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Sharon Jagger

@drsharonjagger.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at York St. John Uni. Academic interests: Religion, Gender, Sexuality, Class, Politics...everything. All views own! #academicsky

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Sharon Jagger @drsharonjagger.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
My article on the bizarre situation in the Church of England in The Conversation theconversation.com/first-woman-...
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First woman archbishop of Canterbury can’t preside over communion in hundreds of churches
Nearly 600 parishes officially bar women priests.
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Sharon Jagger @drsharonjagger.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
www.crowdjustice.com/case/dont-le...
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Stand up to Israel lobby prosecution of comedian Reginald D. Hunter🎤
I am Reginald D. Hunter, fighting a private prosecution for my comedy.
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Sharon Jagger @drsharonjagger.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I understand the BBC won’t broadcast Kneecap’s performance at Glastonbury. How often do the BBC end up on the wrong end of events?
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/06/2025
Zohran Mamdani stunned former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who conceded the New York City mayoral primary race to the 33-year-old state lawmaker. trib.al/KfNebEQ
Zohran Mamdani is pictured speaking. Headline reads: "Mamdani Stuns Cuomo in New York Mayoral Primary." Photo credit: Scott Heins for The New York Times.
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Sharon Jagger @drsharonjagger.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Second time I’ve complained to the BBC for its awful reporting in Gaza. Making it sound like people are causing trouble trying to get food and that’s why they get shot. No. They are being deliberately starved and killed wilfully. It’s genocide not a war.
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Sharon Jagger @drsharonjagger.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Palestine Action member tells BBC plan to ban group 'absurd'
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Sharon Jagger @drsharonjagger.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
My blog on 'logocide' and the Church of England. I mean, 'equal' means allowing women into leadership positions and the priesthood. How hard can it be? Any other interpretation is just killing the meaning of the word. www.womenandthechurch.org/blog/a-case-...
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A case of logocide — WATCH
Woman’s Hour on Radio 4 recently aired a discussion about the Church of England’s Five Guiding Principles . These principles underpin the arrangements allowing parishes to discriminate against ordain...
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The Interdisciplinary Witches Research Group @interdiscwitchysj.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Introducing The Researchers from The Interdisciplinary Witch Research Group 🧙‍♀️ First up is Dr Sharon Jagger @drsharonjagger.bsky.social whose research interests include Goddess spirituality, feminism & witchcraft. More info can be found on the following link blog.yorksj.ac.uk/interdiscipl...
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Sharon Jagger @drsharonjagger.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Please sign! www.change.org/p/a-global-c...
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Sign the Petition
A Global Call to affirm and uphold Palestinian Rights and the Rule of International Law
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/04/2025
Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’
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Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’
Aix-Marseille University generates interest amid a US crackdown and calls for a ‘scientific refugee’ status
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/04/2025
‘I don’t want to give money to this America’: tourists’ fears of US travel under Trump
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‘I don’t want to give money to this America’: tourists’ fears of US travel under Trump
With US visits down 11.6% in March compared with last year, people share their views and experiences on the US border
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/04/2025
RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one. Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.
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RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet.
"I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."
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Sharon Jagger @drsharonjagger.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Join me!
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Sharon Jagger @drsharonjagger.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I’m in Sheffield with my talk on witchcraft and feminism in May. Join me! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-histor...
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The History of Witchcraft and Feminism with Dr Sharon Jagger
Explore modern witchcraft in a new light and its connections to feminism and political movements throughout history. Followed by Q&A.
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Amnesty International @amnesty.org · 25/03/2025
Hamdan Ballal was forcibly disappeared by Israeli soldiers after having been assaulted by Israeli settlers attacking Palestinians in Susyia, a village in the occupied West Bank. He has now been released, but those who carried out the attacks must be held accountable.
within 24 hours Israel forcibly disappeared a Palestinian filmmaker in the West Bank
and killed two Palestinian journalists in Gaza
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
No Other Land depicts the horrifying violence Palestinians in the West Bank endure under apartheid. Yesterday, its co-director Hamdan Ballal was beaten in his home by settlers before being detained by Israeli forces. People applauded Hamdan. Now they are silent. Free Hamdan.
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ysjucu.bsky.social @ysjucu.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
stopthecutspetition.org.uk Sign the petition to stop the devastating cuts to higher education
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stopthecutspetition
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Sharon Jagger @drsharonjagger.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The day before #internationalwomensday the UK papers lead with shock about violent misogyny...like we've only just noticed it. Women's Day was founded to fight oppression and I fear it has lost its edge. Women still need to find their political voice. Please Do NOT say 'Happy Women's Day' tomorrow.
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Sharon Jagger @drsharonjagger.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Join me!
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Sharon Jagger @drsharonjagger.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
My new book now has a discount code and is available as an ebook. www.routledge.com/Women-Priest....
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Sharon Jagger @drsharonjagger.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Anyone with a research interest in witches and witchcraft, please see our call for papers for a conference at York St. John in June 2025. We'd love to have you! blog.yorksj.ac.uk/interdiscipl...
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The Interdisciplinary Witch Conference 2025 -
The Interdisciplinary Witch Research Group is hosting its third conference, which aims to bring together academics and practitioners to discuss witches and witchcraft within the historical, cultural, ...
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Sharon Jagger @drsharonjagger.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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Sharon Jagger @drsharonjagger.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I see Mandelson is kissing the ring. This is hugely depressing
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
'Research by the Sutton Trust [which we couldn't be bothered to link here] found that middle-class graduates made...use of internships as stepping stones into sectors such as finance or IT, even in cases where the internships paid nothing or below the minimum wage as required by legislation.' 1/2
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Unpaid internships ‘locking out’ young working-class people from careers
UK charity calls for positions of four weeks or longer to be banned to help close social mobility gap
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/01/2025
Met police accused of stopping pro-Palestine marches outside BBC HQ
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Met police accused of stopping pro-Palestine marches outside BBC HQ
Organisers say they were told their protests risked causing ‘serious disturbance’ due to proximity of a synagogue The Metropolitan police have been accused of in effect banning major pro-Palestine marches outside the BBC’s Broadcasting House headquarters…
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Sharon Jagger @drsharonjagger.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Farage distances himself from Musk on Robinson www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Nigel Farage distances himself from Elon Musk on Tommy Robinson
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has voiced support for jailed far-right activist Tommy Robinson.
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Sharon Jagger @drsharonjagger.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Another push on the boycotting - found xigxag as alternative to audible for audio books. All Amazon memberships now cancelled! (Including Goodreads - I’m now on Storygraph for my reading lists) #bds #boycott #ethicalconsumer
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Merry Christmas to all
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Sharon Jagger @drsharonjagger.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Owen Jones speaking to Rami Jarra on the context and aftermath of the fall of Assad regime. Very important information. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Assad Overthrown - The Truth: Syrian Activist Offers Masterclass w/. Rami Jarrah
Podcast Episode · The Owen Jones Podcast · 11/12/2024 · 58m
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Today's university in crisis is Keele, which is focusing its redundancies in Arts and Humanities. Given the regional and local implications, yet another act of HE vandalism. Happy Christmas, eh. ☹️ www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Nearly 100 Keele University staff 'fear losing job' - BBC News
A union says Keele proposed a compulsory redundancy plan that may mean up to 35 will lose their job.
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Sharon Jagger @drsharonjagger.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
How Facebook and Instagram restricted news in Palestinian Territories - BBC report
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Our government is sleepwalking into climate catastrophe. My piece for @theguardian.com on another broken pledge slipping under the radar. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The facts about a planet facing climate disaster are clear. Why won’t this Labour government face them? | Jeremy Corbyn
Labour seems gripped by a form of denialism. The danger is real and incremental change won’t avert it, says Jeremy Corbyn, independent MP for Islington North
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Sharon Jagger @drsharonjagger.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
WASPI women have been totally let down by Labour Government. Total betrayal of the values of equality that Labour was supposed to stand for.
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Helen King @helenking.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Some thoughts on the David Tudor abuse case in the Church of England - and the lessons we still never learn shared-conversations.com/2024/12/17/d...
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David Tudor: the lessons we should have learned already
Another day, another safeguarding mess. And another independent safeguarding review “to ensure lessons are learnt from this case” (Church of England statement on David Tudor, 15 December). I’d like…
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Union members have threatened strike action after Coventry University announced plans to make nearly 100 academics redundant and to transfer others to a subsidiary company. Juliette Rowsell reports bit.ly/4ghVhVv
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Coventry to axe 92 jobs and transfer academics to subsidiary firm
Remaining staff will lose access to Teachers’ Pensions Scheme as union attacks ‘Scrooge playbook’ cuts
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Sharon Jagger @drsharonjagger.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta donates $1m to Trump fund
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 09/12/2024
Video shows thousands of cars jamming roads to Damascus as displaced people return to the capital after hearing the Assad regime had been overthrown by the opposition.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Can you see what's going to hit universities in 2025 now? Now that it's obvious? www.timeshighereducation.com/news/dundee-...
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Dundee principal quits with immediate effect amid cash crisis
Ian Gillespie had told staff last month that the university was facing a potential £30 million deficit
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 07/12/2024
At least 44,664 Palestinians have been killed and 105,976 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, 2023, the enclave’s Health Ministry says. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/y5lfzx
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Sharon Jagger @drsharonjagger.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Is David Lammy aware of this??
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Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
It’s a dark day for research in Aotearoa New Zealand and the ramifications for the country are huge. Minister Judith Collins has just announced our blue-skies funder will no longer fund humanities & social science research and that 50% of what is funded must have economic benefit.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Another day, another university in crisis. This time it's Canterbury Christ Church, to lose say 400 jobs and over a quarter of posts. The reality of what is happening in UK Higher Education - and even worse, what is about to happen - is crushing. I'm so sorry. www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/n...
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Uni staff told in video call 400 jobs could go to save £20m
More than a quarter of jobs at a university could be slashed in a bid to save £20 million, KentOnline can reveal.
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Loopholes in the law are allowing “dark money” to infiltrate UK politics, with almost £1 in every £10 donated to parties and politicians coming from unknown or dubious sources... Labour has previously committed to protect democracy by reforming the UK’s political finance laws... #bbcpm
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Revealed: UK politics infiltrated by ‘dark money’ with 10% of donations from dubious sources
Cash from dictatorships and shell companies is entering the political system via legal loopholes
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
'The chemistry department was rated the fourth best in the UK in The Guardian's University Guide 2024.' Sir David Behan, OfS chair, has advised universities not to duplicate courses taught at nearby institutions. Be careful what you wish for OfS.
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University of Hull to close its chemistry department
The university is also merging some of its schools following a drop in student numbers.
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Sharon Jagger @drsharonjagger.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
As part of my social media rebellion I have moved my library from goodreads to storygraph. An easy process that shifts a tiny bit of power from Bezos to a platform founded by a black woman.
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Religion & Gender Journal @religionandgender.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Welcome to our new Bluesky page! 🎉 In case you haven't already seen it 👀 our latest issue was recently released! The issue's articles include Alex Fry and @drsharonjagger.bsky.social's "What Shapes Ambivalence towards ‘Feminism’ amongst the Clergy?" which explores responses...
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This article on universities' finance makes very clear: *Govt and regulator don't really know what's going on *The stats they do have are very poor *Unis have a structural incentive to play down problems. I leave it to you to speculate about how that will play out. wonkhe.com/blogs/the-re...
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The regulator does not have a handle on the financial state of English higher education
OfS has updated financial models that demonstrate the sector is facing financial pressure. David Kernohan asks why we know so little, and so late
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
📣 Join us on Monday Dec. 2 at 11am ET/6pm Palestine with @srseikaly.bsky.social and Raz Segal to discuss his recent article published in the Journal of Palestine Studies. Register: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656...
Journal of Palestine Studies
Settler Antisemitism, Israeli Mass Violence, and the Crisis of Holocaust and Genocide Studies 
Monday, December 2, 2024 
11 AM ET / 6PM Palestine 
Raz Segal 
Associate Professor of Holocaust 
and Genocide Studies and Endowed Professor in the Study of Modern Genocide at Stockton University.
Sherene Seikaly 
Editor for the Journal of Palestine Studies.
Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
My Oxford Bibliography on early Christianity and slavery is out! I hope it’s a helpful resource to get an overview of the field as it continues to grow. www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/docu...
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