Yes please, the cadavers are needed for medical students

Just published @nursingstandard.bsky.social I propose a ‘queer ethics of care’: drawing from queer responses to cancer & mpox I suggest #nurses can learn from (not just about) #LGBTQ+ communities, reorienting #nursing #ethics towards more collaborative practices
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Even just a heartfelt and informed apology might be a good start. Unfortunately The English ™️ pathologically apologise for everything except colonialism and the slave trade, it's aaaalmost as if there's something deeply repressed in our unconsciousness the keeps us apologising for everything but...?

I fully agree solidarity to bring about reparations need not be motivated by guilt - understanding the destruction of economies, individual lives, families, cultures would be a good start to developing compassion. From that can grow conversations about righting wrongs.

In fact, it was worse than that, when the slave trade was finally outlawed owners, who were wealthy and powerful, used that wealth and power to be awarded vast "compensation". Something the enslaved people have rarely seen a penny of and the UK only a recently paid off the debt from.

Goodness me, how can people not understand that YES slavery existed before the slave trade, but that wealthy British people were instrumental in industrialising and globalising slavery and in doing so accumulated vast wealth which was and never has faced any sort of social justice and reparations...

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Notably, in addition to being a woman, she also didn't snigger along to Welby's crass and insensitive resignation speech. Most of the male Bishops sat around him in the HoL did. I'm very glad we've appointed someone who appears to recognise the deep hurt the church was complicit in and magnified...

It's First Sunday, this Sunday, so time for a wander with The LRM and you're invited. Meet 2pm under the tiled map in Mcr Victoria for a slow mooch to The Eagle Inn, Salford to celebrate #TheFeministArtofWalking. Pub open but event full, returns only INFO: thelrm.org/entries/gene... #psychogeography

I am alarmed and upset by this emerging news of attacks at a synagogue on Yom Kippur.

The rise in religious hate crimes in this country is totally unacceptable - there is no excuse for antisemitism and no excuse for violence.

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Absolutely terrible, the Manchester Jewish community have been rightly worried about increasing anti-Semitism for several years. It's terrible we are seeing this in a city which acted as a sanctuary for Jews 100 years previously.

Police shoot suspect after car and knife attack at Manchester synagogue

So until we start tackling bigotry at large, yes we can be outraged at The Met, but we can't act surprised... It is basically inevitable.

We are dipping into an ever more putrid sess pool when recruiting into the police, and we have a government tacitly reinforcing the ideas of "harsh" approaches to anyone who fails to be ideal and native. I still see no positive arguments for the diversity of humanity on a government level.

The language those officers used so closely mirrors that which has become all too common in the UK. Racism and sexism, and many other prejudices against people who don't align with the fascist ideal of a strong white man, are very much on the rise...

It's very easy to point at the London Met for being racist and sexist, and of course we should and must hold those with power to more specific processes of accountability and regulatory consequences, but...

I'm guessing politicians still get paid...?

The British media (World Service aside) really hasn't reported Trump's whole authoritarian speech has it? I'm not sure which is more disturbing: the fact he made a very clearly authoritarian-fascist speech, or the fact that we consider it more important to report his bollocks about paracetamol.

It is official! My book, Birth Politics, has been released @JHUPress. Hopeful that it makes an impactful contribution to conversations around improving maternal health care in Nigeria. Happy to honor invited talks to discuss the book and my research. #maternalhealth #reproductivehealth #Nigeria

I've been saying for a few months now that the USA is bordering on a civil war - there's a somewhat slow rate of death with not very clearly defined groups, but it's kinda disturbingly close. I think it just got closer.

“As public rhetoric about technology adopts a dire and self-righteous tone, the ethical and normative stakes of this contest have become less and less clear.” Mason Wong on three books about US-China tech competition and the global chip industry. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-grove/

Does it stop the genocide? No. But this is how fascists should be treated. They don't deserve the respect of an audience. They deserve the shame of one walking out on them.

Gilead would probably work

As is always the case, Manchester is lulling it's freshers into a mischievously misleading false sense of the weather in the city with wall to wall blue skies all week. I do love my city ❤️