Tori Cann
@canndo.bsky.social
Feminist academic based in Norwich, UK. Interests include youth gender studies, collecting zines, laughing, challenging injustice, aimless wandering. A proud council house kid. she/her. nd.
Banner art by Jenny Holzer.
Banner art by Jenny Holzer.
Brilliant and affirming trip to The Feminist Library on Friday with my pal Ileana Jiménez. The volunteer staff there were amazing, I highly recommend a trip if you're in the area.
Lost in zines///heaven.
feministlibrary.co.uk
Lost in zines///heaven.
feministlibrary.co.uk
January 19, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Brilliant and affirming trip to The Feminist Library on Friday with my pal Ileana Jiménez. The volunteer staff there were amazing, I highly recommend a trip if you're in the area.
Lost in zines///heaven.
feministlibrary.co.uk
Lost in zines///heaven.
feministlibrary.co.uk
I encourage friends, colleagues and followers to support trans youth at a time when moments for connection and belonging are so cruelly being stripped away from them: www.change.org/p/allow-tran...
Sign the Petition
Allow transgender women and girls back into GirlGuiding UK
www.change.org
December 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I encourage friends, colleagues and followers to support trans youth at a time when moments for connection and belonging are so cruelly being stripped away from them: www.change.org/p/allow-tran...
Heartbreaking news coming from #girlguiding today as they seek to employ an entirely unworkable definition of what constitutes a 'girl'. Ironic really that it is positioned as an 'equality and diversity' statement given that they are seeking to diminish both.
www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
Statement for members on our equality and diversity policy
An update on our equality and diversity policy following the Supreme Court decision of April 2025
www.girlguiding.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Heartbreaking news coming from #girlguiding today as they seek to employ an entirely unworkable definition of what constitutes a 'girl'. Ironic really that it is positioned as an 'equality and diversity' statement given that they are seeking to diminish both.
www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
Went to the pub last night and *none* of my friends had heard of @halfmoonjoe.com so this is PSA that if you’re not watching him play video games then get on it he’s literally a dream and a gift.
November 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Went to the pub last night and *none* of my friends had heard of @halfmoonjoe.com so this is PSA that if you’re not watching him play video games then get on it he’s literally a dream and a gift.
Not the same Jimmy Carr that’s taking Saudi blood money?
a woman wearing a bicycle helmet is standing in front of a brick wall .
Alt: a woman wearing a bicycle helmet (Phoebe from friends) is standing in front of a brick wall saying “I am shocked!”
media.tenor.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Not the same Jimmy Carr that’s taking Saudi blood money?
Celebrity Traitors just out here showing us the extent of internalised racism.
October 15, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Celebrity Traitors just out here showing us the extent of internalised racism.
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The new Aussie critique of the Cass Review does not pull its punches about its failures, & makes the point that "gender-critical beliefs" should be declared.
Since transphobes have made so much of having these protected by law, they should be required to declare them.
archive.is/AqUGz#select...
Since transphobes have made so much of having these protected by law, they should be required to declare them.
archive.is/AqUGz#select...
October 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The new Aussie critique of the Cass Review does not pull its punches about its failures, & makes the point that "gender-critical beliefs" should be declared.
Since transphobes have made so much of having these protected by law, they should be required to declare them.
archive.is/AqUGz#select...
Since transphobes have made so much of having these protected by law, they should be required to declare them.
archive.is/AqUGz#select...
Deeply ironic that Kimmel's newest book should be published by 'ethics' international press.
October 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Deeply ironic that Kimmel's newest book should be published by 'ethics' international press.
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Today I changed my foundation year lesson plan on The Frankfurt School at the last minute to incorporate discussion about how we might use critical theory to understand Labubus and let me tell you, the future isn’t all broken, critical theory is still possible.
October 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Today I changed my foundation year lesson plan on The Frankfurt School at the last minute to incorporate discussion about how we might use critical theory to understand Labubus and let me tell you, the future isn’t all broken, critical theory is still possible.
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Come work at @dukegsfs.bsky.social: postdoc ad is live. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30734
Duke University, Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
Job #AJO30734, Duke Black Feminist Postdoc, Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US
academicjobsonline.org
October 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Come work at @dukegsfs.bsky.social: postdoc ad is live. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30734
I love copyeditors because they make my work look nice but I also deeply resent their smug command of English grammar.
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I love copyeditors because they make my work look nice but I also deeply resent their smug command of English grammar.
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Let's be clear. The proposal to deport hundreds of thousands of people born in Britain to parents legally resident in Britain, just because they are black or brown, is not 'right populism'. It's the cornerstone policy of the 1970s National Front.
September 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Let's be clear. The proposal to deport hundreds of thousands of people born in Britain to parents legally resident in Britain, just because they are black or brown, is not 'right populism'. It's the cornerstone policy of the 1970s National Front.
Not me thinking I could do anything other student oriented work in the first week of the semester.
September 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Not me thinking I could do anything other student oriented work in the first week of the semester.
All power to Melissa McCoul and colleagues.
September 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
All power to Melissa McCoul and colleagues.
My dear pal Jo Beckett-King has just published her first YA/children’s (8-12) novel called The House of Found Objects. It’s a mystery with two smart girls and has lots of puzzles - order in to your local libraries! (Jo is refreshingly offline and would loathe to blow her own trumpet so allow me!)
September 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
My dear pal Jo Beckett-King has just published her first YA/children’s (8-12) novel called The House of Found Objects. It’s a mystery with two smart girls and has lots of puzzles - order in to your local libraries! (Jo is refreshingly offline and would loathe to blow her own trumpet so allow me!)
Here we go…
September 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Here we go…
Birth rate is in decline and nationalism is on the rise - strap in ladies, we’re in for a rough ride.
August 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Birth rate is in decline and nationalism is on the rise - strap in ladies, we’re in for a rough ride.
Had a great time hearing students from Tohoku University present their learning of EDI and reflecting on how this applies to the Japanese context - all in the beautiful space offered by @sainsbury-institute.org
August 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Had a great time hearing students from Tohoku University present their learning of EDI and reflecting on how this applies to the Japanese context - all in the beautiful space offered by @sainsbury-institute.org
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“Gender studies as a discipline…is defined by a set of debates and problematics.” In this 10-Minute Talk, Judith Butler FBA discusses gender as a field of study and its interdisciplinary contributions to research, social analysis and social movements.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...
August 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
“Gender studies as a discipline…is defined by a set of debates and problematics.” In this 10-Minute Talk, Judith Butler FBA discusses gender as a field of study and its interdisciplinary contributions to research, social analysis and social movements.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...
As Maya Angelou reminds us: “when people show you who they are, believe them”
Labour is basically becoming the party for transphobes, racists and Zionists over 50
August 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
As Maya Angelou reminds us: “when people show you who they are, believe them”
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If an Israeli - or British or American etc - woman who was eight months pregnant was shot dead by any other military, the whole world would know her name. Her name was Sondos Jamal Muhammad Shalabi. She was 23.
The Israeli military has expanded its assaults in the occupied West Bank, killing an eight-month-pregnant Palestinian woman during an armed raid in the Nur Shams refugee camp.
Israel kills eight-month-pregnant woman in occupied West Bank raid
Israeli forces open fire on a family at Nur Shams camp, killing a Palestinian woman and critically injuring her husband.
aje.io
February 10, 2025 at 7:43 AM
If an Israeli - or British or American etc - woman who was eight months pregnant was shot dead by any other military, the whole world would know her name. Her name was Sondos Jamal Muhammad Shalabi. She was 23.
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August 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
We NEED professional creatives - from architects to animators; performers to publishers; game designers to gallerists, & everything in between, to mentor a bright, ambitious young person in 2026.
Become an Arts Emergency mentor today 👉 www.arts-emergency.org/get-involved...
Become an Arts Emergency mentor today 👉 www.arts-emergency.org/get-involved...