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Dr Rhys Steven Jones

@rhysteven.bsky.social
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asst prof film, media & culture @UvA_Amsterdam | historical materialism - critical theory - horror cinema - pop culture | he/him

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I am going to become the Joker
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ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026
The blatant censorship is still visible in the archived version, the original is archive.ph/jds9K Then a gender critter editor woke up and saw what was printed and this is the amended version, notice no indication that it was edited or changed in any way and no explanation of why archive.ph/IWShz
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Welsh Underground Network @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru · 21/08/2026
ACORN Wales Union members stormed Welsh Water offices to hold a people's tribunal on rising bills, sewage dumping and high corporate salaries: www.instagram.com/reel/DcTs0GI...
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Dr Rhys Steven Jones @rhysteven.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
please please sign and share with colleagues! Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Dr Rhys Steven Jones @rhysteven.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A must read!!! @nafeez.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social 'Jason Arday's ... coordinated targeting by an anti-black race science network did not come out of nowhere. Backed by the pro-Trump Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, this network has spent a decade penetrating Cambridge University.'
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…
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Dr Rhys Steven Jones @rhysteven.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
'Inde Navarrette’s alienating, jolting, theatrical performance [...] accesses a deeper realism. This is realism as Brecht defines it, “Realist means: laying bare society’s causal network / showing up the dominant viewpoint as the viewpoint of the dominators…"'
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
it isn't just individual literacy failure, tho oligarchs push cognitive surrender hard for a reason. it's the whole macroeconomy of anti-process, instant gratification, on-demand access that begets the cultural style of literalism and intolerance for ambiguity www.versobooks.com/products/303...
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Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for ...
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Deirdre Flynn @deirdreflynn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in English Literature The University of Queensland TWO permanent roles www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRX342/l...
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Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in English Literature at The University of Queensland
An opportunity for an academic position as a Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in English Literature is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 03/06/2026
Impractical, intrusive and inhumane - @rachelmillward.bsky.social responds to the ECHR guidance on behalf of Green Party leadership.
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Maggie Wiggin @maggie162.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE
 Page from a book saying:

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your Leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
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Lauren Deschain @thatnerdchick.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Oscar Isaac deserves credit for being, as far as I know, the first major actor to capture the tech bro CEO, in Ex Machina. Those guys were all over the news by then, but movies were still doing the "babbling nerd with a pocket protector" thing. Also accurate: what he really wants is slavery.
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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 18/05/2026
"While the man born Herman Blount in Alabama (though he would later cite Saturn as his true home) left his terrestrial form back in 1993, the influence of Sun Ra on musicians both hugely popular and deep underground is so vast that his gravitational pull goes well beyond the confines of jazz music."
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Space is the Place: A Somewhat Comprehensive Guide to Sun Ra’s Cosmic Jazz
The jazz legend has a formidable back catalogue. This is your guide to where (and how) to dive in.
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Dr Rhys Steven Jones @rhysteven.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"The prevalence of AI use on college campuses, particularly at 'elite' universities, is a cancer on our culture ... it will grotesquely disfigure, if not destroy, the university as an institute in every way that it is imagined" The Great Zombification open.substack.com/pub/thenewcr...
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The Great Zombification
“And so perfect parallel constructions fill the lecture halls, the take-home tests, the school newspapers, and perhaps even the idiom of student chatter.”
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Well, everyone knows Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach books are about climate change. What this essay presupposes is... maybe they aren't?
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Dr Rhys Steven Jones @rhysteven.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
brilliant teachout on Marxism, Sci-Fi and Fantasy with Jelle Klaas from PILP here in Amsterdam last week
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 24/04/2026
An influential pro-Israel lobby group named ELNET has been quietly taking UK journalists on propaganda tours of Israel, @john-mcevoy.bsky.social reveals. The journalists who participated have written for the Telegraph, Spectator, and Mail on Sunday. www.declassifieduk.org/lobby-group-...
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Lobby group taking journalists on propaganda tours of Israel
Amid the systematic killing of Palestinian and Lebanese journalists, one organisation has been quietly bringing British media workers to Israel.
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 26/03/2026
In 2024 Tommy Robinson posted an image saying “Fuck Palestine… The shithole is full of inbred Islamist parasites and terrorists.” Constable David Soffer responded that Robinson “is telling the truth” and that Israel will “justly finish” the war in Gaza. www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-man...
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Revealed: Man filmed in Al Jazeera ‘intimidation’ mob is Met police officer
A Metropolitan Police officer has been identified by Declassified as man who called Palestinian journalist a ‘dog’ and told him to ‘go back to Qatar’
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 16/02/2026
👉NEW -- UK awarded contract to firm overseen by sanctioned Israeli minister by John McEvoy Exclusive: £10 million deal signed with company linked to Bezalel Smotrich who is sanctioned by Britain www.declassifieduk.org/uk-awarded-c...
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UK awarded contract to firm overseen by sanctioned Israeli minister
Exclusive: £10 million deal signed with company linked to Bezalel Smotrich who is sanctioned by Britain
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 13/02/2026
🚨BREAKING -- Terrorism ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful by High Court by John McEvoy & Dania Akkad www.declassifieduk.org/terrorism-ba...
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Terrorism ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful by High Court
Ban saw thousands of people arrested under counter-terrorism powers for holding signs in support of the group
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 29/01/2026
Rough day for Sex Matters
Image showing news where Sex Matters has lost (twice in a day)
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 02/01/2026
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir – a US spy-tech firm that has supported mass deportation in the US and enabled genocide in Gaza. Say No to Palantir in the NHS ⬇️ goodlaw.social/658abc
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Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
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Glyn Morgan @grmorgan.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Such an absolute delight to be in Bristol today for @markbould.bsky.social's inaugural professorship lecture, once more reminded of the radical, community-focused, heartfelt and heart-full scholarship that infuses so much of the SF community and of which Mark is a blazing and dear symbol.
My Favourite Thing is Monsters - Professor Mark Bould : on IMAX!Growing up with Monsters, I don't know all the references (ask Mark) but evident are scooby doo, Captain Scarlet, Doctor Who, Nessie, Godzilla,king Kong and of course FrankensteinPermutation 8: the dream of reason produces monsters - Iron Lady Rust in Peace. The lactose larcenist, milk snatcher, etc.Permutation 3: the reason for production. Tentacled monsters of capitalism.
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Dr Rhys Steven Jones @rhysteven.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
It was Reality TV week for our first-year students and I had the pleasure of screening a group viewing of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' infamous Amsterdam trip - cinemas need to start screening iconic reality TV episodes they'd make a fortune!
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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Although I'm horrified to see a massive landscape picture of my head here, this is a really important piece about the maturation of scholar-led, non-profit publishing. As I write, chaos is coming but there are enormous opportunities to quit the big 5 www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
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Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing - Research Professional News
Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards
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Joshua Harold Wiebe @joshuaharoldwiebe.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
our issue of SAQ on "filming capital" is up! contributions from @lingzhang.bsky.social, @ernestpjl.bsky.social, @benjamincrais.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social, patrick marshall, cassandra guan, alberto toscano bad news for haters of the good! www.dukeupress.edu/filming-capi...
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Filming Capital
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Dr Rhys Steven Jones @rhysteven.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
It is so heartening to see @openlibhums.org (and its publishing model that prioritises research integrity over profit!) growing at such a challenging time for the humanities. We all need to start thinking more carefully about where we publish our work... www.openlibhums.org/news/865/?fb...
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OLH annual report 2024-2025
We're delighted to be publishing our 2024-25 annual report, which outlines the fantastic successes of the entire OLH team over the past financial year from 01 August 2024 to 31 …
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com
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AGAINST AI
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16/08/2025
I don't think we can put the toothpaste back in the tube at this point. But I think we can maybe get to a point where we recognize that AI, like toothpaste, is best used in scant amounts for specific, relatively infrequent tasks, rather than slathered indiscriminately all over everything.
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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
It seemed time to update my post from March 2024 titled "There Is No Ethical Use of AI". Lots of links to essays, research articles, podcasts on the glory of AI's destruction of the environment, destruction of culture, destruction of our brains... matthewcheney.net/blog/there-i...
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There Is (Still) No Ethical Use of AI
In March 2024, I wrote a post declaring “There Is No Ethical Use of AI”. My point was not that you should not use AI. Personally, I try never to use it, but it’s getting more and more difficult as so ...
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
“latest in a longline of computerized fads that plunk kids in front of screens+deny them crucial socialization skills, suppressing their ability to think critically” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/us/polit…
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A.I.-Driven Education: Founded in Texas and Coming to a School Near You
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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./ mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
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Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members
It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/07/2025
I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine. But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires? No.
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What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher? @whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com · 08/07/2025
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
“conspiracy is degraded cognitive mapping”
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?
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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning."
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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Absolutely heartbroken to learn that Professor Simon James has passed away after a short illness. Simon was a stalwart union rep in the English Department, and a personal friend to many of us in the branch. We'll miss his humour, his passion, and his dedication to making things better for people.
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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦🧶 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Each of the articles in this special issue theorizes the [] between trans and crip in distinct yet interconnected ways, expanding on the dynamic tension between difference and alignment. I’ll be introducing them throughout June. @dukepress.bsky.social
TSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly
Volume 12, Number 2, May 2025
Toward a Trans[]Crip Theory
Special Issue. Editors
J. Logan Smilges and Slava Greenberg

Image of dancing people in wheelchairs by Micah Bazant
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 04/06/2025
🚨Five Labour MPs visited Israel on a trip sponsored by Labour Friends of Israel last week. They met with Israeli president Isaac Herzog who said the "entire nation" of Gaza was collectively responsible for 7 October.
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Dr Rhys Steven Jones @rhysteven.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Submit an abstract! Tell your friends!
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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Joshua Clover (1962-2025)
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 29/04/2025
YESSS COME ON!!! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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UK’s first trans judge appeals to European court of human rights over supreme court ruling
Victoria McCloud brings action against UK for infringement of her human rights after ruling on biological sex
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