super disappointing to see such a talented artist go from a queer positive series to remake slop that serves only to line the pockets of a terf billionaire so she can pay for her transphobic crusade 😞

My MP, @alexdaviesjones.bsky.social is an affront to democracy. Last year, she set the police on two of my neighbours for the crime of drawing attention to her voting record on Palestine. This week, she, A "Minister of Justice", stood in a courtroom and lied through her teeth.

Bliss @queeremporium.bsky.social 💕💕💕

A lot of people approach trans community organisers as if they were service providers who need to do a job for them and darlings that is not how this shit works.

LRT: 4 points is a lot in PIP assessors' minds - most people will get their PIP stripped if this does indeed come into force. Can't wait to be confined to my house in poverty, thanks Keir!!!!

So many disabilities need serious help but also are not asymmetrical in this way, so they’ll lose out on PIP. It’s ridiculous that we’ve had to document to a stranger when we were suicidal and how long it takes us to shit, the humiliation of it all, and now they’re taking it off people.

All the way up to possibility of setting the house on fire, you know. So 4 points in a single category is already possibility of randomly dying because of your disability. I personally think that’s quite a high bar for support!

This thread, but also: if they're making it harder to get PIP what does that mean cus it's basically impossible to get it now without Citizen's Advice to bully them into handing it over

The Disability Price Tag report of 2024 by Scope (updated annually) put the current extra cost per month on average for a disabled household at £1010. PER MONTH. And our Labour government wants to slash the support money people are offered?

For last year, the DWP release figures that there was 0% fraud for PIP, so the announcement that they're going to make PIP harder to get is just admitting they are restricting it from people who could and should be in receipt of PIP.

This looks like the actual dream job for any writer. Working for a great show, room to collaborate, room to be alone, goofy fun vibes...

Some people are hollering for trade unions to stand up to Labour re disability benefits - but trade unions have long insisted on using "working people" as a synonym for "poor people", furthering the myth that disabled people are better off finanically than the working-class.

Sorry but @panedoge.bsky.social TRULY are knocking it out of the park with their monthly subscription! I was just saying to a friend that I wanted to read more queer horror and here she is!! Three months in and three bangers!!!

you should absolutely be appalled! not that trans people exist and deserve autonomy But that the NHS is wasting YOUR MONEY in being an obstacle to that for absolutely no discernable benefit to anyone at all.

they know all of this but they would rather maintain control over trans lives rather than admit they were wrong to ever act like they could be arbiters in who people are. So they are spending millions of your money doing that when they could just fucking not and we'd all be happier for it.

the extra is just what's being wasted by the NHS in pointless screenings and consultations and psyche appointments and wait times etc and so forth. And they could probably cut the £70/year down by buying in bulk from suppliers - which individuals can't really do.

it roughly works out to about £384 per trans person according to the ONS - though the census is likely under representing the true number of trans people and so it's probably significantly less than £384. my DIY hrt cost about £200 for a 3 year supply to buy. which is around £70/per year.

"NHS spends £100m a year on trans treatments" "not on hormones or surgery though lmao" so the headline is really "NHS spends 100m a year on being an obstacle to trans people's bodily autonomy." You should be appalled at how much they are wasting in preventing us from transition! it is sickening!

I love National Theatre Live. I really wanted to see this production of The Importance of Being Earnest but I just couldn't get to London while it was on. As a Wilde nerd and a gay boy... I'm having the best time. I need Ncuti's suits so bad.

louis de pointe du lac please come home, the kids miss you!!!!

Unison is the largest women’s organization in the UK. It has a million women members. The Unison women’s conference just voted for a motion that said; “trans women are women and trans men are men” with no-one speaking against it. Transphobia is a top-down, elite practice.

What's gayer than brunch at @queeremporium.bsky.social? Soo good

I was also taken to another country for conversion therapy. I tried and planned to kill myself multiple times. I tried contacting the British consulate, they did nothing. My heart breaks for Eden.

Depressing the BBC will rightfully criticise Saudi Arabia, but not criticise the very groups they legitimise like Bayswater who do the very same conversion and advocate for the very same things that happened to Eden to stay legal, and enabled her abusers to take her to Saudi Arabia

IT'S LGBTQ+ HISTORY MONTH! PLEASE COME AND VISIT! January has just ended and is a notoriously difficult time for retail and hospitality, and coupled with the state of the overall economy, it has been a rough time as a small queer non-profit (as I'm sure it has been for most people).

Ok, Bsky - a MISSION for you. We want as many subs to Wrath Month as possible, from as diverse an array of voices as possible. POC voices, disabled voices, neurodiverse voices, trans voices, ace and aro voices - everyone. Scream it from the rooftops, folks!

@lucentdreaming.bsky.social "Beyond / Tu Hwnt" out in bookshops today!

First time I've seen Cardiff Devils lose... 1:4... Here's hoping it'll be the last and all

Sooo happy that @queeremporium.bsky.social is open again 🥹🥹 It was a long January without these hot chocolates!

She has not been provided with her prescription of Sertraline for the past week since Monday (13/01/25) and Estradiol Valerate (HRT) since prior to the weekend. The Sertraline prescription issue has been raised with healthcare staff multiple times during the past week, with no answers or progress.

Via the Justice 4 Zoe Watts campaign on Instagram www.instagram.com/p/DFDc4cMoFS... Statement concerning the Treatment of Zoe Watts at HMP Peterborough 20/01/25 Zoe Watts, who is currently being held in the Men's Healthcare Wing at HMP Peterborough no longer has access to life saving medication.

swear that man isn't even acting half the time 💀💀

Treated myself to a @panedoge.bsky.social subscription at the end of last year and I just started reading the first book I got - Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon - and it hit so many of my interest areas I'm blown away! Thank you Paned! Long live indie bookstores!

There are currently six talks under LGBT topics scheduled at the Oxford Literary Festival. TWO of them are by obsessive ‘gender critical’ transphobes (and ZERO trans people, of course!) 😖 @joannechocolat.bsky.social as a board member and trans ally, how does this sit with you? 😞

Stop the persecution of Kurdish political activists in the UK - sign the petition and show mass solidarity with our Kurdish friends in the face of repression. Our friends are still in custody and on hunger strike since Wednesday. www.change.org/p/stop-the-p...

The police state is intensifying day by day. chng.it/pS7NqnfhzS

I can't help but imagine that if this "assisted dying" bill becomes law, I'll be getting a letter from the DWP within a decade that boils down to "we've decided to stop your benefits, but we can offer you a nice little death appointment if you like :)"

Hahahahaha Woman’s Place UK have shut down

BREAKING: New Action by Trans Kids Deserve Better (TKDB) TKDB are holding a protest inside Victoria Station. Updates, Photos and more video to follow.

Powerless

Utterly dystopic that our (corrupt and racist) MP is asking ordinary people to donate money to support the victims of flooding here. This is failure of the government and the council and the government and the council should be paying.

I'm all good (it's times like these that I'm glad to live on a mountain) but it's scary seeing my hometown flooded like this (again)!

How do other writers keep up with all the new books coming out? It's just struck me how few new releases I've actually read this year. I'm still working through the backlog of books I already had! Is it that you just don't finish them all?

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant. www.middleeasteye.net/news/icc-iss...