18,457 children. Murdered by Israel.

Fester
Carceral Permeability and California's COVID-19 Correctional Disaster www.ucpress.edu/books/fester...

🚨 Academic Conference Alert! 🚨

Keynote title for our Opposition to Thatcher conference by the amazing Dr Amy Edwards: 'Begrudging bedfellows and oppositional allies: Thatcherism and the limits of Popular Capitalism'

It will be great. See all speakers & sign up 👇 forms.cloud.microsoft/e/WFugaYiSyh

Congratulations 🎊 to @rebeccawynter.bsky.social and @janetweston.bsky.social for a brilliant conference! 👏🏻 Lots of amazing papers including @historywill.bsky.social @sophiemhistory.bsky.social @stephemmabrown.bsky.social @henryyeomans.bsky.social 🌟 Looking forward to next steps 😀

The UK's #HIV response is failing women.

In 2023, new cases increased the most in heterosexual women, but they are less likely to be offered or to take a test. Too many are diagnosed with HIV late, when it is more likely to have affected their health.

The violent political policing of picketing at Orgreave coking works in June 1984 was the single worst abuse of state power during the miners’ strike. Miners and their supporters have been campaigning for an inquiry for 40 years. Congratulations to @orgreavejustice.bsky.social.

Parliament and Hansard have removed “We are all Palestine Action” from my speech on Wednesday 2 July 2025 — despite me saying it.

This is a blatant attempt to censor me and rewrite the record.

This is not how a democracy behaves.

We will not be silenced.

What can historians bring to policy work on drug use?

In this new post for the RHS blog bit.ly/4lBdak9, Virginia Berridge ‪@lshtm.bsky.social‬ describes her experience as deputy chair of the London Drugs Commission.

The commission's report, 'The Cannabis Conundrum', appeared in May #Skystorians

My article exploring US immigration policy & family separation in the 1930s is out. It uses deportation files of the 'immoral classes' to show the ways that the deportation was structured around denying women's citizenship and separating mothers from children. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our @jhistsex.bsky.social special issue on transnational histories of European HIV/AIDS activism is now out! Some wonderful new research coedited by me and @npapadogian.bsky.social.

Shout out to our brilliant contributors and journal editors!

@camhistory.bsky.social

muse.jhu.edu/issue/55146

Really happy to see that this special issue on transnational histories of HIV/AIDS activism is out in the world. Thanks so much to @npapadogian.bsky.social and @somakbiswas.bsky.social for all their hard work bringing it together! #histmed [1/2]

muse.jhu.edu/issue/55146

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride.

However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

EVERY. WORD. OF. THIS.

@graceblakeley.substack.com
Author of Vulture Capitalism: How to Survive in an Age of Corporate Greed

#MomSky
#Pinks
#BuildCommunity
#PopularPower

My book now has a cover! "Standardizing Sex" is the first book to trace the emergence of trans medicine in Scandinavia from the 1920s onwards. It explores the construction and negotiation of medical expertise among medical professionals, patients, and activists in

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

LAPD when they think no one’s looking

I have a piece on the History Workshop blog historicising Labour’s awful, but all too predictable Immigration White Paper

www.historyworkshop.org.uk/migration/la...

@historyworkshop.org.uk

A political failure in his own words, albeit from a past self. He won’t suffer the worst consequences of his failures even if he loses the leadership and next election. Instead, migrants, or anyone assumed not to belong, will suffer even more. An abject political failure growing worse every day.

📣Registration is still open for ‘Sexual Health: Past, Present and Future’. Check out our exciting programme below! Join us in person or online. Registration is FREE but essential.
⏰2-3 July 2025
🏛️University of Birmingham / online
👉Register here by Monday 2nd June: forms.office.com/e/mQHq8NgSmQ

An important reminder as the Supreme Court makes its judgement - not a single trans person was heard from at any point during this case before them, even a trans judge who applied was refused.

This is, as usual, the British state acting as cis people to impose their will on trans people.

See the latest additions to our Modern History list ⬇️

From youth culture in post-war Britain and sex in England 1950-80, to Smallpox and Nepal - new titles out now!

@drsarahlkenny.bsky.social
@hannahcharnock.bsky.social
@historicalmeredith.bsky.social

#ModernHistory #NewinHistory #MUP

🎬 And it's a wrap! Over three days of masterclasses, creative workshops, reading groups and film screenings, we've explored how queer theory and praxis can shape health research at our Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities #PhDSchool.

Very niche publication celebration from my partner! (Placard decorated banoffee pie) 🎉

And thanks as always to my brilliant supervisor @julialaite.bsky.social for her support and to @jossmorfitt.bsky.social for all his invaluable guidance!