Great listening to @joshuaidehen.bsky.social chatting to @laurenlaverne.bsky.social on 6 music just now. Two people chatting about music and the world having a lovely time. This is the kind of joy we need just now.
I love reading other academics’ out of office replies. I do not have an urgent question about Russian but now I really want to know what kinds of urgent questions about Russian you get. No one has urgent questions for me about methods.
Urgh that’s grim. I’m sorry, not surprised but sorry. Hope you can find a more appropriate journal for it.
Looking afresh at these reviewers' comments on our paper on trans disabled people, it's even more obvious that the paper was rejected because of transphobia
Screenshot of book cover.
Screenshot of review: This generative and confronting collection invites us to re-think, re-position, and re-imagine the imbrication of queerness and Scottishness, alongside other social differences. Taylor has curated an impressive array of creatives, scholars, and activists who explore the tensions, possibilities, pleasures, risks, and glitches that emerge for queer and trans people navigating their senses of belonging to the 'wee nation' of Scotland. Senthorun Raj, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
It’s an honour to be asked to review fab manuscripts about queer things ahead of their publication. One of the books I’ve had the pleasure of endorsing is Yvette Taylor’s edited collection, “Queer in a Wee Place: Small Nations, Sexuality and Scotland.”
Pre-order: www.bloomsbury.com/au/queer-in-...
An ice cream cone with school cake flavour ice cream. The wafer has the ice cream shop’s name on which is ‘minted’.
It’s March. That means it is the right time of year for ice cream meetings. (For a long time I believed it was ice cream season all year round but also I live in Scotland). It will be ice cream meeting season for approx 6 months. Please invite me for ice cream meetings. Work chat optional.
Coming in November from @brisunipress.bsky.social, In the Aftermath of Empire explores the impact of British imperialism on gender and sexuality law in four jurisdictions.
Please tell your libraries to pre-order!
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/in-the-after...
Also I was up early enough to listen to Names in Songs in Chris Hawkins show on 6music. In general I am not an early morning person but I do enjoy when I catch Names in Songs on a Wednesday.
Such a nice day at work today. Hearing @kevinguyan.bsky.social talk about his work for a GLINTS event; catching up with some of my favourite colleagues; meeting new colleagues for interesting research & teaching plans; & being called out on my fashion choices /dressing smart by @kenglish.bsky.social
My work Outlook added Text Predictions. When you type “Hi” it suggests the name of a person in a ‘to’ line. I had to turn it off because every time I sign off an email it suggests Heather as my name. I don’t even have any colleagues called Heather. Kinda miss Microsoft Clippy. Probably knew my name.
'Early findings from the first National Disabled Staff Survey (NDSS), completed by 837 disabled staff across 127 institutions in 2025, expose deep structural barriers that undermine wellbeing, career progression, and retention.' 1/2
When students are excited enough about an assessment that they make a Google form for submissions for a queer class they deserve queer academics submitting silly things. Also 30 words was nothing. Did it on the train home.
My excellent academic pal @carolineleicht.bsky.social (former colleague now working elsewhere) has students working on zine assessments for a queer & feminist class. It will be submitted & they will share them in a zine party(omg!). So I just submitted to one because that’s true academic friendship.
Call for book chapters: abstracts by 16th March 2026
Rethinking queer ageing: The significance of geo-temporal contexts. Edited by Linn Sandberg, Rebeka Põldsam and Rebecca L. Jones (me!)
Academic understandings of LGBTQ+ ageing are dominated by Anglo-American contexts, which means that [...]
Sociology of class lectureship @uomsociology.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL973/l...
Flyer for the SGSSS Advanced Training workshop “Doing Embodied Research: Practising Care, Creativity and Collaboration,” hosted at the University of Glasgow. Includes event details, description of the two‑day fully funded workshop, and logos of the University of Glasgow and the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science.
Our @sgsss.bsky.social Advanced Training is here! Help me and @drfigtree.bsky.social reach the PhD researchers looking for creative tools, supportive practices, and new ways of imagining scholarly life.
Apply by 10/03/26: forms.gle/GD7ixJ4JDvpx...
@uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social
@uofgussp.bsky.social has a fab community of participatory researchers. Now advertising for RA w participatory methods experience to join us and work across two of our large grants: @healthmod.bsky.social and @changingrealities.bsky.social
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#Disability
If you know UK-based Disabled People's Organisations or other community groups / collectives that are currently interested in exploring the topics mentioned above from a 'political' perspective, please recommend!
#DisabilityStudies #DisabilityRights
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.'
📣 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.
An essay that contains some toilet roll where I’ve scrawled the words “cultural tissue”. Still going strong approx 17 years later
However the best essay I got away with has no title and was a creative submission for Postmodern Fictions class. It was a satire about postmodern fiction where the characters went on a hunt for the plot and started a band (I made them a MySpace) but they were post-sound. It included this:
3. Visibility is a trap: gender and sexuality in Affinity and Nights at the Circus
4. Beyond the binaries and beyond the body: queering postmodern genders (this is dated 2009)
5. Discuss the ways gender is experienced by trans women in the criminal justice system as both victims and offenders 🧵/2
Ok because I’m a nerd who keeps everything have 5 essay titles I wrote in uni (only ones I titled myself) across multiple subjects:
1. The impossibility of ending
2. “More than a woman, more than a man” and other “words that don’t fit”: exploring transgender in Hedwig & the Angry Inch and Trumpet 🧵1
No it was Robin Sowerby! (I just checked my old essays).
Ok 5 classes I took in university (across different degrees, universities & subjects but in some kind of chronological order):
1. Meaning and Representation
2. Writing and Identity
3. Epic
4. The Cultural Politics of Gender and Race
5. Equality and Human Rights
Stirling had the best course titles.
My partner (who’s an AHP) is on a course at work today. He has just messaged me: “So this course is about outcome measures but it looks like it’s mainly quantitative. I would’ve thought healthcare would want to look at qualitive too”. I am so proud. But also expect he is going to be disappointed.
Matthew Heinz - Entering Transmasculinity: The Inevitability of Discourse.
I’ve been writing a very silly creative submission for a feminist law journal about the FWS Supreme Court judgement. It might never see the light of day and it might not be funny. But I really recommend making jokes in the face of the rolling back of trans rights. If nothing else I had a nice time.
We've just launched the Trans Unity Quilt Project, a campaign by and for trans people across the UK to bring joy and hope by making a quilt that will stretch over 50m long
🎨 Make your own patch 👇
goodlawproject.org/campaign/the...
The cover of Arthur’s children’s book “Jacob’s Transition Goals” that will be released on 21st April 2026
Super excited to share the cover of my children’s book Jacob’s Transition Goals!
Jacob’s Transition Goals is about an 8 year old transgender boy who starts playing football for his local boys team. It’s a joyful story that I wish I’d been able to read when I was a trans kid.
Out April 21st!
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