Tori Cann
@canndo.bsky.social
Feminist academic based in Norwich, UK. Interests include youth gender studies, collecting zines, laughing, challenging injustice, aimless wandering. A proud council house kid. she/her. nd.
Banner art by Jenny Holzer.
Banner art by Jenny Holzer.
My dear pal Jo Beckett-King has just published her first YA/children’s (8-12) novel called The House of Found Objects. It’s a mystery with two smart girls and has lots of puzzles - order in to your local libraries! (Jo is refreshingly offline and would loathe to blow her own trumpet so allow me!)
September 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
My dear pal Jo Beckett-King has just published her first YA/children’s (8-12) novel called The House of Found Objects. It’s a mystery with two smart girls and has lots of puzzles - order in to your local libraries! (Jo is refreshingly offline and would loathe to blow her own trumpet so allow me!)
This followed a programme of learning last week, one of which included a session I led on zines - thinking about how they might allow for the communication of ideas and the creation of community amongst marginalised groups and/or outsiders. They’re a great bunch of students!
August 19, 2025 at 9:50 AM
This followed a programme of learning last week, one of which included a session I led on zines - thinking about how they might allow for the communication of ideas and the creation of community amongst marginalised groups and/or outsiders. They’re a great bunch of students!
Had a great time hearing students from Tohoku University present their learning of EDI and reflecting on how this applies to the Japanese context - all in the beautiful space offered by @sainsbury-institute.org
August 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Had a great time hearing students from Tohoku University present their learning of EDI and reflecting on how this applies to the Japanese context - all in the beautiful space offered by @sainsbury-institute.org
At the Joyce Morris Early Years Literacies conference reflecting on how different contemporary childhoods are from our own. Marvelling at how first words are now often “Google” or “Alexia” and then wondering if they’re actually that different from my “Bruce Willis” and “Cybill Sheperd”
July 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
At the Joyce Morris Early Years Literacies conference reflecting on how different contemporary childhoods are from our own. Marvelling at how first words are now often “Google” or “Alexia” and then wondering if they’re actually that different from my “Bruce Willis” and “Cybill Sheperd”
Brilliant talk from Lata Narayanaswamy at the #GenderAndDevelopment2025 conference, charting the cooption of rights and the “defence of women” as a wider globally colonial project to produce the category of woman that produces much deeper systems of oppression.
June 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Brilliant talk from Lata Narayanaswamy at the #GenderAndDevelopment2025 conference, charting the cooption of rights and the “defence of women” as a wider globally colonial project to produce the category of woman that produces much deeper systems of oppression.
Another day another @uea-ucu.bsky.social picket #SaveUEA
May 2, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Another day another @uea-ucu.bsky.social picket #SaveUEA
Incredible numbers and show of solidarity at the Norwich Protest in defence of and support for #TransRights.
April 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Incredible numbers and show of solidarity at the Norwich Protest in defence of and support for #TransRights.
A vision of what academia *could* be.
April 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
A vision of what academia *could* be.
A joyful morning at the @uea-ucu.bsky.social picket line, with staff, students and pups out in support of staff at risk of redundancy. Calling for greater transparency from our executive team and good faith negotiations on mitigations to save jobs and #SaveUEA!
March 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
A joyful morning at the @uea-ucu.bsky.social picket line, with staff, students and pups out in support of staff at risk of redundancy. Calling for greater transparency from our executive team and good faith negotiations on mitigations to save jobs and #SaveUEA!
Wonderful evening celebrating the launch of the new Plan UK State of Girls Rights report at Parliament today. All the more special for it to have featured girls’ voices so prominently and to have been opened by former research partner and good egg now MP @leighinghammp.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Wonderful evening celebrating the launch of the new Plan UK State of Girls Rights report at Parliament today. All the more special for it to have featured girls’ voices so prominently and to have been opened by former research partner and good egg now MP @leighinghammp.bsky.social
January 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A day away from the desk with the wonderful @feministteacher.bsky.social and a trip to the @vaginamuseum.bsky.social 🦪🌮🫘
January 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
A day away from the desk with the wonderful @feministteacher.bsky.social and a trip to the @vaginamuseum.bsky.social 🦪🌮🫘
What a gift to children and young people the Young V&A is!
January 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
What a gift to children and young people the Young V&A is!
Here you can also spy us with Dr Mangani Katundu, Malawi's Secretary for Education.
January 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Here you can also spy us with Dr Mangani Katundu, Malawi's Secretary for Education.
Lovely to see these photos of a project that gave me a lot of joy to be a part of in 2024! I'd been working as part of the UEA team on a KIX funded project exploring global responses to boys' disengagement from education. Here we are with colleagues from Cambodia, France, Malawi, and the USA.
January 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Lovely to see these photos of a project that gave me a lot of joy to be a part of in 2024! I'd been working as part of the UEA team on a KIX funded project exploring global responses to boys' disengagement from education. Here we are with colleagues from Cambodia, France, Malawi, and the USA.
After an inspiring talk on post-qualitative and creative methods from EJ Renold this morning, all our Feminist Research Methods students wanted to do today in class was create, so that’s what we did!
November 19, 2024 at 2:42 PM
After an inspiring talk on post-qualitative and creative methods from EJ Renold this morning, all our Feminist Research Methods students wanted to do today in class was create, so that’s what we did!
Buzzing at the opening of the SCVA’s What is Truth?/Liquid Gender exhibition tonight!
February 23, 2024 at 8:35 PM
Buzzing at the opening of the SCVA’s What is Truth?/Liquid Gender exhibition tonight!
Reminding folks of the existence of this incredible resource >>>
November 19, 2023 at 5:42 PM
Reminding folks of the existence of this incredible resource >>>
To paraphrase Audre Lorde ‘I am not free while any person is unfree, even when their shackles are very different from my own’
October 22, 2023 at 11:43 AM
To paraphrase Audre Lorde ‘I am not free while any person is unfree, even when their shackles are very different from my own’
"coming to you live from social media" I can't stop thinking about it.
October 9, 2023 at 10:32 AM
"coming to you live from social media" I can't stop thinking about it.
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July 26, 2023 at 1:44 PM
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