Claire Pierson
Senior Lecturer in Politics at University of Liverpool.
Reproductive politics and abortion rights activism.
liverpool.ac.uk/politics/research/r…
- Reposted by Claire PiersonDownload it also to read how Maja Gergoric and I argue that abortion is the core Croatian anti-gender issue and how it was used in the institutionalization of Croatian anti-gender movement!
- Download it today 4 free: Anti-Gender Mobilizations in the Post-Yugoslav Space. Hidden Connection, ed. by Roman Kuhar & Adriana Zaharijevic! Bragging rights: endorsements by Judith Butler, @ericfassin.bsky.social, Ruth Wodak & @kslootmaeckers.bsky.social :) link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
- Reposted by Claire PiersonWho takes notes and does the dishes for the revolution is a political matter. Look around you at your organizing meetings. If women are always the ones keeping minutes, assign a man. If women are always volunteering to get shit going, assign some men.
- I think @sarahjeong.bsky.social said it's because they devalue women's labor and a LOT of this Scary Logistics stuff comes from people who don't understand that basically all of the civic life they enjoy is created with the help of free labor, largely by women.
- Reposted by Claire PiersonMany friends asking what it is like in Minnesota right now. This video-clip tells. Masked men w/ guns in ordinary places (gas stations, grocery stores, cruising streets) intimidating ordinary people & instilling fear. As a terrorism expert, I think about the logic of government instilling fear.
- Reposted by Claire PiersonHappy Nollaig na mBan! Here's a piece celebrating some of Ireland's most interesting women, with a thread about each of them here: bsky.app/profile/ciar... Prints also available (currently on sale): www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
- First #MiniMná is Bernadette Devlin McAliskey - civil & human rights activist, shot by paramilitaries, clattered the Home Secretary when he said British soldiers on Bloody Sunday acted "in self-defence", and all-round legend. (There's a less cartoony print here www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...)
- Interview with Diane Munday on ongoing need for full decriminalisation of abortion www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
- Happy new year! Some good advice from The Guardian here www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
- Reposted by Claire PiersonSunday Sofa Activism 🛋️ Design Reclaim the Agenda's International Women’s Day 2026 poster! The theme for 2026 is ‘Strength in Solidarity. Open to ages 12-25, deadline 31 January 2026. Learn more: www.reclaimtheagenda.com/iwd-poster-c...
- Reposted by Claire Pierson⚡ Our @ccindle-eu.bsky.social book on ‘Anti-Gender Politics in Europe: A Literature Review of Seven Countries and the EU’ is out open access! Eds Elżbieta Korolczuk Andrea Krizsan⚡ We worked at the chapter on Spain with @ilheenk.bsky.social & @pcaravantes.bsky.social Access 👉 ccindle.org/ebooks/
- Reposted by Claire PiersonDelighted about this - Humanitarian Scholarship in our department at MRes level . Palestinian eligibility. please share www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a... #gaza #palestine #humanitarian #irish #masters #academia
- The abortion pill is a revolution 'A Global Telehealth First: Women Help Women Begins Producing Abortion Pill Combipack' msmagazine.com/2025/12/14/g...
- Reposted by Claire PiersonWe are delighted to share the programme for our upcoming conference! We will be running fourteen panels across two days in early February - all online and open to everyone 😊 please see our website for more details on speakers, panels and how to book.
- Reposted by Claire Pierson#OnThisDay, 11 Dec 1983, tens of thousands of women take part in 'reflect the base' at Greenham Common, UK. They encircle the 9 mile fence of the nuclear missile base, tearing it down in at least one place. Hundreds of women are arrested. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️ 1/2
- Stockholm in mezzotint, a copper plate etching technique
- Reposted by Claire Pierson“On average, Israeli weapons now kill seven people a day. That rate of violent death would be considered an active conflict in many other contexts, raising questions about how accurately “ceasefire” describes the new status quo.” www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
- Reposted by Claire PiersonJustyna Faszcza highlighted the consequences of one of Europe’s most restrictive systems: “We have lost Izabela, Dorota, Justyna and others. Criminalisation forces women to travel abroad, and only those who can afford it are safe. ‘My Voice My Choice’ offers dignity, equality, and real support.”
- Reposted by Claire Pierson‘Hope on small scales’: Women’s Troubles book explores gender and feminist politics in post-Agreement #NorthernIreland Read our article by Jessica HADDEN 👉 sharedfuture.news/hope-on-smal... @centreforgender.bsky.social @clairepierson.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social @mhairiclaire.bsky.social
- Reposted by Claire Piersonbrilliant conversation on feminist activism and gender politics celebrating @clairepierson.bsky.social new book with @mhairiclaire.bsky.social @frecklescorp.bsky.social @centreforgender.bsky.social
- Lovely to launch my book this evening at Queens Belfast @centreforgender.bsky.social thanks to everyone who came along and to @drdeiana.bsky.social @frecklescorp.bsky.social @mhairiclaire.bsky.social for organising and commentary 💚 @manchesterup.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social
- Belfast book launch today! 📚
- We invite you to join us next Friday, 28th November, to celebrate the launch of Dr Claire Pierson's new book "Women's Troubles". Dr Claire Pierson (University of Liverpool) will be in conversation with Dr Emma Campbell (UU) and Mhairi Claire Lynch (QUB). www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/womens-tro...
- Reposted by Claire PiersonThe 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an international campaign that kicks off on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women & runs until Human Rights Day. Over the 16 Days Reclaim the Agenda will be sharing Blogs www.reclaimtheagenda.com/16-blogs-for...
- We dream of our freedom, Lou Miller @thebluecoat.bsky.social Liverpool
- Join us in Belfast @centreforgender.bsky.social next Friday 28th 4-6pm for launch of Women's Troubles @frecklescorp.bsky.social @drdeiana.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/womens-tro...
- Reposted by Claire PiersonRandom musings on joy in academia (from my personal point of view) - i.e. is it possible, what is it worth, does it matter? open.substack.com/pub/rachelle...
- Reposted by Claire PiersonThe High Court in Malawi has ruled that survivors of sexual violence can access abortion care. Women's groups are working to ensure all women and girls can access safe abortion care, despite opposition from religious groups. Learn more: www.dw.com/en/its-women...
- Reposted by Claire PiersonThe European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Poland violated the rights of a pregnant woman who had to travel abroad to obtain an abortion after her foetus was diagnosed with a birth defect.
- Reposted by Claire PiersonThank you to everyone who attended Dr Claire Pierson’s 📖 launch this afternoon and celebrated her long awaited text ‘Women’s Troubles: Gender and feminist politics in post-Agreement Northern Ireland’. It is now available with @manchesterup.bsky.social ! @clairepierson.bsky.social
- Reposted by Claire PiersonWe will host @clairepierson.bsky.social's 📘 launch this Wednesday (12 November) 3:30-5pm The launch will take place in 126 Mount Pleasant Room 113. Join Pierson and Professor Liz Evans (University of Southampton) for a conversation on contemporary feminist and gender politics:
- Fantastic weekend taking about abortion, creative methods and making our own embroideries and prints. First time I've been drawn on a panel!
- Was prehistory a feminist paradise? www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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- Reposted by Claire PiersonHow do feminist movements develop and organise in ethno-nationally divided societies? How does this challenge our understandings of fourth wave feminism? 🎧 Claire Pierson discusses feminism, Northern Ireland, and her book Women's Troubles with @NewBooksNetwork👇
- Reposted by Claire PiersonThe Alliance Defending Freedom, an American conservative christian group, is organising in the UK. This group aims to roll back abortion rights in the UK, and is using politicians such as Nigel Farage to gain traction. This must be opposed at every level. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
- Reposted by Claire PiersonI wrote about my five days in Israeli prison for the LRB. Remember with every paragraph that this is the cosseted version of the experience; it is infinitely worse for Palestinians www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
- Reposted by Claire PiersonCongratulations to Dr Sarah Elmammeri, our former PhD candidate and the winner of the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of ExcellenceDoctoral Thesis Prize.Her lecture titled ‘Between Layers of Borders: Reflecting on EU Policies and Asylum Seekers’ reflects the very best of our PhD student scholarship.
- Reposted by Claire Pierson‘My heart is broken’: Palestinians begin searching the Gaza rubble for their dead. Using manual tools and their bare hands, people start the immense task of trying to find their loved ones’ remains. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
- Reposted by Claire PiersonThe right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage. Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
- Book launches! 🚨Women's Troubles will be launched in Liverpool on 12th November in conversation with Prof Liz Evans, and Belfast @centreforgender.bsky.social on 28th November (details to follow). Liverpool launch: www.ticketsource.co.uk/claire-piers... @livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social
- She lives! My book published by @manchesterup.bsky.social ‘Women’s Troubles: Gender and Feminist Politics in Northern Ireland.’ Cover image kindly provided by @frecklescorp.bsky.social of her work ‘The Slapper’ www.emmacampbell.co.uk/emma-campbell @livunipol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social
- Carrots that are too beautiful to cook
- The @livunihss.bsky.social AHRC-funded ‘Crafting Care’ Doctoral Focal College is accepting applications for 2026. EOI due by 1st Dec. I am keen to supervise a project on the politics of abortion care. Get in touch with your project idea! www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... @livunipol.bsky.social
- For anyone in the Liverpool area, we are hosting a conversation and hands-on workshop on abortion rights and creative methods as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science - come join us! Sign up here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/claire-piers... @livunihss.bsky.social @livunipol.bsky.social
- And sign up for workshop here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/claire-piers...
- Reposted by Claire PiersonThinking of Sarah. @simonharrisireland.bsky.social must intervene.
- Reposted by Claire PiersonAccess to safe abortion is a matter of health, rights, and equality. The UK has made the top 10, but at 73% we're a whole 21% behind the leader! Where does your country stand? 🗺️ 🔗 Check the @epfsrr.bsky.social Abortion Atlas to find out: www.epfweb.org/node/1156 #abortionatlas
- Reposted by Claire Pierson📣🏳️⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.
- Reposted by Claire PiersonToday, Canada became the first G7 nation to recognise the State of Palestine, as Prime Minister Mark Carney promised "a peaceful future for both the State of Palestine and the State of Israel." (1/3)
- Reposted by Claire PiersonGermany’s abortion law dates back to 1871, and despite reforms over the decades, it remains a criminal offence. Now, as the fight to remove §218 continues, patients and providers in Berlin are pushing for access that treats abortion as essential healthcare.
- Reposted by Claire PiersonUrsula von der Leyen: [T]he events in Gaza and the suffering of children and families “has shaken the conscience of the world.” “Man-made famine can never be a weapon of war. For the sake of the children, for the sake of humanity. This must stop”.
- Reposted by Claire PiersonJoin us next week for a free online two-day conference on global 'anti-gender' politics, hosted by the University of Brighton, featuring keynote @reproutopia.bsky.social! ❤️🔥 Starts at 09:30 GMT on Thursday 11 September. Further info ⤵️
- Reposted by Claire PiersonSunday Sofa Activism. WRDA is carrying out research on the role of firearms in VAWG in Northern Ireland. If you are comfortable sharing your experience anonymously, please complete the survey at the link: www.wrda.net/blog/wrda-is... Support Services: www.raiseyourvoice.community/helpadvice
- Jenny Saville at the National Portrait Gallery is the best exhibition I've seen this year
- Reposted by Claire PiersonI want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
- Reposted by Claire Pierson100 Women's Rights Organisations, including @rapecrisis.bsky.social, @refugecharity.bsky.social, & @evawuk.bsky.social have signed a letter warning that attempts to link rape & violence against women & girls to immigration is a racist distraction. They urge the govt to address dangerous narrative
- Exactly this
- Reposted by Claire PiersonThe Trump administration has removed reproductive rights from its annual human rights report, omitting critical data about abortion, access to contraception, freedom from discrimination & coercion in health care, & maternal health. This is a CLEAR attempt to sweep human rights abuses under the rug.
- Reposted by Claire PiersonJoint Statement by Australia, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/joint-s...
- Reposted by Claire PiersonPalestinian journalist Anas Jamal Al-Sharif was killed along with four Al Jazeera colleagues in an Israeli air strike "This is my will and my final message. If these words of mine reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice." www.opendemocracy.net/en/gaza-jour...
- Reposted by Claire Pierson“Gender studies as a discipline…is defined by a set of debates and problematics.” In this 10-Minute Talk, Judith Butler FBA discusses gender as a field of study and its interdisciplinary contributions to research, social analysis and social movements. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...
- Reposted by Claire PiersonBy contemporary US artist Martha Rich #WomensArt
- Love going through my sketchbooks at the end of the semester - these are mostly acrylic ink, some watercolour and pencil
- Reposted by Claire Pierson"B’Tselem warns that Israel is already replicating its patterns of destruction and annihilation, currently being implemented in Gaza, in the West Bank as well – albeit on a smaller scale – and that there is a real risk the genocide will spread beyond the Gaza Strip." www.btselem.org/press_releas...
- Reposted by Claire PiersonWhy I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟
- Reposted by Claire Pierson2 in 5 arrested over last summer’s riots had been reported for domestic abuse
- Reposted by Claire PiersonIn Greenland Danish doctors fitted IUDs in thousands of young Inuit girls throughout the 1960's. They were placed without explanation or consent, with some victims barely teenagers. Watch this investigative piece to learn more: www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/...
