“Following For Women Scotland, the EHRC was tasked with updating its guidance on sex discrimination to provide standards for everyone to follow. The EHRC was not required to make its guidance as trans exclusionary as possible, though that is what it did.” www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...

Love that 20k people signed this on day 1 Why? Because we’re DONE Tech companies profit from hate & disinformation every day & face zero legal liability because they’re classed as “platforms” not publishers An insane loophole that needs closing NOW PLS SIGN you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

As is so often the case @quaker.org.uk are showing the way.

Thanks to all who have signed. Sadly my MP in Leicester East is letting her constituents down. If you haven't written to your MP, please do so.

Someone enjoyed the catnip today

When we're living in a Children of Men kind of universe, threads like this are balm for the soul.

This is how to union. @unison.org.uk

Call for research participants! Are you non-binary, aged 18+ and living in the UK? Would you be willing to spend 30 minutes on a survey on your experiences of family? qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_... Please share! I am a researcher on this project - A short thread to follow. 1/14

Got to hang out with Hort the tortoise yesterday and it may have been the best thing ever. @westcotthousecam.bsky.social

You know what I'm sick of? Being labelled 'weird' or 'radical' or 'extreme' for literally just wanting to live in a world where we just bloody leave animals alone. Isn't it actually the least extreme position to hold to want as little harm and suffering as possible?..

I wrote a thing for @shibbolethmag.bsky.social and they were very kind about it. Then I subscribed because the values on the page were calling out to me. Also Midna struggles a bit with all the words but it turns out she loves a good picture by @nakedpastor.bsky.social

Once again I repeat my motto: "Don't comply in advance, but also, don't cry in advance."

Far right newspapers are trying to run a smear campaign against Misan Harriman. We can't let them. Add your name to the open letter, and stand against hate and division. goodlawproject.org/s/4ca10b

🚨 The collapse of our natural world is a direct threat to the UK’s national security. 🌍 The Nature + National Security Bill is a new, urgent, science-led response to this emergency. 📣 Ask your MP to choose the #NNSBill in the private members’ bill ballot. Head to 👉 zerohour.uk/write

I'm a very flawed feminist, not an official theologian (whatever that is) and stubbornly agnostic. Which is all to say that this gathering of people is for anyone who thinks that feminist theology could have something to offer them as they consider their faith and/or spirituality.

This is the church that has provided a refuge for so many, including this survivor of religious trauma. I don't know where else my wistfully agnostic faith would find a home.

A tsunami of anti-trans hate to be published in the UK legacy press tomorrow. All designed to put maximum pressure on the government to cave to the obscenely hateful demands of those calling for trans folk to be excluded from public life. Remember you're loved and only you define your identity.

Enjoying moody brooding skies over Leicestershire today

My favourite musician (aka my youngest offspring) performing with their beautiful band in Leeds on Thursday

I do not like this gen AI I do not like what it implies I do not want it in my art I do not think it makes you smart I do not want it in my games I do not like its goals and aims I do not want it in my books I do not like the way it looks I do not like it, I don't care I do not want it anywhere

"Even though our roles as therapist or clients are well defined, transformation is not limited to the client’s experience. Therapists would do well to remember this humbling truth, in order to examine their role in this relational giving and receiving."

“And this debate is, I think, less about gay people than it is about who gets to hold that power.” @arusbridger.bsky.social writes about the scandal that is the collapse of LLF. 🕯️✝️

Visiting youngest offspring and it turns out Bolton Abbey looks great on a drizzly February afternoon

New episode up now. Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis, with guest Doctor Rowan Williams. www.backlisted.fm/episodes/257...

This morning I posted our petition to get Palantir out of our NHS and our public services. Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you. Please do keep sharing! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.

This month’s Featured Therapist on the Nomad Therapy Network is Ayo Oluwatudimu. Ayo supports overfunctioners, “strong ones,” and those carrying too much, helping them rediscover limits, self-compassion, and curiosity. Read her story: www.nomadpodcast.co.uk/therapy-network

Love this so much

Youngest offspring has crafted another beautiful, wistful, ambient Winter EP. You can listen for free on Bandcamp. All money from purchases will go to the Sameer Project - a Palestinian led mutual aid project supporting people in Gaza aaronbrooks1.bandcamp.com/album/winter...

There is also an accompanying blog post summarising some of our conversation: josephinehughes.com/how-to-recog...

TOMORROW! (20th Nov) We are really looking forward to gathering and walking with you all tomorrow for our Trans Day of Remembrance Walk! It will be cold tomorrow evening, around -1c. Please wear appropriate warm clothing and good shoes! ...and don't forget your fairy lights ✨

This Thursday is Transgender Day of Remembrance. To mark this we have a Taize service on the evening of TDOR itself. This mediative reading will include song, readings, and the reading of the list of names. On Sunday our Eucharist will also mark TDOR with a special sermon and prayers.

@mikehigton.bsky.social has published this brilliant response to the Faith and Order Commission's misappropriation and misrepresentation of his work in its recent documents which informed the House of Bishops' recent decision on Living in Love and Faith. #CofEpeeps viamedia.news/2025/11/17/c...

New article in the International Journal of Disability & Social Justice - 'I Just Didn't Fit into the Way That They Did Church': Barriers to Access & Participation for Disabled People in Churches naomilawsonjacobs.com/new-article-... #EqualityAct #NewResearch #DisabilityStudies #AcademicSky

Thank you for this @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social "the real avoidance isn’t on the part of those struggling to survive. It’s governmental: the avoidance of the real, the avoidance of the structural, and—most crucially—the cynical avoidance of justice." substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

I've signed this open letter. #CofEpeeps, lay or ordained, if you want the church to become more fully affirming of LGBTQ+ folks, please read this letter from Inclusive Church and consider signing it. www.inclusive-church.org/llf-open-let...

"we’re all going to need to figure out how to do our version of the right thing, being wholly committed to bending over backwards to the point of disobedience to enable such blessings to take place and happy to do what we can to celebrate them."

In the middle of a flu like illness currently. Woke up last night muttering "the witch took my hands and the hands took my faith"and still can't quite shake the feeling of profundity I had in that feverish moment!

For anyone who's weary of glib responses and superficial "answers", this book faces the pain with rigour and integrity.

Quakers getting arrested in parliament Square, Quakers describing bigotry for what it is. They're an example for us all.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Theology in Scotland Call for Contributions (Spring 2026 issue): Theology and Mental Health 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📓 Seeking contributions (articles, theological reflections, creative work) that explore intersections of theology and mental health 👉Full call + details here: ojs.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.php/TI...

This is what politicians are for

Some quotes from a fantastic In the Shift episode. Shared with gratitude for the many gender expansive people who have contributed to healing my world 🩷🤍🩵 "Gender expansive people heal the world." 1/ www.podbean.com/ep/pb-ajssu-...

It gets very tedious that any time someone points out the, actually very obvious and evidence based, point that to stop more deaths in the channel you have to provide people with alternative, safer, routes to seek asylum in UK you inevitably get some dickhead saying "oh how many should we take". 1/

I can only dream of such a culture being modelled by senior NHS management. I'm hugely grateful to those, usually nearer to the coalface who do their best to live something better.

Spent most of my waking hours @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social under the apple trees in the Orchard. I love that this festival exists; the ethos, the imperfect human quest for true inclusivity, the space to remain agnostic and explore faith and spirituality. I also find it an overwhelming experience..

"Oddly the BBC never mentions this. It would be a shock to people in England to see how poorly treated we are down here." via Expats for Scotland Independence