Meet the Team! ✨ Dr Trude Sundberg (from the University of Kent) is the quantitative lead in our study, working closely with Rei and Kevin. Their favourite hobbies are queering quantitative methods and dismantling hegemonic structures. Pronouns are They/Them. Dr. Trude Sundberg (they/them)

“I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.” -Maya Angelou

So grateful to May-Len Skilbrei @[email protected] Lorraine Nencel, and Jeanett Bjoness for their careful and constructive editing of my chapter, out now in ‘Reconfiguring Stigma in Studies of Sex for Sale’. Delighted to get my hard copy of the book this week🤓

Quick reminder -while #ToryMps on #politicslondon are adamant that despite risks, they are determined to offer surgeries to see constituents face-to-face, #hendon #barnet #MP Matthew Offord refuses to offer regular surgeries+hides when challenged on his views Politics London

And finally, if you’re a #hendon resident who votes #labour or disagrees with Matthew Offord - be prepared for obscenities, personal attacks, and a general sense of disdain for the voters that put him on power. BBC Politics #bbcpolitics #ToryHypocrisy google.com/amp/s/www.mirr…

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Toxic academia ‘Universities sing the song of meritocracy but dance to a different tune. In reality, they will do everything to reward and protect their most destructive, abusive and uncooperative faculty’. timeshighereducation.com/opinion/ten-ru…

In the news 📰 Dr Erin Sanders-McDonagh talks on BBC Radio 5 Live about knife crime in the UK and how violence rates can be tackled ow.ly/3YwH50Ks51k Hear Dr Sanders-McDonagh interviewed at 51m52s. #KnifeCrime #ViolenceRates

So proud of my amazing PhD student submitting what is a fascinating and original piece of work on bisexual belonging. I have no doubt her work will be an important addition to the literature!🙌🏻🌈✨

Sexual Spaces for Women Aston University Weds 29th March 1pm-4pm. Talks by me Dr Erin Sanders-McDonagh @GemCommane & Gemma Williams We'll be talking orgasmic mediation, women's porn tourism, & Bean Flicks - an intersectional porn festival celebrating marginalised bodies and sexualities

To book a free please at the event please register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/sexual-space… Aston Sociology and Policy Social Sciences and Humanities at Aston University

Out soon! Manchester University Press #Ethnography #CardiffSchool

As Children in Need’s appeal programme, the BBC annual fundraising event for “disadvantaged” kids (the majority of whom are sick/disabled), airs tomorrow, I want you to remember these five things:

1. Disabled children shouldn’t have to disclose or demonstrate their disability / sickness or ‘how they came to be’ in order to receive support.

2. The way the charity tugs at our heartstrings is dehumanising to those they’re fighting the corner of. It reduces them to sad mascots of helplessness when the reality is that disabled kids are incredibly resourceful and resilient. The problem isn’t the children.

3. The programme relies heavily on the temporary feel good factor people experience when they donate arbitrary, one-off sums of money, but the issues disabled kids face are systemic and would only ever be temporarily improved by cash injections.

4. Once the charity ‘pot’ dries up, so do the projects it is assigned to. Where are the kids left then? What about after they turn 18? Long-term & permanent solutions need to be sought to improve support and services and the only way to do this is if they’re state-funded.

5. In summary: Children in Need is doing our government’s job for them, in a temporary way, for select people only, at the expense of the privacy and dignity of those people, and we’re controlling the purse strings. Disabled children deserve so much more.

Genuinely obsessed with In Our Time - how did I live so long without it? Surely there’s some topic that my research would fit into🙏🏻

Rising knife crime in London is linked to austerity cuts to youth services – here’s the evidence theconversation.com/rising-knife-c… via The Conversation