Ruth Fletcher
@ruthfletcher.bsky.social
Legal academic and feminist interested in reproducing life otherwise at Queen Mary University of London, and elsewhere | #Repealedthe8th | Co-chair, Abortion Support Network | Branch committee, QMUCU | Leverhulme Research Fellow
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Our #BacktoLife bible - the #IrishCarnegies by Brendan Grimes of @ucddublin guides us on architecture, history, heritage and the people who brought Carnegie’s radical dreams to life!
January 22, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Our #BacktoLife bible - the #IrishCarnegies by Brendan Grimes of @ucddublin guides us on architecture, history, heritage and the people who brought Carnegie’s radical dreams to life!
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This is our colonial legacy. The links we have built around the world. English-speaking people all over the world that know us.
Like it or not, that is a rational & reasonable reason for why some people believe their best option to rebuild a life from scratch is the UK. #r4today
Like it or not, that is a rational & reasonable reason for why some people believe their best option to rebuild a life from scratch is the UK. #r4today
January 21, 2026 at 8:48 AM
This is our colonial legacy. The links we have built around the world. English-speaking people all over the world that know us.
Like it or not, that is a rational & reasonable reason for why some people believe their best option to rebuild a life from scratch is the UK. #r4today
Like it or not, that is a rational & reasonable reason for why some people believe their best option to rebuild a life from scratch is the UK. #r4today
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🎉 Green GAIN from Reform! 🎉
💚 Congratulations to Lian Pizzey on being elected in Horsley division on Derbyshire County Council!
💚 Congratulations to Lian Pizzey on being elected in Horsley division on Derbyshire County Council!
January 21, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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I was the discussant this afternoon at the hybrid launch of the intellectually & politically important—and profoundly interdisciplinary—project led by Lisa Baraitser and want to let you all know about “Contragestive Time: Pregnant Uncertainties in Fertility Control” www.bbk.ac.uk/news/birkbec...
Birkbeck to Play Key Role in Groundbreaking Fertility Control Research Funded by The Wellcome Trust
www.bbk.ac.uk
January 20, 2026 at 7:17 PM
I was the discussant this afternoon at the hybrid launch of the intellectually & politically important—and profoundly interdisciplinary—project led by Lisa Baraitser and want to let you all know about “Contragestive Time: Pregnant Uncertainties in Fertility Control” www.bbk.ac.uk/news/birkbec...
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Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...
January 19, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...
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In the latest for Spectre, susie day speaks with Basil Farraj, professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Birzeit University in the West Bank, about his project tracing how Israel has become “the epitome of carceral logic" and heinous violence.
spectrejournal.com/exporting-ge...
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Exporting Genocide – Spectre Journal
susie day interviews Basil Farraj on Israel’s carceral logics.
spectrejournal.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:31 PM
In the latest for Spectre, susie day speaks with Basil Farraj, professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Birzeit University in the West Bank, about his project tracing how Israel has become “the epitome of carceral logic" and heinous violence.
spectrejournal.com/exporting-ge...
spectrejournal.com/exporting-ge...
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Her name is Joanne Young and she needs our solidarity
December 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Her name is Joanne Young and she needs our solidarity
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A British man, Philip Young, has been charged with drugging and raping his wife over a 13-year period. Five other men have also been charged with sexually abusing the same woman
Joanne Young, 48, has waived her legal right to anonymity
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/w...
Joanne Young, 48, has waived her legal right to anonymity
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/w...
U.K. Man and 5 Others Charged With Sexual Offenses Against His Wife
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
A British man, Philip Young, has been charged with drugging and raping his wife over a 13-year period. Five other men have also been charged with sexually abusing the same woman
Joanne Young, 48, has waived her legal right to anonymity
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/w...
Joanne Young, 48, has waived her legal right to anonymity
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/w...
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People are self-managing their abortions at home, and no one has to know. As we settle into the New Year, we want to remind you of our new reality: the majority of abortions in the U.S. now happen safely at home using discreet and effective abortion medication. Learn more at plancpills.org 🩷
January 10, 2026 at 5:49 PM
People are self-managing their abortions at home, and no one has to know. As we settle into the New Year, we want to remind you of our new reality: the majority of abortions in the U.S. now happen safely at home using discreet and effective abortion medication. Learn more at plancpills.org 🩷
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Ireland: Chief Justice Donal O’Donnell said the remark that justice was open to all like the Ritz Hotel endures because “it captures a fundamental and persistent challenge”, that “justice may be formally open, but practically inaccessible”.
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
Reform of free civil legal aid system ‘frustratingly slow’, says Chief Justice
Minister for Justice unable to comment on timeline for presenting Government with new proposals
www.irishtimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Ireland: Chief Justice Donal O’Donnell said the remark that justice was open to all like the Ritz Hotel endures because “it captures a fundamental and persistent challenge”, that “justice may be formally open, but practically inaccessible”.
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
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Amy Brooker, our Senior Public Affairs officer, on Radio Ulster, this morning discussing the long-term cost of economic abuse and sexual violence.
Access the tool at vision.city.ac.uk/sexual-viole...
Access the tool at vision.city.ac.uk/sexual-viole...
January 19, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Amy Brooker, our Senior Public Affairs officer, on Radio Ulster, this morning discussing the long-term cost of economic abuse and sexual violence.
Access the tool at vision.city.ac.uk/sexual-viole...
Access the tool at vision.city.ac.uk/sexual-viole...
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BHL holds 63 million pages of biodiversity knowledge. Among them are all kinds of marvels, including "Marvels of the Universe", a lavishly illustrated early 20th-century celebration of astronomy, plants, animals, and the oceans. Explore it on BHL:
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... 🧪
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... 🧪
January 14, 2026 at 2:27 PM
BHL holds 63 million pages of biodiversity knowledge. Among them are all kinds of marvels, including "Marvels of the Universe", a lavishly illustrated early 20th-century celebration of astronomy, plants, animals, and the oceans. Explore it on BHL:
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... 🧪
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... 🧪
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Bre is right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYhy...
I’m BEGGING You To Make Zines
YouTube video by brattyxbre
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January 17, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Bre is right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYhy...
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Powerful message from Becky Sauerbrunn: “Using Title IX to exclude trans women & girls from women’s sports is opposed to everything women’s sports was built on & stands for. Women’s sports were built as a response to exclusion not as a weapon to enforce it.” Couldn’t agree more.
Becky Sauerbrunn on Instagram, “I’m choosing to release this video today, January 13th, because right now the US Supreme Court is deliberating a case that could change the future of women’s sport.”
An important video:
An important video:
January 13, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Powerful message from Becky Sauerbrunn: “Using Title IX to exclude trans women & girls from women’s sports is opposed to everything women’s sports was built on & stands for. Women’s sports were built as a response to exclusion not as a weapon to enforce it.” Couldn’t agree more.
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Gender studies on the ground in Minnesota.
For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
www.ms.now
January 17, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Gender studies on the ground in Minnesota.
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crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.
please keep sharing with your networks.
please keep sharing with your networks.
Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:24 PM
crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.
please keep sharing with your networks.
please keep sharing with your networks.
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I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
January 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
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'A packed Greek court erupted in cheers as Seán Binder was found not guilty.'
A group of aid workers who were put on trial in Greece for rescuing migrants on the island of Lesbos have been acquitted of all charges.
A group of aid workers who were put on trial in Greece for rescuing migrants on the island of Lesbos have been acquitted of all charges.
January 17, 2026 at 12:13 PM
'A packed Greek court erupted in cheers as Seán Binder was found not guilty.'
A group of aid workers who were put on trial in Greece for rescuing migrants on the island of Lesbos have been acquitted of all charges.
A group of aid workers who were put on trial in Greece for rescuing migrants on the island of Lesbos have been acquitted of all charges.
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The effective conclusion of the ET is that trans people have to use third spaces. I think based on very poor legal analysis and uncritical adoption of "gender critical" talking points. But as I say, not binding, and all the relevant issues hopefully to be decided shortly by the High Court.
January 16, 2026 at 1:38 PM
The effective conclusion of the ET is that trans people have to use third spaces. I think based on very poor legal analysis and uncritical adoption of "gender critical" talking points. But as I say, not binding, and all the relevant issues hopefully to be decided shortly by the High Court.
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given especially the ongoing campaign of terror by the government against Black and Brown people in America, and their open embrace of white supremacy, 2 obituaries of Renfrew Christie worth your time today.
1) From South Africa's Daily Maverick: www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/fare... and >>
1) From South Africa's Daily Maverick: www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/fare... and >>
Farewell to a South African hero, Professor Renfrew Christie
Born in 1949 in Johannesburg, Renfrew Christie grew up in boarding houses and the less salubrious parts of town as his mother struggled to make ends meet after his father died while he was still a sma
www.dailymaverick.co.za
January 15, 2026 at 6:15 PM
given especially the ongoing campaign of terror by the government against Black and Brown people in America, and their open embrace of white supremacy, 2 obituaries of Renfrew Christie worth your time today.
1) From South Africa's Daily Maverick: www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/fare... and >>
1) From South Africa's Daily Maverick: www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/fare... and >>
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Bestie @suzanarahde.bsky.social and i wrote a thing about Taylor Swift and feminism as consumerism for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social and you should all go and read it and then also share it (& tell us how great it is tbh because it really is)
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/12/is-t...
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/12/is-t...
Is Taylor Swift Leaning Right?
Despite becoming a progressive favourite in recent years, Taylor Swift’s billionaire feminism has always been a vibes-only endeavour guided by consumerism and the girl boss ethic. Is it now shading in...
tribunemag.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Bestie @suzanarahde.bsky.social and i wrote a thing about Taylor Swift and feminism as consumerism for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social and you should all go and read it and then also share it (& tell us how great it is tbh because it really is)
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/12/is-t...
tribunemag.co.uk/2025/12/is-t...
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Our Law & Marxism Spring School Call for Applications is out! 😻
Comrades, we are inviting applications for the Law and Marxism Spring School 2026: Race, Resources and Redistribution, 8-10 April 2026, at the @gvagrad.bsky.social
Please take a look at our Call for Abstracts and share with your networks 📣
📝 To apply, click here: tinyurl.com/LawMarx26
Please take a look at our Call for Abstracts and share with your networks 📣
📝 To apply, click here: tinyurl.com/LawMarx26
December 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Our Law & Marxism Spring School Call for Applications is out! 😻
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We do not need to be 'cured' ...
In 2005, Abubakar Nadama died after receiving chelation treatments meant to cure his autism. Last year, Thomas Cooper died in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber meant to treat his ADHD. Now, the FDA has removed a page warning against quack autism "treatments" like these.
arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
FDA deletes warning on bogus autism therapies touted by RFK Jr.‘s allies
The agency used to warn of chelation, used by RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine ally David Geier.
arstechnica.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:16 PM
We do not need to be 'cured' ...
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I don't know how to convey to people that POLICING in the US is experienced by countless Black and brown people in the way that ICE is currently acting towards people.
January 14, 2026 at 9:01 PM
I don't know how to convey to people that POLICING in the US is experienced by countless Black and brown people in the way that ICE is currently acting towards people.
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Three UK hunger strikers end their hunger strike after the MoD meets one of their demands: The MoD has denied a major new £2 billion contract with the Israeli defence firm's subsidiary, Elbit Systems UK, for an Army training program..
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Three Palestine Action protesters end their hunger strike
Four more who had paused opt not to continue after government opts against giving contract to Elbit Systems UK
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Three UK hunger strikers end their hunger strike after the MoD meets one of their demands: The MoD has denied a major new £2 billion contract with the Israeli defence firm's subsidiary, Elbit Systems UK, for an Army training program..
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...