Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden
@sandraduffy.bsky.social
Law lecturer, dog parent, imported Bristolian, Irish. Using law for trans liberation, reproductive justice, post-/de-coloniality. They/she. AuDHD. Fond of penguins. Views personal. 🇵🇸
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Moral panics and legal projects: echoes of Section 28 in United Kingdom transgender discourse and law reform
A grounding in the queer history of the legal system in the United Kingdom reveals striking parallels between the moral panic leading to the enactment of Section 28 of the Local Government Act 1988, a...
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So thrilled to say that my new article on the echoes of Section 28 in the moral panic around trans people in the UK is out now, along with the rest of the first issue of @genderandjustice.bsky.social !
doi.org/10.1332/3033...
doi.org/10.1332/3033...
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#Newblogpost!!!
Here I unpack the term “racialised (un)belonging” as I use it in my work. I rely on Spillers' "ungendering" to describe a process that is produced through a colonial history that inscribes the racialised other as ever beyond the bounds of humanity.
folukeafrica.com/racialised-u...
Here I unpack the term “racialised (un)belonging” as I use it in my work. I rely on Spillers' "ungendering" to describe a process that is produced through a colonial history that inscribes the racialised other as ever beyond the bounds of humanity.
folukeafrica.com/racialised-u...
Racialised Un(belonging) within and beyond the University: The threads of a concept
Still seeking the university that is ours
folukeafrica.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
#Newblogpost!!!
Here I unpack the term “racialised (un)belonging” as I use it in my work. I rely on Spillers' "ungendering" to describe a process that is produced through a colonial history that inscribes the racialised other as ever beyond the bounds of humanity.
folukeafrica.com/racialised-u...
Here I unpack the term “racialised (un)belonging” as I use it in my work. I rely on Spillers' "ungendering" to describe a process that is produced through a colonial history that inscribes the racialised other as ever beyond the bounds of humanity.
folukeafrica.com/racialised-u...
I am still One Tired Penguin and I have spent the morning taking my wife to the doctor because she's done her back in (very painful, very mobility-limiting muscular pain) :(
I am One Tired Penguin and I have So Much Work to do.
November 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I am still One Tired Penguin and I have spent the morning taking my wife to the doctor because she's done her back in (very painful, very mobility-limiting muscular pain) :(
I am One Tired Penguin and I have So Much Work to do.
November 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I am One Tired Penguin and I have So Much Work to do.
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here’s hoping that the women who were harmed get justice. can’t imagine what this has been like for them.
November 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
here’s hoping that the women who were harmed get justice. can’t imagine what this has been like for them.
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ALIENATION PRODUCES ECCENTRICS OR REVOLUTIONARIES
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
ALIENATION PRODUCES ECCENTRICS OR REVOLUTIONARIES
I had to leave earlyish but I had so much fun at this! We have an amazing bunch of trans students at our uni and I loved meeting them.
update: this event is going VERY well!!! we've had really good attendance - i think ~35 people total :DDD (and people are still trickling in!)
I'm so pleased we got this off the ground! It's going to be great fun.
November 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I had to leave earlyish but I had so much fun at this! We have an amazing bunch of trans students at our uni and I loved meeting them.
People I'm chatting to about GRA/ECHR/etc - I have to leave now to a seminar about puberty blockers and then a trans inclusion event (on brand, totally) but I'll pick it up later!
November 12, 2025 at 11:53 AM
People I'm chatting to about GRA/ECHR/etc - I have to leave now to a seminar about puberty blockers and then a trans inclusion event (on brand, totally) but I'll pick it up later!
I'm doing involuntary AcWriMo (ie compelled by deadline) but this is a great thread for anyone who's also writing at the minute.
Here's 7 Academic Writing Month (AcWriMo) resources for you. Happy writing ✍️💻
Please share with a friend 🫶
1. A live podcast recording about public writing for academics with my friend Lisa Munro, PhD @llmunro.bsky.social. That'll broadcast on YouTube tomorrow, Wednesday, November 12.
#AcademicSky
Please share with a friend 🫶
1. A live podcast recording about public writing for academics with my friend Lisa Munro, PhD @llmunro.bsky.social. That'll broadcast on YouTube tomorrow, Wednesday, November 12.
#AcademicSky
November 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I'm doing involuntary AcWriMo (ie compelled by deadline) but this is a great thread for anyone who's also writing at the minute.
You might be unsurprised to learn that my invitation to chat about this has not been taken up.
With respect as I think you genuinely believe in this phone initiative, I would love to know what the Labour government is doing to make trans kids and adults safer, because I'm despairing.
I'm a researcher of trans law and recently cowritten on trans childhoods in the current climate, if it helps.
I'm a researcher of trans law and recently cowritten on trans childhoods in the current climate, if it helps.
And how do those children typically access the media they've been radicalised by? 🤔
Measures like this are not intended *instead of* measures to keep trans kids and adults safer, but they're not at odds with those objectives either.
Measures like this are not intended *instead of* measures to keep trans kids and adults safer, but they're not at odds with those objectives either.
November 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
You might be unsurprised to learn that my invitation to chat about this has not been taken up.
I forgot to take one of my meds yesterday and when that happens I always have the most vivid dreams. Anyway, last night Catherine Connolly was at my mam's birthday party on a boat, she was very sound and enjoyed the really excessively large cake.
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I forgot to take one of my meds yesterday and when that happens I always have the most vivid dreams. Anyway, last night Catherine Connolly was at my mam's birthday party on a boat, she was very sound and enjoyed the really excessively large cake.
I'm so pleased we got this off the ground! It's going to be great fun.
VERY excited for today, am cohosting a trans student / staff social with @sandraduffy.bsky.social !!!!!!!
November 12, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I'm so pleased we got this off the ground! It's going to be great fun.
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Nice one, Zadie Smith.
November 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Nice one, Zadie Smith.
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Yep. It was supposed to be, "you can't fire someone for being privately transphobic".
It's morphed into, "You can't fire someone who is transphobic even if they're destroying your company's reputation and harming children."
It's morphed into, "You can't fire someone who is transphobic even if they're destroying your company's reputation and harming children."
November 12, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Yep. It was supposed to be, "you can't fire someone for being privately transphobic".
It's morphed into, "You can't fire someone who is transphobic even if they're destroying your company's reputation and harming children."
It's morphed into, "You can't fire someone who is transphobic even if they're destroying your company's reputation and harming children."
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I would prefer it if Wes Streeting did not become Prime Minister
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I would prefer it if Wes Streeting did not become Prime Minister
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Can we take a moment for this absolute icon too! ❤️ #Speirgorm
November 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Can we take a moment for this absolute icon too! ❤️ #Speirgorm
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It's been one of those two sentences forward, one sentence back writing days. Slow progress.
November 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
It's been one of those two sentences forward, one sentence back writing days. Slow progress.
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Citation is how we knit the world.
Was listening to the new ep of the Allusionist this morning, and Helen was interviewing So Mayer who promptly name-checked @carriem.co.uk because the Internet is a tiny tiny village
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Citation is how we knit the world.
With respect as I think you genuinely believe in this phone initiative, I would love to know what the Labour government is doing to make trans kids and adults safer, because I'm despairing.
I'm a researcher of trans law and recently cowritten on trans childhoods in the current climate, if it helps.
I'm a researcher of trans law and recently cowritten on trans childhoods in the current climate, if it helps.
And how do those children typically access the media they've been radicalised by? 🤔
Measures like this are not intended *instead of* measures to keep trans kids and adults safer, but they're not at odds with those objectives either.
Measures like this are not intended *instead of* measures to keep trans kids and adults safer, but they're not at odds with those objectives either.
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
With respect as I think you genuinely believe in this phone initiative, I would love to know what the Labour government is doing to make trans kids and adults safer, because I'm despairing.
I'm a researcher of trans law and recently cowritten on trans childhoods in the current climate, if it helps.
I'm a researcher of trans law and recently cowritten on trans childhoods in the current climate, if it helps.
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The finest. Slán agus go raibh maith agat Micheal D Higgins. Fáilte ó chroí Uachtarán na hÉireann Catherine Connolly.
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The finest. Slán agus go raibh maith agat Micheal D Higgins. Fáilte ó chroí Uachtarán na hÉireann Catherine Connolly.
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This is the evidence based policy making we need.
Would Wes Streeting even fit inside a lockable pouch?
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
This is the evidence based policy making we need.
This looks fascinating.
Out today in HLR, my piece Skrmetti Beyond Scrutiny. What happened, what it means for trans rights and sex equality more broadly: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...
Skrmetti Beyond Scrutiny - Harvard Law Review
In United States v. Skrmetti, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), a state law that prohibits transgender minors from accessing gender-affirming care.
harvardlawreview.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
This looks fascinating.
Uachtarán nua s'againne! #spéirghorm
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Uachtarán nua s'againne! #spéirghorm
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People are not fearful of Farage in Downing Street because they worry that he wouldn't competently manage the bureaucracy or grasp the finer points of macroeconomics. They worry because he is palpably a nasty piece of work who would govern actively against their interests, even their safety.
November 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
People are not fearful of Farage in Downing Street because they worry that he wouldn't competently manage the bureaucracy or grasp the finer points of macroeconomics. They worry because he is palpably a nasty piece of work who would govern actively against their interests, even their safety.
Looking forward to this book, which I think will be an important contribution to a couple of different fields.
On December 15th, I will doing the first in a series of launches for my first monograph (due November 25th!). This first event is a Routes Network Seminar at the University of Exeter and will include me launching the book and a discussion with Raawiyah Rifath from the University of Exeter
Book Launch: Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration
www.exeter.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Looking forward to this book, which I think will be an important contribution to a couple of different fields.