So let’s break this down a touch more via the Swedish angle because it has been a thing for years (and I’ll admit it’s a bit annoying to see people notice it only now but hey better late than never I suppose). The exact way this has gotten wielded is psychiatrists pondering statistics aloud

Dr Emma Sheppard@emmas.bsky.social · last yr.

Hey, disability studies people. We need to talk about this: www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/28/n... - because we know where it's come from, right? You know that research behind this has come from people in our field, right?

Hey, disability studies people. We need to talk about this: www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/28/n... - because we know where it's come from, right? You know that research behind this has come from people in our field, right?

NHS 'to test trans young people for autism and ADHD'

Trans young people will allegedly be 'screened' for autism and ADHD according to planned NHS guidance on youth gender clinics.

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Genuinely if I had been outflanked on the left by Tim Martin and Wetherspoons and I considered myself to be a left wing politician, I would resign and spend the rest of my career in a cave reflecting on how I let my brain get so rotted by columnists about who shits where

Crip guests in my essay echo @emmas.bsky.social's "There is joy in the ashes of the future-not-to-be, there is pleasure in their discomfort with our joy and our rejection." Also online as a BSL video, with captions & audio description - and an embodied Footnote played by Deaf actor Ciaran Stewart.

"Writing from the Groin" video essay by Sandra Alland (BSL with AD and CC)

YouTube video by BOPTheatre

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Lads, I am very rubbish at posting here, but: I wrote a thing, and it is now out with Feminist Theory. doi.org/10.1177/1464... - it's called The Necessary Pleasures of the Crip Killjoy and it's about thinking with brain fog and discomfort and violence and joy in refusal.

Ending this week in Social Theory with "It Ain't Half Racist Mum" from Stuart Hall (and Box of Broadcasts) - as rounding up Hall's work on TV discourse, encoding/decoding.

And remember, Stock resigned voluntarily, after receiving the full & unconditional backing of the university. Possibly because she thought she was getting a new gig at the University of Grievance, Austin...

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last yr.

If you want to know why the Uni of Sussex is being punished, it is because they failed "to atone for its mistreatment of Kathleen Stock".

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

Magnificently, I have a publication out. Myself, Tamar MacLellan and Erika Hawkes wrote about what an arts approach did for us when talking about trauma in HE. It's in the Journal of Learning Development in HE: doi.org/10.47408/jld...

Oh this is a *really* good point! 🧵

Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · last yr.

"if you live long enough you will experience some kind of disability" is weirdly counter to social model theory in a way that bugs me.

Now taking suggestions for where I left my sunglasses.

Today had one of those seminars which went off track from the beginning, but was nonetheless great. We should have talked about risk as social/cultural. And we sort of did - but we talked about risk vs fear, the orgasm gap, student loans, and crafting.

can Labour please, please just tot up the number of voters with a) more than ten million quid and b) less than ten million quid, and do the fucking maths on what the country would prefer.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · last yr.

Labour MP Dawn Butler calls on the Government to impose a wealth tax of 2% on assets over 10 million, rather than cutting benefits. "That's a better way to bring money in to help fill the black hole that we found ourselves in," she says.

Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Liz Kendall's speech today laid out plans to cut disability and sickness benefits by billions. ❌ No truly moral choice would leave disabled people without support designed to allow them to lead a dignified life, or facing hardship. 1/4

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

Liz Kendall unveils UK benefits cuts set to leave many sick and disabled worse off

Today: trying to get my smart meter fixed, organising training, writing seminar. Maybe screaming into the void

Two templates - one for people who are directly affected and one for allies. Please write to your MP and let them know how immoral, counterproductive and devastating- these cuts will be www.inclusionlondon.org.uk/campaigns-an...

The scriptwriters for Doctor Odyssey are trying to make orcas the bad guys and it's not working.

Today's seminar discussed the selfie as cultural product and I am now going to crumble to dust

a cartoon character says " the very instant i became old " in front of a red phone

Alt: Prof Farnsworth from Futurama - a wrinkled old man with a very pointy bald head,wearing a lab coat. He says "the very instant i became old"

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This is such a vital piece by @davehitchcock.bsky.social on the university funding crisis, which has been a decade in the making. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/education/a-...

A Decade of Crisis

The UK's universities are in crisis. Dave Hitchcock on how the sector became 'broken' and why it must be understood as an interdependent system.

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I am now *that* person whose pets are busy being absolute clowns while I'm doing a Proper Teams Meeting. Muting myself because SQUONKY TOYS TIME.

We interrupt today's doom scrolling with this, which is very informative

Nome@nome.bsky.social · 2y ago

I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane. Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.

Today I am panic-reading before reading group, meeting a dissertation student, and discussing research and teaching. And preparing for my mum's arrival tomorrow.

Lads, what do you do when you can't procrastinate writing with lecture prep? SEND HELP. I might actually have to write.

Absolutely disgusting. It's ripping support from the most vulnerable. These people are unable to work because they are disabled. They've transformed disability welfare into a work benefit. This "Labour" government deserves to be annihilated. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Starmer decries ‘worst of all worlds’ benefits system ahead of deep cuts

PM expected to announce billions in savings from personal independence payment, the main disability benefit

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Doctor Odyssey is back and they've gone in hard on the clichés. Which is just what today requires.

Signs of spring: outside time for old dragons.

Delightful. Vague anxiety for no reason is exactly what I needed today.

So thrilled to say that my new article on the echoes of Section 28 in the moral panic around trans people in the UK is out now, along with the rest of the first issue of @genderandjustice.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1332/3033...

Moral panics and legal projects: echoes of Section 28 in United Kingdom transgender discourse and law reform

A grounding in the queer history of the legal system in the United Kingdom reveals striking parallels between the moral panic leading to the enactment of Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988, a...

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Disability admin

a black and white photo of a woman making a face .

Alt: a black and white photo of a woman making an annoyed face

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