Sam Caslin
Historian at the Uni of Liverpool. They/she.
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- Reposted by Sam CaslinMy first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! 🙏 UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️🌈📚🐵 US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ 🗃️🦋
- Reposted by Sam Caslinmy dad didn’t go to university and he was extremely happy to pay taxes for his four children to do so; and, indeed, for the doctors who treated him at Addenbrookes to have gone to university as well.
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- Reposted by Sam CaslinThere is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree
- BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace. Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
- Reposted by Sam CaslinIf you feel "hamstrung" by human rights laws and by health and safety laws - you are the person those laws were designed to protect us against. You need to be obstructed by those laws. Also, she's lying.
- Reposted by Sam CaslinWorth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
- Reposted by Sam CaslinFrom this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
- Reposted by Sam Caslin🤩 This is how it's done, folks! 'A lesbian couple at the centre of their community and a pair of brothers said to have been among the first people to medically transition are among the people whose stories are told in the Queer Norfolk archive.' 🏳️🌈📚🏳️⚧️📜🗃️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #queerhistory
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- Reposted by Sam CaslinSky's Rob Powell asks Nigel Farage that, given Robert Jenrick is the 7th person to have served in Boris Johnson's government to defect to Reform, how can his party be "a new, reforming force" when it is "bringing in so many people who caused the mess that you're trying to clean up"
- Reposted by Sam CaslinI'm running a popular romance course at the University of Liverpool... but only if enough people sign up! Come and join us! www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...
- A great 'how not to approach data' example for anyone teaching research methods!
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- Reposted by Sam Caslingood that they got coverage away from the politics team (chronic bothsiders) and to visual investigations (consistently excellent)
- Reposted by Sam Caslinthe nyt says that no version of events in minneapolis can be "verified independently." but that's not true! there are multiple videos proving that the ICE version of events is a total lie. maybe the nyt can, y'know, watch one of them? www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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- Very few women in responses to a post about actors with iconic voices, so: Holly Hunter, Jennifer Tilly, Joey Lauren Adams, Cate Blanchett, Jodie Foster.
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- Reposted by Sam Caslin📣 New publication! The second article of my postdoc project on the far right and anti-gender mobilization is now out #openaccess in #GermanPolitics doi.org/10.1080/0964... It examines antifeminism in far-right party politics through the case of AfD Key findings: Antifeminism ✅ Radicalization ✅
- What an amazing sci-fi archive! 💙💙🟦
- It’s a very happy #DoctorWhoDay from us - we’re delighted to announce we’ve successfully acquired the archive of Whoniverse legend Terrance Dicks 😲 Read more at the link: www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/ne...
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- Me: *Tells a joke that gets a slight chuckle from a room full of students* Also me: Yeah, I could do stand up comedy.
- This is a gorgeous history of dogs - and a perfect present for dog lovers!
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- Reposted by Sam CaslinIf anyone needs a freelance researcher in London (or across the UK), I'm your person! I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!
- This week, some of my classes are going to be thinking about @sarahebull.bsky.social's 2021 research on adult entertainment and early sexology. I highly recommend this article to anyone interested in the topic. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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- Reposted by Sam Caslin📣🏳️⚧️ 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.
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- Reposted by Sam CaslinThe professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.
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- This is a timely article on the broader significance of trans-exclusionary writers for contemporary anti-trans politics.
- People would have said The Thick of It had jumped the shark if they had Peter Mannion doing a Robert Palmer-style number.
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- Reposted by Sam CaslinI 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 Sam CaslinI reviewed Eli Erlick's new book Before Gender for @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... This was the smoothest production process of all time and I'm grateful to see a venerable women's history journal making space for trans history!
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- Microsoft's Windows lead has teased the future of Windows will be more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal in the wake of AI, promoting voice as a primary input method for using your PC. www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...
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- My new article on creative assessments, queer pedagogy, and authenticity, drawing on historians like @julialaite.bsky.social, @willpooley.bsky.social, @tricksterprince.bsky.social. Also, huge thanks to @luciejones83.bsky.social and @cathfeely.bsky.social for putting this issue together!
- #skyhistorians do you use the creative assessment/ #unessay? Perhaps you’re interested in it! Check out @moderndecorum.bsky.social’s wonderful article on creativity as queer practice. This is the 2nd article to come out for @cathfeely.bsky.social &my Creative History in the Classroom special issue!
- 🎶 It's been a long road 🎶 but this sounds cool!
- Reposted by Sam Caslin“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...
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- Reposted by Sam CaslinSO excited to have my hands on advance copies of Queer Georgians by the brilliant Dr Anthony Delaney. What a beauty! Hugely recommend to anyone interested in the 18th/19th centuries, queer history, social history, British history or the history of love ❤️ Out Sept > uk.bookshop.org/p/books/quee...
- I'll take any excuse to post 'My Girl's Pussy' from 1931! www.youtube.com/watch?v=x359...
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- My MP (Labour) has, at last, written back to me. My MP informs me in vague terms that trans people are still covered by the Equality Act 2010 and ignores all my questions about what the Supreme Court ruling means for trans people in practice.
- Reposted by Sam CaslinOPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
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