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Harvey Humphrey
@harveyhumphrey.bsky.social
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Academic. Poet. Creative sociologist. Queer non-binary trans man. Spoonie. Gentletran & a scholar. Also part of the Queer Disability Studies Network snails. 🐌🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · Nov 13
Hi new followers 👋 a (re)introduction as there’s lots of you: I’m a Lecturer in Research Methods (fixed term - employ me!). I work across trans studies, queer disability studies, co-production & creative methods. I write poetry & put on a play from my research. I could post more & I'm quite boring.
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Helen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social · 6h
Lucy Pickering and I first talked about research ethics nearly 30 years ago. Now we’re launching a call for chapters on experiences of ethics review.

Deadline: 30 Nov 2025

More here 👉 helenkara.com/2025/10/08/e...

#ResearchEthics #CallforChapters #EthicsReview
Ethics Review In Practice
I have known Lucy Pickering for a long time. I first met her almost 30 years ago through a mutual friend, and I got to know her well some years later when we were doing our PhDs at the same time. W…
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 8h
Interdisciplinarity is fun because it’s something job ads in humanities HE say they want but it often feels like it actively disqualifies you (in the sense of having degrees in, and published in leading journals of, multiple distinct disciplines). Everyone believes you’re not in their discipline.
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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 3d
Just got my Covid and flu vaccines. The eligibility for Covid jabs has been reduced (by both NHS Scotland and NHS England) but loads of people can still get the flu jab. It was super quick and not busy at all. Get jabs pals. It’s way cooler than getting sick.
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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 4d
The new Idlewild album came out today. It’s pretty good. Excited to give it a proper listen over the weekend. These are all the opinions I have on albums that came out today.
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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 7d
If you are a @uofglasgow.bsky.social staff or student interested in intersex, non-binary and trans studies join us for our GLINTS launch event later this month on October 21st: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glints-lau... also enjoy this image of some our publications (books and zines!) from our stall.
A stall featuring books and zines written by co-directors and members of GLINTS. Also features our own zine beautifully crafted by Kirstie Ken. The table also has a trans flag on.
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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 7d
Yesterday I had a fab time meeting folk from @uofglasgow.bsky.social ArtsLabs & talking about our new Glasgow Lab for Intersex Non-binary & Trans Studies co-organised with colleagues inc @uofgsociology.bsky.social. Thanks to @echomikeromeo.bsky.social @kenglish.bsky.social @notrightruth.bsky.social
6 staff and students all working across intersex, non-binary & trans studies hang out behind a stall of our publications with a trans flag. We smile and look vaguely professional. A poster board with our excellent GLINTS logo to promote the Glasgow Lab for Intersex Non-binary and Trans Studies (GLINTS)
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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 8d
My partner just told me about tattie scone nachos & I was unimpressed. Tattie scones on crisps is too much potato! Turns out tattie scones are instead of crisps. Now I’m on board. Anyway that’s our level of culinary delights if anyone has eat out recommendations for Edinburgh for his birthday in Nov
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Anindya Raychaudhuri (he/him) @dranindyar.bsky.social · 10d
Do you, or does someone you know, live with vertigo? Are you in, or near Edinburgh? If so, you might be interested in this
@ustaresearchimpact.bsky.social
funded puppetry workshop to explore life with dizziness and vertigo. For questions get in touch here or [email protected]
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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 12d
Only read one thing on your phone today trans friends & make it this. Ruth’s writing is a gift & this essay is a little parcel of hope & possibility (wrapped in a bow of grief because it’s still a trans essay). I read it on my phone & now I’m putting my phone down. Think about how we create together
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 12d
New essay: REJECT TRANS DOOM-POSTING.

It's about grief, loss, institutional failures, and the horror of the current moment.

It's also a love letter to trans community, and the things we do with and for one another.
Reject Trans Doom-Posting
This week I took the long train down to the south of England for my friend Robyn’s funeral. She died very suddenly three weeks ago, aged just 32. Robyn gave so much love to the world, and was so lo…
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 16d
At a time when some use the language of feminism to attack trans rights, it’s vital to see feminist activists and scholars counteract such attacks. Feminist Legal Studies is inviting papers for a special issue that will explore how feminist goals and trans liberation are connected. Check it out.

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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 16d
📣🏳️‍⚧️ 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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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 16d
📣🏳️‍⚧️ 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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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · Sep 4
I’m writing up sections of my annual Performance & Development Review and realising that I’ve actually done a lot over the last year. Treated my objectives like a to do list ✔️✔️✔️✔️. Weird to then face redundancy in 4 months. Not sure what my next objectives are. Find employment? Scream into the void?
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Sep 4
Call for book proposals!

Are you passionate about punk? 🤘
Do you have an idea for a book? 📖
Send us your idea for a fresh take on punk to mark the 50th anniversary, that could be the next instalment our acclaimed British Pop Archive series. 🎶
More details below 👇 #booksky #punk
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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · Sep 3
New book out 2026. Incredible work from @yvettetaylor.bsky.social herding academic& creative queers inc @kevinguyan.bsky.social @kenglish.bsky.social @vavapoetry.bsky.social @finnfox.bsky.social @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social @matwilkie.bsky.social @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @sindhurajasekaran.bsky.social
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Sindhu Rajasekaran @sindhurajasekaran.bsky.social · Sep 3
Congratulations to everyone on here! — thrilled to be sharing space w/ @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social Prof Churnjeet Mahn, Dr Maria Sledmere & others.

Big shoutout to @yvettetaylor.bsky.social for making this happen!

Out April 2026.

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Sindhu Rajasekaran @sindhurajasekaran.bsky.social · Sep 3
Congratulations to everyone on here! — thrilled to be sharing space w/ @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social Prof Churnjeet Mahn, Dr Maria Sledmere & others.

Big shoutout to @yvettetaylor.bsky.social for making this happen!

Out April 2026.

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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · Aug 29
I’m so excited to hear all about this walking tour when you get back!
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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · Aug 26
Ooh I like this idea a lot! There’s been emails going about planning speakers for the subject(s) seminar series - worth pitching us all reading our pieces as some kind of alternative seminar?
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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · Aug 26
Would you like to read a special @uofgsociology.bsky.social edition of the So Fi Zine wonderfully curated by @awtsn.bsky.social and featuring @mindyptolomey.bsky.social @academicdiary.bsky.social @kenglish.bsky.social @erdemavsar.bsky.social and more (& me)?

Thought so:
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Edition #17
OUT NOW! So Fi Zine #17 is a special issue created with sociologists and other academic kin at the University of Glasgow in 2025 – full of new sociological fiction, poetry and visual art. Thi…
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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · Aug 26
A wonderful read and a collection of creative works from colleagues. Erdem’s work is particularly beautiful - a real skill for a piece that contains the words “shitfaced fairy” ❤️❤️
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Erdem Avşar @erdemavsar.bsky.social · Aug 26
The new special edition of So Fi Zine is live! A beautiful collection of sociological fiction - HUGE thanks to the legend that is Ash @awtsn.bsky.social for making this possible and including my piece, and to everyone involved.

Read here: sofizine.com/latest-editi...
Edition #17
OUT NOW! So Fi Zine #17 is a special issue created with sociologists and other academic kin at the University of Glasgow in 2025 – full of new sociological fiction, poetry and visual art. Thi…
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Erdem Avşar @erdemavsar.bsky.social · Aug 26
The new special edition of So Fi Zine is live! A beautiful collection of sociological fiction - HUGE thanks to the legend that is Ash @awtsn.bsky.social for making this possible and including my piece, and to everyone involved.

Read here: sofizine.com/latest-editi...
Edition #17
OUT NOW! So Fi Zine #17 is a special issue created with sociologists and other academic kin at the University of Glasgow in 2025 – full of new sociological fiction, poetry and visual art. Thi…
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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · Aug 7
I am as of right now on holiday. Won’t be opening my work laptop until August 25th (and I’m already quite good at only checking my email on my work laptop to have something resembling work life balance). I shall mostly be reading novels and eating snacks. Please don’t email me (just in general).
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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · Aug 4
I just read that back and now I’m hearing it in Jesse from the Fast Show’s voice. This week I have mostly been eating ice pops in case you’re wondering.
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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · Aug 4
Today I have mostly done admin (updating a course guide, editing moodle, confirming second marking) BUT I also got a sneak peak at some creative academic work by some colleagues coming out soon & it’s brilliant. Very excited to see it out in the world & grateful to share this creative academic space
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · Aug 1
NEW on Wonkhe: Students made today happen. We should thank them bit.ly/4fBaxNL
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Simon Varwell @hisasimon.bsky.social · Aug 1
This is brilliant. The generations of student activism can pass so quickly, so on important issues like this one it is worth noting the huge impact past student officers made on policy and practice in our sector.
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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · Aug 1
NEW on Wonkhe: Students made today happen. We should thank them bit.ly/4fBaxNL
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