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Caitlin 🏳️‍🌈

@feminiserrm.bsky.social

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Femininomenonologist ✨️ researching pregnant embodiment and obstetric violence | Haver of (almost) two philosophy degrees 👨‍🎓 Probably reading a book (and it's probably Iris Marion Young) 📚

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Caitlin 🏳️‍🌈 @feminiserrm.bsky.social · Aug 12

"I study feminist theories of embodiment" is OUT. "I'm a femininomenonologist ✨️💅" is IN.

Chappell Roan holding Iris Marion Young's "On Female Body Experience: "Throwing Like a Girl" and Other Essays".

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Joe Griffin @thejoegriffin.bsky.social · 3h

It's heartening that two of the fastest-rising politicians in the English speaking world (Polanski in the UK and Mamdani in the US) are very pro-trans.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Caitlin 🏳️‍🌈 @feminiserrm.bsky.social · 8h

ur da reads rawls

Caitlin 🏳️‍🌈 @feminiserrm.bsky.social · 1d

Spunking £30 on a book because that's infinitely more preferable than using an online reader that only lets you download 1 chapter at a time

Caitlin 🏳️‍🌈 @feminiserrm.bsky.social · 1d

I take it back I've been on hold for 20 minutes and it's the same 30 second sample on repeat

Caitlin 🏳️‍🌈 @feminiserrm.bsky.social · 1d

I wasn't expecting the hold music while calling the council to be jungle but I'm not complaining.

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Caitlin 🏳️‍🌈 @feminiserrm.bsky.social · 1d

I wasn't expecting the hold music while calling the council to be jungle but I'm not complaining.

Caitlin 🏳️‍🌈 @feminiserrm.bsky.social · 1d

Aye spot on

Caitlin 🏳️‍🌈 @feminiserrm.bsky.social · 1d

POV: you're sad so your girlfriend takes you on a mental health trip to the Moors of Bleakness and Despair™

Caitlin 🏳️‍🌈 @feminiserrm.bsky.social · 3d

which gaga song is the important question

Caitlin 🏳️‍🌈 @feminiserrm.bsky.social · 3d

"it's giving crimp"

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Nearly 3000 new members in the 24 hours since the Party Political Broadcast.

Extraordinary.

Hope is returning. 💚🚀

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships @clsrleeds.bsky.social · 4d

New textbook on the philosophy of love, sex and relationships anyone? 👇🏻💕📕

Luke Brunning @lukebrunning.bsky.social · 4d

Coming soon! In one month my new textbook with @nmckeever3.bsky.social will be published by @politybooks.bsky.social www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

The Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Relationships

The Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Relationships, Engagingly written, and rich with real-world examples, The Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Relationships is a crucial resource for students, researchers, a...

www.politybooks.com

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Caitlin 🏳️‍🌈 @feminiserrm.bsky.social · 4d

First psl babey it's spooky season 🎃🦇🍂

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ANSIRH @ansirh.bsky.social · 4d

Abortion bans hurt everyone.

Abortion bans and restrictions create cascading effects that extend far beyond reproductive health care, compromising the quality and effectiveness of medical care across reproductive and non-reproductive specialties.

Cascading Harms: How Abortion Bans Lead to Discriminatory Care Across Medical Specialties - PHR

Our research highlights how abortion bans and restrictions create cascading effects that extend far beyond reproductive health care, compromising the quality and effectiveness of medical care across…

phr.org

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Caitlin 🏳️‍🌈 @feminiserrm.bsky.social · 5d

[Train station]: Hey! Our month-long essential repairs are all finished and we are reopen :)

Me: Oh great! So I can finally start taking the daily 20 minute train instead of the 1hr replacement coach?

[Train station]: only sometimes :)

Me: What do you mean?

[Train station]: only sometimes ;)

Caitlin 🏳️‍🌈 @feminiserrm.bsky.social · 5d

My U-haul lesbian ass did NOT need to see this today!

Justin Lehmiller @justinlehmiller.bsky.social · 6d

Lesbian couples have 2.2X the divorce risk compared to heterosexual couples and 1.6X compared to gay male couples. Lesbians' higher divorce risk is partly explained by the fact that they tend to live together for a shorter period of time before marriage. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library

Objective We investigate whether differences in the length of premarital cohabitation, children from previous unions, and childbearing in the union explain the elevated divorce risk observed in fema.....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Caitlin 🏳️‍🌈 @feminiserrm.bsky.social · 6d

Reread parts of my thesis and I've not only just seen a typo in my abstract, I've used "interpretated" twice. INTERPRETATED IS NOT A REAL WORD. I AM A DUMBASS.

Caitlin 🏳️‍🌈 @feminiserrm.bsky.social · 6d

Current convo:

Me: Hey you've sold me this skirt as a size 12 in the description, but the label actually says it's a 14-16?

Seller: Hey girlie 💗🌸🫶🏻 I'm a size 12 and it fits 🥰☺️ Hope that helps!

Me: Okay so that actually makes 0 sense and is not how selling things on Vinted works, Eleanor!

Caitlin 🏳️‍🌈 @feminiserrm.bsky.social · 6d

Debating if it's worth losing my clean 5⭐️ Vinted streak to call this seller a stupid bint

Caitlin 🏳️‍🌈 @feminiserrm.bsky.social · 7d

Did you ever experience the chihuahua cafe before it closed?

Caitlin 🏳️‍🌈 @feminiserrm.bsky.social · 8d

I have no authority on Christianity beyond an a-level but making this app feels like ... something you'd definitely go to hell for

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 8d

Virtual Jesus? People of faith divided as AI enters religion.

One app, which is called Text with Jesus, has thousands of paying subscribers. It lets people ostensibly ask questions of Mary, Joseph, Jesus and nearly all 12 apostles
u.afp.com/SmoK

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Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 10d

One month to go until our abstracts submission deadline!

Full details can be found on our website and please email us [[email protected]] with any questions.

Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social · 17d

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference!

📍Online via Zoom
🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026
⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025

See our website for full details 👇

voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering.

Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February 2026, Online Conference.

Ruth Davidson, Anna Muggeridge, Eve Pennington and Beckie Rutherford.

Keynote address by Dr Sarah Crook, Swansea University: ‘Cradles of Discontent: Motherhood as a pathway to activism in modern Britain’.

This conference is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship ‘Voices of Motherhood’ Project reference MR/Y018184/1 and the University of Worcester.

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Caitlin 🏳️‍🌈 @feminiserrm.bsky.social · 10d

First day of the next 3.5 yrs of my life and I've suddenly woken up with anxiety levels 16 year old me could barely comprehend 🥴

Caitlin 🏳️‍🌈 @feminiserrm.bsky.social · 10d

Trying not to cry about the little robot vacuum in queensland that got hit by a car. HE JUST WANTED TO CLEAN 😭

Caitlin 🏳️‍🌈 @feminiserrm.bsky.social · 10d

@rorygilliland.bsky.social Give me (sad and gay) philosophical inquiries into romance that don't have me clutching my pearls pls

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Caitlin 🏳️‍🌈 @feminiserrm.bsky.social · 10d

Trying to get into romance books means reading a lot of "[Book] is a POWERFUL, TIMELY, PHILOSOPHICAL account of what it means to love and BE LOVED!" reviews, and it's just like, the horniest book you've ever read. I can't do it.

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