The Temporality of Bodily Autonomy I recently took part in the February BARE seminar on Temporalities and Bodily Autonomy. We discussed how perceptions of time shape autonomy - how institutional time can be glacial, often reinforcing e...

Autumn Thomson followed up with this great post reflecting on how issues of bodily autonomy and temporality played out in media coverage of Lindsey Vonn's crash in the Olympic downhill skiing.

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This was such a great session - thanks again for your contribution @hbowescatton.bsky.social! So interestesting to think about the ways these common issues overlap across our various areas of focus.

Participants said they would value:
- improved expectation-setting
- pain-affirming communication
- better analgesia options

Relevance for research, practice & policy: broader embedding of trauma-informed approaches to enhance training, attitudes, service organisation and practice

The survey was developed in consultation with women and people with a uterus with lived experience of procedure pain who took part in earlier focus group discussions.

The article highlights short- & longer-term impacts including enduring fear or mistrust of SRH services which deterred future care

The impact of painful sexual and reproductive health procedures: lived experiences and priorities for change Introduction Physical pain is known to be a common feature of sexual and reproductive healthcare (SRH) encounters for women and other people with a uterus. Our aim was to understand experiences of pai...

We designed the qual survey to provide a snapshot of painful experiences across procedures and contexts of care including how they impacted women and people with a uterus at the time and in the longer term.

The impact of painful sexual and reproductive health procedures: lived experiences and priorities for change Introduction Physical pain is known to be a common feature of sexual and reproductive healthcare (SRH) encounters for women and other people with a uterus. Our aim was to understand experiences of pai...

📢 Really pleased to see the findings from our qualitative survey of experiences of pain in SRH procedures published today in BMJ SRH with my co-authors @julieriddell.bsky.social & @marigreenfield.bsky.social

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Photo of positive pregnancy test

Scottish abortion law 'not fit for purpose', says expert group

This is a significant report which could pave the way for a major change in the way abortion is viewed and administered in Scotland.

📰 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘Problem representations’ in post-abortion contraception: a critical review of UK literature Objective To critically review post-abortion contraception literature from the UK based on Bacchi’s ‘What’s the Problem Represented to Be?’ (WPR) approach. Methods A systematic search of six electron...

📢 Our new paper taking a critical look at how post-abortion contraception is framed as a 'problem'.

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A note from me on the significance of the recent move partially to decriminalise #abortion in England and Wales

Against a backdrop of rising prosecutions for ‘later’ pregnancy endings, #decrim in Northern Ireland through human rights mechanisms, and uneven commitment to decriminalisation as a whole

Thanks for having me, it was a really interesting day!

Settling in to a day of thinking about reproductive rights, politics & activism hosted by @carolina-topini.bsky.social & @maudannebracke.bsky.social Looking forward to presenting our work on a feminist abortion framework this afternoon.

Creative Research Methods Conference 2025 The International Creative Research Methods Conference is an annual gathering for academics of all disciplines who are interested in using creative methods in their research.

🎉 Tickets are now available for this year’s International Creative Research Methods Conference!
Don’t miss keynotes from @jacqpriego.bsky.social and @amltaylor66.bsky.social

Secure your spot 👉 creativeresearchmethods.com

#ICRMC

UK’s first trans judge appeals to European court of human rights over supreme court ruling Victoria McCloud brings action against UK for infringement of her human rights after ruling on biological sex

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

UK university redundancies: latest updates As higher education institutions shed thousands of jobs, we track developments and bring together latest analysis with resources for affected staff and students

"While scholarship is rewarded individually, it cannot be practised alone; it is a shared collective endeavour or it is nothing. Redundancies in one place damage us all"
@academicdiary.bsky.social
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'Deeply loving, wise, and funny': Virginia Giuffre, who accused Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew of sexual abuse, has died "It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia," the family said in a statement.

Just here feeling quietly heartbroken for Virginia Giuffre and her family, on news of her death by suicide. And quietly raging at all who get away with (men's) abuse of women and girls, and a society that doesn't care enough to stop it - but yeah, trans women in loos.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project

Labour's new policy - of humiliating trans people by requiring them constantly to self-identify - we believe puts the UK (again) in breach of its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights and will seek a declaration of incompatability. goodlaw.social/0r6l

UK woman accused of illegal abortion did not look pregnant, friend tells court Witness says nothing to indicate Nicola Packer was pregnant in weeks before she delivered foetus

Dear @theguardian.com Please could you not refer to a pregnant person seeking abortion as 'the mother'. Thanks

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

E11 Part 1: Dignity in Maternity Care

📢 Dignity in Maternity Care: latest ep. of Sex, Research & Resistance (via @openuniversity.bsky.social) is now online.

What do we really mean when we talk about dignity? Who is entitled to it? Panel discussion feat. Lisa Käll, Shanthi Gunesekera, Sarah Hamed.

open.spotify.com/episode/3S06...

With its coverage in the last few days, the Telegraph has now passed 500 articles attacking trans people since I began tracking their print edition on 16 April 2024.

508 in 371 days.

Screenshot of QueerAF website with headline: UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren’t Women under the Equality Act 2010 Byline of Jess O'Thomson: Writer, legal researcher, journalist. Pronouns they/she. Intersectionalities trans, disabled, nonbinary woman, queer, working class / low income

The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people after a Supreme Court ruling defined sex as 'biological sex'

This is everything you need to know about the ruling 👇

Reporting by @jessothomson.co.uk 🧵🏳️‍⚧️

If men want to rape us they do not need to “pretend” to be women to get into our toilets or our changing rooms. They can just…rape us, in those spaces or other public spaces or in our workplaces or our homes, and they can be statistically pretty certain that they will never face punishment for this.

Where do I sign? 🦆

4. Support professional development including effective guidance for health professionals  

5. Offer pain relief as standard to reduce the burden of self-advocacy 

6. Record data on procedure pain to inform healthcare improvements.

#genderpaingap #procedurepain #SRHR

We also make 6 recommendations to inform future research & practice & support equity in healthcare provision:

1. Provide clear information on pain to enable informed decision-making and consent 

2. Don't downplay/ignore procedure pain

3. Prioritise diversity & inclusion in written/verbal info

➡️ Negative and judgmental attitudes were as big a problem as pain itself  
➡️ Gender norms and power dynamics had a silencing effect 
➡️ Negative perceptions of health professionals follow from painful experiences  
➡️ Self-advocacy is challenging and should not be necessary in this context

📢 New publication: Our interim report from phase 1 of the Gender Pain Gap in Sexual & Reproductive Health project is now available here: doi.org/10.21954/ou....

In it we highlight 4 key findings...

Brilliant episode - well worth a listen 👇

Neurodiversity Matters: Monique Botha on funding priorities and community justice | QUAHRC This month, Sohail interviews Dr Monique Botha about funding and priority setting, citational justice, emotion in research, and why letting community-led neurodivergence research out of its silo would...

Episode 2 of our podcast series on #Neurodiversity and #QualitativeResearch is out today with Dr Monique Botha: why is the funding agenda for autism research so far from what the communities concerned want?

#CommunityResearch #ResearchMethods #Neurodivergent

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What is a good death? A critical discourse policy analysis Objective The concept of a good death is a motivating factor for end of life care policy; this article examines what English end-of-life care (EOLC) policy defines as a good death. Methods Critical d...

My article 'What is a good death? A critical discourse policy analysis' is now in the BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care (Vol 14 Issue e3) [but online first a few years ago] spcare.bmj.com/content/14/e...

🥳 Thank you @alcs.co.uk! 👏