Dr. Lucy Neville
@drbluestocking.bsky.social
Criminologist at The University of Southampton. Amateur academic, occasional poet, aspiring activist, interdisciplinary magpie #sexwork #porn #feminism #fandom #VAWG
“For the thousands of women who clock in each day at factories, fabrication shops and construction sites across America, Czech's murder has validated the vulnerability they feel working outnumbered and alone” www.ibtimes.co.uk/minnesota-ma...
Minnesota Man Bludgeons Female Coworker to Death Because 'He Didn't Like Her'
A young Minnesota welder was beaten to death by a coworker who confessed to planning the attack. The case has intensified concerns about the safety of women working alone in male dominated industrial ...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM
“For the thousands of women who clock in each day at factories, fabrication shops and construction sites across America, Czech's murder has validated the vulnerability they feel working outnumbered and alone” www.ibtimes.co.uk/minnesota-ma...
September 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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cc @drbluestocking.bsky.social, I believe your book "Girls who like boys who like boys: Women and gay male pornography and erotica" would be of relevance
my article with @rouselaurenc.bsky.social, "Quantifying fandom: Identity, romance, and platform preferences on archive of our own," is out today in New Media & Society! now we know how fandom demographics relate to their practices in a broader way. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/KNQFQ...
Quantifying fandom: Identity, romance, and platform preferences on archive of our own - Lauren Rouse, Mel Stanfill, 2025
Fan scholars typically study single fandoms and gain rich insight into their identities and practices, but without systematic study, it has proven difficult to ...
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September 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
cc @drbluestocking.bsky.social, I believe your book "Girls who like boys who like boys: Women and gay male pornography and erotica" would be of relevance
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Can’t help but reflect on the *5 years of strikes* we did to defend our pensions, on this, the day USS announce their £10 billion surplus.
July 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Can’t help but reflect on the *5 years of strikes* we did to defend our pensions, on this, the day USS announce their £10 billion surplus.
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Amidst the bleakness, I've just published an article exploring how young trans people are dealing with life in the UK @geographers.bsky.social. Do read to understand more about how trans youth are navigating & thriving in these times. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Exploring Young Trans and Non-binary People’s Strategies and Spaces for Navigating Marginality in the United Kingdom: A Novel Resilience, Resistance, and Restoration Framework
Amid recent, unprecedented sociopolitical scrutiny and hypervisibility of young trans people in the United Kingdom, this article considers how trans youth develop individual and collective mechanis...
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April 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Amidst the bleakness, I've just published an article exploring how young trans people are dealing with life in the UK @geographers.bsky.social. Do read to understand more about how trans youth are navigating & thriving in these times. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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starting to think we should give "strange women lying in ponds distributing swords" a chance as a basis for our system of government
August 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
starting to think we should give "strange women lying in ponds distributing swords" a chance as a basis for our system of government
“Defending the rights of migrant sex workers is essential to a broader movement for immigrant justice… Otherwise, the state will keep using the same fascist playbook: target sex workers and the most marginalized first, then expand its reach to others” #sexworkiswork
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Sex Workers Are Being Abducted by ICE — and Abandoned by Respectability Politics
Sex workers targeted by ICE need the migrant justice movement’s full solidarity.
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July 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
“Defending the rights of migrant sex workers is essential to a broader movement for immigrant justice… Otherwise, the state will keep using the same fascist playbook: target sex workers and the most marginalized first, then expand its reach to others” #sexworkiswork
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truthout.org/articles/sex...
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Having a Cultural Evening with @drbluestocking.bsky.social Celebrating the AMAZING #LauraHarris Collaborative Art Installation at the John Hansard Gallery #SoProud #BuildingsThatMove 😍❤️🥂🥂🥂
May 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Having a Cultural Evening with @drbluestocking.bsky.social Celebrating the AMAZING #LauraHarris Collaborative Art Installation at the John Hansard Gallery #SoProud #BuildingsThatMove 😍❤️🥂🥂🥂
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I have never seen people run away from the scene of a public policy disaster quicker than this one. Astonishing and disgraceful. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
Universities have ‘lost sight of responsibility over public money’
Baroness Smith says institutions failing to rein in spending despite demanding financial support from government
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May 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I have never seen people run away from the scene of a public policy disaster quicker than this one. Astonishing and disgraceful. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
Introducing Our University's New, Totally Reasonable Criteria for Promotion and Tenure www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/int...
Introducing Our University’s New, Totally Reasonable Criteria for Promotion and Tenure
Since the founding of our august institution, we have awarded promotion and tenure based on how many pages of your research we could read before fa...
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May 7, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Introducing Our University's New, Totally Reasonable Criteria for Promotion and Tenure www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/int...
“No matter how long we get to parent our children, there are only limited numbers of “I love you”s we can say to them. That, too, is a fact.”
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The Deaths—and Lives—of Two Sons
The truth is that however I choose to express myself will not live up to the weight of these facts: Vincent died, and then James died.
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May 7, 2025 at 7:34 AM
“No matter how long we get to parent our children, there are only limited numbers of “I love you”s we can say to them. That, too, is a fact.”
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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April 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
"The real project was always us: the work of understanding, and not the accumulation of facts... No amount of peer-reviewed scholarship, no data set, can resolve the central questions that confront every human being: How to live? What to do? How to face death?’" www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?
Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.
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April 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"The real project was always us: the work of understanding, and not the accumulation of facts... No amount of peer-reviewed scholarship, no data set, can resolve the central questions that confront every human being: How to live? What to do? How to face death?’" www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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“That’s the problem with paralysis – it gets into everything. You can’t look at the news, but you know it’s still there... Frozen feels preferable to adapting to a new reality. Sometimes you don’t have to look for it – trouble will find you anyway”
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The new world order is exactly what it looks like. Are we too frozen with fear to name it? | Zoe Williams
The truth is paralysing. But after JD Vance met the far-right leader Alice Weidel in Germany, it is time to be clear about what we are seeing, writes Zoe Williams
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February 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
“That’s the problem with paralysis – it gets into everything. You can’t look at the news, but you know it’s still there... Frozen feels preferable to adapting to a new reality. Sometimes you don’t have to look for it – trouble will find you anyway”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“We have our own witches – women who like the witches of old cannot live in the boxes they are put in. Women who are shamed and doubted in public, regardless of who is wrong or right. I could not live in the box I had been put in”
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The Witch’s Bridle | The Manifest Station
Scot seems to recognize that the tall tale is actually an instruction for controlling and disciplining women. Bridle the woman before she bridles you. Violate the woman before she violates you.
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February 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
“We have our own witches – women who like the witches of old cannot live in the boxes they are put in. Women who are shamed and doubted in public, regardless of who is wrong or right. I could not live in the box I had been put in”
www.themanifeststation.net/2025/02/14/t...
www.themanifeststation.net/2025/02/14/t...
“Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the ‘Woke’ Parts” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
Opinion | Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the Woke Parts
The administration’s war on universities defies rational self-interest.
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February 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the ‘Woke’ Parts” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
“If I were to ask “What makes you proud to be British?”… I would put money on many of your answers being the very subjects that are currently under threat at our universities. Our history, theatre, music, language, literature – our culture” - @whoresofyore.bsky.social inews.co.uk/opinion/colu...
An act of grotesque vandalism is taking place in British universities
The entire arts and heritage sector in the UK will be irreparably damaged
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February 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
“If I were to ask “What makes you proud to be British?”… I would put money on many of your answers being the very subjects that are currently under threat at our universities. Our history, theatre, music, language, literature – our culture” - @whoresofyore.bsky.social inews.co.uk/opinion/colu...
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It’s fun starting a new hobby with ADHD because I never know if I’ve found a new lifelong passion or if I’m going to spend $2000 on stuff and immediately lose all interest
February 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
It’s fun starting a new hobby with ADHD because I never know if I’ve found a new lifelong passion or if I’m going to spend $2000 on stuff and immediately lose all interest
“While there is every reason to be outraged, we cannot let that outrage flood us and stop our minds” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler
Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage
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February 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“While there is every reason to be outraged, we cannot let that outrage flood us and stop our minds” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“Romantasy and BookTok driving a huge rise in science fiction and fantasy sales” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
Romantasy and BookTok driving a huge rise in science fiction and fantasy sales
The subgenre helped increase the market share by 41.3% last year aided by bestseller Fourth Wing from Rebecca Yarros while food and drink topped nonfiction sales
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February 5, 2025 at 8:33 AM
“Romantasy and BookTok driving a huge rise in science fiction and fantasy sales” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
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Incredible review from the wonderful InCommon of the exhibition on now in Winchester @miloustella.bsky.social
"Coming out as transgender caused a huge glitch in the way people have thought about me & those relationships. Queering Connections introduced me to far more examples of “glitches” in our relationships"
Review - Queering Connections: Glitchy Kinship at The Winchester Gallery
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Review - Queering Connections: Glitchy Kinship at The Winchester Gallery
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Art review: Queering connections: Glitchy Kinship, The Winchester Gallery, Winchester School of Art - In-Common - Southampton
By Mabel Wellman. The fifth Queering Connections art exhibit launched this week at The Winchester Gallery at Winchester School of Art (30/1/25). This exhibition by sociologist Dr Lizzie Reed of sociol...
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February 1, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Incredible review from the wonderful InCommon of the exhibition on now in Winchester @miloustella.bsky.social
“Shaping pleasure, shifting boundaries: a roundtable on the future of porn studies” #PornStudies www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NVIW4...
Shaping pleasure, shifting boundaries: a roundtable on the future of porn studies
The roundtable, ‘Shaping Pleasure, Shifting Boundaries: A Roundtable on the Future of Porn Studies,’ took place in June 2024 via Zoom and was recorded, transcribed and then edited to cut digression...
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February 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
“Shaping pleasure, shifting boundaries: a roundtable on the future of porn studies” #PornStudies www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NVIW4...
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Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.
February 4, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.