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Alex R
@alexepisteme.bsky.social
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doctoral researcher
anti-gender movements, reactionary politics, and trans philosophy
condemned to be male (they/them)
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reacpolrn.bsky.social
📣New interview📣

'Terms like “detransitioner,” like “transitioner,” reduce people to the act of transitioning and frame transitioning as an extremist act or impulsive decision'

@katfuller.bsky.social discusses transphobic moral panics on the far right.

reacpol.net/moral-panic-...
Interview: Moral panic: Transphobia, gender ideology and far-right conspiracy (Kat Fuller) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This interview is based on Kat Fuller's chapter 'Moral panic: Transphobia, gender ideology and far-right conspiracy' (2025, w. Q. McLamore)
reacpol.net
December 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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maiamindel.bsky.social
I like how every six months or so we get a big "This Obscure Fasicst Thinker Is Key To Understanding The Modern Right" and without fail every one of those is the biggest loser you've ever heard of writing the stupidest articles you've ever read for Racism Monthly
November 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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aurelmondon.bsky.social
Focusing on extreme events such as the reports of Farage’s teenage past can exceptionalise the nature of far-right politics and make it harder to call out

Some thoughts @theconversation.com on the mainstreaming of far-right politics

theconversation.com/nigel-farage...
Nigel Farage’s alleged teenage comments are a distraction from the damage of his politics
Reports of such appalling behaviour – and Farage’s reaction – give us an insight into the leader of the UK’s rising far-right party.
theconversation.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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goodlawproject.org
“The issue is men. So maybe we need a man only carriage where we put them all in the back of the train and they can just stay there and harass each other": @patsystevenson.bsky.social on the money, as always.
November 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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queermedieval.bsky.social
a world without trans people has never existed and never will
a medieval style digital drawing of an androgynous brown-skinned knight on horseback on a hill, stabbing a long gold spear into a blue dragon on the ground. the knight has a gold halo behind their head and wears a suit of silver armor with a nonbinary flag striped tunic and a trans flag as a cape. their horse is white, with blue tack with trans pride trim. there is black gothic text at the top and bottom of the image reading “A world without trans people has never existed and never will.” there’s an ornate pale blue border around the image, filled with pink and blue scrollwork, gold hearts filled with colorful flowers, a smiley bat, two smiley moles, and two smiling frogs holding up trans flags.
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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dirediredocks.bsky.social
When I'm asked what kind of friend groups I have:
November 21, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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aurelmondon.bsky.social
The Times Higher Education giving a platform to reactionary voices to complain about there being too much "terminology relating to EDI" or "progressive discourse" in research projects at a time when fascism is at the door...

What is there left to say?

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/rise-ed...
Rise of EDI focus in UKRI grants ‘endangers R&D support’
Increase in projects featuring ‘progressive discourse’ likely to fuel criticism that academia is too left wing, study warns
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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kiswanson.medsky.social
Ryan Moulton @moultano Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?
November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
www.vanityfair.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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gregk.co.uk
No words.
The lives of those living in Gaza are deemed less important than maintaining relations with Israel and, by proxy, the US. At the personal level, on Labour's doorsteps, this approach plays out in the most callous of ways. Dalloul al-Neder is a Palestinian refugee from Gaza, who was a constituent of the former deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner. He got to know her, meeting several times: she visited his takeaway shop in 2019 and posed for pictures, declaring "Palestine must be free". She took him on a tour of parliament. PHOTO: Dalloul al-Neder, who lives in Manchester, with an image of his late mother - he has lost several family members in Gaza bombings. Photograph: Sean Hansford/MEN Media Within weeks of the genocide beginning, in October 2023, his mother, brother, sister-in-law and two young nieces were killed by an Israeli airstrike. Desperate to evacuate his wife and four-month-old daughter - who had been buried under rubble three times by Israeli attacks - he emailed Rayner twice to seek help evacuating his family. He says received no response. In January 2024, he attended a Labour fundraiser in Stockport addressed by Rayner and her colleague, Jonathan Reynolds, and got to his feet, clutching pictures of his dead mother, begging her to support a ceasefire, emotionally declaring "I lost my family in Gaza". The whole tawdry episode is on camera: he was aggressively ejected from the meeting and on to the street. Rayner did nothing, except to say "thank you, you've made your point". She then unfollowed him on social media. Days later, she was interviewed by Sky News' Beth Rigby, who framed the incident as an example of the threats politicians face, linking it to the murder of the MPs Jo Cox and David Amess. Since then, so many of Neder's relatives have been slaughtered by the Israeli state that their names take up three pages of a notebook.
September 17, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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ucu.org.uk
£1.5bn ‘overhaul’ of prison education with the same failing providers.

Prison education should sit with the Department for Education, not the MoJ.

insidetime.org/newsround/ne...
New contracts but same old providers for prison education
Contracts worth up to £1.5 billion for education in prisons in England have been awarded after a two-year bidding process – to three of the four existing providers. Novus, PeoplePlus and Milton Key…
insidetime.org
August 12, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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jessiegender.bsky.social
If you support trans people but not Palestinians, you’ve misunderstood the fight. Queer & Palestinian liberation are both about tearing down the same colonial systems that criminalize existence, surveil bodies, and justify genocide of both in the name of order. These are not separate struggles.
July 14, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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ucu.org.uk
Lancaster University can't slash its workforce and still provide the same level of provision to students

Our members at will fight these cuts

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1406...
Union vows to fight Lancaster University threat to axe one in five academics
UCU has vowed to fight Lancaster University management over its threat to cut hundreds of jobs.
www.ucu.org.uk
June 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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franamery.bsky.social
If you are a feminist academic, you should sign this letter. forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...
Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia
We call on all trans-inclusive feminist academics and educators to sign this statement: ‘Not In Our Name’ We are non-trans feminist academics and educators. We write in support of trans rights, tran...
forms.gle
April 30, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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katymontgomerie.com
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic

www.crabmuseum.org/visit

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April 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM