Far be it from me to suggest that teaching institutions should put teaching at the centre of their activities, staff reward and promotion ceriteria. Perish the thought!

If you’ve not had the chance to view the amazing exhibition, William Macewen: At the Cutting Edge, go go go!

It’s free and full of fascinating archival items from his illustrious history: from his job as a police surgeon, to his innovations in clinical photography and nurse training! 🧠

#TLOU 2 is maybe my all time favourite game and I could talk about it forever: I hated the hate then and I hate it now.

In a show, the character can pause and reflect on their path. The character doesn’t have to be over powered and capable of killing 20 npcs.

#TLOU is a phenomenal adaptation that is making amazing new decisions rooted in a 19 year olds revenge plot. It’s doing an amazing job.

The fact that it harms trans people should be enough to call out the ruling, in any case 🤷🏼‍♀️.

But to call this a win for women or feminism or womanhood or whatever else is false. Any restriction on body autonomy is a restriction on us all.

Feminists have spent centuries challenging what it means to be a women, allowing the individual to carve their own paths. The Supreme Court ruling does not protect women, it harms them and will harm some more than others (not just trans women, but - as we see in sports - black women too).

In the 20th century, women’s activism focused on the right to choose: choose to work, choose to have children, choose to reject heteronormativity. This was seen as a subversion of gender. This was gender non-conformity.

To say that a person cannot change, challenge or play with their gender is a rejection of the notion that we are in control of our own bodies. The rhetoric and logic that led to the Supreme Court ruling is the same that overturned Dobbs.

As a #historian of #reprohealth and feminist activism, I’ll never see trans rights and reproductive rights as distinctive issues: they are both fights for body autonomy and the right to control our own destinies.

Often the focus of responses to the UKHE crisis is on history within the humanities, but this interdisciplinary focus allows us to look more broadly at the changing structures in UKHE and how they affect the history discipline.

We want to see how historians have adapted to changes to their disciplinary boundaries. We also want to see how social sciences have embraced historical perspectives in their teaching.

What is this event?

In the context of the crisis in UKHE, & particularly the recent attacks on the history discipline, historians are finding themselves increasingly absorbed into other disciplines, affecting their identity and research boundaries.

@royalhistsoc.org @uofglasgow.bsky.social

Bold of them to pick a fight with an autistic PhD who might not have time to eat every day but ALWAYS has the time to read the fine print and be petty xoxo

Thank you Daniel, I’m so happy!!

Now back to marking… 😂🫣