I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.
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I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.
#Phenomenology of Perinatal Care - Upcoming Talk (13 March Online)
Dr. Iris Parra Jonou at an international webinar on perinatal care, organized by No Bump No Care.
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Say the quiet part out loud about “family voting” & “South Asian-type election practices”. These assume Brown men are telling their wives how to vote & that Muslims, by nature, violate democratic norms. Trope of Muslim women being oppressed and unable to participate fully in democracy is tiresome
In honour of the Sunday Telegraph's editor and offical maddest columnist, we have created the Allister Heath headline generator...
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Delighted to have spoken at the launch of the Boshier Pregnancy Resources last night. The resources include guides for autistic people, professionals, & partners and supporters and aim at ensuring rights-respecting support for pregnant autistic people.
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'Limiting the Scope of the Terminal Illness Requirement' by Alexandra Mullock
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The second instalment of our guest series on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill considers vulnerability and the definitional parameters of assisted dying.
This is a must-read for anyone interested in the conceptualisation of people as potentially potentially pregnant: a thoughtful and important reflection on pregnancy and possible foetal interests arising in unanticipated places.
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Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
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"The images were fake. But the loss of power was real. The humiliation was real. The sense of being reduced to a body – something they could manipulate and degrade – was painfully real.
"And this abuse was a warning. A message to women like me: 'This is what happens when you challenge us.'"
"As a society, we are in a sort of collective, constantly renewed amnesia of the size of sexual violence." - @manongarcia.bsky.social
Don't miss this interview with philosopher Manon Garcia about the Pélicot trial & the ubiquity of rape. Illuminating & chilling.
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The next in our blog serious on Narratives of Consent comes from Eli Ansari and Katherine Maslowski: “You Speak and Nobody Hears”: The Racialisation of Pregnancy and Birth in the UK, addressing the invisibilisation of Black and Brown people within maternity care.
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New Narratives of Consent blog from @zainamahmoud.bsky.social on experiences & invisibilisation of British surrogates in public and private healthcare contexts which are often ill-equipped to support people whose care needs don't fit into a 'standardised' mould.
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As part of our research into birth douals and medical law we are running focus groups with (1) birth doulas, (2) healthcare professionals (widely defined) involved in childbirth and (3) people who have used or seriously considered using a birth doula in the past five years. To take part you must have worked or given birth in the UK. Interviews will take place in English. (Please note, we will hold separate focus groups with each of these three groups) * If you choose to take part in this research, you will be invited to participate in a focus group discussion with 5-8 other participants. These may be online or in-person, and you will be given a chance to specify your preference on the expression of interest form. The groups will last approximately 90 minutes and will be facilitated by both of the researchers. They will take place between February-April 2026. * During the discussion, you will be asked to share your thoughts, experiences, and opinions on birth doulas, including understanding the boundaries of the role, the interprofessional dynamics in birth spaces, and navigating medico-legal frameworks. There are no right or wrong answers—we are interested in your honest perspectives. * Participation in this study is wholly voluntary. Participants will not recieve payment for taking part. * If you are interested in taking part, please fill in the expression of interest form linked below by 5pm MONDAY 23 FEB 2026. If you have any questions, please do get in touch. rd EOI FORM - LINK & QR CODE : https://forms.office.com/e/9ZREnz1SGA
We have now started the next stage of our project: focus groups with (1) birth doulas, (2) healthcare professionals involved with birth and (3) people who have used or considered using a doula during birth in the past 5 years.
Please do share with networks!
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it's not great when the consultation landing page continues the labour habit of just making things up where immigration rules are concerned. SETTLEMENT IS NOT GRANTED AUTOMATICALLY. absolute joke of a government
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‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
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New blog on Dr. Emma Brooks' chapter in Narratives of Consent and Reproductive Subjects, which examines the contours of consent with multilingual antenatal appointments. An issue close to my heart with a far more complex presentation than usually assumed.
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This is a long read but an important one for anyone interested in how the Court of Protection, or indeed any public service, interacts with families. It is a shocking and very frightening case and I'm hugely grateful to Zoe and to Celia for sharing it.
The BMA has published an updated policy position on the rights of transgender and non-binary people in healthcare settings.
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Next blog in our series teasing the chapters in our book, Narratives of Consent and Reproductive Subjects
Tales of Invisibility. Today, Jacqueline Nicholls (UCL) shares her reflections on birthing people's and clinicians' perspectives on 'consent consultations'.
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Are you working on a paper on law, history and reproduction? My great colleague Dr Gauri Pillai and I are organising a workshop for you at the University of Bristol Law School on 1 May 2026!
Please send your abstract by 15 December 2025.
Travel grants available.
Interested in learning more about how the court works and observing some hearings?
Join us on Thursday (6th November) for a small and friendly webinar. We'll explain how to watch the court (via MS Teams etc) and how our "buddy" system works.
All welcome. Email openjustice@yahoo.com
Next blog in our series reflecting on narratives of consent and the invisibilisation of reproductive subjects, and this time the author is me!
Contains discount code for our edited collection - perfect for scholars, students and tricky-to-buy-for aunts alike.
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Join us for a PhD in Oxford to decipher how a genetic-hormonal pas de deux drives pea pod growth and development.
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On Monday 20-22 October 2025, the UK Supreme Court is being asked to re-consider its judgment in Cheshire West.
In particular, the court is to be asked whether a person’s wishes and feelings can be taken as consent to their care arrangements 🧵
More power to @profangiehobbs.bsky.social – I hope this revival of The Great Philosophers brings about the rebirth of deep learning through television.
Archived programming on YT from the 70s and 80s has been a gift for two whole decades, but it’s time to put philosophy back on the mainstream menu.
New blog post
An urgent caesarean application in a disturbing case
By @doccmartin.bsky.social
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First of a series of blog posts about my new edited book: Narratives of Consent and Reproductive Subjects: Tales of Invisibility is up now! Includes exclusive discount code for anyone wanting to start their Christmas shopping early!
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