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Onni Gust
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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 · Jan 4
I've finally migrated from the evil X, happy new year!
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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senthorun.bsky.social
“Rather than being threatened with a criminal sentence, he should be commended for his courage in organising the largest Pécs Pride in history.”

Solidarity with Géza Buzás-Hábel and the many other activists in Hungary fighting for their freedoms. Everyone should be free to celebrate Pride.

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Hungary: Pride organiser faces prison in latest attack on LGBTI rights
We uncover truth and hold the powerful to account. Take action, donate and join the Amnesty movement to protect human rights.
www.amnesty.org.uk
February 9, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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Jacob Price Fellowship in British Studies (18 month FTC) at University of London
Apply for the Jacob Price Fellowship in British Studies (18 month FTC) role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
www.jobs.ac.uk
February 9, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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canjzoology.bsky.social
CJZ science in the news:

Missing pieces added to ancient global fish puzzle
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Missing pieces added to ancient global fish puzzle
Missing pieces added to ancient global fish puzzle New pieces have been added to the puzzle of the evolution of some of the oldest fish that lived on Earth more than 400 million years ago.
www.scimex.org
February 4, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?
When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...
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February 4, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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18 month postdoc at the lovely IHR in London, $41,740. Deadline 7 March. 'The Fellow will play a key role within the IHR team responsible for hosting the 2027 North American Conference in British Studies (NACBS)' in London 2027.

Repost to spread the word. #Skystorians
Jacob Price Fellowship in British Studies (18 month FTC):London Senate House - Hybrid
The University of London is both the UK’s largest provider of international distance and online learning and the convenor of a federation of 17 renowned higher education institutions.
www.jobs.london.ac.uk
February 3, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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ncecire.bsky.social
The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...
Guidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultation
We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
www.amnesty.org.uk
January 22, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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niamhroisin.bsky.social
Hello! I am sharing information about my @researchireland.ie project Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces. I would love to connect with researchers/ practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, so please share widely! @nursingclio.bsky.social
Page of information outlining the aims of the Locating Loss research project which explores the histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces. This project aims to bring scholars from a wide range of disciplines together in 2026. Please DM me if more info is needed and this alt text is not enough!
January 14, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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If Reform are pushing propaganda through your letterbox, don’t engage with it. Don’t argue with it. Don’t platform it.

Return it to sender.
Write REFUSED on the envelope and put it straight back in the postbox. Unopened.

They pay for that. Every time.
Bulk mail returns are
January 13, 2026 at 8:04 AM
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Here is a poem Renee Good, under her earlier name Renee Macklin, wrote, "On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs." It won a prize. It's really good. "it’s the ruler by which i reduce all things now; hard-edged & splintering from knowledge." poets.org/2020-on-lear...
2020 Academy of American Poets Prize
On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin
poets.org
January 8, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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goodlawproject.org
Charities are facing "a concerted effort to delegitimise their right to speak up for marginalised groups across the country, whether that was trans people, or refugees and asylum seekers.” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
UK LGBTQ+ charities are in ‘hostile environment’ amid falling donations, experts warn
Stonewall’s corporate funding halves against backdrop of US attacks on DEI and freezing of aid for LGBTQ+ causes
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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Give and be doubled! We're matching all week to help these families survive. Six families & a camp depend on this link for essentials. Right now, that's especially emergency healthcare for several young women and kids, unfortunately.

Click "weekly"!: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
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January 7, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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My book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism, will be out March 17, 2026

It is now available for pre-order from @princetonupress.bsky.social and other online booksellers! cart.press.princeton.edu/checkout/car...

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December 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Via Prisoners for Palestine… take action: linktr.ee/prisoners4pal #Palestine
HUNGER STRIKERS DAY 50 UPDATE from today's zoom call with prisonersApalestine EVERY HUNGER STRIKER HAS NOW BEEN HOSPITALISED Amu Hospitalised (location unknown) Bronzefield no longer providing thiamine and electrolytes Only provided with wheelchair one day before hospital transfer Missed GP appointment due to inability to attend physically Qesser - Day 50 Still on hunger strike - starting to lose her vision Got a 5 min social call (policy: if in hospital for over 72 hours she gets one) Heba - Day 49 Not receiving care Recovering from suspected COVID caught from being refused a mask Losing memory and decision making skills Kamran In hospital - Pentonville told his father they were taking him to hospital for a test and said he'd be right back but it's been 2 days without updates Teuta - Day 43 Dangerously low blood sugar levels (1.8-2), ketones averaging 3 Takes her 10 seconds to fully stand up then she blacks out Her skin is turning grey Lewie Has no medical assistance, hasn't seen GP in 3 weeks Managing his insulin and blood sugars alone Concerned in the spikes and lows of blood sugars Umer Refeeding in Wormwood Scrubs
December 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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transgenderreport.com
Amnesty: Growing transphobia and authoritarianism go hand in hand – they must be resisted

www.amnesty.org/en/l...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Growing transphobia and authoritarianism go hand in hand – they must be resisted
Late one summer’s night in 2018, I was walking with a friend through central Thessaloniki when a man approached us to ask for directions. We stopped and, without warning, he attacked us. My friend got away but the man chased me down the street punching me on the forehead and kicking me in the back. The reason? A “man [my friend] was wearing a skirt”.  More than […]
www.amnesty.org
December 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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genderedintelligence.co.uk
We know this time of year can be difficult for many. If you are struggling, you can reach out to the following services:

Mindline Trans+: 0300 330 5468
Samaritans: 116 123
SHOUT: Text 85258
Switchboard LGBT+
Voda App – self-care for LGBTQIA+ communities
Mind’s Support Line: 0300 102 1234
December 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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We mourn the victims of the mass shooting on Bondi Beach at a celebration on the first night of Chanukah, bringing darkness into a festival of lights. Our hearts go out to those attacked and their families and friends, as well as the entire Australian Jewish community.
December 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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E.S. Wight | On Hunger Strike
Qesser Zuhrah, Amu Gib, Heba Muraisi, Jon Cink, T Hoxha and Kamran Ahmed are on hunger strike. All are on remand in...
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December 9, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Support the hunger strikers

In prison for over a year without trial. They are victims of a system that has used the Terrorism Act to attempt to silence opposition to Israel’s genocide.

They are now at serious life-threatening risk. They must be given fair trials.

www.prisonersforpalestine.org
Prisoners For Palestine –
A prisoner-led collective in the UK representing all those detained under charges related to Palestinian liberation.
www.prisonersforpalestine.org
December 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Horrific vandalism at Essex and of HE in general.
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Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:

Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.

Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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wearequeeraf.com
More than 100 medical professionals have declared a ‘medical emergency’ after queer activist Amu Gib refused food in prison, beginning one of the largest coordinated prison hunger strikes in the UK in four decades.

www.wearequeeraf.com/queer-activi...
Queer activist among eight people on hunger strike for Palestine in UK prisons
One of the most significant prison strikes for four decades is underway, after queer activist Amu Gib refused food on Nov 2nd 2025
www.wearequeeraf.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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natacha.bsky.social
The only person to come out of the SPeggie/NHS tribunal vindicated and with a completely untarnished reputation is Dr Beth Upton.

Not SPeggie,
Not the NHS management,
Not Four Women Scotland,
Not the media,

Just Dr Upton.
December 9, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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goodlawproject.org
An important point to come out of the Sandie Peggie case is that 'gender critical' employees can't take matters into their own hands and confront trans employees. If they do that it is likely to be harassment/ bullying/ a hate incident.
So far as her other comments are concerned, they were impermissible manifestations of her belief and were in our view what amounted to an incident of harassment by the claimant of the second respondent related to the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, reasonably perceived by the second respondent to be so, and were a breach by the claimant of section 26 of the Act and of the Bullying and Harassment Policy. The second respondent was entitled to view the actions of the claimant in those particular regards as being such harassment, or as a “hate incident” within the policy, and the first respondent was entitled in principle to act on the complaint made, but the detail of how it did so depends on all the circumstances as more fully addressed below. The second respondent was also entitled to regard the claimant’s actions as a breach of the second respondent’s Article 8 rights, so far as the claimant’s expression of her beliefs was impermissible. 1034. We also considered that the claimant had acted deliberately to be able to challenge the second respondent whilst they were alone. What she did was to wait until other members of staff had left the changing room, and for the second respondent to leave the cubicle, before raising her own beliefs directly with the second respondent in the manner we have set out. 1035. Whilst the claimant had not been informed as promptly and in the detail we considered appropriate, and the first respondent did not consider whether to revoke permission at all, the claimant did not herself raise any formal grievance under the policy. She is an experienced member of staff who had access to union advice. She knew, or ought reasonably to have known, that the first respondent having granted permission to the second respondent she required to have raised her concerns with the first respondent as the decision-maker rather than with the colleague to whom it had been granted, and in any event ought not to have done so in the manner that she did.
December 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Reading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment.
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!
December 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
onnigust.bsky.social
For those who don't already know of the ridiculous lengths trans people have to go to, after waiting years, to 'prove' we're who we say we are and access healthcare, here's my experience & take on life under trans medical gatekeeping.
Ch.10. Open Access.
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New and Decolonial Approaches to Gender Nonconformity
This open access book features a diverse collective of arts and humanities researchers, educators and creative practitioners, sharing their thoughts and experie…
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December 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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@tgeuorg.bsky.social calls it.

As an academic I have been consistently saying this all along. The “Pathways” “study” is totally unethical.

And it won’t even address the main pretext used to justify it; the issue of long-term negative effects (of which there is no evidence whatsoever).
The UK puberty blocker trial is an ethical breach and a threat to trans youth’s health and rights - TGEU - Trans Europe and Central Asia
The recently announced PATHWAYS clinical trial protocol on puberty blockers (also known as puberty suppressing hormones) for young trans people in the UK represents a deeply troubling escalation in th...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM