Ruth Fletcher

Conference alert! Thursday 18th-Friday 19th June, 2026, London campus of Loughborough University. Online day: Monday 22nd June, 2026. Please see Call for Papers here:

feministmiscarriageproject.org/conference

No Room To Rest: Dalit Motherhood(s) In An Urban Indian Slum Drawing on her fieldwork, Pragya Roy reflects on Dalit motherhood(s) as demanding, undervalued, embodied (re)productive labour. She critically explores health research, arguing that Dalit health is…

Drawing on her fieldwork, Pragya Roy critically analysis the everyday embodied material realities of Dalit motherhood(s) through the nexus of caste, gender, and economic class.

thepolyphony.org/2025/10/06/n...

Please check out my latest publication in Geoforum. In the article, I discuss how the law of the dead is theologically inspired and secularly adopted to legitimate land claims.

Title: The dead as property marker: a legal geography of the cemetery

doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

We are excited to announce the Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography at the University of Concepción, Chile, 17-20 March 2026. The call is now live @ www.clg.place on our conference page. Deadline for submissions 10 November 2025.

Schwarzer Hintergrund mit weißem Text: „Call for Papers – AAG 2026, San Francisco. Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism. Deadline: October 20, 2025.“ With email addresses from both organizers: klosterkamp@geo.uni-frankfurt.de & cristina.temenos@manchester.ac.uk

📢 CFP | AAG 2026, San Francisco
Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism

In many cities, crisis isn’t rupture—it’s everyday life.
Evictions, debt, precarity, housing struggles.
But also repair, care, solidarity.

@geographers.bsky.social #geosky

Quote from the piece by Miriam Henriquez Vinas & Sabrina Ragone: “The Court provided a comprehensive interpretation of the right to care as implicitly embedded in the Convention, connected to other conventional rights, and multifaceted in nature.”

Care as a human right?

The IACtHR recently recognised this right and specified respective state obligations.

MIRIAM L. HENRÍQUEZ VIÑAS & SABRINA RAGONE explain what this entails – and why we may soon witness a proliferation of norms at the domestic level.

verfassungsblog.de/right-to-car...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime' Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

Whatever your faith, no one should have to risk their lives to pray.
Faith or no faith, all people should feel safe, welcome, and included in our communities.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The violent attack in Manchester today is abhorrent as well as divisive.

We stand in solidarity with the Jewish community, in Haringey and across the UK, and with all who are frightened and worried.

Our communities must be safe, welcoming, and inclusive places for all who live in them.

Restricting access to safe abortion drives women and girls to unsafe procedures.

Access to safe abortion protects the health of women and girls.

As with all other health services, women and girls should be able to access safe and respectful abortion care, when they need it, without fear of harm, punishment or recrimination.

#HealthForAll

The Battle of Cable Street.

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On this day in 1936, the East End of London rose up against fascism. The Battle of Cable Street.

#TheyShallNotPass #NoPasaran

Today is the 89th anniversary of The Battle of Cable Street when the people of the East End of London halted the march of Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts through Stepney.

Last Saturday activists in Malta gathered outside the courts in Valletta, calling for the decriminalisation of abortion. The Voice For Choice coalition are calling for change, to allow women and pregnant people to access the care they need. 👉 timesofmalta.com/article/acti...

"According to the CGIL union, 300,000 people marched through the streets of Rome alone, while the national average participation in the general strike stood at around 60%, halting all the main services in key sectors including transportation and schools."

I’m mad that I never learned how to double dutch this good as a kid 😭

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

State police assisted ICE in the performative brutalization and arrest of protesters today. @govpritzker.illinois.gov must answer for this.

Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes' office has released video of federal agents handcuffing her at Humboldt Park Health, as she asked them to present a judicial warrant for another arrest.

I am just so fucking proud of her.

This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza.

Instead, 461 people—including New Yorkers—have been detained by the Israeli military.

They must be freed at once. And the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now.

Cop holding a rifle.

This is what the state of Illinois sent to greet protesters at Broadview.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · I do not have to be you: Audre Lorde’s Legacy Lorde never had to persuade her comrades about a strategy, tactic or new idea, lose an argument in order to maintain a...

‘Lorde offered a politics that dealt in the realities of survival as well as the necessity of defiance: she refused to give ground to white feminists or to a Black nationalism that assumed women’s subservience.’

@keeanga.bsky.social on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

The feminist historian Joan W. Scott tells a personal story of resistance against authoritarianism.

And, of the imperative of fighting for a democratic education system.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

No Kings: Protest Safety, Know Your Rights & De-Escalation Training I'm attending this event - sign up now to join me!

No Kings Day is right around the corner. Before you hit the streets, join the @aclu.org’s know your rights, protest safety, and de-escalation training to take action safely and confidently. Learn how to protect yourself and your community while standing up for your rights.

Happening now: Hundreds of rabbis and Jewish community members gather in Brooklyn for a mass public memorial service on Yom Kippur, demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and for the U.S. to stop arming Israel.

You don't have to swallow frogs Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.

I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome, the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world.

A Grim New Report Shows How Pregnant People Have Been Policed Post-Roe New research documents the myriad ways pregnancy outcomes have been criminalized in the post-Roe legal environment.

In the two years following Dobbs, @pregnancyjust.bsky.social recorded more than 400 cases of pregnancy criminalization. How to do we hold people's fear of being criminally punished for abortion alongside the data? My story:

Thank you for your email. There is a temporary shutdown of the U.S. government due to a lapse in appropriations. I will respond to your message as soon as possible after the temporary shutdown ends. Please visit ED.gov for the latest information on the Department's operational status. Thank you.

Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of H.R. 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume.

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.

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The PPE scandal is far from over | Good Law Project The Tory VIP lane was a high road to cronyism, says Henry Marsh.

Nearly five years on, PPE Medpro, the company linked to Michelle Mone, will have to pay back £122m for the defective gowns it sold the government.

Now it’s time to go after the ministers who handed out contracts worth billions to their political chums.
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Autistic People - Where are we in 2025? The Positives and Realities Autism. Here we are, 100 years on from the work of Sukhareva, and 80 years on from the original misunderstandings in the 1940s.   So, what...

annsautism.blogspot.com/2025/06/auti... may be helpful in setting out the positives and realities about autism, from actual research, rather than the doom-mongering and total negativity based on whatever goes through his mind that day.
Please do feel free to read and share.

A letter to the Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper MP on Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP's Parliamentary letterhead. It expresses "grave concern for the safety of British citizens participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla". It highlights the illegal seizure of British-flagged ships and British citizens, calling on the government to "clearly condemn this attack on British citizens by the Israeli military and take every action to have our citizens returned to the UK swiftly and safely."

Last night, Israel intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla, illegally seizing ships and those onboard.

I've written to the Foreign Secretary, urging the government to condemn this attack and speak up for the safety and immediate release of the 13 British citizens detained.