Tig Slater
@tigslater.bsky.social
Queer, trans, disability studies,sociology, education stuff.
Currently working on a project about preventing harassment of people doing LGBT+ research: Tinyurl.com/LGBTImpact
Currently working on a project about preventing harassment of people doing LGBT+ research: Tinyurl.com/LGBTImpact
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Tig Slater
@tigslater.bsky.social
· Jun 12
Untangling hope labour from care labour: LGBT+ people navigating equality, diversity and inclusion work in higher education
This article reports on the ‘Whose Rainbow?’ project, exploring LGBT+ staff and students’ conflicted relationships to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) work in UK Higher Education (HE). Drawi...
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The first 'Whose Rainbow?' project publication!
Whose Rainbow? explored LGBT+ staff & student experiences of rainbow symbolism & EDI schemes in HE.
In this paper, we think specifically about the extra labour required of LGBT+ people (to survive!) in HE.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Whose Rainbow? explored LGBT+ staff & student experiences of rainbow symbolism & EDI schemes in HE.
In this paper, we think specifically about the extra labour required of LGBT+ people (to survive!) in HE.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The number of trans youth suicides in the UK quadrupled in 2021 following significant restrictions in access to care. The NHS tried to cover this up with a fake report that tried to hide the truth.
goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...
goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...
New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project
A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare
goodlawproject.org
February 7, 2026 at 2:01 PM
The number of trans youth suicides in the UK quadrupled in 2021 following significant restrictions in access to care. The NHS tried to cover this up with a fake report that tried to hide the truth.
goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...
goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...
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Re-upping this again, because it’s a great take-down of the restrictive transphobic “data” activism.
www.tandfonline.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Re-upping this again, because it’s a great take-down of the restrictive transphobic “data” activism.
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The people who came to Brianna's vigil were the many friends, as an isolated trans girl, she had made on social media. The people who were convicted of her murder knew her in real life, and used transphobic slurs to discuss her.
January 19, 2026 at 7:27 PM
The people who came to Brianna's vigil were the many friends, as an isolated trans girl, she had made on social media. The people who were convicted of her murder knew her in real life, and used transphobic slurs to discuss her.
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Solidarity with my colleagues who are experiencing this - as the leaflets we handed out to students on the picket lines said - when you go on strike you lose your wage because you stop working. It's ridiculous to have to make up the work you've already lost pay for 😡
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 20, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Solidarity with my colleagues who are experiencing this - as the leaflets we handed out to students on the picket lines said - when you go on strike you lose your wage because you stop working. It's ridiculous to have to make up the work you've already lost pay for 😡
Piloting the methods tonight. I'm all about the quants now
Tig has made a new years resolution to taste and rate a new flavour of crisps every week in 2026 and now there's a spreadsheet being designed and discussions over how to define "value for money" when it comes to crisps
December 31, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Piloting the methods tonight. I'm all about the quants now
Exactly this
just for anyone who lost track;
The inch bigots were given a decade ago has turned into several miles and my friends are suffering for it.
The inch bigots were given a decade ago has turned into several miles and my friends are suffering for it.
December 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Exactly this
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just for anyone who lost track;
The inch bigots were given a decade ago has turned into several miles and my friends are suffering for it.
The inch bigots were given a decade ago has turned into several miles and my friends are suffering for it.
December 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
just for anyone who lost track;
The inch bigots were given a decade ago has turned into several miles and my friends are suffering for it.
The inch bigots were given a decade ago has turned into several miles and my friends are suffering for it.
Lost for words at where we are, the absolute cruelty
December 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Lost for words at where we are, the absolute cruelty
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I find it very strange how a legal decision which relates solely to gender recognition certificates – something under 18s definitively cannot have – is being used to justify changes to longstanding policies on including trans kids.
December 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I find it very strange how a legal decision which relates solely to gender recognition certificates – something under 18s definitively cannot have – is being used to justify changes to longstanding policies on including trans kids.
I love it
I just bought myself a drumkit 🫨
November 23, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I love it
I just bought myself a drumkit 🫨
November 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I just bought myself a drumkit 🫨
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Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
November 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
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The message on IG from Alice (posted by her friend Sandy Ho). As always, Alice blazes a path for the rest of us, fearlessly & with humor: "I'm honored to be your ancestor & believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all."
November 15, 2025 at 11:24 AM
The message on IG from Alice (posted by her friend Sandy Ho). As always, Alice blazes a path for the rest of us, fearlessly & with humor: "I'm honored to be your ancestor & believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all."
Incredibly sad to hear of the death of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social. I was always amazed by her generosity in our (small) interactions, and I've got a lot from her writing. Rest in power, what a force.
“With so many marginalized communities, we’re basically the oracles…we’re the ones who see shit before it happens.” In June 2020, I interviewed Alice Wong for TVU before she lost her ability to speak. I asked her how she’d first learned of SARS-CoV-2. She began with the 2016 election of Trump:
November 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Incredibly sad to hear of the death of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social. I was always amazed by her generosity in our (small) interactions, and I've got a lot from her writing. Rest in power, what a force.
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There are people you never have the honor of knowing but you feel the ripple effects of their person and their work from the folks who have met them.
Alice Wong made waves that went far. A tremendous loss. Memory eternal.
Alice Wong made waves that went far. A tremendous loss. Memory eternal.
The incredible, indomitable, inspirational Alice Wong has left us.
I'm so grateful to have known her on social media, and so grateful for all the words she shared with us and all the actions she encouraged us into making.
May we live up to her example.
(so you don't have to go to Instagram)
I'm so grateful to have known her on social media, and so grateful for all the words she shared with us and all the actions she encouraged us into making.
May we live up to her example.
(so you don't have to go to Instagram)
November 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
There are people you never have the honor of knowing but you feel the ripple effects of their person and their work from the folks who have met them.
Alice Wong made waves that went far. A tremendous loss. Memory eternal.
Alice Wong made waves that went far. A tremendous loss. Memory eternal.
Missing being with these beauties on the picket line ✊️
📢 Solidarity in Action: Day One Strike Highlights
Today was powerful! Our members showed incredible unity and resolve on the first day of strike action. We stood together, loud and proud, demonstrating our commitment to fighting in our dispute!!!
#SaveSheffieldHallam
Today was powerful! Our members showed incredible unity and resolve on the first day of strike action. We stood together, loud and proud, demonstrating our commitment to fighting in our dispute!!!
#SaveSheffieldHallam
November 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Missing being with these beauties on the picket line ✊️
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Solidarity with SHU UCU on strike. I’m on a research project based there just now and the loss of so many Professional Services staff is acutely noticeable.
It’s inexplicable to treat a sector that brings so much to the UK as disposable and its staff as if they aren’t people. Stop it.
It’s inexplicable to treat a sector that brings so much to the UK as disposable and its staff as if they aren’t people. Stop it.
It is the second time this year members of the University and College Union (UCU) at Sheffield Hallam have taken action....
Bob Jeffery... [UCU Sheffield Hallam], said: "Massive cuts have been pushed through, so we've lost about 1,000 staff in the last two years."'
Bob Jeffery... [UCU Sheffield Hallam], said: "Massive cuts have been pushed through, so we've lost about 1,000 staff in the last two years."'
Fresh strike action begins at Sheffield Hallam University
Union members at Sheffield Hallam Uni strike in a dispute over job losses, workload and welfare.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Solidarity with SHU UCU on strike. I’m on a research project based there just now and the loss of so many Professional Services staff is acutely noticeable.
It’s inexplicable to treat a sector that brings so much to the UK as disposable and its staff as if they aren’t people. Stop it.
It’s inexplicable to treat a sector that brings so much to the UK as disposable and its staff as if they aren’t people. Stop it.
I'm off sick at the moment so not able to strike, but so grateful to all my colleagues on the picket lines ✊️
It is the second time this year members of the University and College Union (UCU) at Sheffield Hallam have taken action....
Bob Jeffery... [UCU Sheffield Hallam], said: "Massive cuts have been pushed through, so we've lost about 1,000 staff in the last two years."'
Bob Jeffery... [UCU Sheffield Hallam], said: "Massive cuts have been pushed through, so we've lost about 1,000 staff in the last two years."'
Fresh strike action begins at Sheffield Hallam University
Union members at Sheffield Hallam Uni strike in a dispute over job losses, workload and welfare.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I'm off sick at the moment so not able to strike, but so grateful to all my colleagues on the picket lines ✊️
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As we come to the end of our @edicaucus.bsky.social funded 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' project, we're delighted to invite you to 'Accessing Archives and Collections: Disability, Neurodivergence, Chronic Illness' - a free online symposium on 17th and 18th November. 1/n
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October 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
As we come to the end of our @edicaucus.bsky.social funded 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' project, we're delighted to invite you to 'Accessing Archives and Collections: Disability, Neurodivergence, Chronic Illness' - a free online symposium on 17th and 18th November. 1/n
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SUPPORT US AND CELEBRATE YORKSHIRE!
We teamed up with Black Lodge Press last year to pay homage to The People's Republic of South Yorkshire. Celebrate South Yorkshire's history of radicalism with these iconic designs: buff.ly/ugjHqKQ
We teamed up with Black Lodge Press last year to pay homage to The People's Republic of South Yorkshire. Celebrate South Yorkshire's history of radicalism with these iconic designs: buff.ly/ugjHqKQ
November 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
SUPPORT US AND CELEBRATE YORKSHIRE!
We teamed up with Black Lodge Press last year to pay homage to The People's Republic of South Yorkshire. Celebrate South Yorkshire's history of radicalism with these iconic designs: buff.ly/ugjHqKQ
We teamed up with Black Lodge Press last year to pay homage to The People's Republic of South Yorkshire. Celebrate South Yorkshire's history of radicalism with these iconic designs: buff.ly/ugjHqKQ
Been having a pretty grim mental health time, but was at least reassured to see an old faded rainbow zebra crossing to welcome all the mad queers into the psych assessment unit (regrets at not taking a photo)
November 2, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Been having a pretty grim mental health time, but was at least reassured to see an old faded rainbow zebra crossing to welcome all the mad queers into the psych assessment unit (regrets at not taking a photo)
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The man in the queue behind me said Oh excuse me miss, you dropped ----
and then we both stared at the conker I'd dropped on the ground
And he said Umm ---
And I said Oh! My conker! :(
and then we both stared at the conker I'd dropped on the ground
And he said Umm ---
And I said Oh! My conker! :(
September 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The man in the queue behind me said Oh excuse me miss, you dropped ----
and then we both stared at the conker I'd dropped on the ground
And he said Umm ---
And I said Oh! My conker! :(
and then we both stared at the conker I'd dropped on the ground
And he said Umm ---
And I said Oh! My conker! :(
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UNISON members who support LGBTIQ+ people may want to actively oppose their union on this one.
UNISON has chosen to back Bridget Phillipson to become deputy leader of the Labour Party
September 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
UNISON members who support LGBTIQ+ people may want to actively oppose their union on this one.