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Rebecca Smyth, PhD

@resmyth.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Law at Exeter. Decolonial transnational feminism, abortion rights in El Salvador, refugee law, disability rights, LGBTQ rights. Usual disclaimers.

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Rebecca Smyth, PhD @resmyth.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
V excited to be omw to the Roccella Summer School organised by my brilliant friend Emma Scali (#ElenaFerranteReference) of @milcmanchester.bsky.social and Raffaella Nigro. Making ZINES. Drinking GRANITA. Finally learning about INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY. www.roccellasummerschool.org/programme
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Programme | Join the Summer Law Program — Roccella Summer School
Explore the Roccella Summer School Programme featuring workshops and keynotes on international law, human rights, and technology in scenic Roccella Jonica, Italy.
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BCU UCU @bcu-ucu.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
🚨 Lobby the BCU governors! 🚨 On Wed 16th BCU governors are meeting for an update on the current review, which has put 342 staff at risk of redundancy & cuts student support in multiple ways. Join our lobby: 1pm outside Parkside Building Bring your solidarity and your sun cream! #SaveBCU
UCU members outside BCU
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Rebecca Smyth, PhD @resmyth.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Me every time I read an article written by @jtheilen.bsky.social
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a woman is raising her hands in the air in front of a crowd of people while sitting in a stadium .
ALT: a woman is raising her hands in the air in front of a crowd of people while sitting in a stadium .
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Rebecca Smyth, PhD @resmyth.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
There just might be another source of a few billion that might go some way to cover the £4.8 billion deficit 👀
Screenshot of an article in The Guardian with the headline "King Charles to receive £132m next year after crown estate makes £1.1bn profit." Picture of smiling King Charles in a navy pinstripe suit, white shirt and light blue tie above it.Screenshot of body of same newspaper article detailing how crown estate has a portfolio of London properties and rural real estate worth FIFTEEN BILLION. Tragically this is down 0.5 billion from last year
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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Andry’s story, if you’re unfamiliar. www.cnn.com/2025/05/28/a...
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He left Venezuela for the US, dreaming of a career in cosmetics. He was deported to a Salvadoran prison | CNN
A year ago, Andry José Hernández Romero left Venezuela to seek a better future in the United States.
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Rebecca Smyth, PhD @resmyth.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I'm posting this as part of the online protest against the Universal Credit & Personal Independence Payments Bill. TLDR: This Bill needs to die so that disabled people don't. #DisabilitySky #TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare #DisabilityRebellion #CripsAgainstCuts
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Rebecca Smyth, PhD @resmyth.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Calling all abortion nerds! @whiterxbbit.bsky.social would love your submissions by 1st September! call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...
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cfp | call for papers
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Rebecca Smyth, PhD @resmyth.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
www.theguardian.com/society/2025... this and Budapest Pride and the impending failure (🤞🤞🤞) of the "welfare" bill made me feel quite emotional and hopeful this morning.
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Transgender campaigners call for European rights body to report on UK
Alliance of groups wants Council of Europe to investigate implementation of supreme court ruling on biological sex
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Rebecca Smyth, PhD @resmyth.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Feminist judgments project (FJP) call for proposals (CFP)! Because it's fun to chant "FJP CFP FJP CFP FJP CFP", and even more fun to challenge traditional disciplinary boundaries ✨
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Rebecca Smyth, PhD @resmyth.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The hope and hilarity here on Bluesky this morning, mm mm mm
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Rebecca Smyth, PhD @resmyth.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... "Force says it disposed of papers last year despite forthcoming inquiry into scenes of violent policing in 1984" - can't help but feel that "despite" might be a "because"
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Northumbria police destroy Battle of Orgreave and other miners’ strike files
Force says it disposed of papers last year despite forthcoming inquiry into scenes of violent policing in 1984
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Rebecca Smyth, PhD @resmyth.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
🚨Feminist judgments in refugee law project is GOOOO! 🚨call for abstracts for a special issue proposal 🚨 Read more and submit here:
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Rebecca Smyth, PhD @resmyth.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Gorgeous first panel at Doctors for Choice/Abortion Talk conference: bodily autonomy, foregrounding sex worker, trans, radical anticapitalist perspectives. "It's a collective, interconnected struggle…We need to all go together, all the time with every tool we have." (Justin Hancock, Bish)
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Rebecca Smyth, PhD @resmyth.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Gracias con todo mi corazón a The British Academy y a Divya Talwar por haber dado un espacio a esta película importantísima, a Teodora y las 17+, a Beatriz y a Manuela. Sigue la lucha 💚
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Rebecca Smyth, PhD @resmyth.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Very excited for this in *checks watch* exactly two hours! www.ica.art/films/uk-pre...
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ICA | UK PREMIERE Fly So Far + Q&A
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most...
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Rebecca Smyth, PhD @resmyth.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
In the run-up to BA Summer Showcase film screening this Wednesday, I've been in touch with some of the feminists in El Salvador behind Mujeres Libres. You can donate here to support Casa Resguardo, a safe house and safe space for Mujeres Libres El Salvador.
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Dona a Casa Resguardo: Lugar Seguro para Mujeres Libres El Salvador, organizada por Jocelyn Viterna
¡Apoya a Mujeres Libres! (English Translation below) En e… Jocelyn Viterna necesita tu apoyo para Casa Resguardo: Lugar Seguro para Mujeres Libres El Salvador
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Rebecca Smyth, PhD @resmyth.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
One week to go! www.ica.art/films/uk-pre...
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ICA | UK PREMIERE Fly So Far + Q&A
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most...
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Tim Muth @timmuth.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Reports that Salvadoran government planned to arrest journalists of El Faro if they attempted to re-enter the country.
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Rebecca Smyth, PhD @resmyth.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Can't recommend @beatha-coaching.bsky.social enough for helping develop healthy, evidence-based practices for survivin'&thrivin' in academia. Upcoming 10-wk course focusing on writing about hard times/to process hard things/in hard contexts - go go go! beathacoaching.org/retreats-cou...
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Retreats & Courses
Retreats & Courses The Summer Coaching Programme 2025: Writing in Hard Times A ten week coaching course to support writers working in challenging contexts, writing to process hard things, or wr…
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Poland's presidential election was a disaster. “[Karol] Nawrocki is expected not only to uphold but potentially tighten Poland’s already draconian abortion laws. His win slams the door on hope for political reform in the near future, and locks in a future where women's lives remain expendable.”
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Nawrocki win is ‘devastating blow’ for abortion rights activists in Poland
Any hopes to liberalize the country’s strict abortion rules are lost as the nationalist candidate secured a narrow win.
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Rebecca Smyth, PhD @resmyth.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Over 1,000 signatories so far and still open for signature. DM me if you would like to sign lawyersletter.uk #gazalawyersletter2025 #optlawyersletter2025.
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UK Judges’ and Lawyers’ Open Letter Concerning the Occupied Palestinian Territory - May 2025 - UK lawyers’ open letter concerning Gaza
Download the full letter and Legal Memorandum | View signatories London26 May 2025 We are lawyers, legal academics and former judges who are UK-based or qualified.  We write owing to our deep concern ...
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Rebecca Smyth, PhD @resmyth.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Decided to watch Location Location Location. Got 2 mins in & had to stop when voiceover said, "This couple has had to move a staggering FOUR times in eight years." *cried in millennial/has moved at least once every year in the past 15 years/has borne witness to Irish property market of 1990s-now*
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BCU UCU @bcu-ucu.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Deepest condolences and solidarity to our comrade Ashjan Ajour who lost her father in Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza truthout.org/articles/my-...
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My Father in Gaza Was Yearning for Our Reunion. When That Hope Died, So Did He.
This is how we grieve under occupation: digitally, remotely, alone. Our mourning, like our lives, is fragmented.
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Rebecca Smyth, PhD @resmyth.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Payday you sayday? Why not get yourself a ticket to an amazing documentary www.ica.art/films/uk-pre... and start donating as little as €1 a month to @supportabort.bsky.social?
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ICA | UK PREMIERE Fly So Far + Q&A
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most...
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Rebecca Smyth, PhD @resmyth.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Happy life update! I'll be a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter from 1st Sept. Perfect day for starting big big big big big big big school (primary school is big school and you add another "big" for every level of education and career progression, FACT).
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Supporting Abortions for Everyone - S.A.F.E. @supportabort.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
This is exactly why SAFE exists and yet there are even more people who don't have the resources or access to an abortion fund. We shouldn't have to but until EVERYONE has access to abortion we're not going anywhere. Please donate, sign up or spread the word 💚 #abortionfund #abortioneurope
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Going abroad to get an abortion, a struggle for thousands of women in Europe
"Exporting Abortion", a transnational investigation, reveals that "over 5,000 women in Europe have to travel abroad for abortions each year".
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Supporting Abortions for Everyone - S.A.F.E. @supportabort.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
"When governments and healthcare systems fail, grassroots activists and abortion pirates STEP IT UP". Read more in our latest newsletter what the recent elections in Poland, Romania and Portugal mean for abortion and what role you can play. #abortionnews #abortioneurope #newsletter
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Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
She lives! My book published by @manchesterup.bsky.social ‘Women’s Troubles: Gender and Feminist Politics in Northern Ireland.’ Cover image kindly provided by @frecklescorp.bsky.social of her work ‘The Slapper’ www.emmacampbell.co.uk/emma-campbell @livunipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social
Book cover with sculpture made out of yellow lego
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Rebecca Smyth, PhD @resmyth.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
No better way to mark May 1st. Sad I can't make it to the pickets etc but you'd better believe I am striking! Bread and roses, bread and roses.
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Rebecca Smyth, PhD @resmyth.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Very excited to share that I'll be part of the @britishacademy.bsky.social Summer Showcase. ICA London will be screening Celina Escher's documentary Fly So Far on Wed 18 Jun 2025 at 18:45, after which journalist Divya Talwar and I will talk all things abortion.
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UK Premiere - Fly So Far
This is the UK premier of documentary Fly So Far, which follows Teodora and The Seventeen in their struggle to regain their freedom from prison in El Salvador. Due to the criminalisation of abortion, ...
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Aoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Thrilled! The Morrigan Blog - a feminist blog that looks at exploring the ways in which gender and sexuality articulate with questions of law and justice - is up and running! Thks @illanwall.bsky.social for the set up! #FeministLegalWork #Feminism #LegalFeminism Pls repost! dflw.ie/how-to-join/
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The Morrigan Blog - Doing Feminist Legal Work
Named for the mythic Irish triple goddess, The Morrigan is a feminist blog, dedicated to exploring the ways in which gender and sexuality articulate with
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Rebecca Smyth, PhD @resmyth.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
What better way to spend Christmas Eve than resurrecting my Bluesky account? Very much on annual leave but come 2025 watch this space for monograph updates, reproductive justice and Palestine, and a call for abstracts for feminist judgments in refugee law...mind yourselves and mind one another ♥️
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Rebecca Smyth, PhD @resmyth.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
#EFLAC15 was unreal - starting to scheme about how to do something similar in Europe (in between many naps at home while on annual leave 🦥)
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