Joe Strong

Thrilled to be part of the scientific committee for this amazing symposium on the relationship between far-right politics and gender. Send your proposals and share the CfP with your friends, colleagues, and broader networks! More info here 👇

Oh my god this sounds so good

Reform ‘proudly embracing’ anti-abortion politics, experts warn Campaigners accuse party of ‘fast becoming the political refuge for anti-abortion hardliners’

"But it’s not just abortion, it is part of a larger anti-rights issue"

Reform has seen a few anti-abortion folks join them, but this broader anti-rights ideology includes racist, anti-immigration, anti-trans, anti-LGBTQI approaches and actions. 1/

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

On #InternationalSafeAbortionDay, and as attacks escalate and mis/dis-information spreads, a reminder: this starter pack can help get you started in finding some excellent Bluesky accounts sharing data & information on sexual and reproductive health.

go.bsky.app/6WuJVjj

My current work on the politics of data, invisibility, and gender in sexual and reproductive health is funded by the amazing @leverhulme.ac.uk 4/4

For most people, reproduction is relational and involves other people (not to mention communities). We ignore the interpersonal, social, and sturctural obstacles to having children at our peril.

The lack of data is a huge contributor to that. Making a problem invisible doesn't make it go away! 3/3

But we are falling short when we talk about barriers to people having the children they want and focusing on solely on women [and other ppl who can get pregnant].

Policies then burden women with 'solutions', and it all reeks of the misogyny of once again trying to control women's bodies 2/3

Let’s stop asking why women aren’t having children and ask, for once: why aren’t men? | Rhiannon Lucy Coslett On the whole, men I’ve spoken to – like women – want children. But a host of issues, from housing to mental health, is getting in the way, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Great to speak to @theguardian.com's Rhiannon Cosslett about men, children, and fertility

tl;dr: I think any notion of a fertility 'crisis' is a load of inflammatory, unscientific nonsense 1/3

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@qmul.bsky.social @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social

I'm going to be spending a lot more time in sunny(?) #Copenhagen 🇩🇰 and would love to meet folks here for coffee. If you or someone you know is based here let me know and I would love to connect!

Especially any folks working in #SRHR #GlobalHealth or #Demography!

Congrats Rose! Can’t wait to read this

Fantastic!! 😊

Latest @femquant.bsky.social newsletter is out - packed with events listings, opportunities, calls for papers & calls for participants

Tak, Signe!

Slide saying “thank you” and contact details Joe.strong@qmul.ac.uk, with a meme of Samantha and Carrie in Sex and the City. Presenter at front thanking audience

Had the BEST time presenting our work “Sex and the Survey” at @bspsuk.bsky.social, on behalf of fab co-authors @heinivaisanen.bsky.social & Linh Nguyen

We analyse surveys in France, Ghana, Senegal, and UK to answer the question ‘what if everything we knew about #SRHR was what we read in surveys?’

📣 Job alert! 📣 2 fully funded PhD positions in sociology/demography in the ERC Starting Grant SeRO, which studies the impact of local violent crime on sexual and reproductive health in Mexico. Please share and apply!
PhD post 1: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD post 2: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

One of my fave posters by one of my fave scientists!

Exciting new post-doc fellow post just announced at University of Edinburgh - working alongside The Love Tank on the new Medicine Without Doctors collaboration.

Closing date 02 Oct 2025.

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This is SO good I’m sharing it with everyone I know!! Thank you all for writing it

Abortion 'zines with my favourite abortion person, @rishie.bsky.social!

Check out the beautiful, moving, funny, creative 'zines from our @abortionbookclub.bsky.social workshops in the thread below. We're so in love with them, we think you will be too!

#Abortion #Zine

Come to read a little bit about my new project on gender and the politics of sexual and reproductive health data, stay for all the other amazing work being funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk

I'll be in Geneva next week (19-23 May) - if you're around, I'd love to talk all things politics, SRHR, and gender, as part of my new study. Drop me a message and let's meet up!

#SRHR #WHA #Geneva

Thank you @soc-misc.bsky.social for having me! It was a privilege to be in a space of incredible scholars to talk about #miscarriage measurement - an unbelievably untroubled space in our field given its importance for so many people!

Tomorrow !! 👇

Annual Conference The British Society for Population Studies holds an annual conference in a different venue each September.

Only three days left to submit @bspsuk.bsky.social paper in the Demography of health in conflict and crisis session! come along to the friendliest conference of the year www.lse.ac.uk/internationa... @thegargiulian.bsky.social

FINAL WEEK [deadline May 9th] to apply to this year's BSPS Demography Conference @bspsuk.bsky.social

Strands on:
💚 Fertility and Sexual and Reproductive Health
🧡 Critical Demography

Friendliest conference in town. Only 250 word abstract. Go go go!!!

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4 more days to go! Don’t forget to submit your abstracts to the Fertility and SRH strand at #BSPS2025 (@bspsuk.bsky.social). @joestrong.bsky.social and I will be reading them with care 🧡

A fab article and perfect timing as I am about to talk all things #abortion #stigma with medical students in Malta

Make sure to sign up to the @supportabort.bsky.social newsletter for all the latest abortion happenings in Europe (and around the world): www.supportingabortions.eu

Hank you ;) so wonderful to see this paper out and what an achievement to you and the time. Congratulations - fantastic work!!

Very - thank you @cbpolis.bsky.social 😊