John Jennings
@athrocoll.bsky.social
High school teacher; trade unionist; intersectional feminist; queer; soyboy ✊🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 🗣️ en/cy/nl
🏠 Edinburgh <-> Cape Town
🏠 Edinburgh <-> Cape Town
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John Jennings
@athrocoll.bsky.social
· Nov 16
So proud of this beautiful film. The director really got to know our family and cared about how our story was presented, and it shows. Such a deserving win for her and the whole team 🍾 #griersonawards
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Just a reminder that the West destroyed Iran’s progressive democracy in 1953, deposing a leader beloved of the people, and installed a dictatorship in his place. The US and UK have been terrorising that country for as long as any of us have been alive. It’s sick.
June 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Just a reminder that the West destroyed Iran’s progressive democracy in 1953, deposing a leader beloved of the people, and installed a dictatorship in his place. The US and UK have been terrorising that country for as long as any of us have been alive. It’s sick.
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The UK being governed by and for cisheteropatriarchal ableist white nationalists continues!
April 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The UK being governed by and for cisheteropatriarchal ableist white nationalists continues!
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Stop focusing on masculinity & start focusing on human rights www.drfinnmackay.co.uk/blog/adolesc...
Adolescence and the Lost Truths: Why save masculinity when you could save men? — Dr Finn Mackay
We are barely out of International Women’s History Month and everyone is talking about the crisis of masculinity, yet again. It seems there has never been a time that masculinity has not been in crisi...
www.drfinnmackay.co.uk
March 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Stop focusing on masculinity & start focusing on human rights www.drfinnmackay.co.uk/blog/adolesc...
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The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit
February 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit
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“They aim to create suspicion and fear and to convince the people that liberal democracy, with its respect for individual human rights, is a less attractive political option than majoritarianism and authoritarian rule”
https://theferret.scot/orban-conservative-think-tank-scotlands-culture-war/
https://theferret.scot/orban-conservative-think-tank-scotlands-culture-war/
How a populist think tank is stoking Scotland's culture war
MCC Brussels, a think tank funded by Hungary's populist government, is working with academics and campaigners with influence in Scotland.
theferret.scot
January 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“They aim to create suspicion and fear and to convince the people that liberal democracy, with its respect for individual human rights, is a less attractive political option than majoritarianism and authoritarian rule”
https://theferret.scot/orban-conservative-think-tank-scotlands-culture-war/
https://theferret.scot/orban-conservative-think-tank-scotlands-culture-war/
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When Kemi Badenoch defends racism, or Wes Streeting defends transphobia, we are reminded that while it is *necessary* for oppressed minorities to see themselves represented in politics, it is not *sufficient*. We have let representation become camouflage for oppression, rather than challenge to it.
January 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
When Kemi Badenoch defends racism, or Wes Streeting defends transphobia, we are reminded that while it is *necessary* for oppressed minorities to see themselves represented in politics, it is not *sufficient*. We have let representation become camouflage for oppression, rather than challenge to it.
This is the best legacy I could hope for to honour my mum’s name. Exciting new areas of dementia research like this give so much hope for the future.
We’re proud to announce Dr Chris Hardy as the 2024/25 Carol Jennings Fellow!
His groundbreaking work on ‘brain-hearing’ tests aims to detect Alzheimer’s disease earlier and improve diagnosis for underserved communities.
Carol’s legacy continues to inspire dementia research.
bit.ly/3DA2rpk
His groundbreaking work on ‘brain-hearing’ tests aims to detect Alzheimer’s disease earlier and improve diagnosis for underserved communities.
Carol’s legacy continues to inspire dementia research.
bit.ly/3DA2rpk
Honouring Carol Jennings and her legacy through groundbreaking dementia research
Learn about the Carol Jennings Fellowship and the people working to stop dementia devastating lives.
www.alzheimers.org.uk
January 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This is the best legacy I could hope for to honour my mum’s name. Exciting new areas of dementia research like this give so much hope for the future.
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Oh no it’s “disparaging comments about a screenshot of the Grindr grid in your hometown” season for the gays. Comes round quicker every year!
December 23, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Oh no it’s “disparaging comments about a screenshot of the Grindr grid in your hometown” season for the gays. Comes round quicker every year!
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Using the Cass report as justification for banning puberty blockers is simply dishonest. Cass's actual findings, documented in the appendices, found PBs have been used safely for trans kids since 1988 with not a single case of harm documented in thousands of records. Cass did *not* recommend a ban.
December 12, 2024 at 11:23 AM
Using the Cass report as justification for banning puberty blockers is simply dishonest. Cass's actual findings, documented in the appendices, found PBs have been used safely for trans kids since 1988 with not a single case of harm documented in thousands of records. Cass did *not* recommend a ban.
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On this day lets remember the wise words of the late, great Dawn Foster
December 11, 2024 at 4:59 PM
On this day lets remember the wise words of the late, great Dawn Foster
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(For the most part) People who fought for gay rights in the 1980s/90s fight for trans rights now.
Gay men who distanced themselves from gay rights activists in the 80s/90s (they told us we were too camp/too political etc.) oppose trans rights.
If you fought for gay rights you see the connections.
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Gay men who distanced themselves from gay rights activists in the 80s/90s (they told us we were too camp/too political etc.) oppose trans rights.
If you fought for gay rights you see the connections.
💜
Jimmy Somerville, magnificently telling the LGB Alliance to get it up em.
November 25, 2024 at 10:25 AM
(For the most part) People who fought for gay rights in the 1980s/90s fight for trans rights now.
Gay men who distanced themselves from gay rights activists in the 80s/90s (they told us we were too camp/too political etc.) oppose trans rights.
If you fought for gay rights you see the connections.
💜
Gay men who distanced themselves from gay rights activists in the 80s/90s (they told us we were too camp/too political etc.) oppose trans rights.
If you fought for gay rights you see the connections.
💜
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Petition: We call on UWTSD and the Welsh Government to create a viable, sustainable plan for the long-term future of Lampeter campus
petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...
petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...
Petition: We call on UWTSD and the Welsh Government to create a viable, sustainable plan for the long-term future of Lampeter campus
The University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) has announced a plan to end all undergraduate teaching at its Lampeter campus by September 2025, a decision that would sever nearly 200 years of Lam...
petitions.senedd.wales
November 19, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Petition: We call on UWTSD and the Welsh Government to create a viable, sustainable plan for the long-term future of Lampeter campus
petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...
petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...
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A great letter from colleagues at Nottingham in support of the programmes in #Lampeter. Wonderful to see the reference to the value of the Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre.
November 22, 2024 at 7:53 AM
A great letter from colleagues at Nottingham in support of the programmes in #Lampeter. Wonderful to see the reference to the value of the Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre.
So proud of this beautiful film. The director really got to know our family and cared about how our story was presented, and it shows. Such a deserving win for her and the whole team 🍾 #griersonawards
November 16, 2024 at 6:14 PM
So proud of this beautiful film. The director really got to know our family and cared about how our story was presented, and it shows. Such a deserving win for her and the whole team 🍾 #griersonawards
Please consider signing this petition to save undergraduate education at Lampeter, Wales’s oldest university. Lampeter plays a vital role in the town’s economy and cultural life—closing it would be an act of cultural vandalism #uwtsd #lampeter www.change.org/p/save-under...
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Save Undergraduate Education at Wales’s Historic Lampeter Campus
www.change.org
November 16, 2024 at 5:24 PM
Please consider signing this petition to save undergraduate education at Lampeter, Wales’s oldest university. Lampeter plays a vital role in the town’s economy and cultural life—closing it would be an act of cultural vandalism #uwtsd #lampeter www.change.org/p/save-under...