This is reminding me i haven't done my good news thread. Whats your good news of the week? What's your good news?

ICE in Charlotte. The guy in the headlock is a restaurant worker. Barbarians.

Trans and non-binary individuals have been warning for years that anti-trans policies will also harm cis women. Determining access to toilets based on how someone looks inevitably means anyone who doesn't look exactly like some stereotype transphobes have in their heads will end up getting harassed.

In April, I wondered what a trans toilet ban might look like in practice. Trans people and their cis women allies have been sounding these alarms for years. It now seems clear that the UK government took all these dire warnings as policy proposals. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. Since 31st October 2024, at least 340 trans people have lost their lives to anti-trans violence, or suicide. Transphobia kills. Please be an ally every day. tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports?from...

Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance #TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames *** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *

Did anyone on the production team pause to consider the narrative consequences of that? Did they think, "Hey! Wasn't a big part of the original debate here about whether a privileged white author was persistently centering herself and aggressively adopting a victim pose in response to criticism?" 3/

God, the whole article is so deeply dishonest. Clanchy's book was "suddenly derided" - no mention that the "sudden" trigger was Clanchy loudly demanding an obscure Goodreads review be taken down b/c of racist quotes she claimed were made up, prompting everyone to check and find out they were genuine

Whenever I see the tide turning against a popular actress I wonder which powerful man she turned down

Emily Maitlis seems unable to apply the same standard to her (or the media's, more generally) coverage of "trans issues" 🤔 In fact, it's worse than that. Her starting point is simply that healthcare experts are wrong, for #reasons, and she and her fellow GC journos are brave for pointing it out.

please don't do this. MAGA hats are made from an acrylic blend, which will release toxic chemicals when set on fire, potentially harming you and downwind woodland creatures

When you think other people are your “growth opportunities” or “lessons you lose all concept of it”

SCOOP: In text messages sent in 2017, Jeffrey Epstein appears to position himself as a middleman between president Donald Trump’s administration and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates. He seemingly represents himself as passing on information directly from Trump to Gates through an intermediary.

Listen. We all need to agree to block any user who makes or shares memes about Epstein. The last thing we need is to be surrounded by rape jokes with a visual component.

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

It's wild to me that Kate Clanchy felt like she could make a living being a keen tutor to and observer of other people and yet, she seems totally unprepared to grow as a human being. Who hasn't had their unconscious prejudices challenged over their career?

Glad I'm not the only one who hasn't forgotten about Kate Clanchy. If she were teaching in Ontario she would have at the very least been suspended by the provincial regulatory body for teachers, for her harmful and racist writing.

kate clanchy is a racist and no amount of british media whitewashing will change that.

This is an excellent piece on why critique-- especially of racism-- is not "cancellation": https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/13/pointing-out-racism-in-books-is-not-an-attack-kate-clanchy

Ahh, the pitiful anonymous Clanchy apologists have slunk over from X, I’m sure the tube73 family are terribly proud of you for spending your time sticking up for her, Bob.

Another of Clanchy's defenders was Philip Pullman. Ignoring the clearly bigoted and discriminatory content of her book, which was accurately reported, he thought it appropriate to brand her critics the Taliban.

Solidarity with the true victims of this. Because Kate Clanchy and her pals are in no way the victims.

Katie Razzal's bizarre decision to attempt to rehabilitate racist, sexist, ableist creep Kate Clanchy should haunt her.

Kate Clanchy is back in the news, with a multi-part series on BBC radio to sympathetically explore her 'cancellation' this is what will be covered up again, and the racist pile-on which followed

What happened to Kate Clanchy? She attacked an amateur book reviewer for accurately quoting her work. Then when it was proven to be accurate, set her publishing pals on people who politely critiqued her work. It is genuinely bonkers that Clanchy has been reframed as some sort of victim.

And, the BBC have managed to wangle an actual apology (???) out of Kate Clanchy's former publisher, whom she parted ways with not long after this controversy for the "hurt" it caused her. You'd think a journalist might follow up and ask them what about the hurt that Clanchy caused people?

Oh no. Not a podcast on Kate Clanchy, you must be shitting me.

The BBC are dragging up the whole Kate Clanchy affair, four years later, with a SIX part podcast. There is no public interest reason for this, and they are just going to retraumatise the victims: the people who criticised Clanchy. One of them has already started receiving hate mail again.

The framing on the BBC website is infuriating. "The review accused her book of using racist language. Kate rejected this". Ah. So, could we see the language? No? Why might this be? Why might it not be convenient to have examples like 'Ashkenazi nose' or 'chocolate skin' put in front of us?

The BBC and The Times have decided to resurrect the victimhood of Clanchy. But the facts are the facts: Clanchy wrote her racist, Islamophobic, ableist, and Anti-LGBT thoughts for all to see, and when challenged attempted to deny it. (See full 🧵). bsky.app/profile/snig...

You know, I expect from the BBC the alignment with the incumbency and against those pushing for change. That's what institutions do. What I find unforgiveable is the hubris; the lack of any genuine curiosity about what it's like to be Black or Brown in Britain.

this sounds hyperbolic and yet somehow it's actually the case — four whole years after the initial racist pile-on the ability of parts of our *public media* to simply ignore some (articulate, clear) voices in favour of others (with appalling words in print anyone can check) is deeply disturbing

Sadly, the BBC seems to think it is the Farage Press Office.

A white journalist at a white BBC has made what looks like a hit piece about a white writer charged with racism by a number of writers of colour. The twist? The BBC attacks the writers of colour. Solidarity with all Black and Brown people fighting to be treated with dignity. Screw the racist BBC.

Reminder this all started off when someone quoted her book on Goodreads and she threatened to sue them. For quoting words that she wrote. In her book. That she wrote.

Yet again there appears to be no crime more egregious than people of colour accusing a white person of racism. Why can't white folks (I am one btw) ever take on board that maybe you didn't intend to be racist but it's possible to learn and be better.

This thread is an excellent summary for those who don't know the story... bsky.app/profile/snig...

The racism was bad enough, the subsequent lies, gaslighting and bullying campaign against the people who pointed it out was beyond disgusting

Oh, they can all fuck off with this. This racist, ableist piece of shit wrote a terrible book and then cried bullying when she was called out on her own words. And the people that went to bat for her can also fuck off.

Very very excited for this!!

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Since Kate Clanchy is back in the news again due to a misguided BBC podcast series about 'cancellation' - I feel it's worth mentioning that one of the writers actually harmed by that whole situation posted a tearful video to Instagram earlier stating she's already had hate mail from it.