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Joe Strong

@joestrong.bsky.social
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Demographer, abortion nerd, research sexual and reproductive health and masculinities. He/him 🏳️‍🌈

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Jasmin Abdel Ghany @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Working on climate & population? Keen to discuss future directions & methodological frontiers? Join 28-29 Jan in Bologna 🇮🇹 📩 Call for abstracts by 20 Sep! Organized with POPCLIMA project, @iussp.bsky.social Panel on Climate & Environmental Demography & @eaps.bsky.social Climate Demography.
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POPCLIMA: Call for Abstracts - POPCLIMA
Population Dynamics in a Changing Climate – Future Directions for Climate Demography Organiser: University of Bologna (POPCLIMA – ERC Consolidator Grant), in...
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Who is in #Nairobi next week for #ARJC? Reach out if you’re around and let’s connect / catch up!
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Best plans gone awry for whoever had a condom handy in the flight queue…
A condom on the floor in an airport queue
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
What’s happening in #Ghana is a result of an anti-rights agenda that will come for us all. People are facing the worst anti #LGBTQ+ criminalisation in the world. Please read these incredible words by the fierce Precious Amevor and share them far and wide. medium.com/@ed.caheg/cr...
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Criminalized for My Existence: June Is Here Again.What
A reflection on memory, accountability, and human dignity in Ghana. Ten years after the June 3 disaster, this essay asks whether our…
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Had the *best* time running the Critical #Demography workshop last week. So many ideas and so much energy to push our field forward. Thank you @bspsuk.bsky.social for the amazing sponsorship. Stay tuned for the next steps 😊
Picture of the attendees of the BSPS Critical Demography workshop. 

First row L-R: Michaela Sedovic, Rose Stevens, Ruth Neville, Laura Sochas, Joe Strong, Leigh Senderowicz, Sonali Silva, Rebecca Sear

Second row L-R: Victor Emmanuel, Zuzana Dancikova, Lara Patricio Tavares, Jenny Chanfreau, Claire Calvel, Magda Muter, Hampton Gaddy, P Linh Nguyen, Cicely Marston
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Always disappointing when journos excitedly share work to repro spaces that uncritically [in fact, positively] platforms anti-abortion pseudo-demographers. Another day...
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
PURE JOY at the return of @abortionbookclub.bsky.social last night. I get to partner with legend @rishie.bsky.social and amazing abortion nerds from across the globe to chat abortion in literature. Verdict? #TheIncendiaries by R O Kwon is probably not one to recommend to your fave abortionista.
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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
@abortionbookclub.bsky.social is back on the 15th! We’re (re)reading The Incendiaries by RO Kwon- sign up & come along for pro-abo chats (& we don’t even require you to have read the book!) www.otherabortionstories.space/2026
Picture of a colourful book on a grey train table. The book is ‘The Incendiaries’ by RO Kwon
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Love colleagues in US fighting the good fight on fertility. Hate journos saying this: “The fertility rate is a statistic describing whether each generation has enough children to replace itself — about 2.1 kids per woman” No. It’s just a statistic. 2.1 as “enough” is a *bad* interpretation of it.
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
A real privilege to have worked with such an incredible team of people on this: “Rohingya women’s knowledge and perceptions about pregnancy termination in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: A community-based study” www.guttmacher.org/article/2025...
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Rohingya women’s knowledge and perceptions about pregnancy termination in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh: A community-based study
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This Wednesday!! Come along 😊
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Mireille Le Guen @mireilleleguen.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Want to dive into the politics of contraceptive cost coverage? Join the 3CoBe project at @UCLouvain as a PhD researcher in social sciences! 📍 Belgium | 🎓 Full-time doctoral position Apply here 👇 #PhDOpportunity #SocialSciences #ReproductiveJustice
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Chercheur·e doctorant·e en sciences sociales
Chercheur·e doctorant·e en sciences sociales
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I hate the term “bigorexia” almost as much as I hate the marketing of “man sized” tissue boxes. Overlooking different manifestations of body dysmorphia has always been a political choice and not a function of lack of evidence / visibility (cf Mary Beard on ancient Greek statues we’ve all seen)
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
"Japan will need far more workers in the coming decades to maintain even modest growth." A major problem with our economic system is that it requires perpetual population [worker] growth to function. Increasing political efforts to force births cannot be disconnected from this.
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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
If you think birthrates are a problem then you have a problem but birthrates aren’t it. Probably it’s a policy problem that you’re too chic to address.
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Glad to see @lesja.bsky.social quoted here, but the premise that the left isn't in the convo about birth rates & things that help families...🤬. The left talks about parental leave, about childcare, about housing, about wages, about healthcare ALL THE TIME. 1/
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As birthrates tumble, some progressives say the left needs to offer ideas and solutions
The US and other countries face aging, shrinking populations. Conservatives have shaped debate over the issue. Some liberals say it's time for progressives to weigh in.
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
French headlines today: demographic panic as deaths > births in 2025 Political flashpoints mentioned: immigration as current driver of population growth & pension fragility Will response buck trend towards anti-women, white supremacist policies and focus on system adaptation for the existing pop?
The French newspaper Le Figaro with the headline "Démographie: pourquoi la dénatalité s'aggrave en France"The French newspaper Le Monde with the headline: "Plus de décès que de naissances en France"
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Supporting Abortions for Everyone - S.A.F.E. @supportabort.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
A male MEP in Germany is trying to connect male contraceptives to promote anti-abortion (false) narratives. 🙄 As @joestrong.bsky.social perfectly put it: 'male contraceptives must *never* be a tool to undermine women + people who can become pregnant.' Read more below 👇
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Instrumentalising male contraceptives because of anti-abortion politics is bad. Not only does it weaponise contraceptives as a tool to undermine abortion, it is fundamentally anti bodily autonomy. Male contraceptives must *never* be a tool to undermine women + people who can become pregnant 1/
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
X is the megaphone of 21st century fascism and authoritariansim. It has poisoned public debate. It is a tool for bullying, abuse, and assault. X needs to disappear from our discourse. When people and institutions post there, it gives X credibility. It keeps it relevant. It's time to stop.
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I am so excited to be part of this event on the Global Politics of Abortion with the fabulous Dr Nayla Luz Vacarezza, Sarah of Ad’iyah Collective, Prof Sophie Harman & Dr Sydney Calkin 28th January. Be there! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-pol... @qmulsse.bsky.social @profsophieharman.bsky.social
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Global Politics of Abortion
A conversation with leading experts on abortion and politics across the globe, followed by a reception.
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The *FIRST* email I send post leave and it is an accidental reply all to a whole staff email. Good morning, life.
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a man in a suit is standing in front of an hp laptop .
Alt: a man in a suit is standing in front of an hp laptop closes the laptop suddenly and backs away
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Congratulations Dr Baafi @josephineabaafi.bsky.social ! A huge achievement - celebrate well!
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SOC-MISC @soc-misc.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
✉️ The SOC-MISC project launches a newsletter! Find out about the latest activities and results of SOC-MISC twice a year. The first letter will be sent in December 2025. Please subscribe here to get the newsletter in your inbox as soon as it is published: soc-misc.site.ined.fr/en/about/soc...
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SOC-MISC Newsletter
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Thrilled to be at #ICFP in #Bogota to chat all things #SRHR #Gender #Abortion #Politics hit me up! I'll be presenting on (1) the politics of data in male engagement, (2) how data tools construct gendered realities, and (3) how surveys can be more feminist in understanding effects. Come find me!
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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
What does it mean to speak of joyful passions in an era of reactionary politics? 'in conversation' w/ leading feminist & reproductive justice scholars on messy, magical, political feminist activism in Latin America. 10th Nov, 1830-1930 GMT: www.outsavvy.com/event/31065/... @kings-sga.bsky.social
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In Conversation: Feminist Joys, Magic Pills, and Decolonial Praxis in Latin America. Tickets - London - OutSavvy
What does it mean to speak of joyful passions in an era when reactionary politics thrive on resentment? How do feminist movements across Latin America navigate these tensions while fighting for reprod...
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Tomás Ojeda G. @tiojeda.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Thrilled to be part of the scientific committee for this amazing symposium on the relationship between far-right politics and gender. Send your proposals and share the CfP with your friends, colleagues, and broader networks! More info here 👇
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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
"But it’s not just abortion, it is part of a larger anti-rights issue" Reform has seen a few anti-abortion folks join them, but this broader anti-rights ideology includes racist, anti-immigration, anti-trans, anti-LGBTQI approaches and actions. 1/ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Reform ‘proudly embracing’ anti-abortion politics, experts warn
Campaigners accuse party of ‘fast becoming the political refuge for anti-abortion hardliners’
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Chelsea Polis @cbpolis.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
On #InternationalSafeAbortionDay, and as attacks escalate and mis/dis-information spreads, a reminder: this starter pack can help get you started in finding some excellent Bluesky accounts sharing data & information on sexual and reproductive health. go.bsky.app/6WuJVjj
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Great to speak to @theguardian.com's Rhiannon Cosslett about men, children, and fertility tl;dr: I think any notion of a fertility 'crisis' is a load of inflammatory, unscientific nonsense 1/3 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @qmul.bsky.social @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social
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Let’s stop asking why women aren’t having children and ask, for once: why aren’t men? | Rhiannon Lucy Coslett
On the whole, men I’ve spoken to – like women – want children. But a host of issues, from housing to mental health, is getting in the way, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I'm going to be spending a lot more time in sunny(?) #Copenhagen 🇩🇰 and would love to meet folks here for coffee. If you or someone you know is based here let me know and I would love to connect! Especially any folks working in #SRHR #GlobalHealth or #Demography!
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Fantastic!! 😊
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Jenny Chanfreau @jenchanfreau.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Latest @femquant.bsky.social newsletter is out - packed with events listings, opportunities, calls for papers & calls for participants
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Had the BEST time presenting our work “Sex and the Survey” at @bspsuk.bsky.social, on behalf of fab co-authors @heinivaisanen.bsky.social & Linh Nguyen We analyse surveys in France, Ghana, Senegal, and UK to answer the question ‘what if everything we knew about #SRHR was what we read in surveys?’
Slide saying “thank you” and contact details Joe.strong@qmul.ac.uk, with a meme of Samantha and Carrie in Sex and the City. Presenter at front thanking audience
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Signe Svallfors @signesvallfors.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
📣 Job alert! 📣 2 fully funded PhD positions in sociology/demography in the ERC Starting Grant SeRO, which studies the impact of local violent crime on sexual and reproductive health in Mexico. Please share and apply! PhD post 1: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... PhD post 2: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
One of my fave posters by one of my fave scientists!
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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Exciting new post-doc fellow post just announced at University of Edinburgh - working alongside The Love Tank on the new Medicine Without Doctors collaboration. Closing date 02 Oct 2025. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Postdoctoral Fellow LGBTQ
The Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society at the Usher Institute within The University of Edinburgh is looking for a 5-year postdoctoral Fellow to work on the Wellcome funded Discovery Award Medici...
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Abortion 'zines with my favourite abortion person, @rishie.bsky.social! Check out the beautiful, moving, funny, creative 'zines from our @abortionbookclub.bsky.social workshops in the thread below. We're so in love with them, we think you will be too! #Abortion #Zine
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Come to read a little bit about my new project on gender and the politics of sexual and reproductive health data, stay for all the other amazing work being funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I'll be in Geneva next week (19-23 May) - if you're around, I'd love to talk all things politics, SRHR, and gender, as part of my new study. Drop me a message and let's meet up! #SRHR #WHA #Geneva
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Thank you @soc-misc.bsky.social for having me! It was a privilege to be in a space of incredible scholars to talk about #miscarriage measurement - an unbelievably untroubled space in our field given its importance for so many people!
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British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) @bspsuk.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Tomorrow !! 👇
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Tiziana Leone (she/her) 🍉🏳️‍🌈 @tizianaleone.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Only three days left to submit @bspsuk.bsky.social paper in the Demography of health in conflict and crisis session! come along to the friendliest conference of the year www.lse.ac.uk/internationa... @thegargiulian.bsky.social
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Annual Conference
The British Society for Population Studies holds an annual conference in a different venue each September.
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
FINAL WEEK [deadline May 9th] to apply to this year's BSPS Demography Conference @bspsuk.bsky.social Strands on: 💚 Fertility and Sexual and Reproductive Health 🧡 Critical Demography Friendliest conference in town. Only 250 word abstract. Go go go!!! tinyurl.com/ueuyb9xj
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Annual Conference
The British Society for Population Studies holds an annual conference in a different venue each September.
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Selin Köksal @selinkoksal.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
4 more days to go! Don’t forget to submit your abstracts to the Fertility and SRH strand at #BSPS2025 (@bspsuk.bsky.social). @joestrong.bsky.social and I will be reading them with care 🧡
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
A fab article and perfect timing as I am about to talk all things #abortion #stigma with medical students in Malta Make sure to sign up to the @supportabort.bsky.social newsletter for all the latest abortion happenings in Europe (and around the world): www.supportingabortions.eu
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SAFE Supporting Abortions
Abortion should be available to anyone who needs or wants one. Abortion should be available to anyone who needs or wants one. The patchwork of abortion provision and restrictions across Europe often m...
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Fabulous to see this work coming together - always inspired by the amazing @mireilleleguen.bsky.social
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
📢Launched today: The Gender Pain Gap consultation on Pain in Sexual & Reproductive Health Procedures (UK). Aim: To understand experiences, priorities & views of people with experience of painful procedures. openeducation.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Open to 31 Jan. Please share widely!
A flyer which says:  

We would love to hear from you.  

Are you Over 18? Living in the UK?  

Have you experienced pain during: smear test, colposcopy, hysteroscopy, IUD (coil) fitting, assisted conception or abortion?  

If so, please follow the QR code to complete an online survey which will help us to improve understanding of pain during these procedures.  

For any questions about the study please contact the lead researcher carrie.purcell@open.ac.uk.   
The Open University logo.
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Joe Strong @joestrong.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
This is woman-hating, anti-abortion nonsense. Change the men doing this. Rethink what it means to be 'masculine' away from dominance and control. Focus on gender justice and ending men's violence. Don't limit pregnant people's access to abortions. Ever.
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