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Northumbria Law and Society @nulawandsociety.bsky.social · 14h

Our convenor, @lauragraham86.bsky.social, is speaking at a research event in France. Laura is a project partner on 'droits et politiques du travail sexuel 2026', a research/action initiative on improving European laws and policies on sex work. It is funded by l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22d

Trans rights are human rights.

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Sex Workers Alliance Ireland @swaiireland.bsky.social · Mar 28

100% of people who have taken our Sex Worker Awareness Training would recommend this training to others.
This training is available in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Developed by sex workers, this training will enhance participants' knowledge including
• What is sex work?

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National Ugly Mugs @nationaluglymugs.bsky.social · 22d

We're hiring a Manager for NUMbrella Lane in Glasgow! 📣

This role requires managerial experience, and a deep understanding of the health, safety and rights issues confronting sex workers in Scotland. Join the team!

Click to access the full job posting:
nationaluglymugs.org/2025/09/17/j...

Text reads: "We are hiring! Manager (NUMbrella Lane). Glasgow, hybrid role, part time, 4 days per week. £28,000 per year (FTE £35,000). Read full details on Charity Job and the NUM news area" There is a loud speaker in the left corner, and NUM logos above.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24d

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin?

TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 23d

Navi Pillay: ‘To do nothing is not neutrality. It is complicity. The prevention of genocide is not a matter of discretion of states. It is a legal and moral obligation, and it admits no delay. The law requires action. Our common humanity demands it.’

gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

Opinion | My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide

www.nytimes.com

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Janina Dill @janinadill.bsky.social · 23d

The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.

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Sex Workers Alliance Ireland @swaiireland.bsky.social · Sep 5

ICYMI We launched our Migrant Sex Workers and Housing Research last month. It outlines how current laws encode discrimination against sx workers in law and the racism migrant sex workers face.

www.ireland-live.ie/news/ireland...

Three-quarters of sex workers started because of financial reasons – research

Around three-quarters of sex workers in Ireland started because of financial reasons, research shows. The research, carried out by Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI), also found that migrant sex…

www.ireland-live.ie

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Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social · Sep 4

I won a prize 🥳 Well, Deserted Wives did 😍 📖
Thank you to The Society of Legal Scholars for a lovely evening and wonderful recognition. I am very grateful (as the cheesy grin shows!)

Deserted Wives currently has 30% off:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/deserted-...

#19thC #WomensHistory #sls2025

Four people stood in front of a Society of Legal Scholars vertical banner. Three of the people are holding certificates, the other is President of the SLS and has presented the awards.

A certificate with black text on a cream background awarding 'Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce' 2nd prize in the 2025 Margaret Brazier Prize for Outstanding Mid-career Scholarship.

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Laura Graham @lauragraham86.bsky.social · Sep 2

As they say, Kay, if you've got it, flaunt it!

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Dr Emily Cooper @criminographer.bsky.social · Aug 27

So many emotions sharing this, but here is the 1st paper from the study I did with Dr Jo Garstang, Dr Nikki Speed & Jon Holmes, published in BMJl (Paediatrics). It centres on what families want & need from professionals after their child's sudden, unexplained death pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40850909/

Needs and experiences of families after a sudden unexplained death in childhood: a qualitative study - PubMed

Every family must receive swift, proactive, knowledgeable communication from professionals, during and beyond the investigation into their child's sudden unexpected death. This will help them through ...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Sex Workers Alliance Ireland @swaiireland.bsky.social · Aug 12

It turns out that sex work IS work when police want to deport migrants. Brothel workers were arrested and deported for working without a visa in England.

www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-...

Police close suspected Surrey brothel after antisocial behaviour reports

A woman and man in their 40s were arrested on suspicion of assisting the management of a brothel

www.getsurrey.co.uk

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Laura Graham @lauragraham86.bsky.social · Aug 7

Saw this on FB and it feels so pertinent

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · Aug 6

The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.

JK Rowling tweeting got a boycott of M&S, stretching facts to the breaking point, and making the world a worse place for absolutely everyone.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · Aug 4

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

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Laura Graham @lauragraham86.bsky.social · Aug 4

I mean more like months/years if you do participatory work. And it counts for nothing if you don't get the money 😡😡

Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · Aug 4

If government wants to hear about “efficiency”: as all of us have to buy out time to do any research, since unis overload other work & often don’t even notionally cover research, we’re ALL made to apply to those things. So we’re all spending weeks writing apps rather than doing actual research.

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Aug 4

UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · Aug 4

If government wants to hear about “efficiency”: as all of us have to buy out time to do any research, since unis overload other work & often don’t even notionally cover research, we’re ALL made to apply to those things. So we’re all spending weeks writing apps rather than doing actual research.

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Aug 4

UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double - Research Professional News

Trends across research councils prompt warning that system is “overstretched or broken”

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Aug 4

UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double - Research Professional News

Trends across research councils prompt warning that system is “overstretched or broken”

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · Aug 4

As others have noted, promotion often depends on getting grants, but so does permanency and the transition from precarity and, increasingly, surviving compulsory redundancy.

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Aug 4

UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double - Research Professional News

Trends across research councils prompt warning that system is “overstretched or broken”

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · Aug 4

something I keep thinking about and which I can't make up my mind on is: were swathes of the right, centre-right and, in some cases, the centre, full of racists hiding their beliefs for decades, or are these people all incredibly suggestible? neither answer is good!

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · Aug 4

large parts of UK politics are swinging far-right with very, very frightening speed, and racists are getting increasingly open about expressing their bigotry.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Aug 4

it's "cool" that every conservative pundit in the UK basically seems to want to turn the country into Norsefire

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Northumbria Law and Society @nulawandsociety.bsky.social · Aug 4

Associate Professor Helen Rutherford has co-written a book on Newcastle Prison. There will be a book launch on Thursday 21 August at 6:30pm at Newcastle City Library. You can book your place at the launch here - www.tiny.cc/newcastlepri...

Book Launch - Newcastle Prison A History: 1828 - 1925

Join the authors to celebrate the launch of the new book Newcastle Prison A History: 1828 - 1925.

www.tiny.cc

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · Jul 29

Starmer really is a moral vacuum. Utterly devoid of any principles.

Palestinians either deserve statehood, or they don’t. Whether Israel continues to murder them by starvation or not is totally irrelevant to their claim on statehood

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Dr Emily Cooper @criminographer.bsky.social · Jul 29

Exciting news - Prof. Sarah Kingston, Dr Nicola Harding and I are organising a special issue for @areajournal.bsky.social titled "The Geographies of Fraud and Financial Crime".

Please see attached for details and share with anyone who might be interested!

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · Jul 1

It wasn’t long ago that media used to say lesbians in bathrooms or changing rooms sexualised “innocent” straight women and made them uncomfortable. Such fears were weaponised politically to vilify lesbian women as sexual predators. Now we see the same comments recycled about trans women. It’s gross.

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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · Jul 17

Maybe we should start listening to the people who said that this kind of thing was going to happen? Maybe they're the ones actually speaking common sense?

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