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Dr Orly Siow
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Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden + Fellow in Politics, Newcastle University, UK
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Dr Orly Siow @drorlysiow.bsky.social · Apr 16
Sometimes I doubt my judgement but then I remember that I never read Harry Potter or joined Facebook.
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🌟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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aaronwinter.bsky.social
There's a word for the EU's inaction over Gaza: racism | Shada Islam www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There's a word for the EU's inaction over Gaza: racism | Shada Islam
Europe frames the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza as a humanitarian crisis rather than a deliberate political choice. There will be a moral reckoning, says Shada Islam, a commentator on EU affairs
www.theguardian.com
August 20, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Foto einer Straße in offener Land Schaft. Text: The Road to fascism ist lined with people telling you to stop overreacting.
January 14, 2024 at 8:49 AM
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ecpr-migration.bsky.social
📣 CFP: Racialised Space & the Politics of Emotion
📝 Abstracts due: 01/10/2025
📚 Special Issue for Identities
Guest editors: A. Emejulu, L. Bassel, A. Christoffersen & O. Siow

✉️ Submit: a.emejulu@sheffield.ac.uk

#CFP #CriticalRaceStudies #Emotions #RacialisedSpace #IdentitiesJournal
July 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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ortenca.bsky.social
Gazans Are Dying of Starvation www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
Gazans Are Dying of Starvation
www.nytimes.com
July 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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aaronwinter.bsky.social
Arguments about 'polarisation' and 'division' being the main problem, instead of racism, inequality, fascism, violence and genocide, lead to things like this instead of real action and change.
oriana.bsky.social Oriana González @oriana.bsky.social · Jul 16
NEW: Democrats and Republicans will play *together* in tonight’s Congressional Women’s Softball Game — which they say helps keep the little bipartisanship left in Congress alive

“We all have to do hard things,” one lawmaker said, “we can’t keep hating each other”
www.notus.org/congress/con...
It’s a ‘Horrible Time’ in Congress. But at Least There’s Softball.
Lawmakers playing in the Congressional Women’s Softball Game are doing their best to put politics aside.
www.notus.org
July 17, 2025 at 8:39 AM
drorlysiow.bsky.social
Interested in proposing / convening a section at #ECPG2026, hosted by folks at @nclpolitics.bsky.social?

Details here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

I've done it before and happy to answer any questions!
ECPG 2026: Call for Sections and Section Chairs
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
July 15, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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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
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Amazing work @drorlysiow.bsky.social‬! ‘Needles in a haystack: an intersectional analysis of the descriptive, constitutive and substantive representation of minoritised women’ was one of our most cited papers of 2024 🏆
doi.org/10.1332/2515...
doi.org
June 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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philippaeast.bsky.social
Open letter calling for an inquiry into the EHRC. I’ve just signed.

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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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Fascism.
robertshrimsley.bsky.social Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · Jun 19
Why are Tories suddenly using the term "white british" in debates on immgration and citizenship?

www.ft.com/content/aceb...
June 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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drdyidhuijg.bsky.social
STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia'
Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29
Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...
Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia
We call on all trans-inclusive feminist academics and educators to sign this statement: ‘Not In Our Name’ We are non-trans feminist academics and educators. We write in support of trans rights, tran...
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April 30, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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ecprgender.bsky.social
New blog post in @ecpr.bsky.social's @ecprtheloop.bsky.social Based on their @wepsocial.bsky.social research, @drorlysiow.bsky.social, @drashleec.bsky.social & @cerifowler.bsky.social reveal striking inequalities in which NGOs get access to government ministers. bit.ly/44K8MtV
#polisky #gendersky
April 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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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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Who gets a hearing? Intersectionality, NGO's and political access

New post on @ecprtheloop.bsky.social by
me @drashleec.bsky.social and @cerifowler.bsky.social

theloop.ecpr.eu/who-gets-a-h...
🌈 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 ...
theloop.ecpr.eu
April 30, 2025 at 8:25 AM
drorlysiow.bsky.social
Great speeches at the #translivesmatter protest in London today.
April 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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aphclarkson.bsky.social
At this point my and other UK and EU universities need to take a much firmer stand of solidarity on behalf of our colleagues in Belgrade.

They're fighting the kind of authoritarian destruction of intellectual life that threatens us all in Europe.
ingridgercama.bsky.social Ingrid Gercama @ingridgercama.bsky.social · Apr 18
The Rector of the University of Belgrade, Vladan Đokić, was summoned to the criminal police in New Belgrade. Faculty staff, students, and many other citizens have come out to support him. #studentprotests
April 18, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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poppublicsphere.bsky.social
What is the role of the University in promoting and/or resisting political and social change?

Call for Papers: #POLITICAL #SCIENCE & THE #UNIVERSITY

Guest Editors: @anjaneundorf.bsky.social , Robert Pape, & Nicholas Tampio

Deadline: August 1, 2025

More info here: buff.ly/3Wfo0Cq
April 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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psa-race.bsky.social
⏰⏰⏰ JUST ONE WEEK LEFT to submit your abstract for RMI's symposium: 'Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Blackness and Black Politics.' Deadline is 25th April. Apply here: forms.gle/jpPLz7Tuytuu...
psa-race.bsky.social PSA Race, Migration, & Intersectionality @psa-race.bsky.social · Mar 10
🚨🚨🚨CALL FOR PAPERS! The PSA's Race, Migration & Intersectionality Working group is hosting a symposium entitled, 'Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Blackness and Black Politics.' We invite abstracts of up to 200 words by Friday 25 April 2025. forms.gle/jpPLz7Tuytuu...
Advert for PSA RMI Political Studies Review Sumposium entitled interdisciplinary perspectives on Blackness and Black politics. Event will be held Friday 25th July 2025 at the PSA Office in Camden, London. Deadline for abstracts Friday 25 April 2025. Link to form same as post. Selected contributions from this symposium will be published in an issue of Political Studies Review after subjection to a peer review process.
April 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Pic from BBC -- white women celebrating outside the UK SC. We may deprivilege the colonial-racial frame, but the hate campaign led by white cis women speaks to a nation that criminalised same-sex relations in its empire, invented 'woman' in its colonies (cf. Oyewumi) & knows how to coerce white +
April 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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aurelmondon.bsky.social
You know democracy is going well when the decision to remove the rights of an already marginalised community is celebrated in "serious" analysis for allowing politicians "to dodge difficult questions"

Smells increasingly like the Weimar republic to me...
Guardian headline: Transgender Analysis Judicial ruling on legal definition of ‘woman’ will have UK politicians sighing with relief Peter Walker and Severin Carrell A unambiguous decision by the supreme court helps MPs, MSPs and others dodge difficult questions
April 17, 2025 at 6:07 AM
drorlysiow.bsky.social
Sometimes I doubt my judgement but then I remember that I never read Harry Potter or joined Facebook.
April 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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transradiouk.com
🚨 URGENT: Parliament Square This Saturday 1pm– Stand for Trans Rights

This Saturday at 1:00 p.m in Parliament Square, there will be a critical protest in support of trans rights, following todays Supreme Court decision that threatens the recognition and dignity of trans people.
April 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Thanks for having me! 🧡
pmorini.bsky.social Paolo Morini @pmorini.bsky.social · Apr 16
What a pleasure to have @drorlysiow.bsky.social speak to researchers at the @policyatkings.bsky.social and share her work (with @drashleec.bsky.social and @cerifowler.bsky.social) on ministers' engagement with equalities organisations!
April 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM