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We have created a #StarterPack for those in the #AntiSlavery sector! Let's start the conversation to end #ModernSlavery, #HumanTrafficking, and #exploitation. Comment if you'd like to be added! Orgs & individual #activists welcome! go.bsky.app/4SFdPjr

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"While observing the nearby bombardments from his home, he wrote... it might mark his final day. Despite the imminent peril of death, Refaat resisted it with every means at his disposal: by writing, striving to refute Israeli narratives and propaganda..." mondoweiss.net/2023/12/refa...

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Currently looking for contributors for the following upcoming zines : Deaf History, Disability in Ancient Greece, Disabled Leaders, Disabiltiy and Horror movies, Disability and Star Trek part 2, Radical Disability Readers Digest, Sexism and Ableism Intersection. Usually only 120 words per entry!

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Solidarity to everyone feeling overwhelmed by the Gisèle news today, especially those who couldn’t talk about their own experiences, those who didn’t have “evidence”, those who weren’t believed. Your experience is real, it is valid, it is not your fault.

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BREAKING NEWS Trans Kids Deserve Better are occupying Wes Streeting's Office at Ilford North. Get down there and support everyone. For folks who want to support. Signal announcement group: www.transkidsdeservebetter.org/adult_suppor... We've Been advised to share this.

submitted 79 days ago • 21 comments

Small start pack on researchers, activists, journos, anyone really working on violence against women and girls. Message me to add yourself/others. Let's try to find folk on here! go.bsky.app/4u3Rk6g

submitted 106 days ago • 25 comments

#16DaysOfAction 2024 are over but our work is never done. #CWASU has held 3 series of #JoiningTheDots #VAWG international webinars -I’m now planning for 2025. Here’s the 1st set - I’ll share individual recordings here @proflizkelly.bsky.social @veragraf.bsky.social cwasu.org/joining-the-...

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Surely one of the greatest collective disappointments about research is taking so many amazing minds, wonderful people, and thoughtful thinkers and burdening them with 7532578 other things so they have no time to actually think(/create/write/etc)

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Join us on 5th December for an online launch of the Co-Pro Futures Call for Evidence and Ideas! When? 0930-1100 Where? Online Who? Researchers, professional service staff, university research leaders and co-production partners Sign up via the Eventbrite link ⏩ shorturl.at/xCIEl

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Just a reminder that you can find loads of UoL Humanities and Social Sciences colleagues on our ever-expanding starter pack (have you heard of those?). And if we've missed you off, let us know go.bsky.app/5NUwui2

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#N25 Every 10 minutes a woman is abused or killed by a person she once loved and trusted. Until they made her life unbearable, let her spiral into a mental collapse, suicide or cut it short. Survivors have a lot to say about these processes. Commemorate the murdered by attuning to the living

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Just over a week to go until our joint LEX conference @ University of Liverpool. The feminist conference is proof positive that it’s possible to create good through sheer willpower & the desire to collaborate . Details: lexnetwork.org

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“With so many seeking to erase transgender people — sometimes in the most brutal ways possible — it is vitally important that those we lose are remembered, and that we continue to fight for justice.” – Gwendolyn Ann Smith, TDOR founder #TDOR2024

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Very important day for the #FeministTranslationStudies community! 🤩 The inaugural issue of our journal is now out with all articles in #FreeAccess until 31 Jan. Come & see! tandfonline.com/toc/rftr20/1/1 Pleasure working with @LauraSpoturno, @VMisiou #LucianaCarvalho. Published by @WeAreTandF

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The Call for Papers is now open for our upcoming Qualitative Research Symposium (QRS) on Transparency, Openness and Rigour in Qualitative Research! Find out more and sign up here: www.bath.ac.uk/events/qrs-2...

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I’m so excited to reveal the cover for my brand new book, Who Wants Normal? The Disabled Girls’ Guide to Life. Out 17th April 2025 with Fig Tree, Penguin.

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Domestic abuse-related suicide is a sea of unseen deaths routinely not linked to the abuse victims suffered. It is the scandal of our times that perpetrators are not held responsible for this loss of life. Manslaughter convictions should apply with an aggravating feature being domestic abuse.

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Did you miss this deadline? Because we're feeling the heat here on Bluesky, we decided to temporary re-open the call. Please share far and wide! #AcademicSky #HistSci #Autistic #Disability #DisabiilityJustice #PhDSky 🛟 🩺 🧪 😷 🌈🎓 ‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🩺📊 #FeministSky #STS #PhilSci #Metascience #Bioethics

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

I'm organising a #ReadingGroup to dissect the field(s) of #Colonial, #Postcolonial and/or #Decolonial. We'll start next year, in January 2nd week, and meet fortnightly or monthly. 🔗 WhatsApp Group Link, tinyurl.com/col-pocol-decol 🧵

submitted 104 days ago • 3 comments

It’s not a war. It’s not a conflict. IT’S A GENOCIDE.

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resolved: people who insist that all social media sites must be places where users are constantly encountering and arguing with people over fundamental disagreement do so because their actual, real lives are echo chambers where they do not encounter any meaningful difference from day-to-day.

submitted 104 days ago • 542 comments

I usually write about counselling and psychotherapy. But I’m also a social worker & have published a few papers on social work and professional boundaries. I am delighted my first book chapter is in the new Oxford Handbook of Power, Politics & Social Work.

submitted 105 days ago • 4 comments

📢 New #PAG20 Book Review 📚 Radzhana Buyantueva reviews 'Feminist and LGBTI+ Activism across Russia, Scandinavia, and Turkey: Transnationalizing Spaces of Resistance.' by Selin Çağatay, Mia Liinason & Olga Sasunkevich. polisky gendersky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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If you’re interested in social justice methodologies, join our virtual book launch on November 15 - Register here: bit.ly/3C3uRaL

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We're excited to welcome Jacqueline Priego Hernandez, as one of our keynote speaker for #ICRMC25 on 8-9 Sep 25! PLUS, the proposals are already rolling in, and we can't wait to see yours next. Learn more: creativeresearchmethods.com #CFP #ICRMC

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Are you a #Palestinian woman in a PhD program or enrolling in one? Is your degree in the humanities or social sciences? Apply to this one year, $ 25,000 fellowship that supports ANY expenses related to the pursuit of your degree, worldwide Can be used at any uni in the world

submitted 444 days ago • 0 comments

My first poetry collection comes out on 20th November. You can now pre-order the eBook (paperback will be available to buy from 20th). It's all about life as a disabled, chronically ill, neurodiverse person who struggles with their mental health. Check it out. amzn.to/463IzUs

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New work on new emotions! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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“Why must Palestinians audition for your empathy?” - powerful piece by Hala Alyan “In the meantime, Palestinians continue to be cast paradoxically — both terror and invisible, both people who never existed and people who cannot return” t.co/bDAuEd3lC6

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People in Gaza are beginning to dehydrate to death

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Queer Roma has been available as open access for 2 yrs now. My book provides rich evidence of the heterogeneity of Roma. The lived experiences of queer Roma pose a fundamental challenge to one-dimensional, negative misrepresentations of Roma as homophobic & antithetical to European/Western modernity

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“The impulse, repeatedly called ‘humane’ over the past week, to find peace by acknowledging equally the losses on all sides rests on a fantasy that mourning can be depoliticized” - Gabriel Winant www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

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i simply do not know how to wrap my head around witnessing a genocide happen in real time and being wholly unable to do anything about it

submitted 505 days ago • 17 comments

Stand up against TERFS! If anyone in Liverpool is free on Sunday, we need to resist the attacks on trans people. Please come in solidarity! Bust cards will be made available so you know your rights. Don't travel alone. Be safe and take care of each other!

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OK, time to start posting here! Edited book ‘Disrupting the Academy with Lived Experience-Led Knowledge’ out early 2024, can be pre-ordered here; policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/disrupting-t... currently 50% discount code CNF23 in September (all Policy Press social research methods books)

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It's been a few months in the making... & it's now finally ready: The Anti-Colonial Research Library hosts 400+ open-access articles and books, websites, YouTube videos on practical examples of Indigenous and anti-colonial research methodologies. Use and share widely! anticolonialresearchlibrary.org

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Hey, all. Julie Rehmeyer has made it easy to donate Blue Sky invite codes to folks in the disability community for whom Twitter was a crucial support. If you have extras you can drop them here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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