ireland. If you are comfortable sharing your experience anonymously, please complete the survey at the link: www.wrda.net/blog/wrda-is...

Support Services: www.raiseyourvoice.community/helpadvice

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Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social · Sep 6

Jenny Saville at the National Portrait Gallery is the best exhibition I've seen this year

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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · Aug 29

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · Aug 20

100 Women's Rights Organisations, including
@rapecrisis.bsky.social, @refugecharity.bsky.social, & @evawuk.bsky.social have signed a letter warning that attempts to link rape & violence against women & girls to immigration is a racist distraction.

They urge the govt to address dangerous narrative

screen shot from Mirror story covering the letter

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Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social · Aug 20

Sure - I'd like to read it! [email protected]

Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social · Aug 20

Exactly this

Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · Aug 20

A critical question we should all consider: are we scientists or funding application machines? 👇

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Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social · Aug 13

Can i get added? Ta!

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Center for Reproductive Rights @reprorights.org · Aug 12

The Trump administration has removed reproductive rights from its annual human rights report, omitting critical data about abortion, access to contraception, freedom from discrimination & coercion in health care, & maternal health.

This is a CLEAR attempt to sweep human rights abuses under the rug.

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