Thom Giddens

Critical, comics, and cultural legal scholar and enjoyer of geek culture. Lecturer @LawDundee. (Follow @LexComica for Graphic Justice.)

[Thom Giddens @ThomGiddens]

Peer reviewers are calling it "masterful" and "publishable with minor corrections". Check out my latest paper, "Institution and Abyss", on the foundations of institutional form: https://t.co/qORuiCtzwc @LawTechHum @LawDundee @LexComica

[Thom Giddens @ThomGiddens]

Hello @maddiemoate and @gregfoot ! We made a garden gym, inspire by Let's Go Live! Just discovered your archive of excellent streams which the boys are ploughing through. :-)

[Thom Giddens @ThomGiddens]

@yjerden @GreeneRobison Yes! Also Timothy Peters's work, and there is lots generally on sovereignty, legitimacy, imperialism, etc. Neal Curtis (eg Supers and Contradictions of Sov) and Chris Gavaler (eg Imperial Superhero), amongst others. Sheena Howard is good way in to race and representation stuff

[Thom Giddens @ThomGiddens]

If striking hasn't worked so far (years of strikes, but the issues haven't changed), is more striking the best move? Just wondering if there are alternatives to doubling down on the same strategy... #UCUstrike

[HedgehogsandFoxes @HedgehogsFoxes]

New From Routledge: Thom Giddens, Judgment: New Trajectories in Law (2022) @ThomGiddens @routledgebooks – Hedgehogs and Foxes https://t.co/SZSxLs0EHl via @HedgehogsFoxes

[Thom Giddens @ThomGiddens]

@yvetterusse11 I have been to the tip like 8 times while on strike (felt, cardboard, turf, mattresses... all of my own labour I have not had time for). Hadn't realised it was capitalism therapy! But there is certainly lots to discard.

[Le Dog @ledog.bsky.social @the3dge0fSan1ty]

Beat this @StrathclydeUCU @UCU_HWUBranch
#ImmodestBuffet
🍕🍕
@dejanstjepanov1 @ucu_solidarity @UCUScotland @DucuUo

[Deirdre Duffy @dnduffy]

@manmetucu @dugganjr @UM_UCU @ucu crowd is all behind #FourFights #UCUstrike

[UCU @ucu]

24 universities collectively amassed a £2.2bn surplus in 2020-21

Yet they claim they can only afford to offer staff a 1.5% pay rise and have to cut pensions

We're striking because universities have the money to treat staff properly, but they choose not to

#OneOfUsAllOfUs

[Le Dog @ledog.bsky.social @the3dge0fSan1ty]

We’re barking mad about pay gaps, casualisation, unmanageable workloads, real-terms pay cuts and pension theft on the @DucuUo picket line this morning.
@UCUScotland @ucu_solidarity #DogsOnPicketLines #UcuStrike #FourFights #OneOfUsAllOfUs

[SOAS UCU @UCUSOAS]

🚨 Students! Want to help end the pensions strike? Tell your VCs to support the @ucu proposals!

The UUK consultation of member unis ends tomorrow, so the time to act is NOW!

See the video from @UCUSOAS below, and please share widely #USSmess #OneOfUsAllOfUs ✊

[Martha Gibbons @MarthaEGibbons]

My reply to @EdinburghUni Principal & Vice-Chancellor's underwhelming response (see thread) to students supporting staff industrial action. It's just not good enough and staff deserve better ✊🏻 @ucuedinburgh @sssn_edi #StudentsSupportTheStrike

[Thom Giddens @ThomGiddens]

@yvetterusse11 There is a typo in your tweet: you don't need the "my".

[UoDUCU is pure raging #Savethe632 @DucuUo]

The cake of solidarity- when in Dundee. It was by all accounts glorious! Thanks to @AndyrewScotland for baking. Big shout to the person who delivered cakes- not sure who you were but they were great. @UCUSPresident @ucu_solidarity

[Thom Giddens @ThomGiddens]

@ruawall Guy Fawkes?

[Newcastle University UCU newcastleucu.bsky.social @NewcastleUniUCU]

Today's comic is about WAGES...
Our wages have seen real life decreases of 20% over the past 10 years. Meanwhile our VC's pay has seen a 20.6% INCREASE since 2015...

[Le Dog @ledog.bsky.social @the3dge0fSan1ty]

Why not show us some #love (or at least some #respect) on #ValentinesDay @UniversitiesUK ?
Stop stealing our #pensions!
#USS #PensionTheft #solidarity #USSStrike #UCUstrikes
@DucuUo @ucu_solidarity @UCUScotland @ucu

[Dr Rebecca Gordon @DrRebeccaGordon]

What she said versus what ⁦@BBCNews⁩ chose as a headline

[UCU @ucu]

“Things can’t go on like this. Not for staff or students. We all deserve better from a sector that can afford better. That’s why our picket lines are the frontline of the fight for higher education’s future.”

Read @DrJoGrady in @TheTimes👇
https://t.co/nSuEaSVVrM

[UCU Anti-Casualisation Committee @UCUAnti_Cas]

#WhyWeAreStriking: The FACTS. 🧵

67% of researchers are employed on casualised fixed term contracts.