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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri

@rishie.bsky.social

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feminist #abortion & reproductive (in)justice researcher, tennis fan, likes tea. co-runs @abortionbookclub.bsky.social. Lecturer in Global Health & Social Medicine @kings-sga.bsky.social. she/her/dr/killjoy 📸@rishiereads_ 🌐rnandagiri.com

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · Nov 15

Here’s a #StarterPack on #ReproductiveJustice in/from/with the #GlobalSouth- drop me a line here to be added!

go.bsky.app/GR3ANpn

ReproJustice x Global South(s)

Join the conversation

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 1d

is it my algorithm glitching by sending me karva chauth stuff or is it a lot more folks putting it on social media?

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 2d

Today, the counterprotesters have started giving out leaflets.

This is because yesterday they managed to talk someone out of going to FiLiA, and they felt that leaflets could communicate such messages more effectively.

They have also started giving out stickers promoting trans joy.

FILIA calls itself "Europe's largest feminist conference."

In reality, it is a hub for all the worst and most authoritarian politics that hides under the feminist label. FiLiA's approach is not feminist, it is cruel, rigid, and hurts the people most vulnerable under patriarchy.

Anti-trans politics

FILIA advertises more events and speakers which focus on transgender people than any other topic. This includes a workshop for individuals to learn how to set up groups to exclude transgender people, and an event celebrating the recent supreme court ruling that threatens to push trans people out of public life, and has already increased harassment and violence faced by trans people.

Real feminists understand that transphobia is a manifestation of patriarchy, and that liberation for women cannot be seperated from liberation for trans people.

Anti-sex work politics

FiliA advocates the Nordic Model - where selling sex is legal but buying it is a crime. Compared to completely decriminalising sex work, the Nordic Model results in less abuse being reported, and more sex workers being targetted by police.

Opposing adult content online, including in video games

FILIA signed a recent petition that resulted in hundreds of video ga being banned from online distributors, and have invited the organ Collective Shout to speak at the conference. This goes against TRANS artistic freedom.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 3d

Really not good at all that the Christian Right feels emboldened enough to parade in Soho in paramilitary uniforms. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/10/k...

Evangelical 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district

A right-wing, evangelical group calling itself the King's Army blocked traffic on Old Compton Street in Soho while chanting anti-LGBTQ+ slogans.

www.thepinknews.com

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Feminist Miscarriage Project @miscarriageproject.bsky.social · 7d

Conference alert! Thursday 18th-Friday 19th June, 2026, London campus of Loughborough University. Online day: Monday 22nd June, 2026. Please see Call for Papers here:

feministmiscarriageproject.org/conference

Conference — The Feminist Miscarriage Project

Information on the conference 'New Directions in Miscarriage Research: Intersectional, Interdisciplinary and Full-Spectrum Perspectives', Loughborough University London Campus, June 2026.

feministmiscarriageproject.org

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 6d

“[…]AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.”

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’

Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’

www.theguardian.com

Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 7d

reclaim the em and en dash.

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 13d

genuinely so stupid. have they even bothered to talk to anyone working at a uni? not like unis are struggling because of the broken HE model and treating international students like cash cows, & they don’t want to come here anymore (which, y’know, fair)

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Labour to bring back maintenance grants for students on ‘priority’ courses

Education secretary says means-tested grants for ‘those who need them most’ will be funded by new international student levy

www.theguardian.com

Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 14d

Yeah, the ADF have been here a while and have been spending tonnes of money - but, its not just abortion, it's across the board. @amnestyuk.bsky.social's excellent report shows the staggering increase in ££: www.amnesty.org.uk/anti-rights

A powerful anti-rights movement is growing in the UK

A powerful anti-rights movement is growing in the UK, threatening to roll back our hard-won freedoms and rewrite the rules on whose rights, bodies and lives deserve protection. But - we refuse to be d...

www.amnesty.org.uk

Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 14d

Doctors & medical professionals are & can be allies in abortion work, but they are not the saviours or arbiters of abortion, its meanings, & its experiences. They are not the sole authority. Medicalisation does not mean depoliticised, does not mean availability, does not mean it is liberatory. 7/7

Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 14d

Lastly, I don't think medicalisation is a benign good. Indeed, we know people who were investigated/prosecuted for 'illegal abortions' in GB were reported to the police by medical professionals. 6/

Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 14d

Doing so forecloses not just our analyses, imaginations & understandings, it forecloses transnational examples of resistance, of hopes, of liberation. It risks missing how the far-right is transnational, just as the feminist anti-fascist organising has always thrived in transnational solidarity. 5/

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 14d

I really think abortion/repro justice folks in the UK need to break out of this US-focused/led lens. This is a *global* issue - it's in India, in Poland, in Argentina [...]. Our understandings of how fascism operates cannot just be through this lens of the US. Also: some of this is homegrown. 4/

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 14d

The arguments have also shifted. As we saw in Scotland around buffer zones, it's now about 'freedom of thought' 'freedom of expression' and not about autonomies, rights – exactly the playbook used against trans people. 3/

Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 14d

we can see this clearly in the panic around (white) birth rates and selective pronatalism in the UK while also claiming that Black and Brown people (over) 'breed', in Farage's comments on the sanctity of heterosexual marriages and parenting, and of course the virulent anti-trans acts & policies 2/

Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 14d

"But it’s not just abortion, it is part of a larger anti-rights issue"

Reform has seen a few anti-abortion folks join them, but this broader anti-rights ideology includes racist, anti-immigration, anti-trans, anti-LGBTQI approaches and actions. 1/

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Reform ‘proudly embracing’ anti-abortion politics, experts warn

Campaigners accuse party of ‘fast becoming the political refuge for anti-abortion hardliners’

www.independent.co.uk

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 17d

yes, because this war criminal/ crypt keeper is the logical pick for this

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Washington backing plan for Tony Blair to head transitional Gaza authority

Reported proposal for international body to oversee Gaza for up to five years counters UN-backed plan for faster transition to Palestinian rule

www.theguardian.com

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 19d

Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

LBC @lbc.co.uk · 19d

"We were told thalidomide was a safe drug and it wasn't..."

Nigel Farage says he has 'no idea' if Donald Trump is right about paracetamol being linked to autism.

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 18d

giving the same energy:

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 18d

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 18d

Do you think I can start my lecture on bioethics and technologies with the first five minutes of this on the absurdities of AI?

Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 18d

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Strong Message Here - Hurty Words - BBC Sounds

Stewart Lee joins to look at the rebranding of cancel culture.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Rageshri Dhairyawan @drrageshri.bsky.social · 22d

**UNHEARD BOOK EVENT - LONDON**

21st October at the beautiful Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garrett in London. I used to pass this venue all the time when I was a medical student at Guys Hospital so this is really exciting!

Join us! Tickets 👇🏽

oldoperatingtheatre.com/event-posts/...

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The Guild @guildeu.bsky.social · 24d

🌍 The Guild is pleased to announce that the Early-Career Research Fellowships programme launched by ARUA is now open to African researchers affiliated with the #AfricaEuropeCoRE!

🧐 Click the link to find out what that means: www.the-guild.eu/news-and-blo...

Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 27d

Thanks, Laurence! 🥰

Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 27d

Dr Michaela Sedovic's work on im/migration is also brilliant: www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic...

All this to say, qual may (delberately) be on the margins of the field, but it has an outsized impact (imo). 4/

www.lse.ac.uk

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Rishita "Department of Error" Nandagiri @rishie.bsky.social · 27d

I think qual has always been around demography - Jenny Trinitapoli and Sara Yeatman's work is incredible: tsogololathanzi.uchicago.edu

I'm personally extremely inspired by Susan Greenhalgh's work (she might dispute the demographer label!) 3/

Tsogolo La Thanzi Centre |

tsogololathanzi.uchicago.edu

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