Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden
@sandraduffy.bsky.social
Law lecturer, dog parent, imported Bristolian, Irish. Using law for trans liberation, reproductive justice, post-/de-coloniality. They/she. AuDHD. Fond of penguins. Views personal. 🇵🇸
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Moral panics and legal projects: echoes of Section 28 in United Kingdom transgender discourse and law reform
A grounding in the queer history of the legal system in the United Kingdom reveals striking parallels between the moral panic leading to the enactment of Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988, a...
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So thrilled to say that my new article on the echoes of Section 28 in the moral panic around trans people in the UK is out now, along with the rest of the first issue of @genderandjustice.bsky.social !
doi.org/10.1332/3033...
doi.org/10.1332/3033...
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I am impressed that Your Party have somehow managed to communicate via national mainstream media the feeling of being in an interminably feuding local political organizers WhatsApp with so many daily notifications that it's impossible to keep track of the feuds
November 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I am impressed that Your Party have somehow managed to communicate via national mainstream media the feeling of being in an interminably feuding local political organizers WhatsApp with so many daily notifications that it's impossible to keep track of the feuds
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On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, the Green Party reiterates our commitment to justice for the people of Palestine.
November 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, the Green Party reiterates our commitment to justice for the people of Palestine.
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We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.
-Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
-Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
November 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.
-Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
-Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
Ró is walking around the Christmas tree in a semi-circle, carefully nosing every ornament within reach juuuust enough to satisfy her curiosity but stay out of trouble.
November 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Ró is walking around the Christmas tree in a semi-circle, carefully nosing every ornament within reach juuuust enough to satisfy her curiosity but stay out of trouble.
I am very emotional but also very busy today, and I have exhausted the capacities for reassurance of my wife (also busy) and my parents ('just get on with it,' but kindly) so if I am Posting a lot it's because I need kind human interaction.
November 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I am very emotional but also very busy today, and I have exhausted the capacities for reassurance of my wife (also busy) and my parents ('just get on with it,' but kindly) so if I am Posting a lot it's because I need kind human interaction.
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This is an excellent thread, and if I might add, with care, that I think our academic staff are also all exhausted as well, by so many things that were not always a part of their role, as well as the pressure and precariousness of academia. Students feel that, too - the whole environment is fraught.
I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/
November 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This is an excellent thread, and if I might add, with care, that I think our academic staff are also all exhausted as well, by so many things that were not always a part of their role, as well as the pressure and precariousness of academia. Students feel that, too - the whole environment is fraught.
A genuine left choice in this country would be amazing. Unfortunately, etc.
The thing is I'm not rooting against socialist movements. It's GUTTING that YP can't get their shit together. I wanted them to succeed. I am a socialist transfeminist, I didn't /want/ to be for their downfall!
November 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
A genuine left choice in this country would be amazing. Unfortunately, etc.
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I will not let techbros take vibe as a methodology from me... a vibe is intuitive, collective, performative (Butler sense & theatrical), deliberately elusive iykyk. It is not laziness or privileged assumption.
November 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I will not let techbros take vibe as a methodology from me... a vibe is intuitive, collective, performative (Butler sense & theatrical), deliberately elusive iykyk. It is not laziness or privileged assumption.
"While I see the risk to queerness- a flattening, a subsumption-in meeting the law, I maintain that the queer will survive through its will and its wilfulness; its playfulness in method, its engagement with the outsider, its verbosity, its reproduction otherwise, and its sidelong view of the world."
I'm afraid I'm going to be told by Very Serious Reviewers that I'm essentially doing vibes-based analysis here but Queer IS a vibe, it's a method, it's a playfulness, it doesn't get shut down when one avenue is thwarted - Queer reproduces otherwise, Queer adapts, Queer survives.
November 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
"While I see the risk to queerness- a flattening, a subsumption-in meeting the law, I maintain that the queer will survive through its will and its wilfulness; its playfulness in method, its engagement with the outsider, its verbosity, its reproduction otherwise, and its sidelong view of the world."
Trying to find a way to argue back against Kapur's assertion that ihrl essentially subsumes the radicality of queer law back into homonormativity, and just wanting to point at @lawsadrag.bsky.social and yell 'look over there!'
“Queer legal studies might be queer by virtue of its citational practices; its archival practices; its embrace of the affective and its foregrounding of materiality and embodiment...
November 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Trying to find a way to argue back against Kapur's assertion that ihrl essentially subsumes the radicality of queer law back into homonormativity, and just wanting to point at @lawsadrag.bsky.social and yell 'look over there!'
“Queer legal studies might be queer by virtue of its citational practices; its archival practices; its embrace of the affective and its foregrounding of materiality and embodiment...
November 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
“Queer legal studies might be queer by virtue of its citational practices; its archival practices; its embrace of the affective and its foregrounding of materiality and embodiment...
Texting my friends like 'book writing is a hellhole, save yourselves.'
November 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Texting my friends like 'book writing is a hellhole, save yourselves.'
I love words but I hate putting them in order.
i love words and i should be allowed to spend more time with them
November 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I love words but I hate putting them in order.
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Hansard moments I think about far too often
November 29, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Hansard moments I think about far too often
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…🤔
“Transitgender.”
“Transitgender.”
Queer-coded transit news: the M train is taking over some of the F train’s service and the F train is taking some of the M train’s service. So, put simply, F to M and M to F.
November 29, 2025 at 7:42 AM
…🤔
“Transitgender.”
“Transitgender.”
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Oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god: why did I ever say I'd write a book
November 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god: why did I ever say I'd write a book
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Are you ready for her semiquincentennial?
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Are you ready for her semiquincentennial?
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Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar & writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas & the history of Palestinian resistance, points to 3 factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed...
November 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar & writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas & the history of Palestinian resistance, points to 3 factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed...
Oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god: why did I ever say I'd write a book
November 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god: why did I ever say I'd write a book
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Bígí linn! Dé Sathairn, 1in, An Gairdín Cuimhneacháin, Mórshiúl Náisiúnta ar son na Palaistíne. Smachtbhannaí anois! #SaoirseDonPhalaistín 🇵🇸
November 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Bígí linn! Dé Sathairn, 1in, An Gairdín Cuimhneacháin, Mórshiúl Náisiúnta ar son na Palaistíne. Smachtbhannaí anois! #SaoirseDonPhalaistín 🇵🇸
Hello, I've got a student who's interested in the co-option of far right narratives about migration into the mainstream (politically especially) in the UK. Do you have any recs I can pass on?
Thinking esp @reacpolrn.bsky.social people? @aurelmondon.bsky.social ?
Thinking esp @reacpolrn.bsky.social people? @aurelmondon.bsky.social ?
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Hello, I've got a student who's interested in the co-option of far right narratives about migration into the mainstream (politically especially) in the UK. Do you have any recs I can pass on?
Thinking esp @reacpolrn.bsky.social people? @aurelmondon.bsky.social ?
Thinking esp @reacpolrn.bsky.social people? @aurelmondon.bsky.social ?
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It feels minor in the grand scheme of things, but Cornish getting Part III status is welcome news.
I've always been an advocate for the preservation of minority languages & the culture they foster, and this goes a long way to helping protect & revive a language that was considered dead until 2010.
I've always been an advocate for the preservation of minority languages & the culture they foster, and this goes a long way to helping protect & revive a language that was considered dead until 2010.
Milestone for Cornish language after securing Part III status alongside Welsh and Gaelic
It officially recognises the importance of Cornish as a living language and a core part of Cornwall’s cultural identity
www.cornwall.gov.uk
November 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
It feels minor in the grand scheme of things, but Cornish getting Part III status is welcome news.
I've always been an advocate for the preservation of minority languages & the culture they foster, and this goes a long way to helping protect & revive a language that was considered dead until 2010.
I've always been an advocate for the preservation of minority languages & the culture they foster, and this goes a long way to helping protect & revive a language that was considered dead until 2010.
This ongoing genocide shows us that international law will be a sham until it can deal with atrocities in real time and prevent the loss of life and living that is happening in Gaza.
Yet the attacks continue unabated, tents are flooded, and people are left homeless, their every attempt at stability and security thwarted.
World, Israel is deceiving you, trampling on your humanity, breaking every promise, and failing to implement any of the agreed-upon terms.
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Gaza
World, Israel is deceiving you, trampling on your humanity, breaking every promise, and failing to implement any of the agreed-upon terms.
2/3
Gaza
November 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
This ongoing genocide shows us that international law will be a sham until it can deal with atrocities in real time and prevent the loss of life and living that is happening in Gaza.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen (more than once edition)
dEUS
Manic Street Preachers
The Cure
Bell X1
The Divine Comedy
dEUS
Manic Street Preachers
The Cure
Bell X1
The Divine Comedy
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen (tricking you into thinking I'm older than I am edition)
Bikini Kill
Descendents
Sleater Kinney
Pixies
Morrissey
Bikini Kill
Descendents
Sleater Kinney
Pixies
Morrissey
This list may look a bit odd but ok here goes, also it's so hard to pick
Violent Femmes
The Offspring
Manic Street Preachers
Lady Gaga
Jethro Tull
Violent Femmes
The Offspring
Manic Street Preachers
Lady Gaga
Jethro Tull
November 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen (more than once edition)
dEUS
Manic Street Preachers
The Cure
Bell X1
The Divine Comedy
dEUS
Manic Street Preachers
The Cure
Bell X1
The Divine Comedy