Very much enjoying the CSA conference - I will be presenting in and chairing today's panel on "Contagions of Belief: Community, Conspiracy, and the Digital"
Thanks for tonight's inaugural lecture from @Greenhalgh_Jo who did the unthinkable and made methodologies fascinating! Love to see someone whose career has been shaped by so many meaningful collaborations with people across disciplines (as well as with family and friends)
Starmer is to announce a new fraud, error and debt bill to ‘modernise the DWP’.
This ie already covered by existing legislation.
It will terrify people and perpetuate the public’s misperception benefits fraud is a huge problem in this country.
Reminder: PIP fraud rate is 0%.
easy to look back on the last near-two decades of austerity and observe that it only made the economic situation for all but a small handful of the already-wealthiest population worse, but listen, what if we tried it again, forever?
This kind of smug, chortling derision sums up everything I loathe about the british establishment. I don’t expect these people to agree with her politically but the situation demands a modicum of respect and sympathy at the very least
“We are not going to let them divide us”
Heartwarming scenes in #Middlesbrough this morning as the community rallies together after the shocking disorder yesterday
Trans people and their advocates have been saying for years that transphobia will easily be weaponized against cis and intersex women who don't conform to trad femininity, threatening all women in the process. And that's exactly what is happening
Had a great first day in Amsterdam at #CSJConference24 and loved chairing the 1st panel on fans and anti-fans. About to present work with the brilliant @dr_claudia_c in fans and anti-fans 2. Time to explore snarking...
Home from a really productive (if hot) few days presenting and attending @ConsolePassions at Indiana University in Bloomington. I particularly loved the keynotes which have stuck with me in different ways #cpbloom