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Briony Hannell

@briony.bsky.social
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Feminist academic and ECR. Lecturer in Sociology @ University of Manchester, UK. Author of Feminist Fandom (2024). Interested in youth, gender, digital/pop culture, platforms + anti/feminisms. She/her. linktr.ee/brionyhannell

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 21/05/2026
The updated code of practice for services, public functions and associations has been laid before Parliament. The guidance tells organisations how they should approach trans inclusion. Here’s what that means 👇 goodlawproject.org/the-code-of-...
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The Code of Practice: what you need to know | Good Law Project
The updated code of practice for services, public functions and associations has been laid before Parliament. Here’s what that means.
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University of Manchester Sociology Department @uomsociology.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
📘 Book launch: Interrogating the Global Social Challenges 📅 Wed 8 April 2026 6.45pm Come along for a sociological perspective on challenges inc global waste, racial injustice, gender, work, climate, pandemics, radicalisation, ageing, inequality & migration www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
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Book Launch: Interrogating the Global Social Challenges
Book launch: Interrogating the Global Social Challenges 6.45-8.45pm Wednesday 8th April 2026 International Anthony Burgess Centre Manchester
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Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
This new book features writing from @helenholmes.bsky.social on the waste crisis; @briony.bsky.social on gender; & Vanessa May on migration (& editing duties!). All welcome to the book launch!
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Morgan Centre @morgancentre.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
📺WATCH - new videos added to our 20th anniversary key concepts series: 🐶Animals & Social Life 👥 Sibling relationships 👩🏽‍👧🏽‍👦🏽Family practices ♻️Consumption & everyday life 🦉What is ageing? Thanks to everybody who helped make these, and we hope you enjoy them! youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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The Morgan Centre: Key concepts in creative methods and everyday lives research - YouTube
To mark 20 years of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives at the University of Manchester, we are pleased to present a new series of videos in w...
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Anthony Kelly @anthonypkelly.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
A very large thank you to @briony.bsky.social for taking the time to engage with my research and to the folks at @reacpolrn.bsky.social for facilitating this interview!
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Sheena Liam, contemporary embroidery artist of Malaysian Chinese descent #WomensArt
Four different photos featuring embroidery hoops with different images in black thread on a cream background of a young woman in different poses, such as reading or combing her hair
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Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
#2 was @briony.bsky.social discussing the fascinating Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr newbooksnetwork.com/feminist-fan...
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Briony Hannell, "Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr" (Bloomsbury, 2023) - New Books Network
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide. And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft. What does OpenAI offer the world?
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Michael Zimmer @michaelzimmer.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
#AoIR2026 will be in Mexico City! See my map of all AoIR locations at www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e... #AoIR2025
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AoIR Annual Conference Locations - Google My Maps
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 17/10/2025
oh you’re a nihilist? name zero things that matter
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Briony Hannell @briony.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
At #aoir2025 I’m presenting on what I term “platformed nostalgia”, which I explore via an analysis of Automattic-era Tumblr’s efforts to commercialise historical social media nostalgia in its marketing (particularly in response to the X-odus). I’m in the Memes panel at 9am tomorrow. Sneak peak 👀
Presentation slide defining platformed nostalgia as a social media platform branding strategy that commercialises historical social media nostalgia in an attempt to (re)gain legitimacy and social acceptance in a landscape marked by controversy, crisis, and distrust.
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University of Manchester Sociology Department @uomsociology.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
VACANCY: Lecturer in Sociology (13 months, starting Jan 2026) Closing date: 20 Oct 2025 Teaching PG modules on ‘Social Theory: Structure, Relations & Interaction’ & ‘Research Design’. @britsoci.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Annelot Prins @lennartspion.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
It was an absolute pleasure to review @briony.bsky.social's brilliant book on feminist fandom for the EJCS. If you haven't bought her book yet (or forgot to ask your university library to purchase it), please let my review convince you to do so immediately: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
V into this stack rn (/hints at where my politics chapter is maybe going to end up)
A photo of multiple books on Ava’s desk.  Feminist Fandom by Briony Hannell is in the center, with some pink pens below it. To the right is a small notebook with classic literature book spines as its cover design, and above it is a stack of three books: Fandom is Ugly by Mel Stanfill; Gender, Metal and the Media by Rosemary Lucy Hill; Participatory Culture Wars, edited by Simone Driessen, Bethan Jones, and Ben Litherland.
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Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
📣Applications for the second Reactionary Politics Summer School are open📣 The summer school provides a space to develop key skills for the research of reactionary politics. It will be hosted hybrid and attendance is free. Bursaries are also available. Sign up below! reacpol.net/summer-schoo...
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Summer School - Reactionary Politics Research Network
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 27/05/2025
OUT NOW #OnlineFirst: Live Methods Revisited Eight new papers focus on @academicdiary.bsky.social‬ and Nirmal Puwar’s Live Methods and its clarion call for more “artful and crafty” sociological methodologies. Edited by @emmakjackson.bsky.social‬ ‪& @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social‬ buff.ly/sM4Uta3
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Briony Hannell @briony.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Really pleased that my paper on what I’m calling “platformed nostalgia” has been accepted to #aoir2025 - this will be my first time presenting at the Association of Internet Researchers conference! V excited.
Conference paper abstract titled “Platformed nostalgia: Automattic-era Tumblr and the commercialisation of historical social media nostalgia”.
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Ben Litherland @benlitherland.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
You can read my findings here. The article is open access so everyone can read it for free.
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Ben Litherland @benlitherland.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
My article on 'positive effects' of media and social media is out! Borne out of frustration of seeing articles like these, which seemed exceptionally silly to me but colleagues in media studies were occasionally sharing positively. So I went and collected a load and analysed them.
Yes, TV Can Make You a Better Person5 Ways Music Can Make you a better personPlaying violent video games makes you a better person6 reasons why your porn habit might actually be good for you
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Briony Hannell @briony.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Loughborough bound for a symposium on reactionary politics, women, and feminist critique. Looking forward to lots of fascinating papers and to presenting with @jillybkay.bsky.social on TikTok’s “boysober” trend.
Poster for an academic event on reactionary politics, feminist critique, and women at Loughborough University. Screenshot of PPT. Title slide for paper called “Heteropessimism on TikTok: #boysober and the reactionary feminised digital media ecology”Decorative. Series of headlines about “boy sober” Screenshot of PPT detailing the methods and sample of the study.
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Media, Communications & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths @mediacomgold.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
NEW! MCCS are awarding a limited no of 100% fee waivers for 2025–26 for students who are the first in their family to attend university on these MAs: • MA Cultural Studies • MA Gender, Media and Culture • MA Race, Media and Social Justice Full details: www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
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natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
My review of Briony Hannell's brilliant book 'Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr' is now available in Feminist Media Studies ✨ @femmediastudies.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Feminist fandom: media fandom, digital feminisms, and tumblr
Published in Feminist Media Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
As a sociologist @emmahcasey.bsky.social studies the rapid return of the housewife, both in real life and across social media - for @StylistMagazine she spells out why our love of cleaning influencers and #tradwife content is much darker than it first appears: www.stylist.co.uk/life/return-...
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“I am a sociologist who studies the return of the housewife – here's why it's dangerous”
"Cleanfluencing is notable for the absence of mess."
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Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Our statement on the UK Supreme Court's ruling on the Equality Act. We stand in solidarity with trans and non-binary people and believe that it is the responsibility of researchers to hold our institutions to account to defend trans equality and dignity. reacpol.net/supreme-cour...
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RPRN statement on the Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act - Reactionary Politics Research Network
The RPRN stands in solidarity with trans and non-binary people and believes that it is the responsibility of researchers and academics to hold our institutions to account to defend trans equality and ...
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Briony Hannell @briony.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Want to learn about a platform that claims to have “old Internet energy”? For the #britsoc25 early birds, I’ll be presenting a paper on historical social media nostalgia in the Culture, Media, Sport and Food session at 9am, Room 4.209.
This is an image of an academic abstract for a paper titled “From Personal to Platformed Nostgka: Tumblr Nostalgia, Crisis, and the Commercialisation of Historical Social Media Nostalgia”.
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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The UK Supreme Court’s transphobic ruling on the definition of woman last week is a defeat for all women—even, ultimately, the self-described feminists celebrating it, and the women who will gain in the short term from their alliance with the carceral state. my latest for @thenation.com
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The UK's Anti-Trans Ruling Is a Defeat for All Women
Even the self-described feminists celebrating the Supreme Court's attempt to banish trans people from womanhood will pay a heavy price.
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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
We’re looking forward to the BSA Sociology Annual Conference at the University of Manchester, starting tomorrow! – hashtag is #britsoc25
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Dr Death and Bones (she/her) @memorieschild.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Love hearing friends and colleagues being cited. @briony.bsky.social's work on feminist fandom is being drawn on to think about anti-fans video essays critiquing true crime fandom (many from a position of true crime consumer to a greater or lesser extent). #murdermedia
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ysabel @ysabel.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Feeling very overwhelmed and lucky after today’s book launch at @sheffielduni.bsky.social 🥹🩷 I couldn’t believe how many lovely people logged in for it and asked such brilliant questions. A million thank yous, especially to @briony.bsky.social for being such a fantastic respondent.
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ysabel @ysabel.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
See also cute share-worthy graphic:
This graphic displays a book launch invitation for Ysabel Gerrard's first book: The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life. The invitation is pink and also displays a cover of the book. 

EVENT HOST: Dr. Briony Hannell
DATE + TIME: 18 March 15:00 GMT
EVENT FORMAT: hybrid
REGISTRATION LINK FOR ONLINE PARTICIPANTS: https://tinyurl.com/ydrep6fh
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ysabel @ysabel.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Hello Bluesky friends! My first book - The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life - hits the shelves this month and I'm having a launch event, hosted by @briony.bsky.social :) 18 MARCH 2025 1500 GMT HYBRID Book your (online) place here: tinyurl.com/ydrep6fh
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BOOK LAUNCH: The Kids Are Online, Dr. Ysabel Gerrard
Join us for the virtual book launch of "The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life" by Dr Ysabel Gerrard
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 19/02/2025
How the Girlboss Lost: @reproutopia.bsky.social on the Rise and Fall of a Feminist Moment
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How the Girlboss Lost: Sophie Lewis on the Rise and Fall of a Feminist Moment
People began writing obituaries for the girlboss when she was just six years old. The Atlantic declared her demise a couple of months into the first US coronavirus lockdown in 2020, and Wired, CNN,…
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Briony Hannell @briony.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I'll be giving a research seminar in JOMEC at Cardiff University next Wednesday titled "Pathways to understanding and identifying with feminism: Media reception, critical paratextuality and feminist identity development". It will be chaired by the excellent @hannahhamad.bsky.social. Join if you can!
This is a poster in English advertising an academic talk titled "Pathways to understanding and identifying with feminism: Media reception, critical paratextuality and feminist identity development" by Dr Briony Hannell at Cardiff University.This is a poster in Welsh advertising an academic talk titled "Pathways to understanding and identifying with feminism: Media reception, critical paratextuality and feminist identity development" by Dr Briony Hannell at Cardiff University.
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Ben Litherland @benlitherland.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
A shameless plug for all the season one episodes of my podcast, Ill Effects. All retweets appreciated as I was building this in a year when I wasn't on Twitter! If you're unsure where to start the Beatles episode is my fave!
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Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Weekend listening! @briony.bsky.social talks to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about “Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr” newbooksnetwork.com/feminist-fan...
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Briony Hannell, "Feminist Fandom: Media Fandom, Digital Feminisms, and Tumblr" (Bloomsbury, 2023) - New Books Network
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Briony Hannell @briony.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This Valentine's Day, I spoke to The Big Issue about Gen Z, dating, and political homophily in the era of toxic gender politics. More here ➡️ www.bigissue.com/life/how-to-...
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How do you kiss a Tory? Here's what your political beliefs mean for your sex life
This Valentines Day, you might find it easier to find a partner who shares your political beliefs say researchers.
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Briony Hannell @briony.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I'll be giving a research seminar in JOMEC at Cardiff University next Wednesday titled "Pathways to understanding and identifying with feminism: Media reception, critical paratextuality and feminist identity development". It will be chaired by the excellent @hannahhamad.bsky.social. Join if you can!
This is a poster in English advertising an academic talk titled "Pathways to understanding and identifying with feminism: Media reception, critical paratextuality and feminist identity development" by Dr Briony Hannell at Cardiff University.This is a poster in Welsh advertising an academic talk titled "Pathways to understanding and identifying with feminism: Media reception, critical paratextuality and feminist identity development" by Dr Briony Hannell at Cardiff University.
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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
For people interested in discussing Enemy Feminisms, here are some dates for you. It'll be an enifemomenon 🐉 *Check lasophielle.org/events for event registration links, more info, & updates.
ENEMY FEMINISMS • BOOK TOUR • (Pt.1) Feb-Apr ‘25
[image of the cover of the book: Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation]

 2.18 Philly, Penn Bookstore 
 2.18 Philly, Giovanni’s Room 
 2.19 NYC, The New School
 2.20 Providence, RiffRaff
 2.21 Boston, Brookline Booksmith
 2.22 New Haven, Possible Futures 
 2.25 Brooklyn, Books Are Magic
 2.26 Johns Hopkins University
 2.27 Baltimore, Red Emma’s
 2.28 Washington, DC, Solid State
   3.4 Edinburgh, UK, Lighthouse
   3.5 Sheffield, UK, Juno Books
   3.6 London Review Bookshop
   3.7 U.C.L. (London)
 3.20 Chapel Hill, FlyLeaf
 3.21 Durham, Duke University
 3.23 Asheville, Firestorm Books
 3.25 Chicago, Pilsen Books
 3.27 Unversity of Pennsylvania
   4.1 Columbus, Prologue Books
   4.2 Granville, Denison University
   4.8 N.J., Rowan University
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mindy ptolomey @mindyptolomey.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Join me online/in person 29th Jan 2-4pm UK time for a talk from the iconic Angela McRobbie! I’ll be responding + sharing insights from my arts-based research w/ disabled, girls celebrating Angela’s work + the legacy of the CCCS sign up ⬇️ www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/soci... @uofglasgow.bsky.social
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What is a Girl Today? Reflections on Young Women and the Politics of Popular Culture
Celebrating the publication of Feminism, Young Women and Cultural Studies: The Birmingham Essays from 1975 Onwards (Goldsmiths Press/MIT)
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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
New podcast! @profafinlayson.bsky.social and I spend 3 hours discussing reactionary digital politics, the history of the online right and the politics of the platform economy. We also have a row about Bitcoin. It's all here, and in the feeds: culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/01/15/h....
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Has Musk Won? Reactionary Digital Politics
In this episode, Alan Finlayson joins Jeremy for a 3-hour discussion of the genesis, reality and possible futures of the online right. We cover the history of reactionary digital politics, the chan…
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Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Call for 12 Bicentenary Postdoc Research Fellowships (3-years) at UoM. Fellows will need a mentor and address the Faculty of Humanities priority research themes of Digital Futures; Sustainable Futures; Creativity; Global Inequalities; and Adaptive Societies. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Bicentenary Research Fellowships in Humanities:Oxford Road
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
It's hard to imagine a more brutal illustration of climate injustice and a failed society than indentured teenage slaves being used to protect the homes of wealthy Americans.
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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
In this @rachaelhealy.bsky.social piece, @jillybkay.bsky.social: “Liberal feminism has been rejected for good reason .. it makes sense you’d want to find an alternative. But just because something is the enemy of liberal feminism does not mean it’s good for women” www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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Welcome to the femosphere, the latest dark, toxic corner of the internet… for women
‘Femcel’ influencers urge their followers to give up on gender equality and use men for financial gain – in the name of feminism
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Briony Hannell @briony.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Enjoyed my first visit to a very wintery Brighton to examine a Gender Studies PhD at Sussex this week. The viva went really well and I left Brighton with some v cute Christmas baubles in tow!
A daytime photograph of Brighton pier in the background and an empty seafront and pebble peach in the foreground. It is cloudy and overcast. A photo taken in the evening featuring the Brighton Pavilion and an ice rink below. The building is built in the Indo-Saracenic style and its domes and minarets are lit in blue and pink. This is a close-up imagine of a hand holding two novelty ceramic Christmas baubles. On the left are three peas in a pod wearing Christmas hats. On the right is a single sprout in a Christmas hat.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Just a little reminder that the South Korean president who just declared martial law was elected two years ago on a wave of anti-feminist backlash. Misogyny is routinely part of the authoritarian package. www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
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Why misogyny is at the heart of South Korea's presidential elections
Disgruntled young men who resent feminism are the focus of candidates vying to be president.
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Briony Hannell @briony.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Northern addition: “you’re not wrong” (instead of saying “you’re 100% correct”)
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Briony Hannell @briony.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I'm really pleased to share that my abstract (on Tumblr, platform crisis, and the commercialisation of historical social media nostalgia) has been accepted for the next British Sociological Association Conference in 2025. My first BSA and one hosted by Manchester, no less! 📍
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Trans Health Australia @transhealthaust.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
TERF Island: There Have Always Been Enemies Inside the Feminist Camp - By Sophie Lewis lux-magazine.com/article/terf...
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