Lloyd Meadhbh Houston
@lejhouston.bsky.social
IRISH MODERNISM AND THE POLITICS OF SEXUAL HEALTH (OUP); Director and Qualitative Research Lead of Transnnual; BAIS and BSLS Executive; Co-host of 'Censored'; FRHistS and FHEA.
Yes, the adult thing to do is sit in silence while rights and societal inclusion you have had for decades are now being removed and the candidate who is supposed to represent you agrees with those rights and inclusions being removed. Your reaction isn't adult or responsible.
I'm on strike for the next five weeks with @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social because management continues to threaten mass compulsory redundancies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Edinburgh University lecturers begin five-week strike over cuts
Members of the University and Colleges Union are walking out in part of a long-running dispute over job and course cuts.
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For Houston and Angel, some forms of knowledge become available only once we stop merely talking about creeps and fully become creep. 🪲 Configurations of Creepiness 📖 Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1080/0969... #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
PSYCHOPATHIC HYMN FOR THE CREEPS
This article combines techniques from critical neurodiversity studies, trans auto- and autist-ethnography, and speculative creative writing to offer a neuroqueer account of creepiness from the insi...
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... a collaborative roundtable featuring @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @mostlyvoids.bsky.social @lejhouston.bsky.social @madeleinerose.bsky.social @sholtonbradley.bsky.social, asks what happens when creepiness becomes a way of researching, reading, creating, and thinking together. #CreepStudies
If you too would like to stop using increasingly shitty software made by bad people who make the world worse, I wrote a guide for how to lessen/end your small team's dependence on US-based tech services: nelsanderson.zone/a-guide-to-d...
A Guide to Ditching US Tech (for Game Developers)
This post is based on a guide from Paris Marx, host of Tech Won't Save Us, author of one excellent book and upcoming (likely also excellent) book last updated September 2nd, 2026 At this point, it's...
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Please read and share this open letter from staff at risk of compulsory redundancy in Modern Languages at the Uni of Birmingham. It calls for the redundancies to be halted, for the equality impact assessment to be released, and for meaningful consideration of alternatives.
“A national catastrophe” at home: open letter on redundancies
We write as Translation and Interpreting staff at risk of compulsory redundancy at the University of Birmingham, together with the Birmingham UCU Committee. In brief: a University whose Vice-Chance…
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Genuinely so stoked to be part of this incredible, tentacular, gleefully bizarre venture. Huge congratulations to our amazing editors and to all involved. Run, don't walk, to read it.
Laura Ludtke@ladyelectric.bsky.social · 4w agoIt is publication day for Configurations of Creepiness. More to come over the next few days, but for now, enjoy this sneak peek at our Foreword. Read the full issue here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cang20/3...
This is the world JK Rowling helped create. This is what Harry Potter is funding. All the legal challenges to enforce this regime are backed by Rowling and her Harry Potter money.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3w agoA trans man in the UK has been banned in the workplace restrooms after he was forced to use the women's restrooms to comply with the new EHRC guidance. The women complained because he is visibly male and so they told him he can't use any bathroom.
![A screenshot of a Reddit post from the r/LegalAdviceUK subreddit by user Dijstraanon, titled "FtM transgender facing two different issues at work? England."
The post text reads:
"Brother in law is trans FtM and presents fully as a man. He's now facing an impossible situation at work with his employer telling him that due to recent legislation he must use the toilet of his birth gender. BUT several female colleagues have raised a grievance about him using their gendered toilet.
His employer has told him that he cannot use the toilet while he is at work until they sort it out and cannot give him a timeframe to do so. They do [cut off] have disabled separate toilets.
In the mean time one of his female colleagues has accused him of sexual harassment because he was used their gendered toilet. His menstrual cycle meant he needed to use the toilet.
He's been with the employer for just over 5 years but only in this location for 18 months. The location is mainly male with just a handful of females, and his workshop only has male toilets.
I do not know how to support him and as he's not in a union there is no one to turn too right now."
The post has an orange "Comments Moderated" tag, 169 upvotes, and 134 comments.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sefgphqp2xqwh2hawaixykwz/bafkreigy6jrfjxyegrf7h4wzz3yptwmzobhjrd3k5zjoxwd75r6ulxzsyq)
Houston and Angel develop a neuroqueer, autoethnographic account of creepiness from the inside, transforming a "too-close reading" of J. G. Ballard's Crash into a methodology for "talk[ing] about creeps." #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #NeuroQueer
🎶 Psychopathic Hymn for the Creeps: Neuroqueering Creepiness from the Inside Lloyd Meadhbh Houston & K Angel What if “creep” wasn’t a label but an assignment to embrace? #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #NeuroQueer
It is publication day for Configurations of Creepiness. More to come over the next few days, but for now, enjoy this sneak peek at our Foreword. Read the full issue here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cang20/3...
More posts to this #CreepStudies and #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness mega thread today! Featuring @lejhouston.bsky.social and K Angel.
Laura Ludtke@ladyelectric.bsky.social · 4w agoIt is publication day for Configurations of Creepiness. More to come over the next few days, but for now, enjoy this sneak peek at our Foreword. Read the full issue here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cang20/3...
Delighted to share the publication of THE EROTIC HAUNTOLOGY OF AUTOCORRECT: in Angelaki: Vol 31 , No 3-4 Configurations of The Creepy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... If you’d like a review copy, let me know
It's here! "Psychopathic Hymn for the Creeps: Neuroqueering Creepiness from the Inside" is a collaborative autist-ethnographic romp by myself and K Angel: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Fans of Ballard, Cronenberg, and all things fleshly and losing, check it out.
Headlines: Such-and-such technology may someday be as smart as human brains! Reminder: *We already have human brains.* Billions of them. Most of them living in poverty and being exploited for the obscene benefit of a tiny number of the worst people in the world.
I'm doing a sponsored fire walk in October for the amazing Cabaret Vs Cancer. I'd really appreciate any support you can offer: wonderful.org/fundraisers/...
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My best friend, Karl, is a cancer survivor. He developed an extremely aggressive cancer in his late 20s that ultimately required the removal of most of
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The Daily Mail's best paid columnist is Boris Johnson. A man more deserving of scrutiny across the last two decades than practically anyone else in public life.
Gerry Hassan@gerryhassan.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe right-wing media hounding of Jason Arday: 188 articles in the space of a few days. 158 articles in The Daily Mail, Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express & Spectator. Maybe like cigarettes the r/w media should carry a health warning: these papers can kill.
I have set up a Substack (sorry) and posted my first piece - a collaboration with the amazing @amygaeta.bsky.social originally written for a zine on s*x and disability: lejhouston.substack.com/p/fucking-au... Check it out and give me a follow if you fancy.
Fucking Autistically (with PJ Harvey)
written in collaboration with Amy Gaeta
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I’ve thought long and hard about commenting on the controversy over the cancellation of the Women’s Rights Network (WRN) event at Féile an Phobail — not because I don’t have an opinion, but because it is a debate that attracts the most toxic elements, writes Allison Morris 🖋️ tinyurl.com/bdhmtsju
"Any time in the last 20 years, Simon Baron-Cohen could have asked the autism community or looked beyond his own biases at the existing literature […] but he was too busy being galaxy brained about autistic people." @ejwillingham.bsky.social on SBC, in our newsletter. buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...
Simon Baron-Cohen has entered the chat again
This time in a Guardian piece in which he (sort of) retracts some previous assertions about autistic people and tees up a new multimillion dollar project.
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Some news from me! I quit GameSpot to launch something new. Introducing @lookingfor.game, an independent weekly newsletter where I highlight upcoming PC games and deliver demo codes straight to your inbox. Sign up at lookingfor.game 🥳
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50 free advance eprints available of my review of Katherine J. Parkin, The abortion market: buying and selling access in the era before Roe www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FMHAH...
The abortion market: buying and selling access in the era before Roe
Published in Women's History Review (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Going through an issue of the TLS from last December, I find a philosophy pun courtesy of Nigel Warburton that surely deserves wider currantsy.
But tell me again how gender is fixed, innate, and binary.
Evan Sutton@evansutton.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis has to be the funniest question AND response I've ever seen in a poll. Less than half of Republican men think they could beat Trump in a fight. What a bunch of pathetic losers.
Have been on the same dose of Prozac for 22 years, after doctors trying different SSRIs/dosages throughout my teenage years. SSRIs have saved my life: they're not 'happy pills,' they're not shameful, and eugenicist bastards like RFKJ are precisely that - eugenicist bastards.
Mitchell Epner@mitchellepner.bsky.social · 5mo agoI take Lexapro. I have taken Lexapro for over two decades. The times that I have discontinued taking Lexapro have ended very badly for me. RFKJ is trying to kill millions of Americans like me. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...
Genuinely thrilled to have collaborated with the amazing Zara Slattery on this comic based my research on sexual health and cultural value. Huge thanks to @drannehanley.bsky.social and @claireplmartin.bsky.social for facilitating it, and to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding the underlying research.
Zara Slattery aka Inksplattery@zaraslattery.bsky.social · 5mo ago'Battle of the Brows, an adaptation of @lejhouston.bsky.social incredible research. This project is part of UofB's Sexual Health: Past, Present and Future created by @claireplmartin.bsky.social & @drannehanley.bsky.social Part 1 of the project includes...
