Cath Stinton
@cstinton.bsky.social
Researcher of race, gender and far-right extremism. Here for criminology musings, academia suffering, and cats. She/her
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Cath Stinton
@cstinton.bsky.social
· Nov 15
From Telegram to the Tate: Patriotic Alternative, Anti-Drag Activism and Offline Mobilisation - GNET
gnet-research.org
Oh God, I'm on a list now and it's getting me followers, I better have a Take. In the absence of anything new, here's an article I wrote for GNET last year. I'm sure the profitability of anti-trans activism for the far right won't remain relevant or anything.
gnet-research.org/2023/10/13/f...
gnet-research.org/2023/10/13/f...
This is both true and yet my toxic trait is I think I, a sociologist, am built different tho.
4. Every other discipline thinks they can do history but they often cannot
October 25, 2025 at 8:49 AM
This is both true and yet my toxic trait is I think I, a sociologist, am built different tho.
Reposted by Cath Stinton
York has seen a steep rise in racist assaults -both verbal and physical- in recent weeks. This should not be tolerated. If you are around on Saturday, join.
October 2, 2025 at 8:29 AM
York has seen a steep rise in racist assaults -both verbal and physical- in recent weeks. This should not be tolerated. If you are around on Saturday, join.
Oh yeah, this happened - not with a bang, but a final, perfunctory bit of paperwork. #PhDone
I may need a breather or two before I contemplate rolling up my sleeves and going back to research, but unfortunately 'Race and Gender in the British Far Right' is gonna be an evergreen topic for a bit...
I may need a breather or two before I contemplate rolling up my sleeves and going back to research, but unfortunately 'Race and Gender in the British Far Right' is gonna be an evergreen topic for a bit...
September 29, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Oh yeah, this happened - not with a bang, but a final, perfunctory bit of paperwork. #PhDone
I may need a breather or two before I contemplate rolling up my sleeves and going back to research, but unfortunately 'Race and Gender in the British Far Right' is gonna be an evergreen topic for a bit...
I may need a breather or two before I contemplate rolling up my sleeves and going back to research, but unfortunately 'Race and Gender in the British Far Right' is gonna be an evergreen topic for a bit...
Reposted by Cath Stinton
Reposted by Cath Stinton
British right-wing politicians and their press allies are going to lionise someone most have never heard of & they won’t repeat what he actually said
September 11, 2025 at 6:08 AM
British right-wing politicians and their press allies are going to lionise someone most have never heard of & they won’t repeat what he actually said
Reposted by Cath Stinton
Sooner or later, everywhere makes it known that they only tolerate trans women's presence, and it's very conditional. The slightest excuse to toss us out is seized upon without hesitation.
Reinstate Jessie Gender.
Reinstate Jessie Gender.
August 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Sooner or later, everywhere makes it known that they only tolerate trans women's presence, and it's very conditional. The slightest excuse to toss us out is seized upon without hesitation.
Reinstate Jessie Gender.
Reinstate Jessie Gender.
Anyone got any good sources for discussing the valknut as a far right symbol? It has been permeating my hobby spaces (LARP) and likely is often worn very innocently (and sometimes Definitely Not), and I want to equip game organisers with useful information. Nordic Nazis not my specialty.
July 31, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Anyone got any good sources for discussing the valknut as a far right symbol? It has been permeating my hobby spaces (LARP) and likely is often worn very innocently (and sometimes Definitely Not), and I want to equip game organisers with useful information. Nordic Nazis not my specialty.
Drafting a book chapter on methodology aimed at undergraduate criminology students, so it should probably mention how one could use this method to research serial killer (online fandoms).
May we all find someone who loves us as much as undergrad criminology students love serial killers.
May we all find someone who loves us as much as undergrad criminology students love serial killers.
July 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Drafting a book chapter on methodology aimed at undergraduate criminology students, so it should probably mention how one could use this method to research serial killer (online fandoms).
May we all find someone who loves us as much as undergrad criminology students love serial killers.
May we all find someone who loves us as much as undergrad criminology students love serial killers.
Could the Higher Education sector at least make a compromise that if you're not going to give us any jobs, you could at least pay us for the hours of labour and expertise that go into our publications? Got a Sept deadline that's looking real pointless without a career it can contribute to.
May 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Could the Higher Education sector at least make a compromise that if you're not going to give us any jobs, you could at least pay us for the hours of labour and expertise that go into our publications? Got a Sept deadline that's looking real pointless without a career it can contribute to.
I agree with the sentiment and this specific message but a lot of the other backlash to this is just sexist, with deeply misogynistic language directed at Perry etc. They're tourists, sure. But they're not the first space tourists; let's be mindful of who earns our outrage and how we express it?
Maybe we should honor the women who were real astronauts.
From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, and Sally K. Ride. NASA selected all six women as their first female astronaut candidates in January 1978.
From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, and Sally K. Ride. NASA selected all six women as their first female astronaut candidates in January 1978.
April 19, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I agree with the sentiment and this specific message but a lot of the other backlash to this is just sexist, with deeply misogynistic language directed at Perry etc. They're tourists, sure. But they're not the first space tourists; let's be mindful of who earns our outrage and how we express it?
Determinations such as these on who is a woman are fundamentally about who is entitled to personhood. And we should all be furious and concerned about that.
April 16, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Determinations such as these on who is a woman are fundamentally about who is entitled to personhood. And we should all be furious and concerned about that.
Woah, France, did you actually figure out that democracy needs proactively protecting to maintain any shred of integrity? Let's see if enough (or even 'nearly enough' is done...)
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Marine Le Pen banned from running for public office after guilty verdict in embezzlement trial – Europe live
Exact length of ban not yet known after French far right leader and eight National Rally MEPs found guilty of misappropriating EU funds
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Woah, France, did you actually figure out that democracy needs proactively protecting to maintain any shred of integrity? Let's see if enough (or even 'nearly enough' is done...)
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Submitted the thesis today. Now I get to reenter the world, and not have to constantly think about fascism -
Oh. Huh. Oh no.
Oh. Huh. Oh no.
March 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Submitted the thesis today. Now I get to reenter the world, and not have to constantly think about fascism -
Oh. Huh. Oh no.
Oh. Huh. Oh no.
I remain so glad I've had the supervisors and mentors I've had; it seems so easy for counter-extremism scholarship to wind up propping up government oppression and overreach, made all the more agonising by this being where the jobs are in this wretched industry of academia and adjacent work.
The Counter Extremism Project leadership celebrating the Trump admins efforts in arresting and deporting Khalil without due process is unacceptable. This field HAS TO BE one where human rights and the law are respected CEP seems to forget that.
www.counterextremism.com/press/counte...
www.counterextremism.com/press/counte...
COUNTER EXTREMISM PROJECT APPLAUDS PRESIDENT TRUMP AND SECRETARY RUBIO FOR DECISIVE ACTION AGAINST PRO-HAMAS SUPPORTER MAHMOUD KHALIL
Immigration and Nationality Act Provisions are Clear Basis For Khalil’s Deportation.Broader Authorities Regarding Antisemitism and Its Incitement Must Be Strengthened.(New York, NY) – Counter Extremis...
www.counterextremism.com
March 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I remain so glad I've had the supervisors and mentors I've had; it seems so easy for counter-extremism scholarship to wind up propping up government oppression and overreach, made all the more agonising by this being where the jobs are in this wretched industry of academia and adjacent work.
Absolute embarrassment that this has come to court because a pair of queer women, one of them mixed-race, were scared and vulnerable and not being taken seriously by the police. I don't care how stupid and drunk they were. A huge overreaction of state power started by a copper who felt disrespected.
Sam Kerr called policeman ‘stupid and white’ after late-night taxi dispute
Sam Kerr called policeman ‘stupid and white’ after late-night taxi dispute
Matildas star had been on night out when row with cab driver ended with her allegedly being abusive to PC Stephen Lovell
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Sam Kerr called a Metropolitan police officer…
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Absolute embarrassment that this has come to court because a pair of queer women, one of them mixed-race, were scared and vulnerable and not being taken seriously by the police. I don't care how stupid and drunk they were. A huge overreaction of state power started by a copper who felt disrespected.
I keep thinking that the future would be a little less bleak with a world leader standing remotely firmly against Trump, and then I look at France and Canada imploding and the idea of Starmer particularly having a spine and...
Well, Plan B?
Well, Plan B?
January 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I keep thinking that the future would be a little less bleak with a world leader standing remotely firmly against Trump, and then I look at France and Canada imploding and the idea of Starmer particularly having a spine and...
Well, Plan B?
Well, Plan B?
Reposted by Cath Stinton
i sent an email to DOGE and suggested replacing the entire Department of Defense with Warhammer 40,000 miniatures but they actually did the math and it turns out that would be much more expensive
January 23, 2025 at 8:10 AM
i sent an email to DOGE and suggested replacing the entire Department of Defense with Warhammer 40,000 miniatures but they actually did the math and it turns out that would be much more expensive
Not saying Musk's motivations are, in general, irrelevant... but I don't think his intent or sincerity matters anywhere near as much as the adrenaline shot this gives fascists and the normalisation of fascism (on a day of such boosts). Tying ourselves in knots on if he meant it can be distracting.
January 20, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Not saying Musk's motivations are, in general, irrelevant... but I don't think his intent or sincerity matters anywhere near as much as the adrenaline shot this gives fascists and the normalisation of fascism (on a day of such boosts). Tying ourselves in knots on if he meant it can be distracting.
Tidying referencing today. It always gives me such joy to see the citation 'Keenan & Hot Mess (2020).' Obviously it's fun to see an author going by 'Lil Miss Hot Mess', but I'm delighted by scholarship that actually involves expert practitioners (this time in drag and drag pedagogy)
November 29, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Tidying referencing today. It always gives me such joy to see the citation 'Keenan & Hot Mess (2020).' Obviously it's fun to see an author going by 'Lil Miss Hot Mess', but I'm delighted by scholarship that actually involves expert practitioners (this time in drag and drag pedagogy)
The gross transphobia being thrown today at Barbra Banda on X and by the Telegraph for winning BBC Women's Footballer of the Year is yet another unnecessary reminder of the link between racism and transphobia.
But it's also been great to see actual women's football fans standing up for her.
But it's also been great to see actual women's football fans standing up for her.
November 26, 2024 at 8:38 PM
The gross transphobia being thrown today at Barbra Banda on X and by the Telegraph for winning BBC Women's Footballer of the Year is yet another unnecessary reminder of the link between racism and transphobia.
But it's also been great to see actual women's football fans standing up for her.
But it's also been great to see actual women's football fans standing up for her.
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“We’ve closed all the arts and humanities departments, but those depts are low cost and actually run operational surplus on tuition fee income alone. We now have to close other more expensive depts. The ones cross-subsidized by the arts, humanities and social science depts we’ve now closed”
Chemistry degrees have some of the highest values of any degree and are vital if we want to build a competitive high-tech nation. But they are expensive, and so if universities want to save money quickly they will just ignore national priorities and close them.
www.chemistryworld.com/news/univers...
www.chemistryworld.com/news/univers...
University of Reading proposes closing its chemistry department next year
The university joins several others that are considering the future of their departments and undergraduate programmes
www.chemistryworld.com
November 18, 2024 at 4:19 PM
“We’ve closed all the arts and humanities departments, but those depts are low cost and actually run operational surplus on tuition fee income alone. We now have to close other more expensive depts. The ones cross-subsidized by the arts, humanities and social science depts we’ve now closed”
I still have an X account to chat women's football, but these days when my team loses I get bantered by shills for crypto and sports gambling, and men who are way too obsessed with the word "dominate" to describe their team's winning streak.
So I'll probably leave that, too.
So I'll probably leave that, too.
November 16, 2024 at 11:40 PM
I still have an X account to chat women's football, but these days when my team loses I get bantered by shills for crypto and sports gambling, and men who are way too obsessed with the word "dominate" to describe their team's winning streak.
So I'll probably leave that, too.
So I'll probably leave that, too.
May have hit peak Brunch Energy by saying, "Nevertheless, she persisted!" to admonish my cat as I describe her sins to her.
It's not even just Brunch, it's passé, unfashionable, seven-year-old Brunch.
It's not even just Brunch, it's passé, unfashionable, seven-year-old Brunch.
November 16, 2024 at 10:55 AM
May have hit peak Brunch Energy by saying, "Nevertheless, she persisted!" to admonish my cat as I describe her sins to her.
It's not even just Brunch, it's passé, unfashionable, seven-year-old Brunch.
It's not even just Brunch, it's passé, unfashionable, seven-year-old Brunch.
Oh God, I'm on a list now and it's getting me followers, I better have a Take. In the absence of anything new, here's an article I wrote for GNET last year. I'm sure the profitability of anti-trans activism for the far right won't remain relevant or anything.
gnet-research.org/2023/10/13/f...
gnet-research.org/2023/10/13/f...
From Telegram to the Tate: Patriotic Alternative, Anti-Drag Activism and Offline Mobilisation - GNET
gnet-research.org
November 15, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Oh God, I'm on a list now and it's getting me followers, I better have a Take. In the absence of anything new, here's an article I wrote for GNET last year. I'm sure the profitability of anti-trans activism for the far right won't remain relevant or anything.
gnet-research.org/2023/10/13/f...
gnet-research.org/2023/10/13/f...
Be wary, American friends, of hoping the naked greed of corporations (like Big Pharma) will slow the Trump administration's rampant transgressions. I'd held similar hopes about Brexit - surely corporate interests would use their influence to stop something damaging to protect the bottom line? Ha.
November 14, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Be wary, American friends, of hoping the naked greed of corporations (like Big Pharma) will slow the Trump administration's rampant transgressions. I'd held similar hopes about Brexit - surely corporate interests would use their influence to stop something damaging to protect the bottom line? Ha.