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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026

It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.

The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Like!!! Stop trying to convince me that there is substance to these things!!! This is not a consciousness!!! This is just a computer program designed to respond as if it understands when it very obviously just following a format! You cannot hurt the feelings of a key word reader like this!

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

‘Rethinking methodological vulnerability: drawing multispecies settler ecologies in the Huleh wetlands’ is now free to read online at @culturalgeographies doi.org/10.1177/1474...

Sketchbook drawing of Eurasian grey cranes erupting into flight, seen through a windscreen, with rosary beads hanging from the rearview mirror. Pencil and peat pigment, 2017

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Weird Al Swearengen @peterlynn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The Las Vegas skyline from Blade Runner 2049 vs the Toronto skyline from right now.

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This article is still firmly top of the ‘most read’ list at GPC, with more than double the reads of the runner up. Something tells me it is a much needed contribution! You can also purchase the booklet version at sagebriceprints.co.uk

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The swifts have arrived! I’d almost given up on them

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UNISON @unison.org.uk · 04/06/2026

📢 "Your voice is needed." UNISON general secretary @AndreaEganGS.bsky.social is calling on members and trans allies to oppose the EHRC guidance. MPs will decide on it in the next 30 days. Tell us why it's unworkable in your workplace. 📩 out@unison.co.uk

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

New in TIBG: 'The joy of pests: Camaraderie, wonder and dialectical autonomy in UK professional pest management' by Hannah Fair This paper draws together labour geography and more-than-human geography, proposing a novel mode of understanding multispecies relations. doi.org/10.1111/tran...

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Using interviews and participant observation, this research explores the everyday practices and experiences of UK-based pest management professionals. It reveals an unexpected and unalienated ‘joy of....

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Cat-sitting and enjoying a friend’s excellent library is giving me a chance to read more around the question of Jewishness and whiteness. One hunch is that a somewhat uniquely North American version of assimilation has shaped how this question is viewed in quite different geographical contexts

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blair @blairaf.com · 29/05/2026

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

With the new EHRC guidance doing the rounds and the UK media having a field day, it’s a good time to recirculate this from 2019:

Tweet by Izzy Rizinti reads: “I read a tweet once from someone asking my trans friends what they would do if the world was cis free for 24 hrs & trans folks were safe to do anything without being subjected to transphobia. Most of them said ‘go swimming’. Think about that.”

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

En route to Birmingham for an exciting workshop and symposium on Black x trans geographies: 'Black and trans perspectives in the current conjuncture', which I've had the honour of co-convening with James Esson, Rita Gayle, AM Kanngieser, Ed Kiely, Pat Noxolo, Jay Todd, and Ezgi Yılmaz

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

"To some in this country, I am everything that the hateful despise, and I'm standing here as your MSP with care. They say politics is the art of the possible, a politics of care I would say expands what is possible for everyone left behind, pushed out or never invited in.”

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First two transgender MSPs elected to Holyrood in historic moment

The first two transgender MSPs have been elected to the Scottish Parliament ...

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

A friend kindly pointed out to me today that ‘Not Just Gay Penguins’ is currently trending top of the list on the Gender Place & Culture website… www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Front page of the graphic nonfiction article Not Just Gay Penguins: on the Importance of Queer/Trans Ecologies for Critical Geography. The page features a black and white lone drawing of penguins in London Zoo with a banner that reads ‘Some Penguins are Gay, Get Over It’

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Multiple UK universities took down their policies relating to trans inclusion after the OfS's unprecedented fine of Sussex over its wholly anodyne approach to discouraging transphobia. Today is a very good day to demand to know when those policies will be going back up.

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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

According to official statistics, and of course this will be affected by people not declaring, there are 1,525 trans people working in UK higher education, in a total workforce of a little over half a million people. Using GP data to estimate the UK’s trans population, there should be about 4.5k.

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

There are 10 times more pages in the IOC’s ‘Policy on the Protection of the Female (Women’s) Category in Olympic Sport’ than there are trans women who have competed in the Olympics. There will also almost certainly be more cis women than trans women disqualified by chromosomal testing

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 26/03/2026

Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

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The Olympics Has a New Sex Testing Policy. The Evidence Doesn’t Add Up

I’ve spent over 10 years obsessed with so-called “gender verification” tests. Proponents claim they have history and science on their side. They don’t.

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

On my way to St Andrews, working on an editorial for a themed issue on drawing, and looking forward to what should be a great seminar about storytelling, love, and ecology (among other things)

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Today my students discussed whether and to what extent Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism play a similar structural role in Europe to the role antisemitism played in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Then the Israeli Foreign Ministry just goes and tweets out an Islamophobic octopus.

Tweet from the Israel Foreign Ministry: "The Iranian regime is the mastermind of a global terror network.

With its long-range missiles & through the IRGC and its proxies - Hezbollah, Hamas, PIJ, the Houthis - it fuels chaos and bloodshed far beyond its borders, from the Middle East to Europe and beyond.

The Iranian regime is the greatest threat to world peace and the free world."

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people. This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists. The study underpinning this played one particular trick. Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5

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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

On International Women’s Day, we reflect on the importance of solidarity between women🩷 For over a decade, the conversation around trans rights has been used to divide women who would otherwise stand together. This weakens our ability to challenge the real sources of inequality, misogyny & violence

ALL Women must stand together on International Women's Day

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Dear Shabana, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

Dear Shabana,
I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank.
You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to
make a perilous crossing on small boats.”
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton
and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government
who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division.
When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there
to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done
in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the
flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney.
As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking
points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I
filled water tanks and picked up litter.
What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop
the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country.
Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it.
It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping
migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and
croissants to refugees and food parcels.
When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She
said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for
refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers
whilst risking death on the seas.”
She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on
the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.

CNN: More than 1,000 civilians killed in Iran since war began, rights group reports
By Helen Regan
More than 1,000 people, including children, have been killed in Iran since the war began on Saturday, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).
The rights group said as of Tuesday afternoon ET, at least 1,097 civilians had been killed, including 181 children.
More than 5,400 civilians, including 100 children, have been injured, HRANA reported.
The group said its report is preliminary and is veritying hundreds more reported deaths.

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Childless Dog Lady is on sabbatical. 🍉🌺 @sgbuggs.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

students literally tell me their parents tell them they can’t major in Black Studies but every year they have an option for an exam essay prompt where they can argue for or against universities having obligations to offer these classes and OVERWHELMINGLY they think universities should have to

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

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Mingcan Rong @mingcan-rong.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Really enjoyed reading this non-fiction graphic book on queer/trans ecologies by @sagebrice.bsky.social! Definitely recommend! 🐧

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 21/02/2026

We want to support Girlguiding and the Women's Institute to remain inclusive. We think the law is on our side, and we're offering to cover all their costs. But we need you to tell them how important trans inclusion is to you 👇

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Help us support Girlguiding and the Women’s Institute to remain inclusive | Good Law Project

We’re offering to defend the Women’s Institute and Girlguiding against trans exclusion

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

This was a lot of fun! Thanks @mingcan-rong.bsky.social, @samlebutt.bsky.social and colleagues for an enjoyable evening

Photo of a lecture slide, with an image of a small pink ox-tongue fungus protruding from the dark crack between two tree roots. The text reads “Loving oneself and/or multiple others offers viable arrangements for living and dying in community with wider ecologies. The power and the pleasure of such a mycelial love lie in the simultaneity, the coextension, of decay and abundance”

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Sam Le Butt @samlebutt.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

VERY excited to be speaking at the Nature Bites Back ecohorror symposium tomorrow at Bristol! Among v esteemed panelists and multiple mushroom talks! What more could an ecoGoth dream of... 🍄 @uobrisceh.bsky.social @sagebrice.bsky.social

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Flipping through th entries in this new volume, it looks to be not only a fantastic teaching resource but an orientating force for the future of feminist political geography, carefully edited by Sydney Calkin and @cordyf.bsky.social

Photo of De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Many others will understand themselves as trans, & never speak a word. Too afraid. The category of 'gender questioning children', as though this is a group we can identify in a trans hostile society, is a transphobic false category. Please use the term with extreme caution.

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

We also know, as academics & researchers, that the period in which any child is 'gender questioning' is very often on their own, in silence, months or even years before they speak the words to a single other person. We do not know which children around us are 'questioning' their gender.

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

There is a wholescale concerted effort to rebrand trans children as gender questioning children. If the whole group are re-labelled, then they cannot claim rights as a minority group. If they are all re-labelled, then conversion efforts can just about helping them 'explore their gender'.

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rach | 🏳️‍⚧️ | 🔒 | caged critter @shiftingentity.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Okay but Zack Polanski has been coming out with bangers

Polanski is a pleasure to interview because he will answer any question about anyone. Wes Streeting? “Wes is attacking me every day on social media because I’m another gay man in politics who is not willing to throw the trans community under the bus and that exposes his abject immorality. He must know what it’s like to be othered but he’s more bothered about power than protecting the other. It’s disgraceful.”

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A. Stefansky @astefansky.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Once again: if these LLMs could actually do all the things their owners claim, they wouldn’t be selling access. They would be building and selling all the things they claim their software can do.

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Rereading @susanstryker.bsky.social ‘s Words to Victor Frankenstein and this excerpt of a letter in a 1986 Gay/Lesbian rag, I’m struck by how unchanged the emotional bedrock of gender critical ‘feminism’ remains. The rhetoric of threat (to women; to lesbians) is a thin pretext for disgusted affront

Excerpt from 1986 letter to Gay/Lesbian mag: “When an estrogenated man with breasts loves a woman, that is not lesbianism, that is mutilated perversion. [This individual] is not a threat to the lesbian community, he is an outrage to us. He is not a lesbian, he is a mutant man, a self-made freak, a deformity, an insult. He deserves a slap in the face. After that, he deserves to have his body and mind made well again.”

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Sage Brice (she/her) @sagebrice.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This is a welcome move from Sussex University. OfS massively overstepped its role here; what’s more, the 3-year ‘enquiry’ spoke to no students, staff, or management at Sussex. Clearly, it was the OfS fine that was designed to have the chilling effect www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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University begins High Court challenge against £585k free speech fine

The University of Sussex says the watchdog overstepped its legal powers in imposing the fine last year.

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

This piece has been covered in the Times Higher Education - read more here below ⬇️ www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-r...

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Trans research ‘at risk’ if data collection guidance adopted

Response to Sullivan Review argues recommendations could hit quality of findings and impinge on academic freedom

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

New Intervention in TIBG: 'A critical response to the UK's "Sullivan Review" into sex and gender in research and data' by @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & @felicitycallard.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Screenshot of an intervention abstract in Transactions by Jay JD Todd & Felicity Callard (2026) entitled: 'A Critical Response to the UK's ‘Sullivan Review’ Into Sex and Gender in Research and Data' with a red banner at the top.

This intervention argues that the UK Government-commissioned independent review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender (the ‘Sullivan Review’) implicitly promotes the erasure of trans and gender diverse people from research and data collection protocols and carries worrying implications for the inclusion of trans people within UK institutions and for critical social science research. Set in a context where trans and gender diverse people's rights are being rolled back in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, the Review attempts to install a singular model of binary, immutable, ‘biological’ sex as incontrovertible across data gathering on sex and gender across public bodies including government, universities, the health service and research organisations. It does so via appeals to science and to ‘clarity’, and by proposing to limit or even in certain cases remove default ethical review processes. The intervention argues that the Review can be situated within broader attempts to erase critical inquiry into the complex, intersectional production of social categories including sex, gender and sexuality, as well as inquiries that extend what ethical principles and governance involve. In sum, we contend that the Review carries deleterious consequences for geography and other social scientific disciplines and call upon scholars to refuse its vision and implications.

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Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaytoddgla.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender. doi.org/10.1111/tran... The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.

Graphic reading 'the UK Government-commissioned 'Sullivan Review' of sex and gender in data and research collection threatens British research and trans inclusion. Here's why.'

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