Ames Clark
@amesclark.bsky.social
Sociologist - interested in care, abolition, temporalities, & political imagination
Research Associate @ Uni of Sheffield (chanse.org/lgbti_futures) - LGBTQI+ youth imagined futures & wellbeing in times of crises.
Research Associate @ Uni of Sheffield (chanse.org/lgbti_futures) - LGBTQI+ youth imagined futures & wellbeing in times of crises.
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We’re on our 3rd day of (v cold) strike today @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
HE is being dismantled by mgmt on eye watering salaries, whilst staff delivering teaching, research & admin are casualised, burnt out & forced out
Pls donate to our fighting fund if you can shorturl.at/EpeTe
HE is being dismantled by mgmt on eye watering salaries, whilst staff delivering teaching, research & admin are casualised, burnt out & forced out
Pls donate to our fighting fund if you can shorturl.at/EpeTe
Donate to the Sheffield UCU Industrial Action Solidarity Fund
What is the Sheffield UCU Industrial Action Solidarity Fund, and how to contribute.
shorturl.at
November 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
We’re on our 3rd day of (v cold) strike today @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
HE is being dismantled by mgmt on eye watering salaries, whilst staff delivering teaching, research & admin are casualised, burnt out & forced out
Pls donate to our fighting fund if you can shorturl.at/EpeTe
HE is being dismantled by mgmt on eye watering salaries, whilst staff delivering teaching, research & admin are casualised, burnt out & forced out
Pls donate to our fighting fund if you can shorturl.at/EpeTe
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This Saturday after painstaking research and FOIs by @clairestranstalks.bsky.social with @whatthetrans.com, we'll publish 'The Gender Clinic Files' in our newsletter:
A new investigative series exposing deep structural issues with UK Transgender healthcare
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A new investigative series exposing deep structural issues with UK Transgender healthcare
Sign up 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/
October 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This Saturday after painstaking research and FOIs by @clairestranstalks.bsky.social with @whatthetrans.com, we'll publish 'The Gender Clinic Files' in our newsletter:
A new investigative series exposing deep structural issues with UK Transgender healthcare
Sign up 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/
A new investigative series exposing deep structural issues with UK Transgender healthcare
Sign up 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/subscribe/
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Italian unions call for general strike as global protests grow and multiple governments criticise Israel.
How the world is responding to Israel’s interception of Gaza flotilla
Italian unions call for general strike as global protests grow and multiple governments criticise Israel.
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October 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Italian unions call for general strike as global protests grow and multiple governments criticise Israel.
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CfP for an exciting workshop I'm co-organising at the Uni of Sheffield - Storying the Future: Queer Storytelling and Unsettling Times.
(More info below but workshop 10th sept, deadline for EOI 6th aug)
tinyurl.com/qstorytelling
(More info below but workshop 10th sept, deadline for EOI 6th aug)
tinyurl.com/qstorytelling
Callout: Storying the Future: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Queer Storytelling
Storying the Future: Queer Storytelling and Unsettling TImes Date: Wednesday 10th September, 2025 Location: University of Sheffield, UK Organisers: Dr Ames Clark and Dr Eleanor Wilkinson, School of...
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July 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
CfP for an exciting workshop I'm co-organising at the Uni of Sheffield - Storying the Future: Queer Storytelling and Unsettling Times.
(More info below but workshop 10th sept, deadline for EOI 6th aug)
tinyurl.com/qstorytelling
(More info below but workshop 10th sept, deadline for EOI 6th aug)
tinyurl.com/qstorytelling
TKDB: "We will protest. We will protect. We will organise and we WILL outlast them. To every trans kid out there: we are NOT giving up and we WILL NOT let them bury your truth in shame or bureaucracy! To the ones we lost: your names are not forgotten. They are a battle cry!"
Trans youth stage die-in outside Supreme Court | Trans Kids Deserve Better
transkidsdeservebetter.org
July 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
TKDB: "We will protest. We will protect. We will organise and we WILL outlast them. To every trans kid out there: we are NOT giving up and we WILL NOT let them bury your truth in shame or bureaucracy! To the ones we lost: your names are not forgotten. They are a battle cry!"
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What can science fiction tell us about abolitionist futures and the path to utopia?
@philcrockettthomas.bsky.social @stirunicriminology.bsky.social @thesccjr.bsky.social on prison abolition activism, collaborative fictioning and the ideas of Ursula K. Le Guin.
#OpenAccess buff.ly/xw5UXjJ
@philcrockettthomas.bsky.social @stirunicriminology.bsky.social @thesccjr.bsky.social on prison abolition activism, collaborative fictioning and the ideas of Ursula K. Le Guin.
#OpenAccess buff.ly/xw5UXjJ
July 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
What can science fiction tell us about abolitionist futures and the path to utopia?
@philcrockettthomas.bsky.social @stirunicriminology.bsky.social @thesccjr.bsky.social on prison abolition activism, collaborative fictioning and the ideas of Ursula K. Le Guin.
#OpenAccess buff.ly/xw5UXjJ
@philcrockettthomas.bsky.social @stirunicriminology.bsky.social @thesccjr.bsky.social on prison abolition activism, collaborative fictioning and the ideas of Ursula K. Le Guin.
#OpenAccess buff.ly/xw5UXjJ
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Really good piece by @annabull.bsky.social on how universities should respond to the EHRC's proposed segregation programme. The evidence points to trans people's heightened vulnerability to sexual harassment and violence - so single-sex policies must account for this.
Safety must shape policy on single-sex spaces
Anna Bull examines how evidence of trans and non-binary people's heightened vulnerability to sexual violence is absent from new EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces Anna Bull examines how evidence of tr...
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July 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Really good piece by @annabull.bsky.social on how universities should respond to the EHRC's proposed segregation programme. The evidence points to trans people's heightened vulnerability to sexual harassment and violence - so single-sex policies must account for this.
CfP for an exciting workshop I'm co-organising at the Uni of Sheffield - Storying the Future: Queer Storytelling and Unsettling Times.
(More info below but workshop 10th sept, deadline for EOI 6th aug)
tinyurl.com/qstorytelling
(More info below but workshop 10th sept, deadline for EOI 6th aug)
tinyurl.com/qstorytelling
Callout: Storying the Future: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Queer Storytelling
Storying the Future: Queer Storytelling and Unsettling TImes Date: Wednesday 10th September, 2025 Location: University of Sheffield, UK Organisers: Dr Ames Clark and Dr Eleanor Wilkinson, School of...
tinyurl.com
July 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
CfP for an exciting workshop I'm co-organising at the Uni of Sheffield - Storying the Future: Queer Storytelling and Unsettling Times.
(More info below but workshop 10th sept, deadline for EOI 6th aug)
tinyurl.com/qstorytelling
(More info below but workshop 10th sept, deadline for EOI 6th aug)
tinyurl.com/qstorytelling