Ames Clark
amesclark.bsky.social
Ames Clark
@amesclark.bsky.social
Sociologist - interested in care, abolition, temporalities, & political imagination

Research Associate @ Uni of Sheffield (chanse.org/lgbti_futures) - LGBTQI+ youth imagined futures & wellbeing in times of crises.
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New research maps the campaign to erase trans people from UK data 🔢

This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID.

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January 19, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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The Kite Trust are running a survey on how the puberty blocker ban has affected people from 16-24

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January 16, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no... Sheffield University is under threat and we are doing our best to save it. Please, sign and share this petition to protest against the grotesque assault on university staff #Sheffield #againstculturalvandalism #UCUstrike @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
No lockout for University of Sheffield staff
UCU members have been standing up against the continual cutting and restructuring of the last several years which has significantly damaged the University’s international standing, the quality of educ...
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January 15, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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Ninety UK universities to have posted accounts so far cut 13,300 jobs last year, spending £303 million on severance pay - sector-wide total clearly going to be well in excess of predicted 10,000. Great reporting by @patrickjack.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/pay-spe...
Pay-off spend up by two-thirds as universities shed 13,000 jobs
Analysis of UK sector accounts shows number of job losses well above predictions, with experts warning cuts are not over yet
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:55 AM
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Last week I had a new article published, comparing trans adolescent and family experiences in different UK healthcare services. 1/4

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“The worst thing I’ve ever experienced” – comparing experiences of affirmative and non-affirmative healthcare provision for trans adolescents in the UK
Within trans youth healthcare two fundamentally different models of care persist, with a significant difference between affirmative and non-affirmative healthcare services. To date there has been l...
www.tandfonline.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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Incredibly important new study from Cal Horton @fiercemum.bsky.social - the first to look at England's post-Cass child/adolescent gender clinics. Dr Horton found patients and families are being actively harmed, with one young person describing appointments as "the worst thing I’ve ever experienced”.
“The worst thing I’ve ever experienced” – comparing experiences of affirmative and non-affirmative healthcare provision for trans adolescents in the UK
Within trans youth healthcare two fundamentally different models of care persist, with a significant difference between affirmative and non-affirmative healthcare services. To date there has been l...
doi.org
January 8, 2026 at 10:25 AM
Research Assistant opportunity for any White Rose DTP funded PhD student! 3 months to work on the LGBTQI+ Futures project with me, running creative and qualitative workshops on wellbeing and imagined futures with LGBTQI+ young adults across the UK.

wrdtp.ac.uk/lgbti-futures/
Examining LGBTQI+ youth wellbeing and imagined futures across Europe – White Rose DTP
wrdtp.ac.uk
January 5, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Gorgeous collection of sociological fiction and poetry in this (and all!) editions of SoFiZine. Very grateful to @awtsn.bsky.social for including a couple of my bits on ghosts//haunting//collective memories. sofizine.com/edition-18/
Edition #18
Contents ~ Editorial, Ash Watson ~ Should Have Been an Email and Definitely Not a Meeting or a Poem Either for that Matter, JE Sumerau ~ Bound Together, Anna Clover ~ In the Middle of our Street, J…
sofizine.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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We’re on our 3rd day of (v cold) strike today @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

HE is being dismantled by mgmt on eye watering salaries, whilst staff delivering teaching, research & admin are casualised, burnt out & forced out

Pls donate to our fighting fund if you can shorturl.at/EpeTe
Donate to the Sheffield UCU Industrial Action Solidarity Fund
What is the Sheffield UCU Industrial Action Solidarity Fund, and how to contribute.
shorturl.at
November 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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This Saturday after painstaking research and FOIs by @clairestranstalks.bsky.social with @whatthetrans.com, we'll publish 'The Gender Clinic Files' in our newsletter:

A new investigative series exposing deep structural issues with UK Transgender healthcare

Sign up 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/
October 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Italian unions call for general strike as global protests grow and multiple governments criticise Israel.
How the world is responding to Israel’s interception of Gaza flotilla
Italian unions call for general strike as global protests grow and multiple governments criticise Israel.
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October 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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CfP for an exciting workshop I'm co-organising at the Uni of Sheffield - Storying the Future: Queer Storytelling and Unsettling Times.

(More info below but workshop 10th sept, deadline for EOI 6th aug)

tinyurl.com/qstorytelling
Callout: Storying the Future: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Queer Storytelling
Storying the Future: Queer Storytelling and Unsettling TImes Date: Wednesday 10th September, 2025 Location: University of Sheffield, UK Organisers: Dr Ames Clark and Dr Eleanor Wilkinson, School of...
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July 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
TKDB: "We will protest. We will protect. We will organise and we WILL outlast them. To every trans kid out there: we are NOT giving up and we WILL NOT let them bury your truth in shame or bureaucracy! To the ones we lost: your names are not forgotten. They are a battle cry!"
Trans youth stage die-in outside Supreme Court | Trans Kids Deserve Better
transkidsdeservebetter.org
July 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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What can science fiction tell us about abolitionist futures and the path to utopia?

@philcrockettthomas.bsky.social @stirunicriminology.bsky.social @thesccjr.bsky.social on prison abolition activism, collaborative fictioning and the ideas of Ursula K. Le Guin.

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July 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Really good piece by @annabull.bsky.social on how universities should respond to the EHRC's proposed segregation programme. The evidence points to trans people's heightened vulnerability to sexual harassment and violence - so single-sex policies must account for this.
Safety must shape policy on single-sex spaces
Anna Bull examines how evidence of trans and non-binary people's heightened vulnerability to sexual violence is absent from new EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces Anna Bull examines how evidence of tr...
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July 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
CfP for an exciting workshop I'm co-organising at the Uni of Sheffield - Storying the Future: Queer Storytelling and Unsettling Times.

(More info below but workshop 10th sept, deadline for EOI 6th aug)

tinyurl.com/qstorytelling
Callout: Storying the Future: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Queer Storytelling
Storying the Future: Queer Storytelling and Unsettling TImes Date: Wednesday 10th September, 2025 Location: University of Sheffield, UK Organisers: Dr Ames Clark and Dr Eleanor Wilkinson, School of...
tinyurl.com
July 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM