It is true that Israel falsely claims to be a democracy while maintaining apartheid, but the other part of this argument is disingenuous. Zionism is primarily an ethnonationalist movement aiming to resolve the plight of a persecuted ethnic group, not a religious one (pretend or otherwise)

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Our last workshop together for Revolt in Bernicia’s Garden at The Newbridge Project… it’s been a fascinating journey and I’m curious to see what we’ll make of it, looking back thenewbridgeproject.com/events/revol...

There are 10 times more pages in the IOC’s ‘Policy on the Protection of the Female (Women’s) Category in Olympic Sport’ than there are trans women who have competed in the Olympics. There will also almost certainly be more cis women than trans women disqualified by chromosomal testing

The Olympics Has a New Sex Testing Policy. The Evidence Doesn’t Add Up I’ve spent over 10 years obsessed with so-called “gender verification” tests. Proponents claim they have history and science on their side. They don’t.

Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

On my way to St Andrews, working on an editorial for a themed issue on drawing, and looking forward to what should be a great seminar about storytelling, love, and ecology (among other things)

Tweet from the Israel Foreign Ministry: "The Iranian regime is the mastermind of a global terror network. With its long-range missiles & through the IRGC and its proxies - Hezbollah, Hamas, PIJ, the Houthis - it fuels chaos and bloodshed far beyond its borders, from the Middle East to Europe and beyond. The Iranian regime is the greatest threat to world peace and the free world."

Today my students discussed whether and to what extent Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism play a similar structural role in Europe to the role antisemitism played in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Then the Israeli Foreign Ministry just goes and tweets out an Islamophobic octopus.

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

ALL Women must stand together on International Women's Day Graphic image of women's outlines in different colours like watercolour.

On International Women’s Day, we reflect on the importance of solidarity between women🩷

For over a decade, the conversation around trans rights has been used to divide women who would otherwise stand together. This weakens our ability to challenge the real sources of inequality, misogyny & violence

Satire died a very long time ago

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

The worst bit is they know this and they don’t care. It’s no longer about pedagogy, it’s about profit and control

(And chat GPT was probably trained to do it by emptily mimicking the product of your labour)

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

CNN: More than 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since war began, rights group reports By Helen Regan More than 1,000 people, including children, have been killed in Iran since the war began on Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). The rights group said as of Tuesday afternoon ET, at least 1,097 civilians had been killed, including 181 children. More than 5,400 civilians, including 100 children, have been injured, HRANA reported. The group said its report is preliminary and is veritying hundreds more reported deaths.

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.

students literally tell me their parents tell them they can’t major in Black Studies but every year they have an option for an exam essay prompt where they can argue for or against universities having obligations to offer these classes and OVERWHELMINGLY they think universities should have to

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

I was literally teaching Sara Ahmed’s work on how the whiteness of institutions is a result of a series of decisions about the allocation of resources, who to recruit, what to prioritize.

The values of an institution are most clearly indicated in their budgets.

Really enjoyed reading this non-fiction graphic book on queer/trans ecologies by @sagebrice.bsky.social! Definitely recommend! 🐧

Help us support Girlguiding and the Women’s Institute to remain inclusive | Good Law Project We’re offering to defend the Women’s Institute and Girlguiding against trans exclusion

We want to support Girlguiding and the Women's Institute to remain inclusive. We think the law is on our side, and we're offering to cover all their costs.

But we need you to tell them how important trans inclusion is to you 👇

Photo of a lecture slide, with an image of a small pink ox-tongue fungus protruding from the dark crack between two tree roots. The text reads “Loving oneself and/or multiple others offers viable arrangements for living and dying in community with wider ecologies. The power and the pleasure of such a mycelial love lie in the simultaneity, the coextension, of decay and abundance”

This was a lot of fun!
Thanks @mingcan-rong.bsky.social, @samlebutt.bsky.social and colleagues for an enjoyable evening

VERY excited to be speaking at the Nature Bites Back ecohorror symposium tomorrow at Bristol! Among v esteemed panelists and multiple mushroom talks! What more could an ecoGoth dream of... 🍄 @uobrisceh.bsky.social @sagebrice.bsky.social

I Have Referred Dr Hilary Cass to the GMC Why I believe the Cass Review falls short of the professional standards expected of every registered doctor.

www.helenwebberley.com/p/i-have-ref...

Photo of De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography

Flipping through th entries in this new volume, it looks to be not only a fantastic teaching resource but an orientating force for the future of feminist political geography, carefully edited by Sydney Calkin and @cordyf.bsky.social

Many others will understand themselves as trans, & never speak a word. Too afraid.

The category of 'gender questioning children', as though this is a group we can identify in a trans hostile society, is a transphobic false category.

Please use the term with extreme caution.

We also know, as academics & researchers, that the period in which any child is 'gender questioning' is very often on their own, in silence, months or even years before they speak the words to a single other person.

We do not know which children around us are 'questioning' their gender.

There is a wholescale concerted effort to rebrand trans children as gender questioning children.

If the whole group are re-labelled, then they cannot claim rights as a minority group.

If they are all re-labelled, then conversion efforts can just about helping them 'explore their gender'.

Polanski is a pleasure to interview because he will answer any question about anyone. Wes Streeting? “Wes is attacking me every day on social media because I’m another gay man in politics who is not willing to throw the trans community under the bus and that exposes his abject immorality. He must know what it’s like to be othered but he’s more bothered about power than protecting the other. It’s disgraceful.”

Okay but Zack Polanski has been coming out with bangers

Once again: if these LLMs could actually do all the things their owners claim, they wouldn’t be selling access. They would be building and selling all the things they claim their software can do.

Understanding the 2024 Summer Riots in the UK: Three Case Studies The wave of riots in England in summer 2024 were followed by swift policy responses before any detailed empirical investigation had been carried out. This paper presents case studies of the disorders ...

Our study of three of the 2024 anti-asylum-seeker riots now accepted for publication at J of Community & Applied Social Psych.

Link to pre-print below.

www.qeios.com/read/17ASAP