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Ruth Fletcher
@ruthfletcher.bsky.social
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Legal academic and feminist interested in reproducing life otherwise at Queen Mary University of London, and elsewhere | #Repealedthe8th | Chairperson, Abortion Support Network | Branch committee, QMUCU | Leverhulme Research Fellow
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Ruth Fletcher @ruthfletcher.bsky.social · Jul 27
A note from me on the significance of the recent move partially to decriminalise #abortion in England and Wales

Against a backdrop of rising prosecutions for ‘later’ pregnancy endings, #decrim in Northern Ireland through human rights mechanisms, and uneven commitment to decriminalisation as a whole
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · Jul 21
British MPs recently decriminalised abortion-seekers. But this success occurred in a Bill that threatens to criminalise poverty and restrict protest rights.

RUTH FLETCHER explains on what a holistic legal approach to reproductive freedom ought to look like.

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 2h
I chickened out of my long-time working title:

Trains and Borders and Orangemen, Oh My!

But the first sight of a new publication in the wild still feels nice. Thanks to @conormccormick.bsky.social, David Capper and Norma Dawson for assembling this collection:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
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Flora Renz @florarenz.bsky.social · 13h
Peter Dunne, Emily Grabham and I have edited a special section of feminists@law on the Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland. You can find our editorial about this below. The special section has some brilliant critical and feminist takes on the decision journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/fe...
How can critical and feminist scholars respond to the decision in 'For Women Scotland'? | feminists@law
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 3d
Boycott TEVA, and come to our workshop, "Medical BDS: On Boycotting Israeli Pharmaceuticals" online on October 23rd to learn how.

www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/med...
flyer for Medical BDS: A Workshop on Boycotting Israeli Pharmaceuticals, by Boycott TEVA USA Thursday, October 23 7:30-9:30 PM EST on zoom Workshops for Gaza X Healthcare Workers for Palestine
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 3d
An Israeli pharmaceutical company that operates at the heart of the NHS has been aiding the Israeli military during its genocide in Gaza, Declassified can reveal.

Teva supplies around 14% of the prescribed medicine packs in Britain, and supports the IDF👇
www.declassifieduk.org/the-israeli-...
The Israeli firm aiding the NHS and IDF
Drugs corporation Teva makes one in seven of the medicines prescribed in the UK. It’s also backing the Israeli military during the genocide.
www.declassifieduk.org
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MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social · 17d
On 21 October, co-hosted by the Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture, our speaker will be Dr Brandy Schillace, on Hope in the Dark: How a daring team of sexologists built the world’s first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich.

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CSSC and CHSTM Joint Seminar, 21 October 2025
Dr Brandy Schillace Hope in the Dark: How a daring team of sexologists built the world's first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 1d
So great to see the special issue on "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" that @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & I edited published today! A big thanks to all contributors & to JHMAS editors & reviewers for their support & guidance in this process academic.oup.com/jhmas/issue/...
Volume 80 Issue 4 | Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences | Oxford Academic
Publishes original research on the written beginnings of medicine in all its aspects. It focuses on what practitioners of the healing arts did or taught, and how their peers, as well as patients, rece...
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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 3d
Universities of Dundee, Kent, Brunel, Coventry & Swansea defer pay rises

Kent’s “review in the coming months” is temporal evasion at its finest, while Coventry’s “break even position” heroically rebrands “we won’t pay” as “fiscal courage”

The academic austerity opera continues
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 3d
At least five UK universities have told staff they will not be paying them the sector-wide uplift that was due in August for almost a year. Juliette Rowsell reports
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/five-uk-universities-tell-staff-they-cant-afford-pay-rises
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Feminist Miscarriage Project @miscarriageproject.bsky.social · 9d
Our first public event! Film screening of Zurawski v Texas, followed by a panel discussion about the impact of abortion bans/restrictions on all kinds of pregnancies, with the film's producer and others. Friday 17 October, UCL East Cinema, 2pm-5pm.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/zurawski-v...
'Zurawski V Texas' Screening at UCL
A screening of the new critically acclaimed documentary that reveals the impact of abortion bans and restrictions in the US.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
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Feminist Miscarriage Project @miscarriageproject.bsky.social · 3d
Conference alert! Thursday 18th-Friday 19th June, 2026, London campus of Loughborough University. Online day: Monday 22nd June, 2026. Please see Call for Papers here:

feministmiscarriageproject.org/conference
Conference — The Feminist Miscarriage Project
Information on the conference 'New Directions in Miscarriage Research: Intersectional, Interdisciplinary and Full-Spectrum Perspectives', Loughborough University London Campus, June 2026.
feministmiscarriageproject.org
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The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · 3d
Drawing on her fieldwork, Pragya Roy critically analysis the everyday embodied material realities of Dalit motherhood(s) through the nexus of caste, gender, and economic class.

thepolyphony.org/2025/10/06/n...
No Room To Rest: Dalit Motherhood(s) In An Urban Indian Slum
Drawing on her fieldwork, Pragya Roy reflects on Dalit motherhood(s) as demanding, undervalued, embodied (re)productive labour. She critically explores health research, arguing that Dalit health is…
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Jae Page @jaepage.bsky.social · Jun 19
Please check out my latest publication in Geoforum. In the article, I discuss how the law of the dead is theologically inspired and secularly adopted to legitimate land claims.

Title: The dead as property marker: a legal geography of the cemetery

doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
Redirecting
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Critical Legal Geographies Network @legalgeolsa.bsky.social · 21d
We are excited to announce the Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography at the University of Concepción, Chile, 17-20 March 2026. The call is now live @ www.clg.place on our conference page. Deadline for submissions 10 November 2025.
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Sarah Klosterkamp @sklosterkamp.bsky.social · 6d
📢 CFP | AAG 2026, San Francisco
Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism

In many cities, crisis isn’t rupture—it’s everyday life.
Evictions, debt, precarity, housing struggles.
But also repair, care, solidarity.

@geographers.bsky.social #geosky
Schwarzer Hintergrund mit weißem Text: „Call for Papers – AAG 2026, San Francisco. Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism. Deadline: October 20, 2025.“ With email addresses from both organizers: klosterkamp@geo.uni-frankfurt.de & cristina.temenos@manchester.ac.uk
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 7d
Care as a human right?

The IACtHR recently recognised this right and specified respective state obligations.

MIRIAM L. HENRÍQUEZ VIÑAS & SABRINA RAGONE explain what this entails – and why we may soon witness a proliferation of norms at the domestic level.

verfassungsblog.de/right-to-car...
Quote from the piece by Miriam Henriquez Vinas & Sabrina Ragone: “The Court provided a comprehensive interpretation of the right to care as implicitly embedded in the Convention, connected to other conventional rights, and multifaceted in nature.”
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@HaringeyWelcome @haringeywelcome.bsky.social · 4d
Whatever your faith, no one should have to risk their lives to pray.
Faith or no faith, all people should feel safe, welcome, and included in our communities.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'
Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.
www.bbc.co.uk
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@HaringeyWelcome @haringeywelcome.bsky.social · 7d
The violent attack in Manchester today is abhorrent as well as divisive.

We stand in solidarity with the Jewish community, in Haringey and across the UK, and with all who are frightened and worried.

Our communities must be safe, welcoming, and inclusive places for all who live in them.
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WHO @who.int · 11d
Access to safe abortion protects the health of women and girls.

As with all other health services, women and girls should be able to access safe and respectful abortion care, when they need it, without fear of harm, punishment or recrimination.

#HealthForAll
Restricting access to safe abortion drives women and girls to unsafe procedures.
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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 5d
The Battle of Cable Street.

A thread 🧵 with pictures and ALT text.

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On this day in 1936, the East End of London rose up against fascism. The Battle of Cable Street.

#TheyShallNotPass #NoPasaran
A packed East End street in 1936: thousands of anti-fascist residents filling the road and pavements, shopfronts behind them.
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 5d
Today is the 89th anniversary of The Battle of Cable Street when the people of the East End of London halted the march of Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts through Stepney.
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Alliance for Choice @all4choice.bsky.social · 6d
Last Saturday activists in Malta gathered outside the courts in Valletta, calling for the decriminalisation of abortion. The Voice For Choice coalition are calling for change, to allow women and pregnant people to access the care they need. 👉 timesofmalta.com/article/acti...
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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 5d
"According to the CGIL union, 300,000 people marched through the streets of Rome alone, while the national average participation in the general strike stood at around 60%, halting all the main services in key sectors including transportation and schools."
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5d
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
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The Real Lover Girl 😘 @brightbutterfliii.bsky.social · 5d
I’m mad that I never learned how to double dutch this good as a kid 😭
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CNN @cnn.com · 5d
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt
37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d
State police assisted ICE in the performative brutalization and arrest of protesters today. @govpritzker.illinois.gov must answer for this.
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d
A protester tackled and arrested by state police for trying to block an ICE vehicle.
A protester tackled and arrested for trying to block an ICE vehicle. A protester arrested at Broadview.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 6d
Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes' office has released video of federal agents handcuffing her at Humboldt Park Health, as she asked them to present a judicial warrant for another arrest.
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