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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden

@sandraduffy.bsky.social

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Law lecturer, dog parent, imported Bristolian, Irish. Using law for trans liberation, reproductive justice, post-/de-coloniality. They/she. AuDHD. Fond of penguins. Views personal. 🇵🇸 Header: @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social eireannach.ghost.io

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · Mar 4

So thrilled to say that my new article on the echoes of Section 28 in the moral panic around trans people in the UK is out now, along with the rest of the first issue of @genderandjustice.bsky.social !

doi.org/10.1332/3033...

Moral panics and legal projects: echoes of Section 28 in United Kingdom transgender discourse and law reform

A grounding in the queer history of the legal system in the United Kingdom reveals striking parallels between the moral panic leading to the enactment of Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988, a...

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 1h

Aw, thank you so much!!

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Cian Ó Muilleoir @rugbykino.bsky.social · 1h

Catherine Connolly moved Robbie Henshaw to fullback for the 2019 Six Nations opener against England. #SmearTheBejaysus

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 15h

European grant money cryptids.

Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 15h

Once this book is in, and fingers crossed that it makes it on deadline, I am all up for that.

Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 15h

Likewise. Postdoc? :D

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 15h

The greatest trans law collaboration that never was tbh.

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 15h

You did! But you went where the money was in the end and that's the absolute best and wisest thing to do in the current climate (also we agree Leeds is a super place to do a PhD).

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 15h

My only PhD is in her final year, and I had absolutely no bites for new supervisees last year. The money just isn't there for them!

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 16h

Spent this morning's seminars talking to my first years about close reading and figurative language, and thought I'd do a bit about semiotics and theory. Ended up talking A LOT about traffic lights. Perhaps driving theory next term?

A whiteboard containing a spider diagram labelling parts of a traffic light, potential meanings, and how meanings can be made.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 19h

Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.

A poster in green ink on off white paper. In the center is a woodcut style illustration of a protester wearing an inflatable frog costume standing up against two ICE agents. The text above and below reads:

VIVE LA
RIBBITSTANCE

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 23h

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 1d

They've got frogs, they're multiplying
ICE is looooosing control

Mx Ghoulie M Awesome @juliemawesome.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland frogs are multiplying. I’m watching the livestream at katu.com/watch

Three green froggies and a skeleton frog! These are inflatable costumes and some of the frogs have little capes. They’re protesting on the other side of the street from ICE.

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 17h

New TKDB protest for the 1st Nov

transkids deserve better!!

TRANSPHOBIA

ALL OUT AGAINST !!

All out against transphobia! On Saturday, November 1, TERFS intend to march in London, demanding trans exclusionary, discriminatory legislation, and threatening trans people on our streets.

We cannot let this happen unchallenged- they may have been emboldened by the Supreme Court Ruling, but so have we. Just a few days after ruling, we marched through Westminster to express our rage, be with community, and make it clear that we would continue to fight for trans liberation. That march was only the start.

We need as many people possible out again on the first of November, to show up for collective liberation and show the TERFS that they will never divide us. less

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 17h

I'm only in the job 5 years, and I feel like this.

(Screenshot because QPs disabled; posted because I agree with OP, we do.)

I'm a tenured professor with an endowed chair.

Looking back, I don't think the freshly minted PhD version of me could land a job in today's market. I was smart, I was driven - but mostly, I was lucky.

More of us in academia need to admit that.

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 17h

Thinking of @mr-adham.bsky.social today as Gaza warily raises its eyes to the light.

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Louise McSharry @louisemcsharry.bsky.social · 21h

Is it just me or does it seem like every time they try to go for Catherine Connolly it backfires and people become even more staunch in their support of her?

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 22h

“I knew that homosexuality was a sin - I didn’t want to be homosexual. I went to my G.P and said I had read Freud’s book on dreams, that I suffered from homosexuality, and that I would like to change.”

My new article now out in Irish Historical Studies:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990 | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core

Between sickness and sin: models of male homosexuality in Northern Ireland c.1960-1990

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forcefemmed billy bragg @azathotenergy.bsky.social · 18h

Trans youth are literally fucking awesome. Funny, thoughtful, smart, brilliant. We are truly blessed.

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 23h

may your lattes be oatmilk'd and brews be cold. blue hair and pronouns for young and for old

Rain Drop @rainofdroplets.bsky.social · 23h

this will be the american civil war greeting as the woke agenda marches to war for the right to have nonbinary baristas

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 19h

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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🇨🇦 🇫🇯 @docautie.bsky.social · 1d

We just published "Decolonizing autism research: Integrating indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 21h

' @catherinegalway.bsky.social tries different sports all the way to the #áras25' is my politics now.

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 1d

Scarf-wearing book-reading sighthound club member checking in, must go for a pint.

Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social · 1d

Overheard in Dublin: "I'd never drink in that kip Walsh's in Stoneybatter, bunch of scarf-wearing book readers the lot of them. And another thing, why does every fucker in there have a lurcher with three legs?!"

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Dr Gearóidín McEvoy @garodean.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking news: Catherine Connelly says she would have to think about whether or not she would pull the lever on the trolly problem!! Unfit to be president!

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

I just had to explain to my not very online wife that there is also a bad frog.

J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 1d

frog semiotics redemption arc 2025

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