The EU’s Court of Justice has just ruled anti-LGBTQ+, including anti-trans, laws are ‘contrary to the very identity of the Union as a common legal order in a society in which pluralism prevails’.
Everywhere on global peripheries turns out to have a music genre like this.
*was also going to recommend this*
‘Find resonant song lyric and sort out the details later’ is my backstop with these…
Including the 🇵🇸 association’s president, who’d planned to respond to FIFA’s report recommending no action over 🇮🇱 clubs playing matches in occupied West Bank. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories.
Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...
It's a year today since the Supreme Court decision on the meaning of "sex" under the Equality Act 2010.
Jolyon Maugham and I have written a reflective piece with our thoughts on the judgment, everything that has happened since, and why it's so important that we are still fighting - together 👇
The book cover for Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation. It shows two men sat on a bench in the 1930s.
"Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" is published TODAY by @cornellupress.bsky.social! I tell the story of how queer men didn't just exist in Belfast but could be accepted by friends, family & colleagues... at least until a moral panic about homosexuality in the 1950s. 🧵
‘Perhaps this seeding of ideas is the point – because The Music is Black establishes an exhibition model well suited to the institution. A story pertinent to the V&A’s own colonial history is told through the culture that emerged from and contests it’
Magyar has threatened to suspend the state broadcaster following a heated on-air clash, accusing it of spreading “North Korean-style” propaganda and false claims about his family during the election campaign. #EuropeNews
RIP Moya Brennan, a wonderful singer, composer, harpist, sister of Enya, and gave - with Clannad - the first ever performance in Irish on Top of the Pops. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zHT...
Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project:
'Cold War Socialism, Non-Alignment and Anti-Colonialism in the Yugoslav Press, 1961-1979' - British Library & University of Exeter
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Deadline for student applications: 5 May (noon)
It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...
I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.
I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee
I think that’s definitely going on to some background reading for a module next year - thank you!
I have a new article in @historyworkshop.org.uk that explores the resourcing of feminist activism in the 1970s. Come for the rants about typing, stay for the study of jumble sales as feminist praxis! 🗃️
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"She told me we would be roommates when we moved to Zagreb. She promised we’d travel across Europe come summer. I knew we wouldn’t" www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/sleep... via @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social
In The Return of Russia, @jmacrodgers.bsky.social charts Russia’s return to prominence on the world stage. This extract explores one of the most visible expressions of that ambition: the use of the World Cup, as a platform for power, prestige, and political messaging.
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The flexing to distance TV Zagreb as was from other Yugoslav broadcasters in that 🇭🇷 ‘93 press pack!
The darts thing has really depressed me. It’s ridiculous. How can anyone seriously think it’s reasonable?
It’s worse knowing that the ultimate goal of these bigots isn’t sports, it’s just cutting us out of society and any avenue for camaraderie with other women.
QMUL is advertising an exciting opportunity: a fully funded PhD studentship, working on European politics, ideology, and political 'myths' with @karlpike.bsky.social and @timbale.bsky.social. Details below.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRB421/p...
I refuse to accept this is now sixteen years old… www.youtube.com/watch?v=niqr...
OUT NOW: The Queer Scrapbook tells our history through the playful, messy, personal stories we save. Huge thanks to MUP and 'dream team' co-editors Matt Cook, Rebecca Jennings and E-J Scott. Check out the book, recommend it, and please share widely!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165312/
Ra'il I'Nasah Kiam co-founded YourSlipisShowing, which played a key role in anti-racist and antifascist organizing online.
But his work, like that of so many Black trans organizers, was thoroughly erased — when the movement he helped found was even mentioned at all.
This is his story:
Transcript text: 22 I wanted to tell Mr. Registrar that he should ask the technicians 23 to fix the screen because I have some squares on my screen. It is 24 because of Judge Prandler who dropped a file on the computer, and it no 25 longer works because of that, and since there's a hearing this afternoon Page 35699 1 it needs to be fixed.
The dangers of IT in the courtroom before the days of AI - Judge Prandler drops a heavy binder on his colleague's screen, from Prlić et al hearings at ICTY in January 2009
this feels like time for one of my periodic rants about how Judaism gets some stuff wrong - like all religions - but one of the things we are REALLY GOOD ON is the nature of forgiveness.
which is to say: first, unless they have come to you with sincere repentance, you don't have to forgive anyone!
'In 2023, UK universities spent a total of £500m on education agents – but there is very little oversight of how these agents operate.'
'Once students got their offers, they were passed on to the visa team, and finally delivered to universities as a fully wrapped, fee-paying package.'
