reminder that if you're an early career researcher/phd working on global feminism, you can join our group.

every 2 months we zoom, read a chapter/ draft article that someone from the group has written & offer feedback.

non-competitive, friendly, space 4 u in this squad.

This is what is so starkly missing from the Cass report, which starts from the assumption that transition is an undesirable outcome and takes no stock of the evidence that clearly and consistently challenges that view

I thought Sage Brice put this so beautifully in her comments at the last AAG - we all lose out by not living together with our trans friends colleagues and family

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Being trans makes it possible for my kid to live and I don’t mean he wouldn’t be alive I mean that he would not truly live and we all - his classmates, his family and everyone he interacts with - would be worse off for not getting to live together + alongside this amazing person

Happening now:

Naamodniks, other Jews, and allies are blocking the entrance to the Foreign Office (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office) to demand that they fund aid not arms for Gaza.

As Jews in the UK, we demand that the government re-funds UNRWA and stops arming Israeli war crimes.

***Extended and Opened*** Abstracts invited for the proposed Trans Ecologies AREA Special Section - now open to scholars who did not attend the panel/symposium. New deadline 7 April. CfP: tinyurl.com/TEextended

A gentle reminder that abstracts are due for the Trans Ecologies Special Section by the end of this month. If you’re working regular office hours, this Friday is the effective deadline. If you attended our panel/symposium and haven’t yet seen the CfP, please get in touch!

📢 Bridging Fellowships in Medical Humanities 📢

3 x 12mth Bridging Fellowships for recent PhD graduates in any relevant discipline to develop their research and careers in Durham Institute for Medical Humanities's Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities.

Apply April 15 durham.taleo.net/careersection/…

This from Naomi Klein is so spot on. And the edifice feels more and more like a facade with every passing week.

Hats off 2 wife of the mind ❤️‍🔥 'We will never be able to defend the rights of transgender kids until we understand them purely on their own terms: as full members of society who would like to change their sex. It does not matter where this desire comes from' nymag.com/intelligencer/…

The jays in my neck of the woods have taken to mimicking buzzards. What I love best about it though is they don’t make the exact same sound a buzzard would make. Instead they replicate the sound of a buzzard mewing in the distance…

Delighted to say our CfP is out for a special journal section proceeding from the Durham Trans Ecologies Symposium. If you attended or contributed to the symposium (or the AAG panel that preceded it) and haven’t yet received a copy of the CfP, please get in touch! Geography at Durham

Project update: statesofprecarity.co.uk/updates/

Thank you for the incredible response to the survey. We're currently anlaysing, applying for funding, & organising an RGS panel. A huge thanks to Olivia Mason Sage Brice Aditi Das, PhD & Cheryl Mcewan who will be joining us for this.

So sad to discover Durham’s wonderful Kemble art shop and gallery has closed Kemble Gallery

Just wow. Andrea Long Chu
As acerbically astute and devastatingly precise as ever (and I mean each of these adjectives in its best possible sense)

Excited for this

It is also quite audacious to simply 'warmly invite the group to reconvene' after a traumatic couple of months during which the cause for which they spoke escalated terribly. What does 'EDI' mean under these terms when harmless tweets about the situation in Gaza led to all this?

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