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Global Movement To Gaza UK @gmtguk.bsky.social · 7d

Interception of the #GlobalSumudFlotilla is likely tonight.

📍 Join us TOMORROW at Parliament Square
⏰ 5:30pm mobilising | 6pm speakers

We demand:
- End the siege on Gaza
- Release flotilla hostages
- End arms sales to Israel
- Decolonise Palestine

#FreePalestine

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 7d

Global Sumud Flotilla is live as Israel threatens to stop them from breaking the starvation siege of Gaza.

A reminder that they are not entering Israeli waters, but Palestinian waters.

Israel intends to violate international law once again.

www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · Jun 10

Apropos of nothing, here's a free pdf copy of my book Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement. It focuses on #LosAngeles direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets!: Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement

An exploration of social movement media practices in an increasingly complex media ecology, through richly detailed cases of immigrant rights activism.For

direct.mit.edu

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · May 27

I made a new zine! It's full of advice on how allies can work alongside trans people to take action in the current moment, lovingly cut-and-pasted over the words of my enemies. Plus lots of nice pictures and memes.

Available as a free PDF! Read online or print your own copy! Share with everyone!

PDF zine: But what can I do? How to fight the trans panic

This is the latest version of a zine I have distributed at wormboys gigs over the last couple of years. I’ve recently updated it to address recent events, including the April 2025 Supreme Cou…

ruthpearce.net

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Katie Munday - Autistic and Living the Dream @kmunday.bsky.social · May 24

We can finally announce our full schedule for Intersections of Sociology with Crip Theory and Critical Disability Studies and Mad Studies Symposium!

11th June, Hybrid, Free. #MadCrip2025

Intersections of Sociology with Crip Theory and Critical Disability Studies and Mad Studies Symposium

On June 11, 2025, the University of Southampton will host a hybrid symposium for PGR and PhD scholars interested in Sociology, Crip Theory, Critical Disability Studies, and Mad Studies. Featuring keynote speakers and panel discussions, the event will include live BSL interpretation and provide lunch for in-person attendees. Registration is required.

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Robin Skyer @robinskyer.bsky.social · May 21

We are hosting a free one-day event for PGR researchers interested in Sociology, Crip Theory, Critical Disability Studies and Mad Studies.

Join us online or in person at the University of Southampton on 11th June.

Ticket link here:
www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

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Yasmin G @anilsghost.bsky.social · May 5

“Palestine: A Sociological Issue is a way to reflect on the role of sociology in times of genocidal violence & settler colonialism" @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social
All the articles in the special section are free to access here
journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOR/73/2/

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · Apr 17

Compilation of Protests Against the Supreme Court

whatthetrans.com/compilation-...

Person holding a blahaj under a bunch of flowers whilst holding a sign with a background of the trans flag and in front it says "trans bites now"

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · Apr 16

Okay. Not-a-lawyer-butt.

This to me is the tell. Women's oppression defined explicitly as a "shared disadvantage" resulting from "shared biology".

These are steps to formalize womanhood as a reproductive role, synonymizing it with certain features of anatomy that are "naturally" disadvantaged.

A certificated sex interpretation would cut across the definition of the protected
characteristic of sex in an incoherent way. References to a “woman” and “women” as a
group sharing the protected characteristic of sex would include all females of any age
(irrespective of any other protected characteristic) and those trans women (biological
men) who have the protected characteristic of gender reassignment and a GRC (and who
are therefore female as a matter of law). The same references would necessarily exclude
men of any age, but they would also exclude some (biological) women living in the male
gender with a GRC (trans men who are legally male). The converse position would apply
to references to “man” and “men” as a group sharing the same protected characteristic.
We can identify no good reason why the legislature should have intended that sex-based
rights and protections under the EA 2010 should apply to these complex, heterogenous
groupings, rather than to the distinct group of (biological) women and girls (or men and
boys) with their shared biology leading to shared disadvantage and discrimination faced
by them as a distinct group.

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Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · Jan 24

It is now even more important to foster #MutualAid in our communities. The lovely people at Shareable have put together this excellent series of 4 online learning sessions, primarily for those starting out on this journey.
See also their other wonderful resources.

www.shareable.net/mutual-aid-1...

Mutual Aid 101

Are you interested in building a network of care and resistance in your local community? Join Shareable for a four-week mutual aid learning series! Open

www.shareable.net

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · Apr 1

🧵 While Gaza is being destroyed, Israel’s parliament is quietly advancing apartheid laws against Palestinians — both inside Israel and across occupied Palestine. Here’s what they just did:

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Robin Skyer @robinskyer.bsky.social · Feb 20

And in the evening: an electrifying performance from multi-faceted artist Wet Mess, whose work sometimes feels like a visceral explication of my own thesis. 😅
Their show TESTO is at Battersea Arts Centre until 22nd Feb.

Robin Skyer @robinskyer.bsky.social · Feb 20

Yesterday was wonderful: the UoS PGR LGBTQIA+ network spent a morning making mini-zines with @megenjm.bsky.social, amidst Queering Connections: Glitchy Kinship at the Winchester Gallery (created and curated by the excellent @lizziereed.bsky.social and @miloustella.bsky.social).

A tabletop covered in a selection of mini-zines and materials used to make them such as pens, scissors, felt, ribbons, paper, and a deck of tarot cards entitled Big Gay Tarot Deck. One of the mini-zines has the outline of a head and where a face would be, there is text that says Your Face Here. Another mini-zine uses a keffiyeh pattern as its background and has text that reads: what to do if you want to help Palestine but don't know where to start. There is also a mini-zine about radical queer demo chants.

A section of the gallery with fluffy white carpet and pillows. There is a projection on the back wall showing a microscopic image of a cell. Below the projected image, on the floor, is an object that looks like a huge syringe made of soft textiles. The word trigger is embroidered onto the side of the object. There is a long pink piece of material that protrudes from the end like a tongue.

A wall of the gallery painted to look like a fridge door. Magnets with a different words on them have been assembled to make sentences. Me heal body. Kindle your mad soil. Let him amuse our complex life. Communicate joke until delicate copy kinship.

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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · Feb 10

Very well done to first author @robinskyer.bsky.social on publication of this article.

With @silkeroth.bsky.social, we argue that mutual aid can be prefigurative beyond anarchist thought and praxis.

Read it open access here: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#Sociology #AcademicSky

Mutual Aid as Prefigurative Politics—Beyond Anarchism

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, mutual aid has received increasing scholarly attention. Mutual aid has long been considered a form of ‘prefigurative politics’. Those engaged in mutual a...

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Katie Munday - Autistic and Living the Dream @kmunday.bsky.social · Feb 5

Planning our Mad / Crip / Critical disability conference for April.

Exciting stuff 💪

#AutRes #Mad #Crip

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Robin Skyer @robinskyer.bsky.social · Feb 6

With an excellent contribution by @obscureottomanist.bsky.social 💜

Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · Jan 22

As a scholar-activist interested in how we use emotions for justice, it was energising to read “Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism.” It’s a new collection of essays, poems and art that invites us to confront how fascism materialises in our political worlds and everyday lives. Free to download.

Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism

<p>Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism is a collection of more than forty essays, poems, and visual works that convey myriad approaches for understanding, surviving, and creating counter-movement...

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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · Jan 16

Join us at the Winchester Gallery from 5pm on Thursday 30th January for the opening of Queering Connections: Glitchy Kinship. We've also got an 'In Conversation' with me (curator) and Milou (artist) on Thurs 6th Feb at 5pm. @unisouthampton.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · Jan 14

I know everyone is already very bored of examples of google AI lying and making stuff up

but I just made the mistake of doing a work-related google of "Harry Benjamin Syndrome" (a non-diagnosis made up by transitioned women opposed to trans language in the early 2000s)

and HO BOY

Image of google search for harry benjamine syndrome. Some of the AI overview is visible, and reads as follows. Harry Benjamin Syndrome (HBS) is a rare congenital condition that affects how the brain differentiates male and female gender identities. It's also known as a Disorder of Sex Development. Symptoms. People with HBS have a neurological gender identity that differs from their physical sex. For example, a girl with HBS may have a female gender identity but male genitalia. The condition occurs during prenatal development.

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Meg Fereday @meg-fereday.bsky.social · Jan 8

What a dream of a CFP @ndhumanities.bsky.social!
ndhumanities.com/2024/12/17/c...

Call for Abstracts: Critical Neurodiversity Studies, 24–26 June 2025, Durham, UK – ND Hums

ndhumanities.com

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Louise Ting @neuro-observant.bsky.social · Dec 14

#BIPOC voices are often missing from autistic spaces, so here is a BIPOC starter pack! 😊

go.bsky.app/TtXfpAt

#racialequality #antiracism

The image of autism as “only white boys” leads to underdiagnosis, discrimination & isolation for many

Our autistic community is much more diverse than that! ❤️

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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · Jan 6

In winter through early spring, you can sometimes find unspoiled, still-bright groundcherries sitting in the latticed remnants of their husks, like hearts suspended in paper ribcages

A photo of groundcherries (Alkekengi) in a garden in winter. The round, orange, cherry tomato-like fruits are suspended in the center of pendulous, vaguely heart-shaped husks made of networks of dried beige veins. The husks have a delicate, skeletal, lattice-like structure, reminiscent of laser-cut papercraft.

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Robin Skyer @robinskyer.bsky.social · Jan 7

Think I may have reached maximum blushing level. Thank you both for your encouragement ❤️

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Silke Roth @silkeroth.bsky.social · Dec 12

call for papers Sociology in the Times of Genocide @sociologicalreview.bsky.social thesociologicalreview.org/announcement... #sociologysky #conteniousky

Sociology in the Times of Genocide: call for expressions of interest Contribute to a forthcoming Special Section in The Sociological Review journal

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Robin Skyer @robinskyer.bsky.social · Jan 7

That's very kind. Haven't published from that project (yet!) but it's sprung a couple of ideas I'd like to pursue (particularly as some themes have been very relevant to my thesis). It's also led to lots of interesting conversations with climbers & non-climbers re. embodiment, identity & belonging!

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Robin Skyer @robinskyer.bsky.social · Jan 7

Thanks so much, Les. And lovely to see you, too! I look forward to seeing what wonderful work and ideas you gift throughout this new year. Sending best wishes 😊

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