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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The greatest joy in my life as an academic is being asked this type of question
the greatest joy in my life is asking overly qualified academics really dumb questions about the field of study they have devoted their lives to (i.e. did medieval people smoke weed?)
it's here! a really fun conversation with our friends at @wowiftrue.bsky.social podcast about "crusadercore" and which group of medieval people would be the best Twitch streamers.
have a listen and please share widely! #medievalsky
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
have a listen and please share widely! #medievalsky
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
February 5, 2026 at 1:08 PM
The greatest joy in my life as an academic is being asked this type of question
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I wanted to know the backstory of the executive order that defined "man" and "woman"—the foundation for the Trump admin's targeting of trans people.
So I took a deep dive into the conservative strategy & distorted feminism behind it. And I talked to the author.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
So I took a deep dive into the conservative strategy & distorted feminism behind it. And I talked to the author.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Meet the mastermind behind Trump’s definition of "woman"
May Mailman’s anti-trans crusade could threaten gender equality for all.
www.motherjones.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:52 PM
I wanted to know the backstory of the executive order that defined "man" and "woman"—the foundation for the Trump admin's targeting of trans people.
So I took a deep dive into the conservative strategy & distorted feminism behind it. And I talked to the author.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
So I took a deep dive into the conservative strategy & distorted feminism behind it. And I talked to the author.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Do you ever - and I admit that this is quite autistic of me - have to start a new draft because you just get a bad feeling opening the last one?
I think my draft is haunted.
I think my draft is haunted.
February 5, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Do you ever - and I admit that this is quite autistic of me - have to start a new draft because you just get a bad feeling opening the last one?
I think my draft is haunted.
I think my draft is haunted.
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Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
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Okay but Zack Polanski has been coming out with bangers
February 5, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Okay but Zack Polanski has been coming out with bangers
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5 months old yet still topical.
February 5, 2026 at 12:09 PM
5 months old yet still topical.
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I am giving the Edinburgh Uni LGBTQ+ History Month lecture on the evening of 27 February, with the title 'Scottish Trans Pasts, Useable and Otherwise'. Details and link to register are here: hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even... Do come along if you're in Edinburgh!
LGBTQ+ History Month: 'Scottish trans pasts, useable and otherwise?' | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology
Celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month with Dr Sam Rutherford and learn more about the last 150 years of trans history in Scotland.
hca.ed.ac.uk
February 5, 2026 at 10:30 AM
I am giving the Edinburgh Uni LGBTQ+ History Month lecture on the evening of 27 February, with the title 'Scottish Trans Pasts, Useable and Otherwise'. Details and link to register are here: hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even... Do come along if you're in Edinburgh!
Read something earlier about burnout and the personal cost of work and it stunned me that there are people for whom this is a less-acute concept. When you're Disabled/ND, the personal cost of working a full-time job is just one of those things you take for granted.
February 5, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Read something earlier about burnout and the personal cost of work and it stunned me that there are people for whom this is a less-acute concept. When you're Disabled/ND, the personal cost of working a full-time job is just one of those things you take for granted.
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Though some question whether Mungo’s lack of stature with the public - he literally doesn’t exist, I just invented him - render him a risky choice as prime minister, others see ontological questions as to what does or does not constitute reality as a distraction from Labour’s core governing mission.
February 5, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Though some question whether Mungo’s lack of stature with the public - he literally doesn’t exist, I just invented him - render him a risky choice as prime minister, others see ontological questions as to what does or does not constitute reality as a distraction from Labour’s core governing mission.
I like to sit on the sofa with my laptop in the morning. Today I am shoved into a corner of the sofa while an immovable 32kg of greyhound, under a blanket, takes up 80% of it.
February 5, 2026 at 10:02 AM
I like to sit on the sofa with my laptop in the morning. Today I am shoved into a corner of the sofa while an immovable 32kg of greyhound, under a blanket, takes up 80% of it.
Today: teaching prep! Seminar worksheet! More writing!
Yes, I am feeling more human today.
Yes, I am feeling more human today.
February 5, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Today: teaching prep! Seminar worksheet! More writing!
Yes, I am feeling more human today.
Yes, I am feeling more human today.
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I'm sorry but it's very funny to me that the legislature of a G7/P5 country of 70 million is currently drafting the "Fuck This One Guy in Particular Act of 2026."
Also, imagine tolerating a system of privilege so entrenched you need to rewrite centuries-old rules just to get at one douchebag.
Also, imagine tolerating a system of privilege so entrenched you need to rewrite centuries-old rules just to get at one douchebag.
UK govt drafting legislation to remove Mandelson peerage, has referred information to the police www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
Government refers material to police after review of Mandelson Epstein emails - live updates
PM Keir Starmer calls allegations that Lord Mandelson passed on sensitive government information to Epstein
www.bbc.co.uk
February 3, 2026 at 1:37 PM
I'm sorry but it's very funny to me that the legislature of a G7/P5 country of 70 million is currently drafting the "Fuck This One Guy in Particular Act of 2026."
Also, imagine tolerating a system of privilege so entrenched you need to rewrite centuries-old rules just to get at one douchebag.
Also, imagine tolerating a system of privilege so entrenched you need to rewrite centuries-old rules just to get at one douchebag.
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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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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
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!