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Sociology lecturer at the best Uni in Bristol. Author "Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars" from Bloomsbury. Queer for cats and feminism.

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Reform UK logo in Russian.

Reform UK logo in Russian.

ReformUK has updated its logo to reflect the priorities of its funders.

23.11.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Equal Pay Day 2025 Equal Pay Day 2025 Women are still being shortchanged and the UK is paying the price  From 22 November, women in the UK are effectively working for free for the rest of the year. That’s wha...

Equal Pay Day! www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/equal-pay-da....

23.11.2025 11:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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RevolutionarySell Ethical garms for natural born guerrillas

Today at a Women Against the Far Right meeting I wore my Team Luigi jumper & it got lots of admirers. Obviously it's for gamers, & the game of life. Here's the website revolutionarysell.com

22.11.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

TransLuscent doing their thing: diligent, meticulous information gathering to find the evidence we never doubted.

Nobody’s complaining about trans people taking a pee except GC activists who complain daily into the ether. But even they can’t complain about actual incidents, since there aren’t any.

21.11.2025 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 75    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
UWE Bristol School of Arts - Del LaGrace Volcano talk Join us at UWE Bristol for a chill talk with Del LaGrace Volcano about art, identity, and self-expression!

Attention queerials, Del LaGrace Volcano is coming to Bristol www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uwe-bristo...

21.11.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh lord.

20.11.2025 10:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Watched a Stranger Thing (one episode) with my now 10 yr old for International Men's Day & got him a little box of celebrations & Stranger Things branded Wotsits! We know how to celebrate in this house!

20.11.2025 09:24 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exploring the story of the oldest library of its kind in Britain 'It was hard drinking, hard living, tough going here, back in the 18th century,' says Cameron Halfpenny, chair of the Leadhills Reading Society

Today in the public history column: Leadhills Library, in South Lanarkshire, founded in 1741, is the oldest subscription library in the British Isles, and brought Enlightenment learning to a remote mining village in Scotland. www.thenational.scot/news/2562926...

18.11.2025 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Grey Hamilton. Or Grey Corbyn. Or Grey Isambard. I think the first one sounds best.

19.11.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes maternity rights differ for mothers and fathers that's true, pregnancy & maternity is one of the protected characteristics but I think it just says that, rather than saying only women have that protection?

19.11.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Point 72 so schools should not teach that everyone has a gender identity, but should not encourage pupils to question their gender? So it's not a fact that everyone has a gender & we must teach pupils that, but we also must not encourage the questioning of gender?

19.11.2025 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Point 70 schools should not teach as fact everyone has a gender identity. Schools should avoid gender stereotyping it says. Great. But gender is still an institution we are socialised into, thus most people inc children develop a gender identity, how will schools challenge children's gender?

19.11.2025 13:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Point 69 what legal rights do men have because they are male that women don't have because they are female? What legal rights do female people have that are denied to male people?Everyone has legal protection from sex discrimination, sex is a legal protected characteristic, for everyone.

19.11.2025 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Hmm, finally working through the updated SRE guidance for next year. Point 68 why are primary schools only "encouraged" to teach about healthy loving relationships inc same-sex parents in families. Why is this not a "should"?

19.11.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
Green win in Denmark: Congrats to the new green mayor of Copenhagen, Sisse Marie Welling.

Green win in Denmark: Congrats to the new green mayor of Copenhagen, Sisse Marie Welling.

πŸ‘ Congratulations to @sissemariewe.bsky.social who was just elected as the new mayor of Copenhagen.

πŸ’šCongratulations to all of the SF members re-elected or newly elected and for the incredible 17.9% of votes across the country.

🌻Denmark’s people and nature will have a Greener future.

19.11.2025 09:21 β€” πŸ‘ 226    πŸ” 57    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 15
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State of Men UK Report Global and national conversations about men gaining visibility: men’s health, men’s violence, boys education, men’s isolation or their retreat from gender equality and democratic ideals. Too often con...

Happy International Men's Day! www.beyondequality.org/blog-posts/s...

19.11.2025 09:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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In Sweden, online hate and anti-immigrant extremism are driving women out of public life | Martin Gelin A leading liberal politician has quit in fear of her physical safety. It is a crushing setback for democracy in one of the world’s most open societies, says journalist Martin Gelin

"Even in one of the most stable democracies in the world, the threat of extremist violence is transforming political representation."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

10.11.2025 08:18 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3
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Public Service Announcement for lesbians! Marks & Sparks are selling this lesbian top

06.11.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸ₯³ Good news (if you are an energy CEO) National Grid profits rose15% to Β£1.65 billion for the half year to Sep 30.Β 
πŸ˜₯ Not so good news if you are a consumer. Energy companies made Β£30 bn profits last year. That is Β£500 on every household bill going to dividends, shares buybacks & bonuses for CEOs πŸ’°

06.11.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

He looks exactly as excited as I would be! And how’s *that* for soft power??

04.11.2025 10:14 β€” πŸ‘ 111    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

Today marks 75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights. The product of high aspirations & the ultimate step in taking seriously the idea that every human being should be treated with equal dignity 🧡 #ECHR #ECHR75

04.11.2025 11:39 β€” πŸ‘ 183    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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What if dinner was public infrastructure? A Scottish charity wants to reintroduce state-subsidised diners for allβ€”a potentially a big ask in the current political climate.

A Scottish charity wants to reintroduce state-subsidised diners for allβ€”a potentially a big ask in the current political climate. #universalbasicservices

www.sower.world/public-diner...

01.11.2025 08:15 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Such a perfect example of what we all give up when we refuse to address basic inequalities. I don't want to live in a country where all the public space is militarized to keep hungry people from stealing food, just give them money to buy food!

01.11.2025 12:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2072    πŸ” 548    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 11

His own identity is just as much sociology as anyone else's.

31.10.2025 09:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

EL. TRABAJO. NO. CUALIFICADO. NO. EXISTE.

30.10.2025 12:24 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Drill baby drill! Because salt-water laced with cancer causing chemicals doesn’t contain autism causing Tylenol. But don’t worry, they defunded all the environmental laws and cancelled childhood cancer research and are already tripling your healthcare costs and cancelled EBT/WIC for Thanksgiving. 😱

29.10.2025 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Politicians have chosen to be in the public spotlight.

We choose intense scrutiny and everyone is entitled to an opinion. And that's right.

But how do these nasty digs about physical appearance serve anyone?

It's no wonder so many people - particularly women - are put off ever getting involved.

29.10.2025 09:46 β€” πŸ‘ 767    πŸ” 97    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 3

Ah nvm this works: bsky.app/profile/tran...

28.10.2025 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
List of suicide crisis lines - Wikipedia

If you feel suicidal yourself please reach out to friends and family if you can. Or reach out to support agencies. You can get through this. It’s ok to ask for help.

This link has international suicide crisis lines grouped by country.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

29.10.2025 07:40 β€” πŸ‘ 95    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 0

Always with the door wedge. It's practically every multi choice answer. Just tick that one, there you go, saved you some time at work.

29.10.2025 06:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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