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Academic freedom (or otherwise)
OhtheHillsareAlive · 04/07/2019 07:34
Kathleen Stock has collected a group of stories of feminist academics facing serious threats to their freedom of speech. Whatever you think about current transactivism, the accounts are chilling. There seems to be no evidence of actual transphobia in any of these accounts - just feminists pursuing research interests:
Academic freedom
How confident can any of us be that we can follow our research and teaching with freedom - it's really worrying.
Pota2 · 04/07/2019 22:30
I read it with horror. I am a feminist researcher and this affects me. I feel sick now. I am already on blocklists and I haven’t said anything about trans people whatsoever. How can the UCU think this sort of hounding is okay? I wouldn’t have the mental stamina to withstand the treatment that some of these people have been subjected to.
geekaMaxima · 05/07/2019 18:28
I read it with horror too. I know a couple of signatories of the Sunday Times letter but I don't know if they've been getting grief because of it. I wonder now 
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