queerstorian.bsky.social
Lecturer in the History of Sexuality @ University of Edinburgh | book (soon): Aversion Therapy: A Transnational History of Sex, Psychiatry & the Cold War | PhD @ UniMelb, MA @ FU Berlin | UCU member | antifascist, anti-colonial, proPalestine | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐾 | 🗣️🇩🇪🇦🇺
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Clara has published some of her research on her blog in English and German.
Dora Richter: lili-elbe.de/blog/2024/09...
Hertha Wind: lili-elbe.de/blog/2024/09...
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Adding the @austhistassoc.bsky.social ‘s own post, which I didn’t see before posting the statement myself!
bsky.app/profile/aust...
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🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
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This journalist cites the “Darlington Nursing Union” as though it is a legitimate, bona fide trades union, which it is not. It is an anti-TUC, anti-worker and anti-trans lobby group brazenly masquerading as a trades union. Gross.
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5/ “teaching and research by historians in Australian universities.”
AHA Executive Committee
27 February 2025
**I’m proud to be an AHA member!**
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4/ “and criticism of Israel and Zionism by Australian academics. Such rules do not exist in relation to other nation states, faiths or political movements. The AHA is concerned that this new definition of antisemitism could restrict academic freedom, with negative impacts on…
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3/ “academic freedom (including direct political interference).
As such, the AHA is concerned that a proposed and enforceable Universities Australia definition of antisemitism moves beyond the matter of combatting hate speech and places new limits on scholarly scrutiny…
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2/ “The Australian Historical Association is staunchly opposed to antisemitism and all forms of discriminatory hate speech and action. We advocate for the ability of historians to produce excellent and ethical historical research, free from discrimination, vilification and the infringement of…
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Read this harrowing account from a staff member at Cardiff University for more classic weasel words, a.k.a. neoliberalese: “academic sustainability”, “resilience”, “higher quality students”, “learning designers”, “academic developers”, “instructional technologists”…
voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...
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They literally can’t even think of an original name.
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It’s all outlined in the UCEA playbook.
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Actually far fewer administrative staff - cuts to admin staff may even be harsher than cures to academic staff. Perhaps you meant “managers”?
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Bossspeak is global.
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That equates to a minimum of 10% of all staff. But staff unions at Edinburgh have shown that the “financial crisis” is a fabrication:
www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/3fzpaa5...
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I hope you’re right, but I am not convinced it would be political suicide anymore. I think a high result for the AfD is going to fundamentally shift the terrain of what is salonfähig.
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Done! You’re the lucky 150th!
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“peace does not happen automatically” — you couldn’t make it up!
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Here it is: bsky.app/profile/quee...
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Thank you!
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Current, good new days!
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dsq-sds.org/index.php/ds... there are some other books / articles referenced throughout this issue that could be helpful too?! Sounds like an awesome student!! Wish them luck
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akin to the German Social Democrats in 1914 voting in favour of military funding for the First World War—that is, a complete redrawing of a red line of what is politically acceptable in one of the world’s biggest economies/military industries, with devastating long term consequences. 2/2