Reposted by Jess GifkinsQueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 02/10/2025This Saturday after painstaking research and FOIs by @clairestranstalks.bsky.social with @whatthetrans.com, we'll publish 'The Gender Clinic Files' in our newsletter: A new investigative series exposing deep structural issues with UK Transgender healthcare Sign up 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/ 318873
Jess Gifkins @jessgifkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2025New article out by Stephen McLoughlin, @profbode.bsky.social and me 🎉 On the practice of early warning of mass atrocities by practitioners in the UN Secretariat and has important findings on the limitations of current early warning practices. This project was funded by the The British Academy. 142
Jess Gifkins @jessgifkins.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Important statement from the Lemkin Institute on the position and status of the EHRC in the UK 👇🏻 010
Reposted by Jess GifkinsWill Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social · 04/09/2025So basically Vallance has announced there won't be new announcements/work on REF for 3 months, implying that there will potentially be big changes announced in 3 months time, but the deadline for the REF is going to remain the same?! How er... helpful. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/patrick...timeshighereducation.comPatrick Vallance hits pause on Research Excellence FrameworkScience minister announces review of controversial changes to research environment assessment 299
Reposted by Jess GifkinsDr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Thanks! 😁 You can read the full 10,000 word open access article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comBloody Howard! Gender, Leadership, and the Decline of the Liberal Party of Australia as the “Party for Women”Women played a key role in the founding of the Liberal Party of Australia (LPA) in 1944 and in providing its branch structure. The newly established LPA also sought to encourage women to join the par.... 022
Jess Gifkins @jessgifkins.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Really interesting article on the history of engagement with women and gender norms in the Liberal Party. Thanks @blairwilliams26.bsky.social for your research! 265
Reposted by Jess GifkinsAlison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Well worth a read. Much to ponder as Babel builds its skyscraper and hubris rules www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...newyorker.comWill the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring. 0107
Reposted by Jess GifkinsNatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 04/08/2025THREAD: 1. In May I published my peer-reviewed research into the effects of the Starmer-Streeting puberty-blocker ban. TLDR; lots of children have already been harmed. TW; this is a hard read. There is a term for adult men who deliberately harm children…tandfonline.com 4243101
Jess Gifkins @jessgifkins.bsky.social · 03/08/2025The annual global gender survey is live for anyone who’s gender doesn’t fit into the binary 👇🏻 You can share the below post for extra reach 😊 010
Reposted by Jess GifkinsIzzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Can’t feel prouder of people in this city on one of the worst weather days so far this year. 1243
Reposted by Jess GifkinsRuth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Endorsement: WRITING BADLY Writing Badly is a new, print-only, journal of letters on the subject of feminism and transmisogyny. It is written and edited by and for trans women. "By turns profound and infuriating, beautiful and devastating, this collection has it all." 1156
Reposted by Jess GifkinsMatthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Good news! St. Lucia has struck down colonial-era laws that criminalised homosexuality. While much of the world is edging backwards on LGBTQ rights and acceptance, St. Lucia becomes the 5th Eastern Caribbean country to decriminalise same-sex relations in the last few years.advocate.comEastern Caribbean Supreme Court strikes down St. Lucia laws criminalizing gay sexThe laws against “gross indecency” and “buggery” are unconstitutional, the court ruled. 415439
Reposted by Jess GifkinsGender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · 30/07/2025The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. 1416741937
Reposted by Jess GifkinsDr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 30/07/2025One like, one law and/or gender opinion. 1698
Reposted by Jess GifkinsMatt McDonald @mattuq.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Amen theconversation.com/top-australi...theconversation.comTop Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life changingTim Winton, Helen Garner and Peter Garrett are just a few of the high-profile signatories to an open letter against Job-Ready Graduates – and for the humanities. 031
Jess Gifkins @jessgifkins.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Alex de Waal, an expert on the politics of famine, discussing the dire situation in Gaza. 001
Reposted by Jess GifkinsMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/07/2025A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social: 5456353476
Reposted by Jess GifkinsSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 20/07/2025“LGBTQI+ rights are inseparable from the broader fight against authoritarianism… if you are able, show up for every mass mobilization. Keep queer joy, humor, and defiance alive in your activism long after the parades end.” We should learn from, and keep building, social movements to resist fascism.autostraddle.comWhat Queer Americans Can Learn From HungaryWe believe Hungary represents the kind of country Trump and his allies want. 04711
Reposted by Jess GifkinsConrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Before the pandemic hit, 70% of Republicans said that science has had a mostly positive effect on society. Four years later, fewer than half (47%) said so. 🧪 www.pewresearch.org/science/2023/11… 2119269
Reposted by Jess GifkinsProf Ben Britton @bmatb.expmicromech.com · 17/07/2025Ah hello Section 28, my old friend*... *Not my friend, these ideas are toxic (if we are being polite) - and harmful/will result in deaths (if we are being accurate). 1104
Reposted by Jess GifkinsSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Ex-farm worker here. We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing. Not true AT ALL. Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are. The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour. At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor. 513201366156
Reposted by Jess GifkinsSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 03/07/2025“Adults and young people will no longer have to be examined by a medical professional, require surgery or have to prove to anyone else that we are who we say we are.” In good news, NSW now allows people to legally transition gender without medical evidence. No one should have to prove their gender.cityhub.com.auNew NSW Birth Certificate Reforms Come Into Effect From TodayA slate of new reforms come into effect from today, including new birth certificate laws and markers for trans and gender diverse people. 326178
Reposted by Jess GifkinsSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 02/07/2025“In the case of trans and intersex people, genocide is often perpetrated by making it impossible for individuals to exist as their true selves… No denial or omission in law can erase the concrete reality that trans and intersex people have always and will always exist.” We must refuse such erasure.lemkininstitute.comRed Flag Alert on Anti-Trans and Intersex Rights in the UK | Lemkin Institute 020563
Reposted by Jess GifkinsAnil Dash @anildash.com · 01/07/2025This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits) 359172314859
Reposted by Jess GifkinsHelen Berents @hmberents.bsky.social · 01/07/2025New article 🥳! Richard Fosu and I have a new piece in @jisb.bsky.social! Open access! We examine UN docs on #YPS to reveal how ideas of youth are constituted by institutional actors. We pay close attn to discursive contestation over the norm of youth inclusion within YPS. doi.org/10.1080/1750...doi.orgConstituting ‘Youth’: Conditionality and Compliance in UN Discourses on Youth, Peace and SecurityThe Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) agenda acknowledges youth as positive contributors to peace and security in contrast to dominant negative stereotypes of youth. This article examines constructio... 0124
Reposted by Jess GifkinsBetween These Spooky Lines - 👻 🌈 ⚽ 🏈 🏀⚾🏒 @footballlibrettist.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Pride was banned in Hungary. This was the response. The fascists never learn. ¡No pasarán! ❤️ 🌈 2156
Reposted by Jess GifkinsNatacha @natacha.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Get your cis friends to read this. It reveals how the anti-trans hate groups are really part of a web of extremist right-wing hate groups…yorkshirebylines.co.ukBehind the ruling: how ‘Sex Matters’ is shaping UK policy on trans rightsThe UK Supreme Court ruling redefined ‘sex’ – but for trans people, it’s the start of something far more sweeping and exclusionary 12307169
Reposted by Jess GifkinsRobert Ralston @robertralston.bsky.social · 25/06/2025From POLSIS colleagues Nick Wheeler and David Dunn on the US attack on Iran theconversation.com/us-attack-on...theconversation.comUS attack on Iran lacks legal justification and could lead to more nuclear proliferationAfter being attacked by both Israel and the US, Iran is likely to feel that it has no option to redouble its efforts to develop its own nuclear deterrent. 011
Reposted by Jess GifkinsSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 23/06/2025“I deserved to make those decisions for myself, and I needed support to help me do that… Everybody deserves autonomy, and everyone deserves community. I hope I get to see that in my lifetime.” Some intersex people need gender affirming care. The political erosion of bodily autonomy affects us all.teenvogue.com6 Intersex People on Why Gender-Affirming Care Bans Are Bad for Everyone“My life and welfare depends on gender-affirming care.” 05718
Reposted by Jess GifkinsSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 30/03/2025For those who need a reminder: the term “gender ideology” was coined by conservative religious and political groups to condemn abortion, same-sex relationships, trans existence, sex education, etc. Authoritarian regimes embrace it. We will only defeat these politics by refusing anti-gender rhetoric. 2323108
Reposted by Jess GifkinsEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 11/06/2025When I heard the mom of a trans girl say the night her daughter came out to her was the first time she'd ever seen her child happy, I knew it was a story I needed to share. These are the stories the public isn't hearing. An honor to get to report on 3 family's journeys for @teenvogue.com.teenvogue.comWhy These Trans Teens and Their Families Risked Everything to Get Gender-Affirming CareIt’s as simple as love. 4152351891
Jess Gifkins @jessgifkins.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Great article by Nicholas Kristof on how to use Gene Sharp’s nonviolent protest methods as tools of resistance against authoritarian regimes. Full list of 198 method here: commonslibrary.org/198-methods-...commonslibrary.org198 Methods of Nonviolent Action by Gene SharpThe Commons is an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, organising, advocacy and justice. 021
Reposted by Jess GifkinsCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 04/06/2025I don’t know. I love this Joseph Fasano poem and have it pinned on my office door but I don’t know what to actually do about any of this. 434089
Reposted by Jess GifkinsCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 04/06/2025I think this is such a major driver of AI use in university assessments. And also just a real… disconnection between why we think students are here (to learn about history!) and why students think they are here (to get good grades, to get a job) 943296
Reposted by Jess GifkinsWar on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Want to write for War on the Rocks? warontherocks.com/su...warontherocks.comWar on the Rocks - SubmissionsWant to write for War on the Rocks? Start here. 031
Jess Gifkins @jessgifkins.bsky.social · 03/06/2025What does it takes to reform the United Nations? 🤔 📚 I reflected on the perennial debates around UN reform for the recent forum on my @oxunipress.bsky.social book 'Inside the UN Security Council' published by @globalr2p.bsky.social. Here are my thoughts 👇 274
Reposted by Jess GifkinsSenthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 13/05/2025My book is published! It’s a critical take on how emotions shape conflicts about LGBT rights and repair in equality law, gender recognition, bans on conversion practices, and sex education in schools. You can download it free via @edinburghup.bsky.social: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo... 16547160
Jess Gifkins @jessgifkins.bsky.social · 24/05/2025We’ve reached that point in the year where our current hometown and former hometown have the same daily temperature range, despite one being almost winter and the other being almost summer 🙃 060
Jess Gifkins @jessgifkins.bsky.social · 23/05/2025A picturesque photo from my parent’s backyard this morning, except that all that water isn’t usually there! They’re flooded in but the flood water is slowly starting to recede 😅 0124
Jess Gifkins @jessgifkins.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Very happy to share the forum organized by the @globalr2p.bsky.social journal on my @oxfordunipress.bsky.social book 'Inside the UN Security Council'. Thanks to the reviewers and to Cecilia Jacob, Shannon Zimmerman, and Lucas de Belmont for making this forum a reality! 🌟 The forum comprises: 141
Jess Gifkins @jessgifkins.bsky.social · 21/05/2025I’m looking forward to presenting @whereisdean.bsky.social and my project on Queering the Responsibility to Protect at the University of Wollongong tomorrow, organised by Eda Gunaydin and @philorchard.bsky.social 😊 021