Human rights and migration, gender, sexuality. She/her. London / Bangkok.
The Times corrects its splash story headlined "Migrant care workers bring dozens of family members." The Times got this totally wrong. It then used its own error as the basis for an editorial calling explicitly for forced expulsions of people living here legally. www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...
“Racism is good and policy should be designed to reflect that principle,” couched in euphemism, is an acceptable opinion in the anglosphere leadership class but “racism is bad and policy should be designed to reflect that principle” is wokeness gone amok and unacceptable bsky.app/profile/okwo...
Musa OkwongaThe editor in chief of The Economist referring here to the AfD’s leader as a “perfectly thoughtful person“ instead of what she truly is - a driver and enabler of German fascism - is a huge part of the problem.
“Every single person who marched today is proof that we are not going anywhere, that our joy is louder than their hate, and that London Trans+ Pride will keep fighting, keep loving and keep growing until every trans person is safe, seen, and free.” Solidarity with all marching for trans justice. 🏳️⚧️
150,000 march through London in world’s largest trans pride, organisers sayProtesters voiced anger at the new guidance on single sex-spaces and fears that trans people are being excluded from society.www.thenational.scot
Excellent piece by @jdportes.bsky.social “Chasing net migration targets does not defeat the politics of racialised grievance. It may legitimate it.” For too long a relatively meaningless but fetishised measure has been a platform for dog whistling
East Anglia BylinesNet migration has fallen from 944,000 to 171,000. Yet that headline conceals major movements in both directions – including substantial emigration by British and EU+ nationals. So, asks Jonathan Portes, what exactly is the problem people want politicians to solve?
The whole point of the original policy (which was and is terrible) was to target exactly this group. And now they’re going to introduce the policy and exempt them? Just abandon the policy! The whole thing is just a terrible idea.
Immigration Bot"Exclusive: Andy Burnham thought to be considering waiving stricter right to remain rules for people already working in the sectorHundreds of thousands of care workers could be exempted from the home secretary’s plans to toughen up the immigration system under proposals being…" — The Guardian
Information sharing with the Home Office results in victims of modern slavery, wage theft, trafficking, domestic violence, and other serious crimes being afraid to come forward. No one should be prioritising brutalising migrants over the prevention of real and organised crimes.
Simon ParkerBBC News - Green-led council 'won't assist immigration raids' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Moria refugee camp made it to all the newspapers when, in the summer of 2020, it was burned to the ground. What happened to the hotspot of Lesvos after it disappeared from the spotlight? This article reveals that violence, pushbacks and isolation still affect people on the move today.
On Lesvos, the architecture of migration deterrence laid bareOur editor returns to what was once the main gateway to the EU for refugees to see what has changed and what it says about efforts to stop migration.www.thenewhumanitarian.org
Thinking about a paper idea I tossed around with my office mate in grad school about fatphobia as a fundamental cause of disease. If it constrains access to resources (jobs, partnerships, medical procedures or research) it may fit the bill.
NBERGLP-1-induced weight loss increases single women's partnership rates by 29 percentage points and non-employed women's employment rates by 27 percentage points after 1.5+ years, from Rebecca Diamond www.nber.org/papers/w35387
Increasingly clear we're only in charge because the orcas can't be arsed with the admin tbh
AFP News AgencyKiller whales: orcas blow fish to bits, study finds. US-based NGO Beneath The Waves video shows an orca holding the tail of a sunfish, while another whale charges with full force into the already dead fish, which explodes into pieces – possibly to create bite-sized chunks u.afp.com/SrPj
Displacement wouldn’t stop without the Refugee Convention; it would simply become more chaotic and unstable, writes @profjmcadam.bsky.social theconversation.com/at-a-time-of...
At a time of harder borders and ‘ruthless’ rhetoric, the Refugee Convention is more important than everCritics claim the groundbreaking treaty, which turns 75 this month, is no longer fit for purpose. Without it, however, there would be chaos.theconversation.com
1. In an incredible new landmark review, the Health Council of the Netherlands has declared that gender-affirming care for trans youth works, reducing wait times is "morally urgent," and regret is rare. It is the latest of many Euro countries to advance care. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding TreatmentThe review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.www.erininthemorning.com
Would scarcely be the first time the Home Office’s deranged priorities are preventing much-needed social improvements, which is another reason why re-appointing an immigration ultra as Home Secretary is such a disaster for us all
Steve PeersThere's a Home Office-sized obstacle in the way of ending rough sleeping
Keeping Mahmood in post is the more electorally meaningful decision, but letting Phillipson keep Equalities is the maddest one. You have already decided to make an enemy of her by taking away her main job, but then you decide to piss off everybody on the socially liberal side of Labour? Why?
🚨 Bridget Phillipson remains as the Minister for Women and Equalities After FWS Phillipson publicly stated that trans women should use men's toilets. She recently signed into force harmful & discriminatory statutory guidance which will devastate trans lives. Suggests no change re. trans rights.
Ed Miliband: “My parents came here as Jewish refugees fleeing from the Nazis, and for them, Britain provided sanctuary and a beacon of hope in the fight against fascism”, adding that he would "carry that spirit, their spirit, into my work as foreign secretary". Have a word with Ms Mahmood, please