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Sarah Keenan

@sarahkeenan.bsky.social
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Now at Queen Mary Law School

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Vanessa Spedding @vanessaspedding.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
This is brilliant! “Outsmarting the descendants of its colonial captors, Japanese knotweed destabilises human-centred understandings of value, life and land. It invites new modes of being and relating in the more-than-human world.”
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The Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice @ccccjustice.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Plants against Property🌱 In our latest blog, @sarahkeenan.bsky.social explores how corporate risk, colonial histories and market logics shape land value - and how plants push back, forcing land to be used as a habitat & resource rather than a market commodity ccccjustice.org/2026/02/02/e...
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Sarah Keenan @sarahkeenan.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Come work with me? qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/appcentre...
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Quick Check Needed
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Andreas Folkers @afolkers.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
@sarahkeenan.bsky.social‬ terrific piece “Plants Against Property” shows how Japanese Knotweed became a nightmare for homeowner’s but not necessarily for home dwellers. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Plants Against Property: Japanese Knotweed as Companion Species - Sarah Keenan, 2025
In Britain, the non-toxic herbaceous perennial ‘Japanese knotweed’ is the subject of intense fear and anxiety amongst property owners. Though the plant does no ...
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Sarah Keenan @sarahkeenan.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Japanese knotweed is a queer asexually reproducing female alien clone attacking the UK real estate market without actually damaging land. Could we learn from it? My @theoryculturesociety.org article Plants Against Property: Japanese Knotweed as Companion Species journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Plants Against Property: Japanese Knotweed as Companion Species - Sarah Keenan, 2025
In Britain, the non-toxic herbaceous perennial ‘Japanese knotweed’ is the subject of intense fear and anxiety amongst property owners. Though the plant does no ...
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 01/05/2025
Thank goodness for lesbians
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Ruth Fletcher @ruthfletcher.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This is so good. Thankful for the work of feminist colleagues like Emily and Sarah, everyday
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Sarah Keenan @sarahkeenan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Parody Alternative Judgment: For Women Scotland [2025], by Emily Grabham criticallegalthinking.com/2025/05/01/p...
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Parody Alternative Judgment: For Women Scotland [2025]
Following the Supreme Court’s decision in the For Women case last week, colleagues thought it would help to have a case summary for use in
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Geographers! Please join 300 of us — at every career stage — who are urging the Royal Geographical Society to reaffirm its commitment to trans inclusion in the face of Supreme Court ruling, and to oppose the EHRC’s interim update. Sign by WED 30 April 1700 GMT docs.google.com/document/u/0...
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Open letter to RGS on Supreme Court and EHRC events April 2025
If you are an academic geographer (broadly conceived) of any career stage, To sign the open letter please fill in this form: https://forms.gle/AmjaJh37xLt4CMwx5. Your signature will be added manually....
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Sarah Keenan @sarahkeenan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
From Zara Dinnen, a brilliant co-chair of my UCU branch, on the realities of UKHE and life for students and staff www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...
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Zara Dinnen | A Sector in Freefall
The Queen Mary University of London branch of the University and College Union, of which I am co-chair, hosts a webpage...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 29/04/2025
‘Brent University appears to fulfil the meritocratic promise of New Labour’s commitment to increase the number of students in higher education by 50 per cent. But the promise was always false.’ Zara Dinnen on what ‘Big Boys’ gets right about the crisis in universities: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...
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Zara Dinnen | A Sector in Freefall
The Queen Mary University of London branch of the University and College Union, of which I am co-chair, hosts a webpage...
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Len Lukowski @lenski666.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I'm sorry to report that I now have a substack. I wrote a post about the Supreme Court stuff and some absurd things I've seen in the wake of it that have been gnawing at my mind.
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April 2025
I keep waking up with the dawn chorus at 5am.
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Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
What will happen to us un-women? My thoughts on today’s UK Supreme Court decision excluding trans women from the legal category of women. Over at Autostraddle: www.autostraddle.com/uk-supreme-c...
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Illegally Female
The UK's Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that trans women are not legally considered women.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 27/04/2025
We believe the UK is now in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act and the European Convention of Human Rights and we plan to ask the High Court for a declaration of incompatibility. We would be grateful for your help:
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Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project
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Sarah Keenan @sarahkeenan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Looking forward to hosting Libby Porter, Director of the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT for this seminar on housing crisis under settler-colonialism on Tuesday 8 April 3pm at Queen Mary Law @cclas1.bsky.social @statecrime.bsky.social. All welcome, pls join us www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/precarious...
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Precarious Dwelling
Precarious Dwelling: Encounters with housing crisis under settler-colonialism
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