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Kristina Saunders

@kristina-s.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Sociology at University of Glasgow ✨Working on reproduction/reproductive justice, and histories and imagined futures of contraceptive care Pillow Talk Scotland trustee 💋

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British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Concerns are growing that social media emphasises negative experiences of hormonal contraception – but using social media does not necessarily mean a rejection of medical information, say @kristina-s.bsky.social and Lily Roberts @uofgsociology.bsky.social‬ tinyurl.com/mr2v8aa3
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Mis(sing)information: How contraceptive users bridge the gap between medicalised and experiential knowledge - Everyday Society - The British Sociological Association
Concerns are growing over social media information emphasising negative experiences of hormonal contraception. Labelled as misinformation, the volume and accessibility of this content that is said to ...
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Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
In October, I wrote about how Trump’s potential presidency could impact reproductive rights in Scotland. Never did I think it would be as explicit as the US veep spouting fear mongering, nonsensical lies about Scotland’s buffer zones. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
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The US has us asking: where's Scotland’s reproductive health agenda?
The hot-button issue in the 2024 Presidential election remains sexual and reproductive health, specifically abortion rights. But what about Scotland?
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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
‼️new paper klaxon‼️ An absolutely brilliant thread on this paper & the importance of thinking about what we cede for short-term ‘feminist’ wins- esp. poignant in this particular political moment. It’s also a GREAT thread on persevering through academic bullshittery. Read the thread, read the paper 👇🏾
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University of Glasgow College of Social Sciences @uofgsocsci.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
"It was a bit barbaric" Following a Parliamentary report on the poor state of healthcare in the UK @kristina-s.bsky.social argues that Scottish contraceptive coil users deserve better in The Herald Scotland www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2487...
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‘Barbaric’: Scottish contraceptive coil users deserve better
For those who rely on the coil as a long-acting reversible (LARC) form of contraception, what should be a straightforward procedure can instead…
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Cairsti @cairsti.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I’m going to use my first post on Bluesky to share an event happening on 26th February in Glasgow, a screening of my film @freedomtorunfilm.bsky.social a film based response to the issues raised by my PhD research. Free but ticketed event. Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/freedom-to...
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Freedom to Run Film Screening
Freedom to Run is a documentary about movement in Palestine and is a film based response to PhD research on Israel and Palestine.
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
BUILD YOUR OWN POWER Look at this incredible gig we are running in Glasgow for the Transfem Electrolysis Project! We are using it to help fund affordable community healthcare providers. Tickets here: wegottickets.com/event/645050/
Poster, with text in vibrant colours and shapes against a black background. Text reads as follows. 13th February, Mono, Glasgow. Love Electric - Valentine's fundraiser for the Glasgow Transfem Electrolysis Project.  R.AGGS, pictureskew, comfort, Chanterelle, Girl of Swords, hosted by Medea. DJs till late. Doors 8pm, Tix £5-£10 pay what you can. We are raising money to train and equip community healthcare providers.
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Harvey Humphrey @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Honoured to have a co-authored article (with the brilliant David Abbott & Ned Coleman-Fountain) in this issue on gender & sexuality in personal assistance/self led social care. Content warning for homophobia transphobia & abuse in the text. Read here bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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Loughborough CRCC @lborocrcc.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
'Reactionary politics, women, and popular culture ' One-day symposium 21st May 2025 @lborouniversity.bsky.social Keynote: Professor Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths): ‘Top Girls No More? Gender After Neoliberalism and the New Far Right' Deadline for abstracts 22 January shorturl.at/EH6e5
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CRCC to host the symposium ‘Reactionary politics, women, and popular culture’ - Centre for Research in Communication and Culture
Photo by Marisa Howenstine
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Kristina Saunders @kristina-s.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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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.   
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Hayley McMahon, MSPH, CPH @mcmisoprostol.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
The genocide in Palestine did not start in 2023, and it will not end with a ceasefire in an apartheid settler colony. Still, I hope it will save some lives. The fight for true liberation continues — Palestine will be free 🇵🇸
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Kat Smith @profkatsmith.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Newest issue of @cphjournal.bsky.social out today - link below. If you think academic publishing needs to change & you work on public health, do consider publishing in, & otherwise supporting, this journal as they forge a new path, away from commercial publishers. It can't be easy but amazing to see
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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
UK low- to middle-income families far poorer than OECD counterparts – study Britons 39% worse off than Dutch equivalent due to housing costs 44% higher than western European average www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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UK low- to middle-income families far poorer than OECD counterparts – study
Britons 39% worse off than Dutch equivalent due to housing costs 44% higher than western European average
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Prof Catherine Happer @catherinehapper.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
New article from Isaac Hoff & I exploring the cost of living crisis (COLC) as an example of a media 'keyphrase' which obscures the longer term, systematic problems which produce the crisis, and which promotes short-term ineffectual solutions from politicians. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Mediating the Cost-of-Living Crisis: The Meaning of a ‘Keyphrase’ in UK Contemporary Cultural Discourse - Isaac Hoff, Catherine Happer, 2025
In this article, we draw on Raymond Williams’ notion of ‘keywords’ and Neil Davidson’s conceptualisation of ‘crisis neoliberalism’ to understand how the ‘cost-o...
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
If you're thinking more about what the criminalization of abortion and pregnancy is going to look like moving forward, we invite you to check out this resource and start making the connections between the criminalization of reproductive, sexual and gender-based care and policing and criminalization.
On a teal and yellow gradient background, a white box with black text: 

"Resisting the criminalization of reproductive autonomy is a critical site of struggle within a larger landscape of criminalization.

Shifting this terrain requires that we organize across our movements.  

Solidarity among anti-criminalization and reproductive justice organizers is essential to dismantle the culture of carcerality and control, and to prevent more laws targeting people existing at precarious intersections of race, gender, sexuality, disability, class and migration." 

At the bottom, a white box with the URL bit.ly/DecrimAbortion in black text.
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Glasgow Women's Library @womenslibrary.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
As the temperatures plummet, we'd like to remind you that you don’t need to have a reason to come to GWL to spend time & keep warm – just come in, make yourself comfortable & let staff know if you need any help. We may not be able to meet all your needs but here’s what we can offer:
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A Warm Welcome awaits at Glasgow Women’s Library | Glasgow Women's Library
People who visit GWL regularly describe us as warm, welcoming and friendly. Everyone who visits is greeted by one of our staff team when they first come into GWL – it’s how we roll. Now…
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Our article on pain in medication abortion is currently free to read in #BMJSRH. We look at the issues that arise when pain is worse than expected, and the confusion that can come from comparisons with 'period pain'. srh.bmj.com/content/51/1...
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 23/12/2024
Sociology in the Times of Genocide: call for expressions of interest for a forthcoming Special Section of The Sociological Review journal. Editors: @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social and Karis Campion. Submission deadline is 13 January. buff.ly/4izyRjO Keffiyeh artwork: buff.ly/41uSBir
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Kristina Saunders @kristina-s.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Hi Bluesky! I wrote for @pillowtalkscot.bsky.social on the pain experienced during coil (IUD) fittings, removal and use, and the changes to reproductive healthcare contraceptive users in Scotland would like to see 1/2 pillowtalkscotland.substack.com/p/contracept...
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‘It almost felt a bit barbaric’: Scottish contraceptive coil users speak out about pain
How much pain is ‘normal’ during a coil fitting? In Scotland, patients share their experiences of dismissed suffering and demand better from reproductive healthcare
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
The report on our first year of the SRJ Scotland project - including the collaborative workshop in Glasgow in May - is now available here: oro.open.ac.uk/101754/ We v much hope this is the start of a wider conversation through 2025 and beyond. @ingridkyoung.bsky.social @julier282.bsky.social
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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
What angers me about much of the reporting is it's framed as "choosing to have a hysterectomy" - wtaf? more reporting from India: Purnima Sah, BehanBox (2022): shorturl.at/9AcSu Patralekha Chatterjee, the Lacent (2019): shorturl.at/inhVo Devyani Nighoskar, Al Jazeera (2019): shorturl.at/U8TFb 1/
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Why Women Sugarcane Cutters Of Maharashtra Seek Needless Hysterectomies - BehanBox
Sugarcane cutting is relentless, backbreaking work, say the migrant women workers of Kothi village in Kaij taluka of Maharashtra’s Beed district. You have to hack at […]
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Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Comma's Basma Ghalayini joins Sami Hermez at Edinburgh's #RadicalBookFair, seeking to untangle how Palestinian narratives are framed, rejected or passed on in the world. 🗓️Nov 21 (7:30-8:30pm) 🎫https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/to-tell-our-stories-the-journeys-of-palestinian-narrative-rbf-2024
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
New peer-reviewed article from the Trans Pregnancy Project, free to read, download, and share! We look at how men and non-binary individuals carrying a baby often seem to be perceived as fat rather than pregnant, and explore what this means for the intelligibility of gendered bodies.
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‘Why Is the Chubby Guy Running?’: Trans Pregnancy, Fatness, and Cultural Intelligibility
Since the late 2000s trans pregnancy has received increasing public and academic attention, and stories of the ‘pregnant man’ have become a media staple. Existing research has critiqued such spectacu...
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Carrie Purcell @drcarriep.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
📢Applications now open for a *FUNDED* PhD studentship to develop an abortion pain scale as part of the Gender Pain Gap project. Closes 31st Jan 2025. Get in touch if you'd like to discuss. wels.open.ac.uk/research/res...
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We currently offer the following PhD studentships: Faculty funded studentships Please note that applications for October 2024 are now closed. Applications for October 2025 will open in November 2024 B...
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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A couple of our upcoming events - next Friday 22 Nov we are collaborating with the Scottish Queer International Film Festival and Pillow Talk on Making Masculinities, a short film screening and discussion event at the CCA in #Glasgow www.takeoneaction.org.uk/event/making...
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Making Masculinities - Take One Action!
A compelling evening of short films exploring the complexities of masculinity today - from harm to love.
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