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Alex Roman

@alexepisteme.bsky.social
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doctoral researcher organised transphobia, bio/necropolitics, and reactionary politics (they/them)

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 11/10/2026
Small island kingdom's state-owned propaganda arm censors woman's pro civil rights message
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Alex 🏴Ⓐ🔆 (The Anarchist Turtle) @theanarchistturtle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The absolute state of trans ally journalism
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My new article, co-authored with @sandraduffy.bsky.social is out today, please read & share: "Criminalising and eliminating affirmative healthcare: Trans childhood in a moral panic" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Criminalising and eliminating affirmative healthcare: Trans childhood in a moral panic - Cal Horton, Sandra Duffy, 2026
Trans children in the UK are the targets of an escalating moral panic, centred around access to affirmative adolescent healthcare. Combining moral panic theory ...
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 23/08/2026
Will anyone acknowledge how revealing it is about the underpinnings of "gender critical" ideology that they're all coming out to bat for the self-described "race realist"?
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
BBC Radio 4's Common Ground just now investigating whether "woke has gone too far." At this point it feels like the national broadcaster is nothing but a threat to democracy.
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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Its entirely possible that the UK as a state is simply incompatible with the present.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
-Puberty-blocker ban -U-18s hormone ban -Forced detransitions -Transphobic schools “guidance” -Toilet segregation -Obstacles to social transition -Forced outing to parents -NHS “services” imposing a pathologising external agenda Any *genuine* conversion therapy ban would need to outlaw ALL of these
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 11/06/2026
A reminder as the far right tries to spread hate and division: they're not even that popular, they're just loud goodlawproject.org/aurelien-mondon-…
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Aurelien Mondon: The far right isn’t populist – they’re not even popular | Good Law Project
The far right will march on the streets of London this weekend, but their message of hate doesn’t speak for the people, says Aurelien Mondon
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Update: Young people & families today received shocking & transphobic letters from NHS. These letters tell people that endocrine care (blockers / HRT) is being fully withdrawn in 7 weeks time (July 31st). Forced medical detransition. This country is a danger to trans children & young people.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 22/05/2026
Since the concept is being misunderstood and misused, let's talk about what "third-sexing" means as a mechanism of transphobia. I built on an idea first discussed in @juliaserano.bsky.social's "Whipping Girl" that discussed how, interpersonally, cis people refuse to acknowledge our genders.
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The Third Sex
“The Gender Binary” is a misnomer; gender has always been a hierarchy.
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Fran Amery @franamery.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Politics academics, I'm looking at you. That means you too, gender and politics researchers!
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 19/05/2026
Bluntly, the current patriarchal order has made it explicit that it would welcome the annihilation of humanity before the annihilation of the order.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
They spent a decade complaining about safe spaces and then made a robot to give you compliments and tell you your mp3 of farting noises is Brian Eno
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Futurism @futurism.com · 09/04/2026
This is catastrophic.
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Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization
A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.
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Alex Roman @alexepisteme.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I am a co-author on this policy study for @feps-europe.eu with colleagues from @reacpolrn.bsky.social. Please give it a read if you want to help resist the far right!
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
In a competitive field where it is hard to stand out, to truly shine for national transphobia, the UK and NHS are absolutely knocking it out of the park. They looked and looked and only found 1 study on puberty blockers + oestrogen Others try and transphobe but we are world class transphobes
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.
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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 16/01/2026
I feel like the Nobel peace prize people could have avoided this if they gave their medal to someone who dedicated their life to peace, rather than just "this person is an opposition leader."
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 22/12/2025
The extremism of organised transphobia and their unwavering belief in the necessity to exclude, dehumanise and make diappear a marginalised community should ring alarm bells to anyone who knows even a little about 19th and 20th century history...
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Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
📣New interview📣 'Terms like “detransitioner,” like “transitioner,” reduce people to the act of transitioning and frame transitioning as an extremist act or impulsive decision' @katfuller.bsky.social discusses transphobic moral panics on the far right. reacpol.net/moral-panic-...
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Interview: Moral panic: Transphobia, gender ideology and far-right conspiracy (Kat Fuller) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This interview is based on Kat Fuller's chapter 'Moral panic: Transphobia, gender ideology and far-right conspiracy' (2025, w. Q. McLamore)
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 28/11/2025
Focusing on extreme events such as the reports of Farage’s teenage past can exceptionalise the nature of far-right politics and make it harder to call out Some thoughts @theconversation.com on the mainstreaming of far-right politics theconversation.com/nigel-farage...
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Nigel Farage’s alleged teenage comments are a distraction from the damage of his politics
Reports of such appalling behaviour – and Farage’s reaction – give us an insight into the leader of the UK’s rising far-right party.
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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
a world without trans people has never existed and never will
a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.
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Dire Dire Docks @dirediredocks.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
When I'm asked what kind of friend groups I have:
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 14/11/2025
The Times Higher Education giving a platform to reactionary voices to complain about there being too much "terminology relating to EDI" or "progressive discourse" in research projects at a time when fascism is at the door... What is there left to say? www.timeshighereducation.com/news/rise-ed...
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Rise of EDI focus in UKRI grants ‘endangers R&D support’
Increase in projects featuring ‘progressive discourse’ likely to fuel criticism that academia is too left wing, study warns
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Kyle Swanson, MD, FAANS, FCNS @kiswanson.medsky.network · 08/11/2025
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Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 17/09/2025
No words.
The lives of those living in Gaza are deemed less important than maintaining relations with Israel and, by proxy, the US. At the personal level, on Labour's doorsteps, this approach plays out in the most callous of ways. Dalloul al-Neder is a Palestinian refugee from Gaza, who was a constituent of the former deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner.
He got to know her, meeting several times: she visited his takeaway shop in 2019 and posed for pictures, declaring "Palestine must be free". She took him on a tour of parliament.PHOTO: Dalloul al-Neder, who lives in Manchester, with an image of his late mother - he has lost several family members in Gaza bombings. 
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Within weeks of the genocide beginning, in October 2023, his mother, brother, sister-in-law and two young nieces were killed by an Israeli airstrike. Desperate to evacuate his wife and four-month-old daughter - who had been buried under rubble three times by Israeli attacks - he emailed Rayner twice to seek help evacuating his family. He says received no response.In January 2024, he attended a Labour fundraiser in Stockport addressed by Rayner and her colleague, Jonathan Reynolds, and got to his feet, clutching pictures of his dead mother, begging her to support a ceasefire, emotionally declaring "I lost my family in Gaza". The whole tawdry episode is on camera: he was aggressively ejected from the meeting and on to the street. Rayner did nothing, except to say "thank you, you've made your point". She then unfollowed him on social media. Days later, she was interviewed by Sky News' Beth Rigby, who framed the incident as an example of the threats politicians face, linking it to the murder of the MPs Jo Cox and David Amess.
Since then, so many of Neder's relatives have been slaughtered by the Israeli state that their names take up three pages of a notebook.
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
If you support trans people but not Palestinians, you’ve misunderstood the fight. Queer & Palestinian liberation are both about tearing down the same colonial systems that criminalize existence, surveil bodies, and justify genocide of both in the name of order. These are not separate struggles.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 20/06/2025
Lancaster University can't slash its workforce and still provide the same level of provision to students Our members at will fight these cuts www.ucu.org.uk/article/1406...
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Union vows to fight Lancaster University threat to axe one in five academics
UCU has vowed to fight Lancaster University management over its threat to cut hundreds of jobs.
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Fran Amery @franamery.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
If you are a feminist academic, you should sign this letter. forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...
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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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