Author wearing a rainbow dyed t-shirt takes a photo of them showing off their book, The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law.
My book is published! Itโs a critical take on how emotions shape conflicts about LGBT rights and repair in equality law, gender recognition, bans on conversion practices, and sex education in schools. You can download it free via @edinburghup.bsky.social: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...
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These headlines are designed to cultivate rage, hostility, and anxiety towards trans people (while misrepresenting the British government as โpro-transโ). The media are manufacturing panics about trans existence and visibility, much like what they used to do about gay people. Itโs recycled bigotry.
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Screenshot of article link.
โThe Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law gives language to what we know in our bodies and powerfully models embodied writing and analysisโฆโ
Samantha Peters shares a beautiful review of my book, exploring imagination as justice work.
Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Man in a rainbow Pride t-shirt holds up postcard which says โTrans Rights Are Human Rights.โ
Spreading an unapologetically simple message at the start of the Mardi Gras Pride festival in Sydney: trans rights are human rights.
We will keep fighting for a world where all trans people thrive with safety, freedom, care, and community.
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Man in a white shirt, blue shorts, and red sunglasses takes selfie in front of a rainbow path.
Nice to be back in Sydney frolicking on a rainbow pathโฆ
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Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott
Texas A&M University is the latest school to end womenโs and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why
โFeminist-initiated scholarly programs in schools & universities across the country brought a critical lens to the biological determinism Trump invokesโฆ suppression of gender studies is not only an attempt to suppress a critical analytical tool, but also knowledge itself.โ
Wise words by Joan Scott.
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Trans people facing โworkersโ rights crisisโ after latest ruling, campaigners says
But a High Court judge said service providers should be โguided by common sense and benevolenceโ when providing toilet facilities to trans people
โThe High Court has clarified that trans people should not be forced to use facilities in line with their birth sex, but it is hard to see how treating us as a โthird sexโ at work aligns with the privacy protections in the Gender Recognition Act or the Human Rights Act.โ
We must make law better.
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These headlines are designed to cultivate rage, hostility, and anxiety towards trans people (while misrepresenting the British government as โpro-transโ). The media are manufacturing panics about trans existence and visibility, much like what they used to do about gay people. Itโs recycled bigotry.
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โThe court has also made clear that it will likely be discriminatory to force trans people to use facilities based on their sex recorded at birth. In short, the law does not require a bathroom ban.โ
But itโs worrying that the court believes segregating trans people in a โthird spaceโ is acceptable.
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BREAKING: governmentโs decision to proscribe Palestine Action under terrorism law ruled UNLAWFUL
This matters for everyone.
For years, the right to protest has been under sustained and deliberate attack.
Thousands of people have been arrested for something that should have never been a crime.
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UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule
Protest groupโs co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws
โThe co-founder of Palestine Action has won a legal challenge to the home secretaryโs decision to ban the group under anti-terrorism laws.โ
Excellent news. The British governmentโs continued attacks on the right to protest, especially on those who speak out against genocide, must be challenged.
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Gender guidance for English primary school pupils permits use of different pronouns
DfE guidance urges teachers to respond to social transition requests โwith cautionโ and includes Cass report findings
โIt also stresses the need for caution on social transitioning for younger childrenโฆโ
The idea that schools need to be โcautiousโ when affirming the identities of young trans people reinforces the transphobic belief that being trans (like being gay) is a โphaseโ or โdangerous lifestyle.โ Shameful.
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Iโm very excited to share that our edited volume Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice is now out! ๐งฟ
It is available open access and can be downloaded at: uclpress.co.uk/book/creativ...
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AI Doesnโt Reduce WorkโIt Intensifies It
One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools donโt reduce work, they consisten...
โAI accelerated certain tasks, which raised expectations for speed; higher speed made workers more reliant on AI. Increased reliance widened the scope of what workers attempted, and a wider scope further expanded the quantity and density of work.โ
AI distorts how we feel about work. Itโs dangerous.
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The NSW government will talk about the importance of maintaining โsocial cohesionโ while perpetrating violence against citizens who seek to exercise their right to protest. This is horrific.
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Hungary: Pride organiser faces prison in latest attack on LGBTI rights
We uncover truth and hold the powerful to account. Take action, donate and join the Amnesty movement to protect human rights.
โRather than being threatened with a criminal sentence, he should be commended for his courage in organising the largest Pรฉcs Pride in history.โ
Solidarity with Gรฉza Buzรกs-Hรกbel and the many other activists in Hungary fighting for their freedoms. Everyone should be free to celebrate Pride.
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Are you a data nerd who enjoys thinking/being queer? Then share your work at the Queer Data Showcase in Manchester.
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58 UK public libraries have parenting books with advice to encourage children to detransition
An anti-trans book that encourages โdesistanceโ, the practice of โreverting back to a cisgender identityโ, is available to parents all across the UK
โThe book encourages parents to put children in anti-affirmation medical and educational spaces, and to cut off loved ones who support their child's transition.โ
Writing about trans youth as a product of โideologyโ is dehumanising. This is the language of conversion practices. Itโs child abuse.
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New data shows surge in trans kidsโ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project
A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare
โA freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcareโฆโ
The political attacks on healthcare for young trans people has horrific outcomes. Trans youth deserve to thrive.
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Hand holds up book โQueer as Folkloreโ by Sacha Coward.
Just finished reading this queer nostalgia-inducing treat by @sachacoward.bsky.social. This book illuminates how queerness shapes the monsters, fairies, mermaids, superheroes of our childhood and how our attachments to folk stories nourish our weird, fabulous, and curious ways. Check it out.
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Man in a puffy coat and pink jacket and green bowtie takes selfie in front of an Oxford college.
Channelling my dandy energy in Oxford.
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It's a pleasure attending the amazing @senthorun.bsky.social's book talk in Oxford, organized by the no less amazing @davideichert.bsky.social! ๐ฅฐ
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Man in a โOH DEER, IโM QUEERโ t-shirt holds up his book, โThe Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law.โ
Borrowed my boyfriendโs very gay t-shirt and pranced over to Oxford to talk about my very gay book.
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Man in a black jacket and pink t-shirt takes selfie holding up birthday card with a flamingo and rainbow cake on it.
Another year older. Another year gayer.
Always flamboyant.
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Man in a pink flamingo t-shirt holds up LEGO flamingo.
Made a flamingo today. ๐ฆฉ
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โThereโs no single answer that will solve all our future problems. Thereโs no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answersโat least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.โ
โ Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay
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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Queer Histories
How do we apply modern LGBT+ language and identities to historical figures?
Today is the start of LGBT+ History Month in the UK. I joined some cool people a while ago to reflect on why queer and trans histories are rich and powerful. Our histories can illuminate the possibilities of activism and politics, as we work to build a better world.
Keep the conversation going.
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LGBTQ+ history dude (He/Him) ๐ Research, Tours & Escape Rooms. Mermaid lover. Lifts heavy things for attention.
Maรฎtre de confรฉrences/Associate Professor. Universitรฉ Paris Citรฉ.
Sexual minorities, social movements, political careers, France +USA.
Latest book: https://www.septentrion.com/fr/livre/?GCOI=27574100589030
Website: https://hugobouvard.cygale.net
โฆ law + govt โง โฆ coffee + kai โง โฆ critic + conscience โง โฆ rugby + rugby โง โฆ rainbows + unicorns โง โ usual disclaimers apply
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Sociologist of authoritarianism, violence & resistance.
Author of four books with
Cornell UP, Univ California Press, Temple UP & McGill-Queen's UP.
Editor-in-Chief, International Social Science Journal (Wiley/UNESCO).
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Research & innovation project on how moral emotions in politics both unite and divide society. #HorizonEU.
Nine European orgs.; over 10 scientific disciplines.
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Education, Research & Advocacy about & for Transgender & Non-Binary People. Views my own.
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Legal academic at Durham University, researching labour law and human rights with a focus on domestic workers, other marginalised workers and issues of gender and migration. Trustee for migrant domestic worker NGO Kalayaan. She / her
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Author of The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared ('26).
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PhD from Cambridge. Homesick Australian.
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Senior Lecturer in history. Views my own. Historian of US politics and sexuality, especially Sumner Welles. Canadian. Non-binary (she/they) Fabulous.
Specialist in international refugee law, human rights policy, comms and advocacy. Also posting about being autistic and LGBTQIA+ rights. (They/them). My views, no-one else would want them.
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