Cassidy Smith

1/ We're delighted to be welcoming @profkarenboyle.bsky.social for our next SCS seminar, taking place on Wednesday, 5th November, from 3.30 to 5.00pm in Room 432, St Andrews Building. Please do join us if you can...

31.10.2025 08:51 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

How Monsters Went from Menacing to Misunderstood For most of human history, monsters were repugnant aberrations, breaches of the natural and moral order. What’s behind our relentless urge to humanize them?

In the past few decades, monsters have gone from menaces to misfits. Why do we feel the need to humanize them?

04.11.2025 01:02 — 👍 34    🔁 6    💬 15    📌 0

Some of the speakers at the GLINTS event from left to right: Xuqing, Sam, Sasha Kirstie Ken, Antonio Ivan & Harvey.

The GLINTS logo which is pink/coral text on a light navy background

On Tuesday we launched the new Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-binary & Trans Studies! Thank you to everyone who came to the launch event & my fellow co-directors. It was a great evening & the first of what Iam sure will be many fantastic GLINTS events.

25.10.2025 19:47 — 👍 29    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

We are thrilled to introduce the Aromanticism & Asexuality Research Network this #AceWeek! The network is based at @clsrleeds.bsky.social in the UK and brings together researchers who are working on #asexuality and #aromanticism.

🔗Find out more at aroaceresearch.com

22.10.2025 10:16 — 👍 27    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 4

Great afternoon on campus with our fortnightly seminar listening to very insightful and generous fourth year PhD presentations, followed by a school-wide PGR social & quiz organised by the reps to welcome our new School of Social and Political Science PhD cohort!

24.10.2025 16:51 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The Louvre Heist Was a Colonial Wake-Up Call The stunning theft reveals more than a failure of security: It lays bare how austerity, neglect, and unresolved colonial legacies continue to haunt the museum.

Sunday’s theft at the Louvre has reignited urgent questions about how, and why, museums protect their collections. Emerging forms of art crime demand an ethical reckoning: a willingness to ask whether these objects should still be here at all.

23.10.2025 14:43 — 👍 17    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

The screening of El rojo mas puro, followed by a panel discussion was a fantastic way to close Thinking Cinema, Thinking Latin America. Thanks to @cinemaattic.bsky.social for collaborating. Congrats to @irepiedrahita.bsky.social, Antonio and Emilia for a great event

17.10.2025 06:44 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

“What an invasion, an immense invasion”: Examining the adverse effects of true crime media on co-victims - Kelli S. Boling, Danielle C. Slakoff, 2025 Through in-depth qualitative interviews with 20 people who identify as co-victims (friends/family members of missing people, victims, and/or perpetrators) spotl...

New in Crime, Media, Culture: in-depth interviews with co-victims reveal how true-crime fandom + algorithms can retraumatize families (rumors, doxxing, speculation). More rigor, less spectacle.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#criminology #truecrime #crime #psychology #research

18.09.2025 05:42 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

From Pride to Pathology: What Netflix’s Monster Says About Masculinity Today How Ryan Murphy’s latest true crime series turns queer difference into danger, and what it reveals about contemporary ideas of male power.

Ryan Murphy spent a decade making queer television. Then came Monster: The Ed Gein Story. My article on Medium dives into the series' individualistic portrayal of gender-based violence and discusses how even “progressive” storytellers can echo reactionary rhetoric: medium.com/@cassidy.smi...

23.10.2025 04:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0