Soph Lively

'For Americans across age groups [..] more effort is needed to develop third spaces and offline alternatives to combat modern disconnection. Recognizing the universal nature of loneliness and tackling it from a positive-sum approach should be a boon to us all'

My article with Kian Aspinall in @DistinktionT is now available tp read. It's open access so anyone can read it (link below)

Neoliberal fascism emerges from the essential social relations of neoliberal hegemony in combination with its increasingly authoritarian statecraft

Exposed: New Far-Right Research Unit Targeting Progressive Activists – HOPE not hate A group of far-right activists have formed a new information gathering unit and have progressive activists in their sights, HOPE not hate (HNH) can reveal. ...

🚨 NEW: HOPE not hate can today reveal that a group of far- right activists has set up a covert research unit to gather data on thousands of progressives. Our team has gone inside their chat group to discover more about their plans. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/11/20/e...

'Racism, transphobia and the mainstreaming of far-right politics in Britain'

New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by Maddy Clark and @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social

Read the blog post ⬇️
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#farright #racism @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became Britain’s latest culture war Reform UK is exploiting opposition to solar panels – but most farmers are more worried about climate change.

My latest article, with the fantastic @alexheffron.bsky.social has just been published. Looking how Reform UK are trying to turn placement of Solar Panels on farmland in a rural culture war and wedge issue.

theconversation.com/you-cant-eat...

Forever a favourite picture

‘Seeing Others from here and there' by Galen Watts

Book Review of 'Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World'

Published as part of our latest #Symposium:
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@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @mlamont.bsky.social

Amazing to see so many people protest against Trump and the rise of fascism

What will be crucial though will be to avoid exceptionalising him and understand what has created a fertile soil for these politics

There can be no return to the "normal" that paved the way for the far right

The challenge of counting hidden homelessness in Britain

We can all see rough sleepers on our streets, but a much higher number of people are experiencing homelessness out of view.

Look forward to finishing the day by listening to this...

How Keir Starmer conned the British electorate Book review: ‘The Fraud’ offers the most damning portrayal yet of the Starmer project.

👉NEW -- How Keir Starmer conned the British electorate

by Richard Sanders

Book review: ‘The Fraud’ offers the most damning portrayal yet of the Starmer project.
www.declassifieduk.org/how-keir-sta...

INSIGHTS Lecture: Everyday Islamophobia by Professor Peter Hopkins INSIGHTS Lecture: Everyday Islamophobia by Professor Peter Hopkins, Newcastle University

INSIGHTS Lecture: Everyday Islamophobia by Professor Peter Hopkins.

Drawing on his new book, this talk explores how the #Islamophobia industrial complex shapes lived experiences of Islamophobia.

University of Newcastle, Tue, 11 Nov 17:30: https://ow.ly/uf6j50X9OAE

Academic milestone day.....my first ever CFP, alongside the fantastic @ckweatherill.bsky.social We're putting together a panel looking at Gender and resistance in environmental politics for the @mybisa.bsky.social conference next June. Please share away and get in touch if it's of interest

Mahmood: Pro-Palestinian protests 'un-British' after terror attack The home secretary told BBC Breakfast she was disappointed pro-Palestinian protests went ahead.

Labour or Conservative, governments always find a way to demonise Palestine solidarity protests – this time Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's version of Suella Braverman's "hate marches" is "un-British" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Morag is holding up 3 copies of The Feminist Art of Walking. They cover the bottom half of her face but her eyes show she is smiling broadly. Her hair is bright pink with black roots

Woot!

Best start to the week is sharing The Feminist Art of Walking is now an actual book, I have an actual box of them actually singing to me from the sofa. THANKS @plutopress.bsky.social and all walk with me.

Pre-orders www.plutobooks.com/978074535100... Please RT x #psychogeography #WalkingArt

Labour is platforming someone who called for deeper DWP cuts at its conference A Fabian author of a report that called for an end to DWP ESA is to speak at a Labour conference event on 'restoring trust' in welfare

Labour is platforming someone who called for deeper DWP cuts at its conference

An author of a report that called for an end to DWP ESA is to speak at a Labour conference event on 'restoring disabled people's trust' in the welfare system
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

"The Starmer leadership want Reform to do well. It's the strategy that you're going to alight upon if you are a centrist political formation with nothing positive to offer, because the only way you can get people to vote for you is to make it a kind of blackmail." - @leninology.bsky.social

To unite or divide: legacy of Britain’s flags exposed Across Britain’s history and current political spectrum the Union Jack and St George’s flags represent a nation unwelcoming to refugees

Another excellent article by the very amazing @sophlively.bsky.social

centralbylines.co.uk/news/home-af...

Kindest comments!

Darren McGarvey: 'A lot of my friends are dead – I'm the exception'

Men born in the poorest areas of the country can expect to die 10.4 years sooner than those born in the richest areas. Can Labour fix it?

Using AI is bad scholarship; passing it off as your own work is academic misconduct.

Applause and abuse at the Durham Miners' Gala - Freedom News The event showed working class solidarity—but also the rising tensions in a Reform-supporting County ~ Tom Brown ~ It was an early start for Durham Miners’ Gala, these islands’ largest gathering of th...

"We were told that the police had been hassling the Palestine Bloc, with one caution for wearing a T-shirt that allegedly may have implied support for Palestine Action. I’ve never heard of the police trying to hassle marchers at the Gala before" freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/13/d...

If you support trans people but not Palestinians, you’ve misunderstood the fight. Queer & Palestinian liberation are both about tearing down the same colonial systems that criminalize existence, surveil bodies, and justify genocide of both in the name of order. These are not separate struggles.

Abolition and the renewal of community: from carceral feminism to collective self-determination

Mimi E Kim writes in our latest special issue on the embrace of policing as a guarantor of women's safety by feminist carceral activists in 1980s America, and how community-based, non-carceral approaches to gender-based violence offer an alternative buff.ly/M6VzkhL #CDJ

Class and masculinity are connected – when industry changes, so does what it means to ‘be a man’ The process of deindustrialisation affects not just the type of work that was done, but how men in the region see themselves.

Another great piece from the fantastic @sophlively.bsky.social Loving the link to Paul Willis' Learning to Labour, one of my favourite books! You can also catch her at a panel discussion on Thursday exploring these issues futher. Link is in the article. theconversation.com/class-and-ma...

Recycled panic: The long history of worrying about boys and men Across media and politics, claims of a “masculinity crisis” are rising. But is this new or just history repeating? A deeper look at boys, men, and cultural change.

“The real work lies in moving past old scripts and moral panics, and towards a more thoughtful, inclusive approach to gender justice.” @steven-d-roberts.bsky.social

The discourse of masculinity as “in crisis” is deeply problematic.

lens.monash.edu/@steven-robe...

Have you read the latest #IdentitiesBlog?

'The proximity of the 'far' right' by @liamgillespie.bsky.social

Read the blog post ⬇️
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@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

"They did not show up for any of the other outrages against women and girls ... the only kinds of riots that are ever treated with such solicitousness, such strenuous attempts to 'understand', such charitable interpretation — are race riots." @leninology.bsky.social

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Daniel Trilling · Is this fascism? As the historian Ian Kershaw says, trying to define fascism is ‘like trying to nail jelly to a wall’, yet for all...

‘As the historian Ian Kershaw says, trying to define fascism is “like trying to nail jelly to a wall”, yet for all its slipperiness, “fascism” describes a uniquely destructive force in politics, and one for which we don’t have a better word.’

@trillingual.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

📖 #OpenAccess article by @thelrm.bsky.social explores gendered street harassment during walking interviews with women in Manchester - told through a series of powerful #vignettes each capturing a different incident.

Read here: doi.org/10.1111/area...

#Geography #Ethnography #Research #Anthropology