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Laura Favaro

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Spanish sociologist, schoolteacher, mum, feminist.

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@DrLauraFavaro

Laura Favaro

2 months

📢📢My article “Let us be free from ‘academentia’” is now available! Covers plenty of critical questions around 'queering', with sections on researching academia, the gender wars, the sex wars, mad studies & links between the mad and transgender movements👇

@DrLauraFavaro

Laura Favaro

3 months

📣Yet another must-read from @glosswitch 📣 This time - lucky me! - on my forthcoming academic article. What an insightful and generous review, Victoria. I’m honoured and humbled. Some quotes below…

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@DrLauraFavaro

Laura Favaro

1 year

Please help me take City university to court for discrimination, harassment and more. They have cancelled my research and taken away my data. It’s a large sociological study of the ‘gender wars’, working conditions and censorship in academia!!!

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I’m a feminist sociologist taking City, University of London to an Employment Tribunal for discrimination, harassment, victimisation and whistleblowing detriment.

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Laura Favaro

1 month

I have news!!! 👉 Very grateful to @MilsomChr , and what a privilege and pleasure it has been to have had @peter_daly as my solicitor. Thank you all for your help spreading the word and for your supportive messages over the past months. Onwards & upwards!

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Laura Favaro

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📣📣 I have some news - good ones, finally!!! See case update here 🥳

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Academic freedom for feminists

I’m a feminist sociologist taking City, University of London to an Employment Tribunal for discrimination, harassment, victimisation and whistleblowing detriment.

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Laura Favaro

1 year

Sharing my crowdfund again as need a bit more to reach target and legal team hard at work - can you please help tell everybody that cares about academic freedom, scientific evidence and women’s rights? My interview and survey data has been confiscated!!!

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Academic freedom for feminists

I’m a feminist sociologist taking City, University of London to an Employment Tribunal for discrimination, harassment, victimisation and whistleblowing detriment.

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Laura Favaro

1 year

Now that the research is officially suspended, I thought I'd share my draft title and opening for a journal article on the interviews I was writing (often in tears)... spot on those predictions about what would happen to my career... the start is from:

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Laura Favaro

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Over 60K! *Thank you SO much!!!* I recommend looking at the comments (thank you!!), e.g: “I’m a precarious scholar in WGSS [...] so I’m electing not to display my name publicly”, “Academic freedom is under attack”, “I too have been cancelled and sacked”...

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Academic freedom for feminists

I’m a feminist sociologist taking City, University of London to an Employment Tribunal for discrimination, harassment, victimisation and whistleblowing detriment.

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Laura Favaro

1 year

Thank you for helping me spread the word. I need my data back to publish findings and to deposit the survey as per my commitments and for other researchers to analyse if they wish 🙏

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1 year

An academic who migrated to London to carry out a project on censorship at universities over the transgender issue was made redundant and had her findings seized. This was after other academics told the University of London the research was 'transphobic'

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Laura Favaro

1 year

Thank you @HadleyFreeman for the interview today at @thetimes

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Laura Favaro

1 year

I have just found this: Julia Long at Speakers Corner talking about my case. Truly moved. Her removal alongside Sheila Jeffreys from a City event in 2019 was a case study of my research, inc via interviews - now taken away from me #dangerousdata

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Laura Favaro

1 year

Huge thanks for your support @fairplaywomen !! I interviewed 50 gender studies scholars across ‘sides’ of the ‘gender wars’, and collected 600+ survey responses by social scientists. City has dismissed me, cancelled the research, and taken this unique data away.

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A feminist sociologist is taking City, University of London to an Employment Tribunal for discrimination, harassment, victimisation and whistleblowing detriment.

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Laura Favaro

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I’d also like to take this opportunity to thank the @SpeechUnion for all the sustained support 🙏

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Laura Favaro

1 year

Thank you for the mention. Indeed I was dismissed and made to leave behind my 50 interviews and 600+ survey responses… my three years of hard work to investigate academia sociologically, cancelled by a university (and more -) #Orwellian

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Academic freedom for feminists

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1 year

@hhesterm Thank you again. Laura is in London. She lost her job too.

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Laura Favaro

1 year

Thank you for this. My situation is grim: not “just” what I’ve been put through, but my research has been suspended and access to my interview and survey data denied. I want it back, deposit the anonymised survey, and publish findings! @SpeechUnion @BritishAcademy_ @EHRC

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The Free Speech Union

1 year

"Academic freedom is under serious threat," writes Lauren Smith. "Instead of defending the right of academics to pursue the truth, universities are too often caving into trans ideologues—we need more academics to speak out against this shameful behaviour."

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Laura Favaro

1 year

📣Hoy es el aniversario del artículo que cambió mi vida: Heridas por las "guerras del género" en la academia (). Es un día triste para mí, pero tengo noticias, con versión en 🇪🇸: Me ayudáis a difundir? 🙏

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Academic freedom for feminists

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Laura Favaro

5 months

📢 Publication day!! Please check and share my peer-reviewed 'conversation' with @UOzkirimli : "Gender wars and cancel culture in academia" No paywall 🥳: Lots on #feminism #cancelculture #transgender #universities - hoping you enjoy it!

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Laura Favaro

1 month

Thank you @millihill and everyone else for joining me in celebrating the news -I am humbled by the response! As to my research, I recently published an article on the queering of universities, which draws on “gender wars” interviews plus new document data:

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Milli Hill

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Great news that City uni have settled with the brave and fearless @DrLauraFavaro - look forward to her getting her data returned and to her future work...

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Laura Favaro

1 year

Thank you everyone for all your support so far, the donations, the comments, the tweets… everything! Words are not enough to capture what this means to me, after what I have endured in isolation, and during these extremely difficult times. Gracias, gracias y más gracias!!!

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Dr Katie Alcock

@wontsomeonethi2

1 year

Pleased to see @Laura__Favaro has easily reached her initial target. If only it wasn't necessary to take one's employers to court - can't they just, you know, keep the law?

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Laura Favaro

1 year

📣 Today is the anniversary of my @timeshighered academia’s gender wars article, which changed my life. It is a sad day for me, but I have news… please read & share 🙏

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Laura Favaro

1 year

UPDATE on my case: Litigation has begun ACTUALIZACIÓN sobre mi caso: el litigio ha comenzado See: Thank you for all your support/Gracias por todo vuestro apoyo🙏

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Laura Favaro

1 year

📣 I have had the great great honour of being interviewed by @bindelj on my “disappearing data” and more. Thank you, Julie, so much for your support🙏

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Julie Bindel

1 year

I wrote about Laura Favaro and her disappearing data:

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Laura Favaro

11 months

My hearing has been listed for 12 days, starting 16th September 2024. I’m STILL trying to get City to deposit the anonymised survey - it’s been a year now of this… also STILL trying to get the interviews transferred to my other uni… I’m depleted, yet not giving up

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Colin Wynter KC

11 months

Re rank idiocy in academia, soon up will be the @DrLauraFavaro v @CityUniLondon cancellation of research case. Promises to be a pinata of dissembling as someone is going to have to try to justify (a) cancelling Laura's project & (b) holding on to her research. Should be grim.

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Laura Favaro

1 year

Thrilled to have a slightly modified Spanish version of my THE piece just published by @diarioelcomun ! @WDI_Es @laura_lecuona @ContraBorrado @anadebla @AnadeMiguelAl

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Laura Favaro

1 year

Dear supporters here’s a lovely message for you too from a very well informed man 🤔

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Laura Favaro

1 year

The survey was funded by the @BritishAcademy_ and received under 700 responses on views and experiences of working conditions, the sex/gender dispute, and censorship in academia. It underwent 3 rounds of pretesting with academics across perspectives, disciplines and career stages

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Laura Favaro

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@DrJoGrady , UCU member here: extremely precarious, migrant, relatively early-career, female academic. My research on working conditions, censorship & more in academia cancelled: Do feminist academics have your support? Will you stand for academic freedom?

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Academic freedom for feminists

I’m a feminist sociologist taking City, University of London to an Employment Tribunal for discrimination, harassment, victimisation and whistleblowing detriment.

www.crowdjustice.com

@CEFA_Women

Collective of Early-career Feminist Academics

1 year

@Laura__Favaro @RobLaverick92 @SarahPedersen2 @hollysmithhere @ucu @peter_daly @cefa We sent the letter to @DrJoGrady on 26th November 2021 and we're still waiting on a response. Your case @Laura__Favaro is precisely what we were worried would inevitability happen to ECR feminist women trying to do their research.

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Laura Favaro

1 year

Hi @CityUniAFAF I would certainly appreciate help to get my interview and survey data back, which is precisely around academia and silencing!

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Women's Rights Network Liverpool & Merseyside

1 year

Yay! City University London now has a branch of #AcademicsForAcademicFreedom . Welcome @CityUniAFAF ! We are sure you will be instrumental in supporting @DrLauraFavaro and others silenced in @CityUniLondon . @AFAF_freespeech @LivUniAFAF

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Laura Favaro

1 year

Thanks Sonia! It is absolutely about academic freedom. Note also that the research suspended & data taken away is *precisely* on the ‘gender wars’, working conditions and censorship in academia. I’ve been personally & professionally destroyed for doing my job as a sociologist

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Sonia Sodha

1 year

Another significant case re employment discrimination in relation to sex and gender, this time in relation to City University. Important implications for academic freedom too.

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Laura Favaro

1 year

It means *a lot* for a UCU colleague to say this publicly. Thank you, Holly! @ucu @DrJoGrady

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Holly Smith

@hollysmithhere

1 year

I've been a @UCU Rep for a long time, but this is a truly shocking case. I'm glad @peter_daly is representing. It would be good to hear more UCU members speaking up about the outrageous treatment of @Laura__Favaro #Solidarity

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Laura Favaro

6 months

My interview in the print version of Daily Mail today! By @JournalistJill and with mentions of @Docstockk @JoPhoenix1 @MForstater @peter_daly @SpeechUnion @BritishAcademy_ @timeshighered @EHRC

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Laura Favaro

1 year

Thank you @jordanbpeterson FYI-data confiscated: 1)600+ responses to survey on working conditions, the “gender wars” & censorship in academia, which underwent 3 rounds of pretesting & was sent to statistically representative samples of social scientists; 2)50 in-depth interviews

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1 year

What a surprise: the censorious left is censoring research about the machinations of the censorious left: the modern university in action, folks: alumni: stop donating. You are funding your sworn enemies:

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Laura Favaro

1 year

… and that there is such a thing as ‘dangerous’ research data that must be kept hidden… that there truths that must not be uttered (about academia)…. thank you for your support 🙏💜

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FeministRoar

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@Laura__Favaro @campervanwoman @DrJoGrady Absolutely horrified to hear how appallingly you've been treated Laura. It's unfathomable that in 2023 women are being punished for doing feminist research and that UCU is consistently refusing to speak out against it or the bullying and abuse.

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Laura Favaro

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The @EHRC commissioned a substancial report exactly a year ago on my extensive document analysis and the 50 interviews with academics in gender studies across positions and disciplines, including those with roles at 14 feminist/gender/sexuality academic journals

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Laura Favaro

1 year

Huge thanks for your support @sharrond62 !!!

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Sharron Davies MBE

1 year

We’re not even being allowed to do the research! University ‘blocks’ academic from her own gender wars research over ‘dangerous’ data

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Laura Favaro

1 year

Thank you Graham! My sociological inquiry into the “gender wars”, censorship and working conditions in academia cancelled; my empirical data described as ‘dangerous’ according to the university. Please spread the word 🙏

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Academic freedom for feminists

I’m a feminist sociologist taking City, University of London to an Employment Tribunal for discrimination, harassment, victimisation and whistleblowing detriment.

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Graham Linehan

1 year

They're all important but, this is important.

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Laura Favaro

1 year

“I want to explore what’s preventing us managing to have a conversation about this.” @wmarybeard my 3 year long sociological investigation might help - and indeed my own experience! This is a start: and

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Academic freedom for feminists

I’m a feminist sociologist taking City, University of London to an Employment Tribunal for discrimination, harassment, victimisation and whistleblowing detriment.

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Laura Favaro

1 year

I have posed these questions to Jo Grady (General Secretary of the University and College Union) for us all

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Laura Favaro

1 year

@DrJoGrady , UCU member here: extremely precarious, migrant, relatively early-career, female academic. My research on working conditions, censorship & more in academia cancelled: Do feminist academics have your support? Will you stand for academic freedom?

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Laura Favaro

1 year

Thank you @Conviction19c for your solidarity. I am utterly shattered, it's not only what I have endured but also indeed this assault on academic freedom as grotesque as it can get: confiscate data, suspend research 😭 #PLEASEHELP

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Helen Rogers XX Adult Human Female 😄🧌

1 year

All of academia should be up in arms about this grotesque assault on academic freedom But they are not The academic profession is full of charlatans, hypocrites and cowards Can’t believe I devoted over half my life to it #IStandWithLauraFavaro

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Laura Favaro

1 month

Thanks @MForstater Here’s my latest research article on the queering of universities. “Let us be free from ‘academentia’”:

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Maya Forstater

2 months

Has anyone studied this? @DrLauraFavaro tried @CityUniversity with a study into whether social scientists at universities feel censored over their views on transgender issues She says she was hounded out of the uni stripped of the findings and barred from publishing them.

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Laura Favaro

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@runthinkwrite @RoseEMR85 @janeclarejones @network_gc @CEFA_Women @Docstockk @JoPhoenix1 @8RosarioSanchez @selina_todd @FondOfBeetles @ProfAliceS @mary_leng @hollysmithhere Thank you!! Looking forward to sharing more findings. Quant too: with @vanessa_gash we have fielded a representative survey of social science academics, on 'gender wars' but also working conditions. Hoping for positive change...

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Laura Favaro

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My talk for @DeclarationOn is now available in full, with discussion of the backlash online against my work, including calls for “the retraction of the research findings, but also censure for the researchers”...Plus I introduce the concept of #academentia

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Laura Favaro, UK: Academentia Researching gender studies #WDI #FQT

This week's #WomensDeclarationInternational #FeministQuestionTime features speakers from the UK, Ireland/USA.Laura Favaro - UKAcadementia: Researching gender...

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Laura Favaro

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@RoseEMR85 @janeclarejones @network_gc @CEFA_Women @Docstockk @JoPhoenix1 @8RosarioSanchez @selina_todd @runthinkwrite @FondOfBeetles @ProfAliceS @mary_leng @hollysmithhere Thank you!!

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Laura Favaro

11 months

This is the letter that prompted the blog by Sara Ahmed that was so influential in solidifying “no debate” within gender studies. Note that Jeffreys had already raised this 3 years before

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Maya Forstater

11 months

In 2015 (long before I'd noticed this topic) @wmarybeard @CCriadoPerez @AdamRutherford (and many others who are still standing up) signed a letter against the silencing of criticism of trans ideology in academia

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Laura Favaro

6 months

Spanish media piece on my case! with mentions of @SilviaCarrascoP @MForstater @peter_daly

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Una española denuncia a una universidad inglesa por echarla por señalar la censura trans

La socióloga española Laura Favaro llegó a Reino Unido en 2020 para incorporarse como docente a la Universidad de la City de Londres como investigadora

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Laura Favaro

3 months

📣Yet another must-read from @glosswitch 📣 This time - lucky me! - on my forthcoming academic article. What an insightful and generous review, Victoria. I’m honoured and humbled. Some quotes below…

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Victoria Smith

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I wrote about @DrLauraFavaro 's new article on 'academentia' and the hounding of feminists in academia

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Laura Favaro

1 year

Thank you everyone for your support - please help me keep spreading the word far and wide. To that end: I have posted as an update a Spanish translation of my crowdfunding: @WDI_Es @juana_gallego @anadebla @AmeliaValcarcel @DoFemCo @ContraBorrado

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Laura Favaro

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📣This is out tomorrow! So grateful to @JournalistJill for telling my story! 💜

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Jill Foster

@JournalistJill

6 months

In @MailOnline tmrw I speak to @DrLauraFavaro , the academic who lost her job at City Uni. Her ‘crime’? Publishing research into the ‘gender wars’ and discovering that discrimination and harassment of female academics is endemic in British universities. Pls read and support her.

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Laura Favaro

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“TERFs are like bedbugs, or pubic lice: once you’ve got them you actively make them go away. It’s best to make your environment as hostile as possible” read more👇 solidarity @hollowood_zoe

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Zoe Hollowood 🔶 🇪🇺🇺🇦

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Last time I spoke at conf. wasn't consequence free. There followed abuse on SM. In messages liked and reshared by LD members & officers comparisons were made to pubic lice infestations. I've been called many names for standing up for women’s rights, but never dehumanised before

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Laura Favaro

1 year

It is indeed very moving, and I’m *deeply* grateful. There are also comments about women’s rights and the suppression of feminist voices

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Catherine Williams

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1 year

Comments on this crowdfund for an academic freedom of speech case are worth reading. Moving how many give small amount & apologise for tht (eg £5 'I'm a feminist pensioner'). Striking that those who say more talk only about freedom of thought & speech, as far as I have scrolled.

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Laura Favaro

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@UOzkirimli @teknokultura @FiLiA_charity @bindelj @PankhurstEM @janeclarejones @AbigailShrier @beatrixcampbell @akuareindorf @jk_rowling @ProfAliceS @OnChairs We note how the persecution of feminists at universities in the name of transgender (& queer) is taking place across many countries, and reference the cases of @juana_gallego and @SilviaCarrascoP in Spain

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Laura Favaro

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@UOzkirimli @teknokultura @FiLiA_charity @bindelj @PankhurstEM @janeclarejones @AbigailShrier @beatrixcampbell @akuareindorf @jk_rowling @ProfAliceS Special thanks to @OnChairs for the inspiration: '«Survivor of academentia» was how Julia Long described herself in the interview consent form, inspired by the late Mary Daly who once said: «of course in patriarchal education the mind is stultified. What else would you expect?»'

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Laura Favaro

1 year

@UOzkirimli … “Others [journal editors] however, acknowledged that ‘the objection is a political one’”👉

Researchers are wounded in academia’s gender wars | Times Higher Educ…

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Laura Favaro

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“Laura was told by senior management that City considered her research data ‘dangerous’, and the university wanted to return her grant because it gave her ‘authority’. She says she was also told things would have been different if she believed that ‘trans women are women’”

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Jill Foster

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In today's @MailOnline I speak to @DrLauraFavaro . Like @Docstockk , who was hounded from Sussex Uni and @JoPhoenix1 - who won her case against the Open Uni – Dr Favaro is yet another female academic who believes that her gender critical beliefs (there are only two sexes – 1/5

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Laura Favaro

5 months

Just signed this 👇 important initiative!

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James Esses

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🚨Breaking🚨 Along with over 130 politicians, clinicians, lawyers, social workers, detransitioners, academics and campaigners, I have written to @RishiSunak , demanding a Public Inquiry into the infiltration of gender ideology and the harming of children. Please read and share.

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Laura Favaro

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What would also help is the @ehrc reconsidering and publishing my report, and the @BritishAcademy_ ensuring that the 600+ responses to my ‘gender wars’ survey by social scientists in England and Ireland (collected over a year ago!) is deposited with the @UKDataArchive @wmarybeard

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Laura Favaro

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“I want to explore what’s preventing us managing to have a conversation about this.” @wmarybeard my 3 year long sociological investigation might help - and indeed my own experience! This is a start: and

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Laura Favaro

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Was watching @cwknews and suddenly she mentions my research & case! Thank you, Stephanie! We met in 2015 when you presented at City, alongside others like Julia Long and Lynne Segal. Remember when we didn’t all have to agree on everything at gender studies events?

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“Are you calling me a misogynist? I’m a woman!” Stephanie Davies-Arai and Freda Wallace clash over Kathleen Stock being removed from a university's debating society due to accusations of transphobia. @cwknews | @iancollinsuk | #TalkTV

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@UOzkirimli @teknokultura Article includes references to the writings of @FiLiA_charity @bindelj @PankhurstEM @janeclarejones @AbigailShrier @beatrixcampbell @akuareindorf @jk_rowling @ProfAliceS

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@letra_escarlata @FeministasRadic @afgafasmoradas @espaciofemrad @AsociacionKirke @CdizAbolicioni1 @ContraBorrado @DoFemCo @feministes_cat Profundamente agradecida compañeras, de verdad. No es fácil el camino. Por si no lo sabéis, @cristinaprieto5 escribió este reportaje:

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@UOzkirimli We cover our respective research, own personal experiences, and even some disagreements between us - hopefully to trigger more (respectful) debate... huge thanks to @teknokultura for keeping the flame of academic freedom alive despite the challenging climate!

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Huge thanks @GoodwinMJ ! City has confiscated my 50 interviews, & 650+ survey responses on the “gender wars”, working conditions & censorship in academia, funded by the British Academy, which would have been deposited in UK Data Archive. Has this happened before in a democracy?

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Matt Goodwin

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Just donated. If YOU care about the freedom of academics to research counter cultural topics (in this case gender critical issues) & push back against an orthodoxy stifling free speech & expression support Laura's tribunal campaign. Best wishes, Matt

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Laura Favaro

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Thanks a lot, Michelle. I moved to the UK exclusively to conduct this research…. My contract said “permanent”… I was dismissed by reason of redundancy and weeks later the department was advertising 6 full-time vacancies…

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Michelle Shipworth

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@Regenbo5en @DrLauraFavaro It is particularly awful to see a junior researcher targeted in this way. She had just migrated to the uk with her family and was in a precarious job. Terrifying!

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Yes! in response to a summary of my research: Here’s an extract about what happened from my peer-reviewed article with @UOzkirimli coming out soon! We look at the ‘gender wars’ & academic freedom, inc the no-debate tactic of many now attacking #CassReport

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@ForWomenScot

For Women Scotland

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@_Leyanelle_ Many seem to have previous in witch-hunting! One of them went for @DrLauraFavaro Dr Sahra Taylor, a City lecturer, claimed it was an “attack piece on trans people [and] our existences” that has “clearly caused harm to many interviewed”.

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Laura Favaro

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📣 Spanish article on my research and legal case, alongside those of @MForstater @DeniseFahmy @JoPhoenix1 @AllianceLGB ( @peter_daly & @MilsomChr mentioned too) I hope it will help generate more discussion about the persecution of feminists in Spain (eg academic @juana_gallego )

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@Cronica_Libre

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🟣La española Laura Favaro denuncia a la City University de Londres tras ser despedida por investigar las guerras de género El motivo? La universidad considera "peligrosos" los resultados obtenidos ✍️ @cristinaprieto5

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I joined recently because as a precarious worker I really do need a union, but yet again it is clear there’s no space for feminists. Is there any option but to leave? @ucu @DrJoGrady @hollysmithhere

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Laura Favaro

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@wmarybeard I think you will find insight in my empirical research on academia’s “gender wars”. Here are interview findings with female academics across sides of the dispute: like you, many felt afraid to speak up… others actively persecuted any dissent…

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Laura Favaro

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Means a lot to receive this feedback by a woman I greatly admire @RosieKayK2CO ! yes to “cancel culture” being endemic, & to further inquiries urgently needed. Re academia,a good start would be the depositing of my survey with @UKDataArchive as per commitment with @BritishAcademy_

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Laura Favaro

9 months

Just seen this! Thank you @MForstater for your support!

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Maya Forstater

9 months

Also good news from Laura Favaro who has regained access to her research transcripts!

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Laura Favaro

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Huge thanks everyone for your support and interest! Some more interview findings that I was able to make public before the total suspension of my research and withdrawal of my data can be seen in this short video, part of a longer talk at @DeclarationOn

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Laura Favaro

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Having tough days preparing for disclosure, nausea and nightmares are back...Today I was on campus to teach social research, and there was post for me👇I’m moved to tears. Sharing in case this can reach the senders. THANK YOU, from the bottom of my heart. Might put under pillow😅

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@UOzkirimli @teknokultura @FiLiA_charity @bindelj @PankhurstEM @janeclarejones @AbigailShrier @beatrixcampbell @akuareindorf @jk_rowling @ProfAliceS @OnChairs @juana_gallego @SilviaCarrascoP ps. please ignore the minor error in the abstract! This is 'online first' and it will be corrected in the final version 😅

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Laura Favaro

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Let’s hope this has a broader impact. I interviewed academics across 27 universities in England (+few other countries) This is what they said:

Researchers are wounded in academia’s gender wars | Times Higher Educ…

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The Free Speech Union

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🚨 The Open University has now "unreservedly apologised" and promised to conduct a "major independent review of our internal working environment" after a judge ruled that it failed to protect Prof Jo Phoenix, a staff member with 'gender critical' views.

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Every day is a challenge wondering if I will get my research data back; if I will be able to stay in academia. It helps endure the painful grief and uncertainly to see my THE article in Spanish being noticed. Thank you🙏

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Eu Fernández 🔻

1 year

La Profesora @DrLauraFavaro denunció el acoso al que están sometidas las profesionales críticas con el género y sufrió ostracismo hasta perder su trabajo en la universidad. Aquí su artículo en español para @diarioelcomun

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Laura Favaro

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Thanks Rosie! My claims to the employment tribunal: unfair dismissal +discrimination+harassment+victimisation+whistleblowing detriment. I now have the 50 interviews back, but still seeking to recuperate my survey of +600 academics on sex&gender, censorship & work at universities!

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Laura Favaro

5 months

🥳Most read article in the journal! (past 60 days). Thank you so much everyone for your interest and help disseminating!

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Laura Favaro

5 months

📢 Publication day!! Please check and share my peer-reviewed 'conversation' with @UOzkirimli : "Gender wars and cancel culture in academia" No paywall 🥳: Lots on #feminism #cancelculture #transgender #universities - hoping you enjoy it!

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Hoping you enjoy this piece!It means a lot to me as it’s the 1st after a VERY difficult period.Thank you @UOzkirimli for the encouragement in times of need to return to my passion -discussing, researching, writing. Here’s to more of that, solidarity among academics & new friends!

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The Critic

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. @UOzkirimli and Laura Favaro embark on a journey to trace the mechanisms of cancel culture in academia and expose the “reactionary progressives” who are its foremost practitioners

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@janeclarejones @UOzkirimli One bit that stayed with me is: “I therefore argue for a linguistic move away from sex and towards gender in social, cultural, legal and medical discourse” @MForstater

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Sex wars and (trans) gender panics: Identity and body politics in contemporary UK feminism - Sally...

This article considers how sex and gender – as conceptual categories and as a lived experience – are subject to contestation and renegotiation in the contempora...

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Laura Favaro

2 months

More bad news… #backlash

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Akua Reindorf KC

2 months

I’m surprised & shocked that @bphillipsonMP has announced that the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 won’t come into force on 1 August & may be repealed. The Act was not perfect, but it’s quite evident that free speech and academic freedom are in peril in universities

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All of this was addressed in my interviews and survey! *Still* seeking access to the 600+ survey responses from 2022. Barriers = access to the data about barriers to research! 🤯

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Professor Alice Sullivan

4 months

We are interested in a wide range of barriers to research on sex and gender experienced by people in the UK. If any of these applies to you, we want to hear from you. There is no word limit - tell your story in as many or as few words as you prefer.

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@Conviction19c @CforWomenUK Oh, thank you🙏That was *always* the plan, in the form of an ethnography, but then came the obstacles… ending in no access to my interview and survey data… at least nobody can take my own experiences away from me (for an autoethnography)… still, I want my data back! 😭

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Laura Favaro

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Some slides from my talk at the brilliant conference last Saturday by @DeclarationOn @WDI_UK @WDI_Es No new data analysis here - as empirical evidence too is persecuted by #academentia

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Laura Favaro

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@FemNorthern Thank you for your support! 🙏

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Laura Favaro

2 months

We do remember everything, and we have the receipts. Proud to have contributed to the collective effort to ensure there is a record of this shameful historical moment @glosswitch ’s piece: and here’s my latest:

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Why Labour doesn’t understand the gender wars | Victoria Smith | The Critic Magazine

On 16 March 2016, the philosopher Rebecca Reilly-Cooper delivered a talk for Coventry Skeptics. The title was “Critically examining the doctrine of gender identity”. You can watch it here.

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Laura Favaro

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grant awarded after “rigorous peer review…by relevant independent experts”. Was this really the case? when it comes to the editorial process in gender journals, my interviews showed there is no such thing with trans related work, it’s about politics #academentia #dangerousdata

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TransgenderTrend

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Years of research involving 3 UK academics, costing £500,000 in public money for this. The 'pregnant men' project argues "Objections against the use of testosterone in pregnancy are too focused on creating 'normal' babies."

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Laura Favaro

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@diarioelcomun @WDI_Es @laura_lecuona @ContraBorrado @anadebla @AnadeMiguelAl Some backlash to the original of this *descriptive* account of my *research findings* below. What then seemed absurd, became reality: consequences, including data seized, research suspended, career ruined. The worst has already happened, nothing to fear this time.

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Laura Favaro

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“Mob rule and the heckler’s veto is a tactic of only one side of this debate” Great piece by @joannaccherry Thank you for the mention: such honour to meet you and speak alongside the brilliant @RosieKayK2CO and @DeniseFahmy

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Laura Favaro

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Sharing again this piece with @UOzkirimli for @TheCriticMag I now have the interviews back and academic publications forthcoming, but still haven’t regained access to the survey of 600+ academics… @SpeechUnion @AFAF_freespeech @peter_daly @VictoriaPeckham

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Cancel culture in academia | Umut Özkırımlı and Laura Favaro | The Critic Magazine

Umut Özkırımlı in conversation with Laura Favaro…

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Laura Favaro

1 year

Thrilled to have been invited to this!!! Best possible occasion for my first ever visit to Wales, can’t wait!

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Wales-Women’s Rights Network 💜🤍💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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WRN Wales are proud to support this fantastic event 🔥 with our incredible speakers and Chair Get tickets & be on the right side of history & the feminist fightback We will speak & we will be heard! @WomensRightsNet @AllianceLGB @helenstaniland @DrLauraFavaro @glosswitch

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Laura Favaro

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The article is hugely inspired by “survivor of academentia” @OnChairs , and tells the story of when she was removed from an academic event with interview quotes from attendees on all sides of the 'gender wars', including her companion that day, Sheila Jeffreys @WDI_UK @WDI_Es

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Laura Favaro

1 year

@PompeySteph @millihill To clarify: I am a sociologist. My aim is not to be on TV, my aim is to conclude my academic research. I need my research data for that.

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Laura Favaro

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There IS a survey! After the interviews I invited representative samples of social scientists to complete an online survey funded by the British Academy. City refuses to deposit the 600+ anonymised responses. I hope to be sharing news about the data soon! Thanks @AlessandraAster

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@AlessandraAster

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@hughie_go @MmmmTrams @davidrvetter And my point is that they are too cowardly to express their opinion so there is no survey. Did you know @DrLauraFavaro lost her job for conducting such a survey amongst feminist scholars?

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Laura Favaro

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“Fighting this bigotry and breaking through suffocating groupthink has been left to brave individuals like @lizpitthot21228 ” I would add a note about the role of donors for legal fees and crowdfunding platforms (not to be taken for granted in this climate of censorship!)

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The Critic

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. @jo_bartosch celebrates a welcome win for sanity on gender, freedom and the workplace

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Laura Favaro

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@glosswitch @helenstaniland @AllianceLGB @SGResisters @WRNWales @MerchedCymru Thank you all for an amazing night, and @SGResisters for the invitation, organising, and this absolute beauty!

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Laura Favaro

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@AnnMSinnott @RosieKayK2CO @StoatlyL Here it is, thank you for the interest, please share with others if you can, I’m still in need of funds 🙏

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Academic freedom for feminists

I’m a feminist sociologist taking City, University of London to an Employment Tribunal for discrimination, harassment, victimisation and whistleblowing detriment.

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Laura Favaro

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Hoping it’s of interest to @SpeechUnion @AFAF_freespeech @jamesmurray88 @Docstockk @glosswitch @VictoriaPeckham @jo_bartosch @suzanne_moore @SusannaRustin @Glinner @aytchellesse @ProfLizKelly @SarahPedersen2 @WomenReadWomen @acadofideas @AHFdoco 😊

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Laura Favaro

5 months

📢 Publication day!! Please check and share my peer-reviewed 'conversation' with @UOzkirimli : "Gender wars and cancel culture in academia" No paywall 🥳: Lots on #feminism #cancelculture #transgender #universities - hoping you enjoy it!

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Laura Favaro

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@MForstater @UOzkirimli also:inequalities because of sex (& class) are considered ‘passé’ - what’s cool in academia is marginality, deviance, delusion. “Free us from the tyranny of normalcy” reads an article on Queer and Mad Studies.Another: “reclaiming the lunatic fringe: toward a mad-queer-trans lens”

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Laura Favaro

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@janeclarejones Thank you, Jane!

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Laura Favaro

1 year

Call for all those watching in silence in the name of self-preservation (as per my research findings) #thetimehascome to #standupforacademicfreedom you could be next! @SilviaCarrascoP #totalitarinism

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Umut Özkırımlı

1 year

Ramona Pérez, the president of the American Anthropological Association, came up with a new term for #CancelCulture : marginalization The panel was nixed, she said, only after complaints that it did not have scientific merit and that it was harmful to some of the association’s

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Laura Favaro

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@A_A_Almonds @BluskyeAllison @MForstater Thank you so much for your support!🙏 (very very far from being a Prof 😅)

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Laura Favaro

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@runthinkwrite @peter_daly Thank you Jon! Haha Peter is alright 😉

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Laura Favaro

5 months

Familiar names and familiar tactics: like with the #CassReport , those that didn’t like the findings of my research on academia’s gender wars attacked the method… @JournalistJill reported on the backlash here

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