Sage Brice (she/her)

Spinoza's Geographical Ethics Spinoza's Geographical Ethics

Spinoza's Geographical Ethics - out now, open access in e-book form: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza... @edinburghup.bsky.social

(check out @hannahkateboast.bsky.social 's work for an astute examination of the gay frog meme and its attendant anxieties and contradictions)

Black and white line drawing of an internet meme. The meme depicts a rainbow, galaxy, a human skeleton and two frogs

A frequent reaction to queer-trans animality that I touch on in this piece is the charge of anthropomorphism. Strategic anthropomorphism has many advantages, one of which is to show how misuse of cishet norms & constructs distorts science (courtship, anyone?) doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2025.2504375

The article in question: doi.org/10.1080/0966...

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.

It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

Spare me your regrets

UK Supreme Court: You're allowed to discriminate against trans people, but you don't have to

cis people: "well, our hands are tied"

rly excited about this one! the last publication from my MA research has been released as part of this new collection of queer geography scholarship, along with the work of such brilliant colleagues as @queergeog.bsky.social @sagebrice.bsky.social & @joejukes.bsky.social !!

doi.org/10.4337/9781...

A photo of the Your Party conference programme sitting on a train table

That was a wild ride, but overall I’d say I’m positively impressed by the conference. There is so much to play for right now, and how the populist left in the UK takes shape in these next few months will be incredibly important. Now for the 5 hrs home via rail replacement (pls nationalise railways!)

A photograph of a large, very full conference hall. At the front are the banners of Your Party

At the @thisisyourparty.bsky.social founding conference this weekend. The atmosphere is one of cautious but committed optimism - neither delusional nor defeatist. Whatever reservations I have, I feel privileged to witness this experiment in mass, deliberative democracy unprecedented in this country

Reminder that lesbians have a more positive view of trans people than trans people do

Good morning, while everyone is waiting for the budget to be announced it’s a good time to say that immigration is a source of prosperity for the UK and painting Britain as a hostile state is sabotaging the country. Thanks!

Thanks! I’ve now gone down the rabbit hole of self-pub vs informal print run, but will update once I have a plan

Wes Streeting continues to ignore safeguarding concerns about parents group linked to abusive practices Trans Safety Network has seen evidence Wes Streeting and the DHSC solicited feedback on a “puberty blocker risk form” from Bayswater Support Group and other anti-trans groups in September 2025, 6 mont...

Trans Safety Network are extremely concerned that DHSC are continuing to solicit input on trans healthcare from Bayswater and other anti trans groups after a reply to our previous concerns stated they would not work with groups who promote harmful practices or discriminatory views

Whiptail lizards drawing

Common gorse drawing

Narcissus drawing (Golan/Jawlan water meadow, occupied Syria)

Giant pike swallowing digger

Did you know I have a side hustle? Buy prints of my artwork at sagebriceprints.co.uk. Place an order this week and it should still be with you by Christmas (UK Mainland)

Photo of the booklet “Not Just Gay Penguins” by Sage Brice and “Together” by Reclaim the Hides

The inside of the book, a graphic nonfiction essay on queer/trans ecologies

Really enjoyable workshop today at the Newbridge Project, and great to have a print copy of this! A few people have asked if they can buy a copy. Let me know if you would like one (and what you’d pay). If there’s enough interest I’ll look into it! We also read from Reclaim the Hides’ brillant zine

Event flyer showing a fragment of birch bark and dried grasses suspended on a dried stalk or bramble, photographed against a sunset sky. Details: UNBOUND Saturday 13th December, 10am - 1pm. New Brancepath Village Hall, Durham DH7 7EP Please get in touch with Scarletsumagr [at] gmail [dot] com to let us know if you will join us or if you have questions or access needs.

Calling all artists - musicians, visual artists, dancers, clowns, actors, poets. Come join us for a morning of creative play and exploration. UNBOUND is a Travelling Space for artists to gather and create in a relaxed environment at different community venues across the northeast of England

I feel like the last couple decades of "is representation good or not?" discourse missed more important questions of "how fragile is representation?", "what do we do when multiple industries eliminate it as an intentional move against us?" and "how can we sustain queer artists when shit goes south?"

States of Precarity in UK HE Geography: A new report on the long and short term effects of precarity across career stages, with a series of best practice resources to support more equitable working cultures.

www.rgs.org/research/hig... @rgsibg.bsky.social @antipodeonline.bsky.social

Thanks to @amkanngieser.bsky.social who put me on to it

It’s an astute and thought-provoking piece, well worth reading. I do think it slips too easily into a set of rather tired dichotomies, even straw figures. Yet I can catch myself making the kinds of appeasing moves Tenorio critiques and I appreciate the provocation to question that impulse

Sam Tenorio on ‘trans joy’ as liberal apparatus of governance: “it seems as though joy has entered the fray to tend to bad feelings both internally and externally, to usher us back from disorientation and disruption's edge, but also to ease our acceptance.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Is it just me, or do skeets have much shorter lifespans than tweets used to?

Placing fieldwork alongside examples of visual and performative practice, the chapter reflects on the significance and future direction of queer-trans ecologies in critical geographical enquiry.

Edited by Alison Bain and Julie Podmore. Not open access, but feel free to contact me for a PDF.

Doing fieldwork while queer and trans can be difficult, vulnerable, and uncertain work. Together, we consider the processes through which we came to understand both queer-transness and ecological frameworks as integral to the critical geographical projects we were developing 🧵

Queer Geographies ‘This powerful and provocative book brings forward new lines of queer geographical inquiry and debate. Beautifully illustrated, the original artwork visually represents and introduces each chapter. Th...

On a bit of a roll with the book chapters! My epistolary with the incredible Cleo Wölfle Hazard, "Messing up (in) the field: Finding queer-trans ecologies in geographical fieldwork", is now out in Edward Elgar's Handbook of Queer Geographies

www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/que...

Thanks to @cordyf.bsky.social and Syndey Calkin for their careful and supportive editorial work. @geogdurham.bsky.social

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library Queer, feminist, and non-representational geographies have highlighted the ways that a predetermined and self-contained idea of the subject limits the options for theorising the politics of identity ...

The chapter offers an entry point to trans geographies and their wider implications, suitable for both students and established geographers. It's a shortened and re-contextualised version of my argument on vulnerability and radical femme politics (open access here: doi.org/10.1111/tran.12358)

16 Trans Geographies 16 Trans Geographies was published in De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography on page 201.

Delighted to see a new chapter greet the light of day, alongside a formidable line up of feminist political geographers (expansively defined!). Use code DGBHOLIDAY40 at checkout for 40% off the book, valid till the end of December (or – let your librarian know): doi.org/10.1515/9783...

@geogdurham.bsky.social, #menasky