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Donate to Purchase House of Grace as a Center for LGBT People in Jinja, organized by Cole Matson In Jinja and across Uganda, LGBTQ+ individuals face growing i… Cole Matson needs your support for Purchase House of Grace as a Center for LGBT People in Jinja

🚨🚨🚨This Ugandan LGBT group have been raided and urgently need to relocate. You can help by donating to their GoFundMe - it's for a recently completed project, but includes an update about the situation. DM @theatremonk.bsky.social for further verification. www.gofundme.com/f/purchase-h...

TEACHOUTS Lecturers are on strike. Come learn. Upcoming teachouts: What is Chaos: Martin Richter, 10am 14/10/25, Mrs B’s catering cafe Exposing Empire: War, Capital & Palestine: Victor Kattan & Andreas Bieler, 6pm 14/10/25, Coates Road Auditorium The social construction of mental illness: Ella Guerin, 12pm 20/10/25, Online

Strike action is BACK ON this week and we have plenty of events to show solidarity and learn from each other:

RALLIES will be held on Tues and Thurs at 12:40, starting in the Trent Courtyard.

We also have 3 TEACH OUTS during the week: uonucu.org/teachouts/

See you there!

At last, a politician with the courage to make complex arguments instead of pandering to prejudice.

“We have to be really clear that there is no contradiction between saying clearly that antisemitism is completely unacceptable and demanding that the genocide end.”

Na'amod's Em Hilton spoke to @novaramedia.com about organising against antisemitism and for Palestinian liberation.

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Former Tory MP Penny Mordaunt’s claims that trade unions are “openly antisemitic” are false, dangerous and deeply irresponsible.

Trade unions have long stood against antisemitism and all forms of hate and continue to fight for equality, fairness and solidarity for all working people.

Any time a politician says we should leave the ECHR, the very next questions any interviewer should ask are
🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally
🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face
🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose

#r4today

Storm Amy is blowing the flags down, she's on the side of immigrants and refugees. Wind knows no borders, learn from the wind.

Absolutely fantastic news and so well deserved. Excited to watch this project develop.

'For the sins we have committed': Reimagining Yom Kippur liturgy in a post-Oct. 7 world Hovering over this 5786 holiday season is a sense of moral and spiritual crisis that calls out for liturgical innovation.

forward.com/opinion/7726...

Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins Writer – Researcher – Educator -Bookworm

🚨 TEACH OUT ANNOUNCEMENT🚨

On Monday (29/9) at 14:00, our fabulous member Dr Hannah Thuraisingam Robbins (@drhannahrobbins.bsky.social) will be presenting an online lecture titled "'Solidarity Forever': Musical Theatre, Workers’ Rights, and Protest."

The violence of this rhetoric, polls and 'debates' shouldn't be underestimated. We're talking lives, families, relationships, people's sense of belonging, complex and messy attachments, their hopes and dreams.

If scrapping ILR became law, my family would be torn apart and I'd lose many friends.

Add to this worrying list “Library Washing” - persuading very prestigious university institutions to contribute their digital library collections to OpenAI’s model, to lend legitimacy, in exchange for a handful of (reduced cost!) magic AI beans.

Reject Trans Doom-Posting This week I took the long train down to the south of England for my friend Robyn’s funeral. She died very suddenly three weeks ago, aged just 32. Robyn gave so much love to the world, and was so lo…

New essay: REJECT TRANS DOOM-POSTING.

It's about grief, loss, institutional failures, and the horror of the current moment.

It's also a love letter to trans community, and the things we do with and for one another.

Kenya transgender rights victory hailed as African first QNews LGBTIQA+ News

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like

"A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act."

fuck yeah

Naming and Classifying cfp final CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...

Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The cover of The Unnatural Trade by Brycchan Carey

A fascinating read. In "The Unnatural Trade" @brycchancarey.bsky.social shows how almost all early accounts of the slave trade - which British abolitionists later used as evidence - were written by naturalists.
And these same natural histories were then used to argue for the colonisation of Africa.

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To understand the link between Evangelical Christianity and transphobia, as well as the way through it to acceptance, read @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social's book, Gender Heretics.
Link below.

Echoes from the Museum podcasts Listen to Echoes from the Museum podcasts, a playlist curated by University of Cambridge on desktop and mobile.

The last known #thylacine died #otd in 1936, remembered as #ThreatenedSpeciesDay.
Our podcast series explores how #museums built collections of #thylacines, & the violent events surrounding their #extinction in #Tasmania.
Have a listen 🔊:
soundcloud.com/university-o...

An important new book by a team of experts on the tremendous violence of the revolutionary world, in which Europeans’ enlightenment humanism co-existed with their assaults on each other & the often genocidal destruction of non-European societies.

So sorry, Bodie, may his memory be a blessing.

If you aren't familiar with Sharon's website collating digital resources for #EarlyModern folks, I'm here to tell you it's the best 🗃️👍👇

BBC Radio 4 - BBC Inside Science, Does warm weather mean more rats in UK towns and cities? What’s the evidence behind rat infestation warnings? And farewell to wet wipe island

I’ll be on Today’s Inside Science with a short feature on extinction. It will air at 16:30 and will available online afterwards.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

A photo of people at a rally with signs that say "UCU says NO compulsory redundancies"

Today was the last day at the University for so many of our colleagues taking voluntary redundancy, with even more leaving in October.

We appreciate all of you and will miss you dearly. We will continue to fight so that others aren't forced into making the same difficult choice

In seahorses, pipefish, and seadragons (all part of the Syngnathidae family), males incubate their fertilised eggs in a specialised brood pouch until birth.

Learn more with Tyler, Museum Supervisor at the Hunterian Museum.

Great LaFleur's 'They/Them: what's in a name?' is excellent on this. I agree with you that someone like Charles Hamilton should be referred to as 'he'.

Photo of young people reading books outside the pillars of a large sandstone building. They have queer flags and a banner that reads trans kids deserve better.

Happening now! Trans Kids Deserve Better Scotland are holding a read-in outside Glasgow City Chambers.

They are protesting cuts to school libraries in Glasgow.