Sarah Keenan

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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 ...

@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/...

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 ...

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/...

Thank goodness for lesbians

This is so good.

Thankful for the work of feminist colleagues like Emily and Sarah, everyday

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

Parody Alternative Judgment: For Women Scotland [2025], by Emily Grabham
criticallegalthinking.com/2025/05/01/p...

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...

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...

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...

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...

‘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...

April 2025 I keep waking up with the dawn chorus at 5am.

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.

Illegally Female The UK's Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that trans women are not legally considered women.

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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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:

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...