Dr Orly Siow

Have just finished reading this (wild Friday night!). Really useful corrective, congrats!

Great new work from my excellent colleague Lukas Bullock! @pollu.bsky.social

🌟Submissions open: "Anti-Racist Feminist Politics: Thinking with Backlash, Creating New Worlds" at ECPG 2026 🌟

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Organised by @drashleec.bsky.social Akwugo Emejulu, Leah Bassel & me

@ecprgender.bsky.social @nclpolitics.bsky.social @psa-race.bsky.social @bsarace.bsky.social

There's a word for the EU's inaction over Gaza: racism | Shada Islam Europe frames the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza as a humanitarian crisis rather than a deliberate political choice. There will be a moral reckoning, says Shada Islam, a commentator on EU affairs

There's a word for the EU's inaction over Gaza: racism | Shada Islam www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Foto einer Straße in offener Land Schaft. Text: The Road to fascism ist lined with people telling you to stop overreacting.

Mood

Thanks for sharing!

📣 CFP: Racialised Space & the Politics of Emotion
📝 Abstracts due: 01/10/2025
📚 Special Issue for Identities
Guest editors: A. Emejulu, L. Bassel, A. Christoffersen & O. Siow

✉️ Submit: a.emejulu@sheffield.ac.uk

#CFP #CriticalRaceStudies #Emotions #RacialisedSpace #IdentitiesJournal

Gazans Are Dying of Starvation

Gazans Are Dying of Starvation www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

Arguments about 'polarisation' and 'division' being the main problem, instead of racism, inequality, fascism, violence and genocide, lead to things like this instead of real action and change.

ECPG 2026: Call for Sections and Section Chairs European Consortium for Political Research

Interested in proposing / convening a section at #ECPG2026, hosted by folks at @nclpolitics.bsky.social?

Details here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

I've done it before and happy to answer any questions!

European Conference on Politics and Gender, Newcastle University, 15-17 June 2026 European Consortium for Political Research

We invite expressions of interest for section chairs and section proposals for the next European Conference on Politics and Gender. The conference will take place in Newcastle, UK, on 15-17 June 2026. More info ecpr.eu/Events/343 , deadline 1 August.

Amazing work @drorlysiow.bsky.social‬! ‘Needles in a haystack: an intersectional analysis of the descriptive, constitutive and substantive representation of minoritised women’ was one of our most cited papers of 2024 🏆
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Screenshot from the above webpage. To Women & Equalities Committee We, the undersigned, write to express serious and urgent concerns about the actions of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the apparent unwillingness of the Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) to investigate them. It is becoming increasingly clear that the EHRC is no longer operating as an impartial human rights body. Over the past several years, its leadership has shifted in a direction that appears ideologically driven, hostile to trans equality, and closely aligned with lobbying groups who advocate for the removal of legal protections for transgender people. These groups - including Sex Matters, Policy Exchange, and the LGB Alliance - have played a significant role in reshaping public discourse and influencing legal interpretations of the Equality Act 2010. We are calling on the Women and Equalities Committee to launch an immediate and transparent inquiry into: - The EHRC’s internal decision-making processes regarding the definition of “sex” under the Equality Act 2010; - All communications, meetings, and correspondence between the EHRC and external lobbying organisations from 2020 to the present; - The EHRC’s advice to government departments, ministers, and the courts—especially its role in shaping the outcome of For Women Scotland v The Lord Advocate [2024] UKSC 59. As transgender people and allies, we are gravely concerned that this advice, and the EHRC’s developing policy stance have been influenced not by human rights or evidence, but by ideological lobbying and political convenience. We must understand who the EHRC has been speaking to, what was said, and why these decisions were made. Anything less is a dereliction of democratic oversight.

Open letter calling for an inquiry into the EHRC. I’ve just signed.

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Fascism.

Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia We call on all trans-inclusive feminist academics and educators to sign this statement: ‘Not In Our Name’ We are non-trans feminist academics and educators. We write in support of trans rights, tran...

STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia'
Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29
Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...

New blog post in @ecpr.bsky.social's @ecprtheloop.bsky.social Based on their @wepsocial.bsky.social research, @drorlysiow.bsky.social, @drashleec.bsky.social & @cerifowler.bsky.social reveal striking inequalities in which NGOs get access to government ministers. bit.ly/44K8MtV
#polisky #gendersky

🌈 Who gets a hearing? Intersectionality, NGOs, and political access Representation is not just about who gets elected. It is also about who gets access to decision makers. Orly Siow, Ashlee Christoffersen and Ceri Fowler conducted research into the engagement between ...

🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.27
📘 Based on their research into engagement between government ministers and NGOs, @drorlysiow.bsky.social, @drashleec.bsky.social and @cerifowler.bsky.social reveal striking inequalities in who gets access ⛔ to political decision-makers.
➡️ bit.ly/44K8MtV

🌈 Who gets a hearing? Intersectionality, NGOs, and political access Representation is not just about who gets elected. It is also about who gets access to decision makers. Orly Siow, Ashlee Christoffersen and Ceri Fowler conducted research into the engagement between ...

Who gets a hearing? Intersectionality, NGO's and political access

New post on @ecprtheloop.bsky.social by
me @drashleec.bsky.social and @cerifowler.bsky.social

theloop.ecpr.eu/who-gets-a-h...

Great speeches at the #translivesmatter protest in London today.

At this point my and other UK and EU universities need to take a much firmer stand of solidarity on behalf of our colleagues in Belgrade.

They're fighting the kind of authoritarian destruction of intellectual life that threatens us all in Europe.

What is the role of the University in promoting and/or resisting political and social change?

Call for Papers: #POLITICAL #SCIENCE & THE #UNIVERSITY

Guest Editors: @anjaneundorf.bsky.social , Robert Pape, & Nicholas Tampio

Deadline: August 1, 2025

More info here: buff.ly/3Wfo0Cq

⏰⏰⏰ JUST ONE WEEK LEFT to submit your abstract for RMI's symposium: 'Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Blackness and Black Politics.' Deadline is 25th April. Apply here: forms.gle/jpPLz7Tuytuu...

Pic from BBC -- white women celebrating outside the UK SC. We may deprivilege the colonial-racial frame, but the hate campaign led by white cis women speaks to a nation that criminalised same-sex relations in its empire, invented 'woman' in its colonies (cf. Oyewumi) & knows how to coerce white +

Guardian headline: Transgender Analysis Judicial ruling on legal definition of ‘woman’ will have UK politicians sighing with relief Peter Walker and Severin Carrell A unambiguous decision by the supreme court helps MPs, MSPs and others dodge difficult questions

You know democracy is going well when the decision to remove the rights of an already marginalised community is celebrated in "serious" analysis for allowing politicians "to dodge difficult questions"

Smells increasingly like the Weimar republic to me...

Sometimes I doubt my judgement but then I remember that I never read Harry Potter or joined Facebook.

🚨 URGENT: Parliament Square This Saturday 1pm– Stand for Trans Rights

This Saturday at 1:00 p.m in Parliament Square, there will be a critical protest in support of trans rights, following todays Supreme Court decision that threatens the recognition and dignity of trans people.

Thanks for having me! 🧡

UK's top court says definition of a woman is based on biological sex and excludes transgender people The U.K. Supreme Court ruled that a woman is someone born biologically female, excluding transgender people from the legal definition in a long-running dispute between a feminist group and the Scottis...

Fascism.

Grant for recruiting international visiting researchers to Sweden The purpose of the grant is to give higher education institutions and other research organisations the opportunity to develop and strengthen a research field by recruiting, in the near future, a promi...

Want to do a research stay in Sweden? There's a grant for that... www.vr.se/5.944b5a9195...