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Se-shauna Wheatle @seshauna.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Enough with this morally repugnant Labour government.

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Northumbria Law and Society @nulawandsociety.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Our convenor, @lauragraham86.bsky.social, is speaking at a research event in France. Laura is a project partner on 'droits et politiques du travail sexuel 2026', a research/action initiative on improving European laws and policies on sex work. It is funded by l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Trans rights are human rights.

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Sex Workers Alliance Ireland @swaiireland.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

100% of people who have taken our Sex Worker Awareness Training would recommend this training to others. This training is available in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Developed by sex workers, this training will enhance participants' knowledge including • What is sex work?

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National Ugly Mugs @nationaluglymugs.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

We're hiring a Manager for NUMbrella Lane in Glasgow! 📣 This role requires managerial experience, and a deep understanding of the health, safety and rights issues confronting sex workers in Scotland. Join the team! Click to access the full job posting: nationaluglymugs.org/2025/09/17/j...

Text reads: "We are hiring! Manager (NUMbrella Lane). Glasgow, hybrid role, part time, 4 days per week. £28,000 per year (FTE £35,000). Read full details on Charity Job and the NUM news area" There is a loud speaker in the left corner, and NUM logos above.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2025

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Navi Pillay: ‘To do nothing is not neutrality. It is complicity. The prevention of genocide is not a matter of discretion of states. It is a legal and moral obligation, and it admits no delay. The law requires action. Our common humanity demands it.’ gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

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Opinion | My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide

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Janina Dill @janinadill.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The three most damning paras in the UN Report alleging that Israel is perpetrating genocide in Gaza: Siege starvation, attacks on health care, direct targeting of children as patterns that cannot be explained except if group destruction is one animating purpose.

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Sex Workers Alliance Ireland @swaiireland.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

ICYMI We launched our Migrant Sex Workers and Housing Research last month. It outlines how current laws encode discrimination against sx workers in law and the racism migrant sex workers face. www.ireland-live.ie/news/ireland...

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Three-quarters of sex workers started because of financial reasons – research

Around three-quarters of sex workers in Ireland started because of financial reasons, research shows. The research, carried out by Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI), also found that migrant sex…

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Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I won a prize 🥳 Well, Deserted Wives did 😍 📖 Thank you to The Society of Legal Scholars for a lovely evening and wonderful recognition. I am very grateful (as the cheesy grin shows!) Deserted Wives currently has 30% off: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/deserted-... #19thC #WomensHistory #sls2025

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A certificate with black text on a cream background awarding 'Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce' 2nd prize in the 2025 Margaret Brazier Prize for Outstanding Mid-career Scholarship.

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Dr Emily Cooper @criminographer.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

So many emotions sharing this, but here is the 1st paper from the study I did with Dr Jo Garstang, Dr Nikki Speed & Jon Holmes, published in BMJl (Paediatrics). It centres on what families want & need from professionals after their child's sudden, unexplained death pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40850909/

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Needs and experiences of families after a sudden unexplained death in childhood: a qualitative study - PubMed

Every family must receive swift, proactive, knowledgeable communication from professionals, during and beyond the investigation into their child's sudden unexpected death. This will help them through ...

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Sex Workers Alliance Ireland @swaiireland.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

It turns out that sex work IS work when police want to deport migrants. Brothel workers were arrested and deported for working without a visa in England. www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-...

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Police close suspected Surrey brothel after antisocial behaviour reports

A woman and man in their 40s were arrested on suspicion of assisting the management of a brothel

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Laura Graham @lauragraham86.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Saw this on FB and it feels so pertinent

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.

JK Rowling tweeting got a boycott of M&S, stretching facts to the breaking point, and making the world a worse place for absolutely everyone.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

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Laura Graham @lauragraham86.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I mean more like months/years if you do participatory work. And it counts for nothing if you don't get the money 😡😡

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

If government wants to hear about “efficiency”: as all of us have to buy out time to do any research, since unis overload other work & often don’t even notionally cover research, we’re ALL made to apply to those things. So we’re all spending weeks writing apps rather than doing actual research.

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

As others have noted, promotion often depends on getting grants, but so does permanency and the transition from precarity and, increasingly, surviving compulsory redundancy.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 04/08/2025

something I keep thinking about and which I can't make up my mind on is: were swathes of the right, centre-right and, in some cases, the centre, full of racists hiding their beliefs for decades, or are these people all incredibly suggestible? neither answer is good!

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Northumbria Law and Society @nulawandsociety.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Associate Professor Helen Rutherford has co-written a book on Newcastle Prison. There will be a book launch on Thursday 21 August at 6:30pm at Newcastle City Library. You can book your place at the launch here - www.tiny.cc/newcastlepri...

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Book Launch - Newcastle Prison A History: 1828 - 1925

Join the authors to celebrate the launch of the new book Newcastle Prison A History: 1828 - 1925.

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Starmer really is a moral vacuum. Utterly devoid of any principles. Palestinians either deserve statehood, or they don’t. Whether Israel continues to murder them by starvation or not is totally irrelevant to their claim on statehood

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Dr Emily Cooper @criminographer.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Exciting news - Prof. Sarah Kingston, Dr Nicola Harding and I are organising a special issue for @areajournal.bsky.social titled "The Geographies of Fraud and Financial Crime". Please see attached for details and share with anyone who might be interested!

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

It wasn’t long ago that media used to say lesbians in bathrooms or changing rooms sexualised “innocent” straight women and made them uncomfortable. Such fears were weaponised politically to vilify lesbian women as sexual predators. Now we see the same comments recycled about trans women. It’s gross.

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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Maybe we should start listening to the people who said that this kind of thing was going to happen? Maybe they're the ones actually speaking common sense?

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

27 people — including a priest, professor and health workers — were arrested today under terrorism laws. Their crime? Peacefully holding signs opposing genocide. This is how we sleepwalk into fascism.

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David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I’m becoming a terrible old bore about generative AI, I know. But it’s doing my head in seeing the normalisation of this dishonest and dangerous technology.

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a cartoon character with a cane says that doll is evil i tells you evil evil

Alt: Grandpa Simpson with a cane says hysterically ‘that doll is evil i tells you evil evil’.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I have been. I have lived on friends sofas and hid when landlords came to collect the rent. I've done without electricity and gas because I couldn't put money in the meter. As far as I can say, it didn't turn me into a hateful, bigoted, individual who has turned what they do into demonising others.

JK Rowling: 'Nobody who hasn't been poor can understand what it means'

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 09/05/2025

I would go further and say that *not considering the justice implications* of your work makes it *less* rigorous. Indeed centering your work on justice is a more rigorous. That said, I also have criticisms of how academic "rigor" is defined and weaponized within academia.

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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 09/05/2025

Dear legal community: we are at the moment 19 signatures short of reaching 200 signatures to the letter on behalf of the legal community in light of For Women Scotland & the EHRC interpretation of it. If you know anyone who would sign but hasn't yet - nudge them, please!

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A Law Letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers

A coalition of legal academics have drafted a letter setting out our support for trans rights and our concerns about the FWS v Scottish Ministers UKSC ruling. We are opening it up for signature to ev...

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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 05/05/2025

The Telegraph thinks we earn "£70k plus" in "the provinces". (The nationally bargained pay spine for that role tops out at about £63k and starts ten k lower).

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Laura Graham @lauragraham86.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

11°C in Gateshead and we've already seen multiple men walking around with their tops off 🤢🤢

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 03/05/2025

grew up with the media depiction where they rip out a guy’s still-beating heart and eat monkey brains and we still managed to win all the spelling bees m, I think the white boys can survive the message of “don’t be a rapist”

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a man with a red mohawk and a necklace of teeth is looking at something .

Alt: in the Temple of Doom, shortly before the rip out somebody’s heart

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Laura Graham @lauragraham86.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Exactly! There are also an awful lot of very clever people in the UK who are at risk of redundancy in academia at the moment so, from a UK perspective, that's more pressing

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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

This is why mooting 'ditching net-zero' as the solution to Labour's woes is so silly. It's a policy that is popular with their core voters, critical to progressive voters they need to woo back, and Reform voters are sceptical but it's way down their priority list.

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Juni! 🥰 @literallyjustadog.online · 02/05/2025

hey, uh, quick reminder that transphobia affecting cis people shouldn't be the main reason you speak out about transphobia transphobia affecting trans people is

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Zoe Tongue @whiterxbbit.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Bored of seeing law profs trying to defend this decisions as an act of neutral legal interpretation when the judges are there making up definitions as to who counts as a lesbian!

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

The biggest supporters of trans people are lesbian and bisexual women. The media’s framing of trans rights as a threat to women is as disingenuous as it is deplorable. After all, the political attacks against abortion and women’s rights come from the same governments opposing trans existence.

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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Reporting sexual violence isn’t a neutral act. For sex workers, it can mean arrest, child welfare investigations, public outing, or immigration consequences. It can mean being coerced into becoming an informant. There’s literally no one to report to who doesn’t hold power over you.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

it has never been more crucial for cis lesbians to be loud in support of our trans family. this is a chilling escalation of longtime tactics; attempts at a “feminist” case for transphobia ALWAYS include a disingenuous “nooooo won’t someone think of the poor lil lesbians 🥺🥺🥺” and it is such bullshit

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 19/04/2025

Just standing in my kitchen staring at the stupidest thing I’ve ever read in my fucking life

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Today’s protest in London against the Supreme Court ruling was staggering in size. Huge respect to those who made this happen in just a matter of days. Imagine the size of the crowd Sex Matters would have mustered to protest, if the ruling had been different. Take heart. The tide will turn.

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Simon Lamrock @simonlamrock.com · 19/04/2025

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

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Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The only way states can enforce sex policing in public spaces (like toilets) is by incentivising misogynistic, transphobic social surveillance. People will scrutinise, question, intrude on cis and trans women who do not conform to certain gender aesthetics. This is happening now. And it’s chilling.

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

If you don't like our trans inclusive stance, don't visit. It's not like you've been visiting anyway, keep that up.

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The Vagina Museum is trans inclusive. We always have been and we always will be. As long as there's a Vagina Museum, we cannot be bullied or bought to change our stance on this.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I want to add something here. She also routinely claims that lesbian and gay people support her and her crusade against trans rights. We do not. And her lying about what we believe to attack other members of our community is abusive to the LGBTQA+ community.

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