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Aine Bennett @ainebennett.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Very excited to be a new co-convenor of GIRWG! Stay tuned for our plans for the year

Aine Bennett @ainebennett.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Yesterday morning I woke up from a being chased dream where the only escape was on the ferry to "dissertation island" (no joke) but I couldn't get on the ferry... In unrelated news, today I submitted my PhD thesis

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Keep in mind that when we talk about family reunification routes, they only apply when someone has been granted refugee status. That means this government is saying, "we know you have fled persecution. We know your family remains at risk therefore. We are going to ensure you cannot see them again".

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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

This is a 5-year postdoc position! One for the queer STS / medical humanities and other scholars out there. What a cool opportunity

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Aine Bennett @ainebennett.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Proud of the work we've done on this report and hope it's useful for people in the youth sector!

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Aine Bennett @ainebennett.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Feinberg, Leslie; Fianna Fáil is a personal fave

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Aine Bennett @ainebennett.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Reading this immediately after receiving another rejection At a recent conference, everyone else I spoke to who's on the market this year talked about it being harder than other years Glad 10 years of higher education are paying off!

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Aine Bennett @ainebennett.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

In the Linen Hall library finishing prep for this roundtable and panel I am very excited to be on tomorrow at #BISA2025 If you're also in Belfast, come and join us! 🌈🎓

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Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

"diverted" is when the 75 bus goes through an alternative route due to roadworks, not when a boat is seized in international waters

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Aine Bennett @ainebennett.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Very proud seeing some former students' work included here!

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Karia Hartung @kariahartung.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

An academic in our department gave a "trans-sceptical" talk on campus today. We have written an open letter to the Principal and University Secretary expressing our opposition to transphobia on our campus - we hope others in the RHUL community will sign: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

docs.google.com

Open letter to Julie Saunders, Vice Chancellor and Principal and Andrew Boggs, University Secretary, about the hosting of a talk on "Trans-scepticism"

Please note: Dr Gascoigne is an active member of teaching staff. We have therefore allowed the option for anonymous signatures. We would encourage initials for those who are comfortable, or otherwise ...

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Aine Bennett @ainebennett.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

docs.google.com

Open letter to Julie Saunders, Vice Chancellor and Principal and Andrew Boggs, University Secretary, about the hosting of a talk on "Trans-scepticism"

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naoise murphy @naoisemurphy.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Today! Oxford people, see you there!

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Aine Bennett @ainebennett.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

This has gone some way towards dissuading me from my (I hope) most reactionary opinion that you should have to pass a cycling proficiency test before renting a lime bike...

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Uygar Baspehlivan @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Just going to slowly introduce some of my research to BlueSky. I'm a critical theorist interested in political possibilities of new media, particularly memes. My first journal article was a theoretical framework for the political study of internet memes. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Theorising the memescape: The spatial politics of Internet memes | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core

Theorising the memescape: The spatial politics of Internet memes - Volume 50 Issue 1

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Aine Bennett @ainebennett.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I have just signed the open letter "Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia" in response to the recent hateful and harmful Supreme Court ruling I hope others will too: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

docs.google.com

Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia

We call on all trans-inclusive feminist academics and educators to sign this statement: ‘Not In Our Name’ We are non-trans feminist academics and educators. We write in support of trans rights, tran...

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Trans women are women and no court judgement can change that. Without wanting to diminish the negative effect that legal oppression has on trans lives, there is no reason why lawyers and judges are qualified to make this argument over actual experts in the field.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 16/04/2025

regardless of today’s outcome, it is morally indefensible to have a court ruling on something that affects a population, using evidence and findings that did not consult a single member of that population.

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

And then we were 91. Royal Holloway already has had so many interventions and threats of redundancies in recent years. 😥

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

“Research into sexuality and gender is vital for identifying social, cultural, and medical needs of populations, and addressing inequalities across populations.” It’s good to see editors of academic journals refuse to comply with increasing state censorship of sexuality and gender scholarship. 🌈🎓

tandfonline.com

Statement on the Importance of Sexuality and Gender Research

Published in The Journal of Sex Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Aine Bennett @ainebennett.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I have signed this statement "Against the Repression of Academic Freedom in the United States and its Disproportionate Impact on Racialized Peoples" and strongly encourage fellow academics to do so too: twailr.com/statement-ag... Thank you to the organisers for bringing this together

twailr.com

Statement against the Repression of Academic Freedom in the United States and its Disproportionate Impact on Racialized Peoples

Please fill out the Google Form hyperlinked in the statement to add your name as a signatory to this statement.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

For the @theguardian.com I wrote about the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil & Trump's exploitation of anti-Palestinian racism to descend the nation into authoritarianism, with the full collaboration of academia. No one is free until Palestine is free. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.com

Trump is using Mahmoud Khalil to test his mass deportation plan | Heba Gowayed

The Palestinian student’s arrest at Columbia University is a harbinger of what’s to come on college campuses

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Along with @jesshardie.bsky.social I wrote for @truthout.org about the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, and how universities are sowing their own demise, and that of the country's by continuing to suppress pro-Palestine campus movements. truthout.org/articles/as-...

truthout.org

As ICE Jails Palestinian Protester, Universities Must Commit to Academic Freedom

Universities may sow their own demise if they continue to aid the suppression of pro-Palestine campus movements.

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Aine Bennett @ainebennett.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Pretty thrilling being cited for the first time!!!

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Aine Bennett @ainebennett.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Couldn't recommend Henry's newsletter more - saves you ever scrolling mindlessly through hundreds of meh films again, and comes with thoughtful and political commentary on the state of cinema!

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Aine Bennett @ainebennett.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Just look at those big beautiful windows! And our gorgeous community! A far cry from @luciafrigo.bsky.social @tombarton.bsky.social and I alone in "the dungeon" three years ago

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Aine Bennett @ainebennett.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Excitedly tucking into my brilliant friend @contentking.bsky.social 's new book, as should anyone else who's ever wondered why women might join the far right 🤔🩷💊 Out today!

A white hand holds a book with a pink cover up in front of the storefront for Housmans bookshop. The book is called Pink-pilled: women and the far right and is by Lois Shearing. The cover art is of an extended tongue which a pink pill on it

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Katherine Pye @katherinepye.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Call for papers! Myself & @daliasaris.bsky.social are planning to run a panel on knowledge and expertise in humanitarian practice at #EISAPEC25 in Bologna 25-29 August, details below. We will be welcoming paper contributions until 7 March, DM for questions! @europeanisa.bsky.social #EISAPEC2025

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The Lancet, the world's most trusted medical journal, has published a new study showing that life expectancy in Gaza has dropped by almost half during the first 12 months of Israel’s live streamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians. loom.ly/OuzGfEc

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Aine Bennett @ainebennett.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Just found out about narrative CVs. What do you mean I have to write two cover letters??

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Aine Bennett @ainebennett.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Really looking forward to this!

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PIR at Royal Holloway @rhulpir.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Today at 1pm, the inimitable @mixosaurus.bsky.social is presenting "Eroticising the trans body: labels and descriptions of queer bodies in online erotica" as the Gender Institute's Scholar of the month🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ Join us in McCrea 1-17 or on Teams for what is sure to be a fascinating talk

A poster advertising the talk. There is a photo of Kat Gupta, a non-binary south Asian person, next to the title. The body of the text says:
"Thursday 3oth January, 1pm in McCrea-1-17 or Microsoft
Teams
Dr Gupta is a Lecturer in Political Communications in the Department of Politics, International
Relations and Philosophy at Royal Holloway. Their research uses corpus linguistics and (critical)
discourse analysis to explore representation, marginalisation and power, with a particular focus on
gender, sexuality, and intersections of these with other identities. They are the author of
“Representation of the British Suffrage Movement” and co-editor of “The Emergence of Trans
Cultures, Politics and Everyday Lives” .
Kat has performed their creative writing as part of CN Lester’s Transpose series. and both
contributed to and co-edited Non-Binary Lives: An Anthology of Intersecting Identities (with Jos
Twist, Ben Vincent, and MJ Barker: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2020), a Lambda Literary Award
finalist.
This session will focus on how non-normative bodies, such as those that violate or transgress the
gender binary, are constructed as desirable in a corpus of online erotic fiction. Erotica has a
complex relationship with reality: writers may write about interactions obviously based in fantasy:
write about sexual acts and dynamics that they have not (yet) experienced but would like to; or
explore themes or sexual acts that they find arousing but which they do not want, or which are
impossible, to experience in real life. However, erotica is written on a sociocultural context which
is reflected in the dynamics between characters and types of sexual acts."

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Aine Bennett @ainebennett.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Joe is underselling here that their article is about Bend It Like Beckham!

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Aine Bennett @ainebennett.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Trippy feeling finding yourself in the source you're analysing...

Screenshot of text that says "En 2023, seule une recherche scientifique a porté sur les archives administratives de l’Ofpra, également sources importantes pour l’histoire de l’asile. Le sujet était : « La bisexualité et l’asile au Royaume-Uni et en France depuis 1997 »."

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Really, truly hope that the ceasefire holds - but this must not be the end of demanding accountability and redress for the genocide that has been perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinians, and the material and ideological support our governments lent it to do so.

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PIR at Royal Holloway @rhulpir.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

A few shots of our PhD students in action at the Gender Institute and HARI lightning talks yesterday. They were joined by MRes student Josephine Carr and Dr Lyn Johnstone from our department as well as fantastic scholars from across the college. A great start to the term!

A blonde woman in a brown jumper and navy trousers stands speaking in front of a screen that says "Being a female scholar in a hyper-masculinized field: my experience in intelligence studies"

A woman with short brown hair wearing a green jumper and light blue shirt stands looking at a screen that says "Aine Bennett PGR student in Politics and International Relations"

A woman with a high ponytail wearing a white long sleeve t shirt and grey trousers stands gesturing next to a screen that says "What's in an S? - NATO's Discursive Construction of Gender Perspective(s)"

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Aine Bennett @ainebennett.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

259,572 words later and the interview transcripts are finally finished! Turns out the one thing I procrastinate even more is writing...

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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Absolutely massive CfP for *The Handbook of Trans Cinema*: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/07/...

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu

cfp | call for papers

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Henry Roberts @henryroberts.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I would love for you to follow my newsletter, where I recommend foreign, old and just generally brilliant films that are playing on our public service broadcasters (BBC, ITV, C4) I also use it an excuse to rant about the world of freelancing henryrobertscreative.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

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Kayleigh Charlton @kcharlton.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I haven't posted much on here yet, but looking to connect with youth workers, practitioners, social workers, teachers etc for the project I'm working on at the moment - Challenging Justice Inequalities. We are looking to co-produce a research project with 14-17 year olds about justice inequalities.

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Aine Bennett @ainebennett.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Realising I need to renew my British Library card is really the moment that has brought home how far into the PhD I am 🤦‍♀️

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PIR at Royal Holloway @rhulpir.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

We're kicking off the new year with five members of our department presenting at the Gender Institute and HARI's lightning talks on 14th Jan at 12 in EWD-1-04! Please join us to hear from them alongside networking and lunch 👩‍🏫🥪

A poster advertising the event which says:
The Gender Institute and
The Humanities and Arts Research Institute
present Lightning Talks
Tuesday 14th January at 12 Noon in EWD-1-04
Want to learn more about the gender research being conducted at RHUL?
Please join us as our own gender experts present their latest findings in 5-minute lightening talks
Lunch and networking opportunities included!
Professor Kate Cooper, Pious Maidens and Evil Queens: re-thinking the Jezebel paradox
Dr. Vera Hoelscher, Mother entrepreneurs and their use of Instagram algorithms
Dr Ana Jablonska, Women’s food choices in prison
Dr Lyn Johnstone, Queer futurity through dance in Mozambique
Dr. Maryam Mehrnezhad, Cybersecurity and Gender
Dr Niki Philips, Legal advocacy, space and emotion in the C18th Court of King’s Bench
Aine Bennett, Gender and Sexuality Slippages in Asylum Research
Lucia Frigo, being a female scholar in a hyper-masculine field: Intelligence Studies
Karia Hartung, NATO’s discursive construction of gender
Josephine Carr, Royal Holloway Piggeries
Moderated by Professors Jennifer Piscopo and Richard Alston, Directors of the Gender and HARI Institutes

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Nicolas Gäckle @nfgaeckle.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Call for Papers: @kawezel.bsky.social and myself are organizing an early career workshop on 'International Political Sociologies of Planetary Crises' - please send us your abstracts and share widely!

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Aine Bennett @ainebennett.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Looks like sexualities book aesthetics go in 25 year cycles

Two books next to each other on a wooden desk
On the left is Deadly and Slick by Sita Balani and on the right is The Bisexual Imaginary edited by Bi Academic Interventions
Both books have a black background with flowy white text and sans serif red text

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