Onni Gust
@onnigust.bsky.social
Historian of colonialism, trans life, human/animal boundary at Uni of Nottingham. Queer, feminist, trans. Jewish. Parent. They/them.
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Onni Gust
@onnigust.bsky.social
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Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth‐ and early‐nineteenth‐century Britain
The figure of the monster has long been used by trans and intersex scholars, artists and activists to articulate their sense of being in a world dominated by binary, cisgender norms. Yet what does it....
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I've finally migrated from the evil X, happy new year!
Council is hiding behind locked doors with security guards blocking corridors but they can't escape from the anger of over 200 staff and students condemning management's incompetence and protesting course closures and redundancies.
Who is the university? We are!!
@uonucu.bsky.social
Who is the university? We are!!
@uonucu.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Council is hiding behind locked doors with security guards blocking corridors but they can't escape from the anger of over 200 staff and students condemning management's incompetence and protesting course closures and redundancies.
Who is the university? We are!!
@uonucu.bsky.social
Who is the university? We are!!
@uonucu.bsky.social
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Job Alert! DH postdoc at Edinburgh - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work on the AHRC-funded project "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana", which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Job Alert! DH postdoc at Edinburgh - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work on the AHRC-funded project "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana", which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
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Colleagues and UCU members from UoN's Department of Modern Languages have put together this wonderful guide on supporting their programmes. A lot of what they suggest is also helpful in challenging the 48 courses at risk across the university
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
savenottinghamlanguages
The University of Nottingham has suspended applications to all languages degree programmes, with a view to permanent closure of all of its undergraduate languages degrees. Under the proposals, it…
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Colleagues and UCU members from UoN's Department of Modern Languages have put together this wonderful guide on supporting their programmes. A lot of what they suggest is also helpful in challenging the 48 courses at risk across the university
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
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Get your pitches in before the end of the month
🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
November 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Get your pitches in before the end of the month
Writing History in a Time of Genocide | History Workshop share.google/yQWWFlkhfbqI...
Writing History in a Time of Genocide
Anne Irfan asks, what does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
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November 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Writing History in a Time of Genocide | History Workshop share.google/yQWWFlkhfbqI...
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Surely the EHRC can see how INSANE this sounds?
Right!? 😬
“Under the new guidance, places…will be able to question transgender women over whether they should be using single-sex services based on how they look, their behaviour or concerns raised by others”
Full article 👉 archive.ph/LWfAM
Right!? 😬
“Under the new guidance, places…will be able to question transgender women over whether they should be using single-sex services based on how they look, their behaviour or concerns raised by others”
Full article 👉 archive.ph/LWfAM
November 19, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Surely the EHRC can see how INSANE this sounds?
Right!? 😬
“Under the new guidance, places…will be able to question transgender women over whether they should be using single-sex services based on how they look, their behaviour or concerns raised by others”
Full article 👉 archive.ph/LWfAM
Right!? 😬
“Under the new guidance, places…will be able to question transgender women over whether they should be using single-sex services based on how they look, their behaviour or concerns raised by others”
Full article 👉 archive.ph/LWfAM
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Me at the LRB blog on the atrocious refugee policy of Mahmood and Starmer
Christopher Bertram | ‘Core Protection’
Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status should...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Me at the LRB blog on the atrocious refugee policy of Mahmood and Starmer
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“She was clear—and became more and more brave and vulnerable about sharing — how she was a true weirdo freak who loved pleasure unapologetically, an Asian disabled radical and someone who was not there to make people feel better or go along with the okie doke.”
Vale, Alice Wong.
Vale, Alice Wong.
Alice Wong was Crips for eSims for Gaza, and Everything to Us
by Jane Shi and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
llps.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
“She was clear—and became more and more brave and vulnerable about sharing — how she was a true weirdo freak who loved pleasure unapologetically, an Asian disabled radical and someone who was not there to make people feel better or go along with the okie doke.”
Vale, Alice Wong.
Vale, Alice Wong.
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The University of Edinburgh is recruiting for a funded full-time post-doc researcher to help with the "Rain within the Rainbow" project exploring LGBTQ+ suicide and suicide prevention through the life course in the UK.
Apply here by November 21st: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH708/r...
The University of Edinburgh is recruiting for a funded full-time post-doc researcher to help with the "Rain within the Rainbow" project exploring LGBTQ+ suicide and suicide prevention through the life course in the UK.
Apply here by November 21st: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH708/r...
Research Fellow (Rain within the Rainbow) at The University of Edinburgh
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Research Fellow (Rain within the Rainbow) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
🚨 🌈🎓 🚨
The University of Edinburgh is recruiting for a funded full-time post-doc researcher to help with the "Rain within the Rainbow" project exploring LGBTQ+ suicide and suicide prevention through the life course in the UK.
Apply here by November 21st: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH708/r...
The University of Edinburgh is recruiting for a funded full-time post-doc researcher to help with the "Rain within the Rainbow" project exploring LGBTQ+ suicide and suicide prevention through the life course in the UK.
Apply here by November 21st: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH708/r...
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What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
This pup is as bewildered as you are by planned course closures at UoN.
What kind of future will the next generation have without languages, music, theology, education, social work, microbiology & plant sciences, agriculture & nursing??
@uonucu.bsky.social photo credits @rullsenberg.bsky.social
What kind of future will the next generation have without languages, music, theology, education, social work, microbiology & plant sciences, agriculture & nursing??
@uonucu.bsky.social photo credits @rullsenberg.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
This pup is as bewildered as you are by planned course closures at UoN.
What kind of future will the next generation have without languages, music, theology, education, social work, microbiology & plant sciences, agriculture & nursing??
@uonucu.bsky.social photo credits @rullsenberg.bsky.social
What kind of future will the next generation have without languages, music, theology, education, social work, microbiology & plant sciences, agriculture & nursing??
@uonucu.bsky.social photo credits @rullsenberg.bsky.social
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The Government have published the Curriculum and Assessment Review report and their own response. We have a short statement expressing our views.
www.history.org.uk/secondary/ne...
www.history.org.uk/secondary/ne...
Curriculum and Assessment Review Final Report – response
www.history.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The Government have published the Curriculum and Assessment Review report and their own response. We have a short statement expressing our views.
www.history.org.uk/secondary/ne...
www.history.org.uk/secondary/ne...
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I teach this article EVERY time I teach philosophy of tech.
November 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I teach this article EVERY time I teach philosophy of tech.
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I think lots of you all will be as excited as I am to see Jess Moody’s “Plants, Enslavement and Public History” project website
and you can sign up for the mailing list in the little box in bottom right corner
plantpublichistory.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
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and you can sign up for the mailing list in the little box in bottom right corner
plantpublichistory.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
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Plant Public History – Plants, Enslavement and Public History: Re-imagining green spaces as places of heritage and healing
plantpublichistory.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 6:53 AM
I think lots of you all will be as excited as I am to see Jess Moody’s “Plants, Enslavement and Public History” project website
and you can sign up for the mailing list in the little box in bottom right corner
plantpublichistory.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
🗃️🌿🪴
and you can sign up for the mailing list in the little box in bottom right corner
plantpublichistory.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
🗃️🌿🪴
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Mathematical Physics MSci at UoN earmarked for closure as mgmt start the cuts. As the custodians of Einstein’s famous blackboard, this is especially worrying. Will we still teach his greatest ideas in years to come? @uonucu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Mathematical Physics MSci at UoN earmarked for closure as mgmt start the cuts. As the custodians of Einstein’s famous blackboard, this is especially worrying. Will we still teach his greatest ideas in years to come? @uonucu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
This week, UoN announced course suspensions for all modern languages, music, theology & religious studies, biosciences, mental health nursing and more.
@uonucu.bsky.social fighting management tooth & nail to prevent this reckless, shortsighted stupidity.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@uonucu.bsky.social fighting management tooth & nail to prevent this reckless, shortsighted stupidity.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This week, UoN announced course suspensions for all modern languages, music, theology & religious studies, biosciences, mental health nursing and more.
@uonucu.bsky.social fighting management tooth & nail to prevent this reckless, shortsighted stupidity.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@uonucu.bsky.social fighting management tooth & nail to prevent this reckless, shortsighted stupidity.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Parenting in the animal world is nothing like what Bluey, Peppa Pig or 101 Dalmatians would make us believe. Louise Gentle explains what children's stories with animal protagonists are getting massively wrong (cannibalism alert).
Always love a good debunking.
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theconversation.com/childrens-bo...
Always love a good debunking.
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theconversation.com/childrens-bo...
Children’s books feature tidy nuclear families – but the animal kingdom tells a different story
Storybooks and films may have given you the wrong idea about what family looks like in the animal kingdom.
theconversation.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Parenting in the animal world is nothing like what Bluey, Peppa Pig or 101 Dalmatians would make us believe. Louise Gentle explains what children's stories with animal protagonists are getting massively wrong (cannibalism alert).
Always love a good debunking.
🧪🦊🪶
theconversation.com/childrens-bo...
Always love a good debunking.
🧪🦊🪶
theconversation.com/childrens-bo...
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So I've been reading the Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper. There's some good things in there. But when it comes to universities there's very little to cheer. The situation is very tough and will get worse. The last chance to preserve what we've got has passed. Let me explain why. (1/?)
October 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
So I've been reading the Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper. There's some good things in there. But when it comes to universities there's very little to cheer. The situation is very tough and will get worse. The last chance to preserve what we've got has passed. Let me explain why. (1/?)
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Who is the university? We are.
Jo Grady joined striking members at
Nottingham today as they fight management’s refusal to commit to no redundancies during a restructure. #WeAreTheUniversity
Jo Grady joined striking members at
Nottingham today as they fight management’s refusal to commit to no redundancies during a restructure. #WeAreTheUniversity
October 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Who is the university? We are.
Jo Grady joined striking members at
Nottingham today as they fight management’s refusal to commit to no redundancies during a restructure. #WeAreTheUniversity
Jo Grady joined striking members at
Nottingham today as they fight management’s refusal to commit to no redundancies during a restructure. #WeAreTheUniversity
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We're fighting on the local level, but it's a fight we are all a part of, across the sector, and across higher education nationally and globally.
HUGE thank you to @drjogrady.bsky.social for joining us today. When we fight together, we win! Solidarity!!! ✊
HUGE thank you to @drjogrady.bsky.social for joining us today. When we fight together, we win! Solidarity!!! ✊
Who is the university? We are.
Jo Grady joined striking members at
Nottingham today as they fight management’s refusal to commit to no redundancies during a restructure. #WeAreTheUniversity
Jo Grady joined striking members at
Nottingham today as they fight management’s refusal to commit to no redundancies during a restructure. #WeAreTheUniversity
October 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
We're fighting on the local level, but it's a fight we are all a part of, across the sector, and across higher education nationally and globally.
HUGE thank you to @drjogrady.bsky.social for joining us today. When we fight together, we win! Solidarity!!! ✊
HUGE thank you to @drjogrady.bsky.social for joining us today. When we fight together, we win! Solidarity!!! ✊
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TODAY!!!! See you all at 12:40!
At tomorrow's rally for jobs (Trent Courtyard, 23/10, 12:40 PM), we will have a crafts table for young folks joining us during half term AND we will be joined by @ucu.org.uk General Secretary @DrJoGrady.bsky.social! Come join us and make your voice heard!
#StopTheCuts #SaveHE
#StopTheCuts #SaveHE
October 23, 2025 at 5:52 AM
TODAY!!!! See you all at 12:40!
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🚨🚨🚨This Ugandan LGBT group have been raided and urgently need to relocate. You can help by donating to their GoFundMe - it's for a recently completed project, but includes an update about the situation. DM @theatremonk.bsky.social for further verification. www.gofundme.com/f/purchase-h...
Donate to Purchase House of Grace as a Center for LGBT People in Jinja, organized by Cole Matson
In Jinja and across Uganda, LGBTQ+ individuals face growing i… Cole Matson needs your support for Purchase House of Grace as a Center for LGBT People in Jinja
www.gofundme.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
🚨🚨🚨This Ugandan LGBT group have been raided and urgently need to relocate. You can help by donating to their GoFundMe - it's for a recently completed project, but includes an update about the situation. DM @theatremonk.bsky.social for further verification. www.gofundme.com/f/purchase-h...
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Strike action is BACK ON this week and we have plenty of events to show solidarity and learn from each other:
RALLIES will be held on Tues and Thurs at 12:40, starting in the Trent Courtyard.
We also have 3 TEACH OUTS during the week: uonucu.org/teachouts/
See you there!
RALLIES will be held on Tues and Thurs at 12:40, starting in the Trent Courtyard.
We also have 3 TEACH OUTS during the week: uonucu.org/teachouts/
See you there!
October 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Strike action is BACK ON this week and we have plenty of events to show solidarity and learn from each other:
RALLIES will be held on Tues and Thurs at 12:40, starting in the Trent Courtyard.
We also have 3 TEACH OUTS during the week: uonucu.org/teachouts/
See you there!
RALLIES will be held on Tues and Thurs at 12:40, starting in the Trent Courtyard.
We also have 3 TEACH OUTS during the week: uonucu.org/teachouts/
See you there!