good, productive feminism explains that gender isn't innate and the patriarchy can be deconstructed; essentially telling young women that all men are creeps and predators and will never change is actually just weirdly reactionary and purposeless
Our latest blog post comes from @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social aka @aliceaforethought.bsky.social and @drfoxpopuli.bsky.social: “Law is a cabaret, old chum” - How Law’s a Drag uses theatre for engagement and outreach, and how you could too
www.slsa.ac.uk/post/law-is-...
if you work in a UK uni, drop everything and read this (not news to many of us, but sobering to have the dots joined up; the stories are outrageous and heartbreaking)
cosmic horror: does the ISS use Teams
Screenshot of article link.
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A photo with Aumua Amata Radewagen, the member of Congress that represents American Samoa as a non-voting delegate in the House of Representatives.
American Samoa has opposed U.S. birthright citizenship since 1900, and remains the only U.S. territory without citizenship by statute. Its non-voting delegate, Rep. Radewagen, supports “U.S. national” status. Citizenship could fortify equal protection challenges to A. Samoa’s traditional government.
Friends, again with respect because this is a complex issue: children born to citizens of tribal governments do not have constitutional birthright citizenship under many, if not most forms of constitutional argument and authority (incl. Supreme Court precedent relied upon in this case)./1
This is vile, but also a nonsense argument because OF COURSE if you have ANY condition you are incentivised to get a diagnosis, because that is the way to getting treatment and feeling better.
I am incentivised to get a diagnosis if I have a chest infection because then I can have antibiotics.
YAAAAAAASSSS
A sticker from ohmygollyembroidery on Etsy that says Trans Lives Are More Important Than Harry Potter.
A huge welcome for Oliver and Anna! Luna will publish Our Glorious Progeny, an anthology edited by @oliverklangmead.bsky.social & Anna McFarlane @mariettarosetta.bsky.social
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Map of the United States with color-coding to show how each state is categorized by abortion policies, ranging from most restrictive to most protective. White text on a navy blue bar at the top says, “Abortion policies in effect as of March 10, 2026.”
Wyoming’s governor signed into law a so-called “fetal heartbeat” ban. Abortion is now banned in the state when “cardiac activity” is detected, around 6 wks of pregnancy.
WY now shifts from “Restrictive” to “Very Restrictive” on our interactive map. Learn more: https://gu.tt/4985P4S
#AbortionAccess
The reviews searched over 12,000 references. They screened 547 full-text papers for inclusion. They included 17. That's a 96.9% exclusion rate at full text. 530 studies were relevant enough to survive initial screening, then rejected by the review criteria. 6/10 reviews found 0 included studies.
Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people.
This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists.
The study underpinning this played one particular trick.
Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5
A black and white photo of Ormes.
Ormes at her drawing table.
Ormes with a Patty Jo doll.
Cartoonist Jackie Ormes, the first Black woman to create a comic strip that was nationally syndicated. Her strips included Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem, Torchy in Heartbeats & Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger. Patty Jo became a toy doll in the late 1940s.
#InternationalWomensDay
#InternationalWomensDay2026
A recent photo of Brandon-Croft
A sample strip from Where I'm Coming From.
The cover of the hardcover collection of Where I’m Coming From from Drawn and Quarterly.
Cartoonist Barbara Brandon-Croft, creator of the comic strip Where I'm Coming From, the first comic strip by a Black woman to be nationally syndicated in the mainstream press in the US. (Jackie Ormes was restricted to Black press in her time.) #InternationalWomensDay #InternationalWomensDay2026
North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.
From the first trailer of "Kindred Spirits", the new animated feature film by Tomm Moore & Cartoon Saloon (Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, Wolfwalkers) + Folivari. Coming in 2028.
Full video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQn9...
For over a century International Women's Day has been a site of workers’ strikes and collective action.
We're celebrating by offering 30% off a selection of key texts on radical feminist theory and history.
Photograph of a cinema screen with 'THE BRIDE!' in large orange letters, with the names of Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale above it.
I went to a preview screening of The Bride! last night. It was fun, but for a movie that is trying so hard to be feminist, the central message is essentially that a man can successfully lie and manipulate his way into a relationship.
"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world."
#AIslop #refuseresist
"In a UK survey of over 4,000 trans people, TransActual found that 99% say media coverage has harmed their mental health, 99% have heard politicians express transphobic views, and many have been refused non-transition healthcare simply for being trans."
transactual.org.uk/trans-lives-...
Fungi in SFF Special Issues call for non-fiction submissions
Strange Horizons is open to non-fiction submissions for our March 30th special issue which will be all about Fungi in SFF!
More information about our submission guidelines and how to submit ⬇️
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Absolutely horrifying.
I reviewed the virtually perfect first season of A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS, a story of decency and cruelty on a small and elegant stage.
www.patreon.com/posts/151431...
Photograph of the second printing edition of the It Ain't Me Babe comic book. It has a green background and features the characters Olive Oyl, Wonder Woman, Mary Marvel, Little Lulu, Sheena Queen of the Jungle, and Elsie the Cow.
Photograph of part of a comic strip. The main panel in focus shows people running out of a hole in the wall with a news headline in a box reading 'Extra!! Extra: Supergirl breaks into women's prison - prisoners flee!'
The first US underground comic book written entirely by women published in 1970, featuring a story satirising mainstream women comic book characters - including Supergirl breaking into a women's prison because she gets sick of Superman's shit.
Aside from the fact that the contemporary academy has structured the term "activist" to indicate that a given academic and their work should not be taken seriously, the rise of the "activist" in the academy, and activist fields, is coextensive with the opening of the academy to marginalized folks.
I am ABSOLUTELY reading this as HARD PROOF that Romans farmed ichthyosaurs.
It is fact now. Sorry.
