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Dr Orly Siow

@drorlysiow.bsky.social

🌟Submissions open: "Anti-Racist Feminist Politics: Thinking with Backlash, Creating New Worlds" at ECPG 2026 🌟

ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

Organised by @drashleec.bsky.social Akwugo Emejulu, Leah Bassel & me

@ecprgender.bsky.social @nclpolitics.bsky.social @psa-race.bsky.social @bsarace.bsky.social

Anti-Racist Feminist Politics: Thinking with Backlash, Creating New Worlds

European Consortium for Political Research

ecpr.eu

September 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM

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Be Stone

@drbestone.bsky.social

As you're settling in to (beautiful!) Vancouver for #APSA2025 don't forget to mark your calendar for the 20th annual Methods Café! It's a venue for one-on-one & small group discussion w/top experts in the field on a range of qualitative and interpretive research methods & approaches. Don't miss it!

September 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM

Ashlee Christoffersen

@drashleec.bsky.social

#polisky #gendersky

Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · Sep 5

You're invited to learn more about interpretive methods at the 20th annual IMM Methods Cafe at #APSA2025! Sept. 11, 4-5:30 pm, Marriot Point Grey Room.

20th annual Methods Café Thursday, September 11th
4:00-5:30 pm PDT, Marriott Point Grey Room.
The Interpretive Methods and Methodologies group is delighted to host our 20th annual Methods Café, an opportunity for social scientists at all career levels to learn more about interpretive methods in an informal setting.
Read more about the Methods Café, topics, and experts here: https://www.interpretivemethods.com/methods-cafe-2025

September 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM

Ashlee Christoffersen

@drashleec.bsky.social

Join our #APSA2025 Wednesday afternoon short course on Planning for Real: Bringing Your Whole Self to the Field! #polisky #gendersky

Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · Sep 5

Join our #APSA2025 Wednesday afternoon short course on Planning for Real: Bringing Your Whole Self to the Field!

PLANNING FOR REAL: BRINGING YOUR WHOLE SELF TO THE FIELD
An APSA Short Course
Discussions on Navigating:
• The body
• Academic Responsibilities
• Ethics
• Practical Concerns
• Gatekeepers
• Community
• Family
• And much more
Most fieldwork advice is very general in nature, proffered for supposedly neutral and unmarked researchers. This approach underestimates the variability of researchers’ bodies and positionalities across the span and dimensions of fieldwork including preparing, active field time, and reception. These varied bodies and positionalities are not ancillary to the planning and doing of fieldwork but influence every aspect of it.
We take up these concerns in this interactive workshop session, sharing our experiences, insights and expertise, and creating space for participants to integrate their whole selves into planning and adapting field work.
Wednesday, September 10th
1:30-5:30 p.m.
See program for location

September 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM

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ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics

@ecprgender.bsky.social

We invite expressions of interest for section chairs and section proposals for the next European Conference on Politics and Gender. The conference will take place in Newcastle, UK, on 15-17 June 2026. More info ecpr.eu/Events/343 , deadline 1 August.

European Conference on Politics and Gender, Newcastle University, 15-17 June 2026

European Consortium for Political Research

ecpr.eu

July 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM

Ashlee Christoffersen

@drashleec.bsky.social

Book news!
-My book "The Politics of Intersectional Practice" with @brisunipress.bsky.social is now available in paperback! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-politics...
-Earlier this year, it was shortlisted for the @britsoci.bsky.social Philip Abrams Memorial Prize
-New review in @ersjournal.com

Ethnic and Racial Studies @ersjournal.com · Jun 1

The Politics of Intersectional Practice by @drashleec.bsky.social‬ is a timely deep dive into how intersectionality is used—and misused—by UK equality NGOs. Review by Lukas Bullock: doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2510432

July 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM

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Philippa East (Author)

@philippaeast.bsky.social

Open letter calling for an inquiry into the EHRC. I’ve just signed.

organise.network/actions/peti...

Screenshot from the above webpage.

To Women & Equalities Committee
We, the undersigned, write to express serious and urgent concerns about the actions of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the apparent unwillingness of the Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) to investigate them.

It is becoming increasingly clear that the EHRC is no longer operating as an impartial human rights body. Over the past several years, its leadership has shifted in a direction that appears ideologically driven, hostile to trans equality, and closely aligned with lobbying groups who advocate for the removal of legal protections for transgender people. These groups - including Sex Matters, Policy Exchange, and the LGB Alliance - have played a significant role in reshaping public discourse and influencing legal interpretations of the Equality Act 2010.

We are calling on the Women and Equalities Committee to launch an immediate and transparent inquiry into:

- The EHRC’s internal decision-making processes regarding the definition of “sex” under the Equality Act 2010;

- All communications, meetings, and correspondence between the EHRC and external lobbying organisations from 2020 to the present;

- The EHRC’s advice to government departments, ministers, and the courts—especially its role in shaping the outcome of For Women Scotland v The Lord Advocate [2024] UKSC 59.

As transgender people and allies, we are gravely concerned that this advice, and the EHRC’s developing policy stance have been influenced not by human rights or evidence, but by ideological lobbying and political convenience. We must understand who the EHRC has been speaking to, what was said, and why these decisions were made. Anything less is a dereliction of democratic oversight.

June 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM

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Jolyon Maugham KC

@goodlawproject.org

The EHRC Guidance is a wicked exercise in removing rights from trans people - and is bad too for employers and service providers, those outside gender norms, people with disabilities and the economy.

We've created a tool to make it easy to respond. Please use and share. goodlaw.social/9e59e9

How to respond to the EHRC consultation

Good Law Project has taken advice from a leading public law King’s Counsel on how to respond to the EHRC’s consultation. What follows is a form which, after you complete it, will automatically be sent...

goodlaw.social

June 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM

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André Picard @picardonhealth

@picardonhealth.bsky.social

‘We are not a priority’ -- #Disability advocates say lack of minister in new federal cabinet sends a message that they don't matter, by Nicole Thompson www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... via @theglobeandmail.com @inclusioncanada.bsky.social #inclusion

‘We are not a priority’: Disability advocates say lack of minister sends a message

Rabia Khedr, the national director of Disability Without Poverty, says without a minister, she worries there won’t be improvements to the Canada Disability Benefit

www.theglobeandmail.com

May 15, 2025 at 11:21 PM

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QueerAF

@wearequeeraf.com

🏳️‍⚧️ @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social, the trans judge who will be heard, even if she has to take the UK to the European Court of Human Rights 👇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?ref=wearequeeraf.com&v=IPU6XN4lOvw&feature=youtu.be

- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

www.youtube.com

May 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM

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Jolyon Maugham KC

@goodlawproject.org

Shabana Mahmood, herself a vigorous opponent of the rights and dignities of trans people, says they are not even supposed to question why the Supreme Court locked them out of proceedings about their lives. It's a proper, ugly, scandal.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · Apr 30

The right way for Mahmood to respond to the substantial and substantiated criticisms of the Supreme Court decision is to address them.

To pretend it is illegitimate even to advance criticism is to mimic autocracies and amplify the stench of impropriety. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Unacceptable' to question Supreme Court gender ruling, says justice secretary

Shabana Mahmood said judges at the UK's highest court had provided

www.bbc.co.uk

April 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM

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The Loop

@ecprtheloop.bsky.social

🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.27
📘 Based on their research into engagement between government ministers and NGOs, @drorlysiow.bsky.social, @drashleec.bsky.social and @cerifowler.bsky.social reveal striking inequalities in who gets access ⛔ to political decision-makers.
➡️ bit.ly/44K8MtV

🌈 Who gets a hearing? Intersectionality, NGOs, and political access

Representation is not just about who gets elected. It is also about who gets access to decision makers. Orly Siow, Ashlee Christoffersen and Ceri Fowler conducted research into the engagement between ...

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April 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM

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Harsha Walia

@harshawalia.bsky.social

fundraisers run by family & friends ❤️

Help Christi & Nox recover
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Help bring Ate Rizza home
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Help Bring Rowel Home
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SUPPORT FOR VAL DE LA CRUZ & SON AFTER LAPU LAPU INCIDENT
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Donate to Help Christi and Nox recover from the Lapu Lapu tragedy, organized by Amanda Koop

Hi, my name is Amanda. My good friend Christi and her son, Nox (11… Amanda Koop needs your support for Help Christi and Nox recover from the Lapu Lapu tragedy

www.gofundme.com

April 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM

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Harsha Walia

@harshawalia.bsky.social

So many copaganda accounts on here are using tragedy of Lapu-Lapu Day to argue for more policing. Cops maybe running press conferences, but majority of people responding to this tragedy are community members offering & sharing resources & health care workers (many of whom are Filipinx immigrants).

April 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM

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The IMEU

@theimeu.bsky.social

Israel is using “suicide drones,” designed by Elbit Systems, to massacre sheltering Palestinian families in Gaza.

These drones have killed at least 30 Palestinians, including 14 children. Many universities in the US still hold ties to Elbit Systems.

Israel Is Using Suicide Drones to Target Displaced Palestinian Families Sheltering in Tents

Israel has deployed SkyStriker drones manufactured by Elbit Systems in several attacks in Gaza over the past week, killing at least 30 Palestinians sheltering in tents, including 14 children

ow.ly

April 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM

Ashlee Christoffersen

@drashleec.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Feminist Silences in the Face of Israel's Genocide Against the Palestinian People: A Call for Decolonial Praxis Against Complicity

Click on the article title to read more.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

April 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM

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QueerAF

@wearequeeraf.com

The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people after a Supreme Court ruling defined sex as 'biological sex'

This is everything you need to know about the ruling 👇

Reporting by @jessothomson.co.uk 🧵🏳️‍⚧️

Screenshot of QueerAF website with headline: UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren’t Women under the Equality Act 2010

Byline of Jess O'Thomson: Writer, legal researcher, journalist. Pronouns they/she. Intersectionalities trans, disabled, nonbinary woman, queer, working class / low income

April 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM

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Trans Legal Project

@translegalproject.bsky.social

Thread:

1/6 We, like other trans led groups are digesting today’s Supreme Court ruling in For Women Scotland Limited v The Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16 (‘FWS 2’)...

April 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM

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Prem Thakker ツ

@premthakker.bsky.social

The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who:
–has green card
–was Columbia Buddhist club president
–saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier
–said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

In addition to violating Mr. Mahdawi’s First Amendment rights, the Rubio
Determination and Mr. Mahdawi’s unlawful detention also violates Mr. Mahdawi’s statutory rights
and due process rights.
PARTIES
8. Petitioner Mohsen Mahdawi is a Palestinian who was born and raised in a refugee
camp in the West Bank. He is a lawful permanent resident of the United States and has been for
the last ten years. He is a recent student of Columbia University, with an expected graduation date
of May 2025. He has been admitted to a Master’s program at Columbia University’s School of
International and Public Affairs (“SIPA”), to begin in the fall of 2025.

After growing up in a refugee camp, Mr. Mahdawi felt compelled to advocate for
Palestinian human rights upon moving to the United States.
22. Mr. Mahdawi is also a committed Buddhist and believes in non-violence and
empathy as a central tenet of his religion. In fall of 2021, he became the president of the Columbia
University Buddhist Association and led it for two years.
23. In fall of 2023, Mr. Mahdawi co-founded the Palestinian Student Union (“Dar”) at
Columbia University which “serves to engage with and celebrate Palestinian culture, history, and
identity.” Mr. Mahdawi co-founded this organization with Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian lawful
permanent resident who was also recently detained by ICE for his expressive conduct related to
Palestine.

Mr. Mahdawi appeared in numerous televised interviews and print news articles
regarding the military campaign in Gaza and related protests. In December of 2023, Mr. Mahdawi
appeared on 60 Minutes where he shared that, as a child, he watched an Israeli soldier shoot and
kill his best friend in the West Bank.
27. Throughout his time as a student and a leader of Dar and the Columbia University
Buddhist Association, Mr. Mahdawi was always willing to engage in dialogue with people whose
views and beliefs differed from his own. Mr. Mahdawi believed, and continues to believe, that
more speech is the solution to disagreement, rather than less, and that empathy and understanding
through communication are a way to resolve conflicts peacefully.

…and a peaceful political solution. Mr. Mahdawi gave speeches at several of these protests. In his
speeches, Mr. Mahdawi advocated for Palestinian human rights, a permanent ceasefire, and a
peaceful resolution that affirmed the human dignity of all.
25. During one protest, Mr. Mahdawi vocally denounced an unaffiliated passerby who
made an antisemitic comment, chanting “shame on him”. Mr. Mahdawi stated that “we are against
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antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to
justice everywhere.” The confrontation was documented by the Columbia Spectator

April 14, 2025 at 6:08 PM

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WEP Journal

@wepsocial.bsky.social

Online first: "Intersectionality, NGOs and executives: who has which minister’s ear?" by @drashleec.bsky.social @drorlysiow.bsky.social & @cerifowler.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/0140...

#polisky #academicsky

Abstract of the article "Intersectionality, NGOs and executives: who has which minister's ear?" by Ashlee Christoffersen, Orly Siow and Ceri Fowler. Published online first in West European Politics.

Table 1, displaying the meetings by ministers' identity and presence of equality organisations.

Table 2, displaying the type of equalities organisations and level of access to ministers of different intersectional identities.

Table 3, displaying the organisations attending ten or more meetings with ministers.

April 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM

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Dr Orly Siow

@drorlysiow.bsky.social

Don't for get to submit your abstracts folks!

Give me or @drashleec.bsky.social a shout if any questions

Dr Orly Siow @drorlysiow.bsky.social · Apr 1

CfP: Racialised Space and the Politics of Emotions!

Workshop 6th June, Sheffield, UK and online

Limited ECR travel bursaries available

Please share widely!

Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Any questions, contact me or @drashleec.bsky.social for further info

Call for proposals: Racialised space and politics of emotions

April 9, 2025 at 6:36 AM

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Politics & Gender

@politicsgenderj.bsky.social

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢

@drashleec.bsky.social & @drorlysiow.bsky.social‬ examine how intersectionality has been used within P&G and outline ways that future contributions can embrace the original Black feminist intentions of the concept.

🌟Available #OpenAccess🌟

buff.ly/fiEoCno

Research article "From Inclusion to Transformation: Politics & Gender as a Critical Actor for Intersectional Political Science" by Ashlee Christoffersen & Orly Siow.
Abstract begins: The popularization of intersectionality within political science, feminist scholarship, and activism has constituted nothing less than a paradigm shift (Hancock 2007a). Politics & Gender has been a critical actor in enabling change within our discipline. However, this development has been hard won and there remains much to be done to operationalize intersectionality in line with Black feminist theory, and to center women of color and other intersectionally marginalized groups within scholarship. This article both traces the evolution of intersectional approaches within Politics & Gender over two decades and articulates pathways for future gender and politics research which aims to employ intersectionality.

April 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM

Ashlee Christoffersen

@drashleec.bsky.social

(1/3)New article with @drorlysiow.bsky.social & @cerifowler.bsky.social

"Intersectionality, NGOs and executives: who has which minister’s ear?" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#gendersky #polisky

Intersectionality, NGOs and executives: who has which minister’s ear?

To what extent do the most powerful political office-holders engage with extra-parliamentary representatives from the most marginalised groups? To what extent and how are these relationships inters...

www.tandfonline.com

April 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM

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Dr Orly Siow

@drorlysiow.bsky.social

CfP: Racialised Space and the Politics of Emotions!

Workshop 6th June, Sheffield, UK and online

Limited ECR travel bursaries available

Please share widely!

Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Any questions, contact me or @drashleec.bsky.social for further info

April 1, 2025 at 11:31 AM

Reposted by Ashlee Christoffersen

Women’s, Gender and Social Justice

@wgsj.bsky.social

WGSJ Statement on York University’s Suspension of New Admissions of 1st Year Majors to Undergraduate Programs

Please see our full statement on our webiste: wgsj.ca/2025/02/19/s...

WGSJ Statement on York University’s Suspension of New Admissions of 1st Year Majors to Undergraduate Programs

In solidarity with the Programs in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, Women’s, Gender and Social Justice Association (WGSJ) calls on York University to revert their de…

wgsj.ca

February 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM

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