I'm excited to share a new paper that's now available OA in Signs: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... We put forward a framework for a “feminist abortion,” which aspires to centre the person seeking abortion and their needs & to factoring in the power structures in which they are situated.

Framing a Feminist Abortion | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society: Vol 51, No 4

Abstract With reproductive health and rights actively under attack, it is critical to support researcher and activist communities in pushing beyond basic access. In this article we propose a framework...

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Another direct importation from the homophobia of the early 1990s…

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 4mo ago

Brianna Wu advocates for the extermination of trans people by engaging in eugenicist selective abortions of fetuses determined to be trans.

Autumn Thomson followed up with this great post reflecting on how issues of bodily autonomy and temporality played out in media coverage of Lindsey Vonn's crash in the Olympic downhill skiing. www.linkedin.com/pulse/tempor...

The Temporality of Bodily Autonomy

I recently took part in the February BARE seminar on Temporalities and Bodily Autonomy. We discussed how perceptions of time shape autonomy - how institutional time can be glacial, often reinforcing e...

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This was such a great session - thanks again for your contribution @hbowescatton.bsky.social! So interestesting to think about the ways these common issues overlap across our various areas of focus.

Helen Bowes-Catton (she/her)@hbowescatton.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I really enjoyed talking about how temporality and bodily autonomy intersect for disabled PGRs at this seminar organised by the Reproduction, Sexualities & Sexual Health Research Group (RSSH) and the OU Trans Staff Network. 🧵 bit.ly/4bet41u

📢 Really pleased to see the findings from our qualitative survey of experiences of pain in SRH procedures published today in BMJ SRH with my co-authors @julieriddell.bsky.social & @marigreenfield.bsky.social srh.bmj.com/content/earl...

The impact of painful sexual and reproductive health procedures: lived experiences and priorities for change

Introduction Physical pain is known to be a common feature of sexual and reproductive healthcare (SRH) encounters for women and other people with a uterus. Our aim was to understand experiences of pai...

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Scottish abortion law 'not fit for purpose', says expert group This is a significant report which could pave the way for a major change in the way abortion is viewed and administered in Scotland. 📰 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

📢 Our new paper taking a critical look at how post-abortion contraception is framed as a 'problem'. srh.bmj.com/content/earl...

‘Problem representations’ in post-abortion contraception: a critical review of UK literature

Objective To critically review post-abortion contraception literature from the UK based on Bacchi’s ‘What’s the Problem Represented to Be?’ (WPR) approach. Methods A systematic search of six electron...

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A note from me on the significance of the recent move partially to decriminalise #abortion in England and Wales Against a backdrop of rising prosecutions for ‘later’ pregnancy endings, #decrim in Northern Ireland through human rights mechanisms, and uneven commitment to decriminalisation as a whole

Verfassungsblog@verfassungsblog.de · last yr.

British MPs recently decriminalised abortion-seekers. But this success occurred in a Bill that threatens to criminalise poverty and restrict protest rights. RUTH FLETCHER explains on what a holistic legal approach to reproductive freedom ought to look like. verfassungsblog.de/decriminalis...

Settling in to a day of thinking about reproductive rights, politics & activism hosted by @carolina-topini.bsky.social & @maudannebracke.bsky.social Looking forward to presenting our work on a feminist abortion framework this afternoon.

🎉 Tickets are now available for this year’s International Creative Research Methods Conference! Don’t miss keynotes from @jacqpriego.bsky.social and @amltaylor66.bsky.social Secure your spot 👉 creativeresearchmethods.com #ICRMC

Creative Research Methods Conference 2025

The International Creative Research Methods Conference is an annual gathering for academics of all disciplines who are interested in using creative methods in their research.

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UK’s first trans judge appeals to European court of human rights over supreme court ruling

Victoria McCloud brings action against UK for infringement of her human rights after ruling on biological sex

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"While scholarship is rewarded individually, it cannot be practised alone; it is a shared collective endeavour or it is nothing. Redundancies in one place damage us all" @academicdiary.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...

UK university redundancies: latest updates

As higher education institutions shed thousands of jobs, we track developments and bring together latest analysis with resources for affected staff and students

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Just here feeling quietly heartbroken for Virginia Giuffre and her family, on news of her death by suicide. And quietly raging at all who get away with (men's) abuse of women and girls, and a society that doesn't care enough to stop it - but yeah, trans women in loos. www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

'Deeply loving, wise, and funny': Virginia Giuffre, who accused Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew of sexual abuse, has died

"It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia," the family said in a statement.

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Dear @theguardian.com Please could you not refer to a pregnant person seeking abortion as 'the mother'. Thanks www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

UK woman accused of illegal abortion did not look pregnant, friend tells court

Witness says nothing to indicate Nicola Packer was pregnant in weeks before she delivered foetus

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📢 Dignity in Maternity Care: latest ep. of Sex, Research & Resistance (via @openuniversity.bsky.social) is now online. What do we really mean when we talk about dignity? Who is entitled to it? Panel discussion feat. Lisa Käll, Shanthi Gunesekera, Sarah Hamed. open.spotify.com/episode/3S06...

E11 Part 1: Dignity in Maternity Care

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With its coverage in the last few days, the Telegraph has now passed 500 articles attacking trans people since I began tracking their print edition on 16 April 2024. 508 in 371 days.

The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people after a Supreme Court ruling defined sex as 'biological sex' This is everything you need to know about the ruling 👇 Reporting by @jessothomson.co.uk 🧵🏳️‍⚧️

If men want to rape us they do not need to “pretend” to be women to get into our toilets or our changing rooms. They can just…rape us, in those spaces or other public spaces or in our workplaces or our homes, and they can be statistically pretty certain that they will never face punishment for this.

📢 New publication: Our interim report from phase 1 of the Gender Pain Gap in Sexual & Reproductive Health project is now available here: doi.org/10.21954/ou.... In it we highlight 4 key findings...

Brilliant episode - well worth a listen 👇

Qualitative Applied Health Research Centre@quahrc.bsky.social · last yr.

Episode 2 of our podcast series on #Neurodiversity and #QualitativeResearch is out today with Dr Monique Botha: why is the funding agenda for autism research so far from what the communities concerned want? #CommunityResearch #ResearchMethods #Neurodivergent www.quahrc.co.uk/resources/ne...

Episode 2 of our podcast series on #Neurodiversity and #QualitativeResearch is out today with Dr Monique Botha: why is the funding agenda for autism research so far from what the communities concerned want? #CommunityResearch #ResearchMethods #Neurodivergent www.quahrc.co.uk/resources/ne...

Neurodiversity Matters: Monique Botha on funding priorities and community justice | QUAHRC

This month, Sohail interviews Dr Monique Botha about funding and priority setting, citational justice, emotion in research, and why letting community-led neurodivergence research out of its silo would...

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My article 'What is a good death? A critical discourse policy analysis' is now in the BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care (Vol 14 Issue e3) [but online first a few years ago] spcare.bmj.com/content/14/e...

What is a good death? A critical discourse policy analysis

Objective The concept of a good death is a motivating factor for end of life care policy; this article examines what English end-of-life care (EOLC) policy defines as a good death. Methods Critical d...

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🥳 Thank you @alcs.co.uk! 👏

ALCS@alcs.co.uk · last yr.

Happy #ALCSDay to our members! We’re so proud to have once again paid more money, to more members than ever before.

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

Independent SAGE @independentsage.bsky.social - so important during the pandemic - has de-retired with this report on "Why we must defend science, social science and medicine from attacks on diversity"

Last month I did a little experiment. I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky. The results were...interesting... [Thread]

But it is???

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: Google's "experimental" AI service has been caught out for telling web users that the traditional Scottish dish of haggis is in fact an animal

In 'Shifting discourses, changing interests?' @aioshaug.bsky.social & I look at how language choices in #BMJSRH have changed over the journal's first 50 years. There's still much do, but we saw a welcome shift toward inclusivity in that language. 📖 Paper 👉 srh.bmj.com/content/earl... (OA link 👇)

Read this: it really captures the reality of mass redundancies in the university sector, which will only snowball from here. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University -

Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…

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