Sounds like a great event! 👇🏻

Helen Finch@helencfinch.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I'm very excited for the launch of the new School of Languages, Cultures and Societies Centre for Global Queer Cultures and Politics, next Thursday 4 December 2025. At a darkening time for queer lives, launching this centre feels like kindling a small light. ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

This Saturday after painstaking research and FOIs by @clairestranstalks.bsky.social with @whatthetrans.com, we'll publish 'The Gender Clinic Files' in our newsletter: A new investigative series exposing deep structural issues with UK Transgender healthcare Sign up 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/

New article out by Stephen McLoughlin, @profbode.bsky.social and me 🎉 On the practice of early warning of mass atrocities by practitioners in the UN Secretariat and has important findings on the limitations of current early warning practices. This project was funded by the The British Academy.

Journal of Global Security Studies@journalofgss.bsky.social · last yr.

🤔 Why does the UN Secretariat struggle to act on early warnings? A new #JOGSS article shows how diverging standards of ‘competent’ practices across different communities of practice (CoPs) create tensions and performance gaps 🔗 Available open access: doi.org/10.1093/jogs...

Important statement from the Lemkin Institute on the position and status of the EHRC in the UK 👇🏻

TACC@tacc.org.uk · last yr.

Lemkin Institute release, Statement on the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission: Violation of the Paris Principles and erosion of protections for transgender and intersex people. Read it here ✊🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 bit.ly/EHRCUK

So basically Vallance has announced there won't be new announcements/work on REF for 3 months, implying that there will potentially be big changes announced in 3 months time, but the deadline for the REF is going to remain the same?! How er... helpful. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/patrick...

Patrick Vallance hits pause on Research Excellence Framework

Science minister announces review of controversial changes to research environment assessment

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Thanks! 😁 You can read the full 10,000 word open access article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Bloody Howard! Gender, Leadership, and the Decline of the Liberal Party of Australia as the “Party for Women”

Women played a key role in the founding of the Liberal Party of Australia (LPA) in 1944 and in providing its branch structure. The newly established LPA also sought to encourage women to join the par....

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Really interesting article on the history of engagement with women and gender norms in the Liberal Party. Thanks @blairwilliams26.bsky.social for your research!

ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social · last yr.

New analysis argues that under John Howard, the Liberal Party became increasingly influenced by a social conservatism that emphasised traditional gender norms.

Well worth a read. Much to ponder as Babel builds its skyscraper and hubris rules www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?

Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.

newyorker.com

THREAD: 1. In May I published my peer-reviewed research into the effects of the Starmer-Streeting puberty-blocker ban. TLDR; lots of children have already been harmed. TW; this is a hard read. There is a term for adult men who deliberately harm children…

The annual global gender survey is live for anyone who’s gender doesn’t fit into the binary 👇🏻 You can share the below post for extra reach 😊

Gender Census@gendercensus.bsky.social · last yr.

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

Can’t feel prouder of people in this city on one of the worst weather days so far this year.

Endorsement: WRITING BADLY Writing Badly is a new, print-only, journal of letters on the subject of feminism and transmisogyny. It is written and edited by and for trans women. "By turns profound and infuriating, beautiful and devastating, this collection has it all."

Good news! St. Lucia has struck down colonial-era laws that criminalised homosexuality. While much of the world is edging backwards on LGBTQ rights and acceptance, St. Lucia becomes the 5th Eastern Caribbean country to decriminalise same-sex relations in the last few years.

Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court strikes down St. Lucia laws criminalizing gay sex

The laws against “gross indecency” and “buggery” are unconstitutional, the court ruled.

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The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

One like, one law and/or gender opinion.

Dr Dave Hitchcock@davehitchcock.bsky.social · last yr.

One like, one history of poverty opinion

Amen theconversation.com/top-australi...

Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life changing

Tim Winton, Helen Garner and Peter Garrett are just a few of the high-profile signatories to an open letter against Job-Ready Graduates – and for the humanities.

theconversation.com

Alex de Waal, an expert on the politics of famine, discussing the dire situation in Gaza.

Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · last yr.

Starve, Pray, Die In an interview, Alex de Waal discusses Israel’s use of food as a weapon of war in Gaza, and its repercussions. carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...

Absolutely devastating 👇🏻

Senthorun S. Raj@senthorun.bsky.social · last yr.

“The bullets were chasing us as if we were targets on a shooting range, and not just hungry people. We scattered under a hail of bullets. I got closer to death that day than a piece of bread.” Famine in Gaza is a direct consequence of a brutal US-Israeli politics. They are forcing people to starve.

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

“LGBTQI+ rights are inseparable from the broader fight against authoritarianism… if you are able, show up for every mass mobilization. Keep queer joy, humor, and defiance alive in your activism long after the parades end.” We should learn from, and keep building, social movements to resist fascism.

What Queer Americans Can Learn From Hungary

We believe Hungary represents the kind of country Trump and his allies want.

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Before the pandemic hit, 70% of Republicans said that science has had a mostly positive effect on society. Four years later, fewer than half (47%) said so. 🧪 https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2023/11/14/americans-trust-in-scientists-positive-views-of-science-continue-to-decline/

Ah hello Section 28, my old friend*... *Not my friend, these ideas are toxic (if we are being polite) - and harmful/will result in deaths (if we are being accurate).

QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · last yr.

🆕🚨 New statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance published today will: - Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender" - Teaches children the laws about "biological sex" - Removes all references to the word transgender What we know so far 🧵

Ex-farm worker here. We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing. Not true AT ALL. Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are. The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour. At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

“Adults and young people will no longer have to be examined by a medical professional, require surgery or have to prove to anyone else that we are who we say we are.” In good news, NSW now allows people to legally transition gender without medical evidence. No one should have to prove their gender.

New NSW Birth Certificate Reforms Come Into Effect From Today

A slate of new reforms come into effect from today, including new birth certificate laws and markers for trans and gender diverse people.

cityhub.com.au

“In the case of trans and intersex people, genocide is often perpetrated by making it impossible for individuals to exist as their true selves… No denial or omission in law can erase the concrete reality that trans and intersex people have always and will always exist.” We must refuse such erasure.

Red Flag Alert on Anti-Trans and Intersex Rights in the UK | Lemkin Institute

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This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

New article 🥳! Richard Fosu and I have a new piece in @jisb.bsky.social! Open access! We examine UN docs on #YPS to reveal how ideas of youth are constituted by institutional actors. We pay close attn to discursive contestation over the norm of youth inclusion within YPS. doi.org/10.1080/1750...

Constituting ‘Youth’: Conditionality and Compliance in UN Discourses on Youth, Peace and Security

The Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) agenda acknowledges youth as positive contributors to peace and security in contrast to dominant negative stereotypes of youth. This article examines constructio...

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