I'm very late announcing my participation, but I'll lead a 'fugitive teach-in' at this Friday's (24/07) @tvce.bsky.social symposium at Birkbeck! Through playing a few rounds of the game 'telephone,' the participants in my session are going to explore transmission and inheritance in trans+ histories!

The 13th annual international Gender Census 2026 is now open until at least 13th August 2026! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. #LGBTQ

Are you trans, aged 16-25 and based in the UK? Are you interested in taking part in a project to explore your experiences of community and belonging? Do you want to receive a free art box in the post filled with activities and creative materials? Find out more about Create/Connect here!🧵 1/

🏳️‍⚧️ Prayer motions against the EHRC code are important, but the fight from here is legislative. Will you join us inside Parliament on 25th June 11-4 to demand better? www.transsolidarityalliance.com/mass-lobby-2...

Mass Lobby for Trans Equality

Last year we broke the record for an LGBT+ mass lobby of Parliament. Will you help us break it again? Join us on 25th June 2026 to demand better.

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✨Open-access publication @ersjournal.com✨ Drawing on intersectionality, spatial & standpoint theory, I propose the framework of 'locational intersectionality' as a decolonial margin standpoint on structural inequality across scales. doi.org/10.1080/0141...

June is Pride Month. We’re sharing free access to LGBTQIA+ research exploring identity, equity, health, and more. Explore here: https://ow.ly/11q450Z4lk4 #LGBTQIA #AcademicResearch #PrideMonth

Happy Pride Month! Remember to wave your flags with your non-dominant hand so that you're free to offer help and kindness to those in need or strike a blow against fascism with your dominant one. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Does anyone have a personal recommendation for books about Schiaparelli? Histories, biographies, anything that's well researched and well written? We're off to the exhibition at the V&A soon and I want to do a bit of reading beforehand. Bonus points for anything about Daniel Roseberry! Thanks! 🩷

NEW RESOURCE! Media folks: check out our new guide on covering anti-trans rhetoric & the criminalization of trans people. By Arielle Rebekah of Trans & Caffeinated Communications, IC Abolition Journalism Fellow Lewis Raven Wallace, & our cofounder Andrea J. Ritchie. bit.ly/TransCrimina...

Just managed to put in a last-minute abstract for the @tvce.bsky.social/BiGS symposium this year. Thank you so much for having extended the application deadline! Fingers crossed! 🩵🩷🤍

You’re not alone. Our trained LGBTQIA+ volunteers are here to listen to any concerns you may have as a result of the revised EHRC guidance being laid before parliament. We’ve supported the community through trials and tribulations for over 50 years, and we’re here for you today.

Here's my first impressions FAQ on the EHRC document. Questions welcome. sandraduffy.blog/2026/05/21/f...

First impressions on the EHRC Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions, and Associations – a Q&A

Hello, UK trans community and allies. It’s been a long old day (year) waiting for this but it’s finally upon us. Bridget Phillipson has laid the new EHRC guidance before Parliament and …

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The updated code of practice for services, public functions and associations has been laid before Parliament. The guidance tells organisations how they should approach trans inclusion. Here’s what that means.

How should the #sociology of #sexuality incorporate #race into research in meaningful ways? And how should we also focus on pleasure, joy, and desire? Check out this work by Terrell J.A. Winder and Kendall Ota. doi.org/10.1177/3033...

My PhD research questionnaires and interviews have been reopened ONE LAST TIME until 23/04/2026 for more UK non-binary participants: - from global majority backgrounds - from working class backgrounds - aged 15, 16 & 17 Let's talk about how you use clothes, accessories etc. as a non-binary person!

Thomas JW (they/them)@thefivetonine.bsky.social · last yr.

My PhD research questionnaire is now live! forms.gle/HEPBswqzswGi... Looking for those who: 1. identify as #nonbinary in the broadest sense 2. live or have lived in the UK (any point between 1990-2020) 3. aged 15+ (adult consent required to participate) Open until 23/09/2025. More info below! 👇

The government's draft of Keeping Children Safe in Education 2026 sets out proposals that would have a profoundly negative impact on trans, non binary and gender diverse children in schools and colleges. Please respond, and speak up for trans+ children's right to learn (links in comments)🧵

By getting Vic and Bob to lure the ships through with the 'dove from above' routine from Shooting Stars.

Henry Mance@henrymance.ft.com · 5mo ago

how would YOU open the Strait of Hormuz? Wrong answers only

My new article "Kant as Methodology: Race, White Ignorance, and Intellectual Responsibility" is now out in Critical Philosophy of Race (Penn State University Press). Open Access copy here: jasminekgani.wordpress.com/wp-content/u... (summary of core arguments in thread below) @lseir.bsky.social

Picking a film at our house... Him: Let's watch this one. Me: Why? Him: We liked the trailer. Me: Never watched it. Him: It's got her in it. Me: Who's her? Him: The blonde one. Me: Which blonde one? Him: She has teeth. We watch the film. Never remember seeing a trailer. Don't ever recognise 'her'.

Completely by chance, I came across Neuroqueer Heresies by Nick Walker, and appear to have answered my own question. I'm really quite excited to make the time to read this next week. Trying to find a way of engaging with my PhD thesis that respects how my brain processes and produces information.

Thomas JW (they/them)@thefivetonine.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hey, academic Bluesky! Am I hallucinating, or had someone out there written about 'working neurodivergence into research methodologies'? Something along those lines? Something kind-of-but-not-quite using the experience of having ADHD or ASD, for example, to almost 'queer' doing your research? No?

Almost a 100% hit rate on students citing Gender Trouble in their essays. Imagine if Butler got royalties that way. Makes me laugh that, one year, I'll get about 15 near-identical definitions of performativity, and the next, every single student off-roads and gives me a brand new interpretation...

Hey, academic Bluesky! Am I hallucinating, or had someone out there written about 'working neurodivergence into research methodologies'? Something along those lines? Something kind-of-but-not-quite using the experience of having ADHD or ASD, for example, to almost 'queer' doing your research? No?

Nearly 10,000 online and open access collections of material related to radical, labour and anti-colonial history from around the world now available. Browse the full list here: hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...

radical online collections and archives

I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…

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Bookshop Lady (grumbling): 'You don't look very wet.' Me: 'Oh, I run between the drops.' Her: ... Me: ... Her: >:( Me: :D

Run, don't walk, to get copies for your local and university libraries, and your bookshelves at home!

Daniel Fountain@danielfountain.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Out now! Queer Crafts: Material Practices and the Making of Identity available via the Bloomsbury website and all good bookstores! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-cra...

There is something so unsettling to me about Valentine's Day stuff and hot cross buns on the shelves by 9 Jan, only summer clothes in some shops, and TV ads for 'savings schemes' for Christmas 2026. There must be something somewhere written about capitalism and the collapse of the cultural calendar.

Shocked, but not surprised, by the way in which the US invasion of Venezuela is being spoken about on BBC news. Language in the 10:30 Radio 6 bulletin arguably legitimised actions taken, the authority the US claims over Maduro and their allegations against him. Bizarre and horrific in equal measure.

Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops