Louise Hickman
@louhicky.bsky.social
Wellcome's Early Career Award. CRASSH at the University of Cambridge.
We're looking for our next Methods Fellowship cohort! Have you applied? 💡 Find out more about this paid teaching opportunity for the 2026/7 academic year, open to @cam.ac.uk staff and students: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/methods/meth... Deadline: 17 July
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Send me ur cats* Deadline Mon 13 July *queer poems, essays, hybrids outburstarts.com/events-proje...
catflap #6 open call - Outburst Arts
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The BBC 10 o’clock news says the right wing idea of ethnic minorities being given preferential treatment in criminal justice is likely to become a “growing fault line in our politics” WITHOUT POINTING OUT THAT IT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE. What’s the point of the news if it doesn’t correct disinformation?
Yes quite. "digital nimbyism or patronised as pearl-clutching panic"
Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 2mo agoGlad to see this from the FT, but many have been raising this for a long time and it's been disregarded as a sort of digital nimbyism or patronised as pearl-clutching panic. Labour needs a decent tech strategy and Blair and Mandelson's influence on policy needs to end with the change in leadership
There’s a lot of procurement talk on my timeline. I co‑authored a report calling for deaf‑led infrastructure to deliver the services deaf people need to access public services. Nothing about us without us: www.mctd.ac.uk/bsl-not-for-...
BSL is Not for Sale: A Deaf-led approach to AI procurement
Sign Language AI systems are being procured across public services without adequate Deaf community involvement, creating institutional risks Authors: Dr Louise Hickman, Dr Alexa Hagerty, and Rose Powe...
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Makaton has a whole rotten history in itself as most easily summarised by Sara Novic at thebaffler.com/outbursts/si... Typical hearing person valorised for a job a Deaf person would and should be doing better and more authentically. T'was ever thus.
Signed Away | Sara Nović
The hearing world continues to pillage and caricature the deaf community—most recently with the proprietary, sign-based system Makaton.
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Very excited for @jennychambles.bsky.social new book!
Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social · 2mo agoPublishing in July, a bold, tender exploration of how queerness and nature entwine - and what happens when we step beyond the binaries that fence us in. There is a Q in garden, but you can't always see it. Pre-order your copy today! @jennychambles.bsky.social #booksky #gardening #LGBTQIA
This is a fun read and perhaps one of top book this year!
Cipher Press@cipherpress.bsky.social · 8mo agoFor the modern history buff, the detective fan AND the lesbian hook-up aficionado, we proudly present the next entry in our Cipher Press Gift Guide... BONE HORN, which sees a newly registered PI attempt to track down Alice B. Toklas’s reputed horn.
In Taiwan, members of the publishing sector are not only celebrating the win, but reminding people that gov't-sponsored translation grants were recently targeted by the opposition as "wasteful", and this very writer criticized (by some in the opposition) for being "too political" and "talentless".
Brian Hioe@brianhioe.bsky.social · 3mo agoTaiwan Travelogue wins the 2026 International Booker Prize! focustaiwan.tw/culture/2026...
'The decision to close it was taken despite the faculty continuing to plan high-profile campus events, including the booking this month of US civil rights advocate Kimberlé Crenshaw.' 1/2
Closure of Birmingham City University black studies MA ‘blindsides’ staff
Academics and activists condemn Birmingham City University's closure of the eight-month old course.
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I wrote about Jordan Lord's work, and in hindsight realised this was a manifesto against access slop: lux.org.uk/new-artist-f...
New Artist Focus: Louise Hickman on Jordan Lord - LUX
Listen to the audio version of this essay on Soundcloud. (Listening time: 12 minutes 25 seconds) LUX Moving Image · LUX Moving Image – New Artist Focus: Louise Hickman on Jordan Lord Debt is deliber...
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Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity
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Another book for the transcription archive. I did my phd project on labour of captioning and how captioner can curate access intimacy for their deaf readers. also @zaranosaur.bsky.social is doing a lot of great work around transcription justice
Dr Alison Ray@liber-ray.bsky.social · 3mo agoSo happy to get a copy of the amazing ‘Thanks for Typing’ exhibition at @harvard.edu, with brilliant research into women’s type labour by @cejacobson.bsky.social and colleagues! 📖🎉
So happy to get a copy of the amazing ‘Thanks for Typing’ exhibition at @harvard.edu, with brilliant research into women’s type labour by @cejacobson.bsky.social and colleagues! 📖🎉
Amazing team leading on this summer school
Cambridge Digital Humanities@camdighum.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe're delighted to share that we've extended the application deadline for our next Cambridge Data School, Teaching and Learning Critically in an Age of Generative AI. Get your application in by 1 May 2026 to be in with a chance of joining our next cohort 💡 Apply: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/41023/
Wes Streeting must kick Palantir out of our NHS. Donald Trump's favourite tech giant shouldn't be allowed anywhere near Brits' private health data. There are fantastic British tech firms who would be far better and safer for the NHS.
Not next month but this coming Friday!
Louise Hickman@louhicky.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate & destroy through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic abandonment & ecological negligence. Join Kelly Fritsch & Anne McGuire at @algorithmickitchen.bsky.social next month www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/50859...
We live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate & destroy through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic abandonment & ecological negligence. Join Kelly Fritsch & Anne McGuire at @algorithmickitchen.bsky.social next month www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/50859...
Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival - CRASSH
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
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One year after our original Guardian essay, Naomi Klein and I are excited to reveal the North American cover of our forthcoming book END TIMES FASCISM - and the Fight for the Living World. It will be on bookshelves on September 15th and is available for pre-order. More details below. bit.ly/4cbLfEr
Did a podcast for the @blnreview.bsky.social with the fabulous Lauren Oyler - about my recent essay and practically everything else: blnreview.podigee.io/24-deborah-f...
Deborah Feldman on Germany's Strange Love for Jews
Lauren Oyler talks to Deborah Feldman, author of the memoir Unorthodox and longtime Berliner, about her essay "For the Love of Jews," published in the new issue of Berlin Review. They discuss German p...
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Excited to be in conversation with @louhicky.bsky.social in Cambridge April 17!
Louise Hickman@louhicky.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate & destroy through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic abandonment & ecological negligence. Join Kelly Fritsch & Anne McGuire at @algorithmickitchen.bsky.social next month www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/50859...
We live in a world broken by design: a web of systems that debilitate & destroy through racist and ableist infrastructural neglect, socioeconomic abandonment & ecological negligence. Join Kelly Fritsch & Anne McGuire at @algorithmickitchen.bsky.social next month www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/50859...
Broken Worlds, Disabled Kin: Strategies for Collective Survival - CRASSH
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
crassh.cam.ac.uk
