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Sébastien Tremblay @sebboo.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

This has been a journey! @christopherewing.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the forthcoming publication (with Palgrave) of "Reading Queer Media in the German Speaking World" bringing together the work of brilliant historians and German studies scholars working on queer 🇦🇹🇩🇪🇨🇭 printed media

Cover of the edited volume Reading Queer Media in the German Speaking World: New Approaches to print Sources published by Palgrave. The cover image is a 35mm black and white photo of a show in a queer club with two individuals in pup wear reading media during the performance.

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

🎯🎯🎯 “only two paths remain: either a Jewish, messianic, genocidal state, or a truly democratic state for all its citizens. …Zionism, in all its forms, cannot be cleansed of the stain of this crime. It must be brought to an end.”

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Eye-watering figures here. The UK Higher Education sector is a wild west for business profits, job losses and skyrocketing fees.

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

If you or anyone you know works/studies at University of Edinburgh, please ensure they have signed this petition to Court (governing body) calling on UoE to divest from genocide. So far 670+ staff and 800+ student/alumni signatures - not bad, but we can do better! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Emergency Court Session Now: Divest From Israel’s Genocide

Since the beginning of Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza in October 2023, students and staff at the University of Edinburgh have mobilised an unprecedented multiethnic and multireligious divestment mov...

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

🙌 22 months late but huge: @johnswinney.bsky.social calls for UK govt. to SANCTION and END ARMS SALES to Israel = the 2 key demands of the Palestine solidarity movt. in the UK (incl. the “terrorists”). Hoping it also pressures Scottish universities eg. @edinburghuni.bsky.social to finally divest.

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

He also said “yeah, this stuff with trans discrimination [in our workplace], it’s awful; I just don’t have time to get involved”. Another man *at a union meeting*, in reply to an appeal for more senior men to get involved in organising, laughed “I admire you, but I just don’t have the time!”

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Why collective refusal is the only option. Reading this, I recalled the time a white, cis-het man (ostensibly my equal; I later learned he was being paid at 4 grade steps above me for no reason) said “y’know all these sexist micro-aggressions in the workplace you talk about? I just don’t see them!”)

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The Limits of Refusal

Words in Space is the work of Shannon Mattern.

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

This follows the BMA passing a motion supporting gender affirming care last month. So the BMA is now clear on both trans & Palestinian autonomy and self-determination. *The BMA*

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

And a shout out to the @withmeaa.bsky.social trade union for supporting its journalist members and defending their right to political speech.

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

This important legal victory galvanises all of us to never stop speaking about Palestine, war crimes, human rights, colonisation and land sovereignty. 🇵🇸🗣️🔊📣

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

MUST WATCH/LISTEN! Thank you @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social for battling this in court so that it’s all on the public record—you speak for those (likely hundreds, if not thousands) of us who have had similar/adjacent experiences but are gagged by NDAs & confidentiality clauses. 🙏

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Impressive analysis of what appears to be a rather damning dossier — compiled within 24 hours because EHRC only responded to the FOI request *after* it’s consultation deadline yesterday. Thank you @tacc.org.uk 🙏

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

4/ Israeli military operations, including Leonardo S.p.A.315 and Ben-Gurion University, through the Al and Data Science Lab at Ben-Gurion University, 316 sharing research that directly links it with assaults on Palestinians.” Full report 👇 shorturl.at/uOA0p

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

3/ With both direct and indexed investments, the University ranks among the most financially entangled institutions in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The University also partners with firms aiding

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

2/ “The University of Edinburgh holds nearly £25.5 million ($31.72 million) (2.5 per cent of its endowment) in four tech giants - Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and IBM314 - central to the Israeli surveillance apparatus and the ongoing Gaza destruction.

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

1/ Peerless! @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social named exclusively in UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories @franceskalbs.bsky.social’s latest report due to its investments in genocide (esp. tech). It says:

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Brilliant result of militant, unrelenting strike action!

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Streeting banned puberty-blockers despite there being no evidence whatsoever that they are dangerous, and now plenty of evidence (including my own peer-reviewed research) that banning them is harmful. However… He enthusiastically promoted weight loss drugs however, and now people are being harmed

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Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker ban

This paper presents an analysis of data from trans children and young people and their parents following the imposition of a UK-wide ban on puberty blockers for this group. The consequences of this...

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

*RIDDLE FOR MEETING PROCEDURE NERDS* Without giving you the context, give me a *democratic* solution to this👇 A motion + 4 amendments are tabled at a union meeting. Instead of voting in the meeting they will be sent out to 3k members for electronic ballot. A decision must be reached within 3 days.

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Remembering that Starmer doesn't have a favourite book or poem, and doesn't dream

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

‘Kitchen said he wanted other Australians to be aware that “cleaning” their phones wouldn’t necessarily mean they would be able to get their Esta approved upon arrival in the US. “They had already prepared a file on me and already knew everything about me”.’ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Australian deported from US says he was ‘targeted’ due to writing on pro-Palestine student protests

Alistair Kitchen says he was detained and questioned about views on Israel and Palestine before being deported from LA to Melbourne

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Today’s news inspired me to enjoy a double bill of Black lesbian resistance films this evening, both advocating collective revolutionary truth against disinformation ❤️‍🔥✊🏾 #borninflames1983 #thewatermelonwoman1996

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

amounting to ‘nothing more than expressions of pure disgust that promote suspicion, stigmatisation and hatred of trans individuals and smear the trans community as a whole’. 🔥🔥🔥

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Proud as punch to be quoted in this judgement describing AHF as ‘propaganda promoting hatred of trans women’ with ‘no academic merit’, full of statements that ‘are false, untrue, based on hearsay or anecdotal evidence, or use shoddy methodology that would fail a first year assignment’,

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I’m not sure why this would be in question!

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

No, UCU Legal coordinated the defence - Grant and Lena presented at the tribunal as they were the leading branch and region officers at the time, thus representing the ‘respondent’ (UCU as a whole).

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Heroic effort by @gbuttars.bsky.social (then-president of UCU Edinburgh) and Lena Wånggren (then-president of UCU Scotland), who represented the UCU at the Tribunal 🙏🦾

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

This is a major victory for freedom of speech - against dehumanizing and degrading transphobic output. A key reason for the success appears to be the focus on protesting the materials rather than those that produced it. This verdict will require careful analysis over the coming weeks.

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

This is a massively symbolic victory, vindicating @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social’s 2022 & 2023 protests against the anti-trans propaganda film ‘Adult Human Female’ and exposing the film makers’ bad faith arguments that such protests amount to discrimination and harassment. #tradeunions4transrights 🏳️‍⚧️🚩

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 04/04/2025

If they aren't transphobic, her fans wouldn't use them. Had someone put them up where I live. I guess she was just a mega fan of JK and not trying to intimidate me at all. These are the people who produced 'Adult Human Female'

Stickers saying ‘I love JK Rowling’ not transphobic, tribunal told
The Daily Telegraph3 Apr 2025By Telegraph Reporter

The stickers were spotted on the University of Edinburgh’s campus
STICKERS saying “I love JK Rowling” were not a “dog whistle” for transphobia, a university professor has told an employment tribunal.

Deirdre O’neill and Michael Wayne are suing the University and College Union (UCU) after its Edinburgh branch said their film Adult Human Female was an attack on transgender identity.

The film challenges trans rights claims and provoked protests when they tried to show it at the University of Edinburgh, the tribunal heard.

The academics said this was unlawful discrimination by the UCU against their belief that there are only two sexes.

Yesterday, the tribunal heard that the film screening took place amid online reports about the discovery of “transphobic” stickers on the campus, including some saying, “I love JK Rowling”.

Rowling, 59, has outspoken views on gender issues that have seen her called transphobic by activists, which she has denied.

Although it was accepted that Mr Wayne, a professor at Brunel University, may not have been aware of the stickers, he was asked if he believed they could be a “dog whistle”. He replied: “So you’re saying that the author JK Rowling is what?”

Tom Brown, for the UCU, said: “Professor Wayne, are you saying that you don’t appreciate that JK Rowling is a very well-known proponent of gender critical views?”

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I'm going to answer this in good faith: I have drawn this (artificial) distinction here to solicit texts by women that take a total view of European history (economy, technology, politics, all the intersections), rather than eg. "women in the Paris Commune". I think that's valid.

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Bumping this again - please add your suggestions!

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Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

My boss: —has no idea what his £400k+ salary is —has confirmed that UoE is “not in deficit” —blames his plan to sack £90m of staff on staff… who “haven’t proposed any alternatives” #Strike @edinburghup.bsky.social @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social

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UCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 04/06/2025