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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden

@sandraduffy.bsky.social

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Law lecturer, dog parent, imported Bristolian, Irish. Using law for trans liberation, reproductive justice, post-/de-coloniality. They/she. AuDHD. Fond of penguins. Views personal. 🇵🇸 Header: @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social eireannach.ghost.io

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · Mar 4

So thrilled to say that my new article on the echoes of Section 28 in the moral panic around trans people in the UK is out now, along with the rest of the first issue of @genderandjustice.bsky.social !

doi.org/10.1332/3033...

Moral panics and legal projects: echoes of Section 28 in United Kingdom transgender discourse and law reform

A grounding in the queer history of the legal system in the United Kingdom reveals striking parallels between the moral panic leading to the enactment of Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988, a...

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 31m

I am glad you're somewhere safe for now and I really hope someone can help soon.

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Anurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social · 1h

Good Lord, a lawyer? Acting in their clients' best interests no matter who the clients are? What a story 😱

Jokes aside, tarring lawyers with the characteristics of their clients has a dark history in Ireland.

Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · 1h

Is there a barrel bottom that hasn’t been scraped yet in the determined drive to attack the character and professionalism of the Left candidate who’s doing well in polls? Of course Catherine Connolly BL acted for clients on a normal disinterested basis!

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Catherine Connolly did ‘all types of work’ as barrister and represented banks during crash

Presidential election candidate says she was ‘obliged as a lawyer to act on behalf of variety of clients’

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Cris van Eijk @crisveijk.bsky.social · 4h

Happy International Lesbian Day to all who celebrate!!

[Except the ones who got the UK Supreme Court to define 'lesbian' *for* us; they get nothing from me. A "chilling effect on lesbians", indeed...]

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Bloody Marla 🏳️‍⚧️ @desperatemarlas.bsky.social · 20h

trump: transgenders and windmills all over the place

This is a real quote. This is the most horrific thing he can conjure up

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 5h

I would love that!

Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 6h

They like to be able to annotate the slides (I typoed that as 'annoy' first, which is also true)

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 6h

Currently bumbling along with many days of teaching in the next week and a half, several writing projects, the book, a couple of citizenship/admin jobs, and I am FINE, as long as nothing drops out of the sky to upend my life.

Bridget Philipson: *holds EHRC guidance like Sword of Damocles; cackles*

Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 6h

I have four Powerpoints to make this week and I can't bring myself to start the three I haven't started yet, because Powerpoint.

will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 10h

when i started my phd in 2010 one thing i definitely underestimated was how much of my life 15 years later would be “making PowerPoints”

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 6h

Not to be outdone, Sir Keir Starmer announces that he will go harder and faster in delivering patriotic renewal by detonating tactical nukes underneath every university library library’s 800 shelfmark section.

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 10h

UK Tory Party Conference: Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch declares war on English degrees.
#literature #language #English #HigherEd #University

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 7h

I'm having a look now, no worries.

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 7h

And I've got ebook access to the rest.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 7h

A colloquial Colombian phrase about being very busy is mas ocupado que pulpo lavando platos. It means “busier than an octopus washing dishes.”

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 8h

Maria Steen Turning Up At Gates Of The Áras Refusing To Leave Until She's Made President http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/08/maria-steen-turning-up-at-gates-of-the-aras-refusing-to-leave-until-shes-made-president/

Maria Steen Turning Up At Gates Of The Áras Refusing To Leave Until She’s Made President

A WOMAN who has never been a presidential candidate or appeared on a ballot paper has taken up residence outside the gates of Leinster House, vowing never to leave until she is made president of …

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 7h

She did a Covid test and it doesn't seem to be that, thankfully, but yes absolutely - big lectures etc.

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 7h

Do not want!

Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 8h

My wife has very kindly shared the cold that half her office has, with me. Which is grand because I'm only teaching 5 out of the next 7 work days.

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Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Us: What do we want?
Him: Transgender for everybody!
Us: For free, obvs…

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 1d

In honesty, it is very difficult to take seriously any statement on values from a man who sacrificed all the principles that his pre-political career would have drilled into him, on the altar of focus-grouped triangulation and appeasement of fascism.

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 1d

Turned on the news in time for TRANSGENDER FOR EVERYBODY at the Trump press conference.

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Adv Adham Madi 🍉🇵🇸 @mr-adham.bsky.social · 1d

When I see marches sweeping through the streets of the world in support of our cause, and when I see the naval flotillas bravely sailing to break the siege on Gaza, I know that our voice has not been silenced, and that the truth remains alive despite all attempts to erase it..
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#Gaza

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

23-year-old journalist Plestia Alaqad, like many Gazans, lost her home in the first days after October 7. unable to reenter her homeland, stuck watching the horror continue, she’s publishing her diaries from reporting on the ground.

full interview @teenvogue.com www.teenvogue.com/story/plesti...

Pic of Plestia Alaqad overlaid with text from interview: Plestia Alaqad: I can't believe that it's almost — [she pauses] no, it's not almost, it's actually two years. Okay, I can't believe that it's been two years of this ongoing genocide. When I was reporting in Gaza for 45 days, these 45 days felt like 45 years. And now it's 200 days feeling like 200 years for the people who are actually still on the ground facing bombing, displacement and starvation, which is being used as a method by Israel. Israel is literally ethnically cleansing people in Gaza, and we're watching a genocide unfold live on TV.

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 1d

Sadly no!

And yes, absolutely agreed.

Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 1d

Wife got offered a bribe of £100 at work today, but I say that's weak, as one of her colleagues got offered £1000. Life in uni admin is wild.

(Neither were accepted, of course.)

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Adv Adham Madi 🍉🇵🇸 @mr-adham.bsky.social · 2d

Despite her young age, Greta Thunberg possesses a courage that many world leaders lack.
She was unafraid to speak the truth, and she did not compromise on human values.
She, who stood up for the entire world, for the planet, stands up today for Gaza and human dignity.

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