If you consider yourself to be one of the first people in your family/care setting to be studying at University you are invited to come to our welcome event for First Generation Scholars. This is on Wednesday Oct 9th, (2-3.30pm, Manley Room, IHRR). Tea, coffee & cake available!

A year on w/ grief, rage, & compassion, we recommit to defending against misuse & abuse of antisemitism & Holocaust memory to shut political dissent. We reaffirm our solidarity w/ the struggles 4 liberation, dignity & safety of all Palestinians, Israelis, & Jews around the world

Everyone - LGBTQI+ folk, friends & allies from across our staff and student communities - is welcome to attend  the first of our termly departmental LGBTQI+ Coffee and Cake Gatherings. This will be on Wednesday October 23rd, 2-3.30pm (Manley Room, IHRR building).

today, as every day, important to remember that no life is brought back through the taking of another. no family’s suffering, pain or anguish is lessened by inflicting it on another. you cannot bomb your way to peace and escalate your way to stability.

We're hearing increasing reports of GPs refusing to prescribe HRT for trans people, even when they have a letter from an NHS gender clinic. If this happens to you or has happened to you in the past year let us know: tinyurl.com/TransActualHRT #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary

OnlineFirst - "Viral ecologies: Resurgent nature, COVID-19 and the discourse of transgender contagion" by @Sage_Brice and Felix McNulty: Geography at Durham Durham University #transecologies #environmentaljustice #nature #posthumanistthought #coronavirus journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Do you know the best thing I’ve been able to do for my mental health today? Turn the heating on. This should be an unthinking option for everyone when they are cold.

The horrific scenes unfolding in Jabalia, and northern Gaza must stop.   An entire population is being encircled and forced out, with nowhere for them to go. My statement:

UKJAN holds as a core value the principles of 'safety in solidarity': all struggles for dignity and liberation are linked. Freedom for one group cannot be meaningfully achieved at the expense of another. 1/4

Hundreds of salmon are now spawning in Klamath River tributaries above the 4 recently dismantled dams for the first time 60 & 112 years. It is exciting and bodes well for the future. Still, it will take several years for fish runs to recover & there is still much more work to do.

Rachel Reeves and Liz Kendal have made a poor decision sticking with Conservative plans to change the work capability assessment. As the OBR says, cutting £260 from incomes of the sick and disabled is not likely to help them into work.

Settling into my new post, I am now looking for potential PhD candidates interested in digital geographies, politics of refusal, urban interventions and/or geographical theory. Funding applications would be made to the South Coast DTP. Get in touch. thomasdekeyser.com/phd-supervision

This one is now out in print. It’s still free to read from doi.org/10.1177/251484… and with the current onslaught on #transhealthcare and #transrights it feels more relevant from one day to the next. looking forward to the day this feels obsolete…

RGS-IBG 2025, Birmingham, UK Geographies of Trans Creativity CFP: sagebrice.wordpress.com/wp-content/upl…

Looking forward to convening this session with Silvia Hassouna - Call for Papers: Speculative Ecologies, RGS-IBG 2025, Birmingham, UK sagebrice.wordpress.com/wp-content/upl…

Abstracts are already coming in for this exciting collaborative session on Speculative Ecologies, with Silvia Hassouna at RGS-IBG 2025, Birmingham, UK. We’re looking forward to reading yours!

Extended deadline 24 February! CfP Geographies of Trans Creativity, RGS 2025, Birmingham, UK. Excited to co-convene with the wonderful Ed Kiely and Ezgi Yılmaz