“To make yourself merely technically useful to a company or an industry is to make yourself vulnerable to replacement by automation at any moment. Thinking, creating, understanding – these cannot be replaced, certainly not by AI. Trust me. I’ve tried.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Text reads:, "It means a great deal to me to see the women whose stories I encountered during my PhD research honoured through this project. Many of the cases I looked at involved domestic violence, sometimes as a pattern of harm that made people more vulnerable to fatal violence. Too often, these types of deaths go unmarked and unnoticed. To have them included in NUM's memorial map ensures they are remembered not just as victims, but as part of our collective commitment to ending all forms of violence against sex workers."
We have worked with Dr Lucy Neville @drbluestocking.bsky.social, Criminology Lecturer at Southampton Uni to include information from her PhD project that included data about #sexworkers murdered in incidents of #domesticviolence.
Read her study: www.scribd.com/document/678...
#IDEVASW #IDEVASW2025
“For the thousands of women who clock in each day at factories, fabrication shops and construction sites across America, Czech's murder has validated the vulnerability they feel working outnumbered and alone” www.ibtimes.co.uk/minnesota-ma...
Yes, thank you :-) - I’ll def be giving it a read
cc @drbluestocking.bsky.social, I believe your book "Girls who like boys who like boys: Women and gay male pornography and erotica" would be of relevance
Can’t help but reflect on the *5 years of strikes* we did to defend our pensions, on this, the day USS announce their £10 billion surplus.
Amidst the bleakness, I've just published an article exploring how young trans people are dealing with life in the UK @geographers.bsky.social. Do read to understand more about how trans youth are navigating & thriving in these times. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
starting to think we should give "strange women lying in ponds distributing swords" a chance as a basis for our system of government
“Defending the rights of migrant sex workers is essential to a broader movement for immigrant justice… Otherwise, the state will keep using the same fascist playbook: target sex workers and the most marginalized first, then expand its reach to others” #sexworkiswork
truthout.org/articles/sex...
Having a Cultural Evening with @drbluestocking.bsky.social Celebrating the AMAZING #LauraHarris Collaborative Art Installation at the John Hansard Gallery #SoProud #BuildingsThatMove 😍❤️🥂🥂🥂
I have never seen people run away from the scene of a public policy disaster quicker than this one. Astonishing and disgraceful. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
Introducing Our University's New, Totally Reasonable Criteria for Promotion and Tenure www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/int...
“No matter how long we get to parent our children, there are only limited numbers of “I love you”s we can say to them. That, too, is a fact.”
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Text: Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and INsecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out. -Gabino Iglesias
Legit! #writers #booksky #writingcommunity
"The real project was always us: the work of understanding, and not the accumulation of facts... No amount of peer-reviewed scholarship, no data set, can resolve the central questions that confront every human being: How to live? What to do? How to face death?’" www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“That’s the problem with paralysis – it gets into everything. You can’t look at the news, but you know it’s still there... Frozen feels preferable to adapting to a new reality. Sometimes you don’t have to look for it – trouble will find you anyway”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“We have our own witches – women who like the witches of old cannot live in the boxes they are put in. Women who are shamed and doubted in public, regardless of who is wrong or right. I could not live in the box I had been put in”
www.themanifeststation.net/2025/02/14/t...
“If I were to ask “What makes you proud to be British?”… I would put money on many of your answers being the very subjects that are currently under threat at our universities. Our history, theatre, music, language, literature – our culture” - @whoresofyore.bsky.social inews.co.uk/opinion/colu...
It’s fun starting a new hobby with ADHD because I never know if I’ve found a new lifelong passion or if I’m going to spend $2000 on stuff and immediately lose all interest
“While there is every reason to be outraged, we cannot let that outrage flood us and stop our minds” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“Romantasy and BookTok driving a huge rise in science fiction and fantasy sales” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...
Incredible review from the wonderful InCommon of the exhibition on now in Winchester @miloustella.bsky.social
“Shaping pleasure, shifting boundaries: a roundtable on the future of porn studies” #PornStudies www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NVIW4...
Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.
I.e. the exact stuff I do! So not trying to belittle how awful this is for US academics. Just that it doesn’t look to be a blanket ban.
The Washington Post has reported on it: www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Seems like it’s not the case that funding will be pulled from/denied grants featuring these words, rather that the occurrence of these words will trigger a “human review”. So mentions of statistical bias, blood-brain barrier &c will be fine. It’s specifically “EDI” research that will be defunded.
