The following is a repost of the original article in LSE student newspaper The Beaver (archived version here). Teach-out staged in response to recent LSE guest speaker Iraz Akkus and Hannah Gillott On Monday 20 November, LSE students and staff joined together to show their support for the queer and transgender community in response [...]
On 20 November 2023 LSE faculty, staff, and students joined with invited speakers to commemorate the Transgender Day of Remembrance, through a vigil and a teach-out organised by Rejoin Stonewall. Participants gathered outside of the Marshall Building on LSE campus, holding posters bearing trans-affirming messages and lighting candles in remembrance. [...]
Trans-critical members of an LSE 'Academic Freedom' (LSE AF) group have organised a public lecture with UK barrister Akua Reindorf. The lecture launches a new London-wide council called the London Universities' Council for Academic Freedom (LUCAF). The council is led by trans-critical professors in universities associated with the University of London. The launch was scheduled [...]
Some have recently criticised the UK charity Stonewall as a 'lobbying group', a 'pressure group', and a group with an LGBTQ+ 'political agenda'. It was among the primary reasons cited by senior managers at the London School of Economics for leaving from Stonewall in early 2023. Of course, Stonewall is a UK civil rights charity [...]
Here you can find a few scholarly resources on academic freedom and on trans issues that are relevant to our cause. Contents Academic Freedom / Trans-Inclusive Feminism / Trans Panic / Stonewall / Kathleen Stock Academic Freedom Amia Srinivasan (2023) "Cancelled: Amia Srinivasan writes about free speech on campus", [...]
There have been coordinated rollbacks on LGBTQ+ rights at the London School of Economics in the last last year, with the attack focusing on trans rights. The rollbacks began when a small group of senior professors with anti-trans views successfully lobbied the LSE School Management Committee to pause and then disaffiliate from the Stonewall [...]
The LSE has quietly revised its Discrimination, Harassment and Bullying policy this month. The new policy was posted on their website sometime in early October 2023. We have received reports from UCU and Unison union members that both unions were consulted about these changes in August. However, it appears the Student Union was not consulted. [...]
Today the LSE launched the "LSE Academic Freedom" group (LSEAF). Their homepage includes links identifying Nigel Farage and Elon Musk as "heroes", and the entire leadership committee has strong ties to gender critical views that are critical of trans and LGBTQ+ identities. The group has proposed a policy that would allow lecturers to put [...]
During a 2023 Pride Party in the LSE Center Building, a group of activists dropped a banner that read "LSE Rejoin Stonewall". The LSE publicly announced its disaffiliation from Stonewall in January 2023.We have obtained video footage of the banner drop below, which took place on 1 July 2023 at approximately 1pm. The hand-painted [...]
On 23 May 2023, a mass student walkout occurred in one of the LSE's largest amphitheatres, the Old Theatre in the LSE's iconic Old Building. The lecture, which was organised by two professors at the LSE who helped to lobby the School Management Committee to leave the Stonewall LGBTQ+ charity, featured author Hannah Barnes. Barnes [...]
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