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Campaign for National Parks @campaign4parks.bsky.social · 13h

We can’t afford to weaken National Park protections ⚠️

But there are rumours that some in Westminster want to remove the Protected Landscapes duty - the only real power to secure action for nature

We can't let 30 years of campaigning go down the drain
www.cnp.org.uk/about/our-wo...

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Rosamund Greiner @rosgre.bsky.social · 11h

The Kenwood Ladies Pond Association, which is made up of regular pond swimmers, also supports inclusive gender policies www.klpa.uk/about-the-kl...

Rosamund Greiner @rosgre.bsky.social · 11h

The City of London updated their gender identity policy in 2019 in response to a public survey that showed the majority were in favour of trans inclusion news.cityoflondon.gov.uk/city-adopts-...

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 14h

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – it's time to fight back

https://goodlawproject.org/petition/keep-hampstead-womens-pond-inclusive

Keep Hampstead women’s pond inclusive

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back

goodlawproject.org

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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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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Aug 18

refugees are being housed in hotel rooms that do not meet their basic needs: families are being housed in rooms with no cooking facilities, nowhere for children to play, frequent reports of mould, damp, vermin. if an MP can’t explain that to constituents what are we doing here.

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Rosamund Greiner @rosgre.bsky.social · Aug 18

I'll be sharing some of the findings from my PhD research with families raising children with CZS in Colombia, and reflecting on wider lessons for the field of global health that can be learned from the Zika epidemic and its aftermath

Rosamund Greiner @rosgre.bsky.social · Aug 18

I'm honoured to have been invited to speak alongside parent activists and social scientists at this brilliant event, 'A Decade of Zika' on 18th September @dukeghi.bsky.social @kelizaw.bsky.social more info and sign-up link: www.vitalfutures.org/adecadeofzika/

A flyer for the event 'A Decade of Zika'. All info is available at the event website: https://www.vitalfutures.org/adecadeofzika/

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UCL @ucl.ac.uk · Aug 14

Congratulations to everyone receiving their A-Level results today!
If you’re joining us this September, welcome to UCL. 💜

Got questions about Results Day, visit our website: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...

Three students laughing and walking together through an archway.

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Rosamund Greiner @rosgre.bsky.social · Aug 13

We spent the afternoon discussing possible collaborative projects, funding bids, articles and events, all while using collage to design our 'dream' future research project

A collage featuring bright orange, red and turquoise paper, torn out images of trees and mesh fabric, all layered together. In the foreground, shredded paper strips have been woven together into a grid. The words 'women', 'stories' and 'transformation' have been cut out and incorporated in to the design.

A collage featuring abstract shapes and designs that invoke ocean waves. Stickers of penguins, seals and other marine life have been added on top.

A collage including cut out images of whales, snakes, an astronaut and heat maps of outer space. Down the middle is a picture of what looks like a tree branch wrapped tightly in many overlapping layers of different coloured threads. In the background are wiggly coloured lines that cross cross the page. The collage invokes different ideas of linear and non linear time and space.

A table covered in collage supplies like paper, magazines, pens, pencils, scissors and glue.

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Rosamund Greiner @rosgre.bsky.social · Aug 13

I must have got distracted and never finished the thread 🤦🏻‍♀️😹

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Aug 8

If you cannot go to the bathroom at work, you cannot go to work. If you cannot go to the bathroom at school, you cannot go to school. This effectively bans transgender people from a broad swath of public life in the UK

Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · Aug 7

🚨 BREAKING | Labour is set to impose a sweeping ban on trans people using any "single-sex space".

In EHRC guidance that Labour is set to approve, trans people will be barred from accessing toilets, gyms and changing rooms that match their gender.

(Source: @TheTimes)

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · Aug 8

Update: we have received a response from the Met, which continues to threaten to arrest peaceful protesters. Read the Met's response: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/op...

Open Letter to Sir Mark Rowley, Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police

We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.

www.amnesty.org.uk

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PJ Coffey - They/Them @[email protected] @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social · Aug 7

General call for #Science

ScienceDirect AI feature is providing definitions. They aren't correct, often based of a misreading of the paper.

If you've seen one please let @irisvanrooij.bsky.social know for the collection of idiocy.

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Aug 7

If any of you have more examples, please post them as well or DM me. If ScienceDirect refuses to take this AI feature down, the examples will be useful to follow up.

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Sandra W Rodríguez @lasandunga.bsky.social · Jul 21

We’re editing a book on reproductive justice in Latin America and invite extended abstracts (800 words) by Nov 30, 2025.

More info: tinyurl.com/2298h4c5

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Jul 24

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

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Martina Yopo Díaz @martinayopo.bsky.social · Jul 19

We invite submissions for an edited book on reproductive justice in Latin America. We welcome extended abstracts of 800 words by November 30th, 2025. For more information: tinyurl.com/2298h4c5

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Rosamund Greiner @rosgre.bsky.social · Jul 17

We were joined by four fantastic panellists with a wealth of experience working in partnership with communities; Dr Jennifer Leason (@ucalgary.bsky.social ), Prof Jenevieve Mannell (@uclglobalhealth.bsky.social), Dr Sachin Barbde and Subhashree Samal (Ekjut)

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Rosamund Greiner @rosgre.bsky.social · Jul 17

The day also featured a panel discussion about meaningful partnerships for research on Indigenous health and climate change. This was chaired by the wonderful Audrey Prost (@uclglobalhealth.bsky.social)

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Rosamund Greiner @rosgre.bsky.social · Jul 17

We had started to get to know each others work through the symposium, and the sandpit provided more opportunities for networking and identifying possible avenues for collaboration.

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Rosamund Greiner @rosgre.bsky.social · Jul 17

But wait, there's more! On Tuesday 15th we invited our speakers back for a closed-door research sandpit 🏝️🪣🪏