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Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 12h ago

Our code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx

Applications are now open for the PhD program in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at #UniversityofMaryland 🌈🎓 Learn more about the program and apply at go.umd.edu/ApplyWgssPhd Applications are due no later than Tue, Nov 17, 2026 at 11:59 PM #AcademicSky #PhDSky #feministsky

How about this. No one should go hungry. No one should go unhoused. No one should go without dental and medical care. Or education. Or mental health care. Or whatever they need to live a good life. We don’t need billionaires.

On the fourth of July, 1980, about fifteen trans women went to one of the most upscale public swimming pools in Milan, took off their tops, and started lounging around. It was a Friday, and the height of the summer vacation, so there were plenty of families with young children around. 1/

100% this, never ever respond to a trans person that "oh reform will be worse" because, we are not talking about what reform may do, we are actively trying to fight what labour are doing now, in the present. The only different is labour try to make it nice, with bullshit lik respect and dignity

The term "biological sex" was adopted widely only in the last decade as a reaction to mainstream acceptance of trans people. It was rarely if ever used before that. By any metric, from legislative usage to search query usage, it's plainly evident this is a novel term only made popular by the right.

Jessica Kant@jessdkant.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I think people think we're exaggerating when we say the widespread use of the term "biological sex" as a term itself isn't organic. This data isn't anomalous, it comports with everything we've seen about the specific use of the term.

I’ve spent more than a year reporting on how the fossil fuel industry has infiltrated academia over the last 30 years, shaping fundamental paradigms on how to address climate change. My first story in the new @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social series, “Carbon Captured”, is out today.

ProPublica@propublica.org · last mo.

NEW: This is the story of how one of the most influential climate papers in history came to exist thanks to one of the companies most responsible for causing the climate crisis — and one with a financial stake in the technologies described in the paper. w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social

Superb special issue call; "Frantz Fanon and Global Combative Decoloniality" eds. Nelson Maldonado-Torres & Mireille Fanon. Abstracts due Oct 2026. Submission accepted in English, French, Spanish & Portuguese. Please make a submission & share widely. www.revistatabularasa.org/en/call-for-...

In their introduction to the new issue of Social Text, which is called "Sylvia Wynter and the Question of Technology," editors Che Gossett and @tavia.bsky.social emphasise the ongoing relevance of Wynter's work. Opening sentence:

New special issue of Social Text @dukepress.bsky.social on Sylvia Wynter and technology, edited by Che Gossett and @tavia.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/social-text/...

Volume 44 Issue 2 (167) | Social Text | Duke University Press

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My paper, "Go back to where you come from”: the national re-making of racist borders,” has just been published in *Citizenship Studies.* I talk about how nationalism adds to the racist repertoire by drawing a line between people seen to be of a place and those who are declared to be out of place.

“Go back to where you come from”: the national re-making of racist borders”

Racism draws dividing lines that delineate between supposedly different types of people. Nationalism adds to the racist repertoire by also drawing a line between people seen to be of a place and th...

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Now released to the book trade. A Studious Use. Designing from the Undercommons Giovanni Marmont

“We support the dignity of gay people but getting married or having kids should just be between a man and a woman.” “We support the dignity of trans people but sex is what is assigned at birth and gendered spaces should be based on biology.” There is no “dignity” with discrimination. Just saying.

I don't post much anymore but I found out a few hours ago that the wonderful Emi Koyama died, I'm away from home, and I'm so very sad about it. I would like to share that grief together with others on here who are indebted to Emi (which is: all of us feminist queers against cisness). Rest in power.

There are, in my view, 25 things everyone needs to understand in light of recent events: 1) Those out in our communities last night were not protestors, but organised far right extremists. 2) Their actions align with fascist ideologies. 3) So yes: these are fascist practices on our streets. 🧵

CARNIVAL AGAINST FASCISM THIS SATURDAY 13 JUNE 2026 11 AM QUEENS RD BRIGHTON THE MARCH OF THE FAR RIGHT ENDS HERE RACISTS PLAN TO MARCH IN OUR CITY - WE WON'T LET THEM! BRING THE NOISE! #CarnivalAgainstFascism

“The women’s movement has fought for centuries to avoid being defined only by biology…” Dr Anna Cody (Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner) reminds us why many feminists oppose laws that define what it means to be a woman in crude binary or biological terms. Trans rights are feminist too.

Sex Discrimination Act Commissioner Slams ‘Retrograde’ Push To Redefine Women

Sex Discrimination Commissioner Dr Anna Cody has condemned a bill that would redefine "man" and "woman" in the Sex Discrimination Act

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NEW BOOK(S) ALERT! 🌈🥰🌈 I’ve been writing and writing and have two new books coming out next year. This is the PM listing for the two books. I’m so thankful, and am excited about these offerings. They are as follows:

Reading excerpts from yet another book discussing how transition positions "biomedical intervention as necessary" and makes trans people "cathect hope on a for-profit medical industry" and I am done. I am fucking done. This is fucking out of touch with reality and yet rife in trans scholarship.

🚨DR UK's Statement on the EHRC's New Code of Practice "We are appalled at implications that an adequate workaround is trans people using Disabled toilets instead. We will not be used as a loophole in the wider erosion of trans rights." Full statement👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...

The Sylvia Wynter archive has recently opened at Duke, and there's an online version of the inaugural exhibition. Includes some fascinating snippets from her papers, plus rare photos, like this one. Link to the exhibit: exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/sho...

I wrote something, and I got a lot out of my system while doing it. I am trying to be like Audre Lorde, and fill my anger with "information and energy." But sometimes, it's a scream into the void that's necessary. Thanks @aoifemod.bsky.social and DFLW for the opportunity. dflw.ie/breaking-the...

Breaking the Code - Doing Feminist Legal Work

To my friend, the editor,

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We're just out here trying to keep publishing gay books! We're working on making Metonymy more sustainable and this fundraiser is a small part of getting there. Please share/donate/keep reading <3

Donate to Help Sustain Metonymy Press, organized by Metonymy Press

TLDR; Metonymy Press needs money to keep publishing groundbreaking queer books! You have th… Metonymy Press needs your support for Help Sustain Metonymy Press

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Our new article explores how collegiality only applies to white groups to perpetuate white supremacy @martinmyers.bsky.social Being a ‘good’ citizen: white collegiality and academic citizenship share.google/WvMY4Shvw4LP...

Being a ‘good’ citizen: white collegiality and academic citizenship

UK Academics face multiple pressures that foster competition. These include, a failing funding model leading to universities cutting academic posts; increasing reliance on short-term, insecure cont...

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I felt differently after reading Sylvia Wynter. It took a few years to wrap my head around her ideas, yes, but once I caught a glimmer of her project and voice, everything shifted in me, and grew from there—including how I inhabit and live with and move through academic worlds.

Who are "The People"? Event in Brighton on 3rd June, co-organised by my Sussex colleague @hannahrichter.bsky.social www.brighthink.org/events/who-a...

WHO ARE “THE PEOPLE”?: Populism, Power and the Future of Democracy — Brighthink

TICKETS £5 (plus booking fee) Across the globe, right-wing populist are leading opinion polls and winning elections with the promise to fight for the interests and concerns of the people, which t...

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It's hard being trans because of other people. Transness itself should be beautiful. It's a prayer to live the best possible life. It's hope. It's proof that major changes are possible, even when change seems extraordinarily difficult. It should be the most amazing thing, but they make it hard

In 2020 @yaelrice.bsky.social and I authored this article to dispute this kind of pseudo-scientific research, which regularly gets press attention, precisely so that others don't have to cope with the tedium of refuting it. Here's the refutation you need! hyperallergic.com/how-scientis...

How Scientists Use and Abuse Portraiture

Many scientific studies assume that the features of painted faces are the facts of the flesh-and-blood countenances to which they refer. This assumption is not only false; it is preposterous.

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Hallie Rubenhold@hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Here we go again. Every so often tech makes an incursion into history, completely ignores that history is a rigorous discipline with a methodology, and then claims that a mystery or issue that historians have grappled with can be solved with an algorithm. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?