Zoe Tongue
@whiterxbbit.bsky.social
Dr | Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds | abortion, international human rights law, animal rights, science fiction, comics | vegan | artist | bisexual | she/they |
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“Conversation with Smaug”, by JRR Tolkien, for 1937’s “The Hobbit”.
I’ve no idea what state of mind Tolkien was in when he painted it. But every time I’ve seen it, and I’ve seen it a lot, I get the impression that he was having a really great time. It’s so zestful, in its details & as a whole.
I’ve no idea what state of mind Tolkien was in when he painted it. But every time I’ve seen it, and I’ve seen it a lot, I get the impression that he was having a really great time. It’s so zestful, in its details & as a whole.
November 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
“Conversation with Smaug”, by JRR Tolkien, for 1937’s “The Hobbit”.
I’ve no idea what state of mind Tolkien was in when he painted it. But every time I’ve seen it, and I’ve seen it a lot, I get the impression that he was having a really great time. It’s so zestful, in its details & as a whole.
I’ve no idea what state of mind Tolkien was in when he painted it. But every time I’ve seen it, and I’ve seen it a lot, I get the impression that he was having a really great time. It’s so zestful, in its details & as a whole.
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Happy Doctor Who day! To celebrate here is the greatest of Doctor Who images: Verity Lambert using a Mechanoid as a lighter.
November 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Happy Doctor Who day! To celebrate here is the greatest of Doctor Who images: Verity Lambert using a Mechanoid as a lighter.
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Abortions effectively banned or restricted in nearly half of Russia’s regions
According to The Insider’s estimates, more than 30 Russian regions now enforce either full or partial bans on abortion procedures.
📰 theins.ru/en/news/286765
According to The Insider’s estimates, more than 30 Russian regions now enforce either full or partial bans on abortion procedures.
📰 theins.ru/en/news/286765
November 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Abortions effectively banned or restricted in nearly half of Russia’s regions
According to The Insider’s estimates, more than 30 Russian regions now enforce either full or partial bans on abortion procedures.
📰 theins.ru/en/news/286765
According to The Insider’s estimates, more than 30 Russian regions now enforce either full or partial bans on abortion procedures.
📰 theins.ru/en/news/286765
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This week, reproductive rights specialist @whiterxbbit.bsky.social hosted a screening of the documentary 'Zurawski v Texas,' a film distributed by Together Films that exposes the legal, political, and physical suffering of pregnant people denied healthcare in Texas after the Dobbs SCOTUS case
November 20, 2025 at 11:33 AM
This week, reproductive rights specialist @whiterxbbit.bsky.social hosted a screening of the documentary 'Zurawski v Texas,' a film distributed by Together Films that exposes the legal, political, and physical suffering of pregnant people denied healthcare in Texas after the Dobbs SCOTUS case
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Not a reboot. Not a reunion show. But set in same universe and continuity as the various original series. Bunch of original writers onboard.
If they stick to that principle, it'll be fascinating. I'm WAY more likely to watch a show done this way than yet another reboot of a beloved thing.
If they stick to that principle, it'll be fascinating. I'm WAY more likely to watch a show done this way than yet another reboot of a beloved thing.
Amazon Greenlights A New Stargate Series
www.gateworld.net/news/2025/11...
FIRST ON GATEWORLD: A new #Stargate series is now in pre-production for Prime Video, with veteran writer and producer Martin Gero at the helm. @primevideo.bsky.social
www.gateworld.net/news/2025/11...
FIRST ON GATEWORLD: A new #Stargate series is now in pre-production for Prime Video, with veteran writer and producer Martin Gero at the helm. @primevideo.bsky.social
Amazon Greenlights A New Stargate Series » GateWorld
FIRST ON GATEWORLD: A new Stargate series is now in pre-production for Prime Video, with veteran writer and producer Martin Gero at the helm.
www.gateworld.net
November 20, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Not a reboot. Not a reunion show. But set in same universe and continuity as the various original series. Bunch of original writers onboard.
If they stick to that principle, it'll be fascinating. I'm WAY more likely to watch a show done this way than yet another reboot of a beloved thing.
If they stick to that principle, it'll be fascinating. I'm WAY more likely to watch a show done this way than yet another reboot of a beloved thing.
This is easily my favourite book of the year, and possibly the most incredible book I have ever read.
Happy pub day to SLOW GODS by Claire North, a book where I kept asking myself HOW IS SHE DOING THIS? A space opera with a plot that does not stop which is also a meditation on morality in the face of unfolding crisis! A story of love, loss, and power, with humor and verve! Fun, profound, incredible.
Slow Gods
Check out Slow Gods - <B>"An astonishing, thought-provoking and above all touching story of found meaning and lost humanity.” </B>—Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winn...
bookshop.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
This is easily my favourite book of the year, and possibly the most incredible book I have ever read.
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There should really be some consideration of whether removing direct entry midwifery, going after lecturers, reducing capacity to teach critical thinking skills and assuming women's bodies are faulty and broken from the start will truly solve the safety issues or wider systematic challenges
🚨 Student midwives are being stopped from graduating and forced to extend training "to make up for deficits in theory and practice" the NMC has said. 67 separate concerns have been raised with the NMC about university courses in the past year:
www.thetimes.com/article/24e9...
www.thetimes.com/article/24e9...
Student midwives blocked from graduating after training ‘failures’
The regulator has intervened after The Sunday Times revealed that dozens of courses are still promoting ‘normal birth’ ideology
www.thetimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:52 AM
There should really be some consideration of whether removing direct entry midwifery, going after lecturers, reducing capacity to teach critical thinking skills and assuming women's bodies are faulty and broken from the start will truly solve the safety issues or wider systematic challenges
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NEWS JUST IN! A new book will in fact solve all your problems
November 17, 2025 at 9:17 AM
NEWS JUST IN! A new book will in fact solve all your problems
My second year volunteering at Thought Bubble was so fun ❤️
Thought Bubble 2025 is done! A huge thank you to everyone involved in the making and enjoying of this year; our incredible guests, our inspiring exhibitors, every single ticket holder, the wonderful and excellent volunteers, HCC staff and everyone else in between!
Let's do it again next year!!!
Let's do it again next year!!!
November 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
My second year volunteering at Thought Bubble was so fun ❤️
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The Court finds that the interference with the applicant's sights was not "in accordance with law" due to the unlawful composition of the Constitutional Court. The court therefore swerves the substantive question as to whether restrictions on access to abortion are themselves proportionate.
Next Thursday (13 November) the ECtHR will hand down AR v Poland, concerning the Convention compliance of Poland’s restrictive post-2020 abortion law. One to watch.
November 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
The Court finds that the interference with the applicant's sights was not "in accordance with law" due to the unlawful composition of the Constitutional Court. The court therefore swerves the substantive question as to whether restrictions on access to abortion are themselves proportionate.
The European Court of Human Rights has again found that Poland's restriction on abortion in cases of foetal impairment has violated the Article 8 rights of an applicant hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{%22docu...
HUDOC - European Court of Human Rights
The HUDOC database provides access to the case-law of the Court (Grand Chamber, Chamber and Committee judgments and decisions, communicated cases, advisory opinions and legal summaries from the Case-L...
https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{%22documentcollectionid2%22:[%22GRANDCHAMBER%22,%22CHAMBER%22],%22itemid%22:[%22001-245820%22]}
November 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
The European Court of Human Rights has again found that Poland's restriction on abortion in cases of foetal impairment has violated the Article 8 rights of an applicant hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{%22docu...
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2026 will mark 50 years since the UK ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). Join us 16th-17th June 2026 for a conference, funded by the Society for Legal Scholars and @lawatleeds.bsky.social, to discuss future trajectories and challenges!
November 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
2026 will mark 50 years since the UK ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). Join us 16th-17th June 2026 for a conference, funded by the Society for Legal Scholars and @lawatleeds.bsky.social, to discuss future trajectories and challenges!
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Next Thursday (13 November) the ECtHR will hand down AR v Poland, concerning the Convention compliance of Poland’s restrictive post-2020 abortion law. One to watch.
November 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Zohran Mamdani has won the New York City mayoral race, capping a meteoric rise from a little-known state politician to one of the country's most visible Democratic figures.
Zohran Mamdani elected mayor of New York City
Zohran Mamdani has won the New York City mayoral race, capping a meteoric rise from a little-known state politician to one of the country's most visible Democratic figures.
www.rte.ie
November 5, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Zohran Mamdani has won the New York City mayoral race, capping a meteoric rise from a little-known state politician to one of the country's most visible Democratic figures.
Leeds friends, I'm hosting a documentary screening later this month!
Join us for a screening of documentary Zurawski v Texas, which follows a group of women who brought a legal challenge to the abortion laws passed by Texas in 2021. There will be a discussion of the context around abortion in the US by @whiterxbbit.bsky.social and a Q&A.
Sign up👇
tinyurl.com/nhefvmdb
Sign up👇
tinyurl.com/nhefvmdb
Select tickets – Zurawski v Texas Film Screening and Panel – Liberty Building-G.33
Zurawski v Texas Film Screening and Panel – Liberty Building-G.33, Wed 19 Nov 2025 - Join us for a screening of the documentary Zurawski v Texas, which follows a group of women who brought a legal cha...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Leeds friends, I'm hosting a documentary screening later this month!
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Are you working on a paper on law, history and reproduction? My great colleague Dr Gauri Pillai and I are organising a workshop for you at the University of Bristol Law School on 1 May 2026!
Please send your abstract by 15 December 2025.
Travel grants available.
Please send your abstract by 15 December 2025.
Travel grants available.
November 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Are you working on a paper on law, history and reproduction? My great colleague Dr Gauri Pillai and I are organising a workshop for you at the University of Bristol Law School on 1 May 2026!
Please send your abstract by 15 December 2025.
Travel grants available.
Please send your abstract by 15 December 2025.
Travel grants available.
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Happy Halloween from Batman Below
October 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Happy Halloween from Batman Below
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"...as a matter of law, the house is haunted"
This by a Canadian lawyer is the best thing on ghosts and the law: www.fasken.com/en/commonlaw...
Enjoy.
This by a Canadian lawyer is the best thing on ghosts and the law: www.fasken.com/en/commonlaw...
Enjoy.
October 31, 2025 at 8:01 AM
"...as a matter of law, the house is haunted"
This by a Canadian lawyer is the best thing on ghosts and the law: www.fasken.com/en/commonlaw...
Enjoy.
This by a Canadian lawyer is the best thing on ghosts and the law: www.fasken.com/en/commonlaw...
Enjoy.
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A horror film where a person (hot) is making a pb&j & starts by putting peanut butter on a slice of bread (normal) & then (sociopathically) puts the jam DIRECTLY & DISGUSTINGLY ON TOP OF THE PEANUT BUTTER INSTEAD OF ON A SEPARATE PIECE OF BREAD.
October 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A horror film where a person (hot) is making a pb&j & starts by putting peanut butter on a slice of bread (normal) & then (sociopathically) puts the jam DIRECTLY & DISGUSTINGLY ON TOP OF THE PEANUT BUTTER INSTEAD OF ON A SEPARATE PIECE OF BREAD.
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"Russia is trying new restrictions to halt the backslide [of declining birth rates] and embrace what it calls “traditional family values” with laws banning the promotion of abortion and “child-free ideology” and outlawing all LGBTQ+ activism."
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Russia faces a shrinking and aging population and tries restrictive laws to combat it
Russia has grappled with a shrinking and aging population for decades, with President Vladimir Putin viewing it as a threat to national security
abcnews.go.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
"Russia is trying new restrictions to halt the backslide [of declining birth rates] and embrace what it calls “traditional family values” with laws banning the promotion of abortion and “child-free ideology” and outlawing all LGBTQ+ activism."
Read more below ⬇️
Read more below ⬇️
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The number of reports by nurses of racist incidents at work has risen by 55% over three years - the Royal College of Nursing calls on govt to stop using anti migrant rhetoric that drives this, and for employers to prioritise tackling racism and work with unions www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55%
Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
The number of reports by nurses of racist incidents at work has risen by 55% over three years - the Royal College of Nursing calls on govt to stop using anti migrant rhetoric that drives this, and for employers to prioritise tackling racism and work with unions www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
I just received my contributor copy of The Legend of Zelda and Philosophy! My chapter is about the personhood of animals/nature/monsters/robots in BotW and ToTK. Read it to find out the names of my beloved (in-game) horses!
October 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I just received my contributor copy of The Legend of Zelda and Philosophy! My chapter is about the personhood of animals/nature/monsters/robots in BotW and ToTK. Read it to find out the names of my beloved (in-game) horses!
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Happy Anniversary to the Penguin, who debuted way back in 1941!
October 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Happy Anniversary to the Penguin, who debuted way back in 1941!
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If any of you lovely people are in Leeds for the @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social The Comics Research Group at Leeds University is hosting a roundtable and exhibition event on Comics Theory and Practice on Nov 12.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/comics-pra...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/comics-pra...
Comics Practice and Theory: Roundtable & Exhibition Launch
An exploration of comics, research and creative practice. Part of Thought Bubble Comic Arts Festival.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 7:57 AM
If any of you lovely people are in Leeds for the @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social The Comics Research Group at Leeds University is hosting a roundtable and exhibition event on Comics Theory and Practice on Nov 12.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/comics-pra...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/comics-pra...