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Gwyneth Lonergan

@drglonergan.bsky.social
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She/Her Assistant Prof in Sociology at Northumbria Uni. Researching migration, reproductive justice, citizenship. My views, not my employers'.

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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · 13h
Great to host @fivexmore in Parliament to discuss their recent report on Black maternal mental health. 62% of women faced a mental health issue during their pregnancy journey. Just 34% called the support they got "good". We must keep working to improve care for Black women.
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Gwyneth Lonergan @drglonergan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good to know the Home Secretary has her priorities straight
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Gwyneth Lonergan @drglonergan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm running the Yorkshire 10 Mile next month to raise money for CRIBS International, a small charity that provides housing and other support to refugees who are pregnant or new mothers in Athens. I'd be very grateful for any donations www.justgiving.com/page/gwyneth...
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
is it not a bit odd that we have to keep begging labour pms to condem fascist violence?
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
the things that Brighton university management has decided it simply… no longer recognises? it also no longer recognises UCU or Unison? again: how is this legal!!!!
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Jo Littler @jolittler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Copies of the 2nd edition of The Care Manifesto have arrived! @lynne-segal.bsky.social @andreaschatzidakis.bsky.social Jamie Hakim Catherine Rottenberg Available here: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc... Thanks @versobooks.bsky.social - & @naomiaklein.bsky.social for the endorsement
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Birmingham UCU @birminghamucu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Please read and share this open letter from staff at risk of compulsory redundancy in Modern Languages at the Uni of Birmingham. It calls for the redundancies to be halted, for the equality impact assessment to be released, and for meaningful consideration of alternatives.
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“A national catastrophe” at home: open letter on redundancies
We write as Translation and Interpreting staff at risk of compulsory redundancy at the University of Birmingham, together with the Birmingham UCU Committee. In brief: a University whose Vice-Chance…
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 12/09/2026
Euphemisation has been a key strategy for the far right to escape the margins and return to the mainstream for half a century Back in the early 90s, Jean-Marie Le Pen pushed for the term "populism" to replace "extreme right" or "fascist". It was then taken up by mainstream actors and here we are
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Limits on abortion care kill people.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) @gmiau.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We are still hiring! Please share this with anyone who may be interested. Full details of the role can be found below👇
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Gwyneth Lonergan @drglonergan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
RIP Emi Koyama. 'The unspoken racism of the trans inclusion debate' should be mandatory reading for the EHRC and all UK newspaper columnists. eminism.org/readings/ind...
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eminism.org - Readings
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Sure would be awful if anyone thought we were an island of strangers for whom an experiment in open borders had been a squalid chapter causing incalculable harm
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Racism and sexism have become normalised in Britain, says equalities minister
Exclusive: Bridget Phillipson says politicians have helped fuel hatred and that police are not taking violence against women and girls seriously enough
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
its worth asking whether this ending would have happened without the endless, gleeful, hunting and dismantling of Arday's choices on Twitter, where he represented all the sins of DEI made flesh for a range of assorted disgruntled academics who once had to go to a training and hated it
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Treblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It’s actually really hard to get a UK visa and, despite how much the lot of them go on about it, there are precisely three people in the whole of the political and media class who actually know how the UK’s immigration system works
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Reform’s immigration policies would lead to mass deportations, forcing screaming people onto planes back to war zones or torture chambers, tearing apart of families & communities, detention on a huge scale and ultimately civil unrest. They are quite comfortable with the idea of political violence.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
There has been a converted attempt here (including by the current Home Sec) to promote the "Danish model" of anti-immigrant policy as being somehow consistent with social democratic/progressive values. So we should welcome this mask-off moment from the Danish PM.
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Gwyneth Lonergan @drglonergan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Soames should be doubly disqualified from a leadership position in the Home Office, both because of Serco's treatment of people seeking asylum, and because of the obvious opportunities for corruption
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Home Office genuinely needs to be abolished and its responsibilities split up, with immigration and asylum under an independent authority. Even by its low standards, standards which are being supported by the reappointment of Mahmood by Burnham, this is sickening. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Home Office blocking evacuation of dozens of women and children from Gaza
Refugee family reunions in limbo, despite Foreign Office saying it is ready to get people out of war-torn territory
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 27/07/2026
"What Féile an Phobail row has shown is that women’s rights are at risk — just not from a tiny trans minority" great piece from Allison Morris in the Belfast Telegraph. Please support Allison as she will no doubt be targeted now. Archive link below. archive.ph/oQ2Cs
What Féile an Phobail row has shown is that women’s rights are at risk — just not from a tiny trans minority
Belfast Telegraph27 Jul 2026ALLISON MORRIS
I’ve thought long and hard about commenting on the controversy over the cancellation of the Women’s Rights Network (WRN) event at Féile an Phobail — not because I don’t have an opinion, but because it is a debate that attracts the most toxic elements.

WRN NI was not a group I was familiar with beforehand, so I did some research.

No speakers were listed in the Féile programme for the planned event, which in itself is odd as there are for almost every other of the 90-plus debates and discussions.

The group has since announced who its speakers were to be in a series of online posts.

My research took me down quite the rabbit hole — a who’s who of the anti-trans movement not just on this island but Europe-wide.

I don’t pretend to understand their motivation.

In fact, I remain baffled as to why in one of the most dangerous places for women to live in Europe, the group — which has spoken out about femicide before — is obsessing about a small minority instead of the actual dangers we face from domestic violence and femicide.

I have worked for decades covering violence against women and girls in all the distressing forms that takes.

I know the names of every woman and child murdered in Northern Ireland in the last 10 years without even having to look them up.

Not a single one was caused by a trans woman — I checked the list twice just to be sure.

None of them were murdered in a public toilet either, which having looked at the online posts of WRN and their many affiliates, is apparently the most dangerous place on earth for women, with trans predators lurking in every cubicle.

Apart from the absurdity of much of the group’s argument regarding the perceived dangers of trans women, the claim that women are being silenced by Féile is the most disingenuous of them all.
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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Sociological Research Online is inviting proposals for a special issue of the journal to be published in 2029. This is an open call and proposals can be on any theme. Deadline: 24 September, details below: tinyurl.com/md5udrum
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
My great uncle was the director of this theater until he passed last year. The attempted suppression of Palestinian cultural life shows that our culture is an important arena of resistance against Israeli control newlinesmag.com/reportage/is...
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Israel Is Trying To Extinguish Palestinian Cultural Life in East Jerusalem
The authorities are raiding institutions, including a historic bookstore and theater, as they attempt to rewrite the city’s story
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The media have managed very effectively to sell the narrative that a) unis choose fees, b) they could do it all much cheaper if they wanted to, and c) it's their fault graduates aren't walking into £35k jobs. This is all unmitigated bollocks, but here we are.
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Gwyneth Lonergan @drglonergan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I became a UK citizen in 2024. I would make a snarky remark about wasting £1500, but let's be honest: The Spectator does not mean me, a white Canadian
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sasha baker @sasha98.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This story also shows what campaigners and researchers on asylum policy already know: the government puts people seeking asylum in substandard accommodation, gives them rotting food, and then calls them ungrateful (and arrests them) when they take any steps to try to better their circumstances.
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 10/07/2026
The government's own Equality Impact Assessment acknowledges that this could place some trans people at a "disproportionate risk of violence and sexual assault", and cautions about the dangers of gender policing affecting everyone, noting "women who are considered masculine may face greater scrutiny".
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A handful of universities are determined to destroy all the others. It's that simple. That would end the Burnham regionalism agenda before it'd even got going. Unfortunately, no-one even seems to know this and our governance structures are so pitifully weak there's not even anyone to tell.
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Remember that the tuition fee rise just about covers the simultaneous increase in employer national insurance contributions for universities, so cutting teaching grants on this basis means universities on life support being subject to a shake down and being expected to say thanks for the privilege.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
As we fund the NHS, this is a massive transfer of wealth from the people to tech edgelords. Again.
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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
And yet management @northumbriauni.bsky.social press on with plans to cut the pay of hundreds of staff on @teacherspensions.bsky.social. This is vindictive, unnecessary, a permanent stain on the university's reputation, and, with job losses imminent, is destroying morale. For what?
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
How higher education is vandalised in the UK. Here is our last published annual report (www.exeter.ac.uk/v8media/univ...) containing info about "a year of continued financial stability with operating cash generation of £48m and an increase in cash of £11m to end the year with balance of £211m."
Performance
We are pleased to report a year of continued financial stability with operating cash generation
(EBITDA) of £48m and an increase in cash of £11m to end the year with balances of £211m. This surplus of income over expenditure, despite the challenging environment, is the result of significant hard work across the University following another challenging international recruitment round and continued economic pressures. Total income increased by 2% to £681m through growth in research grants and contracts income (+£8m, 6%), capital grants (+£3m) and donations (+£4m) bolstered by strong commercial income performance.
Tuition fee income maintained the historic high of £350m achieved in the prior year. The University saw continued strong interest from Home Undergraduate (UG Home) and Postgraduate students, but this was offset by contractions in Undergraduate and Postgraduate International.
These contractions were compounded by increased levels of scholarships, resulting in international fee income seeing a 2% year on year reduction to £135m, representing 38% of teaching income and 20% of total University income.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Imagine what enforcement of this would look like. Imagine what "detection" would look like.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Summary of the Home Office Impact Assessment for Asylum Bill is hilarious (if it weren't so depressing). HO analysts say "basically no evidence to suggest *any* of these policies will work *even on their own terms*" (but will probably cost money). assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a43e1...
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner @skirchy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
On the day he died, Mohammad al-Halaq had been jubilant about a new school bag he had been given in class, printed with the logo of the UN child protection and advocacy agency, Unicef.
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I’m very pleased that the trade press is giving space to the Exeter horror. Next challenge is for them to look a little further down the league tables - Northumbria perhaps, or my own place. We have feelings too.
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Gwyneth Lonergan @drglonergan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This would be horrifying and cruel in any circumstances, but given the appalling state of most asylum accommodation, it's psychopathic. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Asylum seekers to pay £10,000 towards living costs under new UK law
Means-tested scheme included in immigration and asylum bill condemned by charities for placing tax on refugees
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
'Gemma Derrick...said the decision not to take account of maternity and paternity leave in the REF’s volume measure takes the UK’s four higher education funding bodies “out of [step] with every serious funding agency in the world when it comes to reasonable adjustments”.' 1/3
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
New article! We explore misuse of evidence in sex/gender policy, identifying pitfalls: - presenting opinion as fact - excluding relevant expertise - discrediting scientific consensus - unattainable standards - decontextualized claims - disinformation Focus is trans policy: relevance is way wider.
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New article: Misuse of Evidence in Sex and Gender Policy
The UK is currently sweltering through the hottest June on record. The Met Office has issued a “red warning” for much of England and Wales, highlighting an active danger to life. Trains…
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Chris Downs @chris-downs.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Solidarity with @uhertfordshireucu.bsky.social colleagues and shame on the so-called leadership of @herts.ac.uk ⤵️
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 21/06/2026
#OtD 21 Jun 1919 "Bloody Saturday" occurred during the Winnipeg general strike when 30,000 strikers were attacked by mounted police with clubs and guns. The attack resulted in the death of two strikers, 35-45 people injured, and numerous arrests stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9396...
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Gwyneth Lonergan @drglonergan.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
This is absolutely one of the weirdest things about living in the UK atm. Wrt state transphobia in particular - there's little popular support for this? IME young people in particular are trans-inclusive by default.
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Reunite Families UK @rfuk.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
This Father's Day, we remember thousands of dads separated from their families by the UK's harsh visa rules: stuck abroad because their partners in the UK cannot meet the requirements or unable to bring their family to the UK. So we ask children what their Daddy means to them?
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Men who commit this kind of violence with this kind of rhetoric are not protecting women and girls; they are trying to legislate which men have the right to harm women and girls (and of course it's men like them and not those other men).
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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
So, @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social did a survey of members and non-members: www.ucu-unn.org.uk/news/335-str... @ucu.org.uk @ucea.bsky.social @hsegovuk.bsky.social @21group.bsky.social @ukhenews.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk @unisoninhe.bsky.social
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Right. The end goal is ETHNIC CLEANSING, which our politicians and media with their capitulation to the far right so much they now ARE far right, are setting the groundwork for.
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 11/06/2026
During his pilgrimage to Spain, Pope Leo XIV urges Europeans and all of humanity to tend to migrants. “Every boat that arrives,” he said, “brings a question along with the migrants: What kind of world have we built, if so many brothers and sisters must risk death to seek life?”
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Pope Leo XIV makes heartfelt appeal for migrants: ‘Human dignity has no passport’
During his pilgrimage to Spain, Pope Leo XIV urges Europeans and all of humanity to tend to migrants. “Every boat that arrives,” he said, “brings a question along with the migrants: What kind of world have we built, if so many brothers and sisters must risk death to seek life?”
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Amnesty International @amnesty.org · 10/06/2026
Our latest report “Erasing anything Palestinian: Israel's ethnic cleansing of West Bank Bedouin and herding communities” exposes the scale of Israel’s campaign of ethnic cleansing & unlawful annexation in the occupied West Bank. This is what state-led ethnic cleansing look like. Read for yourself:
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Acceleration of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians must spur global action to halt West Bank annexation
Amnesty's new report exposes Israel's state-led policy of ethnic cleansing in the Occupied West Bank.
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/06/2026
A three panel meme of Fred Armisen in Parks & Rec as Raul.

Showing support for Palestine? Straight to jail.

Protesting about climate change? Jail.

Inciting racist riots? Believe it or not, straight to Radio 4 Today programme.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
"Racist pogroms are bad but..."
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