LondonFeministAcademicCollective

London-based feminist academic collective. Organising feminist activities, supporting women in academia.

[LondonFeministAcademicCollective @LondonFemAC]

We are a group of London based female academics, students and university staff that are championing feminism in academic spaces. (1/8)

[Prof Jo Phoenix @JoPhoenix1]

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Still working on that blog about hate crime and hate studies. I've been fascinated about how academics can defend claims that are both empirically and methodologically weak. Empirically weak because if there was as much trans hate crime as they claim we within the criminological community would 'see' it in everyday policing and justice matters. Methodologically weak because 'counting' hate crime of any variety is beset with horrendous problems. Then I stumbled on this one page and all became clear. Take studies and arguments from other countries, other jurisdictions, collected for other purposes (all of which have their own problems with methodology) and treat the claims as though they are universal truths.

First rule of crime data - it is shaped by the laws, policing policies, criminal justice system and politics of that country. Eg data about prostitution from USA cannot be combined with data from UK. In USA selling sex is a crime. In UK it is not. Similarly, stats about hate crime against LGB as well as T from USA cannot be added to UK because American sexual politics are different and in many places in USA there is little to no tolerance of lesbians, gays, bisexuals much less trans ppl.

Please do take the time to read this page of text. It jumps from USA to EU to England to 27 EU and Croatia back to USA and moves from trans to LGBT.

The devil (and academic weakness) is in the detail - in this case it's all about the references and understanding what can and cannot be argued on the basis of the refs used.

[LondonFeministAcademicCollective @LondonFemAC]

Censoring (including self-censoring) research is terrible for researchers, for patients, and for the public. We need to create a climate that allows honest pursuit of knowledge. https://t.co/wRjPzE5LPA

[Maya Forstater @MForstater]

Like everyone else who has spoken up and paid a price, I'm wondering what the colleagues who tried to destroy my reputation to protect their own are thinking today. I'm sure no one will ever say "we were wrong" or "I'm sorry" to any of us.

[Dr. Jane Clare Jones @janeclarejones]

In 1986, Judith Butler wrote an essay on 'Sex and Gender in Simone de Beauvoir's Second Sex.'

In this essay she made a number of claims that were going to end up changing human history.

She claimed that the 'female body was the arbitrary locus of the gender woman.'

That Beauvoir's 'One is not born but becomes woman' was intended as an expression of an agential or voluntaristic account of gender.

And that gender should be understood as a 'project' in the existential sense, that is, that is should be understood as a primary way humans make meaning about themselves and the world.

All of this was conceptual bullshit.

But today, perhaps above all, we should remember that teaching young people to interpret all their turmoil about who they are and what they hope to become through the lens of 'gender,' and then tying that to potentially irreversible interventions on their bodies, is a very very very harmful thing to have done.

[Professor Alice Sullivan @ProfAliceS]

#CassReview https://t.co/cYX1TcFH9w

A lack of accurate and systematic data collection harms vulnerable people.

This should never have happened in the NHS.

[Prof Jo Phoenix @JoPhoenix1]

Please RT

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April 24th, Christchurch Canterbury.

If you are in the area, sign up. If you were a supporter to my crowdjustice fund, please come and introduce yourself afterwards so that I can thank you personally.

https://t.co/GBj3vXIzCb

[LondonFeministAcademicCollective @LondonFemAC]

Freedom of speech must be protected in the universities across the world. This includes feminist discourse and research, no matter how offensive some students might find it.

[REDUXX @reduxx]

Trans activists stormed a lecture at Complutense University in Spain today, shouting down the speakers and bringing the event to an end.

The talk had been on violence against women and featured Marcela Lagarde, a Mexican femicide researcher.

[LondonFeministAcademicCollective @LondonFemAC]

LFAC are spending the day at the @CanSG_org conference #FirstDoNoHarm having the honour of listening to Sonia Appleby discuss organisational failure - at GIDS, the Tavistock, The NHS - and we are seeing the same in our Universities.

Listen, learn, and get back to the truth

[LondonFeministAcademicCollective @LondonFemAC]

Registered - really looking forward to this

[Edinburgh Academics for Academic Freedom @EdinUniAFAF]

What a fantastic programme - well worth making the effort to get there if you can. "In this half-day event, we will discuss and debate some key issues and current challenges around free speech and academic freedom from a multi-disciplinary viewpoint." https://t.co/yFKZRw1Zfr

[LondonFeministAcademicCollective @LondonFemAC]

@MaJacksonx2 Here's the link: https://t.co/aA6KFEvbFv

[LondonFeministAcademicCollective @LondonFemAC]

Join us this Wednesday at 6.30 UK time on our webinar about the past, present and future of academic feminism.

[LondonFeministAcademicCollective @LondonFemAC]

📣 This Women’s History Month, join us for the launch of LFAC’s webinar series as Prof Jo Phoenix (@JoPhoenix1), Dr Rose Rickford, and an anonymous PhD student discuss how to centre women in academia.

https://t.co/E8dlD3IUqh

[Jill Foster @JournalistJill]

Small gesture of personal support but after interviewing @DrLauraFavaro about her appalling treatment by @CityUniLondon, I’m asking them to take my name off their alumni list. No wish to be associated with an institution that can treat women like this…

https://t.co/c0m3bZPE9I

[LondonFeministAcademicCollective @LondonFemAC]

It was our privilege to chat with you and the other panelists about academic feminism. Thank you!

[Prof Jo Phoenix @JoPhoenix1]

I am extremely grateful to @LondonFemAC for the invitation to talk and chat with Anonymous Student and Dr Rose Rickford.

Necessarily - because of the jobs I have been doing for the many years (including the ET), I have not been able to catch up with academics just starting and Phd students and other students in terms of feminism.

I got a real insight tonight into the incredible passion and interest in feminism in the 21st century in the academy. So many such very intelligent women. I look forward to more conversations and to learning from @LondonFemAC about what it is like to be a feminist in Universities today.

[LondonFeministAcademicCollective @LondonFemAC]

We had a wonderful discussion with Prof. Jo Phoenix (@JoPhoenix1 ), Dr Rose Rickford and a PhD student about academic feminism. You can watch it here: https://t.co/mg38q3uZwj

[LondonFeministAcademicCollective @LondonFemAC]

@JoanFeminist @JoPhoenix1 This was recorded and will be up soon - keep an eye on our twitter for updates asap

[LondonFeministAcademicCollective @LondonFemAC]

📣 This Women’s History Month, join us for the launch of LFAC’s webinar series as Prof Jo Phoenix (@JoPhoenix1), Dr Rose Rickford, and an anonymous PhD student discuss how to centre women in academia.

https://t.co/E8dlD3IUqh

[LondonFeministAcademicCollective @LondonFemAC]

100 tickets sold! Thank you all for your interest, see you at 6.30 today.

[LondonFeministAcademicCollective @LondonFemAC]

📣 This Women’s History Month, join us for the launch of LFAC’s webinar series as Prof Jo Phoenix (@JoPhoenix1), Dr Rose Rickford, and an anonymous PhD student discuss how to centre women in academia.

https://t.co/E8dlD3IUqh

[LondonFeministAcademicCollective @LondonFemAC]

…Rickford who knows exactly why women’s voices matter. Join us online, and for free at 6:30. Please share with as many students as you possibly can

https://t.co/E8dlD3IUqh

[LondonFeministAcademicCollective @LondonFemAC]

Women are being silenced if they dare talk about what matters - about our sex - and the impact of gender ideology. Tomorrow night we will be speaking with an anonymous PhD student who is being silenced, as well as @JoPhoenix1 who stood up to the bullies, and Dr Rose…

[John Armstrong @johnarmstrong5]

I have been told by two female science PhD students at KCL that they do not feel able to talk about gender till they have permanent jobs.

The UCU approach exploits precarity. This is why it is the tenured who predominantly dare support AF publicly.

[Dr. Jane Clare Jones @janeclarejones]

Free online webinar tomorrow evening on the future of academic feminism!