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Lizzie Reed
@lizziereed.bsky.social
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Associate Prof of #Sociology at Uni of Southampton. Queer lives, visual methods, kinship & identity. Ask me about my queer feminist trans agenda. She/they 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0885-2908
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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · Feb 12
This is the VERY exciting project I've been working on since Aug with an incredible team. Give us a follow to stay up to date as it grows!
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Create/Connect @createconnectccr.bsky.social · Feb 12
Create/Connect is run by the Creativity, Community and Resilience research team. You can find out more about the project by visiting our website: www.createconnectproject.co.uk
The Create/Connect logo: the word 'create' is in blue, above the word 'connect', in pink. The text is set on a white background.
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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 5h
This is a very enjoyable Q&A. I particularly enjoyed "legally irrelevant" which is so rarely dropped, no matter how legally irrelevant something is
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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 1d
Oh you guess absolutely correctly on that machine. This also comes after me chasing them for a fortnight for results from blood tests which check most important marker for if that medication level is wrong (which causes all sorts of horrible things) and I'm the one not complying!
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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 1d
But hey, who doesn't need the threat of refusal of bodily autonomy and health dropping by text? If I don't like it, I shouldn't be ill to start with, right? #disability
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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 1d
The TONE from my GP surgery. If I don't "comply" (first time they've asked) they will deny me medication which prevents me becoming seriously ill and sudden cessation from which can cause serious illness.

I'm unaware of side effects that would cause me to change height
Text reads: You are due a height, weight & BP check. This is monitoring that needs to be carried out in relation to your medication. If you do not comply with this monitoring it could prevent you receiving your medication. Please use the machine in reception. Thanks
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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 1d
I submit that communicating flexibly is incompatible with communicating "without much obvious searching for expresssion". Fundamentally, those two things cannot coexist.
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children of the corncob @bisk.sureis.sexy · 1d
fuck off with this shit you racist cunts.

i forgot the word "tumbledryer" the other day so i called it a tumbley bumbley and english is my only fucking language.

abolish the home office.
Changes to the English language requirement were first reported in May when the government published their early plans in the immigration white paper. The new standard requires people to express themselves “fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expression” and to be able to communicate flexibly in social, academic and work situations.
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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 5d
I didn't apply for the BSA conference because it was being held at Uni of Edinburgh who the UN special rapporteur said were among the most financially entangled institutions with the genocide in Gaza. After abstract submission closed, they have moved to Mancheser. I feel a bit swindled.
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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 7d
Thank you both
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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 7d
Would you be able to just ctrl+f "lingerings, wayward paths, and fertile delay" and see if you strike gold?
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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 7d
I need a page reference for a book I don't have access to anymore. Does anyone have ebook access for Bond Stockton's 'Queer Child/Growing Sideways' who could just look up one half sentence for me so I can stick a page number down? #AcademicSky
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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 8d
The adverts are making me ragey. We're always in some phase or other of telling people their food choices are morally wrong.
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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 8d
So to recap Starmer's position;

Protests calling for an end to genocide in Gaza and government action to enforce international law = "anti Semitic hate marches"

White nationalist rallies calling for mass deportations = "legitimate concerns"
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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 9d
Streeting is a hateful haunted wax work of a man & this is so consistent with everything he has done for 20+ years.

Picking one relevant stat? It takes an average of 9.5 years for someone to receive a bipolar diagnosis. But the money is going on 'overdiagnosis'?

www.bipolaruk.org/bipolar-comm...
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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 9d
Oh I really would!
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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 9d
That is incredible
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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 12d
Who amongst us hasn't learnt this the hard way?
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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 12d
About 90% sure I just saw a classmate, as he was in '98, in the audience for Ghetto Supastar. Are you out there Luke? Was it you? #totp
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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 12d
The greatest suprise to me in that piece is that some people apparently believe friendship happens without any effort.
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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 12d
Like, students are feeling this lack too. I've had students describe feeling illiterate in the face of some fairly average social theory texts. It's no wonder GenAI starts looking so appealing
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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 12d
Literacy of UG students has declined so much in the last ~10 years. It has huge implications for what counts as an accessible text. Non specialist language like "hitherto" and "epoch" are completely unknown to them. I learnt most vocab from reading for leisure and I wonder if that's the big shift?
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 14d
One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."
A few days after this cartoon was published, my syndicate received a very indignant letter from someone representing the Jane Goodall Institute. Not only did my syndicate and I both get read the Riot Act, there was a vague implication that litigation over this cartoon might be around the corner. I was horrified. Not so much from a fear of being sued (I just couldn't see how this cartoon could be construed as anything but silly, but because of my deep respect for Jane Goodall and her well-known contributions to pri-matology. The last thing in the world I would have intentionally done was offend Dr. Goodall in any way. Before I had a chance to write my apology, another complication arose. The National Geographic Society contacted my syndicate and expressed a desire to reprint the cartoon in a special centennial issue of their magazine. My editor, aware of what had just occurred, declined, explaining why. Apparently, whoever it was that sent the inquiry from National Geographic was shocked. They told my editor that "that doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know." They did some checking themselves, and an interesting fact was eventually discovered: Jane Goodall loved the cartoon. Furthermore, she was totally unaware that any of this "stuff" was going on. Some phone calls were made, and the cartoon was not only reprinted in the centennial issue of National Geographic, but was also used by her Institute on a T-shirt for fund-raising purposes. I've since had an opportunity to visit Dr. Goodall at her research facility in Gombe. It's a wonderful place (sort of like right out of National Geographic). "To refer to Dr. Goodall as a tramp is inexcusable even by a self-described 'loony' as Larson. The cartoon was incredibly offensive and in such poor taste that readers might well question the editorial judgment of running such an atrocity in a newspaper that reputes to be supplying news to persons with a better than average intelligence. The cartoon and its message were absolutely stupid." —Excerpt from the above-mentioned letter that started the ruckus
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 14d
People say international solidarity cannot work, and yet eduroam.
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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 15d
This is a good response
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 15d
Read our response to the Government’s announcement that university maintenance grants will be reintroduced for certain courses, funded through a levy on international student fees
https://bit.ly/4gPz7uO
British Academy responds to government announcement on university maintenance grants
The British Academy has issued a response to the government's announcement on using a proposed levy on international students to fund maintenance grants.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
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South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership @scdtp.bsky.social · 16d
Please help to spread the word! A chance to get your PhD funded through ESRC SCDTP to study @ Brighton, Chichester, Portsmouth & Southampton

@unisouthampton.bsky.social @uniofbrighton.bsky.social @chiunipress.bsky.social @sspcatsoton.bsky.social @sotonpolitics.bsky.social @uoseducation.bsky.social
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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 20d
Great cardi, as well
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Lizzie Reed @lizziereed.bsky.social · 20d
It's ideologically incoherent, as a series. Which is sad and makes me long for the 90s movies which felt mildly subversive. The asylum-prison is narratively lazy as well as offensive.
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