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Kate Davison

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Lecturer in the History of Sexuality @ University of Edinburgh | book (soon): ‘Aversion Therapy: A Transnational History of Sex, Psychiatry & the Cold War’ | PhD @ UniMelb, MA @ FU-Berlin | antifascist, anti-colonial, pro- 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐾 | 🗣️🇩🇪🇦🇺 | member @ucu.org.uk

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · Nov 11

Latest publication: ‘An Inclusive History of LGBTQ+ Aversion Therapy: Past Harms and Future Address in a UK Context’.

Co-authored with four excellent collaborators including @rebeccawynter.bsky.social (the others are not here yet).

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An Inclusive History of LGBTQ+ Aversion Therapy: Past Harms and Future Address in a UK Context - Kate Davison, Katherine Hubbard, Sarah Marks, Hel Spandler, Rebecca Wynter, 2024

From the 1950s, aversion therapy gained an international foothold as a behaviourist means to alter what was then considered ‘deviant’ behaviour. Using primary r...

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Sébastien Tremblay @sebboo.bsky.social · 3d

This has been a journey! @christopherewing.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the forthcoming publication (with Palgrave) of "Reading Queer Media in the German Speaking World" bringing together the work of brilliant historians and German studies scholars working on queer 🇦🇹🇩🇪🇨🇭 printed media

Cover of the edited volume Reading Queer Media in the German Speaking World: New Approaches to print Sources published by Palgrave. The cover image is a 35mm black and white photo of a show in a queer club with two individuals in pup wear reading media during the performance.

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 13d

Very excited!

Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · 14d

Now the contract is signed etc we're very pleased to share this news. Please do follow the below account to keep up to date with what we're doing. #GenderHistory

Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 14d

We are delighted to announce that Gender & History now has a new home at the University of Edinburgh. With thanks to the Sheffield team who did a stellar job for the last five years. hca.ed.ac.uk/gender-histo...
#Skystorians #GenderHistory @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 20d

🎯🎯🎯
“only two paths remain: either a Jewish, messianic, genocidal state, or a truly democratic state for all its citizens.
…Zionism, in all its forms, cannot be cleansed of the stain of this crime. It must be brought to an end.”

+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 20d

Israel is waging a holocaust in Gaza. Denazification is our only remedy

The deadly ethno-supremacy inherent to Israeli society runs deeper than Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Smotrich. It must be confronted at its root.

By Orly Noy.

www.972mag.com/israel-holoc...

Israel is waging a holocaust in Gaza. Denazification is the remedy

The deadly ethno-supremacy inherent to Israeli society runs deeper than Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Smotrich. It must be confronted at its root.

www.972mag.com

Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 22d

Eye-watering figures here. The UK Higher Education sector is a wild west for business profits, job losses and skyrocketing fees.

Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social · Jun 17

There's lots more to say about @davidharvie.bsky.social and my findings. Please read the report to support union action & honour those who shared experiences.

I'll finish with an eyeopening stat: the hidden, 'backdoor' redundancies affecting *11,500* people. 11,500 HIDDEN job cuts. This must end.

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 22d

If you or anyone you know works/studies at University of Edinburgh, please ensure they have signed this petition to Court (governing body) calling on UoE to divest from genocide. So far 670+ staff and 800+ student/alumni signatures - not bad, but we can do better!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Emergency Court Session Now: Divest From Israel’s Genocide

Since the beginning of Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza in October 2023, students and staff at the University of Edinburgh have mobilised an unprecedented multiethnic and multireligious divestment mov...

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · Aug 22

🙌 22 months late but huge: @johnswinney.bsky.social calls for UK govt. to SANCTION and END ARMS SALES to Israel = the 2 key demands of the Palestine solidarity movt. in the UK (incl. the “terrorists”). Hoping it also pressures Scottish universities eg. @edinburghuni.bsky.social to finally divest.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · Aug 21

NEW: John Swinney has urged the Prime Minister to recall the UK Parliament immediately in the wake of Israel’s 'outrageous and unacceptable' planned assault on Gaza

🗣️ 'The international community cannot look away from this'

John Swinney urges Keir Starmer to recall UK Parliament over Israel's assault on Gaza

www.thenational.scot

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · Aug 21

Irvine Welsh - get in the bin.

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · Aug 18

Kindertransport 2.0

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · Jul 26

10/10, no notes
@thebetootaadvocate.bsky.social

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · Jul 8

He also said “yeah, this stuff with trans discrimination [in our workplace], it’s awful; I just don’t have time to get involved”.

Another man *at a union meeting*, in reply to an appeal for more senior men to get involved in organising, laughed “I admire you, but I just don’t have the time!”

Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · Jul 8

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · Jul 8

Why collective refusal is the only option.
Reading this, I recalled the time a white, cis-het man (ostensibly my equal; I later learned he was being paid at 4 grade steps above me for no reason) said “y’know all these sexist micro-aggressions in the workplace you talk about? I just don’t see them!”)

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · Jul 2

This follows the BMA passing a motion supporting gender affirming care last month. So the BMA is now clear on both trans & Palestinian autonomy and self-determination. *The BMA*

Neve Gordon @gordonneve.bsky.social · Jul 1

British Medical Association Severs Links with Israel.

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · Jul 2

And a shout out to the @withmeaa.bsky.social trade union for supporting its journalist members and defending their right to political speech.

Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · Jul 2

This important legal victory galvanises all of us to never stop speaking about Palestine, war crimes, human rights, colonisation and land sovereignty. 🇵🇸🗣️🔊📣

Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · Jul 2

MUST WATCH/LISTEN!
Thank you @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social for battling this in court so that it’s all on the public record—you speak for those (likely hundreds, if not thousands) of us who have had similar/adjacent experiences but are gagged by NDAs & confidentiality clauses. 🙏

Antoinette Lattouf @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social · Jul 1

OUT NOW I unpack the legal showdown in Lattouf v ABC that not only exposed breathtaking incompetence at the broadcaster but also the hidden power and influence of lobby groups.

Full podcast out now:
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/w...

On YouTube to watch in full:
youtu.be/qDn2m-RFCy4?...

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · Jul 1

Impressive analysis of what appears to be a rather damning dossier — compiled within 24 hours because EHRC only responded to the FOI request *after* it’s consultation deadline yesterday. Thank you @tacc.org.uk 🙏

Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · Jul 1

Is the EHRC corrupt…?

Looks like it.

FOI Exposes EHRC Bias: Private Meetings, Legal Echoes, and Policy Capture - Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective

Let’s be honest. The Equality and Human Rights Commission is not acting like a neutral regulator. It is not standing above the fray.

tacc.org.uk

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · Jul 1

4/ Israeli military operations, including Leonardo S.p.A.315 and Ben-Gurion University, through the Al and Data Science Lab at Ben-Gurion University, 316 sharing research that directly links it with assaults on Palestinians.”

Full report 👇
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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · Jul 1

3/ With both direct and indexed investments, the University ranks among the most financially entangled institutions in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The University also partners with firms aiding

Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · Jul 1

2/ “The University of Edinburgh holds nearly £25.5 million ($31.72 million) (2.5 per cent of its endowment) in four tech giants - Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and IBM314 - central to the Israeli surveillance apparatus and the ongoing Gaza destruction.

Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · Jul 1

1/ Peerless! @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social named exclusively in UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories @franceskalbs.bsky.social’s latest report due to its investments in genocide (esp. tech). It says:

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · Jun 27

Brilliant result of militant, unrelenting strike action!

UCU Newcastle University @newcastleucu.bsky.social · Jun 27

A MASSIVE WIN AT NEWCASTLE UNI ICU

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · Jun 26

Streeting banned puberty-blockers despite there being no evidence whatsoever that they are dangerous, and now plenty of evidence (including my own peer-reviewed research) that banning them is harmful.

However…

He enthusiastically promoted weight loss drugs however, and now people are being harmed

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · Jun 25

Not sure what a 'sexed' toilet is anyway, tbh. Toilets are inanimate.

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EHRC formally abandons single-sex toilet stipulation | Good Law Project

The EHRC’s rushed guidance caused harm from the moment it was released. But now they’re u-turning.

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · Jun 24

Sadly not.