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Criminologist @ University of Southampton. Amateur academic, occasional poet, aspiring activist, interdisciplinary magpie #sexwork #porn #feminism #fandom #VAWG

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Dr. Lucy Neville
6 years
Over the moon that the (reasonably affordable!) paperback of my book on women & gay male #porn & #erotica is now out! #fanstudies #slash #sexuality #desire #pornstudies #GirlsWhoLikeBoys
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1 year
A 6 hour round trip National Express commute to work is NOT fun! Nevertheless: support to the @RMTunion today and all days ✊🏻
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6 years
“People have had non-binary genders for thousands of years: It's nothing new”
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2 years
@chelseathepope Now every time my sister and I have really enjoyed a meal we say “I fucken love these nuts, Elizabeth”
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Dr. Lucy Neville
3 years
Love it when your uni’s email about “redundancies” (in a sector already on its knees) is entitled ‘shaping for excellence’ and implies mass job losses will actually be GOOD for staff & students. Do they expect us to buy into this delusion?
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2 years
@chelseathepope My sister (cabin crew) had him on her 1st class flight. He asked if he could have 2 portions of hot nuts instead of one +the accompanying champagne(as “they’d” told him he needed to quit “the drink”)& then ordered loads more, loudly remarking “I fucken love these nuts, Elizabeth”
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2 years
#WhyImStriking As I explained to my students today, I don’t have it so bad. But I refuse to walk through a picket of precariously employed junior colleagues who essentially work for less than minimum wage on zero hours contracts to go to my permanent post. That is not solidarity.
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Dr. Lucy Neville
3 years
What fresh hell is this? My employer making someone redundant because their academic research questions authority and mainstream thinking?!?!?! I mean... #NoOneIsRedundant #BoycottLeicester #WeAreTheUniversity
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3 years
@iamlivyrose I see a lot about the role of new media in radicalising young folks, but far less about how it’s impacting on older generations. IMO they’re more vulnerable, as they’re not as tech savvy as Gen Z or millennials, and the pandemic has isolated a lot of older people
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2 years
@sportznut67 @HelenGradwell The direction changed rapidly towards the end of the day - my thinking is because all the companies who came across poorly deleted their tweets, and some savvy social media types who work for companies that buck the trend realised tweeting would (rightly) make them look good!
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Dr. Lucy Neville
2 years
Brilliant quotation from @SaraNAhmed in Katherine Hubbard’s keynote on queer women and/in/as the history of psychology #posconf22
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2 years
@ohJuliatweets The first two cats we adopted involved me asking the shelter “who’s been on your books the longest? Who does no one else want?” We got this lovely old bruiser, who had lots of health issues but a heart of gold. I miss him every day. He was my soulpet.
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Dr. Lucy Neville
2 months
Being at #PCAACA2024 has reminded me that one of my PhD students sent me this screenshot last week of my book being cited in a @ContraPoints blog and OMG! #screamingcryingthrowingup NEW CAREER HIGHPOINT! Also their YouTube channel is brilliant, you should watch it
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Dr. Lucy Neville
3 years
@IsabellaRosner Roxanne, you don’t have to put on the Big Light
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Dr. Lucy Neville
5 years
Rewritten it for you: “'Midwives couldn't believe it': Heroic Scots mum gives birth to daughter at home with no medical assistance and no pain relief. Father also there”
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Dr. Lucy Neville
5 years
”We are still fighting the idea that men are do-ers –logical, active, the “natural” commanders of the illogical, passive woman. How can a passive woman actively like anything let alone during sex–an activity that is all about men “getting” women pregnant?”
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3 years
@iamlivyrose If it makes you feel at all better my grandad went full fb conspiracy theorist after my mama died and posted a lot of awful stuff. We finally got him to see how toxic social media was in his life and he’s come off fb and has gone back to being pretty rational
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Dr. Lucy Neville
5 years
A whole article on me & my research on women and m/m #porn in @thesundaytimes ! I’ve arrived! Ridiculously excited! Buy the book here:
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2 years
@ANewChapterBks And as if it wouldn’t be unnerving AF for some random guy to swerve in front of you repeatedly on his bike, trying to talk at you, as you ran across a deserted railway bridge on a dark damp night (however lovely you are PLEASE don’t do this men, it’s intimidating)
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Dr. Lucy Neville
3 years
@halfon4harlowMP @officestudents @educationgovuk @TheSun @NatashaC You are the threat to students’ ability to receive a university education. You. Not us.
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Dr. Lucy Neville
4 years
I see the #panopto captioning software is really top notch... #AcademicChatter #academicproblems #impossibleassessment
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Dr. Lucy Neville
4 years
This is actually a thing of beauty that makes my heart hurt with envy... #onlineclasses #AcademicChatter
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Harvard University classroom 🤗
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Dr. Lucy Neville
3 years
For avoidance of doubt I want it on record that if I’m ever abducted off the street, assaulted, and murdered; I want y’all to bring down a motherloving WAR upon our broken white supremacist capitalist heteropatrichal system!
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Dr. Lucy Neville
1 year
The basic misconceptions around Unions amongst the UK public is wild. Wild. 1) Folks who seem to think you get paid on strike days. YOU DON’T. I repeat: your employer doesn’t pay you if you don’t work. Striking is financially painful to workers, not just some random jolly.
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Dr. Lucy Neville
5 years
Seen this meme a fair bit on Twitter this morning and I’m still waiting for the person who gets “Queering Queerness: Queering The Queer Queerness”
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Dr. Lucy Neville
4 years
“Reducing university education to a conveyor belt for a narrow array of professions is a terrible error that we will all pay for. University should foster imagination and creativity, enriching society in the process”
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Dr. Lucy Neville
3 years
@deebasyed We felt trapped in the room, as he seemed really aggressive. We had plans to go to dinner and/or go out on the terrace and chill together. But we ended up just sat in our room all night with the door locked!
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Dr. Lucy Neville
4 years
Thread: I am a lecturer. I am also 5.5 months pregnant, 38, and asthmatic. Your immunity lowers when you’re pregnant (so body doesn’t attack baby) which means you’re more vulnerable to illness. In “normal” times I frequently get ill during term time 1/?
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Dr. Lucy Neville
3 years
Winston Wilson Montague Weaver, 19/02/21, 6lbs 11ozs of cinnamon roll goodness 💚
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Dr. Lucy Neville
4 years
@ToruOkada69 @buddleoffun I am a Green Bedfordian, as is my husband. Just like last time, I will hold my nose* and vote tactically (he will too) 💚❤️ (*not that I particularly dislike Labour, but I loathe not voting for the party I actually want...)
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Dr. Lucy Neville
6 years
“Why are so many women watching male gay #porn ?” - why indeed? Wanna know more: read my book! H/t @Planographer
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6 years
“The orgasm gap between genders has proved more stubborn than the pay gap. Women still experience one orgasm for every three experienced by men in partnered sex” - insightful review of @LynnComella ’s #VibratorNation
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Dr. Lucy Neville
3 years
Decided to treat myself to the fancy uni spaghetti from @PlayChoices #SlowBurn - opted for sea urchin paste as fresh ones are super expensive, managed to get hold of kanzuri & kelp, & added the citrus crumb from the original #comfortpasta yum! #choicescookbook
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Dr. Lucy Neville
5 years
“The value of Tumblr for NSFW creators and fans was in the autonomy to curate something original, and the freedom to express and share what they’re into—something that can’t be replaced by algorithmically-suggested porn on the rest of the internet”
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3 years
Just be honest, and say we’re up the proverbial financially so need to make job cuts. We’re all adult humans, the corporate double speak just adds insult to injury #LeicesterUCU
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Dr. Lucy Neville
6 years
“Sex workers claim that police are more interested in criminalising them than investigating crimes committed against them, and also have reported vastly different approaches in policing up and down the country” #sexwork
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Dr. Lucy Neville
6 years
“Decriminalising #sexwork could 'dramatically' reduce sexual violence and STI transmission, finds study”
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Dr. Lucy Neville
8 years
"The first step in making laws about #sexwork is to ask sex workers what they want" #porn #Proposition60
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Dr. Lucy Neville
3 years
@deebasyed This happened to me and my sister in Charleston. A bloke who was staying there knocking on our door asking us to let us him in / come out and get in the jacuzzi with him. He wouldn’t stop knocking & shouting and then just stood outside our room for hours (texts w my husband)
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Dr. Lucy Neville
3 years
@IsabellaRosner Literally sat here right now in my dining room without the Big Light on because #SmallLightsOnly
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Dr. Lucy Neville
3 years
“Media studies is not a Mickey Mouse subject, but it might encourage you to question how “Mickey Mouse” came to be a synonym for something discreditable & lightweight, while Disney now accounts for nearly 40% of the US film market” 🙌🏼 #touche
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Dr. Lucy Neville
4 years
@ucu I get there are many legitimate concerns re: campuses not re-opening but I am SO SO SO tired of this ridiculous BS assumption I keep seeing in comments that if teaching staff aren’t physically on campus they aren’t working. It’s ignorant and offensive and it needs to stop.
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Dr. Lucy Neville
4 years
“You’ll see how much A snowflake matters When we become An avalanche” - Grace Petrie
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Dr. Lucy Neville
3 years
In positive news: after THREE YEARS I’ve finally passed my probation and have a permanent role @CriminologyLeic ! Putting aside the fact it took me less time to decide to get married(!) I’m very happy to be #TeamCrim
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Dr. Lucy Neville
6 years
“It’s not so much what goes on ‘Behind Closed Doors’ that is the issue here, but what goes on inside closed minds” - the fabulous @WhoresofYore on #APPG #sexwork report This is what the report on 'pop-up brothels' missed out
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Dr. Lucy Neville
2 years
@JanelFontaine @mattlodder I buy good. I buy real good.
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Dr. Lucy Neville
5 years
One of the most beautiful & thoughtful trigger warnings I have ever read 💜 @elmyra
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5 years
“In removing sex &nudity entirely from the platform, #Tumblr ’s new policy misses the fact that sexual subcultures are a crucial part of public life & contribute to critical social conversations &meaningful political alliances” writes the fab @ZahraStardust
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Dr. Lucy Neville
3 years
@Fiberalpha @gracieminabox Also, what a lot of folks don’t realise about the so called “morning after pill” is at some points in your cycle *it simply doesn’t work*. All morning after pills work by delaying ovulation, so if you have ovulated in the last 24 hours then it won't be effective.
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5 years
“A brief history of when men sold their wives at market, and why some women enthusiastically consented to it” by the fab @WhoresofYore
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Dr. Lucy Neville
6 years
So I’m extremely excited to announce that my book on women who produce & consume m/m #porn & #erotica is finally out! - contact me for discounts or individual chapters! #FanStudies #queer #sexuality #GirlsWhoLikeBoys
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Dr. Lucy Neville
6 years
Check us out, we’re massive! Loved spending time with my extended academic family - we are colleagues, not competition 💪🏽 ✊🏼 - the university rises! #ussstrike #ucustrike #strikeforUSS #WeAreTheUniversity - big thanks to all the supportive honks we got from the public 😊
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Dr. Lucy Neville
3 years
I’m on maternity leave but striking in spirit! @leicesterucu #WeAreTheUniversity (NB thank you Unions for paid maternity leave 💜) #NoOneIsRedundant #BoycottLeicester
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Dr. Lucy Neville
3 years
Omg 😂
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Dr. Lucy Neville
5 years
Off to be dangerously radicalised at union rep training, I hope 😂 @ucu @leicesterucu - inspired to become our rep by the awesome @DrJoGrady becoming our leader - hopeful for some real change 💜
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Dr. Lucy Neville
2 years
Wtf does the HMRC choose not to robustly challenge rich taxpayers claiming non-dom status in the same manner the DWP responds to cases of welfare support? Obvs I know the answer. The violence we do to poor people in this country is disgusting, as is the way we pander to the rich
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Dr. Lucy Neville
1 year
My article how the insider/outsider status of the researcher influences participants to take part in research projects, particularly when they belong to stigmatised groups, is finally out! #AcademicTwitter #sexresearch #fandom @CriminologyLeic
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Dr. Lucy Neville
2 years
@TootsieSpangles @lolacoaster My former beloved (neutered) moggie would constantly attempt to dry hump my arm. He would “scruff” my sleeve to hold my arm in place and everything 🤮. He had a blanket (known in our house as “the girlfriend blanket”) he’d use if he had to, but my arm was his one true love 🥴
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Dr. Lucy Neville
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War photographers, artistic photographers... they capture images of other people’s raw pain and suffering every day and put them out in the world - folks see the benefit. But how *dare* a woman in pain attempt to control her own photographic narrative #ChrissyTeigen
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Dr. Lucy Neville
2 years
@DrSamHayes1 @AnnaMeierPS I always say to my students that the pay is the least of my issues. It’s fine. It’s not great, but it’s fine. The exploitation, the workload, the discrimination, and the blatant lying & dishonesty around both the attack on pensions and salary costs are what sticks in my craw
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1 year
Sad to be leaving my fantastic colleagues at Leicester @CriminologyLeic , but very excited to be joining the team at Southampton @UoS_Socio_Crim in the summer! Can’t wait to get start an exciting new challenge. A big move for the family too, but so happy to be by the 🌊
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Dr. Lucy Neville
4 years
Caught up on #LoveIsIand Luke: “Oh my god. Am I allowed to touch you?” Shon: “You can touch me. I give you permission” FOLKS THEY ARE MODELLING SUCH HEALTHY BOUNDARIES & RESPECT FOR CONSENT & THEY’RE SHOWING THAT CONSENT CAN BE EROTIC (not a mood killer) & I AM SO HERE FOR IT!!!
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Dr. Lucy Neville
4 years
And yet everyday on twitter I have to read all this crap about how I am a selfish snowflake hysteric for not travelling 1 hour on public transport every day to give my students f2f (instead of the meticulously planned online course I spent all summer designing for them 5/?
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2 years
My 40th birthday today - a decade my mother never got to see. It’s going to be a lovely day with many of my favourites, but, even 33 years after she died, it’s a day where I often feel suddenly (and inexplicably) hollowed out by grief.
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Dr. Lucy Neville
5 years
Just a general reiteration of how tired I am of academic books being so inexplicably and pointlessly expensive. HOW?! WHY?!?! In what universe is any monograph, however fabulous, worth £78? So many things I’d like to own & have to hand, it makes me sad. Tired and sad.
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5 years
I had to dash off before the end of the excellent @BPSSexualities conference earlier this month, & so didn’t realise I’d won the best oral presentation prize in absentia for my paper on women, m/m #porn and the privileging of bisexuality - couldn’t be more thrilled! #PoSConf19
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2 years
Uh… Just to point out to my employer that 63% in favour of strike action & 77% in favour of ASOS is not “voting against” industrial action. We’re not striking because didn’t make the 50% turnout requirement @leicesterucu #UCUstrike
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3 years
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Dr. Lucy Neville
3 years
A bit quiet on Twitter at the moment because getting to grips with this still...
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8 years
"Apparently, the right to middle-class feminist outrage trumped the more fundamental right to work" #sexwork
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3 years
Pretty proud of how my new home office turned out! Bit of a glow up from its former ugly garage self. The demands of working from home made DIY-ers out of us…
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7 years
"What It’s Like to Be a Genderfluid Sex Worker" #sexwork
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3 years
The fact that the government’s trying to pass legislation to ensure that transphobes can pretty much wander on to a campus & start giving impromptu “talks” at will, but firing someone for challenging research is totally fine & in no way an infringement of academic freedom is 🙄🤬
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Dr. Lucy Neville
3 years
Wild how this implies we’re striking because we’re anti-excellence. WILD #NoOneIsRedundant #BoycottLeicester #WeAreTheUniversity @leicesterucu @ucu
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Dr. Lucy Neville
6 years
. @northumbriapol have designed stickers saying 'removing condoms without consent is rape. Northumbria Police will always prosecute for rape' that sex workers can display where clients can see 💪🏼 #sexwork #rightsnotrescue #BtGlaunch2018
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Dr. Lucy Neville
6 years
SNP youth to campaign for #sexwork #decriminalisation : “The reason behind our shift in position is safety. We believe that decriminalisation will prevent sex workers being forced to work alone in unsafe environments”
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4 years
And this makes me a shitty, lazy person who doesn’t deserve to keep their job. I’m fed up of it tbh. It’s extremely upsetting and extremely wearing. 7/7 #AcademicTwitter #onlinelearning
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3 years
“I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night” #ReclaimTheNight
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7 years
"Sex Work and Higher Education: A Mix of Disparate Identities" #sexwork
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Dr. Lucy Neville
3 years
It is not our duty to vet your officers; it is yours
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We know we have an urgent duty to do more to protect women and girls. Here are some questions you can ask if you have concerns about an officer. If you feel you are in imminent danger, always dial 999.
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It’s finally out! Our book on #acidattacks : context, motivation, & prevention. Hundreds of hours of trawling police databases and interviewing offenders; if it helps even one potential/victim, it’s worth it. @hopkins_crim @TeelaSanders @palgravecrim @CriminologyLeic
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Dr. Lucy Neville
5 years
My great uncle George being an absolute legend! 🌈
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At 96, it gets better every year! Thank you one and all @PrideBrighton See you next year. #WeStandTogether #TheOldestGayInTheVillage #BrightonPride2019
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3 years
@rebeccamakkai I’m a napper, and feel similarly maligned. My natural sleep cycle would probably be 12am-6am; then 1pm-3:30pm. When my toddler refuses to nap I’m like “why would you throw away this wonderful opportunity you tiny idiot?!?!”
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Dr. Lucy Neville
3 years
Whenever I read stuff like this in THE, I’m like: “wherever do they find these godawful neoliberal stooges within the academy... oh...”: ‘Steve Davies is the founding director of Learna, a provider of postgraduate online education, with a portfolio of Executive MBAs’ 🤑🙄🙄🤑
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4 years
This is so interesting for the way it subverts gender norms in sexual images in the media (also: this is the sort of content I like to see 😜)
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Dr. Lucy Neville
2 years
Teaching courses on sexual violence is hard - trying to do it in a warm & compassionate way knowing so many students will also be survivors; but also inject some levity to make it less unremittingly grim. Holding your anger in check but letting enough out to try & inspire.
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@ohJuliatweets Alongside him we got another semi-feral old tom that even the animal loving shelter owner hated 😂. He was a bitey arsehat who rubbed his butt on the floor like a dog (leaving streaks of poo) and had to have a kitty inhaler administered daily against his will. But we loved him.
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1 year
2) Folks who seem completely unaware that wildcat strikes exist & hurt employers/end users more than legal/regulated strikes. You can’t magic strikes away by hobbling Unions, banning them, or tying them up in bureaucracy. That’s not how life works. That’s not how humans behave.
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2 years
Had today booked as leave for months & month, so assumed no picketing for me, but stumbled across an Edinburgh university picket on my way to my hotel! #UCUstrikes #OneOfUsAllOfUs love from @leicesterucu to @ucuedinburgh
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