Claire Pierson
@clairepierson.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Politics at University of Liverpool.
Reproductive politics and abortion rights activism.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/research/research-projects/abortion-reform-strategies/
Reproductive politics and abortion rights activism.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/research/research-projects/abortion-reform-strategies/
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She lives! My book published by @manchesterup.bsky.social ‘Women’s Troubles: Gender and Feminist Politics in Northern Ireland.’ Cover image kindly provided by @frecklescorp.bsky.social of her work ‘The Slapper’ www.emmacampbell.co.uk/emma-campbell @livunipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social
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We will host @clairepierson.bsky.social's 📘 launch this Wednesday (12 November) 3:30-5pm The launch will take place in 126 Mount Pleasant Room 113. Join Pierson and Professor Liz Evans (University of Southampton) for a conversation on contemporary feminist and gender politics:
www.ticketsource.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
We will host @clairepierson.bsky.social's 📘 launch this Wednesday (12 November) 3:30-5pm The launch will take place in 126 Mount Pleasant Room 113. Join Pierson and Professor Liz Evans (University of Southampton) for a conversation on contemporary feminist and gender politics:
Fantastic weekend taking about abortion, creative methods and making our own embroideries and prints. First time I've been drawn on a panel!
November 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Fantastic weekend taking about abortion, creative methods and making our own embroideries and prints. First time I've been drawn on a panel!
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For anyone in the Liverpool area, we are hosting a conversation and hands-on workshop on abortion rights and creative methods as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science - come join us! Sign up here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/claire-piers...
@livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social
@livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
For anyone in the Liverpool area, we are hosting a conversation and hands-on workshop on abortion rights and creative methods as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science - come join us! Sign up here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/claire-piers...
@livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social
@livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social
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Was prehistory a feminist paradise?
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Was prehistory a feminist paradise?
Visions of matriarchal utopia may be wishful thinking, but there’s growing evidence of women wielding power
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Was prehistory a feminist paradise?
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Was prehistory a feminist paradise?
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Was prehistory a feminist paradise?
Visions of matriarchal utopia may be wishful thinking, but there’s growing evidence of women wielding power
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Was prehistory a feminist paradise?
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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How do feminist movements develop and organise in ethno-nationally divided societies? How does this challenge our understandings of fourth wave feminism?
🎧 Claire Pierson discusses feminism, Northern Ireland, and her book Women's Troubles with @NewBooksNetwork👇
🎧 Claire Pierson discusses feminism, Northern Ireland, and her book Women's Troubles with @NewBooksNetwork👇
October 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
How do feminist movements develop and organise in ethno-nationally divided societies? How does this challenge our understandings of fourth wave feminism?
🎧 Claire Pierson discusses feminism, Northern Ireland, and her book Women's Troubles with @NewBooksNetwork👇
🎧 Claire Pierson discusses feminism, Northern Ireland, and her book Women's Troubles with @NewBooksNetwork👇
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The Alliance Defending Freedom, an American conservative christian group, is organising in the UK. This group aims to roll back abortion rights in the UK, and is using politicians such as Nigel Farage to gain traction. This must be opposed at every level. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
October 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The Alliance Defending Freedom, an American conservative christian group, is organising in the UK. This group aims to roll back abortion rights in the UK, and is using politicians such as Nigel Farage to gain traction. This must be opposed at every level. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
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I wrote about my five days in Israeli prison for the LRB. Remember with every paragraph that this is the cosseted version of the experience; it is infinitely worse for Palestinians www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
Naoise Dolan | ‘You’re here now’
The steel handcuffs the Israeli guard locked on me were ‘Tri-Max Made in England’. Clanking mine to the beat, I sang...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I wrote about my five days in Israeli prison for the LRB. Remember with every paragraph that this is the cosseted version of the experience; it is infinitely worse for Palestinians www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
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Congratulations to Dr Sarah Elmammeri, our former PhD candidate and the winner of the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of ExcellenceDoctoral Thesis Prize.Her lecture titled ‘Between Layers of Borders: Reflecting on EU Policies and Asylum Seekers’ reflects the very best of our PhD student scholarship.
October 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Congratulations to Dr Sarah Elmammeri, our former PhD candidate and the winner of the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of ExcellenceDoctoral Thesis Prize.Her lecture titled ‘Between Layers of Borders: Reflecting on EU Policies and Asylum Seekers’ reflects the very best of our PhD student scholarship.
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‘My heart is broken’: Palestinians begin searching the Gaza rubble for their dead. Using manual tools and their bare hands, people start the immense task of trying to find their loved ones’ remains.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘My heart is broken’: Palestinians begin searching the Gaza rubble for their dead
Using manual tools and their bare hands, people start the immense task of trying to find their loved ones’ remains
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
‘My heart is broken’: Palestinians begin searching the Gaza rubble for their dead. Using manual tools and their bare hands, people start the immense task of trying to find their loved ones’ remains.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.
Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
October 13, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.
Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
Book launches! 🚨Women's Troubles will be launched in Liverpool on 12th November in conversation with Prof Liz Evans, and Belfast @centreforgender.bsky.social on 28th November (details to follow). Liverpool launch: www.ticketsource.co.uk/claire-piers... @livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Book launches! 🚨Women's Troubles will be launched in Liverpool on 12th November in conversation with Prof Liz Evans, and Belfast @centreforgender.bsky.social on 28th November (details to follow). Liverpool launch: www.ticketsource.co.uk/claire-piers... @livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social
Carrots that are too beautiful to cook
October 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Carrots that are too beautiful to cook
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The @livunihss.bsky.social AHRC-funded ‘Crafting Care’ Doctoral Focal College is accepting applications for 2026. EOI due by 1st Dec. I am keen to supervise a project on the politics of abortion care. Get in touch with your project idea! www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... @livunipol.bsky.social
Project Areas 2026 | Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences | University of Liverpool
www.liverpool.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The @livunihss.bsky.social AHRC-funded ‘Crafting Care’ Doctoral Focal College is accepting applications for 2026. EOI due by 1st Dec. I am keen to supervise a project on the politics of abortion care. Get in touch with your project idea! www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... @livunipol.bsky.social
The @livunihss.bsky.social AHRC-funded ‘Crafting Care’ Doctoral Focal College is accepting applications for 2026. EOI due by 1st Dec. I am keen to supervise a project on the politics of abortion care. Get in touch with your project idea! www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... @livunipol.bsky.social
Project Areas 2026 | Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences | University of Liverpool
www.liverpool.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The @livunihss.bsky.social AHRC-funded ‘Crafting Care’ Doctoral Focal College is accepting applications for 2026. EOI due by 1st Dec. I am keen to supervise a project on the politics of abortion care. Get in touch with your project idea! www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... @livunipol.bsky.social
For anyone in the Liverpool area, we are hosting a conversation and hands-on workshop on abortion rights and creative methods as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science - come join us! Sign up here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/claire-piers...
@livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social
@livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
For anyone in the Liverpool area, we are hosting a conversation and hands-on workshop on abortion rights and creative methods as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science - come join us! Sign up here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/claire-piers...
@livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social
@livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social
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Thinking of Sarah. @simonharrisireland.bsky.social must intervene.
Update: Clare Champion columnist Sarah Clancy confirmed as detained by Israeli forces
Update at 23:35 GMT: Sarah Clancy confirmed as detained In the last few moments the Irish media contact for the Global Sumud Flotilla has confirmed that Sarah Clancy as well as Sinn Féin Senator Chris Andrew,…
Update at 23:35 GMT: Sarah Clancy confirmed as detained In the last few moments the Irish media contact for the Global Sumud Flotilla has confirmed that Sarah Clancy as well as Sinn Féin Senator Chris Andrew,…
Update: Clare Champion columnist Sarah Clancy confirmed as detained by Israeli forces
Update at 23:35 GMT: Sarah Clancy confirmed as detained In the last few moments the Irish media contact for the Global Sumud Flotilla has confirmed that Sarah Clancy as well as Sinn Féin Senator Chris Andrew, Louise Heaney and Tadhg Hickey have all be confirmed as detailed. Sarah Clancy and Senator Andrew were both aboard The Spectre, and both gave interviews to The Clare Champion from the deck of that vessel a few hours ago.
clarechampion.ie
October 2, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Thinking of Sarah. @simonharrisireland.bsky.social must intervene.
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Access to safe abortion is a matter of health, rights, and equality.
The UK has made the top 10, but at 73% we're a whole 21% behind the leader!
Where does your country stand? 🗺️
🔗 Check the @epfsrr.bsky.social Abortion Atlas to find out: www.epfweb.org/node/1156 #abortionatlas
The UK has made the top 10, but at 73% we're a whole 21% behind the leader!
Where does your country stand? 🗺️
🔗 Check the @epfsrr.bsky.social Abortion Atlas to find out: www.epfweb.org/node/1156 #abortionatlas
European Abortion Policy Atlas 2025
The European Abortion Policies Atlas 2025 is a comprehensive mapping of abortion laws, policies, and access across 49 countries and territories in Europe. It serves as a critical tool for policymakers...
www.epfweb.org
September 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Access to safe abortion is a matter of health, rights, and equality.
The UK has made the top 10, but at 73% we're a whole 21% behind the leader!
Where does your country stand? 🗺️
🔗 Check the @epfsrr.bsky.social Abortion Atlas to find out: www.epfweb.org/node/1156 #abortionatlas
The UK has made the top 10, but at 73% we're a whole 21% behind the leader!
Where does your country stand? 🗺️
🔗 Check the @epfsrr.bsky.social Abortion Atlas to find out: www.epfweb.org/node/1156 #abortionatlas
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📣🏳️⚧️ Call for Papers
We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.
Details below. Please share.
We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.
Details below. Please share.
September 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
📣🏳️⚧️ Call for Papers
We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.
Details below. Please share.
We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.
Details below. Please share.
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Today, Canada became the first G7 nation to recognise the State of Palestine, as Prime Minister Mark Carney promised "a peaceful future for both the State of Palestine and the State of Israel." (1/3)
September 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Today, Canada became the first G7 nation to recognise the State of Palestine, as Prime Minister Mark Carney promised "a peaceful future for both the State of Palestine and the State of Israel." (1/3)
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Germany’s abortion law dates back to 1871, and despite reforms over the decades, it remains a criminal offence. Now, as the fight to remove §218 continues, patients and providers in Berlin are pushing for access that treats abortion as essential healthcare.
Why is abortion still a crime in Germany? - The Berliner
Germany’s abortion law dates back to 1871, and despite reforms over the decades, it remains a criminal offence. Now, as the fight to remove §218 continues, patients and providers in Berlin are pushing...
www.the-berliner.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Germany’s abortion law dates back to 1871, and despite reforms over the decades, it remains a criminal offence. Now, as the fight to remove §218 continues, patients and providers in Berlin are pushing for access that treats abortion as essential healthcare.
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Ursula von der Leyen:
[T]he events in Gaza and the suffering of children and families “has shaken the conscience of the world.”
“Man-made famine can never be a weapon of war.
For the sake of the children, for the sake of humanity. This must stop”.
[T]he events in Gaza and the suffering of children and families “has shaken the conscience of the world.”
“Man-made famine can never be a weapon of war.
For the sake of the children, for the sake of humanity. This must stop”.
BREAKING: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she plans to seek sanctions and a partial trade suspension against Israel over the war in Gaza.
EU commission president seeks sanctions, partial trade suspension against Israel over war in Gaza
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says she plans to seek sanctions and a partial trade suspension against Israel over the war in Gaza.
bit.ly
September 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Ursula von der Leyen:
[T]he events in Gaza and the suffering of children and families “has shaken the conscience of the world.”
“Man-made famine can never be a weapon of war.
For the sake of the children, for the sake of humanity. This must stop”.
[T]he events in Gaza and the suffering of children and families “has shaken the conscience of the world.”
“Man-made famine can never be a weapon of war.
For the sake of the children, for the sake of humanity. This must stop”.
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Jenny Saville at the National Portrait Gallery is the best exhibition I've seen this year
September 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Jenny Saville at the National Portrait Gallery is the best exhibition I've seen this year
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Join us next week for a free online two-day conference on global 'anti-gender' politics, hosted by the University of Brighton, featuring keynote @reproutopia.bsky.social! ❤️🔥 Starts at 09:30 GMT on Thursday 11 September. Further info ⤵️
September 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Join us next week for a free online two-day conference on global 'anti-gender' politics, hosted by the University of Brighton, featuring keynote @reproutopia.bsky.social! ❤️🔥 Starts at 09:30 GMT on Thursday 11 September. Further info ⤵️