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A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they)
@snappyalligator.bsky.social
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Academic @unimelb, sexual violence & queer researcher, cat-pillow, coffee/wine/gin enthusiast, amateur crochet, german-learner & gardener. Hoping for a kinder world. Views my own. Settler on stolen Wurundjeri land.
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📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers

We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.

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Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights. While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…
September 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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liamgillespie.bsky.social
New article by me: The March for Australia’s racism can’t just be blamed on far-right ‘extremists’ - it’s been enabled by the mainstream | Liam Gillespie www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The March for Australia’s racism can’t just be blamed on far-right 'extremists’ - it’s been enabled by the mainstream | Liam Gillespie
The weekend’s protests provided an alibi to nationalism, obscuring the central place racism has always occupied
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September 1, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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ermanorsanyetis.bsky.social
My new article on possibilities and challenges of engaging men in resisting #antigenderism toward #genderequality and #socialjustice for lasting social transformation is published in Humanities & Social Sciences Communications @springernature.com
#openaccess here: rdcu.be/eyoBH
July 30, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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What does starving to death feel like? | First Dog on the Moon
How does it feel to hold your child in your arms as they starve to death
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July 30, 2025 at 1:41 AM
snappyalligator.bsky.social
Happy birthday to this queen 🦛
July 11, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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‘Hang on, why am I editing my photos?’ Disrupting the virtual gaze through selfie-editing workshops - Julia Coffey, Akane Kanai, Amy S Dobson, Rosalind Gill, Niamh White, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
‘Hang on, why am I editing my photos?’ Disrupting the virtual gaze through selfie-editing workshops - Julia Coffey, Akane Kanai, Amy S Dobson, Rosalind Gill, Niamh White, 2025
This article presents findings from a qualitative study that aimed to provide some of the first detailed accounts of how young people use selfie-editing apps, a...
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June 20, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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senthorun.bsky.social
This is your ongoing reminder that anti-migrant (“illegals”) and anti-trans politics (“gender ideology”) are current anchors of several authoritarian governments. People who tolerate, even selectively, such politics are facilitating the rise of fascism. This is why solidarity is key to oppose this.
April 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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gabrielcaluzzi.bsky.social
“I Don’t Know for Certain”: A Content Analysis of Reddit Posters’ Accounts of Drink Spiking

New paper looking at relationships, contexts and impacts of alcohol & drug-facilitated sexual violence ('drink spiking'). Led by Jess Ison & @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social

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June 16, 2025 at 7:45 AM
snappyalligator.bsky.social
New publication day! Open access, so pls have a read. We examine how digital activism and justice-seeking generates an affective economies of disgust, arguing that justice is a felt experience

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‘These Men Are Disgusting Losers’: Theorizing the Affective Economies of Digital Justice and Activism
Abstract. Instagram and other social media have played a significant role in feminist activism. For phenomena such as street harassment—a form of sexual vi
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June 10, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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paul.kidd.id.au
Imagine a world in which that $100 million instead went to the health and social services that keep people out of prison.
June 2, 2025 at 6:09 AM
snappyalligator.bsky.social
The horror of this genocide is unfathomable

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Israeli airstrike kills nine of Gaza doctor’s 10 children
Dr Alaa al-Najjar was on duty at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis when she received her children’s bodies
www.theguardian.com
May 25, 2025 at 4:11 AM
snappyalligator.bsky.social
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The children of Gaza are starving to death | First Dog on the Moon
Time is running out
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May 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
snappyalligator.bsky.social
And yet, we don't seem to care that these animals were on their way to die anyways... 🤔 The cognitive dissonance is real.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Government records show emergency killings of thousands of livestock after transport to Australian export abattoirs
Euthanasia is most common response to welfare incidents in sheep, pigs and cattle with about 4% of animals experiencing serious incidents, research finds
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May 17, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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rosemaryhell.bsky.social
It was great to talk to Oliver Carter about our book 'Unsilenced: Women Musicians, Gender-Based Violence, and the Popular Music Industry' (by @hellharpy.bsky.social , @snappyalligator.bsky.social and me).

Podcast: linktr.ee/soundadvicepod

Book: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/unsilenced-9798765101742/
Rosemary Hill and Olly Carter on a video call for Sound Advice podcast.
May 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
snappyalligator.bsky.social
New publication out today in Gender & Society. Drawing on the brilliant @saranahmed.bsky.social I conceptualise resistance to street harassment as a form of 'feminist snap' and feminist erosion. Open access, please have a read!

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“I Actually Snapped”: Conceptualizing Resistance to Street Harassment as Feminist Snap and Erosion - Bianca Fileborn, 2025
In this article, I examine the strategies of resistance deployed by people who have experienced street harassment. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 47...
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May 8, 2025 at 4:58 AM
snappyalligator.bsky.social
Stunning day to go out and vote for @purplepingers.bsky.social 🙌🏼🌈🏡
May 3, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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purplepingers.bsky.social
Finally figured out how to use google maps properly to map all the empty homes that have been submitted and it’s pretty wild
April 11, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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nickfeik.bsky.social
Australia could be taking advantage of the millions of students now too scared to go to university in America.
Instead both Dutton and Albanese are threatening to *massively reduce* intl student numbers.
carlbergstrom.com Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Apr 6
Even without ICE's horrible abuses, a pattern of arbitrarily revoking student visas makes the US no longer a viable schooling option for international students.

Bringing them to the US has been one of our strongest sources of soft power.

Everything this fucking guy does benefits Putin.
ejtaub.bsky.social Elissa Taub @ejtaub.bsky.social · Apr 5
This is happening to students at colleges & universities nationwide. Their status is bring terminated & visa revoked. Often, the student has no obvious history to justify the govt's actions. Affected students should seek knowledgeable immigration counsel immediately.
April 6, 2025 at 7:45 AM
snappyalligator.bsky.social
Happy re-learn how to program your oven clock day, Victoria
April 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
snappyalligator.bsky.social
"I continue to teach my daughter not to smile or say thank you in the face of unwanted compliments. And if she is perceived as bad mannered, I’m OK with that. Men’s egos are no longer the priority. And what is? My daughter – discovering her own self-worth."
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
A moment that changed me: my 11-year-old daughter received an unwanted compliment – and I taught her how to respond
At a party, a man looked my child up and down in admiration, before praising her looks. I saw her visibly shrink. So I taught her the value of bad manners
www.theguardian.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
snappyalligator.bsky.social
‘We don’t have a cultural place for men as victims’: why men often don’t tell anyone about sexual abuse
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‘We don’t have a cultural place for men as victims’: why men often don’t tell anyone about sexual abuse
Men wait an average of 21 years before telling anyone they were sexually abused. A new study looks at why men often don’t disclose sexual abuse and assaults.
theconversation.com
March 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
snappyalligator.bsky.social
Same here, bin. Same here.
March 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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lexnetwork.bsky.social
Delighted to share that Gender & Justice has launched
genderandjustice.bsky.social Gender and Justice Journal @genderandjustice.bsky.social · Mar 4
We are absolutely delighted to bring you the 1st issue of Gender and Justice!
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
A HUGE thank you to all of the Authors, Reviewers & Editors who contributed to this issue
#GenderSky #GenderStudies @sharronfitz.bsky.social @lexnetwork.bsky.social
March 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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senthorun.bsky.social
FYI: @amnestyuk.bsky.social has launched an online course for folks who want to learn more about feminist and queer approaches to gender justice. It explores connections between human rights struggles (abortion, trans care, LGBT education, etc) and provides tools for action. It’s free to access!

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Gender Justice: Addressing Challenges - Online Course - FutureLearn
Defend human rights and advance gender justice by tackling discrimination and the anti-gender movement. Gain insights and actionable strategies from Amnesty International.
www.futurelearn.com
January 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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clembastow.bsky.social
"Payments like the Disability Support Pension (DSP) are reduced when a partner earns over $372 per fortnight and cease entirely at $1,516.40. This policy assumes all relationships are safe and equitable, but for many, this is not the case. [...] DSP pays just $24,636 annually" 🧵
clembastow.bsky.social Dr Ronni Googe, of the Mid Rim Network 🍉 @clembastow.bsky.social · Feb 12
Partner income testing denies the agency of disabled Australians and leaves them at risk of coercive control. Please sign and share this petition - it only needs another 3000 sigs, but the deadline is a week away.
lindathestar.bsky.social Dr Linda Kirkman @lindathestar.bsky.social · Feb 12
Yes, please let’s remove partner income testing from Centrelink payments. Petition here www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
Remember to check and confirm your email too
February 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM