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Dr Emma Sheppard

@emmas.bsky.social
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Sociologist, Aberystwyth. Critical disability studies. Overthinking trauma, bodies, pain, time, sexuality, crip rage, queer joy. Knitter, sewist, reptile herder, forever exhausted. She/her. 🏳️‍🌈 Compost the rich. linktr.ee/dremmasheppard

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
So let’s break this down a touch more via the Swedish angle because it has been a thing for years (and I’ll admit it’s a bit annoying to see people notice it only now but hey better late than never I suppose). The exact way this has gotten wielded is psychiatrists pondering statistics aloud
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Hey, disability studies people. We need to talk about this: www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/28/n... - because we know where it's come from, right? You know that research behind this has come from people in our field, right?
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NHS 'to test trans young people for autism and ADHD'
Trans young people will allegedly be 'screened' for autism and ADHD according to planned NHS guidance on youth gender clinics.
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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Genuinely if I had been outflanked on the left by Tim Martin and Wetherspoons and I considered myself to be a left wing politician, I would resign and spend the rest of my career in a cave reflecting on how I let my brain get so rotted by columnists about who shits where
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San Alland (they/San) @san-alland.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Crip guests in my essay echo @emmas.bsky.social's "There is joy in the ashes of the future-not-to-be, there is pleasure in their discomfort with our joy and our rejection." Also online as a BSL video, with captions & audio description - and an embodied Footnote played by Deaf actor Ciaran Stewart.
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"Writing from the Groin" video essay by Sandra Alland (BSL with AD and CC)
YouTube video by BOPTheatre
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Lads, I am very rubbish at posting here, but: I wrote a thing, and it is now out with Feminist Theory. doi.org/10.1177/1464... - it's called The Necessary Pleasures of the Crip Killjoy and it's about thinking with brain fog and discomfort and violence and joy in refusal.
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Ending this week in Social Theory with "It Ain't Half Racist Mum" from Stuart Hall (and Box of Broadcasts) - as rounding up Hall's work on TV discourse, encoding/decoding.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
And remember, Stock resigned voluntarily, after receiving the full & unconditional backing of the university. Possibly because she thought she was getting a new gig at the University of Grievance, Austin...
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Ellen Roche @ellroche.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Magnificently, I have a publication out. Myself, Tamar MacLellan and Erika Hawkes wrote about what an arts approach did for us when talking about trauma in HE. It's in the Journal of Learning Development in HE: doi.org/10.47408/jld...
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Thinking through drawing: an arts-based approach to trauma-informed pedagogy | Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education
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Merry Hadaway @kindjourneys.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Oh this is a *really* good point! 🧵
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Now taking suggestions for where I left my sunglasses.
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Today had one of those seminars which went off track from the beginning, but was nonetheless great. We should have talked about risk as social/cultural. And we sort of did - but we talked about risk vs fear, the orgasm gap, student loans, and crafting.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/03/2025
can Labour please, please just tot up the number of voters with a) more than ten million quid and b) less than ten million quid, and do the fucking maths on what the country would prefer.
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Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Liz Kendall's speech today laid out plans to cut disability and sickness benefits by billions. ❌ No truly moral choice would leave disabled people without support designed to allow them to lead a dignified life, or facing hardship. 1/4
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Today: trying to get my smart meter fixed, organising training, writing seminar. Maybe screaming into the void
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Lucy Burke @lucyburkemcr.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Two templates - one for people who are directly affected and one for allies. Please write to your MP and let them know how immoral, counterproductive and devastating- these cuts will be www.inclusionlondon.org.uk/campaigns-an...
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Act Now: Write to Your MP About Welfare Benefit Cuts
Take Action, Today
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The scriptwriters for Doctor Odyssey are trying to make orcas the bad guys and it's not working.
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Today's seminar discussed the selfie as cultural product and I am now going to crumble to dust
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a cartoon character says " the very instant i became old " in front of a red phone
Alt: Prof Farnsworth from Futurama - a wrinkled old man with a very pointy bald head,wearing a lab coat. He says "the very instant i became old"
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Dr Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
This is such a vital piece by @davehitchcock.bsky.social on the university funding crisis, which has been a decade in the making. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/education/a-...
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A Decade of Crisis
The UK's universities are in crisis. Dave Hitchcock on how the sector became 'broken' and why it must be understood as an interdependent system.
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I am now *that* person whose pets are busy being absolute clowns while I'm doing a Proper Teams Meeting. Muting myself because SQUONKY TOYS TIME.
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
We interrupt today's doom scrolling with this, which is very informative
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Today I am panic-reading before reading group, meeting a dissertation student, and discussing research and teaching. And preparing for my mum's arrival tomorrow.
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Lads, what do you do when you can't procrastinate writing with lecture prep? SEND HELP. I might actually have to write.
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 11/03/2025
Absolutely disgusting. It's ripping support from the most vulnerable. These people are unable to work because they are disabled. They've transformed disability welfare into a work benefit. This "Labour" government deserves to be annihilated. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Starmer decries ‘worst of all worlds’ benefits system ahead of deep cuts
PM expected to announce billions in savings from personal independence payment, the main disability benefit
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Doctor Odyssey is back and they've gone in hard on the clichés. Which is just what today requires.
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Signs of spring: outside time for old dragons.
Irwin, an old and grumpy bearded dragon, sitting on the end of a bench. He is outside and it's a sunny day.
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Delightful. Vague anxiety for no reason is exactly what I needed today.
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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
So thrilled to say that my new article on the echoes of Section 28 in the moral panic around trans people in the UK is out now, along with the rest of the first issue of @genderandjustice.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1332/3033...
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Moral panics and legal projects: echoes of Section 28 in United Kingdom transgender discourse and law reform
A grounding in the queer history of the legal system in the United Kingdom reveals striking parallels between the moral panic leading to the enactment of Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988, a...
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Disability admin
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a black and white photo of a woman making a face .
Alt: a black and white photo of a woman making an annoyed face
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
All of my advice to students should come with the disclaimer that I am very bad at following my own advice sometimes.
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
We've got support from the RGS to make this hybrid (in ways accessible to me!) - new deadline of midnight on the 7th March.
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Went for a walk down Tan Y Bwlch, in the sunshine. Hoops enjoyed a paddle in the Ystwyth and the sea.
Hoops the greyhound, in a harness, standing on a patch of grass in front of a rocky beach. In the distance is a town in the sunshine and a green hill.
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Being able to hang laundry outside is far more pleasing that it should be
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
We've got support from the RGS to make this hybrid (in ways accessible to me!) - new deadline of midnight on the 7th March.
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Chronic pain clinics have changed a lot since 2014. Not so much in what they can do but the approach today was so very different. I came out feeling *heard*
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The real divide between sociology and human geography is whether the theorists are wearing black polonecks or tweed.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/02/2025
THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US. This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US threatens permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers
Exclusive: State department memo directs officers to bar those deemed to misrepresent birth sex on applications
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Hoops is attempting logic. Walkies is followed by the cat's dinner, which is followed by his dinner, so if he gets me to go outside quicker, his dinner will happen sooner. He is not a smart greyhound.
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
We've moved the deadline to Monday (3rd March) in recognition that we're not going to start making decisions over the weekend. And also my utter horror at realising March is *next week* and I am wholly unprepared for this fact.
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Me: today I am going to Do! things! off my to do list My brain: *magic roundabout theme*
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a cartoon character is standing on a spring in front of a bunch of toys
Alt: Zebedee from the Magic Roundabout TV programme, spinning in circles
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/02/2025
It is truly amazing how no one seems to give a shit in media about how young women around the world are becoming ever more left wing.
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
My colleages and I are organising a panel at the RGS this summer - please share! CfP - Relentless injustice: trauma, exhaustion and researching zombie problems (or banging your head against a wall) We invite papers that consider the challenges, traumas & exhaustion of conducting research... (1/2)
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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This is hideous. There's no clarity or transparency, or indeed any attempt to create them. There's no sense of what a university is *for* - or of any care for workers or students. It has my stomach in knots just reading it.
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Apparently I have got the one greyhound who doesn't give a fig about rain and would very much like a long walk thank you.
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Fucking *finally*. Everything Dyfrig says too, but it's something
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Watching Wisting and there's a character called Clifford who is not a big red dog. This is a continuous disappointment
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Today I phrased my seminar discussion questions very formally on the slide and then asked the students "is Giddens talking shit here?" because I continue to be a gremlin.
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UCU Commons @ucucommons.org · 13/02/2025
🚨Attention UCU members in HE: we have started an open letter for you to sign in support of a motion we're bringing to the meeting on Weds 19th which calls for a focus on defending jobs, reforming HE, & calling off a national ballot. docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/...
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Plea to HEC to defend jobs and reform UK HE: call off ballot for Industrial Action
We, the undersigned members of UCU working in Higher Education, call on HEC to vote FOR the following motion at the emergency meeting on 19 February 2025. Your signature and institution will be added...
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Dr Emma Sheppard @emmas.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Me, to the foster greyhound: Lady Thortoise does not need investigating! She bites! Foster greyhound: maybe if I sniff her AGAIN she'll be different?
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