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Stella 🌱 @vgnstella.bsky.social · 7d

Correct headline: 'How the world's taste for MEAT is eating Brazil's Amazon' - a very good point made by @herbivoreclub.bsky.social re @theguardian.com article.
#meatandclimate
herbivoreclub.substack.com/p/the-guardi...

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Le Tropeur @letropeur.bsky.social · 14d

Un peu perplexe de la façon dont les médias traitent l’info Sarko.

On parle de la condamnation, de la peine, du verdict, mais alors pour rappeler les faits qui lui sont reprochés y a plus personne.

Le sujet c’est pas “il va faire de la taule”, c’est “POURQUOI il va faire de la taule”

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La Croix @la-croix.com · 15d

Le ravisseur présumé, un suspect de 34 ans, pourrait circuler à bord d’un véhicule Citroën C5 gris foncé ➡️ https://l.la-croix.com/w0h

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · 18d

If you’d like to do something nice for an autistic person in light of today, consider me for a freelance edit. I have ten years’ work experience in book publishing, this is my primary form of income, and my bookings have dried up. bookmarkobrien.com

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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 19d

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers

We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.

Details below. Please share.

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies

Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope

Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights.

While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…

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Dr Dorothée Boulanger @doboulanger.bsky.social · 19d

Billet de Dov Alfon sur la reconnaissance de la Palestine
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...

Reconnaissance de la Palestine : pourquoi les Français juifs doivent soutenir l’initiative d’Emmanuel Macron

Des personnalités de la communauté juive assimilent la démarche du Président à une «capitulation face au terrorisme». Oubliant que la stratégie de Nétanyahou est destructrice pour les Palestiniens, le...

www.liberation.fr

Dr Dorothée Boulanger @doboulanger.bsky.social · 21d

So we all ask... And nothing about the environmental costs and how to mitigate them either...

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Dr Dorothée Boulanger @doboulanger.bsky.social · 21d

But why? My university is super proud to announce we (as in, all staff and students) now have access to ChatGPT 'to support us in writing, research. teaching and administrative' 😭. Just... No!

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Dr Dorothée Boulanger @doboulanger.bsky.social · 27d

Apparently making Britain great again is breaking the record for early pub attendance, I’ve never seen a O’Neil’s so crowded on a Saturday morning 🤣

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Dr Dorothée Boulanger @doboulanger.bsky.social · 28d

Mais ils ne se sont pas trompés d’une virgule là? C’est 68,000 et 160,000+ blessés non?

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Dr Dorothée Boulanger @doboulanger.bsky.social · 28d

Not the best feeling to be travelling through England today, surrounded by teenagers shouting « Tommy Tommy » and guys in « Make Britain Great Again » red hats, shouting and drinking pints in a 9am train…

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Portuguese Studies @portuguesemhra.bsky.social · 29d

In case you missed news of our most recent (special) issue! Contents: "Introduction: Decentring the Human in Lusophone Studies" + articles by Patricia A. Bonchristiano, Carlos Garrido Castellano, Łukasz Kraj, @petehr.bsky.social, Patrícia Vieira, Andrzej Stuart-Thompson, @doboulanger.bsky.social.

Portuguese Studies @portuguesemhra.bsky.social · Aug 1

41.1 of @portuguesemhra.bsky.social is out!
'Luso-Ecologies: Ecocritical Perspectives on Lusophone Arts and Literatures", special issue edited by @doboulanger.bsky.social & Andrzej Stuart-Thompson.
ToC muse.jhu.edu/issue/55275
@themhra.bsky.social

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Dr Dorothée Boulanger @doboulanger.bsky.social · 29d

« It is against free speech to stop us from fixating on the genitals » 🎯

The Onion @theonion.com · 29d

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board:

It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible

The task of reporting is not a simple one. Each and every day, reporters and editors at publications like The Onion make difficult decisions about which issues should receive attention, knowing that o...

theonion.com

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Dr Dorothée Boulanger @doboulanger.bsky.social · Sep 5

« Essayiste » 🙄

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Lilly ⭐️ @mothcub.bsky.social · Sep 4

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

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Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social · Aug 29

🔈 Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship.

The Fellowship by @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social aims to support early-career academics to turn book ideas into publishable works.

Winner receives a full year of creative support in 2026.

📅 Apply 1 Sept–1 Oct 2025

Info 👉 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship 2025 - Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship scheme aims to help early career academics get their book idea into a form which is ready for publication.

www.bloomsbury.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Aug 28

What if scientists hadn’t waited until this point to speak about politics

Every time I see a headline like this, my brain just shouts

Like what if scientists hadn’t sat around silently watching everyone around them get attacked

Maybe the fight on campus would have gone differently

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Aug 28

"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administration’s actions, calling them an “existential threat” to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now."

www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

The 'Mozart of Math' rarely speaks about politics. The wide-ranging cuts to science funding made him change that.

UCLA's Terence Tao called the Trump administration's actions an "existential threat" to academic research in the U.S.

www.nbcnews.com

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Dr Dorothée Boulanger @doboulanger.bsky.social · Aug 23

Mais non! Totalement 1er degré. Bon courage à vous pour le shitstorm, see you on the other side 🫶🏻

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Dr Dorothée Boulanger @doboulanger.bsky.social · Aug 23

Punaise que c’est bien vu 🤯

Joan Stavo-Debauge @jostavodebauge.bsky.social · Aug 23

Maintenant que l'administration Trump est plus anti-américaine et pro-russe que lui, le campisme de Mélenchon n'a plus aucun sens. En jouant le jeu de la Russie, il joue aussi le jeu des Etats-Unis. Au lieu d'embrasser un seul impérialisme, il en embrasse deux d'un coup. 🙇

Edwy Plenel @edwyplenel.bsky.social · Aug 23

Ukraine : LFI rattrapée par son campisme. Aux Amfis, Mélenchon estime que le départ de Zelensky est la condition d’un accord de paix avec la Russie et raille la « fable » des intentions belliqueuses de Poutine. Son aveuglement sur l’impérialisme russe interpelle. www.mediapart.fr/journal/poli...

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Takara @takara-orca.bsky.social · Aug 20

Niveau progressisme, le NPA se pose là. Bravo

Il ne faut oublier personne ✊❤️⚫

NPA L'Anticapitaliste @npa-officiel.bsky.social · Aug 20

Nous avons décidé de végétaliser l'alimentation proposée à notre université d'été. Pourquoi ?
1. Pour les animaux
La végétalisation de l’alimentation est un acte collectif de solidarité politique avec les animaux non-humains.
npa-lanticapitaliste.org/UDT2025
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Visuel du NPA pour la 17è université d'été.
Sur un fond turquoise. à droite une illustration d'un coq perché sur un mouton, un lapin levant le poing et une vache.
Végétaliser l'alimentation proposée à l'université d'été. Pourquoi ?
1. Pour les animaux
Nous combattons l’exploitation et la mise à mort annuelle de milliards d’animaux sentients, terrestres et aquatiques. Les autres animaux subissent, eux aussi, la domination du capital qui transforme leurs corps en marchandises. Nous avons un intérêt commun à nous en libérer.
La végétalisation de l’alimentation est un acte collectif de solidarité politique avec les animaux non-humains, que nous inscrivons dans une perspective d’émancipation qui n'oublie personne. Nos choix collectifs doivent refléter notre projet de société écosocialiste.

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Dr Dorothée Boulanger @doboulanger.bsky.social · Aug 1

And what a stunning cover, thanks to the generosity of Brazilian artist Juli Manara ✨

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Dr Dorothée Boulanger @doboulanger.bsky.social · Aug 1

📚🍃🇦🇴🇧🇷🇵🇹 So happy this is out, and what a privilege to work on Lusophone ecocritical perspectives alongside Andrzej Stuart-Thompson and so many talented scholars, most of them early-career!

Portuguese Studies @portuguesemhra.bsky.social · Aug 1

Contents: "Introduction: Decentring the Human in Lusophone Studies" + articles by Patricia A. Bonchristiano, Carlos Garrido Castellano, Łukasz Kraj, @petehr.bsky.social, Patrícia Vieira, Andrzej Stuart-Thompson, @doboulanger.bsky.social + book reviews.
Cover: Amazonia Dreamers by Juli Manara.

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Dr Dorothée Boulanger @doboulanger.bsky.social · Jul 22

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · Jul 22

“too many sociology majors” do you think your latte is gonna make itself

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Portuguese Studies @portuguesemhra.bsky.social · Jul 1

Portuguese Studies has transitioned from Twitter/X and will now use Bluesky, alongside Facebook (www.facebook.com/PortugueseSt...), to share news relating to the journal.
To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a prize giveaway here on Bluesky!
@themhra.bsky.social

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Dr Dorothée Boulanger @doboulanger.bsky.social · Jul 2

Ça vaut aussi le coup de le couper et le congeler pour en mettre plus tard dans des soupes de légumes verts, où le fenouil équilibre bien le côté un peu amer et terreux des poireaux et autres légumes d’hiver…

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