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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden
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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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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social · Mar 4
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...
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...
doi.org
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dochackenbush.bsky.social
Animalgesics.
#art #pills #moles
Animalgesics. A paracetamole, ie: a mole with a body shaped like a two toned pill capsule. An Ibuprofhen, a pill with chicken features (beak, comb, wings etc) and co-coder moles - two moles typing away at identical laptops
March 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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ciaraioch.bsky.social
For the uninitiated, these are Irish Throwing Stars, an ancient weapon wielded by St. Brigid during the 1916 Rising, striking fear into the hearts of the British, and responsible for the eventual smiting of both Cromwell and Thatcher.
A pair of St. Brigid's crosses on a countertop, next to a mug. #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland
February 1, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
“So you are a historian? What is your field of expertise?”

“The long January of 2026.”

“All of it, really?” #skystorians
February 1, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social
Happy St. Brigid’s day - poem by Maureen Boyle that is achingly beautiful #mnà #StBrigid
Maureen Boyle ST BRIGID IN THE ORCHARD My favourite story of you takes place in an orchard. To begin, I imagine it as spring - grass wet underfoot, the air coloured in blossom. But now, I think it is winter, the sharp days around your feast day, the old trees gnarled in the wet, the nascent buds whorled and hidden. And there you come upon a young woman who is tortured by what has seeded in her without her choosing - an intimate anguish that has her almost inarticulate with fear. You are our Pomona, concerned not with fruit but with flourishing knowing that not all grafts take, that seeding is not the best way to make a new tree, that the canopy must be opened. And so, you gift her, her peace. The chronicle tells us you, 'Made the child disappear with no pain', meaning that when the spring comes, she will blossom into herself again.
February 1, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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demontomatodave.bsky.social
You might have noticed I've stopped really commenting on or reposting any of The Things That Are Happening. It's not because I don't care, it's because I know you've seen it all.

BUT THIS IS DOING MY NUT

EVERYTHING I'VE DISLIKED IN THE LAST 15 YEARS HAS BEEN THIS ONE THING??! THIS IS ASTONISHING
toyfu332.bsky.social Nick from Toy-Fu @toyfu332.bsky.social · 8h
We risk overestimating his influence with all this, but it's wild that he seems to come in contact with the worst people in the English-speaking world just before they make the most anti-human decisions of their lives.
jjinandtonic.bsky.social Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 17h
“Notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein played a role in convincing Bobby Kotick to embrace loot boxes, essentially gambling for children” what is this sentence, what is this world
February 1, 2026 at 1:20 PM
sandraduffy.bsky.social
My playlist entitled 'tryin' to write this book' which I made for, yes, the purposes of writing a book, is excellent for writing to. By which I mean, it alternately makes me want to weep and start a fight (which I think is the best way to do human rights work).
February 1, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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fankuan.bsky.social
I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep
A corgi's head barely surfacing atop deep snow, against a backdrop of an old wooden fence
January 31, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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fromsaltintears.com
‘…my restorer from the deep delved wells,
hauled to the healing light of this world
pure water tasting of gemstone & iron,
quartzite & gold:
starlight & planets..’
— from Paula Meehan’s Old Biddy Talk youtu.be/3w7vSHyEx8o #speirgorm
Old Biddy Talk – Paula Meehan
YouTube video by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ireland
youtu.be
February 1, 2026 at 10:01 AM
sandraduffy.bsky.social
Lá Fhéile Bríde shona daoibh! Happy St Brigid's Day!
February 1, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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andycraig.bsky.social
"...And that's what your holy men discuss, is it?" [asked Granny Weatherwax.] "Not usually. There is a very interesting debate raging at the moment on the nature of sin. for example." [answered Mightily Oats.] "And what do they think? Against it, are they?" "It's not as simple as that. It's not a black and white issue. There are so many shades of gray." "Nope." "Pardon?" "There's no grays, only white that's got grubby. I'm surprised you don't know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what sin is." "It's a lot more complicated than that--" "No. It ain't. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. People as things, that's where it starts." "Oh, I'm sure there are worse crimes--" "But they starts with thinking about people as things..." --from Carpe Jugulum, by Terry Pratchett.
January 31, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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mathijsvdsande.bsky.social
My new article just dropped in European Journal for Social Theory. Engaging with Henri Lefebvre and contemporary queer/feminist theory, it seeks to theorize the revolutionary moment as a transgression between the exceptional and the quotidian.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Extra/Ordinary moments: Utopia, everyday life and the method of transduction - Mathijs van de Sande, 2026
From the Paris Commune of 1871 to the ‘assembly movements’ of the past decade: what these movements and uprisings had in common is their investment in changing ...
journals.sagepub.com
January 31, 2026 at 6:23 AM
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rincewind.run
Discworld QOTD, from Jingo
It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn't then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was Us, then what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.
January 31, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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colinmurray.bsky.social
For the anniversary that's in it, give a watch to @maireadenright.bsky.social's powerful Current Legal Problems lecture on the gaps and silences which become baked into public inquiries including (indeed, prominent in) Mark Saville's Bloody Sunday Inquiry:

www.youtube.com/live/U0n39Zb...
CLP - Family Memory and the Official History Machine
YouTube video by UCL Laws
www.youtube.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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jlphistory.bsky.social
The worst part of this wretched never-ending rainy winter that won't end is that I'm not inspired to write Frankenstein.
January 31, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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ruthfletcher.bsky.social
abortionsupport.org.uk/product/lcxa...

Get your abortion-supporting t-shirt here

as we at ASN welcome Imbolc / Spring with goddess / st Brigid on February 1!

Ireland’s first known abortionist working with the magic of reproductive bodies, and making loving fertile worlds possible :)
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January 31, 2026 at 4:37 PM
sandraduffy.bsky.social
Delightful tbh.
hagenilda.bsky.social Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 1d
SO SO GLAD to see a PROPER rebuttal against Silvia Federici's very wrong scholarship in the latest Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft! Thank you, Rita Voltmer!

muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
In the 1970s, an invention of tradition connected the fight for women’s liberation with the figure of the witch. However, this narrative grounded in male fantasies of the 19th century (Bachofen, Grimm, Michelet, and many others). The German “völkisch” feminism followed this pattern, as did Second Wave feminism after the Second World War, especially in its esoteric, spiritual, and ecological branch. The narrative gained ground in the European, the transatlantic and the postcolonial Women’s Movements. Modern witchcraft research has unmasked the “witchcraft narrative” as a mere invention of tradition. However, the “witch narrative” remains alive in the work of the Autonomist Marxist feminist Silvia Federici. The spirit of Grimm and Michelet, which had been conveyed via Gage, Murray and her epigones of spiritual feminism and eco-feminism, still breathes in Federici's books. This article deconstructs Federici’s witches. They are not the granddaughters of the witches who had not been burned, but simply the epigones of the witches invented by males during the 19th century.
January 31, 2026 at 6:18 PM
sandraduffy.bsky.social
I am suddenly hit with a wave of tangible thick boredom and discontent.
January 31, 2026 at 5:00 PM
sandraduffy.bsky.social
Pondering my orb while I write.
A battery powered 'snow globe' with little black bats and misty fluid instead of snow. Inside the globe is a skeleton figure. It is lit from the inside.
January 31, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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tacobellquarterly.org
Being a writer is the most embarrassing thing in the world! I write down the entire contents of my soul for validation! And then some editor will just be like no thanks!
January 19, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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nome.bsky.social
The Cortylorhynchus considers my problems, nods sagely, and says, "have you tried basking in the sun about it? While being as spherical as possible?"
A goofy looking quadruped, something like a shell less turtle, with wide-splayed legs and a vacant expression.
November 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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badambulist.bsky.social
Transmisogyny is a key engine of fascism.
January 31, 2026 at 6:48 AM
sandraduffy.bsky.social
Potato, broccoli, pak choi, fennel, spinach. (In no order except that potato will always come first.)
eireannmor.bsky.social Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 1d
forget college classes, tell me the five best vegetables

(radicchio, asparagus, potato, tomato, cabbages—with apologies to KM)
January 31, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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omarbaddar.bsky.social
If 26 Americans or Israelis or Germans were murdered today, it would be the top headline on every network.

They keep telling you “the war is over” while this happens, because their idea of a peaceful, “normal” order is one where Israel gets to mass murder Palestinians at will.
January 31, 2026 at 2:17 PM
sandraduffy.bsky.social
My 'five classes you took in uni' are just

law.
Law.
Law.
Law.
Law.

Variants of law. Which is what happens when you have three law degrees and are a complete law bore.
January 31, 2026 at 2:25 PM
sandraduffy.bsky.social
The old PEM is kicking my arse today.
January 31, 2026 at 12:50 PM