Laura Loyola-Hernández
@wawisloyola.bsky.social
Feminist geographer, critical race & social media research. migrant activist. Trade unionist at the University of Leeds. Migrant UCU NEC seat. she/her
Whose Uni? poster available here https://shorturl.at/7GcJr
Whose Uni? poster available here https://shorturl.at/7GcJr
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Exciting to share my new OA article in Third World Quarterly !
I use cyborg movidas -the collective embodiment of political manoeuvres influenced by emotions such as rage & love- to understand how feminist activists engage in protest as a technology of resistance
doi.org/10.1080/0143...
I use cyborg movidas -the collective embodiment of political manoeuvres influenced by emotions such as rage & love- to understand how feminist activists engage in protest as a technology of resistance
doi.org/10.1080/0143...
Sharing a chapter I wrote on de/coloniality, the role geography has in speaking up vs educide including ongoing in Palestine.
If you'd like a PDF of it get in touch 😃
It's part of De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography, edited by Sydney Calkin and Cordelia Freeman
If you'd like a PDF of it get in touch 😃
It's part of De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography, edited by Sydney Calkin and Cordelia Freeman
November 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Sharing a chapter I wrote on de/coloniality, the role geography has in speaking up vs educide including ongoing in Palestine.
If you'd like a PDF of it get in touch 😃
It's part of De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography, edited by Sydney Calkin and Cordelia Freeman
If you'd like a PDF of it get in touch 😃
It's part of De Gruyter Handbook of Feminist Political Geography, edited by Sydney Calkin and Cordelia Freeman
Excited to share my new OA article in Educational Philosophy and Theory ✨Creating scyborg assemblages of hope in UK Higher Education✨
We can create moments of radical hope & change within & outside of the neoliberal university
Free to read via link ⤵️
doi.org/10.1080/0013...
We can create moments of radical hope & change within & outside of the neoliberal university
Free to read via link ⤵️
doi.org/10.1080/0013...
September 5, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Excited to share my new OA article in Educational Philosophy and Theory ✨Creating scyborg assemblages of hope in UK Higher Education✨
We can create moments of radical hope & change within & outside of the neoliberal university
Free to read via link ⤵️
doi.org/10.1080/0013...
We can create moments of radical hope & change within & outside of the neoliberal university
Free to read via link ⤵️
doi.org/10.1080/0013...
Reposted by Laura Loyola-Hernández
🚨 Third consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨
✅ strike action: 76%
✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80%
✅ turnout: 77%
ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages."
Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all.
#ReclaimUCU
✅ strike action: 76%
✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80%
✅ turnout: 77%
ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages."
Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all.
#ReclaimUCU
September 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
🚨 Third consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨
✅ strike action: 76%
✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80%
✅ turnout: 77%
ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages."
Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all.
#ReclaimUCU
✅ strike action: 76%
✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80%
✅ turnout: 77%
ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages."
Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all.
#ReclaimUCU
Hello 👋🏽 if anyone is still on this app I'm looking for a volunteer who speaks Slovak to help with a very short translation (160 words) in relation to immigration. If you are able to help get in touch 😃
July 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Hello 👋🏽 if anyone is still on this app I'm looking for a volunteer who speaks Slovak to help with a very short translation (160 words) in relation to immigration. If you are able to help get in touch 😃
🎬Free screening of Space to Breathe🎬
The film is set in a utopian future where Black and Indigenous ancestors have succeeded in prison abolition!
📆 Sunday 29th June
⏰ 7-10pm
📍Wharf Chambers, Leeds LS2 7EQ
🍽️ Gluten free, vegan food provided
🎟️tickets from free via bit.ly/space2breath...
The film is set in a utopian future where Black and Indigenous ancestors have succeeded in prison abolition!
📆 Sunday 29th June
⏰ 7-10pm
📍Wharf Chambers, Leeds LS2 7EQ
🍽️ Gluten free, vegan food provided
🎟️tickets from free via bit.ly/space2breath...
Select tickets – Abolitionist Afrofutures: Space To Breathe Film Premiere (with NME Leeds) – Wharf Chambers
Happy Abolition Day! The last prison in the USA has just been closed under the 2036 Reparations and Reconciliation Act. How did...
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June 19, 2025 at 8:22 AM
🎬Free screening of Space to Breathe🎬
The film is set in a utopian future where Black and Indigenous ancestors have succeeded in prison abolition!
📆 Sunday 29th June
⏰ 7-10pm
📍Wharf Chambers, Leeds LS2 7EQ
🍽️ Gluten free, vegan food provided
🎟️tickets from free via bit.ly/space2breath...
The film is set in a utopian future where Black and Indigenous ancestors have succeeded in prison abolition!
📆 Sunday 29th June
⏰ 7-10pm
📍Wharf Chambers, Leeds LS2 7EQ
🍽️ Gluten free, vegan food provided
🎟️tickets from free via bit.ly/space2breath...
And that's a wrap on UCU Congress 2025 and also my time as the Migrant rep on NEC 🥲
I'm also stepping down from being part of the Migrant Member Standing Committee.
It's been an honour to have help set up MMSC. I wish I could have done more. And as for NEC never again... 😅
I'm also stepping down from being part of the Migrant Member Standing Committee.
It's been an honour to have help set up MMSC. I wish I could have done more. And as for NEC never again... 😅
May 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
And that's a wrap on UCU Congress 2025 and also my time as the Migrant rep on NEC 🥲
I'm also stepping down from being part of the Migrant Member Standing Committee.
It's been an honour to have help set up MMSC. I wish I could have done more. And as for NEC never again... 😅
I'm also stepping down from being part of the Migrant Member Standing Committee.
It's been an honour to have help set up MMSC. I wish I could have done more. And as for NEC never again... 😅
Reposted by Laura Loyola-Hernández
May 24, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Still time to apply for this permanent lecturership! Come join us at the School of Geography at Leeds!
Come join our School of Geography as a permanent lecturer!!!!
We are looking for someone who does research on AI & securitisation; AI & the future of work; AI & humanitarianism; the politics/geopolitics of AI; & algorithmic activism.
Pls share widely!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ970/l...
We are looking for someone who does research on AI & securitisation; AI & the future of work; AI & humanitarianism; the politics/geopolitics of AI; & algorithmic activism.
Pls share widely!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ970/l...
May 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Still time to apply for this permanent lecturership! Come join us at the School of Geography at Leeds!
On Friday, the last UCU NEC meeting is to be held before Congress.
No trade unionist should cross picket lines.
A few of us wrote something as to why we won't attend NEC.
Sending solidarity to @uniteucu.bsky.social on strike bcs of multiple issues ⤵️
reclaimucu.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/s...
No trade unionist should cross picket lines.
A few of us wrote something as to why we won't attend NEC.
Sending solidarity to @uniteucu.bsky.social on strike bcs of multiple issues ⤵️
reclaimucu.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/s...
Statement on NEC Meeting of 2 May 2025
On Friday, members of Unite UCU will be taking the final day of an unprecedented six weeks of industrial action. It is also the penultimate NEC meeting before Congress. One of the core principles o…
reclaimucu.wordpress.com
April 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
On Friday, the last UCU NEC meeting is to be held before Congress.
No trade unionist should cross picket lines.
A few of us wrote something as to why we won't attend NEC.
Sending solidarity to @uniteucu.bsky.social on strike bcs of multiple issues ⤵️
reclaimucu.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/s...
No trade unionist should cross picket lines.
A few of us wrote something as to why we won't attend NEC.
Sending solidarity to @uniteucu.bsky.social on strike bcs of multiple issues ⤵️
reclaimucu.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/s...
Still time to apply to this permanent Lecturer position at the School of Geography Leeds
We welcome applications from within & outside UK
More info on the post 👇🏽
We're looking for a critical geographer doing AI & activism, social justice, geopolitics and/or securitization
We welcome applications from within & outside UK
More info on the post 👇🏽
We're looking for a critical geographer doing AI & activism, social justice, geopolitics and/or securitization
Come join our School of Geography as a permanent lecturer!!!!
We are looking for someone who does research on AI & securitisation; AI & the future of work; AI & humanitarianism; the politics/geopolitics of AI; & algorithmic activism.
Pls share widely!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ970/l...
We are looking for someone who does research on AI & securitisation; AI & the future of work; AI & humanitarianism; the politics/geopolitics of AI; & algorithmic activism.
Pls share widely!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ970/l...
April 21, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Still time to apply to this permanent Lecturer position at the School of Geography Leeds
We welcome applications from within & outside UK
More info on the post 👇🏽
We're looking for a critical geographer doing AI & activism, social justice, geopolitics and/or securitization
We welcome applications from within & outside UK
More info on the post 👇🏽
We're looking for a critical geographer doing AI & activism, social justice, geopolitics and/or securitization
1 week to go until the Manchester Marathon!
I'm so close to reaching my fundraising target to support
Doctors without Borders 😁
Just £45 short of my £400 target.
If you have a little to spare 😃👇🏽
click.contact.justgiving.com?qs=837002bde...
I'm so close to reaching my fundraising target to support
Doctors without Borders 😁
Just £45 short of my £400 target.
If you have a little to spare 😃👇🏽
click.contact.justgiving.com?qs=837002bde...
Laura's fundraiser for Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
Help Laura Loyola-Hernandez raise money to support Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
click.contact.justgiving.com
April 20, 2025 at 7:42 AM
1 week to go until the Manchester Marathon!
I'm so close to reaching my fundraising target to support
Doctors without Borders 😁
Just £45 short of my £400 target.
If you have a little to spare 😃👇🏽
click.contact.justgiving.com?qs=837002bde...
I'm so close to reaching my fundraising target to support
Doctors without Borders 😁
Just £45 short of my £400 target.
If you have a little to spare 😃👇🏽
click.contact.justgiving.com?qs=837002bde...
Reposted by Laura Loyola-Hernández
Come join our School of Geography as a permanent lecturer!!!!
We are looking for someone who does research on AI & securitisation; AI & the future of work; AI & humanitarianism; the politics/geopolitics of AI; & algorithmic activism.
Pls share widely!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ970/l...
We are looking for someone who does research on AI & securitisation; AI & the future of work; AI & humanitarianism; the politics/geopolitics of AI; & algorithmic activism.
Pls share widely!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ970/l...
April 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Come join our School of Geography as a permanent lecturer!!!!
We are looking for someone who does research on AI & securitisation; AI & the future of work; AI & humanitarianism; the politics/geopolitics of AI; & algorithmic activism.
Pls share widely!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ970/l...
We are looking for someone who does research on AI & securitisation; AI & the future of work; AI & humanitarianism; the politics/geopolitics of AI; & algorithmic activism.
Pls share widely!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ970/l...
Come join our School of Geography as a permanent lecturer!!!!
We are looking for someone who does research on AI & securitisation; AI & the future of work; AI & humanitarianism; the politics/geopolitics of AI; & algorithmic activism.
Pls share widely!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ970/l...
We are looking for someone who does research on AI & securitisation; AI & the future of work; AI & humanitarianism; the politics/geopolitics of AI; & algorithmic activism.
Pls share widely!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ970/l...
April 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Come join our School of Geography as a permanent lecturer!!!!
We are looking for someone who does research on AI & securitisation; AI & the future of work; AI & humanitarianism; the politics/geopolitics of AI; & algorithmic activism.
Pls share widely!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ970/l...
We are looking for someone who does research on AI & securitisation; AI & the future of work; AI & humanitarianism; the politics/geopolitics of AI; & algorithmic activism.
Pls share widely!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ970/l...
Reposted by Laura Loyola-Hernández
I hoped #UCU would redouble efforts to resolve the @uniteucu.bsky.social staff dispute
Instead our own union-as-employer has issued management instructions NOT to use tactics #UCU members have routinely been advised to use *by #UCU*
Then this page was deleted: web.archive.org/web/20230218...
1/7
Instead our own union-as-employer has issued management instructions NOT to use tactics #UCU members have routinely been advised to use *by #UCU*
Then this page was deleted: web.archive.org/web/20230218...
1/7
April 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I hoped #UCU would redouble efforts to resolve the @uniteucu.bsky.social staff dispute
Instead our own union-as-employer has issued management instructions NOT to use tactics #UCU members have routinely been advised to use *by #UCU*
Then this page was deleted: web.archive.org/web/20230218...
1/7
Instead our own union-as-employer has issued management instructions NOT to use tactics #UCU members have routinely been advised to use *by #UCU*
Then this page was deleted: web.archive.org/web/20230218...
1/7
Reposted by Laura Loyola-Hernández
"No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory".
Some said we were overstating our case, in our report launched last week,that we've now reached a state of repression in England and Wales.
THIS is repression
Some said we were overstating our case, in our report launched last week,that we've now reached a state of repression in England and Wales.
THIS is repression
March 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
"No-one has been arrested in a Quaker meeting house in living memory".
Some said we were overstating our case, in our report launched last week,that we've now reached a state of repression in England and Wales.
THIS is repression
Some said we were overstating our case, in our report launched last week,that we've now reached a state of repression in England and Wales.
THIS is repression
Reposted by Laura Loyola-Hernández
Your job today is to come up with a plan for what you will personally do if ICE shows up at your workplace, school, or place of worship, and tries to disappear someone. Talk about it with friends and coworkers. Write down phone numbers you’ll need. Role-play scenarios. Practice what you will say.
March 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Your job today is to come up with a plan for what you will personally do if ICE shows up at your workplace, school, or place of worship, and tries to disappear someone. Talk about it with friends and coworkers. Write down phone numbers you’ll need. Role-play scenarios. Practice what you will say.
Reposted by Laura Loyola-Hernández
We deeply regret our strike action which begins today in our Campaign for A Safe and Professional Workplace. With our dispute now a year old we remain resolute that the toxic bullying culture, racism and victimisation that our members and officers are experiencing must end.
uniteucu.wordpress.com
uniteucu.wordpress.com
Unite UCU
Unite branch (LE127) for employees of the University and College Union
uniteucu.wordpress.com
March 27, 2025 at 8:37 AM
We deeply regret our strike action which begins today in our Campaign for A Safe and Professional Workplace. With our dispute now a year old we remain resolute that the toxic bullying culture, racism and victimisation that our members and officers are experiencing must end.
uniteucu.wordpress.com
uniteucu.wordpress.com
Solidarity @uniteucu.bsky.social who are starting 20+ strikes given ongoing dispute with employer (UCU). Our union (UCU) is in an ongoing dispute with their own staff.
Embarrassing to say the least. Awful to see same tone & messaging VCs use vs us when we strike used to undermine striking UCU staff
Embarrassing to say the least. Awful to see same tone & messaging VCs use vs us when we strike used to undermine striking UCU staff
All solidarity with the brilliant people workers from @uniteucu.bsky.social! They are vital to our union and the union and the way their well-concerns are being dismissed is utterly unconscionable.
HQ, sort this. How are we going to “ReclaimHE” without the organisers making that possible?
HQ, sort this. How are we going to “ReclaimHE” without the organisers making that possible?
We deeply regret our strike action which begins today in our Campaign for A Safe and Professional Workplace. With our dispute now a year old we remain resolute that the toxic bullying culture, racism and victimisation that our members and officers are experiencing must end.
uniteucu.wordpress.com
uniteucu.wordpress.com
March 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Solidarity @uniteucu.bsky.social who are starting 20+ strikes given ongoing dispute with employer (UCU). Our union (UCU) is in an ongoing dispute with their own staff.
Embarrassing to say the least. Awful to see same tone & messaging VCs use vs us when we strike used to undermine striking UCU staff
Embarrassing to say the least. Awful to see same tone & messaging VCs use vs us when we strike used to undermine striking UCU staff
I'm so close to reaching my target✨
I'm running the Manchester Marathon in April to raise money for Doctors without Borders🏃🏽♀️
Can you help me reach it!
Doctors without Borders do amazing work bringing medical support across the globe. Click to donate ⤵️
www.justgiving.com/page/laura-l...
I'm running the Manchester Marathon in April to raise money for Doctors without Borders🏃🏽♀️
Can you help me reach it!
Doctors without Borders do amazing work bringing medical support across the globe. Click to donate ⤵️
www.justgiving.com/page/laura-l...
Laura's fundraiser for Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
Help Laura Loyola-Hernandez raise money to support Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
www.justgiving.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I'm so close to reaching my target✨
I'm running the Manchester Marathon in April to raise money for Doctors without Borders🏃🏽♀️
Can you help me reach it!
Doctors without Borders do amazing work bringing medical support across the globe. Click to donate ⤵️
www.justgiving.com/page/laura-l...
I'm running the Manchester Marathon in April to raise money for Doctors without Borders🏃🏽♀️
Can you help me reach it!
Doctors without Borders do amazing work bringing medical support across the globe. Click to donate ⤵️
www.justgiving.com/page/laura-l...
Reposted by Laura Loyola-Hernández
Please support ending UCU's dispute with UCU Unite and uphold the union's commitment to equality. We need Jo Grady, UCU General Secretary to end the dispute and act on the union's commitment to equality, especially to Black staff and members tinyurl.com/UCUUniteSoli...
UCU - End the dispute with Unite and embody the union’s commitment to equality
Dear Jo Grady,
We, the undersigned UCU members and members of the community, urge you to do everything in your power to resolve the dispute with UCU Unite as soon as possible.
UCU proudly signed up ...
tinyurl.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Please support ending UCU's dispute with UCU Unite and uphold the union's commitment to equality. We need Jo Grady, UCU General Secretary to end the dispute and act on the union's commitment to equality, especially to Black staff and members tinyurl.com/UCUUniteSoli...
Reposted by Laura Loyola-Hernández
Just the sheer, obscene spectacle of a Government minister on £160K+ plus expenses and all the freebies, coming for the sub £10K per year that my son gets in PIP - being autistic & learning disabled in a deeply unequal, discriminatory & hostile society is not a “lifestyle choice”
March 19, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Just the sheer, obscene spectacle of a Government minister on £160K+ plus expenses and all the freebies, coming for the sub £10K per year that my son gets in PIP - being autistic & learning disabled in a deeply unequal, discriminatory & hostile society is not a “lifestyle choice”
Reposted by Laura Loyola-Hernández
Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.
@washingtonpost.com They were not DEPORTED. Deported means sending them back to their country of origin. These people were sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, without any due process or any analysis as to whether they feared harm in El Salvador!
In America, EVERYONE has a RIGHT to due process - regardless of immigration status. It’s fundamental to our Constitution.
Deporting hundreds of people in secret by invoking a wartime proclamation is a blatant abuse of power by President Trump.
Deporting hundreds of people in secret by invoking a wartime proclamation is a blatant abuse of power by President Trump.
March 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.
Barely on this site, hardly check it. If you'd like to connect around organising for migrant rights, community work, alternatives to policing email me. I am still on Twitter more regularly than here
One reason not on here is toxic union behaviour which has moved on this platform 🙃
One reason not on here is toxic union behaviour which has moved on this platform 🙃
March 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Barely on this site, hardly check it. If you'd like to connect around organising for migrant rights, community work, alternatives to policing email me. I am still on Twitter more regularly than here
One reason not on here is toxic union behaviour which has moved on this platform 🙃
One reason not on here is toxic union behaviour which has moved on this platform 🙃
Exciting to share my new OA article in Third World Quarterly !
I use cyborg movidas -the collective embodiment of political manoeuvres influenced by emotions such as rage & love- to understand how feminist activists engage in protest as a technology of resistance
doi.org/10.1080/0143...
I use cyborg movidas -the collective embodiment of political manoeuvres influenced by emotions such as rage & love- to understand how feminist activists engage in protest as a technology of resistance
doi.org/10.1080/0143...
February 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Exciting to share my new OA article in Third World Quarterly !
I use cyborg movidas -the collective embodiment of political manoeuvres influenced by emotions such as rage & love- to understand how feminist activists engage in protest as a technology of resistance
doi.org/10.1080/0143...
I use cyborg movidas -the collective embodiment of political manoeuvres influenced by emotions such as rage & love- to understand how feminist activists engage in protest as a technology of resistance
doi.org/10.1080/0143...
I'm doing a charity run in April! Running the Manchester Marathon to raise money for Medecins sans Frontiers.
I've almost reached half my goal. Can you help me reach it 😅 (it's my bday today 😉)
Link to donate ⤵️
www.justgiving.com/page/laura-l...
I've almost reached half my goal. Can you help me reach it 😅 (it's my bday today 😉)
Link to donate ⤵️
www.justgiving.com/page/laura-l...
Laura's fundraiser for Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
Help Laura Loyola-Hernandez raise money to support Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
www.justgiving.com
February 1, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I'm doing a charity run in April! Running the Manchester Marathon to raise money for Medecins sans Frontiers.
I've almost reached half my goal. Can you help me reach it 😅 (it's my bday today 😉)
Link to donate ⤵️
www.justgiving.com/page/laura-l...
I've almost reached half my goal. Can you help me reach it 😅 (it's my bday today 😉)
Link to donate ⤵️
www.justgiving.com/page/laura-l...