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Ames Clark
@amesclark.bsky.social
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Sociologist - interested in care, abolition, temporalities, & political imagination Research Associate @ Uni of Sheffield (chanse.org/lgbti_futures) - LGBTQI+ youth imagined futures & wellbeing in times of crises.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 6d
This Saturday after painstaking research and FOIs by @clairestranstalks.bsky.social with @whatthetrans.com, we'll publish 'The Gender Clinic Files' in our newsletter:

A new investigative series exposing deep structural issues with UK Transgender healthcare

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Picture of documents with NHS branding, with title: The Gender Clinic Files and text that reads: A new investigative series that exposes deep structural issues with the UK’s approach to Transgender healthcare in the QueerAF newsletter with What The Trans!? every Saturday this month. QueerAF and What The Trans logos all on a blue background showing a blurred out medical setting.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 7d
Italian unions call for general strike as global protests grow and multiple governments criticise Israel.
How the world is responding to Israel’s interception of Gaza flotilla
Italian unions call for general strike as global protests grow and multiple governments criticise Israel.
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Ames Clark @amesclark.bsky.social · Jul 21
CfP for an exciting workshop I'm co-organising at the Uni of Sheffield - Storying the Future: Queer Storytelling and Unsettling Times.

(More info below but workshop 10th sept, deadline for EOI 6th aug)

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Callout: Storying the Future: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Queer Storytelling
Storying the Future: Queer Storytelling and Unsettling TImes Date: Wednesday 10th September, 2025 Location: University of Sheffield, UK Organisers: Dr Ames Clark and Dr Eleanor Wilkinson, School of...
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Ames Clark @amesclark.bsky.social · Jul 28
TKDB: "We will protest. We will protect. We will organise and we WILL outlast them. To every trans kid out there: we are NOT giving up and we WILL NOT let them bury your truth in shame or bureaucracy! To the ones we lost: your names are not forgotten. They are a battle cry!"
Trans youth stage die-in outside Supreme Court | Trans Kids Deserve Better
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · Jul 28
What can science fiction tell us about abolitionist futures and the path to utopia?

@philcrockettthomas.bsky.social @stirunicriminology.bsky.social @thesccjr.bsky.social on prison abolition activism, collaborative fictioning and the ideas of Ursula K. Le Guin.

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · Jul 24
Really good piece by @annabull.bsky.social on how universities should respond to the EHRC's proposed segregation programme. The evidence points to trans people's heightened vulnerability to sexual harassment and violence - so single-sex policies must account for this.
Safety must shape policy on single-sex spaces
Anna Bull examines how evidence of trans and non-binary people's heightened vulnerability to sexual violence is absent from new EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces Anna Bull examines how evidence of tr...
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Ames Clark @amesclark.bsky.social · Jul 21
CfP for an exciting workshop I'm co-organising at the Uni of Sheffield - Storying the Future: Queer Storytelling and Unsettling Times.

(More info below but workshop 10th sept, deadline for EOI 6th aug)

tinyurl.com/qstorytelling
Callout: Storying the Future: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Queer Storytelling
Storying the Future: Queer Storytelling and Unsettling TImes Date: Wednesday 10th September, 2025 Location: University of Sheffield, UK Organisers: Dr Ames Clark and Dr Eleanor Wilkinson, School of...
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