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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️

@skourkos.bsky.social
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(they/them) queer trans lived experience (broken) academic. Mental health, PPIE, labour, resistance.

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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Excellent blog by Kadji Amin on how the US fascist regime's attacks on trans people are no distraction but "at the heart of a three-pronged strategy for the creation of an anti-social authoritarian state": concentrate power, feed culture war, defund social programs. lpeproject.org/blog/how-ant...
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How Anti-Trans Attacks Forge the Anti-Social State
The Trump Administration's anti-trans policies should be seen as central, rather than peripheral, to the creation of what Melinda Cooper has called “an anti-social state” — a state that would abandon…
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helenbrackets.bsky.social @helenbrackets.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Brixton Market is at risk of being bought by private equity developers, which could push out independent traders and bring in chain stores. Locals are launching a counter-bid to bring it into community ownership. Add your name to help keep it independent: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/bu...
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Back the community bid to keep Brixton Market independent
Private equity developers are trying to buy Brixton Market. Support the local traders' emergency counter-bid to keep it in community hands before the June 22nd deadline. Add your name to the petition:
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Read the whole article - but also bring it to your departments, your unions, your senate committees.
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Opinion | The Faculty Workload Myth
Politicians think faculty members don’t teach enough. Here’s what the data says.
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This. All of it: #AI minus data theft, environmental destruction, intentional opacity, un-ethics. All packaged in a research ethics course. Of course 👇
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Out in force at the picket lines today at LSBU, The Union will never be broken
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Excellent news from Australia where union pressure forces Deakin University senior management to U-turn on the proposed ‘Major Workplace Change’ aka fire and rehire + massive redundancies ✊🏼
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
That you are, and much much else besides. Joined and looking forward
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Picket lines at LSBU campus off Borough Road open at 9 with a rally at 12 this hot sunny Monday June 22nd. There may also be some good old protest singing if I have anything to do with it. Come join us! @kclucu.bsky.social @qmucu.bsky.social @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social @ucu-londonmet.bsky.social
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
LSBU is one of those universities, which is why our dispute is of national significance. To add insult to injury, the latest version of the 'Academic Transformation' plan presents this as an 'individual decision' that new staff can now make: join a crappy DC scheme or join no scheme at all. Even.
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UCU LSBU @uculsbu.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Amazing victory for comrades at Sheffield Hallam, whose extended industrial action halted management plans for a subsidiary which would have seriously undermined working conditions & pension entitlements. A powerful message for us at LSBU & nationally, showing what collective strength can achieve
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Seen in a social space at London South Bank University today. An apt comment on the stealth fire and re-hire scheme branded #AcademicTransformation Coming soon to a Uni near you! @kclucu.bsky.social @qmucu.bsky.social @uculsbu.bsky.social
A large black plastic waste bin on which there is a sheet of A3 with the London South Bank University logo, and the words 'Hopes, Dreams & Academic Freedom' followed by outline of a figure throwing 3 small objects in a bin
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
See under #pussilanimous #spineless #gutless #weathervane #bootlicker #collaborationist #turncoat #centristscum
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Trans people have understood this for a very long time: we raised the alarm repeatedly calling out this trans-eliminationist agenda. We have pointed to the intimate links across a proliferation of such agendas. Embedding and expanding solidarities is more urgent than ever
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Good to see you Farah. Yeah horrific but not surprising - direction of travel x
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Just moved to LSBU where they propose to: move most staff to teach only contracts outside collective bargaining, impose workloads in excess of national agreements, make senior lecturers re-apply for a reduced number of lower grade posts, employ new contracts through a subsidiary. We are the canaries
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Such joy. Beautiful photo
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
What fantastic news! Very happy for you
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
James Esses' how-to for "eradicating gender ideology from British society" essentially proceduralises the far right vision of eradicating trans life altogether.
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Literally what a senior academic/line manager said to me once at 12 hours before a report deadline. (Note: this is in applied health research so it is not uncommon for junior researchers to be expected to simply do as they’re told)
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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
In these ghoulish tactics, we can see the true hate--how they fear and loathe our humanity, our legendary hospitality, our inexhaustible generosity, our dust-stained fingers, our calloused hands reaching again and again into the rubble. They aim to destroy humanity itself. They will not succeed.
Human in the genocide
To the drone flying above, 
replaying a man's cry,
"Help, I'm injured"
in Libnan, or the wordless 
wail of a baby in Gaza, 
yes I know these people 
are most likely fictional 
traps to get one to crawl
 out of rubble and into 
a sniper's scope-
you are asking, who 
will die for the chance
 to be human? And if
no one answers, 
you will report: no people 
are left in the area, mission 
accomplished. Yet I 
have seen, over and over, 
my kin hurrying on hands
 and knees into death 
for the chance, however 
slim, to recover the buried, 
the brutalised and broken, 
with love in their hearts 
and a curse on their lips.
Praise God! Praise God!
We will never be defeated
@omarsakrpoet
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Whatever else we think/know about universities, the term ivory tower should be banned. It makes me scream every time
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 31/03/2026
Liberation not segregation Taken at @transpridescotland.bsky.social (Trans Pride Scotland) 2026, 28th March 2026
A protest placard reading LIBERATION NOT SEGREGATION
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
A state has comprehensively failed when it is unable to stop such ongoing fascist frenzy. There is no way for it to find a way out of/back from this from within itself
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I don’t want to ask but do you have any more details?
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
AI does not enhance “efficiency.” AI is a permission structure for a totalizing regime of austerity and labor immiseration.
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
From Instagram - today the Dyke Project shut down NHS England HQ to protest the politically motivated ban on trans youth healthcare.
Photo of protest. A security guard stands on a banner reading Silence = Death, HRT saves lives. A protester lying on the floor holds up a placard that says, 48% of trans people have attempted suicide.
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Has anyone written a review of the restructuring going on across UK HE? Trying to understand what is common across institutions: large, team-taught courses, centralised workload models, limited to no research time, promotion directly tied to grant income. How many consultancy firms are pushing this?
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
My god did we need this good news! #Gorton&Denton #VoteGreen
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Yet another deadly Labour initiative: making the NHS accountable for patients' employment status and adding employment to Integrated Care Boards' performance targets. www.ft.com/content/6943...
ft.com
NHS in England to be set targets on getting people back to work
Ministers also planning to link patient data to benefit claims and employment statistics
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 25/02/2026
It feels out of fashion but a reminder that if you want to be a woman you can just be one.
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
📢Wow community-led social justice oriented research on queer and trans healthcare klaxon
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Fierce article from '24 where Andrea Long Chu calls for leaving behind appeals to gender identity & fighting for a revolutionary redistribution of sex itself: "the freedom to bring sex & gender into whatever relation one chooses" nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com
The Right to Change Sex
The moral case for letting trans kids change their bodies.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Palestine Action activists granted bail Activists released on bail include four hunger strikers. “Despite the state’s best efforts to break each and every one of them, they will walk out today with their heads held high,” - Filton24 Defence Committee www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...
aljazeera.com
Twelve Palestine Action activists granted bail
Bailed activists include four former hunger strikers: Teuta Hoxha, Kamran Ahmed, Qesser Zuhrah and Heba Muraisi.
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Exactly: what starts with removing trans people's healthcare does not end with removing trans people's healthcare 👇
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Ah the UCL settlement. Lecturers still have it particularly bad: huge numbers of students, tons of admin, AI shit, having to substitute for non existent support all while the sector (frankly) collapses. I know lecturers who are v unwell & desperate. Workloads are completely unsustainable
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I am so sorry. I don't know how this conversation started here but hope you are in a better place now
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
This is appalling. Currently facing end of contract myself after 14 years at KCL but I have never heard of an extension on a lower grade?! I thought this is not legal? did you involve the branch?
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Yeah - also make sure you radiate optimism at all times while the world is burning
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Once again Hilary Cass on the BBC weaponising notions of 'care' & 'best interests of the child' to insist (with no evidence) that only a tiny number of children presenting at gender clinics are 'really' trans & that 'locking them in' a trans trajectory is harmful. Trans eliminationism at its finest.
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Utterly irredeemable and craven. Once again for those in the back: by recommending the undermining of trans research participants' self-determination, the Sullivan Review hollows out the principle of research participant self-determination for ALL, especially minoritised people
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
True words
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
An alarming and enlightening thread on the lack of democracy at UCU HQ: silencing & threatening those who dissent/call for accountability, as well as attempting to shut down solidarity from branches. We need to put an end to this
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Omg Jay where?
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Indeed Des
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Forgive the inelegant interjection but: they are both addictive. Obviously. D'oh?
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The recommendations of the Sullivan Review on paring back ethics committees' oversight & EDI guidelines/input on research have devastating implications for the place of research participant autonomy & self-determination. All those working on #ppi #coproduction #livedexperience should pay attention
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Ioana Cerasella Chis @cerasellachis.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Hope and Refusal in an Era of Criminalised Care: Responses to Pirate Care 7 – 8pm GMT, Tuesday 3rd of March 2026 (online) Register: lakeheadu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... The Book Review Symposium publication can be found here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... More info: vagabonds.xyz #Anticapitalism
Poster for the event. On the left half, a tarot-like imagery is featured, in black and white, of pirate carers by the sea. On the right side, it reads 'please join us on March 3rd, 2026 at 7pm (UTC+0) online for a discussion of the book Pirate Care: Acts Against the Criminalisation of Solidarity with the authors and with contributors to a new critical forum on the book that appears in the Postdigital Science and Education Journal. To register, visit vagabonds.xyz
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Stan P. 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @skourkos.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Horrific that these people spent 18 months in jail but such extraordinary news that they were found not guilty
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