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This IWD, we must remember women can never be free under racist, capitalist + colonial systems. Women’s liberation can only come with decolonisation + when we abolish all oppressive systems. Find out more: buff.ly/uTtI30X #InternationalWomensDay #InternationalWorkingWomensDay

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If you don‘t include trans women in your fight today, I don‘t care about you. Fascists are already stripping all trans people of their rights everywhere you look, and they won’t stop at your bodily autonomy just cause you’re cis. This is and has always been about all of us. #internationalwomensday

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Arthur Scargill was the president of the National Union of Mineworkers for twenty years, notability during the strikes of 1984-85. He fought for the mines, their workers, their families and village’s throughout Thatchers dismantling of the industry. A unionist, a socialist, a Barnsley lad.

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BREAKING: By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court LIFTS its hold on a lower court order compelling the Trump administration to resume nearly $2 billion in foreign aid funding. The funds MUST be disbursed. Roberts and Barrett join the liberals. Obviously, this is huge. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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Incredible sights on the @newcastleucu.bsky.social picket line this morning. We will fight tooth and nail to protect jobs. The whole union is behind you. Solidarity ✊

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In the editorial for our Spring 2025 issue, Lulu Miller writes of an alternate universe: one in which nature’s true biodiversity is an accepted norm in human society. On beetles, the rainbow of queerness in nature, and more. buff.ly/3CWVK0Y

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Wow: JD Vance is apparently skiing in Vermont this weekend and the locals aren’t having it. Thousands have lined the streets in protest.

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HAPPY WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH! Throughout, comicstress @sxbond.bsky.social will share excerpts from her Eisner-nominated anthology FEMME MAGNIFIQUE: 50 MAGNIFICENT WOMEN WHO CHANGED THE WORLD celebrating women’s’ cross-discipline achievements throughout history. www.offregister.press/product-page...

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It seems PubMed has disappeared. This is the digital equivalent of burning a library.

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No one is signing this... I know people feel like petitions are useless, but they do at least reflect sentiment. Once they've taken away our right to surgical treatment, they'll move on to others. Maybe your healthcare?

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At my local bookshop to listen to @aptshadow.bsky.social talk about his new novel Shroud, and there's themed beer!

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Diverse Voices in Health Law and Ethics is now published! 🎉 to celebrate - a 🧵of all the contributions bringing a social justice/critical perspective to the health and medical law curriculum! It was such a privilege to work with every author on such important interventions 👇

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It's Sapphic Stuff Your Ereader Day! Find all the free & $0.99 sapphic books-including Stars & Soil-here: yearofqueerlit.com/2025/02/23/s... Itch: daxdefiant.itch.io/stars-and-soil Amazon: amzn.to/3XeGt2s Elsewhere: books.daxmurray.com/stars-and-soil 🌈📚💙🪐📚🦄🧡🌈🚀💫 #SYK #Sapphfic #LesFic #QueerSFF

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#SFF people: I need recommendations of anti-colonial science fiction!

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‘Diverse Voices in Health Law and Ethics’ is an essential textbook that offers a transformative exploration of #Health #Law and #Ethics.

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Totally concur. It's one of the rarer amazing opportunities in academia. 125th Anniversary Scholarship for Black British Researchers - Decolonising the Mind: Self-Care Practices and Anti-Racism at the University of Birmingham. Black British scholars, do consider applying.

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I'm vegan and hate this framing. There are practical things to reduce meat consumption like community cooking courses & better efforts at making convenient veggie options available to the public. Stigmatising low cost ready to eat food associated with poor and ethnic minority people is disgusting.

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Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

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Along with Stuart Macdonald and @drkatyvaughan.bsky.social, I am compiling a new Concise Encyclopaedia of Terrorism Law, to be published by @elgarpublishing.bsky.social. We already have a fantastic line up of contributors, but now we are looking for more!

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In the sixth post of our Birth Trauma takeover Frances Hand and Anna Nelson explore what is missing from the UK Government Report, including the systematic harms reported during experiences of maternity care. thepolyphony.org/2025/02/17/o...

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New book review up on my Substack! sffacademia.substack.com/p/book-revie...

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Around 400,000 people work in universities across the UK, and more then 200,000 of them are academics. The closures and job losses we’re seeing in the sector just now are a major industrial crises affecting the key workplaces and economic drivers of hundreds of towns and cities.

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QMUL UCU is doing the kind of work we need UCU to do nationally to highlight the catastrophic destruction of higher education across the regions & nations. Thousands of jobs & so much talent and expertise lost. Shame on this Govt for sitting by & letting it happen qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

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Centre for Human Rights in Pretoria is saddened to announce the death of Professor Charles Ngwena. He was a towering intellectual, academic, and astute scholar, doing transformative human rights work in Africa, especially in the fields of sexual and reproductive health and disability rights.

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PUBLICATION DAY I had the honor to work on the English translation of a selection from Tsunami, the iconic series of anthologies of Mexican feminism The three volumes of Tsunami (but especially Tsunami 2) have been enormously influential, and it's amazing for a selection to be available in English

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I really really need you guys to make a conscious rejection of generative AI tools part of your ongoing political resistance. Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.

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Delighted to see this coming out: Black lives in Nazi Germany: Spent a lot of time on this. academic.oup.com/hgs/advance-...

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Me but with academic journals and it's actually been six months rather than six hours

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We’re thrilled to announce Queer Judgments is out today! This collection covers topics relating to decriminalising gay sex, HIV, asylum, healthcare, reproductive justice, gender transition, and much more! It is available to download on a pay what you feel basis: counterpress.org.uk/publications...

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It's been a genuine pleasure to see the Criticism Special reach so far, and seem to interest readers that maybe don't always see our stuff. We publish three critical reviews almost every week of the year. If this strikes you as good, SH has a Patreon, and an annual fund drive. We'll keep at it.

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Should mention that I was alerted to this book's existence by @whiterxbbit.bsky.social's review for @ancillaryreview.bsky.social! Also: what a banger cover.

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I wrote the chapter on abortion and contraception, and co-write the chapter on medical negligence with @ecromanis.bsky.social and @sabrinagermain.bsky.social - introducing a more critical/feminist approach to teaching these topics!

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Music from sci-fi soundtracks played by a full orchestra? Yes please.

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I feel obliged to reshare this artwork of Nova punching a Nazi by @beedokfern.bsky.social to once again reiterate that I am very happy to alienate awful humans from my book's fan base.

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A Polish activist for abortion rights, Justyna Wydrzyńska, was back in front of court on Thursday for an appeal hearing — after having been sentenced to eight months community service for helping a pregnant woman, a victim of domestic violence, get an abortion in 2023. https://euobserver.com/eu-pol…

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One of the most difficult things about being a young woman in academia is that it often means that students expect you to be extremely accommodating, warm, and their friend as opposed to an authority, and feel like you’ve done them wrong when you don’t meet these expectations.

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"Our collective dreams of humanity’s future in books and film are severely curtailed by the hegemony of Western culture, depriving us of varied visions of what’s possible."

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