FinnMackay
@finnfox.bsky.social
Sociology lecturer at the best Uni in Bristol. Books: "Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars", "Radical Feminism: Activism in Movement". Queer for cats and feminism. Recent article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09589236.2025.2502679
Professor Susan Stryker is coming to Bristol! And I'm honoured to be talking to her about her new book. Get your tickets for this event at Bookhaus www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/boo...
Changing Gender launch with Susan Stryker at Bookhaus
From the award-winning scholar and filmmaker, an essential, enlightening exploration of gender and the self Gender is one of the most contested topics of our age, as ideologies are weaponised by the ...
headfirstbristol.co.uk
Vote for your favourite famous state schoolers! At the end of the voting pages you also have the option to add your own candidate. www.93percent.club/nominate?utm...
Made in State School — The 93% Club
The 93% Club is celebrating the success stories that came from UK state schools. Nominate your icon today.
93percent.club
This is normal - statistically for these people, not in society in general.
Bruno J. Navarro@brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 4d agoA far-right thug who performed Nazi salutes at a "protect women and children protest" has been exposed as a serial stalker and abuser.
This could very well be the most important story in politics for the last decade and a half. Please read and share this equally harrowing and illuminating account by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social of just how dark the money in politics pit really goes. Absolutely mind blowing.
Farage, the money launderer and me: a decade of denial
The Reform leader’s relationship with the UK media has enabled him to operate with impunity for years. This past fortnight, that impunity finally appeared to be coming to an end. Carole Cadwalladr, wh...
thenerve.news
I hope everyone was up bright and early to order their X Files Lego set.
Listening to the wireless & someone is saying we need to go back to a mixture of private & public healthcare like Britain had before Bevan got his hands on it. So glad that with my students I watch "Spirit of '45" every year so I've seen how people lived before the NHS & the difference it made.
Whilst the cost of living crisis continues to spiral, with food and fuel prices soaring, so do global oil and gas companies profits. Shell has today announced it's profits have more than doubled. This is obscene. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Shell profit more than doubles to $9.8 billion, second-highest on record, as Iran war lifts prices
Shell's net profit more than doubled from last year to $9.84 billion in the second quarter, beating expectations, helped by higher energy prices and increased market volatility during the Middle Eas...
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Greater Manchester; Polls are now open! Head to wheredoivote.co.uk to find your local polling station and head on down! Vote Green today for real hope and real change 💚
AI company Anthropic secretly bought millions of rare and out-of-print books to train its Claude AI model. They used a hydraulic-powered cutting machine to remove the pages for scanning before destruction.
oil and gas companies profit off of human suffering and environmental ruin and their executives should all be tried at the hague 🫶
Shell posts second-highest profits ever as traders cash in on Iran disruption
UK oil major says earnings have surged even as its gas production fell sharply because of Middle East war
ft.com
Two weeks ago, I reported that the CEO of SafeToNet, the government's favourite tech company, claimed that "God has created the safest phone in the world" and that only after finding God did SafeToNet become "fully funded" and the software properly work. This week, some FAQs have appeared... 1/
Martin Calladine@uglygame.bsky.social · 3w ago🚨Exclusive🚨 Two ministers filmed a video for a child-protection software firm that lost £17m in three years, made just *£112* in the UK in 2024 and gets 90%+ of its income from overseas subsidiaries that haven't cooperated with auditors for three years. 1/ theuglygame.wordpress.com/2026/07/15/p...
📢 The Gender + Sexuality Data Lab is hiring a Research Assistant to join its project, ‘Box Breakers: Improving Organisational Data Practices for Minoritised Communities’.
Captain's Log; Stardate: First full week of summer "holidays". Why do children shout when playing Fortnite? Why do children walk in front of swings violently occupied by other children? Why does all institutional provision cease for juvenile lifeforms while mandatory employment continues for adults?
Sick of seeing deficit model workplace courses for women providing mentoring, confidence boosting, leadership training etc to "advance women". Are there advance courses for men in their workplaces, or are all men already networked, skilled, experienced, confident & exactly where they want to be?
I'm at The Coast is Queer lit fest this year, so exciting to be invited. There's loads of great stuff on, I'm hoping to check out workshops too. See the full lineup at their website coastisqueer.com/event/queer-...
Queer Masculinities
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If you're a #British citizen, or a #UK resident, consider signing & sharing this UK Parliament petition, created by Chris Packham, which calls for the UK Government to hold a UK-wide briefing on climate & nature risks. #climate & #nature petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
Petition: Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks
The UK faces growing risks from climate and nature breakdown - from extreme weather to economic disruption and national security threats. Yet the public has never been given a clear national briefing ...
petition.parliament.uk
Fuck, this is awful. Berlin queers, I'm holding you in my heart right now. Also, NGL, actively worried about the many Berliners I know! I really hope you're all okay and weren't struck by this violence! 💔 www.cbc.ca/news/world/b...
Berlin police searching for suspect after car drives into Pride crowd, killing 1 | CBC News
Berlin police early on Sunday identified a suspect in Saturday's deadly Pride parade car attack, saying the suspect has ties to Islamic "circles" in the German capital.
cbc.ca
To every trans Londoner: this city is yours too. Today we celebrate London Trans+ Pride and reaffirm a simple truth: you should be free to live as yourself, without fear or prejudice. You are loved. You are wanted. You belong here.
Ah, well, nevertheless Jeremy Corbyn 2017: 12,877,918 votes Keir Starmer 2024: 9,708,716 votes
Why is the BBC allowed to keep wanging on about how "the people rejected Corbyn politics", "old fashioned" etc when the Labour Party grew larger in members under Corbyn & policies were popular? Which the BBC acknowledged at the time? Why are their lies not corrected? www.bbc.co.uk/news/electio...
Election results 2017: The Jeremy Corbyn factor
The election result exceeded all expectations for the Labour leader, and transformed his party's prospects.
bbc.co.uk
Extreme heat as a 'poverty multiplier' #EnvironmentalSociology www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘When I get home, my whole body aches’: extreme heat saps health and wages of India’s poorest workers
Exclusive: Outdoor workers losing up to 9% of income as weather becomes ‘poverty multiplier’, research says
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I also have one of Del's striking portraits of Revolutionary Communist Leslie Feinberg, it's up in my office. Legendary photographer, check out their work, share it, buy it www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘The world wasn’t ready for me’: Del LaGrace Volcano on photographing S&M scenes, leather-clad lesbians and a drag king self-portrait
Their scandalous work was once banned. Now it’s in museums. The photographer talks about a lifetime defying conformity – and their ‘very active’ sex life
theguardian.com
An update on Jennifer Finch's fundraiser from her team thanks everyone for their contributions and helping her in her final days -- among other news regarding her archive, it turns out she completed a memoir shortly before her diagnosis, and it will be released early next year.
Donate to Jennifer Finch vs. Brain Cancer: It’s Time to Make Noise, organized by Aubree Miller
If you've followed Jennifer Precious Finch over the years, you… Aubree Miller needs your support for Jennifer Finch vs. Brain Cancer: It’s Time to Make Noise
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Tate brothers arrested again, I hope eventually all the people harmed by those arrogant abusing thieves see justice. Let this arrest not kick off another round of stories on "toxic masculinity" like it's an affliction, rather than just more gender mythology www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Positive humanity, when? Is masculinity worth saving?
Women have demanded their humanity as full human beings; perhaps it is because this is a women’s demand that so much policy aimed at saving men and alleviating men’s suffering is instead focussed o...
tandfonline.com
4yr old likes Little Donkey singing at bedtime but doesn't know the story & was asking. So I said in story Mary is pregnant with baby Jesus so is riding on the donkey & my daughter asked "with her wife?" & I said: no, in the story she has a husband called Joseph. 4yr old accepted this; v tolerant.
