Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden
@sandraduffy.bsky.social
Law lecturer, dog parent, imported Bristolian, Irish. Using law for trans liberation, reproductive justice, coloniality. They/she. AuDHD. Fond of penguins. Views personal. 🇵🇸
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Moral panics and legal projects: echoes of Section 28 in United Kingdom transgender discourse and law reform
A grounding in the queer history of the legal system in the United Kingdom reveals striking parallels between the moral panic leading to the enactment of Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988, a...
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So thrilled to say that my new article on the echoes of Section 28 in the moral panic around trans people in the UK is out now, along with the rest of the first issue of @genderandjustice.bsky.social !
doi.org/10.1332/3033...
doi.org/10.1332/3033...
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THAT'S MY PRESIDENT 🫡🫡🫡
It’s not just football tricks that President Catherine Connolly has up her sleeve – she can also score an impressive backwards basketball shot.
jrnl.ie/6946030
jrnl.ie/6946030
February 4, 2026 at 3:53 PM
THAT'S MY PRESIDENT 🫡🫡🫡
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Lithograph of the preamble of the Indian Constitution. I believe it's an original produced at the time.
February 4, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Lithograph of the preamble of the Indian Constitution. I believe it's an original produced at the time.
Really bad ADHD day in my head today.
February 4, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Really bad ADHD day in my head today.
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"Any new version of the EHRC's code that does not provide clarity for service providers on how to include trans people will not fix this mess,” says @transsolidarity.bsky.social director Alex Parmar-Yee @fruitypy.bsky.social
Read our analysis 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-t...
Read our analysis 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-t...
February 4, 2026 at 11:41 AM
"Any new version of the EHRC's code that does not provide clarity for service providers on how to include trans people will not fix this mess,” says @transsolidarity.bsky.social director Alex Parmar-Yee @fruitypy.bsky.social
Read our analysis 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-t...
Read our analysis 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/understand-t...
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Again reminding people in Bristol especially that we do not need to extend our gaze to other countries to look for case studies for civil rights movements.
February 4, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Again reminding people in Bristol especially that we do not need to extend our gaze to other countries to look for case studies for civil rights movements.
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Watching rugby through the years.
February 4, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Watching rugby through the years.
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Kevin Bakhurst in the Irish Times today saying that he pushed RTE News to follow the UK lead on 'transgender issues'. I would question why there's a need to import a confected British moral panic to a country where it does not, as yet, exist. Our news media seems to desperately want a culture war.
February 4, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Kevin Bakhurst in the Irish Times today saying that he pushed RTE News to follow the UK lead on 'transgender issues'. I would question why there's a need to import a confected British moral panic to a country where it does not, as yet, exist. Our news media seems to desperately want a culture war.
Stars - Hold On When You Get Love And Let Go When You Give It
YouTube video by Stars
www.youtube.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:16 AM
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If you were interested in @jaytoddgla.bsky.social’s and my critical response to the “Sullivan Review” yesterday, make sure you read @kevinguyan.bsky.social’s very recently published “Trans-exclusionary data activism in the UK”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Trans-exclusionary data activism in the UK
In the UK, the design and management of sex and gender categories in data – including census questions, police and health records, and digital ID – has become a key focus of trans-exclusionary acti...
www.tandfonline.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:19 AM
If you were interested in @jaytoddgla.bsky.social’s and my critical response to the “Sullivan Review” yesterday, make sure you read @kevinguyan.bsky.social’s very recently published “Trans-exclusionary data activism in the UK”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I feel fine)
The Good That Won't Come Out
Hotellounge (Be the Death of Me)
If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next
Eve is the Apple of my Eye
ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
The Good That Won't Come Out
Hotellounge (Be the Death of Me)
If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next
Eve is the Apple of my Eye
ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
Deleted a post about “what’s your least favorite song” because the vibes are bad enough already.
Instead: what’s your favorite song that has a long title, say at least 6 words long?
Mine: “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town” (Pearl Jam)
Instead: what’s your favorite song that has a long title, say at least 6 words long?
Mine: “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town” (Pearl Jam)
February 4, 2026 at 9:11 AM
It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I feel fine)
The Good That Won't Come Out
Hotellounge (Be the Death of Me)
If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next
Eve is the Apple of my Eye
ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
The Good That Won't Come Out
Hotellounge (Be the Death of Me)
If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next
Eve is the Apple of my Eye
ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart
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Remember, the state regulator "fined" U of Sussex almost £600,000 for attempting to protect the rights of trans people.
Hopefully this shocking and shameful abuse of power will be overturned.
Hopefully this shocking and shameful abuse of power will be overturned.
‘Unlawful’ OfS ruling against University of Sussex should be quashed, court told
Judicial review begins in high court over watchdog’s freedom of speech ruling that resulted in £585,000 fine
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:12 AM
Remember, the state regulator "fined" U of Sussex almost £600,000 for attempting to protect the rights of trans people.
Hopefully this shocking and shameful abuse of power will be overturned.
Hopefully this shocking and shameful abuse of power will be overturned.
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I love it when you complain about the price of food and people say "just meal prep 7 days of boiled chicken cubes!!!" because whether it works or not you are advocating for an existence that would have a medieval peasant grabbing their scythe
February 4, 2026 at 8:36 AM
I love it when you complain about the price of food and people say "just meal prep 7 days of boiled chicken cubes!!!" because whether it works or not you are advocating for an existence that would have a medieval peasant grabbing their scythe
I didn't notice this either (TCD law) and I was a solidly middle-class kid of a civil servant and a homemaker. Early 00s.
February 3, 2026 at 8:49 PM
I didn't notice this either (TCD law) and I was a solidly middle-class kid of a civil servant and a homemaker. Early 00s.
Sacrilege! Blasphemy!
February 3, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Sacrilege! Blasphemy!
The show felt a bit lacklustre and it's exactly this, it felt like Austen without her sly sense of humour. I've never read the books though so I take your word for them!
February 3, 2026 at 8:02 PM
The show felt a bit lacklustre and it's exactly this, it felt like Austen without her sly sense of humour. I've never read the books though so I take your word for them!
THIS is why I didn't find it entertaining! Thank you!
Watching an episode of
Bridgerton and it remains very odd to me that it's Jane Austen but without jokes.
Bridgerton and it remains very odd to me that it's Jane Austen but without jokes.
February 3, 2026 at 7:55 PM
THIS is why I didn't find it entertaining! Thank you!
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No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?
February 3, 2026 at 7:17 PM
No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?
No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?
February 3, 2026 at 7:13 PM
No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?
I'm 37 and I still got reflexively annoyed reading this, haha.
February 3, 2026 at 6:33 PM
I'm 37 and I still got reflexively annoyed reading this, haha.
I love that! Yeah, I was often bored (smart kid with undiagnosed ADHD) and would be, like, surreptitiously peeking into my non-school reading while the teacher was talking.
February 3, 2026 at 6:28 PM
I love that! Yeah, I was often bored (smart kid with undiagnosed ADHD) and would be, like, surreptitiously peeking into my non-school reading while the teacher was talking.
Yeah, I got in trouble for that at school as well. It wasn't so much the reading as the repeated inattention that annoyed them.
February 3, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Yeah, I got in trouble for that at school as well. It wasn't so much the reading as the repeated inattention that annoyed them.
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Look what we found in the archives 👀
Our logo has changed since then, but we’re still fighting the same fight - together 🏳️⚧️
Our logo has changed since then, but we’re still fighting the same fight - together 🏳️⚧️
February 2, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Look what we found in the archives 👀
Our logo has changed since then, but we’re still fighting the same fight - together 🏳️⚧️
Our logo has changed since then, but we’re still fighting the same fight - together 🏳️⚧️
Fifty gender and embodiment theorists all racing to use that for a chapter title.
February 3, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Fifty gender and embodiment theorists all racing to use that for a chapter title.
This is the WAY.
February 3, 2026 at 3:23 PM
This is the WAY.