Emma Pritchard
Queering justice and human rights • LGBTIAQ storytelling • currently found phd-ing, playing with comms for humanitarian organisations, and probably drinking a cup of tea
🏳️🌈 she/they• #TransRightsAreHumanRights
- Two exciting events with Queer Intersections Oxford coming next week: 📆 Thursday 12th Feb 3.30pm, a seminar w/@matthewwaites.bsky.social on their chapter in their forthcoming co-edited book Colonialisms and Queer Politics. Join us for a discussion on sexualities and genders under the British Empire
- Positive: I was absolutely right in thinking that 'Braiding Sweetgrass' would be a great birthday present for my sister. Negative: I was so correct, she already owns it. ... ah well, late birthday present it is.
- Also featuring my first solo authored paper presenting an index of LGBTIQ+ inclusion and agency in truth commissions - you should check it out: academic.oup.com/ia/article/1... (I did a thing!)
- Our first issue of the year is OUT NOW‼️ This issue features research articles on topics such as 'America First', Latin American migration governance, and Syria's future, policy papers on the UN's role in peace and conflict, and 25 book reviews.📚 👉 Read the issue: academic.oup.com/ia/issue/102/1
- Apropos of the BBC front page: The right to free speech means you can (within limits) say what you want to say and the *government* can't stop you. It doesn't mean others can't protest what you're saying, and by that protest make it difficult for you to be heard. That is *also* free speech.
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- Stages of cold: if I eat enough banana bread it'll go away. Right?
- And they'll be very good and interesting doing it, can confirm!
- Presented without comment: My top song of 2025 was 'I Say No' from Heathers.
- I'm in Thailand... How have I *already* lost whammageddon?
- Reposted by Emma Pritchardyou do have to do it in a couple of places but this tutorial makes it easy to go uncheck the boxes that otherwise lets Google's AI read all your shit. or move everything over to protonmail but moving everything over is a giant thing I know.
- Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
- Reposted by Emma PritchardKathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies. This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
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- Dogs off-lead on shared use cycle/foot paths: discuss.
- Into the annoying period when I need to put events in for next year but my diary company haven't released their 2026 diaries yet.
- Reposted by Emma PritchardPeople recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children. This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
- This is also true for LGBTIQ+ people - I've had so many more friends report instances of harassment both verbal and physical in the last year.
- In other news, we are now making school cake.
- The north-south divide in our house currently being played out in a Bake-off provoked argument over whether school cake has pink icing or white icing.
- Does anyone have recommendations for good second hand book websites that aren't owned by Amazon?
- I do not like being in a version of the UK where I am actively considering whether it is safe to have the rainbow/queer stickers I have on my laptop while travelling.
- Do cross country design their trains as Faraday cages so you have to sell your data to their WiFi service?
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- Reposted by Emma PritchardRetrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.
- My favourite thing about cooking in other people's kitchens is that everyone answers the question "if I were a vegetable peeler where would I live" in a different way
- Sometimes you need to push through on your PhD. Sometimes you need to go to the county library, get a stack of completely unrelated books and go sit in a coffee shop with cake.
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- BBC managed to report on the UN finding of genocide in Gaza as their frontpage article this morning - yet you'll note that no Palestinian is allowed to speak in the article, while Israel's refutation is prominantly cited. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Becoming that person: going for a run in my Ice Hockey Varsity T-shirt from 2013.
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- Yes, I may need to use tape to keep my joints in place to do the high impact sport of embroidery. But, it does have flowers on it So who's the real loser here?
- Did not need taskmaster reminding me I don't know my 7 times table on a Saturday morning
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- First single-author paper has just been accepted for publication!
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- One of the joys of reading things you strongly disagree with is getting to exercise your spite by crafting a perfectly polite yet cutting critique of it.
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- Reposted by Emma PritchardSo, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing. www.science.org/content/arti...
- Slightly obsessed with the discovery that Bluesky has three facepalm options: man-facepalming: 🤦♂️ woman-facepalming: 🤦♀️ face_palming: 🤦
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- Today I have a conference abstract to write, and edits to complete on a journal article. As a result I have thus far achieved a truly astonishing number of little email and admin tasks that I've been putting off.
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- Met office predicts thunderstorms, Emma's migraine sense says no. Who will be correct?
- Reposted by Emma PritchardOh look, Labour has spent months targeting the wrong voters.
- Labour's next biggest losses are to left-liberal parties (Liberal Democrats and Greens). Reform's growth in support has mostly come from the Conservatives and non-voting (much less from Labour). These reflect patterns of party-bloc voting that we saw in the 2024 UK GE: tinyurl.com/y5pv7thw
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- Reposted by Emma PritchardKeir Starmer just appointed Tim Allan, a board member of the anti trans hate group, Sex Matters, to be his new communications director.
- Reposted by Emma PritchardIt's actually astounding how Labour has managed to go further on anti-migrant, anti-trans etc policies in a year than the Conservatives did in 14. The way they so cavalierly talk about circumventing human rights for migrants, trans and non-binary individuals etc is beyond even the last government.
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- Reposted by Emma PritchardAcademia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities
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- I've generally enjoyed the BBC documentary Human - but very much object to the thoroughly anachronistic reference to Ancient Egypt as the point at which humans developed the "nation state"
