Graphic reading 'the UK Government-commissioned 'Sullivan Review' of sex and gender in data and research collection threatens British research and trans inclusion. Here's why.'
📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.
03.02.2026 09:12 —
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Reads: What is trans-exclusionary data activism? And the logo for the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab.
New research maps the campaign to erase trans people from UK data 🔢
This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID.
doi.org/10.1080/0958...
19.01.2026 13:42 —
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No lockout for University of Sheffield staff
UCU members have been standing up against the continual cutting and restructuring of the last several years which has significantly damaged the University’s international standing, the quality of educ...
www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no... Sheffield University is under threat and we are doing our best to save it. Please, sign and share this petition to protest against the grotesque assault on university staff #Sheffield #againstculturalvandalism #UCUstrike @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
15.01.2026 21:45 —
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Pay-off spend up by two-thirds as universities shed 13,000 jobs
Analysis of UK sector accounts shows number of job losses well above predictions, with experts warning cuts are not over yet
Ninety UK universities to have posted accounts so far cut 13,300 jobs last year, spending £303 million on severance pay - sector-wide total clearly going to be well in excess of predicted 10,000. Great reporting by @patrickjack.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/pay-spe...
15.01.2026 07:55 —
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Examining LGBTQI+ youth wellbeing and imagined futures across Europe – White Rose DTP
Research Assistant opportunity for any White Rose DTP funded PhD student! 3 months to work on the LGBTQI+ Futures project with me, running creative and qualitative workshops on wellbeing and imagined futures with LGBTQI+ young adults across the UK.
wrdtp.ac.uk/lgbti-futures/
05.01.2026 10:01 —
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Edition #18
Contents ~ Editorial, Ash Watson ~ Should Have Been an Email and Definitely Not a Meeting or a Poem Either for that Matter, JE Sumerau ~ Bound Together, Anna Clover ~ In the Middle of our Street, J…
Gorgeous collection of sociological fiction and poetry in this (and all!) editions of SoFiZine. Very grateful to @awtsn.bsky.social for including a couple of my bits on ghosts//haunting//collective memories. sofizine.com/edition-18/
18.12.2025 10:35 —
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Donate to the Sheffield UCU Industrial Action Solidarity Fund
What is the Sheffield UCU Industrial Action Solidarity Fund, and how to contribute.
We’re on our 3rd day of (v cold) strike today @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
HE is being dismantled by mgmt on eye watering salaries, whilst staff delivering teaching, research & admin are casualised, burnt out & forced out
Pls donate to our fighting fund if you can shorturl.at/EpeTe
19.11.2025 10:24 —
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Picture of documents with NHS branding, with title: The Gender Clinic Files and text that reads: A new investigative series that exposes deep structural issues with the UK’s approach to Transgender healthcare in the QueerAF newsletter with What The Trans!? every Saturday this month. QueerAF and What The Trans logos all on a blue background showing a blurred out medical setting.
This Saturday after painstaking research and FOIs by @clairestranstalks.bsky.social with @whatthetrans.com, we'll publish 'The Gender Clinic Files' in our newsletter:
A new investigative series exposing deep structural issues with UK Transgender healthcare
Sign up 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/
02.10.2025 18:16 —
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Trans youth stage die-in outside Supreme Court | Trans Kids Deserve Better
TKDB: "We will protest. We will protect. We will organise and we WILL outlast them. To every trans kid out there: we are NOT giving up and we WILL NOT let them bury your truth in shame or bureaucracy! To the ones we lost: your names are not forgotten. They are a battle cry!"
28.07.2025 12:04 —
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What can science fiction tell us about abolitionist futures and the path to utopia?
@philcrockettthomas.bsky.social @stirunicriminology.bsky.social @thesccjr.bsky.social on prison abolition activism, collaborative fictioning and the ideas of Ursula K. Le Guin.
#OpenAccess buff.ly/xw5UXjJ
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