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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

What a day for AI resistance resources! 1) The AI Resist List from @karenhao.bsky.social and colleagues at DAIR at airesistlist.org 2) The Luddite Lab from @alexhanna.bsky.social and colleagues at DAIR at labor.dair-institute.org

A screenshot that reads, "The AI Resist List" with the subtitle, "Actions against the empire of AI".

A screenshot of the Luddite Lab homepage. The homepage has the tabs: Case Studies; Primers; Resource Library; Contact Us; About. The webpage also has the text, "The Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, and worker-organizers fighting AI and automation at work. The lab provides strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of new technology through case studies, primers, and a resource library."

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Bedwellj101 @alyx.whatthetrans.com · 21/05/2026

With the EHRC guidance looming. I just want to remind people that any actions, protests, letter writing campaigns that we hear will be organised will be published on this website: whatthetrans.com/compilation-...

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

New post: LABOUR'S SECTION 28 IS HERE - ACT NOW. I explain how the Labour government's proposed revisions to the guidance on "keeping children in education" are designed to erase trans children in England. But it's not a done deal - there is plenty we can do to oppose this.

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Labour’s Section 28 is here – act now

In May 1988, the Conservative government introduced Section 28. This legal measure outlawed support for “homosexuality as a pretended family relationship” across Britain, especially in …

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Migrants' Rights Network @migrantsrights.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Huge thanks to @thecanaryuk.bsky.social for covering our call to allies to complete the Government's 'earned settlement' consultation. Find out more and how you can challenge these cruel new proposals: www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

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Earned settlement: Activists warn Labour consultation is a stitch-up

Migrants’ Rights Network is urging allies to flood Labour’s ‘earned settlement’ consultation — policy rooted in cruelty, racism and classism

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

In light of the Levy Review potentially giving transphobes oversight of medical research on trans healthcare, Trans Safety Network recommend English trans people OPT OUT of their healthcare data being used in research. Information on how to do this can be found in the quoted post and thread.

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Ombre Tarragnat (they/she) @ombretarragnat.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

What forms of inclusion and exclusion does neurodiversity perform as a concept, field, and movement? How may lines of queer, trans, crip, decolonial, posthumanist, or Mad thinking shake up and overspill the conventional boundaries of neurodiversity? Please join us for this important discussion! 🔥

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Zhui Ning Chang 曾睿宁 @witchywonderer.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Latin American Plays in Translation is out in the world today! This anthology, which I edited, contains six incredible plays translated into English, alongside an introduction by original event curator Malú Ansaldo and stunning cover art by Soma Difusa

Cover of Latin American Plays in Translation, blue background with a fist in red against a field of flowers.

Table of Contents of Latin American Plays in Translation.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

The message on IG from Alice (posted by her friend Sandy Ho). As always, Alice blazes a path for the rest of us, fearlessly & with humor: "I'm honored to be your ancestor & believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all."

Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all."

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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I have been waiting for Lizzie to post this so I can tell them publicly how proud I am of them (and Robin) for this article. It's a landmark contribution to Mad and crip studies, disability and time studies, and UKHE analysis. More than that, it's a very personal exploration of failure and feeling.

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Robin Skyer @robinskyer.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Published yesterday with The Sociological Review: 'Research failure, crip temporalities and bipolar time in UK higher education' I'm honoured to be co-author of this article with wonderful first author @lizziereed.bsky.social ☺️ Available to read here, open access: doi.org/10.1177/0038...

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Global Movement To Gaza UK @gmtguk.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Interception of the #GlobalSumudFlotilla is likely tonight. 📍 Join us TOMORROW at Parliament Square ⏰ 5:30pm mobilising | 6pm speakers We demand: - End the siege on Gaza - Release flotilla hostages - End arms sales to Israel - Decolonise Palestine #FreePalestine

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Global Sumud Flotilla is live as Israel threatens to stop them from breaking the starvation siege of Gaza. A reminder that they are not entering Israeli waters, but Palestinian waters. Israel intends to violate international law once again. www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...

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24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 10/06/2025

Apropos of nothing, here's a free pdf copy of my book Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement. It focuses on #LosAngeles direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

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Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets!: Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement

An exploration of social movement media practices in an increasingly complex media ecology, through richly detailed cases of immigrant rights activism.For

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I made a new zine! It's full of advice on how allies can work alongside trans people to take action in the current moment, lovingly cut-and-pasted over the words of my enemies. Plus lots of nice pictures and memes. Available as a free PDF! Read online or print your own copy! Share with everyone!

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PDF zine: But what can I do? How to fight the trans panic

This is the latest version of a zine I have distributed at wormboys gigs over the last couple of years. I’ve recently updated it to address recent events, including the April 2025 Supreme Cou…

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Robin Skyer @robinskyer.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

We are hosting a free one-day event for PGR researchers interested in Sociology, Crip Theory, Critical Disability Studies and Mad Studies. Join us online or in person at the University of Southampton on 11th June. Ticket link here: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

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Intersections of Sociology with Crip Theory, Critical Disability Studies and Mad Studies

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Yasmin Gunaratnam @anilsghost.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

“Palestine: A Sociological Issue is a way to reflect on the role of sociology in times of genocidal violence & settler colonialism" @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social All the articles in the special section are free to access here journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOR/73/2/

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 17/04/2025

Compilation of Protests Against the Supreme Court whatthetrans.com/compilation-...

Person holding a blahaj under a bunch of flowers whilst holding a sign with a background of the trans flag and in front it says "trans bites now"

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 16/04/2025

Okay. Not-a-lawyer-butt. This to me is the tell. Women's oppression defined explicitly as a "shared disadvantage" resulting from "shared biology". These are steps to formalize womanhood as a reproductive role, synonymizing it with certain features of anatomy that are "naturally" disadvantaged.

A certificated sex interpretation would cut across the definition of the protected
characteristic of sex in an incoherent way. References to a “woman” and “women” as a
group sharing the protected characteristic of sex would include all females of any age
(irrespective of any other protected characteristic) and those trans women (biological
men) who have the protected characteristic of gender reassignment and a GRC (and who
are therefore female as a matter of law). The same references would necessarily exclude
men of any age, but they would also exclude some (biological) women living in the male
gender with a GRC (trans men who are legally male). The converse position would apply
to references to “man” and “men” as a group sharing the same protected characteristic.
We can identify no good reason why the legislature should have intended that sex-based
rights and protections under the EA 2010 should apply to these complex, heterogenous
groupings, rather than to the distinct group of (biological) women and girls (or men and
boys) with their shared biology leading to shared disadvantage and discrimination faced
by them as a distinct group.

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Richard Hull @richardhull54.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

It is now even more important to foster #MutualAid in our communities. The lovely people at Shareable have put together this excellent series of 4 online learning sessions, primarily for those starting out on this journey. See also their other wonderful resources. www.shareable.net/mutual-aid-1...

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Mutual Aid 101

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 01/04/2025

🧵 While Gaza is being destroyed, Israel’s parliament is quietly advancing apartheid laws against Palestinians — both inside Israel and across occupied Palestine. Here’s what they just did:

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Robin Skyer @robinskyer.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Yesterday was wonderful: the UoS PGR LGBTQIA+ network spent a morning making mini-zines with @megenjm.bsky.social, amidst Queering Connections: Glitchy Kinship at the Winchester Gallery (created and curated by the excellent @lizziereed.bsky.social and @miloustella.bsky.social).

A tabletop covered in a selection of mini-zines and materials used to make them such as pens, scissors, felt, ribbons, paper, and a deck of tarot cards entitled Big Gay Tarot Deck. One of the mini-zines has the outline of a head and where a face would be, there is text that says Your Face Here. Another mini-zine uses a keffiyeh pattern as its background and has text that reads: what to do if you want to help Palestine but don't know where to start. There is also a mini-zine about radical queer demo chants.

A section of the gallery with fluffy white carpet and pillows. There is a projection on the back wall showing a microscopic image of a cell. Below the projected image, on the floor, is an object that looks like a huge syringe made of soft textiles. The word trigger is embroidered onto the side of the object. There is a long pink piece of material that protrudes from the end like a tongue.

A wall of the gallery painted to look like a fridge door. Magnets with a different words on them have been assembled to make sentences. Me heal body. Kindle your mad soil. Let him amuse our complex life. Communicate joke until delicate copy kinship.

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Katie Munday @kmunday.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Planning our Mad / Crip / Critical disability conference for April. Exciting stuff 💪 #AutRes #Mad #Crip

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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Join us at the Winchester Gallery from 5pm on Thursday 30th January for the opening of Queering Connections: Glitchy Kinship. We've also got an 'In Conversation' with me (curator) and Milou (artist) on Thurs 6th Feb at 5pm. @unisouthampton.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I know everyone is already very bored of examples of google AI lying and making stuff up but I just made the mistake of doing a work-related google of "Harry Benjamin Syndrome" (a non-diagnosis made up by transitioned women opposed to trans language in the early 2000s) and HO BOY

Image of google search for harry benjamine syndrome. Some of the AI overview is visible, and reads as follows. Harry Benjamin Syndrome (HBS) is a rare congenital condition that affects how the brain differentiates male and female gender identities. It's also known as a Disorder of Sex Development. Symptoms. People with HBS have a neurological gender identity that differs from their physical sex. For example, a girl with HBS may have a female gender identity but male genitalia. The condition occurs during prenatal development.

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Louise Ting @neuro-observant.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

#BIPOC voices are often missing from autistic spaces, so here is a BIPOC starter pack! 😊 go.bsky.app/TtXfpAt #racialequality #antiracism The image of autism as “only white boys” leads to underdiagnosis, discrimination & isolation for many Our autistic community is much more diverse than that! ❤️

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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

In winter through early spring, you can sometimes find unspoiled, still-bright groundcherries sitting in the latticed remnants of their husks, like hearts suspended in paper ribcages

A photo of groundcherries (Alkekengi) in a garden in winter. The round, orange, cherry tomato-like fruits are suspended in the center of pendulous, vaguely heart-shaped husks made of networks of dried beige veins. The husks have a delicate, skeletal, lattice-like structure, reminiscent of laser-cut papercraft.

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Catherine Tan @catherinetan.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

New review of "Spaces on the Spectrum" (@columbiaup.bsky.social) by Robin Skyer in Soc Forum! "Drawing upon a rich dataset of interviews and ethnographic observations, Tan's empirical writing is compassionate but refuses to shy away from painful realities." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 02/01/2025

Israeli airstrikes have unleashed devastating attacks across Gaza, with 34 bombings in the past 24 hours alone, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office. At least 71 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed so far in 2025.

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Robin Skyer @robinskyer.bsky.social · 18/05/2024

My review of TJ Billard's 'Voices for Transgender Equality: Making Change in the Networked Public Sphere' has been published in Sage Journals Sociology. Link below! @billard.bsky.social

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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

How can teachers be "clear that gender ideology is contested" when no bastard knows what "gender ideology" even means? Great to hear section 28 is the model for future harm. Good job guys.

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Robin Skyer @robinskyer.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

Global Voices Theatre are collaborating with Botswana-born artivist Kat Kai Kol-Kes, to bring you QUEER AND DECOLONIAL ARCHIVES: a queer history walking tour of Whitechapel & writing workshop. Sunday 24 March, London. Pay What You Can. Tickets and info: www.ticketsource.co.uk/global-voice...

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"Queer and Decolonial Archives: Walking and Writing with Katlego K Kolanyane-Kesupile" at Ugly Duck

Tickets are now available for Queer and Decolonial Archives: Walking and Writing with Katlego K Kolanyane-Kesupile at Ugly Duck, London on Sun 24 Mar 2024 at 10:30AM. Click the link for further inform...

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LSE Review of Books @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

"What happens when trans* people seek to distance themselves from biomedical and state institutions, and find self-supporting solutions?" @robinskyer.bsky.social reviews Care Without Pathology: How Trans- Health Activists Are Changing Medicine by Christoph Hanssmann wp.me/p2MwSQ-h6o

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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Our article, "Mapping lesbians’ everyday community-making in a small city: (In)visibility, belonging and safety" is online first. The perfect read for the last day of term? I really couldn't say. #Sociology #AcademicSky 🌈🎓

Introductory paragraph which reads: There has been wide-ranging research into LGBTQ life in large global cities but far less attention has been paid to how LGBTQ people construct communities in ‘ordinary cities’. That is, cities which are not renowned for their LGBTQ scenes or regarded as a place where LGBTQ people would typically migrate to find belonging or LGBTQ community. Likewise, work on lesbian experience is still relatively scarce, with most academic work emphasising gay men’s lives, or LGBTQ communities more broadly, resulting in the specificities of lesbian life, connections to space and practices of community formation being subsumed or overlooked (though the past three decades have seen the emergence of studies seeking to put lesbian lives on the map, see Browne 2021; Valentine 2000 for an overview). Our research considers lesbian experiences of Southampton; a relatively small city on the South coast of England, home to two Universities with a student population of 43,000

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Robin Skyer @robinskyer.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Happy to share my review of "The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet" by Avery Dame-Griff, published in Cultural Sociology. 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Robin Skyer @robinskyer.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Reclaim Croydon and AWS, part of Autonomous Shelter Network, run mutual aid projects throughout winter in London. Housing, food, warmth, books, coffee, community: all available. Donations also welcome, visit their Instagram page for further details.

A black and white photograph of a street in Croydon. Text says: Autonomous Winter Shelter Croydon. In need of emergency housing? Call 07708524657. reclaimcroydon@proton.me. Instagram handles: @reclaimcroydon @autonomouswintershelter.

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Robin Skyer @robinskyer.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Standard response email to my MP Dear Mr Lammy Thank you for sending me lines of party political rhetoric with regards to [insert issue]. In your previous email, you include a lot of emotive language but fail to outline any decisive actions. [Point out gaping holes in Mr Lammy's arguments]

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