Sign in

Fran Amery

@franamery.bsky.social
1.5K followers 636 following 267 posts

I research topics that make everyone feel very comfortable like periods, transphobia and abortion co-convenor @reacpolrn.bsky.social (she/her)

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Fran Amery
Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My new article, co-authored with @sandraduffy.bsky.social is out today, please read & share: "Criminalising and eliminating affirmative healthcare: Trans childhood in a moral panic" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com
Criminalising and eliminating affirmative healthcare: Trans childhood in a moral panic - Cal Horton, Sandra Duffy, 2026
Trans children in the UK are the targets of an escalating moral panic, centred around access to affirmative adolescent healthcare. Combining moral panic theory ...
416189
Reposted by Fran Amery
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 27/09/2026
How the anti-gender movement spread across Europe The Hate Review reveals how the anti-gender movement has taken root and evolved in Europe over the last 25 years, it traces how far the anti-gender movement has spread through society and how deeply it has reached into laws and institutions.
forbidden-colours.com
The Hate Review
How the anti-gender movement spread across Europe
419687
Reposted by Fran Amery
TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
TransActual is working with Dr Kat Gupta, a researcher in Politics, to examine how trans people and our supporters responded to this consultation. Please visit transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/09... for more information.
Text reads: Did you fill out the 2025 EHRC consultation on the revised Code of Practice? 
Are you trans, non-binary or supportive of trans people? 
Are you over 16? 
Do you want to include your consultation response in a research project? 
Visit our website for more details.
1206
Reposted by Fran Amery
Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
There has been a noticeable lack of serious reaction over Turkish persecution of LGBTQIA+ community from the global community. As in many other countries, Türkiye tries to mask persecution by claiming being LGBTQIA+ isn't illegal and then using "obscenity laws". www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
theguardian.com
Turkey detains dozens in crackdown on LGBTQ+ activists and journalists
Protesters teargassed as minister claims widespread raids and arrests under obscenity laws were to ‘protect families’
10865509
Reposted by Fran Amery
Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s good to see that mainstream UK papers are now, finally, after many years, covering esoteric hitlerist Nina Power and DC Miller’s connections to Ben Dilo. It is a shame, however, that this FT column does not go into detail about their egregious antisemitic and racist conspiracy thinking
A crypto billionaire who made a record-breaking £36mn donation to Nigel Farage's Reform UK financed a defamation case against an artist who claimed to have been the victim of an antisemitic harassment campaign.
Ben Delo loaned more than £300,000 to a former academic, Nina Power, which was secured against her home, to help her bring a joint libel suit against Luke Turner, a Jewish performance artist.
The case shines a spotlight on Delo's support for individuals and organisations whom critics accuse of having at times tested the boundaries of legitimate free speech.
Power and her fellow claimant lost their defamation case in 2023, and she was declared bankrupt. Afterwards, Delo enforced his rights over her London home as a way of recovering the money he had lent her.
That has meant that her other creditors cannot seek the sale of the home to recover other debts, unless Delo's security is deemed invalid in some way.
One of the creditors is Turner, the artist, who had originally sought the bankruptcy petition against her in order to reclaim his legal costs. The court had ordered Power and her co-claimant to pay him an initial £250,000, which they have not done.
Delo considers Power a friend, according to people close to him. The billionaire is in effect now the landlord of the bankrupt former academic, and receives monthly rent payments from her as a means of recovering the debt, according to people familiar with their financial arrangements. She remains the legal owner of the property.
29233
Reposted by Fran Amery
Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
More than 1250 academics standing in solidarity with LGBTI+ people, including researchers, facing repression and state abuse in Turkey. velvele.net/2026/09/17/j...
velvele.net
Judith Butler, Noura Erakat, Slavoj Žižek and others join more than 1,250 academics in joint letter against repression of LGBTI+ people in Turkey
A joint call from more than 1,250 academics, including Judith Butler, Noura Erakat, Slavoj Žižek, Susan Stryker, Jasbir Puar, Elizabeth Anderson, Etienne Balibar and Peter Hallward.
16832
Reposted by Fran Amery
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Her name was Mary Slusser. Over the next 5 years she bought hundreds of sacred Nepali artefacts — deities, temple carvings, ritual regalia — removed illegally from their communities. Yet, she's still celebrated as a foundational scholar of Nepali studies.
29318
Reposted by Fran Amery
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In 1965, an American scholar bought her first stolen god from two boys outside a Kathmandu temple. Grains of rice were still stuck to it — offerings from worshippers. She paid less than $2 and wrote in her diary: "I don't think the temple will miss it at all." 🧵 www.himalmag.com/mary-slusser...
himalmag.com
Mary Slusser’s secret loot of Nepal’s sacred art and heritage
A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States
6211114
Reposted by Fran Amery
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!!!!
416271
Reposted by Fran Amery
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:
13598709
Fran Amery @franamery.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is just a cult at this point surely?
Orr and his wife Helen have made their £1.8 million riverside home outside Cambridge into what he has described on a podcast as “a compound” and what his wife, on her Substack, has described as “an alternative Cambridge College”, a monastic proto-college of which she is the “college mother”. Postgraduate students, chiefly from divinity, live in the outbuildings and adjacent flats owned by the family. They pay rent, do chores, and gather for Sunday lunch. The community has developed themed college scarf colours, a crest, a motto and printed rugby shirts.
121
Fran Amery @franamery.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Period Politics (by me, @dr-mel-channon.bsky.social and @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social) is available for pre-order! Everything you ever wanted to know about menstrual justice and injustice worldwide 🩸 🩸 🩸 🩸 🩸
policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
Period Politics
Period Politics - Inside the Global Fight for Menstrual Justice
083
Reposted by Fran Amery
Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The University of Exeter has confirmed that it won’t proceed with compulsory redundancies “at this time”. This means colleagues do not need to complete the pro forma, and there will be no selection process.
NO COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES photo of Nicole Kidman looking incredibly joyful and free after her divorce from Tom Cruise was finalised
431288
Reposted by Fran Amery
ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026
It's utterly heartbreaking that in the past two years trans kids have been so specifically targeted by Labour: Told they can't have medical treatment, only conversion therapy Told they are not allowed play sports with their friends Schools, even if they want to be supportive are not allowed to be
428690
Reposted by Fran Amery
Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
61472240
Reposted by Fran Amery
Loukas Christodoulou @loukas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Let's do some categorisation. I see people referring to the persecution of Jason Arday as a 'mob', or as comparable to a social media pile-on. It was actually an elite campaign carried out by media actors with huge power and reach.
222181
Reposted by Fran Amery
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026
I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
bylinetimes.com
The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
3127241193
Reposted by Fran Amery
Runnymede Trust @runnymedetrust.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
His death comes after an obscene and relentless media campaign that denied him the most basic human compassion. By one count, this media barrage totalled 249 media articles in less than a month, with over 20 stories per day even following his resignation. Racism has consequences; it kills.
18826
Reposted by Fran Amery
Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.
51434461311
Reposted by Fran Amery
Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Every single article should include Nathan Cofnas’ name as the instigator of this.
1235488
Reposted by Fran Amery
alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Always remembering Lucy Meadows. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_o...
Lucy Meadows (1981 – 19 March 2013) was a transgender teacher from Accrington in the United Kingdom. She died by suicide in March 2013 after the decision of her employers to allow her to return to work after sex reassignment surgery was covered in the national press.
9660150
Fran Amery @franamery.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Congrats to the UK media for hounding a Black man to death. It wasn't enough even that he resigned, they had to keep at it. Grotesque
1124
Reposted by Fran Amery
Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Whatever the truth of Arday, it was clear that a section of the establishment resentful of black people in high places saw Arday’s story as a vehicle for them to unleash their fury disguised as legitimate concern, RELENTLESSLY. Arday’s castigation was excessive in every way. And now he’s dead.
414834
Reposted by Fran Amery
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5
743503585
Fran Amery @franamery.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
As a teenager in Northumberland I thought Manchester was in the Midlands
110
Reposted by Fran Amery
Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Amnesty International are absolutely correct in naming these vile anti-abortion groups as anti rights. Misogyny that gets us killed isn’t a cute little spiritual quirk spuc.org.uk/amnesty-inte...
spuc.org.uk
Amnesty International names SPUC as an “anti-rights” group. We are not. - SPUC
Image Source: Shutterstock
711632
Reposted by Fran Amery
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 03/07/2026
🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?
goodlaw.social
I stand with trans people | Good Law Project
131569984
Reposted by Fran Amery
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵
technosphere.earth
The bonfire of the humanities
150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences
381042507
Reposted by Fran Amery
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 30/06/2026
Some info on the Code of Practice Seen some confusion. The 40 day scrutiny period did not end today, because it doesn't run during Parliamentary recess. By my maths it ends 9th July. After that it still requires a commencement order (not sure how long this will be, previously took a few weeks).
39522
Reposted by Fran Amery
FinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This is a public service announcement!! Prof Susan Stryker is in the UK, in the South West, in Bath!!! Yes, THE Susan Stryker!! Get tickets now www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/bath/...
toppingbooks.co.uk
Susan Stryker for Changing Gender: The History and Future of a Concept at Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath
084
Reposted by Fran Amery
Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ One milkshake to rule the boys, one milkshake to find them, one milkshake to bring the boys and in my yard to bind them 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️
284232498
Reposted by Fran Amery
Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh @rtie.org · 26/06/2026
Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh applauds the City of Edinburgh Council for voting, by an overwhelming majority, to condemn the transphobic new guidance from the Equalities and Human Rights Commission. Zoe Harding delivered a blistering speech on our behalf: rtie.org/2026/06/25/e...
rtie.org
Edinburgh Council condemn transphobic EHRC guidance
Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh applauds the City of Edinburgh Council for voting today, by an overwhelming majority, to condemn the transphobic new guidance from the Equalities and Human Rights…
316261
Reposted by Fran Amery
Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 25/06/2026
In other words, this does not protect the people who need the protection from conversion therapy the most in 2026 - it appears to me to instead license the state to carry on with its version of conversion therapy, because that version isn't seen as abusive. In formal legal terms: gross. /fin
1114
Reposted by Fran Amery
Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 25/06/2026
The Draft Conversion Practices Bill has been released. A few quick thoughts from someone adept at reading statute without any specific expertise in the area of regulating (?) conversion therapy follow. 1/
gov.uk
Conversion practices draft bill
196
Fran Amery @franamery.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Given that all 'therapy' is carried out with the intention of providing healthcare (the clue is in the name...) then, no conversation therapy is banned whatsoever? Cool. This will be a great use of Parliament's time and resources.
0196
Fran Amery @franamery.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Lots to say about this quote from Phillipson but I think a key element is how cis people are understood as 'biological' and therefore as having material needs (services, spaces) where as trans people are an 'identity' and therefore only have cultural/recognitional needs ('not being pilloried').
“I don't want trans people to be constantly pilloried on social media for being who they are and wanting to live the lives that they want to lead.

“But also I want women to be able to access the services and service providers to be able to deliver the services that they believe are necessary on a single sex basis for women who have experienced male violence. I don't think those two things ought to be in conflict.”
29861241
Reposted by Fran Amery
A. Joel @ajoellie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
This is a piece that's very personal to me. Thanks a bunch to the greatly supportive editors and reviewers of the REACPOL network and Red Lines for making its publication possible.
132
Reposted by Fran Amery
João Florêncio @noisybits.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I’ve just heard through the grapevine that Exeter UCU has just passed a vote of no confidence in the Vice-Chancellor.
141
Reposted by Fran Amery
Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Victoire pour la diversite! Francaise est un lesbienne
12858369
Reposted by Fran Amery
Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
16231273
Reposted by Fran Amery
Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
When Pride and Father’s Day are the same holiday. youtu.be/WANlg297AHU
youtu.be
Sub-Radio - Stacy's Dad (Full Video)
YouTube video by Sub-Radio
27522
Reposted by Fran Amery
Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 20/06/2026
Petition: Disapprove the draft Equality Act 2010 guidance laid on 21 May 2026 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Disapprove the draft Equality Act 2010 guidance laid on 21 May 2026
I want the House of Commons to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations, 2026 laid on 21 May 2026.
17456
Reposted by Fran Amery
Kiran Stacey @kiranstacey.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
NEW: Young men are not becoming more right-wing, new study finds - or at least, no more than anyone else. Fascinating research by @jchrisbick.bsky.social and Jasmine Jinadu www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Young men in UK are not more rightwing than older groups, study says
Exclusive: Analysis shows men aged 18 to 25 are less likely to vote for rightwing parties than other age groups of men
04314
Reposted by Fran Amery
Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
But that's exactly how generative AI works. We explored how ChatGPT is working *exactly as it is designed to do* when it generated this horrifying pregnant penis-rectum image bsky.app/profile/vagi...
210715
Reposted by Fran Amery
Saskia Heijltjes @saskiaheijltjes.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
People living or working in Bath, please sign this letter to ask @werahobhouse.org.uk to reject the EHRC Draft Code of Practice: openletter.earth/reject-the-e... 🏳️‍⚧️
openletter.earth
Reject the EHRC Draft Code of Practice
042
Reposted by Fran Amery
Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
At this point, I genuinely believe the entire public is being actively gaslit by both the media, and Esther Ghey herself, into forgetting that Brianna Ghey was murdered, by people she knew from school, in real life, who were partly influenced by transphobia, fuelled by the media and politicians.
6646251316
Reposted by Fran Amery
M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Not on the BBC Homepage
15518
Fran Amery @franamery.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I have so many questions, but chief among them is 'why is it full of strawberry milkshake'
040
Fran Amery @franamery.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Horrible, horrible news. We are all indebted to her!
010
Reposted by Fran Amery
Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I don't post much anymore but I found out a few hours ago that the wonderful Emi Koyama died, I'm away from home, and I'm so very sad about it. I would like to share that grief together with others on here who are indebted to Emi (which is: all of us feminist queers against cisness). Rest in power.
422347