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Laura Loyola-Hernández @wawisloyola.bsky.social · Sep 5

Excited to share my new OA article in Educational Philosophy and Theory ✨Creating scyborg assemblages of hope in UK Higher Education✨

We can create moments of radical hope & change within & outside of the neoliberal university

Free to read via link ⤵️

doi.org/10.1080/0013...

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Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Sep 4

🚨 Third consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨

✅ strike action: 76%
✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80%
✅ turnout: 77%

ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages."

Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all.

#ReclaimUCU

Jo Grady calling Queen Mary management "vindictive" for making deductions from UCU members taking action short of a strike: Jo Grady, UCU's general secretary, said Queen Mary's senior management had "launched a vindictive attack" on its members, "punishing them for taking part in lawful industrial action" and "cementing its reputation as the worst university employer in the UK" She said: "It is wrong to do this at any time and all the more deplorable as staff struggle to make ends meet in a cost of living crisis."

Screen shot of the article from The Guardian about Queen Mary ASOS deductions in which Jo Grady is quoted

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Laura Loyola-Hernández @wawisloyola.bsky.social · Jul 18

Hello 👋🏽 if anyone is still on this app I'm looking for a volunteer who speaks Slovak to help with a very short translation (160 words) in relation to immigration. If you are able to help get in touch 😃

Laura Loyola-Hernández @wawisloyola.bsky.social · Jun 19

🎬Free screening of Space to Breathe🎬

The film is set in a utopian future where Black and Indigenous ancestors have succeeded in prison abolition!

📆 Sunday 29th June

⏰ 7-10pm

📍Wharf Chambers, Leeds LS2 7EQ

🍽️ Gluten free, vegan food provided

🎟️tickets from free via bit.ly/space2breath...

Select tickets – Abolitionist Afrofutures: Space To Breathe Film Premiere (with NME Leeds) – Wharf Chambers

Happy Abolition Day! The last prison in the USA has just been closed under the 2036 Reparations and Reconciliation Act. How did...

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Laura Loyola-Hernández @wawisloyola.bsky.social · May 26

And that's a wrap on UCU Congress 2025 and also my time as the Migrant rep on NEC 🥲

I'm also stepping down from being part of the Migrant Member Standing Committee.

It's been an honour to have help set up MMSC. I wish I could have done more. And as for NEC never again... 😅

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Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · May 24

*Today @ 6.30pm*

*Unite UCU Fringe*
🗣✊🗣✊

Leonardo Hotel, Liverpool

#UCU2025 #UCUCongress

Unite UCU fringe at
#UCU2025 Congress
6.30pm, Saturday 24 May
Leonardo Hotel, Liverpool.
One of us, all of us: fighting for our members, our workplace, your union.
#YNWA

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Laura Loyola-Hernández @wawisloyola.bsky.social · May 7

Still time to apply for this permanent lecturership! Come join us at the School of Geography at Leeds!

Laura Loyola-Hernández @wawisloyola.bsky.social · Apr 10

Come join our School of Geography as a permanent lecturer!!!!

We are looking for someone who does research on AI & securitisation; AI & the future of work; AI & humanitarianism; the politics/geopolitics of AI; & algorithmic activism.

Pls share widely!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ970/l...

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Laura Loyola-Hernández @wawisloyola.bsky.social · Apr 30

On Friday, the last UCU NEC meeting is to be held before Congress.

No trade unionist should cross picket lines.

A few of us wrote something as to why we won't attend NEC.

Sending solidarity to @uniteucu.bsky.social on strike bcs of multiple issues ⤵️

reclaimucu.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/s...

Statement on NEC Meeting of 2 May 2025

On Friday, members of Unite UCU will be taking the final day of an unprecedented six weeks of industrial action. It is also the penultimate NEC meeting before Congress. One of the core principles o…

reclaimucu.wordpress.com

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Laura Loyola-Hernández @wawisloyola.bsky.social · Apr 21

Still time to apply to this permanent Lecturer position at the School of Geography Leeds

We welcome applications from within & outside UK

More info on the post 👇🏽

We're looking for a critical geographer doing AI & activism, social justice, geopolitics and/or securitization

Laura Loyola-Hernández @wawisloyola.bsky.social · Apr 10

Come join our School of Geography as a permanent lecturer!!!!

We are looking for someone who does research on AI & securitisation; AI & the future of work; AI & humanitarianism; the politics/geopolitics of AI; & algorithmic activism.

Pls share widely!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ970/l...

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Laura Loyola-Hernández @wawisloyola.bsky.social · Apr 20

1 week to go until the Manchester Marathon!

I'm so close to reaching my fundraising target to support
Doctors without Borders 😁

Just £45 short of my £400 target.

If you have a little to spare 😃👇🏽

click.contact.justgiving.com?qs=837002bde...

Laura's fundraiser for Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

Help Laura Loyola-Hernandez raise money to support Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

click.contact.justgiving.com

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Laura Loyola-Hernández @wawisloyola.bsky.social · Apr 10

Come join our School of Geography as a permanent lecturer!!!!

We are looking for someone who does research on AI & securitisation; AI & the future of work; AI & humanitarianism; the politics/geopolitics of AI; & algorithmic activism.

Pls share widely!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ970/l...

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Laura Loyola-Hernández @wawisloyola.bsky.social · Apr 10

Come join our School of Geography as a permanent lecturer!!!!

We are looking for someone who does research on AI & securitisation; AI & the future of work; AI & humanitarianism; the politics/geopolitics of AI; & algorithmic activism.

Pls share widely!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ970/l...

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Vicky Blake UCU (she/her) @vickyblake.bsky.social · Apr 3

I hoped #UCU would redouble efforts to resolve the @uniteucu.bsky.social staff dispute

Instead our own union-as-employer has issued management instructions NOT to use tactics #UCU members have routinely been advised to use *by #UCU*

Then this page was deleted: web.archive.org/web/20230218...
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Netpol @netpol.org · Mar 28

"No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory".

Some said we were overstating our case, in our report launched last week,that we've now reached a state of repression in England and Wales.

THIS is repression

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · Mar 27

Your job today is to come up with a plan for what you will personally do if ICE shows up at your workplace, school, or place of worship, and tries to disappear someone. Talk about it with friends and coworkers. Write down phone numbers you’ll need. Role-play scenarios. Practice what you will say.

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Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Mar 27

We deeply regret our strike action which begins today in our Campaign for A Safe and Professional Workplace. With our dispute now a year old we remain resolute that the toxic bullying culture, racism and victimisation that our members and officers are experiencing must end.
uniteucu.wordpress.com

Unite UCU

Unite branch (LE127) for employees of the University and College Union

uniteucu.wordpress.com

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Laura Loyola-Hernández @wawisloyola.bsky.social · Mar 27

Solidarity @uniteucu.bsky.social who are starting 20+ strikes given ongoing dispute with employer (UCU). Our union (UCU) is in an ongoing dispute with their own staff.
Embarrassing to say the least. Awful to see same tone & messaging VCs use vs us when we strike used to undermine striking UCU staff

QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · Mar 27

All solidarity with the brilliant people workers from @uniteucu.bsky.social! They are vital to our union and the union and the way their well-concerns are being dismissed is utterly unconscionable.

HQ, sort this. How are we going to “ReclaimHE” without the organisers making that possible?

Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · Mar 27

We deeply regret our strike action which begins today in our Campaign for A Safe and Professional Workplace. With our dispute now a year old we remain resolute that the toxic bullying culture, racism and victimisation that our members and officers are experiencing must end.
uniteucu.wordpress.com

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Laura Loyola-Hernández @wawisloyola.bsky.social · Mar 21

I'm so close to reaching my target✨

I'm running the Manchester Marathon in April to raise money for Doctors without Borders🏃🏽‍♀️

Can you help me reach it!

Doctors without Borders do amazing work bringing medical support across the globe. Click to donate ⤵️

www.justgiving.com/page/laura-l...

Laura's fundraiser for Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

Help Laura Loyola-Hernandez raise money to support Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

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Grant Buttars @gbuttars.bsky.social · Mar 20

Please support ending UCU's dispute with UCU Unite and uphold the union's commitment to equality. We need Jo Grady, UCU General Secretary to end the dispute and act on the union's commitment to equality, especially to Black staff and members tinyurl.com/UCUUniteSoli...

UCU - End the dispute with Unite and embody the union’s commitment to equality

Dear Jo Grady, We, the undersigned UCU members and members of the community, urge you to do everything in your power to resolve the dispute with UCU Unite as soon as possible. UCU proudly signed up ...

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Lucy Burke @lucyburkemcr.bsky.social · Mar 19

Just the sheer, obscene spectacle of a Government minister on £160K+ plus expenses and all the freebies, coming for the sub £10K per year that my son gets in PIP - being autistic & learning disabled in a deeply unequal, discriminatory & hostile society is not a “lifestyle choice”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Mar 18

Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.

c-a-m @cad6711.bsky.social · Mar 18

@washingtonpost.com They were not DEPORTED. Deported means sending them back to their country of origin. These people were sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, without any due process or any analysis as to whether they feared harm in El Salvador!

Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · Mar 18

In America, EVERYONE has a RIGHT to due process - regardless of immigration status. It’s fundamental to our Constitution.

Deporting hundreds of people in secret by invoking a wartime proclamation is a blatant abuse of power by President Trump.

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Laura Loyola-Hernández @wawisloyola.bsky.social · Mar 19

Barely on this site, hardly check it. If you'd like to connect around organising for migrant rights, community work, alternatives to policing email me. I am still on Twitter more regularly than here

One reason not on here is toxic union behaviour which has moved on this platform 🙃

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Laura Loyola-Hernández @wawisloyola.bsky.social · Feb 11

I explore how activist use social media & protest in public spaces to reclaim their bodies in both material & virtual spaces.

This has been a labour of love & a deeply personal issue for me.

Thank you to Ana, Kate & Kundai, who've been wonderful editors for the special issue!

Laura Loyola-Hernández @wawisloyola.bsky.social · Feb 11

Exciting to share my new OA article in Third World Quarterly !

I use cyborg movidas -the collective embodiment of political manoeuvres influenced by emotions such as rage & love- to understand how feminist activists engage in protest as a technology of resistance

doi.org/10.1080/0143...

Latin American feminists have theorised the intersection betweenwomen’s bodies and the territories they inhabit via cuerpo-territorio.Adding a new layer of complexity, this article turns to the wayInstagram has become another space where women navigate thisrelationship. I use the August 2019 feminist protests against thegovernment and police in Mexico accompanied by the hashtags#NoMeCuidanMeViolan (they don’t take care of me, they rape me),#NoNosCuidanNosViolan (they don’t take care of us, they rape us),#MeCuidanMisAmigasNoLaPolicia (my friends take care of me notthe police) and #ExigirJusticiaNoEsProvocacion (demanding justiceis not a provocation) to show how women reclaim their bodies inboth material and virtual spaces. Based on Donna Haraway’s andChela Sandoval’s work I use the term cyborg movidas to examinehow Mexican feminist activists engaged in protest as a technologyof resistance. Cyborg movidas are the collective embodiment of polit-ical manoeuvres influenced by emotions such as rage and love,which defy rigid boundaries of human–non-human, digital–physical,body–space and individual–collective relations. Such movidas allowus to imagine activism as a collective possibility of socio-politicalchange

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Laura Loyola-Hernández @wawisloyola.bsky.social · Feb 1

I'm doing a charity run in April! Running the Manchester Marathon to raise money for Medecins sans Frontiers.

I've almost reached half my goal. Can you help me reach it 😅 (it's my bday today 😉)

Link to donate ⤵️

www.justgiving.com/page/laura-l...

Laura's fundraiser for Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

Help Laura Loyola-Hernandez raise money to support Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

www.justgiving.com

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