📌 Call for contributions: Feminist Dialogues of Hope & Research What is hope? How can we have hope in practice? @sieunlee.bsky.social and I are seeking panellists for a workshop hosted at the University of Oxford, 18 June 2026. Please send us your abstracts by 17 April 2026!

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Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!

A paper I co-authored with @yifan-liu.bsky.social and Maryam Altaf is published in Area! We reflect on our experiences of ride-along methods to consider the situational risks that arise for researchers. It was a pleasure to work on this with my dear friends as a first publication of mine :)

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This paper explores the affective realities of car ride-alongs by examining the ways in which researchers might be affected in the process of doing such methods. While there is an ethic of care for r...

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On Walk to Work Day, @valenmontoya.bsky.social highlights an example of commuting that isn't so straightforward. #walktoworkday @oxfordgeography.bsky.social www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/news/good-on...

"The good ones cross over the bridge, and the bad ones go underneath."

On Walk to Work Day, Valentina Montoya Robledo highlights the story of women who cross the Colombia-Venezuela border every day to work.

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#ICYMI: Women’s work – a feminist guide to essential scholarship on labour, from Silvia Federici to bell hooks, Aihwa Ong to Margaret Atwood. Alessandra Mezzadri and Asiya Islam’s reading list is one of the Magazine’s #2024mostread. https://buff.ly/495xpR8

After one year of the Bradford clean air / low emission zone, GP visits for breathing and heart problems were down by a quarter. My latest for @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bradford clean air zone saves NHS over £30,000 a month in first year

After one year of the zone, which is the second largest in England, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by a quarter

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Join us to hear Prof Rachel Aldred, University of Westminster, reflect on researching active travel. She will discuss the changes that she has studied in London’s cycling and walking environments, and what we might expect and hope for in the future. Sign up now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/unequal-mo...

Unequal mobilities: reflections on researching active travel

Professor Rachel Aldred, University of Westminster for the TSU Seminar Series, 2025

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【これから出る本】※2025年2月下旬頃発売予定 ◆性／生をめぐる闘争 ・福永玄弥 著 ・3,800円＋税 ・電子：近日中 ◆内容紹介 熾烈なバックラッシュの背景に何があるのか。台韓における性的マイノリティの運動史を辿り、その達成をフェミニズムとの交差とともに歴史化。冷戦という観点から両国の比較を超えた視野を提示する、クィア・スタディーズの到達点。 www.akashi.co.jp/book/b658749...

1,100 EPA employees have been notified of imminent termination.

The BDS movement, welcomes the news of a ceasefire agreement with immense relief. A ceasefire, however, is only the most important first step to end the genocide against the 2.3 million Palestinians in the illegally occupied and besieged Gaza Strip. bdsmovement.net/After-Ceasef...

Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...

"Yoon's team claims immunity from insurrection charges, citing Trump ruling"

Yoon's team claims immunity from insurrection charges, citing Trump ruling | Yonhap News Agency

SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Yonhap) -- The legal team of suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol claimed Frid...

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One year since Israel killed Refaat Alareer in Gaza. The poet & professor moved millions with his writing and defiance of the Israeli occupation. Yousef Aljamal honors his memory in the Journal of Palestine Studies. doi.org/10.1080/0377...

"South Korea’s overnight struggle has reminded the world of a stark truth: democracy is not self-sustaining. It demands vigilance. It requires collective action." An updated version of my piece has been published on Zeteo.com. Thank you @mehdirhasan.bsky.social for sharing. #SouthKorea #Democracy

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"South Korea: The Deeper Story Behind the Unrest" UMass Amherst's Heesoo Jang writes for Zeteo about how President Yoon's surprise martial law declaration was a culmination of longstanding tensions – and offers lessons on democracy to the rest of the world.