Muireann O'Dwyer

Fascism in the UK:
- EHRC guidance that could ban trans people from public bathrooms, require service providers to 'guess' people's 'biological sex'
- An artist is charged with a terror offence for a performance
- period apps checked by police looking to prosecute abortions.

A Law Letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers A coalition of legal academics have drafted a letter setting out our support for trans rights and our concerns about the FWS v Scottish Ministers UKSC ruling. We are opening it up for signature to ev...

A group of us law academics put together a letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers UK Supreme Court ruling & we are asking other *UK based law folk* (academic activist practitioner etc) to sign

More details 👇

#transrights #trans #transgender #lawsky #academicsky #UKlaw

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Not In Our Name - Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out - with signatures To co-sign the statement, fill in this form: https://forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiScaMEt5 (Please do not ‘request share’, rather, fill in the form ^ ^.) Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Sp...

Thousands of feminist academics and educators have signed this letter in support of trans rights and against the supreme court ruling (you can still sign!) - docs.google.com/document/u/0...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

St Andrews people - sign the letter calling on the University to condemn the Supreme Court ruling forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Rally for trans rights in St Andrews on Thursday at noon outside college gate.

See you there!

University Withholds Name of Donor Mentioned in Stella Maris Report Despite two Freedom of Information requests from the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), the University of St Andrews continues to withhold the name of the “prospective funder” menti...

Is there a connection between the sacking of rector Stella Maris and the refusal to disclose the name of a University of St Andrews donor? Article worth reading from the University's magazine: www.thesaint.scot/post/univers...

University of Nottingham plans to cut more than 250 jobs Announcing the consultation, the university said it was a "critical moment for universities across the UK".

And there it is. A shocking, appalling, and deeply disappointing announcement of an entirely unnecessary move from the university.

But this is exactly why we have already started organising .

Revealed preferences theory suggests that Wall Street executives value their ability to call their subordinates gay at approximately 8 trillion dollars

YouTube video by Centre for Global Law and Governance PROF. JULIET KAARBO - CGLG Researcher of the Month (March 2025)

CGLG RESEARCHER OF THE MONTH 🔍

For her ongoing work on world leaders' personalities, Prof. Juliet Kaarbo @jkaarbo.bsky.social is the CGLG's March 2025 researcher of the month!

We spoke with her about her wider research and views on global governance 👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2YZ...

Trump’s Antisocial State - Dissent Magazine The administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport.

The administration is attempting to incapacitate the redistributive and social protective arms of the state, while exploiting its vast bureaucratic powers to silence, threaten, and deport.

New online by Melinda Cooper:

www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

turns out when you legitimate a taste for bigotry people gravitate to the parties that serve it as an entree rather than as a garnish

I'm very happy that my book 'The Politics of International Norms: A Rhetorical Approach' is out now! Thanks to everyone @cambridgeup.bsky.social, and to all those who have supported me in this journey. You can find more info in the link and this thread (1/6): cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Huge solidarity to @ducuuo.bsky.social who are out on strike this week, fighting against cruel and unfair redundancies.

Abundant finance and a dependence on scarce skilled labor helped create a culture in tech where professional employees have more voice and more exit options than elsewhere, even without formal representation. The goal here is to roll that back - the functional equivalent of union busting.

Tech titans stand with Donald Trump to kill off activism in Silicon Valley Fearful employees have done little to protest against the rightward shift of leaders such as Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg

The headline of this Financial Times piece spells it out clearly: Tech Titans Stand with Donald Trump to Kill Activism in Silicon Valley on.ft.com/41c1hsl

Zuckerberg is at the vanguard of a dramatic reversal in attitudes across Silicon Valley, whose traditionally liberal workforces have been shocked by a broad backlash against diversity policies and employee dissent.

This to me is one of the central stories about current US politics. The tech barons who decisively threw their support behind Trump wanted commercial benefits, of course; but even more, they wanted to discipline their own employees. That’s the real content of all the anti-DEI stuff.

YouTube video by Centre for Global Law and Governance PROF. SANJAY SETH - CGLG Researcher of the Month (February 2025)

CGLG RESEARCHER OF THE MONTH 🔍

For his ongoing work on postcolonialism and the nation-state, Prof. Sanjay Seth is the CGLG's February 2025 researcher of the month. We caught up with him in his office to ask about his wider research and views on global governance.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ibZ...

The Fork in the Road | Mark Greif There may well be normalcy again. But it lies on the other side—not in accommodation to this malevolent insanity, run by lackeys and toads. The risk of overreaction is trivial compared to the risks of...

The hallmark of totalitarianism at this stage isn’t genocide or extremes of violence. It is doubled or twofold organization.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

DOGE Nation | Mark Krotov Like Critical Race Theory before it—but with a supercharged intensity, since each new campaign of right-wing hate has been more aggressive than the last—Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion has come to st...

In a just world, the Trump/Musk coup would receive the wall-to-wall coverage granted to James Comey’s firing or, for that matter, Hillary Clinton’s emails. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Unusually, nostalgia is also relevant for us methodologically. It allows us to develop the concept of simulated authenticity and show how being white, male and suit-wearing confers authority in gendered expertise regimes (cf. @mergito.bsky.social)

Great choice of priest!

My latest article, written with @benclift.bsky.social and @benrosamond1.bsky.social, is out #OA in Economy & Society. We use Brexit discourses as a window into the gendered politics of economic expertise. @sotonpolitics.bsky.social 🧵

doi.org/10.1080/0308...

YouTube video by LSE IDEAS Is there a way out of the Middle East Crisis? Pathways for Justice and Peace

Recording now available for last week's @lseideas.bsky.social event. I discuss the liberal international order, global social movements, & (from my current research) a bit abt the ICJ & Gaza.
- Is there a way out of the Middle East Crisis? Pathways for Justice & Peace
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2dJ...

Dundee University staff to stage three-week strike over redundancy threat Academics are set to strike from February 24, with a second trade union also balloting members on support for industrial action.

Solidarity with @ducuuo.bsky.social www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

Tomorrow - 12pm outside Blackfriers Chapel on South Street
Rally for Freedom for Palestine

Organised by some of our wonderful students, and part of the day of action.

Malaka Shwaikh | Education is resistance Last month, my sister, her husband and their three children returned to their damaged flat in northern Gaza after...

‘“It was a comprehensive curriculum,” my father told me of the tent school my family set up. My aunt taught there too. There were drawing and painting classes as well as maths and science.’

Malaka Shwaikh on the preservation of education in Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...

👇EVENT THIS WEEK👇
On Wednesday 5th, Dr. Rhys Machold, Senior Lecturer at Glasgow University, will be discussing his new book on homeland security in India, Palestine, and Israel—please RSVP to attend!

🕐 11:30—13:00
🚩 Arts Seminar 8
📩 RSVP irevents@st-andrews.ac.uk.

Please share widely. Gaza universities need our support. We still need to raise around £10,000 to reach our funding goal.

Chartbook 349 Scholasticides The concept of genocide always included cultural genocide.

Adam Tooze on scholasticide in Sudan and Gaza: "What sets Israel’s campaign against Gaza apart, is, quite simply, its radical intensity."

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