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Melissa Laing

@ylaingylaing.bsky.social
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Social work associate lecturer and PhD candidate researching the intersection between gender and species-based violence and homelessness, 🐈 lady, 🌈

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Zoei Sutton @zoei.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
New article alert! How do renters with pets and housing stakeholders navigate multispecies renting in South Australia? Open Access, read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #Sociology #Animals #Qualitative #Housingresearch
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‘If I don’t like the cats then they have to go’: navigating pet unfriendly rental accommodation
While nonhuman animals are often described as family, beloved, irreplaceable when fulfilling a companion animal role, they sit in a complex socio-legal context that does not value them as subjects ...
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Zoei Sutton @zoei.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
New piece with @animalsociology.bsky.social : legislative change is a good step but we need to resource supports and services for human and nonhuman victim-survivors theconversation.com/protecting-p...
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Protecting pets in domestic violence cases will take more than a law change
Changing NZ’s Crimes Act to cover family pets caught in violent situations is a good start. But better resourcing and training will be needed to make it work.
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Melissa Laing @ylaingylaing.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I’ve been a bit quiet on here but this was a joy to facilitate! There are so many good minds and hearts working to break down the human/nonhuman service delivery silos
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Erin Blondeau ✷ writer & researcher @erinblondeau.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Conspiracy culture is a weapon wielded by elite politicians and capitalists to keep us fighting a culture war, so we are too distracted to imagine a better and more just world. We need to be together irl. We need to learn together and organize. We need to dream! atmos.earth/i-believed-c...
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I Believed Climate Change Was a Lie. Here’s What Changed My Mind. | Atmos
Climate skepticism isn’t just ignorance—it’s a carefully orchestrated campaign that's more powerful than ever.
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Mehreen Faruqi @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Shamefully, universities have betrayed their students, their staff and their reputation by shutting down free speech and criticism of Israel. They are weaponising anti-semitism to sanitise campuses of anyone who speaks up for Palestinian human rights or against Israel’s genocide and occupation.
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