My wonderful friend @mshwaikh.bsky.social is raising funds to challenge a Home Office decision refusing her parents - who fled unimaginable horror and genocide in Gaza - a visa to be with her as she gives birth to her first child in July. Please give what you can www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-ha...

Donate to Help Me Have My Parents With Me for My First Child, organized by Malaka Shwaikh

I’m six months pregnant with my first child - about to become a mum … Malaka Shwaikh needs your support for Help Me Have My Parents With Me for My First Child

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An honour to have been reelected to @ucu.org.uk NEC. I'll be serving my final two years (before an enforced rest - term limits are good actually) as Women's Rep. Thanks to all those who voted, I'm privileged that members trust me for a third term.

Delighted that this edited collection, which I co-edited with colleagues Emma Yapp and Adeline Moussion Esteve during my postdoc at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social will be published in April in Palgrave's Genders and Sexualities in History series link.springer.com/book/9783032...

Sexual Violence in Medicine and Psychiatry

This book explores how medical and psychiatric knowledge, practitioners, and practices respond to sexual violence.

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To talk about destroying opponents just for having the temerity to exercise a basic right in any democratic organisation- to stand for election or to disagree - is truly disturbing. This is not how we should treat each other in a union.

I have witnessed injustice after injustice occur to members of @uniteucu.bsky.social - utterly shameful to see UCU threaten the livelihood of a single mother of 3 for being a TU health and safety representative and fighting for a safer workplace. This threatens the wellbeing of a whole family.

Roger Kline@rogerkline.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Two thirds of UCU staff walk out. I worked for UCU two decades ago. In fact I ran for General Secretary and just lost. There is no way two thirds of the staff would walk out if the story of victimisation isnt true. My sources say its been coming for years. feweek.co.uk/ucu-staff-to...

The @timeshighered.bsky.social has reported that @ewanmg.bsky.social and I have applied to the Certification Officer regarding concerns over the 2024 UCU general secretary election. UCU has characterised this as “smearing”, via a spokesperson. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/jo-grad... /1

Jo Grady’s UCU election win challenged over ‘unfair advantage’

Candidates who stood in 2024 poll seek rerun of campaign after claiming incumbent broke rules by using union resources

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A group of us are working together to bring something which goes further and is more inclusive than this proposal. More when we have something confirmed.

Dr Rhian Elinor Keyse@drrhianelinor.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I'm broadly sympathetic to the impetus behind this, but the proposed solution isn't going to fix the problem. NEC nominations require 10 signatures from at least two branches - arguably also a major barrier to new activists and marginalised people

I'm broadly sympathetic to the impetus behind this, but the proposed solution isn't going to fix the problem. NEC nominations require 10 signatures from at least two branches - arguably also a major barrier to new activists and marginalised people

UCU Commons@ucucommons.org · 9mo ago

We've written a motion to open up the nomination process to UCU's advisory equality standing committees, which is long overdue. This would bring it in line with that for our decision-making NEC. More details of the process and our reasons at the link. #UCU #UKHE ucucommons.org/rule-change-...

Latest publication: ‘An Inclusive History of LGBTQ+ Aversion Therapy: Past Harms and Future Address in a UK Context’. Co-authored with four excellent collaborators including @rebeccawynter.bsky.social (the others are not here yet). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

An Inclusive History of LGBTQ+ Aversion Therapy: Past Harms and Future Address in a UK Context - Kate Davison, Katherine Hubbard, Sarah Marks, Hel Spandler, Rebecca Wynter, 2024

From the 1950s, aversion therapy gained an international foothold as a behaviourist means to alter what was then considered ‘deviant’ behaviour. Using primary r...

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So proud of fantastic Edinburgh UCU comrades and friends 🥲 an important win in a thoroughly bleak landscape

Kate Davison@queerstorian.bsky.social · last yr.

Proud as punch to be quoted in this judgement describing AHF as ‘propaganda promoting hatred of trans women’ with ‘no academic merit’, full of statements that ‘are false, untrue, based on hearsay or anecdotal evidence, or use shoddy methodology that would fail a first year assignment’,

Namibia to mark German colonial genocide for first time with memorial day as claims for reparations continue www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Namibia to mark German colonial genocide for first time with memorial day

Concentration camps and pseudoscientific experiments were used by German officials to torture and kill.

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It’s taken the English-language media a few days to report this but I think it’s major. Olmert was a hawk from the Israeli right, sidekick of Sharon, rejected Camp David, oversaw the 2009 Gaza war — so when even he is talking about war crimes, that’s significant www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says his country is committing war crimes

Leader from 2006 to 2009 says Palestinian victims are at ‘monstrous proportions’ and Netanyahu heads a ‘criminal gang’

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Powerful words from @the1752group.bsky.social, who work to end sexual misconduct in universities: "The Supreme Court judgement risks making trans and non-binary people even more unsafe...these shameful figures on the prevalence of sexual violence and harassment...are likely to grow even higher."

Statement in solidarity with the UK trans and non-binary community

As campaigners focusing on gender-based violence within higher education, we are extremely concerned about the consequences for trans and non-binary people of the recent Supreme Court judgement on …

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Can't pretend I'm not bitterly disappointed that this fell off the agenda due to time. It's painful for survivors to bring these issues and to have to repeat often vexatious and triggering debates. But, we'll try again next year.

Dr Rhian Elinor Keyse@drrhianelinor.bsky.social · last yr.

For colleagues attending @ucu.org.uk Congress this week, a 🧵 Motion HE38 - thanks @leedsucu.bsky.social for bringing it. The motion is based on work with @the1752group.bsky.social around abuses of power in staff-student intimate relationships

Reminder that this is on the agenda at UCU Congress this coming weekend Cc: @lottelydia.bsky.social @annabull.bsky.social @alixdietzel.bsky.social @vickyblake.bsky.social @the1752group.bsky.social

Dr Rhian Elinor Keyse@drrhianelinor.bsky.social · last yr.

For colleagues attending @ucu.org.uk Congress this week, a 🧵 Motion HE38 - thanks @leedsucu.bsky.social for bringing it. The motion is based on work with @the1752group.bsky.social around abuses of power in staff-student intimate relationships

Delighted to be one of those elected as Associate Fellow yesterday 🥳

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · last yr.

Lastly, yesterday we announced the election of 337 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members to the Society. We look forward to meeting and working with them to support history and historians. If you'd like to join them (and us), please do apply bit.ly/45lOzr0 #Skystorians

Do I know any #skystorians heading to the Oxford Weston Library anytime soon who might be able to take photos of a file?

For colleagues attending @ucu.org.uk Congress this week, a 🧵 Motion HE38 - thanks @leedsucu.bsky.social for bringing it. The motion is based on work with @the1752group.bsky.social around abuses of power in staff-student intimate relationships

Yesterday @ducu.bsky.social passed this motion in solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social. I didn't write this lightly, but at this point I wasn't sure what else to do. @ucu.org.uk staff are essential to letting the union run. They back us so we back them. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Motion to ban General Secretary from DUCU pickets and other events until UNITE UCU dispute resolved

Motion to ban General Secretary from DUCU pickets and other events until UNITE UCU dispute resolved Motion passed: 55% in favour, 24% against, 21% abstained. This branch notes: The consistent suppor...

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Entirely stand by this despite the attempts of paid bureaucrats to discredit us in the Times Higher. Shameful behaviour from highly paid senior managers on International Workers Day yesterday. Solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social

Dr Rhian Elinor Keyse@drrhianelinor.bsky.social · last yr.

I won't be at UCU NEC on Friday unless @drjogrady.bsky.social and UCU's SMT resolve the dispute with workers. Not crossing a picket line is a principle of trade unionism as is accountability to members. Sad but proud to contribute to and sign this statement reclaimucu.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/s...

Glad @timeshighered.bsky.social is covering @uniteucu.bsky.social's dispute with @ucu.org.uk -resolution is beyond urgent (has been for over a year). But the content & tone of the UCU's anon quoted spokesperson feels emblematic of the underlying issues... www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ucu-mem...

UCU members boycott key meeting over staff strike

Members of national executive committee claim they were ‘prohibited’ from discussion of dispute with staff in Unite union

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In the 20 years that I have been a member of @ucu.org.uk never have I know such a lamentable state of affairs. I won't be crossing any picket lines. Calling on the SMT of UCU to work to resolve the dispute. reclaimucu.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/s....

Statement on NEC Meeting of 2 May 2025

On Friday, members of Unite UCU will be taking the final day of an unprecedented six weeks of industrial action. It is also the penultimate NEC meeting before Congress. One of the core principles o…

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Hands up who thinks trade unions should be model employers? ✋🏽 ✋🏾 ✋🏻 ✋🏿 ✋🏼 #ThriveNotSurvive

STATEMENT RE UCU NEC 2 MAY reclaimucu.wordpress... I am proud but saddened to be a signatory to this: I will not cross a picket line and I am in full solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social, on strike again this week. So I will not attend #UCU NEC on Friday this week. We all urgently need resolution.

Statement on NEC Meeting of 2 May 2025

On Friday, members of Unite UCU will be taking the final day of an unprecedented six weeks of industrial action. It is also the penultimate NEC meeting before Congress. One of the core principles o…

reclaimucu.wordpress.com

This explains why I will not be attending NEC on Friday. This dispute has to be resolved if we are to stand a chance of addressing the multiple crises in post 16 education. And a union management should practice what it preaches reclaimucu.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/s...

Statement on NEC Meeting of 2 May 2025

On Friday, members of Unite UCU will be taking the final day of an unprecedented six weeks of industrial action. It is also the penultimate NEC meeting before Congress. One of the core principles o…

reclaimucu.wordpress.com

I won't be at UCU NEC on Friday unless @drjogrady.bsky.social and UCU's SMT resolve the dispute with workers. Not crossing a picket line is a principle of trade unionism as is accountability to members. Sad but proud to contribute to and sign this statement reclaimucu.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/s...

Statement on NEC Meeting of 2 May 2025

On Friday, members of Unite UCU will be taking the final day of an unprecedented six weeks of industrial action. It is also the penultimate NEC meeting before Congress. One of the core principles o…

reclaimucu.wordpress.com

📣 May Day Rally 📣 We remain on strike. With our employer continuing to refuse to meet for talks, join our strike rally on Thursday 1 May, 12-1pm outside UCU head office, Carlow Street, London. All welcome to show your support for making UCU a safe & professional workplace. #ThriveNotSurvive

When our union is in dispute and when we take action we ask for solidarity from across the movement and our communities because we are all connected in struggle. So it matters that we also practice solidarity with sibling unions in dispute and when taking action. Solidarity @uniteucu.bsky.social

See Anna Bull's blog post for the Good Law Project. Sexual misconduct strikes at the heart of university life. goodlawproject.org/sexual-misco...

Sexual misconduct strikes at the heart of university life | Good Law Project

Too many professors are pursuing their students and causing untold harm, says Anna Bull.

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