Ambrose McMonagle (they/them) 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@ambrose-mcm.bsky.social
📚 PhD Student at Glasgow University (SGSSS Funded) in Disability Studies
🗂️ Stuart Hall Foundation Fellow & member of Scottish Criminal Justice Research Centre
🗳️ Former Policy & Research Officer at ScotParl
✨Autism & Chronic Pain Club
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🗂️ Stuart Hall Foundation Fellow & member of Scottish Criminal Justice Research Centre
🗳️ Former Policy & Research Officer at ScotParl
✨Autism & Chronic Pain Club
[Views own]
Pinned
Out of the Clinics, Into the Streets!
Authors Ambrose McMonagle and Cassandra Lovelock reflect on the growing fervour of anti-trans rhetoric and the on-going failures of the political establishments through lived experiences, both persona...
interregnum.ghost.io
Had the honour of getting to cowrite a response to the recent UKSC verdict & the creep of biological fundamentalism with the incredible Dr Cas Lovelock, reflecting on our personal & professional lived experience.
#transrights #disabilityjustice #transkidsdeservebetter #lgbtq
#transrights #disabilityjustice #transkidsdeservebetter #lgbtq
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Gender Identity Clinic's Waiting Lists from Shortest To Longest
October 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Gender Identity Clinic's Waiting Lists from Shortest To Longest
Was able to contribute a little to the Eugenics zine featured amongst the brilliant collection alone.
Highly recc keeping an eye on the DARK materials, they’re written in plain language so can be a great way to introduce folks to some complex topics!
#disablityresearch #zine
Highly recc keeping an eye on the DARK materials, they’re written in plain language so can be a great way to introduce folks to some complex topics!
#disablityresearch #zine
The last few zines we put out, find them for free here linktr.ee/disabilityark
July 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Was able to contribute a little to the Eugenics zine featured amongst the brilliant collection alone.
Highly recc keeping an eye on the DARK materials, they’re written in plain language so can be a great way to introduce folks to some complex topics!
#disablityresearch #zine
Highly recc keeping an eye on the DARK materials, they’re written in plain language so can be a great way to introduce folks to some complex topics!
#disablityresearch #zine
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The EHRC is bound to protect the right to protest. Instead, it is trying to crush it.
That's why Good Law Project is intervening to resist an injunction which would prevent – and criminalise – protest on the EHRC premises.
goodlawproject.org/the-ehrc-is-...
That's why Good Law Project is intervening to resist an injunction which would prevent – and criminalise – protest on the EHRC premises.
goodlawproject.org/the-ehrc-is-...
The EHRC is silencing trans rights activists
The EHRC was created to protect our rights. Now it's trying to quash peaceful demonstrations
goodlawproject.org
June 3, 2025 at 8:06 AM
The EHRC is bound to protect the right to protest. Instead, it is trying to crush it.
That's why Good Law Project is intervening to resist an injunction which would prevent – and criminalise – protest on the EHRC premises.
goodlawproject.org/the-ehrc-is-...
That's why Good Law Project is intervening to resist an injunction which would prevent – and criminalise – protest on the EHRC premises.
goodlawproject.org/the-ehrc-is-...
Had the honour of getting to cowrite a response to the recent UKSC verdict & the creep of biological fundamentalism with the incredible Dr Cas Lovelock, reflecting on our personal & professional lived experience.
#transrights #disabilityjustice #transkidsdeservebetter #lgbtq
#transrights #disabilityjustice #transkidsdeservebetter #lgbtq
Out of the Clinics, Into the Streets!
Authors Ambrose McMonagle and Cassandra Lovelock reflect on the growing fervour of anti-trans rhetoric and the on-going failures of the political establishments through lived experiences, both persona...
interregnum.ghost.io
May 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Had the honour of getting to cowrite a response to the recent UKSC verdict & the creep of biological fundamentalism with the incredible Dr Cas Lovelock, reflecting on our personal & professional lived experience.
#transrights #disabilityjustice #transkidsdeservebetter #lgbtq
#transrights #disabilityjustice #transkidsdeservebetter #lgbtq
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Trans and being told by your employer you can no longer use the toilets at work (especially if not out to all your colleagues)?
A cis woman who has been challenged when using the toilet?
Otherwise affected by the SC judgment?
Please share & fill out this form:
goodlawproject.org/about/trans-...
A cis woman who has been challenged when using the toilet?
Otherwise affected by the SC judgment?
Please share & fill out this form:
goodlawproject.org/about/trans-...
The Supreme Court ripped up the Equality Act – what has it done to you? | Good Law Project
Use the form to securely share your experience with us.
goodlawproject.org
May 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Trans and being told by your employer you can no longer use the toilets at work (especially if not out to all your colleagues)?
A cis woman who has been challenged when using the toilet?
Otherwise affected by the SC judgment?
Please share & fill out this form:
goodlawproject.org/about/trans-...
A cis woman who has been challenged when using the toilet?
Otherwise affected by the SC judgment?
Please share & fill out this form:
goodlawproject.org/about/trans-...
Presented “Disability and Deinstitutionalisation: revisiting Lennox Castle” to other sociology students at Glasgow Uni, reflecting on the work I’ve carried out in this 1st year of my PhD.
Many thanks to Dr Lovelock for advice on presenting sensitive & emotional research, & driving me to fieldwork.
Many thanks to Dr Lovelock for advice on presenting sensitive & emotional research, & driving me to fieldwork.
May 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Presented “Disability and Deinstitutionalisation: revisiting Lennox Castle” to other sociology students at Glasgow Uni, reflecting on the work I’ve carried out in this 1st year of my PhD.
Many thanks to Dr Lovelock for advice on presenting sensitive & emotional research, & driving me to fieldwork.
Many thanks to Dr Lovelock for advice on presenting sensitive & emotional research, & driving me to fieldwork.
Edinburgh said No Pasarán!
(Incredible community organising by @rtie.org)
#transrights #queeracademics #lgbtq
(Incredible community organising by @rtie.org)
#transrights #queeracademics #lgbtq
April 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Edinburgh said No Pasarán!
(Incredible community organising by @rtie.org)
#transrights #queeracademics #lgbtq
(Incredible community organising by @rtie.org)
#transrights #queeracademics #lgbtq
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🧵For Women Scotland crowdfunded £230,000 for this trial. I am going to tell you as an actual feminist what £230000 pounds could have done for women in the UK.
-Fund housing for women escaping gender violence for eg it could have paid two months of rent for about 160 women
-Fund housing for women escaping gender violence for eg it could have paid two months of rent for about 160 women
April 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
🧵For Women Scotland crowdfunded £230,000 for this trial. I am going to tell you as an actual feminist what £230000 pounds could have done for women in the UK.
-Fund housing for women escaping gender violence for eg it could have paid two months of rent for about 160 women
-Fund housing for women escaping gender violence for eg it could have paid two months of rent for about 160 women
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Have you spent 10 or more years in prison?
Prison Reform Trust is looking for research participants.
Prison Reform Trust is looking for research participants.
April 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Have you spent 10 or more years in prison?
Prison Reform Trust is looking for research participants.
Prison Reform Trust is looking for research participants.
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Yeah, this is what epistemicide looks like.
"Do not treat trans people like they are deserving of dignity. Do not speak against their dehumanization. It is illegal to push back against their vilification. The right to spread transphobia supersedes trans perspectives and voices."
"Do not treat trans people like they are deserving of dignity. Do not speak against their dehumanization. It is illegal to push back against their vilification. The right to spread transphobia supersedes trans perspectives and voices."
Fined £585k for saying be nice to trans people because it makes bigots feel like they can't be bigots.
It also says Stock was dismissed. She resigned.
It also says Stock was dismissed. She resigned.
March 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Yeah, this is what epistemicide looks like.
"Do not treat trans people like they are deserving of dignity. Do not speak against their dehumanization. It is illegal to push back against their vilification. The right to spread transphobia supersedes trans perspectives and voices."
"Do not treat trans people like they are deserving of dignity. Do not speak against their dehumanization. It is illegal to push back against their vilification. The right to spread transphobia supersedes trans perspectives and voices."
For those interested in the 🏴 context, the Scottish Union of Mental Patients (SUMP) was est 2yrs prior to its London counterpart.
SUMP presented their “Petition for the Redress of Grievances put forward by the patients in Hartwood Hospital, Shotts Lanarkshire” on 18th August 1971.
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SUMP presented their “Petition for the Redress of Grievances put forward by the patients in Hartwood Hospital, Shotts Lanarkshire” on 18th August 1971.
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#OtD 21 Mar 1973 the Mental Patients Union was formed in London. They argued that like workers joining unions, mental health patients needed to organise as well, putting forward a list of 24 demands to improve their conditions stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...
March 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
For those interested in the 🏴 context, the Scottish Union of Mental Patients (SUMP) was est 2yrs prior to its London counterpart.
SUMP presented their “Petition for the Redress of Grievances put forward by the patients in Hartwood Hospital, Shotts Lanarkshire” on 18th August 1971.
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SUMP presented their “Petition for the Redress of Grievances put forward by the patients in Hartwood Hospital, Shotts Lanarkshire” on 18th August 1971.
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Having tackled other societal menaces, such as disabled adults and transgender children, Starmer announced yesterday that he’d be forming a posse to erase every last galago, before they can get their tiny paws on our precious bananas.
Starmer: “The moral case for bludgeoning those cute bush baby things you see at the zoo”
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has issued a statement explaining the “moral case” for bashing to death the adorable, wide-eyed bush babies holding back our nation. Having tackled other societal menaces,...
thedailytism.com
March 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Having tackled other societal menaces, such as disabled adults and transgender children, Starmer announced yesterday that he’d be forming a posse to erase every last galago, before they can get their tiny paws on our precious bananas.
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If you want to write to your Labour MP about disability benefit cuts but have limited spoons, here’s a template from @sensecharity.bsky.social you can use:
t.co/E8QB6EDi9o
Public backlash *does* work at times so let’s keep the pressure up. You too, non-disabled allies!
t.co/E8QB6EDi9o
Public backlash *does* work at times so let’s keep the pressure up. You too, non-disabled allies!
https://action.sense.org.uk/page/167765/action/1?ea.tracking.id=twt-org
t.co
March 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
If you want to write to your Labour MP about disability benefit cuts but have limited spoons, here’s a template from @sensecharity.bsky.social you can use:
t.co/E8QB6EDi9o
Public backlash *does* work at times so let’s keep the pressure up. You too, non-disabled allies!
t.co/E8QB6EDi9o
Public backlash *does* work at times so let’s keep the pressure up. You too, non-disabled allies!
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Labour’s Proposed Disability Cuts Will Kill People – We Need You To Help Us Fight
CN: DWP I need everyone in the UK who isn't directly affected by these potential cuts to read this. Sunday was my birthday, and I spent it in a planning meeting with DPAC (Disabled People Against Cuts) about how to…
CN: DWP I need everyone in the UK who isn't directly affected by these potential cuts to read this. Sunday was my birthday, and I spent it in a planning meeting with DPAC (Disabled People Against Cuts) about how to…
Labour’s Proposed Disability Cuts Will Kill People – We Need You To Help Us Fight
CN: DWP I need everyone in the UK who isn't directly affected by these potential cuts to read this. Sunday was my birthday, and I spent it in a planning meeting with DPAC (Disabled People Against Cuts) about how to fight Labour's Green Paper on cuts to disability benefits (because of course I did). I have spent the time since mostly curled in a small ball under my duvet, trying to get my heart rate down.
graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com
March 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Labour’s Proposed Disability Cuts Will Kill People – We Need You To Help Us Fight
CN: DWP I need everyone in the UK who isn't directly affected by these potential cuts to read this. Sunday was my birthday, and I spent it in a planning meeting with DPAC (Disabled People Against Cuts) about how to…
CN: DWP I need everyone in the UK who isn't directly affected by these potential cuts to read this. Sunday was my birthday, and I spent it in a planning meeting with DPAC (Disabled People Against Cuts) about how to…
Already making notes for new readings from this! My personal reccs would be:
- Care Work, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Tonguebreaker, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Decarcerating Disability, Liat Ben-Moshe
- Empire of Normality, Robert Chapman
- Become Unbutterable, Fiona Robertson
- Care Work, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Tonguebreaker, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Decarcerating Disability, Liat Ben-Moshe
- Empire of Normality, Robert Chapman
- Become Unbutterable, Fiona Robertson
February 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Already making notes for new readings from this! My personal reccs would be:
- Care Work, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Tonguebreaker, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Decarcerating Disability, Liat Ben-Moshe
- Empire of Normality, Robert Chapman
- Become Unbutterable, Fiona Robertson
- Care Work, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Tonguebreaker, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Decarcerating Disability, Liat Ben-Moshe
- Empire of Normality, Robert Chapman
- Become Unbutterable, Fiona Robertson
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Don't fall for the "you got nothing then!" replies to simple statements of obvious fact
"It was a Nazi salute"
"Well what about all [gish gallop], prove it was a Nazi salute"
"Nah man, it was a Nazi salute"
It calls out the utter absurdity of them writing a thesis to defend a fucking Nazi salute!
"It was a Nazi salute"
"Well what about all [gish gallop], prove it was a Nazi salute"
"Nah man, it was a Nazi salute"
It calls out the utter absurdity of them writing a thesis to defend a fucking Nazi salute!
you don’t have to engage in the gaslighting. simply say ‘it was a nazi salute’ and refuse to engage in the preposterous claim that he was ‘throwing his heart to the crowd’ or whatever
it was a nazi salute. the ppl claiming otherwise know it was too. you don’t need to spend the day arguing with them
it was a nazi salute. the ppl claiming otherwise know it was too. you don’t need to spend the day arguing with them
January 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Don't fall for the "you got nothing then!" replies to simple statements of obvious fact
"It was a Nazi salute"
"Well what about all [gish gallop], prove it was a Nazi salute"
"Nah man, it was a Nazi salute"
It calls out the utter absurdity of them writing a thesis to defend a fucking Nazi salute!
"It was a Nazi salute"
"Well what about all [gish gallop], prove it was a Nazi salute"
"Nah man, it was a Nazi salute"
It calls out the utter absurdity of them writing a thesis to defend a fucking Nazi salute!
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R (Clifford) v SSWP [2025] EWHC (Admin) decides today that the 2023 WCA consultation, run by the Department for Work and Pensions, was unlawful.
January 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
R (Clifford) v SSWP [2025] EWHC (Admin) decides today that the 2023 WCA consultation, run by the Department for Work and Pensions, was unlawful.
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when some guy getting questioned for a position of international power and stature says “I’m not going to get into hypotheticals” he should be asked why not. Aren’t you asking for a job that’s going to involve planning for hypotheticals bro. Bro. Is that not the case
January 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
when some guy getting questioned for a position of international power and stature says “I’m not going to get into hypotheticals” he should be asked why not. Aren’t you asking for a job that’s going to involve planning for hypotheticals bro. Bro. Is that not the case
With thanks to @mcaulayjoseph.bsky.social for the reading recommendation to start my New Year with.
May 2025 be the year I finally wrangle Social Reproduction Theory.
#theory #reading #phdlife
May 2025 be the year I finally wrangle Social Reproduction Theory.
#theory #reading #phdlife
January 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
With thanks to @mcaulayjoseph.bsky.social for the reading recommendation to start my New Year with.
May 2025 be the year I finally wrangle Social Reproduction Theory.
#theory #reading #phdlife
May 2025 be the year I finally wrangle Social Reproduction Theory.
#theory #reading #phdlife
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BREAKING NEWS
Trans Kids Deserve Better are occupying Wes Streeting's Office at Ilford North.
Get down there and support everyone.
For folks who want to support.
Signal announcement group:
www.transkidsdeservebetter.org/adult_suppor...
We've Been advised to share this.
Trans Kids Deserve Better are occupying Wes Streeting's Office at Ilford North.
Get down there and support everyone.
For folks who want to support.
Signal announcement group:
www.transkidsdeservebetter.org/adult_suppor...
We've Been advised to share this.
www.transkidsdeservebetter.org
December 11, 2024 at 7:32 PM
BREAKING NEWS
Trans Kids Deserve Better are occupying Wes Streeting's Office at Ilford North.
Get down there and support everyone.
For folks who want to support.
Signal announcement group:
www.transkidsdeservebetter.org/adult_suppor...
We've Been advised to share this.
Trans Kids Deserve Better are occupying Wes Streeting's Office at Ilford North.
Get down there and support everyone.
For folks who want to support.
Signal announcement group:
www.transkidsdeservebetter.org/adult_suppor...
We've Been advised to share this.
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"Equality, dignity, and freedom for all individuals" are words that were actually said today in the Northern Ireland Assembly as they discussed how important International Human Rights Day is at around the same time the NI Executive was voting unanimously to ban on puberty blockers.
Northern Ireland Executive backs indefinite ban on puberty blockers with England to follow
transwrites.world/northern-ire...
transwrites.world/northern-ire...
Northern Ireland Executive backs indefinite ban on puberty blockers with England to follow - Trans Writes
NI Executive unanimously backs indefinite ban on private puberty blocker prescriptions, aligning with UK policy, with cross-party support
transwrites.world
December 10, 2024 at 4:50 PM
"Equality, dignity, and freedom for all individuals" are words that were actually said today in the Northern Ireland Assembly as they discussed how important International Human Rights Day is at around the same time the NI Executive was voting unanimously to ban on puberty blockers.
Two months in and this is perhaps the most accurate summary of my PhD journey thus far.
#phd #phdthoughts #writing #research
#phd #phdthoughts #writing #research
December 4, 2024 at 10:59 AM
Two months in and this is perhaps the most accurate summary of my PhD journey thus far.
#phd #phdthoughts #writing #research
#phd #phdthoughts #writing #research
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Council of Europe expert committee say puberty blocker trial might violate rights of the patient
Written by @mall.bsky.social
Written by @mall.bsky.social
Council of Europe expert committee say puberty blocker trial might violate rights of the patient
A new report from CoE confirms previous concerns raised by British Medical Association that the intended trial of puberty blockers starting in 2025 violates CYP trans patients' rights
transsafety.network
December 2, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Council of Europe expert committee say puberty blocker trial might violate rights of the patient
Written by @mall.bsky.social
Written by @mall.bsky.social