Ruth Fletcher
Feminist legal academic interested in reproducing life otherwise at Queen Mary University of London, and elsewhere | #Repealedthe8th | Co-chair, Abortion Support Network | Branch committee, QMUCU | Leverhulme Research Fellow
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- Tomorrow! Daanika’s work on excavating the legal scripts of domestic violence in Pakistan, based on extensive fieldwork, has so much to teach us all about the legal reproduction of gendered violence and legal gate-keeping of knowledge Proud of our @qmschooloflaw.bsky.social graduates always
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- Just at the historical moment British universities were becoming more live to their communities, as first generation students and staff made them anew, they are instead being lost as spaces of collective knowledge-generation through failure to fund them as public infrastructure
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- Tomorrow at QMUL!
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- Reposted by Ruth FletcherThe people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The first time a city's population has ever been nominated. www.newsweek.com/minneapolis-...
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- Agreed. An all too rare example of a university leadership decision I can get behind
- This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
- Reposted by Ruth Fletcher“We can think about the restructuring of the global economy to remove ... dependence, not just from foreign tourist industries but offshore financial centres & tax havens” — Kojo Koram Explore our visual project on the Caribbean: https://visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org
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- Reposted by Ruth FletcherDevastatingly sad. Every Labour MP should be forced to read this. In fact, every MP, who rushed back to Parliament to vote to save one steel mill, whilst hastening the collapse of dozens of universities - and harming the students, staff, communities and economies universities sustain and support
- Reposted by Ruth Fletcher'As the regulator for all higher education providers in England, the outcome of the challenge against the OfS will have far-reaching implications for its ability to enforce freedom of speech and academic freedom at universities.' Abolish the OfS, the metastisising cancer of English HE.
- Solidarity with staff at Sheffield who are facing similar brutalising pay deductions for ASOS to those we have experienced @qmucu.bsky.social Punishing staff with 💯 pay deductions on days they are working but protecting their rights to take industrial action says a lot about failing uni leadership!
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- Reposted by Ruth Fletcher400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close. This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it. 📍 Southend rally | 5 February
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- Reposted by Ruth FletcherCheck out our website for the Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire research network! The network brings together a wide range of scholars engaged in the praxis of embedding the teaching of race, colonialism and empire into their work. sites.google.com/view/critica...
- Reposted by Ruth FletcherOn 1 February 1979, The Guardian first reported on the gynaecological examinations conducted by UK border control officials upon South Asian women. Often called ‘virginity testing’, we wrote this article on the Home Office archival records on this practice. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- Reposted by Ruth FletcherEpstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
- Reposted by Ruth FletcherAfter seven and a half years of weekly parenting columns for the Observer, today's will be my last. I started writing the column a few weeks before becoming a dad, so I've never parented without it. I'll miss it more than I express in words, but I had a go anyway. observer.co.uk/news/columni...
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- Reposted by Ruth FletcherI will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
- Today, Luke Farrell (@lukef.bsky.social) explains how complex eligibility requirements have turned America’s safety net into a lucrative revenue stream for monopolistic private contractors.
- Reposted by Ruth FletcherCorporations are extracting billions from America’s safety net and their payday is about to be supercharged by new rules. I lay out how programs like Medicaid have become vulnerable to corporate capture and what we need to build to stop it. @lpeblog.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/the-mea...
- Reposted by Ruth FletcherThe week in review: Edie Conekin-Tooze on hidden foster care as neoliberal family governance, an open letter from seventy-two UMN law faculty, and @lukef.bsky.social on the means-testing industrial complex. Plus, as always, the best of LPE from around the web 🧵👇
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- abortionsupport.org.uk/product/lcxa... Get your abortion-supporting t-shirt here as we at ASN welcome Imbolc / Spring with goddess / st Brigid on February 1! Ireland’s first known abortionist working with the magic of reproductive bodies, and making loving fertile worlds possible :)
- Reposted by Ruth Fletcherbrass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
- Reposted by Ruth FletcherThousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky
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- Reposted by Ruth FletcherHumane and sensible step move by Spain in facilitating irregular migrants and asylum seekers to move to work with decent pay, social security and tax payments. Predictably the right is grumbling - unlike the UK, the govt isn’t allowing this to set their policies www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
- Reposted by Ruth FletcherDespite a nominal ceasefire, Israel has carried out some of its deadliest airstrikes on Gaza in months, killing at least 30 Palestinians, some of whom were sheltering in tent cities for displaced people www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
- ‘We hope this never happens to another family again’ Emmanuel Nkencho in response to the narrative verdict on the Garda killing of his brother five years ago
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- Reposted by Ruth FletcherI’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
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- Reposted by Ruth FletcherI wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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- Reposted by Ruth FletcherWe've just launched the Trans Unity Quilt Project, a campaign by and for trans people across the UK to bring joy and hope by making a quilt that will stretch over 50m long 🎨 Make your own patch 👇 goodlawproject.org/campaign/the...
- Reposted by Ruth FletcherFor my upcoming book's final entry, I want to examine the claim that "the gender binary is colonial", which depends a lot on the scholarship of Maria Lugones and Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí. So let's take a closer look at their work, shall we?
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- Reposted by Ruth FletcherProtesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.
