Caitlin MacKinlay (she/they)
@cmxckinlay.bsky.social
Geographer, PhD-ing @ Durham University. Interested in queering carceral geography.
Prone to posts about Parks and Rec.
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Prone to posts about Parks and Rec.
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One thing I love about @prismreports.org is that they work so closely with incarcerated writers, and surface things I had never thought about before. This piece on how extended incarceration is a violation of reproductive rights by functionally serving as involuntary sterilization is fantastic.
Long prison sentences function as involuntary sterilization of incarcerated people
By keeping me imprisoned through the years when I might have become a parent, the prison system reproduces eugenicist logic
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November 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
One thing I love about @prismreports.org is that they work so closely with incarcerated writers, and surface things I had never thought about before. This piece on how extended incarceration is a violation of reproductive rights by functionally serving as involuntary sterilization is fantastic.
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I will be speaking alongside @jaytoddgla.bsky.social, Ed Kiely & @amkanngieser.bsky.social on this panel: ‘A Sense of the Possible: Trans Geographies in Dystopian Times’, 13 Nov 2025, 12:00-1:30 GMT
Sign up for the Zoom link here: rgs.org/events/upcoming-events/trans-geographies-in-dystopian-times
Sign up for the Zoom link here: rgs.org/events/upcoming-events/trans-geographies-in-dystopian-times
October 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I will be speaking alongside @jaytoddgla.bsky.social, Ed Kiely & @amkanngieser.bsky.social on this panel: ‘A Sense of the Possible: Trans Geographies in Dystopian Times’, 13 Nov 2025, 12:00-1:30 GMT
Sign up for the Zoom link here: rgs.org/events/upcoming-events/trans-geographies-in-dystopian-times
Sign up for the Zoom link here: rgs.org/events/upcoming-events/trans-geographies-in-dystopian-times
Today I co-hosted @geogdurham.bsky.social’s first event for the newly founded Queer and Trans Thematic Group. We shared questions, insights and potential opportunities for using queer and trans theorising within our own research and produced some wonderful collaborative mind maps (as shown below)!
October 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Today I co-hosted @geogdurham.bsky.social’s first event for the newly founded Queer and Trans Thematic Group. We shared questions, insights and potential opportunities for using queer and trans theorising within our own research and produced some wonderful collaborative mind maps (as shown below)!
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Really enjoyed working on this with current PGR - Liv Robinson. We reflect on the archival encounter, with specific comments around industrial violence and working with troubling material: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper reflects on the archival encounter. In our discussion, we consider interactions between researchers and more troubling and violent materials, specifically industrial death and injury, held...
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October 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Really enjoyed working on this with current PGR - Liv Robinson. We reflect on the archival encounter, with specific comments around industrial violence and working with troubling material: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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A huge thank you to the wonderful people at Metropolis for this award! I was so honoured & grateful opportunity in Seoul to focus attention on the global urban sanitation crisis. Thank you to @versobooks.bsky.social for nominating the book, & to Pattis.
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A heartfelt thank you to the wonderful people at Metropolis, World Association of the Major Metropolises for this award! I was so honoured that 'Waste and the City' won this prize.
I am huge...
A heartfelt thank you to the wonderful people at Metropolis, World Association of the Major Metropolises for this award! I was so honoured that 'Waste and the City' won this prize.
I am hugely grate...
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September 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
A huge thank you to the wonderful people at Metropolis for this award! I was so honoured & grateful opportunity in Seoul to focus attention on the global urban sanitation crisis. Thank you to @versobooks.bsky.social for nominating the book, & to Pattis.
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I'm so grateful to @spaceandpolity.bsky.social for coordinating a book review forum on Critical Geographies of Resistance.
Thank you so much to Malene Jacobsen, Nicole Printy Currie and Bridget Shaffrey @bshaffrey.bsky.social for your thoughtful pieces.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thank you so much to Malene Jacobsen, Nicole Printy Currie and Bridget Shaffrey @bshaffrey.bsky.social for your thoughtful pieces.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
What does academic writing about resistance do, now?
Published in Space and Polity (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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September 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I'm so grateful to @spaceandpolity.bsky.social for coordinating a book review forum on Critical Geographies of Resistance.
Thank you so much to Malene Jacobsen, Nicole Printy Currie and Bridget Shaffrey @bshaffrey.bsky.social for your thoughtful pieces.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thank you so much to Malene Jacobsen, Nicole Printy Currie and Bridget Shaffrey @bshaffrey.bsky.social for your thoughtful pieces.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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#OpenAccess in Area:
'Networks of securitisation in the academy: The role of friendship, solidarity and radical geographies' by @shereenfdz.bsky.social
This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'.
doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky
'Networks of securitisation in the academy: The role of friendship, solidarity and radical geographies' by @shereenfdz.bsky.social
This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'.
doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
#OpenAccess in Area:
'Networks of securitisation in the academy: The role of friendship, solidarity and radical geographies' by @shereenfdz.bsky.social
This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'.
doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky
'Networks of securitisation in the academy: The role of friendship, solidarity and radical geographies' by @shereenfdz.bsky.social
This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Dialogues in Radical Geography'.
doi.org/10.1111/area... #geosky
looking through riot grrrl zines to prep for my zine making workshop and found this gem
September 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
looking through riot grrrl zines to prep for my zine making workshop and found this gem
Being tourists in Roma 🇮🇹
September 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Being tourists in Roma 🇮🇹
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i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence
September 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence
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It shouldn't need saying that 'military and industrial sites' are not, and never have been, 'more appropriate sites' for asylum seekers. The record of such carceral accommodation is nothing but spectacles of harm designed to appease a desire to punish refugees. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Cooper suggests asylum seekers could be moved into warehouses instead of hotels – UK politics live
Home secretary says government aims to ‘shrink the whole asylum system’ and is looking at ‘military and industrial sites’
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September 2, 2025 at 10:40 AM
It shouldn't need saying that 'military and industrial sites' are not, and never have been, 'more appropriate sites' for asylum seekers. The record of such carceral accommodation is nothing but spectacles of harm designed to appease a desire to punish refugees. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Really happy to see this out "Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK"
Really happy to see this out "Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK"
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
When a positive decision is granted on an asylum claim, a new refugee has limited time before their existing government support (housing, finance) terminates. This transition between legal is various...
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August 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Really happy to see this out "Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK"
Really happy to see this out "Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK"
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My book is published! It’s a critical take on how emotions shape conflicts about LGBT rights and repair in equality law, gender recognition, bans on conversion practices, and sex education in schools. You can download it free via @edinburghup.bsky.social: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...
May 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
My book is published! It’s a critical take on how emotions shape conflicts about LGBT rights and repair in equality law, gender recognition, bans on conversion practices, and sex education in schools. You can download it free via @edinburghup.bsky.social: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...
One cancelled train later…I’m finally en route to Birmingham for the RGS AC2025 !
August 26, 2025 at 6:01 AM
One cancelled train later…I’m finally en route to Birmingham for the RGS AC2025 !
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And that’s a wrap! My heart is very full by how caring, gentle and connected our group was able to become over 3 short days.
Thanks to everyone for co-creating this event with us! I hope that this network of collegiality, care and consideration can serve us into the future too 💛
Thanks to everyone for co-creating this event with us! I hope that this network of collegiality, care and consideration can serve us into the future too 💛
August 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM
And that’s a wrap! My heart is very full by how caring, gentle and connected our group was able to become over 3 short days.
Thanks to everyone for co-creating this event with us! I hope that this network of collegiality, care and consideration can serve us into the future too 💛
Thanks to everyone for co-creating this event with us! I hope that this network of collegiality, care and consideration can serve us into the future too 💛
Queer writing retreat (day one) ✅
August 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Queer writing retreat (day one) ✅
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Talking to @prisonculture.bsky.social about her idea that hope is a discipline. How do we practice that discipline?
From Ep 5 of my new podcast, which you can listen to here:
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From Ep 5 of my new podcast, which you can listen to here:
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Please subscribe and review--it helps others find us.
August 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Talking to @prisonculture.bsky.social about her idea that hope is a discipline. How do we practice that discipline?
From Ep 5 of my new podcast, which you can listen to here:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Please subscribe and review--it helps others find us.
From Ep 5 of my new podcast, which you can listen to here:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Please subscribe and review--it helps others find us.
Picked up the mug I decorated! 🕺
August 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Picked up the mug I decorated! 🕺
My trip to Portugal was a nice break away from thinking and writing about carceral atmospheres.. except when navigating the security apparatus of the airport…
July 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
My trip to Portugal was a nice break away from thinking and writing about carceral atmospheres.. except when navigating the security apparatus of the airport…
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Back in January I had the honour of discussing Aslı Zengin’s powerful and generous book ‘Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World’.
@geogdurham.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social
I’ve now published a summary of my comments:
doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2025.2531713
@geogdurham.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social
I’ve now published a summary of my comments:
doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2025.2531713
July 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Back in January I had the honour of discussing Aslı Zengin’s powerful and generous book ‘Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World’.
@geogdurham.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social
I’ve now published a summary of my comments:
doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2025.2531713
@geogdurham.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social
I’ve now published a summary of my comments:
doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2025.2531713
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A short piece from me looking at the politics of 'asylum hotels' in Britain and the challenges for government in finding alternatives @geogdurham.bsky.social
Why hotel use has risen, and what it’s costing the UK.
How the UK became dependent on asylum hotels
Why hotel use has risen, and what it’s costing the UK.
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July 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM
A short piece from me looking at the politics of 'asylum hotels' in Britain and the challenges for government in finding alternatives @geogdurham.bsky.social
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We are lucky to have Paula Harriott as one our keynote speakers at our workshop on 26 August at University of Birmingham. Paula's work exemplifies the power of lived experience and her recent books show how understudied and underappreciated women's leadership, in particular, can be.
Prisoner Leaders
This edited collection sheds light on an under-researched and often misconceived form of behaviour, that of prisoner leadership.
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June 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM
We are lucky to have Paula Harriott as one our keynote speakers at our workshop on 26 August at University of Birmingham. Paula's work exemplifies the power of lived experience and her recent books show how understudied and underappreciated women's leadership, in particular, can be.