Sage Brice (she/her)

students literally tell me their parents tell them they can’t major in Black Studies but every year they have an option for an exam essay prompt where they can argue for or against universities having obligations to offer these classes and OVERWHELMINGLY they think universities should have to

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

I was literally teaching Sara Ahmed’s work on how the whiteness of institutions is a result of a series of decisions about the allocation of resources, who to recruit, what to prioritize.

The values of an institution are most clearly indicated in their budgets.

Really enjoyed reading this non-fiction graphic book on queer/trans ecologies by @sagebrice.bsky.social! Definitely recommend! 🐧

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Photo of a lecture slide, with an image of a small pink ox-tongue fungus protruding from the dark crack between two tree roots. The text reads “Loving oneself and/or multiple others offers viable arrangements for living and dying in community with wider ecologies. The power and the pleasure of such a mycelial love lie in the simultaneity, the coextension, of decay and abundance”

This was a lot of fun!
Thanks @mingcan-rong.bsky.social, @samlebutt.bsky.social and colleagues for an enjoyable evening

VERY excited to be speaking at the Nature Bites Back ecohorror symposium tomorrow at Bristol! Among v esteemed panelists and multiple mushroom talks! What more could an ecoGoth dream of... 🍄 @uobrisceh.bsky.social @sagebrice.bsky.social

I Have Referred Dr Hilary Cass to the GMC Why I believe the Cass Review falls short of the professional standards expected of every registered doctor.

www.helenwebberley.com/p/i-have-ref...

Photo of De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography

Flipping through th entries in this new volume, it looks to be not only a fantastic teaching resource but an orientating force for the future of feminist political geography, carefully edited by Sydney Calkin and @cordyf.bsky.social

Many others will understand themselves as trans, & never speak a word. Too afraid.

The category of 'gender questioning children', as though this is a group we can identify in a trans hostile society, is a transphobic false category.

Please use the term with extreme caution.

We also know, as academics & researchers, that the period in which any child is 'gender questioning' is very often on their own, in silence, months or even years before they speak the words to a single other person.

We do not know which children around us are 'questioning' their gender.

There is a wholescale concerted effort to rebrand trans children as gender questioning children.

If the whole group are re-labelled, then they cannot claim rights as a minority group.

If they are all re-labelled, then conversion efforts can just about helping them 'explore their gender'.

Polanski is a pleasure to interview because he will answer any question about anyone. Wes Streeting? “Wes is attacking me every day on social media because I’m another gay man in politics who is not willing to throw the trans community under the bus and that exposes his abject immorality. He must know what it’s like to be othered but he’s more bothered about power than protecting the other. It’s disgraceful.”

Okay but Zack Polanski has been coming out with bangers

Once again: if these LLMs could actually do all the things their owners claim, they wouldn’t be selling access. They would be building and selling all the things they claim their software can do.

Understanding the 2024 Summer Riots in the UK: Three Case Studies The wave of riots in England in summer 2024 were followed by swift policy responses before any detailed empirical investigation had been carried out. This paper presents case studies of the disorders ...

Our study of three of the 2024 anti-asylum-seeker riots now accepted for publication at J of Community & Applied Social Psych.

Link to pre-print below.

www.qeios.com/read/17ASAP

Excerpt from 1986 letter to Gay/Lesbian mag: “When an estrogenated man with breasts loves a woman, that is not lesbianism, that is mutilated perversion. [This individual] is not a threat to the lesbian community, he is an outrage to us. He is not a lesbian, he is a mutant man, a self-made freak, a deformity, an insult. He deserves a slap in the face. After that, he deserves to have his body and mind made well again.”

Rereading @susanstryker.bsky.social ‘s Words to Victor Frankenstein and this excerpt of a letter in a 1986 Gay/Lesbian rag, I’m struck by how unchanged the emotional bedrock of gender critical ‘feminism’ remains. The rhetoric of threat (to women; to lesbians) is a thin pretext for disgusted affront

University begins High Court challenge against £585k free speech fine The University of Sussex says the watchdog overstepped its legal powers in imposing the fine last year.

This is a welcome move from Sussex University. OfS massively overstepped its role here; what’s more, the 3-year ‘enquiry’ spoke to no students, staff, or management at Sussex. Clearly, it was the OfS fine that was designed to have the chilling effect www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trans research ‘at risk’ if data collection guidance adopted Response to Sullivan Review argues recommendations could hit quality of findings and impinge on academic freedom

This piece has been covered in the Times Higher Education - read more here below ⬇️
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-r...

Screenshot of an intervention abstract in Transactions by Jay JD Todd & Felicity Callard (2026) entitled: 'A Critical Response to the UK's ‘Sullivan Review’ Into Sex and Gender in Research and Data' with a red banner at the top. This intervention argues that the UK Government-commissioned independent review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender (the ‘Sullivan Review’) implicitly promotes the erasure of trans and gender diverse people from research and data collection protocols and carries worrying implications for the inclusion of trans people within UK institutions and for critical social science research. Set in a context where trans and gender diverse people's rights are being rolled back in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, the Review attempts to install a singular model of binary, immutable, ‘biological’ sex as incontrovertible across data gathering on sex and gender across public bodies including government, universities, the health service and research organisations. It does so via appeals to science and to ‘clarity’, and by proposing to limit or even in certain cases remove default ethical review processes. The intervention argues that the Review can be situated within broader attempts to erase critical inquiry into the complex, intersectional production of social categories including sex, gender and sexuality, as well as inquiries that extend what ethical principles and governance involve. In sum, we contend that the Review carries deleterious consequences for geography and other social scientific disciplines and call upon scholars to refuse its vision and implications.

New Intervention in TIBG:

'A critical response to the UK's "Sullivan Review" into sex and gender in research and data' by @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & @felicitycallard.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/tran...

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.

Pleased to see our response to the Sullivan Review covered in @scotnational.bsky.social. Important to build awareness of the review’s potential harms.

Strange to speaking of those times as the good old days…

Digital drawing of soft limey cliffs reflected in iron-red contaminated water at Blast Beach. Overwritten with a poem: The Cliff by Kathleen Jamie: Let’s take our chances here with the mortal / the common and the mortal / And stroll among the clifftop / drifts of pink thrift / The throat-catching, fulmar shit updraft / And let space open / between word and world / wind-strummed, trembling

Reflecting back on research trip with Holly Argent to Blast Beach. We listened to fulmars and with scores inspired by Pauline Oliveros. Later I recalled this poem, by Kathleen Jamie (full text in alt)

Photograph of a print, ‘Wild narcissi’ (left). Original drawn from life in peat soil, pencil, and watercolour on paper using water sampled in situ.

It’s always a joy to see my art being a part of people’s homes and lives. With international wetland day just round the corner, this photo of ‘Wild narcissi’ from Annie Lee is timely

If you have my artwork on your walls, do send me a photo to brighten my day!

Monday and the start of a second week of being prevented from working by my employer, the University of Sheffield. Management has decided that massive damage to staff morale, student experience and the university’s reputation is worth it in a futile attempt to break the union. Shame on them.

"I am Puerto Rican," she says. "I send my kids with their passports to school. I'm having conversations with them about safety: Am I safe at school? A week ago we had an incident where there was a school bus with the STOP sign open and kids were getting on the bus and it was surrounded by ICE agents. And this is 7:20 in the morning and - just - you get that fight-or-flight response." At first her 9-year-old was carrying her passport in her backpack; now it's in her back pocket. "I have to prepare them for it if they get stopped," she says. "I said, Do not engage. This is not the time to be cussing at anyone. But she said, Mom, if I create enough noise, my friends can get away."

Our kids

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It sucks how the world generally forces unwaged disabled people into the shittiest and oldest available houses. It *literally* needs to be the other way around, lol. Even something as basic as cleaning a counter becomes so much easier when you live in a newly built, moderately resourced apartment...

Cover of the booklet, based on the open access science paper

A page, showing visual/verbal language that interplay cleverly. The style is B&W line drawings, creating dense but very clear layouts

The theory and the images speak to each other on each page

Just the sweetest line drawing of a father seahorse parenting his little fry

How about immersing yourself in this truly remarkable, clever & visually stunning piece of work by @sagebrice.bsky.social?
She has crafted a superb call for the liberatory promise of queer/trans ecological sensibilities for critical social science, using comics.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hard to catch them at it, though