V excited to be omw to the Roccella Summer School organised by my brilliant friend Emma Scali (#ElenaFerranteReference) of @milcmanchester.bsky.social and Raffaella Nigro. Making ZINES. Drinking GRANITA. Finally learning about INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY. www.roccellasummerschool.org/programme

🚨 Lobby the BCU governors! 🚨 On Wed 16th BCU governors are meeting for an update on the current review, which has put 342 staff at risk of redundancy & cuts student support in multiple ways. Join our lobby: 1pm outside Parkside Building Bring your solidarity and your sun cream! #SaveBCU

Me every time I read an article written by @jtheilen.bsky.social

a woman is raising her hands in the air in front of a crowd of people while sitting in a stadium .

ALT: a woman is raising her hands in the air in front of a crowd of people while sitting in a stadium .

media.tenor.com

Blog of the European Society for Comparative Legal History@esclh.bsky.social · last yr.

ARTICLE: Jens T. THEILEN, "Civilizational Hierarchies and the Notion of ‘Europe’ in the European Convention on Human Rights" (EJIL XXXVI (2025), nr. 1, 113-142) @ejiltalk.bsky.social esclh.blogspot.com/2025/07/arti...

There just might be another source of a few billion that might go some way to cover the £4.8 billion deficit 👀

Andry’s story, if you’re unfamiliar. www.cnn.com/2025/05/28/a...

He left Venezuela for the US, dreaming of a career in cosmetics. He was deported to a Salvadoran prison | CNN

A year ago, Andry José Hernández Romero left Venezuela to seek a better future in the United States.

cnn.com

I'm posting this as part of the online protest against the Universal Credit & Personal Independence Payments Bill. TLDR: This Bill needs to die so that disabled people don't. #DisabilitySky #TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare #DisabilityRebellion #CripsAgainstCuts

Calling all abortion nerds! @whiterxbbit.bsky.social would love your submissions by 1st September! call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... this and Budapest Pride and the impending failure (🤞🤞🤞) of the "welfare" bill made me feel quite emotional and hopeful this morning.

Transgender campaigners call for European rights body to report on UK

Alliance of groups wants Council of Europe to investigate implementation of supreme court ruling on biological sex

theguardian.com

Feminist judgments project (FJP) call for proposals (CFP)! Because it's fun to chant "FJP CFP FJP CFP FJP CFP", and even more fun to challenge traditional disciplinary boundaries ✨

Rebecca Smyth, PhD@resmyth.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨Feminist judgments in refugee law project is GOOOO! 🚨call for abstracts for a special issue proposal 🚨 Read more and submit here:

The hope and hilarity here on Bluesky this morning, mm mm mm

Malice Walker@humblecore.bsky.social · last yr.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... "Force says it disposed of papers last year despite forthcoming inquiry into scenes of violent policing in 1984" - can't help but feel that "despite" might be a "because"

Northumbria police destroy Battle of Orgreave and other miners’ strike files

Force says it disposed of papers last year despite forthcoming inquiry into scenes of violent policing in 1984

theguardian.com

🚨Feminist judgments in refugee law project is GOOOO! 🚨call for abstracts for a special issue proposal 🚨 Read more and submit here:

Gorgeous first panel at Doctors for Choice/Abortion Talk conference: bodily autonomy, foregrounding sex worker, trans, radical anticapitalist perspectives. "It's a collective, interconnected struggle…We need to all go together, all the time with every tool we have." (Justin Hancock, Bish)

Gracias con todo mi corazón a The British Academy y a Divya Talwar por haber dado un espacio a esta película importantísima, a Teodora y las 17+, a Beatriz y a Manuela. Sigue la lucha 💚

The British Academy@britishacademy.bsky.social · last yr.

Our 2025 Summer Showcase kicks off this evening at the ICA with the UK premiere of Fly So Far. Celina Escher’s documentary follows The Seventeen, a group of women accused of murder because of having a miscarriage in El Salvador, in their struggle to regain their freedom from prison.

Very excited for this in *checks watch* exactly two hours! www.ica.art/films/uk-pre...

ICA | UK PREMIERE Fly So Far + Q&A

The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most...

ica.art

In the run-up to BA Summer Showcase film screening this Wednesday, I've been in touch with some of the feminists in El Salvador behind Mujeres Libres. You can donate here to support Casa Resguardo, a safe house and safe space for Mujeres Libres El Salvador.

Dona a Casa Resguardo: Lugar Seguro para Mujeres Libres El Salvador, organizada por Jocelyn Viterna

¡Apoya a Mujeres Libres! (English Translation below) En e… Jocelyn Viterna necesita tu apoyo para Casa Resguardo: Lugar Seguro para Mujeres Libres El Salvador

gofundme.com

One week to go! www.ica.art/films/uk-pre...

ICA | UK PREMIERE Fly So Far + Q&A

The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most...

ica.art

Reports that Salvadoran government planned to arrest journalists of El Faro if they attempted to re-enter the country.

El Faro English@elfaroenglish.bsky.social · last yr.

This weekend, El Faro journalists did not board flights to El Salvador after learning of a police operation to arrest them upon arrival. The Salvadoran Journalists' Association called on the government to clarify the judicial standing and guarantee press protections. 🧵 apes.org.sv/apes-denunci...

Can't recommend @beatha-coaching.bsky.social enough for helping develop healthy, evidence-based practices for survivin'&thrivin' in academia. Upcoming 10-wk course focusing on writing about hard times/to process hard things/in hard contexts - go go go! beathacoaching.org/retreats-cou...

Retreats & Courses

Retreats & Courses The Summer Coaching Programme 2025: Writing in Hard Times A ten week coaching course to support writers working in challenging contexts, writing to process hard things, or wr…

beathacoaching.org

Poland's presidential election was a disaster. “[Karol] Nawrocki is expected not only to uphold but potentially tighten Poland’s already draconian abortion laws. His win slams the door on hope for political reform in the near future, and locks in a future where women's lives remain expendable.”

Nawrocki win is ‘devastating blow’ for abortion rights activists in Poland

Any hopes to liberalize the country’s strict abortion rules are lost as the nationalist candidate secured a narrow win.

politico.eu

Over 1,000 signatories so far and still open for signature. DM me if you would like to sign lawyersletter.uk #gazalawyersletter2025 #optlawyersletter2025.

Decided to watch Location Location Location. Got 2 mins in & had to stop when voiceover said, "This couple has had to move a staggering FOUR times in eight years." *cried in millennial/has moved at least once every year in the past 15 years/has borne witness to Irish property market of 1990s-now*

Deepest condolences and solidarity to our comrade Ashjan Ajour who lost her father in Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza truthout.org/articles/my-...

My Father in Gaza Was Yearning for Our Reunion. When That Hope Died, So Did He.

This is how we grieve under occupation: digitally, remotely, alone. Our mourning, like our lives, is fragmented.

truthout.org

Payday you sayday? Why not get yourself a ticket to an amazing documentary www.ica.art/films/uk-pre... and start donating as little as €1 a month to @supportabort.bsky.social?

ICA | UK PREMIERE Fly So Far + Q&A

The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most...

ica.art

Happy life update! I'll be a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter from 1st Sept. Perfect day for starting big big big big big big big school (primary school is big school and you add another "big" for every level of education and career progression, FACT).

This is exactly why SAFE exists and yet there are even more people who don't have the resources or access to an abortion fund. We shouldn't have to but until EVERYONE has access to abortion we're not going anywhere. Please donate, sign up or spread the word 💚 #abortionfund #abortioneurope

Going abroad to get an abortion, a struggle for thousands of women in Europe

"Exporting Abortion", a transnational investigation, reveals that "over 5,000 women in Europe have to travel abroad for abortions each year".

voxeurop.eu

"When governments and healthcare systems fail, grassroots activists and abortion pirates STEP IT UP". Read more in our latest newsletter what the recent elections in Poland, Romania and Portugal mean for abortion and what role you can play. #abortionnews #abortioneurope #newsletter

She lives! My book published by @manchesterup.bsky.social ‘Women’s Troubles: Gender and Feminist Politics in Northern Ireland.’ Cover image kindly provided by @frecklescorp.bsky.social of her work ‘The Slapper’ www.emmacampbell.co.uk/emma-campbell @livunipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social

No better way to mark May 1st. Sad I can't make it to the pickets etc but you'd better believe I am striking! Bread and roses, bread and roses.

BCU UCU@bcu-ucu.bsky.social · last yr.

It’s on! BCU @ucu.org.uk members take strike action this Thursday 1st May. Pickets: - Seacole: 8:30 - 10 - Benjamin Zephaniah: 8:30 - 10:30 - Curzon, Parkside & Millenium Point: 8:30 - 12 Rally for jobs and professional respect: 12-1 in front of Parkside Building Teachout 2-3.30 Woodman

Very excited to share that I'll be part of the @britishacademy.bsky.social Summer Showcase. ICA London will be screening Celina Escher's documentary Fly So Far on Wed 18 Jun 2025 at 18:45, after which journalist Divya Talwar and I will talk all things abortion.

UK Premiere - Fly So Far

This is the UK premier of documentary Fly So Far, which follows Teodora and The Seventeen in their struggle to regain their freedom from prison in El Salvador. Due to the criminalisation of abortion, ...

thebritishacademy.ac.uk