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Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Had such a great first day helping to co-organise the SSQRG and Durham Queer and Trans Thematic Group sponsored ‘Queer and Trans Worldbuilding’ retreat. Kicking off with some wonderful workshops on abolition, the archive, and intimate technologies. Roll on the next few days!

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

🚨Another publication dropped🚨 For a special issue on Critical Camp Studies in the journal Population, Space and Place I have written the afterword entitled “Epilogue: Towards an Abolitionist Camp Studies”. It’s open access, please check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

📢 Call for abstracts! 📢 'Accessing the Carceral Continuum: Success, Denial and Negotiation' at the RGS-IBG AC2026! Please send abstracts of up to 250 words to Renzo Szkwarok (r.szkwarok1@newcastle.ac.uk) and myself (caitlin.mackinlay@durham.ac.uk) by Friday 13th February 2026!

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Please to see the pre-print of my graphic article has had has nearly 2,000 unique views. 🐧 It’s out now in print, vol 33 issue 2, and remains open access onine! @tandfresearch.bsky.social @geogdurham.bsky.social @durhamuniversity.bsky.social

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Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 06/11/2025

One thing I love about @prismreports.org is that they work so closely with incarcerated writers, and surface things I had never thought about before. This piece on how extended incarceration is a violation of reproductive rights by functionally serving as involuntary sterilization is fantastic.

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Long prison sentences function as involuntary sterilization of incarcerated people

By keeping me imprisoned through the years when I might have become a parent, the prison system reproduces eugenicist logic

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I will be speaking alongside @jaytoddgla.bsky.social, Ed Kiely & @amkanngieser.bsky.social on this panel: ‘A Sense of the Possible: Trans Geographies in Dystopian Times’, 13 Nov 2025, 12:00-1:30 GMT Sign up for the Zoom link here: rgs.org/events/upcoming-events/trans-geographies-in-dystopian-times

Event flyer including photos of the four speakers, and a question: What is the role of geography, geographers, and critical geographical scholarship at a time of anti-trans reactionary politics?

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Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Today I co-hosted @geogdurham.bsky.social’s first event for the newly founded Queer and Trans Thematic Group. We shared questions, insights and potential opportunities for using queer and trans theorising within our own research and produced some wonderful collaborative mind maps (as shown below)!

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Paul Griffin @paulgriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Really enjoyed working on this with current PGR - Liv Robinson. We reflect on the archival encounter, with specific comments around industrial violence and working with troubling material: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library

This paper reflects on the archival encounter. In our discussion, we consider interactions between researchers and more troubling and violent materials, specifically industrial death and injury, held...

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Sarah M. Hughes @sarahhughes90.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I'm so grateful to @spaceandpolity.bsky.social for coordinating a book review forum on Critical Geographies of Resistance. Thank you so much to Malene Jacobsen, Nicole Printy Currie and Bridget Shaffrey @bshaffrey.bsky.social for your thoughtful pieces. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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What does academic writing about resistance do, now?

Published in Space and Polity (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

#OpenAccess in Area: 'Networks of securitisation in the academy: The role of friendship, solidarity and radical geographies' by @shereenfdz.bsky.social This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'. doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Shereen Fernandez (2025) entitled: 'Networks of securitisation in the academy: The role of friendship, solidarity and radical geographies' with a black banner at the top.

This intervention has three aims: (1) to consider how solidarities are being policed in the academy; (2) how friendships and solidarities emerge in practices of resistance; and (3) what a radical geography which embraces a decolonial pedagogy can offer us in these unsettling times. While solidarity with the Palestinian cause is transnational, it is also heavily policed and disciplined by our academic institutions. Although universities are heavily influenced by neoliberalism that prioritises profit over people, I examine how these activist spaces allow for the organic development of solidarity and friendship, which is fundamental to these movements, both in the USA and the UK. As universities increasingly embrace national security discourses and policies, such as the deployment of counter-extremism measures in UK universities, activism is being pushed outside of our institutions. Through a call for the recognition of radical geography which embraces a decolonial framework, this intervention highlights the need for the discipline to re-imagine how knowledge can be produced outside the narrow parameters of the institution, while centring and nurturing dynamics of friendship and care.

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Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

looking through riot grrrl zines to prep for my zine making workshop and found this gem

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

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Jonny Darling @jonnydarling.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

It shouldn't need saying that 'military and industrial sites' are not, and never have been, 'more appropriate sites' for asylum seekers. The record of such carceral accommodation is nothing but spectacles of harm designed to appease a desire to punish refugees. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Cooper suggests asylum seekers could be moved into warehouses instead of hotels – UK politics live

Home secretary says government aims to ‘shrink the whole asylum system’ and is looking at ‘military and industrial sites’

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

My book is published! It’s a critical take on how emotions shape conflicts about LGBT rights and repair in equality law, gender recognition, bans on conversion practices, and sex education in schools. You can download it free via @edinburghup.bsky.social: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...

Author wearing a rainbow dyed t-shirt takes a photo of them showing off their book, The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law.

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Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

One cancelled train later…I’m finally en route to Birmingham for the RGS AC2025 !

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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

And that’s a wrap! My heart is very full by how caring, gentle and connected our group was able to become over 3 short days. Thanks to everyone for co-creating this event with us! I hope that this network of collegiality, care and consideration can serve us into the future too 💛

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Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Talking to @prisonculture.bsky.social about her idea that hope is a discipline. How do we practice that discipline? From Ep 5 of my new podcast, which you can listen to here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m... Please subscribe and review--it helps others find us.

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Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

My trip to Portugal was a nice break away from thinking and writing about carceral atmospheres.. except when navigating the security apparatus of the airport…

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Back in January I had the honour of discussing Aslı Zengin’s powerful and generous book ‘Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World’. @geogdurham.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social I’ve now published a summary of my comments: doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2025.2531713

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Jonny Darling @jonnydarling.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

A short piece from me looking at the politics of 'asylum hotels' in Britain and the challenges for government in finding alternatives @geogdurham.bsky.social

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Lauren Martin @llmartin.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

We are lucky to have Paula Harriott as one our keynote speakers at our workshop on 26 August at University of Birmingham. Paula's work exemplifies the power of lived experience and her recent books show how understudied and underappreciated women's leadership, in particular, can be.

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Prisoner Leaders

This edited collection sheds light on an under-researched and often misconceived form of behaviour, that of prisoner leadership.

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Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I am honoured to be a finalist in the DCAD (Durham Centre for Academic Development) 2025 poster competition! My entry outlines the aims and intentions for my PhD research, grounding the importance of research surrounding queer experiences of prison spaces.

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Some fabulous presentations last week at our postgraduate research conference, great learning more about the exciting & cutting edge research being undertaken in human & physical geography by our community of postgraduates. Find out more about postgraduate study in our Dept here tinyurl.com/48kdnbyn

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Congratulations to Shivona Chellakootty who is the winner of our 2025 undergraduate photo competition for this image titled 'Canal co-habitants'. All the 2025 entries and their accompanying captions are available on our website here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

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Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Join us at the @carceralgeography.bsky.social 'Creating in Confinement' workshop at Birmingham University! We will examine how creative practice and research fosters new knowledge in carceral settings. Follow the link to learn how to register: carceralgeographies.co.uk/creating-in-...

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Dialogues in Human Geography @dialogueshg.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

New Online 1st Commentary “Non-reformist reforms towards abolition” by Carissa Honeywell doi.org/10.1177/2043...

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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

The Politics of Feeling with @benandersongeog.bsky.social comes out the 1st of July! So excited for readers and grateful for the lovely blurbs from Will Davies, @jemgilbert.bsky.social and @carolynpedwell.bsky.social

Book cover Goldsmiths Press The Politics of Feeling by Ben Anderson and Anna J Secor

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Robert Saint Lawrence @robertsaintlawrence.bandcamp.com · 09/06/2025

LAPD when they think no one’s looking

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Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Started engaging with ‘male’ gym oriented TikTok content and suddenly my algorithm is showing me misogynistic posts…

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Carceral Geographies Working Group of the RGS-IBG @carceralgeography.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Our first post is an invitation! Join is to explore creative methods in carceral geography with these amazing people. Register here: events.humanitix.com/cgwg-worksho...

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Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

The Carceral Geography Working Group (CGWG) are honoring the work of our international network at our August "Creating in Confinement" workshop. If you have published/edited a book, article, or creative work over the last academic year, let us know by sumbitting sugestions using the link below!

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Please sign this petition r.e. redundancies at Newcastle University: chng.it/Z7gRGZwNWx

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End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Today we hosted a 'creative methods' workshop with Durham’s 2025 Sir William Luce Fellow, Mariasole Pepa, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Padova. This was a great space to share creative pieces and our thoughts about using creative methods when studying sensitive topics.

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Mahmoud Khalil’s letter from detention to his newborn son: “Deen, my heart aches that I could not hold you in my arms and hear your first cry, that I could not unfurl your clenched fists or change your first diaper. I am sorry that I was not there to hold your mother’s hand […].” Heartbreaking.

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To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil

Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations

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Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they) @cmxckinlay.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Spent yesterday afternoon scouring the Baltic’s zine library. Some fantastic pieces and great inspiration for my work!

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Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Happening today @ 1600-1700, 'Climate Mobilities and Role of Borders and Bordering' with speaker Professor Ingrid Boas (Wageningen University), all welcome. Registration required using the QR code

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Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaytoddgla.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

533 geographers worldwide call for action on transphobic developments in the UK, its Supreme Court, and the EHRC - out now with intro in @antipodeonline.bsky.social. Do share & show how academic geographers stand united & ready to defend trans liberation antipodeonline.org/2025/05/06/5...

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Intervention — “533 Geographers Call for Action on Transphobic Developments in the UK, its Supreme Court, and the EHRC” - Antipode Online

Jay Todd, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow In the UK and globally, we are witnessing eliminationist attacks on trans and gender diverse people that are attempting to cr...

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