Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri

I think they’re dangerous- and absolute charlatans- but I also think they’re profiting off (and preying on) peoples’ deep fears and experiences of medical neglect and violence

And yes- we do need to confront how fucking neoliberal privatisation and individualisation is at the root of his hellscape. 4/

We do also need to grapple with that in asking why people turn to these charlatans. It’s also so telling that the bare graft of these people functions where people cannot *afford* care- when you are priced out of care let alone empathetic care 3/

For all the advances in medicine and healthcare, for all the midwives and doulas and accompaniers who are providing exemplary care despite creaky underfunded stuck-in-their-ways institutions: birthing can be a horrific, painful, violating process.2/

this is so deeply upsetting to read, for many reasons. the takeaway isn’t jus ‘prosecute influencers’ but why there is such deep distrust of medicine and obstetric care- we know the rates of obstetric violence are horrifying, maternal mortality & morbidity is shocking; & so deeply racialised. 1/

This week in Critical Bioethics, we asked "What kids of ethics in a pandemic?" - apart from the moral frameworks ("no egalitarians in a pandemic" - really?), we reflected on ungrievability, necropolitics too. A student asked "what evidence did they draw on?" I've just sent them the inquiry report.

I can kind of understand JMDP, but not Kuz - 4 GS overall (2 singles, 2 doubles), especially when Roddick is there with his single slam (whom I really like!). I also don't get Nestor getting rejected THREE times -EIGHT majors AND an Olympic gold. What do they base this on?!

I love this thread - including photos of lesbians organizing at Beijing in 1995!

In my book I look at this lesbian advocacy as it relates to the movement for women's peacebuilding globally.

Check it out here, and message me if you have any trouble accessing it. academic.oup.com/book/61612/c...

Given it’s taking 7, 8 up to 23 years to make some determinations this actually had me laughing out loud in the absolute certainty this this is undeliverable on every level. It’s a broken policy on inception. The bureaucracy alone is unworkable.

🚨 1st-ever WHO Infertility guidelines out 28 Nov

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#SRHR

ok, wow. i did not expect to hear a reference to Club of Rome's 'Limits of Growth' report on this radio show. Demographic anxieties x climate issues are everywhere...

and if you wanted to listen in: lakedistrictradio.org

"because the #2s belong on the radio, not in our lakes"

Not so Golden Brown: DJ plays 24-hours of No 2s in Lake District sewage protest Radio host uses chart songs that didn’t quite make top spot to highlight issue of Windermere pollution

this really made me laugh (not the sewage in waterways!) and is the most British way to protest that I’ve heard in a while

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

@eecoast.bsky.social not sure why it didn't tag you! :(

It took a community to bring this work into being: WHW team at the frontlines, Maria Lewandowska's careful translations and notes shaped our corpus, even Reviewer 2 who was the absolute bane of my existence, and my thoughtful, engaged co-authors: I am so lucky to learn from you. 5/5

“Abortion is what makes life liveable in the precarious present whilst enabling possibilities of future lives." Feminist networks like WHW are essential to this political project -nott just a counter to the careless-ness of these infrastructures but clarion call for *collective* feminist care 4/

"I have never been in such a hopeless situation in my life. I even have to borrow money to buy some bread."
We argue that abortion is often a protective act that makes life liveable, thus theorising abortion as a political demand emerging from structurally violent & precarious life conditions.
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We [@eecoast.bsky.social, @joestrong.bsky.social, Footman, @luberropizzarossa.bsky.social, @clarewenham.bsky.social, Jelinska, & I] draw on 8,577 consultations + 80 emails to Women Help Women (Apr–Dec 2020) showing how precarity and structural violence make pregnancy a “cliff edge”.

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‼️New Publication‼️ Precarity and Pills in a Pandemic: online #abortion care-seeking in Poland.

How did COVID-19 shape abortion care-seeking in Poland?

The pandemic deepened existing precarities and structural violence, reshaping abortion decision-making.

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doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

interesting @podsavetheuk.crooked.com epon abortion in the UK- Lisa was great!- but I’d suggest that perhaps imaginations/knowledges of fighting back is actually from non-US contexts like Argentina, or y’know, Ireland! The most radical abortion work is not happening in the US. 😕

In Oct 2023, an FOI revealed an actual wait at my nearest clinic (Exeter) of 17yrs & 3mos, a fact that stunned everyone I told. In one year, that's grown to THIRTY-ONE YEARS.

NOT bcos referral rates are ballooning, as the MSM claims, but bcos at last count, each clinician only did 1.6 new appts pcm

I love when bus driver uncle sees me at the zebra crossing and nods at me, and waits at the bus stop for me to catch up. 🥹

The government has announced yet another proposed anti-protest law: a new criminal offence of protesting outside the home of someone in public office "where their intention is to influence them in their role or an aspect of their private life", with a maximum sentence of 6 months’ imprisonment.

Has anyone ever volunteered as an independent visitor?

Mannheim Centre for Criminology | PhD Symposium 2026 The LSE’s Mannheim Centre for Criminology is pleased to announce the inaugural PhD Symposium taking place 18-19 May 2026

The Mannheim Centre at the LSE is holding a PhD symposium in May '26. The details are here lse.ac.uk/social-polic... and I would encourage all interested PhD students to apply. Should be a great, great event

even when they’re stripped of titles, they’re still propped up with our tax monies.

grow up already, it’s been time for a @republiccampaign.bsky.social for aeons already

Phoebe Martin | King's College London Research Associate

And we're SO lucky to have Dr @phoebesmartin.bsky.social chair this discussion. Dr Martin's work on art, activism, feminist politics, and reproductive justice makes her a particularly brilliant chair and facilitator for this stellar panel. www.kcl.ac.uk/people/phoeb...

Decolonizing Reproductive Rights in Latin America Decolonizing Reproductive Rights in Latin America - The Cases of Forced Sterilization in Peru; Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this book examines forced sterilization through various registers, from ...

Dr Chaparro-Buitrago- whose book has JUST come outp- will be reflecting on the lived experiences of Indigenous women subjected to sterilisation in Peru, and the dissonances between rights discourse and embodied harm. Check out her book here: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/decolonizing...

Magic Misoprostol Magic Misoprostol - Reproductive Justice and Abortion Liberation in Latin America; This book develops three conceptual lenses around abortion access: reproductive justice, mobility politics and geogra...

@cordyf.bsky.social will be drawing on her new book which explores how misoprostol - a stomach ulcer drug- became a tool of reproductive justice, reshaping abortion safety, knowledge, and mobility across Latin America. Check out the book (OA) here: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/magic-misopr...