Thomas Jeram-West (they/them)
@thefivetonine.bsky.social
An infrequent - and probably incoherent - miscellany. PhD candidate at UCA: sociology of dress and non-binary genders. Also lectures on sex and sexuality, and runs The Five to Nine Studio: a queer, peripatetic and generalist creative studio. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇪🇺🇵🇸
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Research Questionnaire: Non-binary Finery
You are being asked to take part in a questionnaire as part of the following doctoral research project at University for the Creative Arts (UCA): Non-binary Finery: Dress, adornment, and the embodimen...
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My PhD research questionnaire is now live!
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Looking for those who:
1. identify as #nonbinary in the broadest sense
2. live or have lived in the UK (any point between 1990-2020)
3. aged 15+ (adult consent required to participate)
Open until 23/09/2025.
More info below! 👇
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Looking for those who:
1. identify as #nonbinary in the broadest sense
2. live or have lived in the UK (any point between 1990-2020)
3. aged 15+ (adult consent required to participate)
Open until 23/09/2025.
More info below! 👇
We've just been to see Predator: Badlands. It's as though someone handed the franchise over to the Star Trek: Lower Decks writers, who then wrote the whole script the furthest off their tits on shrooms that any human could ever be whilst nudging each other in the ribs and going, 'omg what if'.
November 8, 2025 at 11:07 PM
We've just been to see Predator: Badlands. It's as though someone handed the franchise over to the Star Trek: Lower Decks writers, who then wrote the whole script the furthest off their tits on shrooms that any human could ever be whilst nudging each other in the ribs and going, 'omg what if'.
Both @lizziereed.bsky.social and @robinskyer.bsky.social are pretty great - and so is their article!
Failure hurts. How can the concept of bipolar time help us understand it?
@lizziereed.bsky.social @robinskyer.bsky.social reflect on an unsuccessful research project, relentless demands for productivity, and the importance of radical acceptance.
#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/zb4uVL6
@lizziereed.bsky.social @robinskyer.bsky.social reflect on an unsuccessful research project, relentless demands for productivity, and the importance of radical acceptance.
#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/zb4uVL6
November 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Both @lizziereed.bsky.social and @robinskyer.bsky.social are pretty great - and so is their article!
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This is a great article by Alex Adamson for Philosophy and Global Affairs that bridges trans studies, intersex studies, and decolonial feminism.
#AcademicSky #AcademicResearch #TransStudies #IntersexStudies #DecolonialStudies #PhilSky #GenderSky #Wynter #Lugones #TransSky
doi.org/10.5840%2Fpg...
#AcademicSky #AcademicResearch #TransStudies #IntersexStudies #DecolonialStudies #PhilSky #GenderSky #Wynter #Lugones #TransSky
doi.org/10.5840%2Fpg...
October 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
This is a great article by Alex Adamson for Philosophy and Global Affairs that bridges trans studies, intersex studies, and decolonial feminism.
#AcademicSky #AcademicResearch #TransStudies #IntersexStudies #DecolonialStudies #PhilSky #GenderSky #Wynter #Lugones #TransSky
doi.org/10.5840%2Fpg...
#AcademicSky #AcademicResearch #TransStudies #IntersexStudies #DecolonialStudies #PhilSky #GenderSky #Wynter #Lugones #TransSky
doi.org/10.5840%2Fpg...
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Researchers from the University of Birmingham are recruiting transgender or non-binary individuals who were born into a Sikh family. To explore intersecting domains of gender and religion.
Please email them for further information on navigatingidentities@contacts.bham.ac.uk
#TransResearch
Please email them for further information on navigatingidentities@contacts.bham.ac.uk
#TransResearch
October 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Researchers from the University of Birmingham are recruiting transgender or non-binary individuals who were born into a Sikh family. To explore intersecting domains of gender and religion.
Please email them for further information on navigatingidentities@contacts.bham.ac.uk
#TransResearch
Please email them for further information on navigatingidentities@contacts.bham.ac.uk
#TransResearch
And another one for the big birthday book list! This looks like an incredibly exciting addition to everyone's queer bookshelf.
Very excited to see our new book: A Queer Scrapbook: Britain and Ireland Since 1945 (with FAB co-editors Matt Cook, Rebecca Jennings, and E-J Scott) now available for pre-order.
www.waterstones.com/book/a-queer...
www.waterstones.com/book/a-queer...
A Queer Scrapbook by Justin Bengry, Matt Cook | Waterstones
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October 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
And another one for the big birthday book list! This looks like an incredibly exciting addition to everyone's queer bookshelf.
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The winter term is about to start, and with it our lecture series on "Global Politics, Gender, and (In-)Equality". The lectures will take place on selected Thursdays via Zoom.
The series unpacks the complex entanglements of global politics, gender, and (in-)equality in contemporary societies. [1]
The series unpacks the complex entanglements of global politics, gender, and (in-)equality in contemporary societies. [1]
October 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The winter term is about to start, and with it our lecture series on "Global Politics, Gender, and (In-)Equality". The lectures will take place on selected Thursdays via Zoom.
The series unpacks the complex entanglements of global politics, gender, and (in-)equality in contemporary societies. [1]
The series unpacks the complex entanglements of global politics, gender, and (in-)equality in contemporary societies. [1]
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☎️ Call For Papers ☎️
🔹International Symposium: Far Right, Gender and Femonationalism🔹
Mid-March 2026, Lausanne
CRAPUL and CEG (UNIL) invite scholars to submit proposals for a three-day symposium on far-right politics and gender.
👉 Full CFP text: urlr.me/35GyhK
⏰ Deadline : 30th October 2025
🔹International Symposium: Far Right, Gender and Femonationalism🔹
Mid-March 2026, Lausanne
CRAPUL and CEG (UNIL) invite scholars to submit proposals for a three-day symposium on far-right politics and gender.
👉 Full CFP text: urlr.me/35GyhK
⏰ Deadline : 30th October 2025
October 3, 2025 at 10:38 AM
☎️ Call For Papers ☎️
🔹International Symposium: Far Right, Gender and Femonationalism🔹
Mid-March 2026, Lausanne
CRAPUL and CEG (UNIL) invite scholars to submit proposals for a three-day symposium on far-right politics and gender.
👉 Full CFP text: urlr.me/35GyhK
⏰ Deadline : 30th October 2025
🔹International Symposium: Far Right, Gender and Femonationalism🔹
Mid-March 2026, Lausanne
CRAPUL and CEG (UNIL) invite scholars to submit proposals for a three-day symposium on far-right politics and gender.
👉 Full CFP text: urlr.me/35GyhK
⏰ Deadline : 30th October 2025
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20th Nov 2025 at 2.00 pm (Paris time), I'll be giving a talk on queer & decolonial thinking & how it is evolving in our times. It's co-badged by Université Paris Cité & CLAGS, CUNY. Everyone is welcome.
Image courtesy: Mario Patiño
Hybrid event. Registration required: u-paris.fr/universite-o...
Image courtesy: Mario Patiño
Hybrid event. Registration required: u-paris.fr/universite-o...
October 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
20th Nov 2025 at 2.00 pm (Paris time), I'll be giving a talk on queer & decolonial thinking & how it is evolving in our times. It's co-badged by Université Paris Cité & CLAGS, CUNY. Everyone is welcome.
Image courtesy: Mario Patiño
Hybrid event. Registration required: u-paris.fr/universite-o...
Image courtesy: Mario Patiño
Hybrid event. Registration required: u-paris.fr/universite-o...
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The EHRC Code will devastate trans people's lives. This is an emergency.
Here are three ways to fight back.
Take action now:
www.transsolidarityalliance.com/ehrc-code
Here are three ways to fight back.
Take action now:
www.transsolidarityalliance.com/ehrc-code
September 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The EHRC Code will devastate trans people's lives. This is an emergency.
Here are three ways to fight back.
Take action now:
www.transsolidarityalliance.com/ehrc-code
Here are three ways to fight back.
Take action now:
www.transsolidarityalliance.com/ehrc-code
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🚨 New police powers could ban face coverings at Pride protests even if you need to protect your identity because:
🔴 Risk of domestic abuse
🔴 You're not out as queer/Trans+
🔴 Fear of political views being made public
Health and disability reasons also won't prevent you getting arrested 🧵Here's why
🔴 Risk of domestic abuse
🔴 You're not out as queer/Trans+
🔴 Fear of political views being made public
Health and disability reasons also won't prevent you getting arrested 🧵Here's why
September 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🚨 New police powers could ban face coverings at Pride protests even if you need to protect your identity because:
🔴 Risk of domestic abuse
🔴 You're not out as queer/Trans+
🔴 Fear of political views being made public
Health and disability reasons also won't prevent you getting arrested 🧵Here's why
🔴 Risk of domestic abuse
🔴 You're not out as queer/Trans+
🔴 Fear of political views being made public
Health and disability reasons also won't prevent you getting arrested 🧵Here's why
I know I should be neither shocked nor surprised at how the BBC news bulletins are being used to very clearly stir up anti-immigrant and anti-trans hate, but FUCKING HELL. The last two days' worth on Radio 6 have really felt like getting punched in the guts every hour. It's abhorrent.
August 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I know I should be neither shocked nor surprised at how the BBC news bulletins are being used to very clearly stir up anti-immigrant and anti-trans hate, but FUCKING HELL. The last two days' worth on Radio 6 have really felt like getting punched in the guts every hour. It's abhorrent.
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Semi-regular reminder that if you want to understand and combat our current transphobic moment in the UK, then 'TERF Wars' from @notrightruth.bsky.social and many other incredible activists and academics is essential reading - and nearly all available for free: ruthpearce.net/books/terf-w...
TERF Wars
“A powerful, exciting and much-needed salvo in one of the most urgent battles against bigotry.” – Sandy Stone The emergence of trans-exclusionary movements raises many questions for feminism …
ruthpearce.net
August 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Semi-regular reminder that if you want to understand and combat our current transphobic moment in the UK, then 'TERF Wars' from @notrightruth.bsky.social and many other incredible activists and academics is essential reading - and nearly all available for free: ruthpearce.net/books/terf-w...
This has emerged as the account of the employee targeted following the recent transphobic incident in a branch of M&S:
www.reddit.com/r/transgende...
I sincerely hope the following four things:
1. This really is the person involved, and that no one online has been low enough to fake this 1/
www.reddit.com/r/transgende...
I sincerely hope the following four things:
1. This really is the person involved, and that no one online has been low enough to fake this 1/
From the transgenderUK community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the transgenderUK community
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August 19, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This has emerged as the account of the employee targeted following the recent transphobic incident in a branch of M&S:
www.reddit.com/r/transgende...
I sincerely hope the following four things:
1. This really is the person involved, and that no one online has been low enough to fake this 1/
www.reddit.com/r/transgende...
I sincerely hope the following four things:
1. This really is the person involved, and that no one online has been low enough to fake this 1/
I have a piece in this quarter's Sonshine Magazine, in which I reflect on a boyhood that didn't lead to the manhood of my father's dreams.
If you're interested in writing that explores and encourages a better world for people raising sons (or trying to), check it out: sonshinemagazine.com
If you're interested in writing that explores and encourages a better world for people raising sons (or trying to), check it out: sonshinemagazine.com
August 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I have a piece in this quarter's Sonshine Magazine, in which I reflect on a boyhood that didn't lead to the manhood of my father's dreams.
If you're interested in writing that explores and encourages a better world for people raising sons (or trying to), check it out: sonshinemagazine.com
If you're interested in writing that explores and encourages a better world for people raising sons (or trying to), check it out: sonshinemagazine.com
Just been to see Weapons. It's great - a bit of a slow start, but things get tense and intelligent, with what I'm thinking of as a gentle squeeze of contemporary folk horror and a smidgen of small town gothic. Come for the vegetable peelers, stay for the Naruto runs. Go and see it on a big screen!
August 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Just been to see Weapons. It's great - a bit of a slow start, but things get tense and intelligent, with what I'm thinking of as a gentle squeeze of contemporary folk horror and a smidgen of small town gothic. Come for the vegetable peelers, stay for the Naruto runs. Go and see it on a big screen!
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I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’
John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’
Gender critical novelist urges writers to reenter prize they boycotted and may ask judges not to shortlist his novella
The gender critical Irish novelist John Boyne has said he has been brought “very close to the edge” by the backlash to his inclusion on the longlist for a literary prize for LGBTQ+ authors.
Ten authors and two judges withdrew from the Polari prize and more than 800 writers and publishing industry workers signed a petition calling on Polari to remove Boyne’s novella Earth from its longlist. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
Overjoyed to make it to the letterbox before the dogs this morning to finally get my hands on a copy of 78 Acts of Liberation by @leftlanesmith.bsky.social. Omelette was clearly disappointed I snatched the parcel away before she could drag it under the sofa and chew it to pieces.
August 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Overjoyed to make it to the letterbox before the dogs this morning to finally get my hands on a copy of 78 Acts of Liberation by @leftlanesmith.bsky.social. Omelette was clearly disappointed I snatched the parcel away before she could drag it under the sofa and chew it to pieces.
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Would you know what to do if you experienced transphobic discrimination at work? We’re running free Know Your Rights at Work Zoom workshops.
Come along and hear how UK law protects you. The next session's on 25th August. Sign up at: buff.ly/yuKaqiP
#KnowYourRights #workshop #transrights
Come along and hear how UK law protects you. The next session's on 25th August. Sign up at: buff.ly/yuKaqiP
#KnowYourRights #workshop #transrights
August 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Would you know what to do if you experienced transphobic discrimination at work? We’re running free Know Your Rights at Work Zoom workshops.
Come along and hear how UK law protects you. The next session's on 25th August. Sign up at: buff.ly/yuKaqiP
#KnowYourRights #workshop #transrights
Come along and hear how UK law protects you. The next session's on 25th August. Sign up at: buff.ly/yuKaqiP
#KnowYourRights #workshop #transrights
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🚨 NEW 🚨
Sign and share this letter to Ministers to express your business' or organisation's concerns with the EHRC's proposed Code of Practice
www.transsolidarityalliance.com/businesses-o...
Sign and share this letter to Ministers to express your business' or organisation's concerns with the EHRC's proposed Code of Practice
www.transsolidarityalliance.com/businesses-o...
August 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
🚨 NEW 🚨
Sign and share this letter to Ministers to express your business' or organisation's concerns with the EHRC's proposed Code of Practice
www.transsolidarityalliance.com/businesses-o...
Sign and share this letter to Ministers to express your business' or organisation's concerns with the EHRC's proposed Code of Practice
www.transsolidarityalliance.com/businesses-o...
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“Gender studies as a discipline…is defined by a set of debates and problematics.” In this 10-Minute Talk, Judith Butler FBA discusses gender as a field of study and its interdisciplinary contributions to research, social analysis and social movements.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...
August 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
“Gender studies as a discipline…is defined by a set of debates and problematics.” In this 10-Minute Talk, Judith Butler FBA discusses gender as a field of study and its interdisciplinary contributions to research, social analysis and social movements.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...
I cannot for the life of me understand how news presenters on the radio can keep reading out the phrase 'the war in Gaza' and even pretend to take themselves seriously. What war?! It's a genocide, and every day I despair more that they fail to name it as such. I wonder if they feel shame about it.
August 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I cannot for the life of me understand how news presenters on the radio can keep reading out the phrase 'the war in Gaza' and even pretend to take themselves seriously. What war?! It's a genocide, and every day I despair more that they fail to name it as such. I wonder if they feel shame about it.
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🚨New Blog from @cantonwiner.bsky.social: Does everyone *have* a #gender? "The concept of gender detachment resists the assumption that everyone does (and should) have a gender identity—an assumption I call compulsory gender." #sociology #ASA2025 #ASA25
contexts.org/blog/does-ev...
contexts.org/blog/does-ev...
August 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
🚨New Blog from @cantonwiner.bsky.social: Does everyone *have* a #gender? "The concept of gender detachment resists the assumption that everyone does (and should) have a gender identity—an assumption I call compulsory gender." #sociology #ASA2025 #ASA25
contexts.org/blog/does-ev...
contexts.org/blog/does-ev...
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We've said it before and we'll say it again: the EHRC's interim guidance is transphobic and harmful, and it must be stopped.
We will fight it in the courts in November. Will you join us?
goodlawproject.org/donate/
We will fight it in the courts in November. Will you join us?
goodlawproject.org/donate/
August 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
We've said it before and we'll say it again: the EHRC's interim guidance is transphobic and harmful, and it must be stopped.
We will fight it in the courts in November. Will you join us?
goodlawproject.org/donate/
We will fight it in the courts in November. Will you join us?
goodlawproject.org/donate/
M&S should pledge to support their trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming employees, and make it quite clear that transphobes are unwelcome in their shops. People should be desperately ashamed of their transphobic bigotry. Trans people should be empowered and protected in their workplaces.
Marks and Spencer must protect staff facing transphobic abuse, not apologise for them. Inclusion means safety & respect. Read our letter urging action to defend employee dignity & safety
www.equalityamplified.org.uk/lobbying-and-correspondence/when-inclusion-is-tested-an-open-letter-to-ms-leadership
www.equalityamplified.org.uk/lobbying-and-correspondence/when-inclusion-is-tested-an-open-letter-to-ms-leadership
When Inclusion Is Tested: An Open Letter to M&S Leadership — Equality Amplified
Marks & Spencer recently faced a transphobic complaint against one of their employees. Their response has raised serious concerns about their commitment to inclusion and staff protection. Equality...
www.equalityamplified.org.uk
August 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
M&S should pledge to support their trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming employees, and make it quite clear that transphobes are unwelcome in their shops. People should be desperately ashamed of their transphobic bigotry. Trans people should be empowered and protected in their workplaces.
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Apropos of today’s news I just had a piece published in Radical Philosophy about the turn towards biological essentialism in law and policy. I’m arguing the SC decision in FWS and attempts to restrict disability welfare fundamentally come from the same place of wanting to limit state protections
Flora Renz · Law’s searching for biological truth: For Women Scotland and the UK Supreme Court (2025)
www.radicalphilosophy.com
August 8, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Apropos of today’s news I just had a piece published in Radical Philosophy about the turn towards biological essentialism in law and policy. I’m arguing the SC decision in FWS and attempts to restrict disability welfare fundamentally come from the same place of wanting to limit state protections