Cover of the edited volume Reading Queer Media in the German Speaking World: New Approaches to print Sources published by Palgrave. The cover image is a 35mm black and white photo of a show in a queer club with two individuals in pup wear reading media during the performance.

This has been a journey! @christopherewing.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the forthcoming publication (with Palgrave) of "Reading Queer Media in the German Speaking World" bringing together the work of brilliant historians and German studies scholars working on queer 🇦🇹🇩🇪🇨🇭 printed media

Very excited!

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“only two paths remain: either a Jewish, messianic, genocidal state, or a truly democratic state for all its citizens.
…Zionism, in all its forms, cannot be cleansed of the stain of this crime. It must be brought to an end.”

Eye-watering figures here. The UK Higher Education sector is a wild west for business profits, job losses and skyrocketing fees.

Emergency Court Session Now: Divest From Israel’s Genocide Since the beginning of Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza in October 2023, students and staff at the University of Edinburgh have mobilised an unprecedented multiethnic and multireligious divestment mov...

If you or anyone you know works/studies at University of Edinburgh, please ensure they have signed this petition to Court (governing body) calling on UoE to divest from genocide. So far 670+ staff and 800+ student/alumni signatures - not bad, but we can do better!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🙌 22 months late but huge: @johnswinney.bsky.social calls for UK govt. to SANCTION and END ARMS SALES to Israel = the 2 key demands of the Palestine solidarity movt. in the UK (incl. the “terrorists”). Hoping it also pressures Scottish universities eg. @edinburghuni.bsky.social to finally divest.

Irvine Welsh - get in the bin.

Kindertransport 2.0

10/10, no notes
@thebetootaadvocate.bsky.social

He also said “yeah, this stuff with trans discrimination [in our workplace], it’s awful; I just don’t have time to get involved”.

Another man *at a union meeting*, in reply to an appeal for more senior men to get involved in organising, laughed “I admire you, but I just don’t have the time!”

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Why collective refusal is the only option.
Reading this, I recalled the time a white, cis-het man (ostensibly my equal; I later learned he was being paid at 4 grade steps above me for no reason) said “y’know all these sexist micro-aggressions in the workplace you talk about? I just don’t see them!”)

This follows the BMA passing a motion supporting gender affirming care last month. So the BMA is now clear on both trans & Palestinian autonomy and self-determination. *The BMA*

And a shout out to the @withmeaa.bsky.social trade union for supporting its journalist members and defending their right to political speech.

This important legal victory galvanises all of us to never stop speaking about Palestine, war crimes, human rights, colonisation and land sovereignty. 🇵🇸🗣️🔊📣

MUST WATCH/LISTEN!
Thank you @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social for battling this in court so that it’s all on the public record—you speak for those (likely hundreds, if not thousands) of us who have had similar/adjacent experiences but are gagged by NDAs & confidentiality clauses. 🙏

Impressive analysis of what appears to be a rather damning dossier — compiled within 24 hours because EHRC only responded to the FOI request *after* it’s consultation deadline yesterday. Thank you @tacc.org.uk 🙏

4/ Israeli military operations, including Leonardo S.p.A.315 and Ben-Gurion University, through the Al and Data Science Lab at Ben-Gurion University, 316 sharing research that directly links it with assaults on Palestinians.”

Full report 👇
shorturl.at/uOA0p

3/ With both direct and indexed investments, the University ranks among the most financially entangled institutions in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The University also partners with firms aiding

2/ “The University of Edinburgh holds nearly £25.5 million ($31.72 million) (2.5 per cent of its endowment) in four tech giants - Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and IBM314 - central to the Israeli surveillance apparatus and the ongoing Gaza destruction.

1/ Peerless! @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social named exclusively in UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories @franceskalbs.bsky.social’s latest report due to its investments in genocide (esp. tech). It says:

Brilliant result of militant, unrelenting strike action!

Streeting banned puberty-blockers despite there being no evidence whatsoever that they are dangerous, and now plenty of evidence (including my own peer-reviewed research) that banning them is harmful.

However…

He enthusiastically promoted weight loss drugs however, and now people are being harmed

EHRC formally abandons single-sex toilet stipulation | Good Law Project The EHRC’s rushed guidance caused harm from the moment it was released. But now they’re u-turning.

Not sure what a 'sexed' toilet is anyway, tbh. Toilets are inanimate.

goodlawproject.org/ehrc-formall...

Sadly not.

Where my ALP/Labour hacks at?

Shhh.

*RIDDLE FOR MEETING PROCEDURE NERDS*
Without giving you the context, give me a *democratic* solution to this👇

A motion + 4 amendments are tabled at a union meeting. Instead of voting in the meeting they will be sent out to 3k members for electronic ballot. A decision must be reached within 3 days.

Remembering that Starmer doesn't have a favourite book or poem, and doesn't dream

‘Kitchen said he wanted other Australians to be aware that “cleaning” their phones wouldn’t necessarily mean they would be able to get their Esta approved upon arrival in the US. “They had already prepared a file on me and already knew everything about me”.’

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...