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Sam Rutherford (he/him)

@echomikeromeo.bsky.social
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Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History/History of Sexuality, University of Glasgow. I wrote this book: global.oup.com/academic/product/tea…

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 11h
Thank you!!
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 11h
Thank you so much, that means a lot!
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 15h
this week's post is about voting and how it relates to building power and demanding reforms margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/voting-beg...
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 22h
Thanks Ben!!
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 22h
Thank you!!
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 22h
Thanks so much - and congratulations to you on the Wolfson shortlist!
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I am honoured that Teaching Gender won the Morris D. Forkosch Prize in British History. Congratulations to all these amazing awardees!
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Thank you! Absolutely cannot WAIT for your book, also!!
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Thank you!!
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Aww thanks!!
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Thank you!!
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Oh that's so great to hear, thanks for teaching it!
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I am honoured that Teaching Gender won the Morris D. Forkosch Prize in British History. Congratulations to all these amazing awardees!
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Our friends at Category Is Books made this very cool poster for it!
Poster is a black and white image with hand-drawn illustrations of a trans symbol, a filing cabinet, a stack of books, and a moon. Text says 'sponsored by GLINTS and the UofG Knowledge Exchange Fund / Trans History Festival 2026 / at University of Glasgow and Category Is Books / featuring! Susan Stryker, Roz Kaveney, tgirlsonfilm, Nat Raha, Ruth Pearce / 22nd-30th October / linktr.ee/transhistfest / all events free <3'
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
We are having a Trans History Festival! You can see Ruth talk to Susan Stryker, and also many other exciting things!
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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
The people holding up the internet sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-th…
sheets.works
The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
41% staffing cuts in the Faculty of Arts at UoN. We're entering a wilderness of creativity and critical thinking.
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I found this so moving and thought-provoking!!
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Goldsmiths UCU @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
1/8 Now in our 15th week of indefinite strike action against the next phase of staff cuts, we are calling for urgent fundraising support from across UCU and all trade unions to help us through one of the longest and most difficult disputes in our branch's history. opencollective.com/goldsmithsmu...
opencollective.com
goldsmiths mutual aid - Open Collective
Provide hardship funds to precariously employed staff at Goldsmiths whose employment has been cut or changed as a result of Covid-19 or restructures and who may be further impacted by strike deductions during GUCU industrial action
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
'In response to the era of artificial intelligence, and the questions it raises about culture, copyright and corporate power, the academics behind the Stuart Hall Archive Project have barred AI bots from accessing the data.'
theguardian.com
Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online
Project lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
'In the 1980s and 90s Lincoln, like many cities, was struggling as its long-established engineering factories closed down, while a lack of higher education opportunities led to many young people moving away.' Which history will repeat itself at Lincoln?
bbc.co.uk
Secret Lincolnshire - How a University transformed Lincoln - BBC Sounds
The University of Lincoln was officially opened in October 1996.
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
(we did, however, learn what a gerund is)
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
(apologies to Walt for the invidious comparison in the service of a tired millennial lecturer's bad joke)
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Youth of Today update: told my queer history undergrads yesterday that this Whitman poem reminded me of the L Word theme song and they all stared blankly at me
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WE two boys together clinging, 
One the other never leaving, 
Up and down the roads going—North and South excursions making, 
Power enjoying—elbows stretching—fingers clutching, 
Armed and fearless—eating, drinking, sleeping, loving, 
No law less than ourselves owning—sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening, 
Misers, menials, priests alarming—air breathing, water drinking, on the turf or the sea-beach dancing, 
With birds singing—With fishes swimming—With trees branching and leafing, 
Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing, 
Fulfilling our foray.
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...
Stuart Hall notebook: NOTES ON THE REPRODUCTION OF IDEOLOGIES AND THE MEDIA (Orange notebook, "Summit Students Pad")Stuart Hall notebook page with headline: "Problems for a Marxist Theory of the Media" and a series of bulletpoints. Lined notebook paper with black handwriting.
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yes!!!!
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s us!!
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
'The Future Nottingham programme, approved by the university’s council on 5 October, will cut 560 jobs, close departments including modern languages and music, and increase staff-student ratios.' The future is bleak.
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UCU University of Glasgow @ucuglasgow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BALLOT LAUNCH TODAY! Our local ballot opens today, and your ballot will be arriving to your mailing address this week. Make sure to vote and post your ballot as soon as you can! Our ballot window is from Oct 6 to Nov 10. We recommend you Vote YES to strike action and Vote YES to ASOS!
UCU Glasgow ballot opens today! Fight compulsory redundancies! Reinstate promotions! Vote now!
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Türkiye's government is violently cracking down on LGBTQ+ civil society, targeting trans women especially. Among the groups attacked are Kaos GL, who previously translated and republished some of my work in their journal. I am grateful therefore for this statement of solidarity from @ucu.org.uk.
ucu.org.uk
UCU condemns Turkish state crackdown on LGBTQ+ people and civil society
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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Another year of Queer Bibliography— please share widely; we are looking forward to this!
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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the number of ethical, privacy-based, and practical problems with feeding grant applications into LLMs for triage without human confirmation is dizzying “a machine can never be held accountable, so a machine must never make a decision” has never been more apt
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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Solidarity to UCU staff at the University of Edinburgh as they fight to save jobs against a relentless senior management 'downsizing' crusade.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 30/09/2026
Our members at Nottingham University commence strike action today over threats to hundreds of jobs and course closures. Please show them solidarity as they head onto picket lines this morning.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 29/09/2026
Colleagues at Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow Caledonian are all on strike today over job cuts. Please show your solidarity as they take to the picket lines to defend jobs and education.
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Day 2 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh. The 1,800 jobs UCU estimates will be cut is unprecedented in Scottish higher education. It is happening in the wealthiest Scottish university, and the third richest in the UK, currently sitting with over £3billion reserves.
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Karie Ghoulish 👻 @kariebookish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I can only second this. If you are in Glasgow, visit Category Is. It's much more than a bookshop. It's a community hub, a place of active resistance, and a big fucking hug.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 26/09/2026
The service said the review will begin with patients whose surgery was due to take place between August and December 2026, and "no decisions about individual patient care have been made at this stage." www.wearequeeraf.com/nhs-wales-ap...
wearequeeraf.com
NHS Wales apologises for withdrawal of trans healthcare, admits "urgent review" still hasn't begun
NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee apologises for "distress" caused by a withdrawal of care but admits its "urgent review" had still not begun nearly a month after hundreds were denied care
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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The thing to remember about the TERFs that the Tories and Streeting have put in charge of the NHS is that they believe that all gender transition is, by definition, ‘harm’.
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beaumontsociety.bsky.social @beaumontsociety.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is gross negligence and appalling cruelty by NHS Wales. Those responsible should be punished for this - but, of course, it’s only trans people affected. Shocking!
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 24/09/2026
Can the ideas of a controversial trans Marxist be recovered? Rebecca Jane Morgan on Rachael Webb's (1940-2009) class-based coalition politics.
historyworkshop.org.uk
Rachael Webb: The Forgotten Trans Marxist
Can the ideas of a controversial trans Marxist be recovered? Rebecca Jane Morgan on Rachael Webb's (1940-2009) class-based coalition politics.
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Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Transgender voters in Kansas! I want to talk about your plan to vote this November — are you not voting, out of ID/safety concerns? Voting by mail? Getting registered to vote? Doing in-person advance voting? Text me on Signal @orionr.80 or DM me! I'm a trans reporter working at The 19th News.
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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Will keep boringly saying this (no disrespect to OP): it's not a health surcharge. It's not hypothecated to the NHS; you can't choose not to pay it and thereby eschew healthcare. You could equally call it an education or roads surcharge. It's using the NHS's sanctified status to rip off immigrants.
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thanks to Katherine A. Hubbard for a lovely review of Teaching Gender in the Journal of Family History! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... I was esp interested to see the connections Kat makes between the historical claims of Teaching Gender and their many echoes and resonances in our present.
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UCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
5 week strike at Edinburgh University at start of new academic term. Incl UCU branch co-president quote: “...UCU members are prepared to take action for our colleagues and our students – want to safeguard students’ education not just for five weeks in autumn but for the future." #StopTheCuts #SaveHE
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
'Analysis by the British Academy last year showed that students in parts of the north, south west and east of England, as well as large areas of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, are losing access to social sciences, humanities and arts courses amid the closures and layoffs.'
thebritishacademy.ac.uk
Cold spots: Mapping inequality in SHAPE provision in UK higher education
This British Academy report reveals that many parts of the UK are becoming subject cold spots – areas with no provision in a subject within a commutable distance. These are often in rural, coastal or ...
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
(I have been thinking a lot recently about the xeroxed course packet for purchase. I still have several of mine from college but they're relics of a bygone age.)
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In college (2008-12) I spent hundreds of dollars per semester that I did not have on books & course materials. I'm glad not to have to ask my students for that kind of expenditure. But I am assigning 2 novels this semester & I have no idea practically how the students are going to access/read them!
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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:
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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 15/09/2026
We know that clinicians currently working within the NHS see a conversion practices ban as a threat to their preferred model of healthcare when it comes to trans people. Providing them with this exemption is literally just allowing them to continue to do conversion practices on vulnerable youth.
transsafety.network
'Nothing to offer': Training materials for new NHS CYP gender services raise serious questions, concerns about conversion practices
Slides and video transcripts for the new NHS Children & Young People’s (CYP) Gender Dysphoria services seen by Trans Safety Network raise serious concerns about the new service.
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