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Sarah Keenan
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Now at Queen Mary Law School
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July 24, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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@sarahkeenan.bsky.social‬ terrific piece “Plants Against Property” shows how Japanese Knotweed became a nightmare for homeowner’s but not necessarily for home dwellers. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Plants Against Property: Japanese Knotweed as Companion Species - Sarah Keenan, 2025
In Britain, the non-toxic herbaceous perennial ‘Japanese knotweed’ is the subject of intense fear and anxiety amongst property owners. Though the plant does no ...
journals.sagepub.com
May 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Japanese knotweed is a queer asexually reproducing female alien clone attacking the UK real estate market without actually damaging land. Could we learn from it? My @theoryculturesociety.org article Plants Against Property: Japanese Knotweed as Companion Species journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Plants Against Property: Japanese Knotweed as Companion Species - Sarah Keenan, 2025
In Britain, the non-toxic herbaceous perennial ‘Japanese knotweed’ is the subject of intense fear and anxiety amongst property owners. Though the plant does no ...
journals.sagepub.com
May 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Thank goodness for lesbians
May 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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This is so good.

Thankful for the work of feminist colleagues like Emily and Sarah, everyday
May 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Parody Alternative Judgment: For Women Scotland [2025], by Emily Grabham
criticallegalthinking.com/2025/05/01/p...
Parody Alternative Judgment: For Women Scotland [2025]
Following the Supreme Court’s decision in the For Women case last week, colleagues thought it would help to have a case summary for use in
criticallegalthinking.com
May 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Geographers! Please join 300 of us — at every career stage — who are urging the Royal Geographical Society to reaffirm its commitment to trans inclusion in the face of Supreme Court ruling, and to oppose the EHRC’s interim update. Sign by WED 30 April 1700 GMT docs.google.com/document/u/0...
April 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
From Zara Dinnen, a brilliant co-chair of my UCU branch, on the realities of UKHE and life for students and staff
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...
Zara Dinnen | A Sector in Freefall
The Queen Mary University of London branch of the University and College Union, of which I am co-chair, hosts a webpage...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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‘Brent University appears to fulfil the meritocratic promise of New Labour’s commitment to increase the number of students in higher education by 50 per cent. But the promise was always false.’

Zara Dinnen on what ‘Big Boys’ gets right about the crisis in universities: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...
Zara Dinnen | A Sector in Freefall
The Queen Mary University of London branch of the University and College Union, of which I am co-chair, hosts a webpage...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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I'm sorry to report that I now have a substack. I wrote a post about the Supreme Court stuff and some absurd things I've seen in the wake of it that have been gnawing at my mind.
April 2025
I keep waking up with the dawn chorus at 5am.
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April 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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What will happen to us un-women? My thoughts on today’s UK Supreme Court decision excluding trans women from the legal category of women. Over at Autostraddle: www.autostraddle.com/uk-supreme-c...
Illegally Female
The UK's Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that trans women are not legally considered women.
www.autostraddle.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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We believe the UK is now in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act and the European Convention of Human Rights and we plan to ask the High Court for a declaration of incompatibility.

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goodlaw.social
April 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Looking forward to hosting Libby Porter, Director of the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT for this seminar on housing crisis under settler-colonialism on Tuesday 8 April 3pm at Queen Mary Law @cclas1.bsky.social @statecrime.bsky.social. All welcome, pls join us www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/precarious...
Precarious Dwelling
Precarious Dwelling: Encounters with housing crisis under settler-colonialism
www.eventbrite.co.uk
March 26, 2025 at 9:44 AM