"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

Delighted that the newly-minted DOCTOR @katherinewyers.bsky.social will be presenting our research at the second #TRAI symposium this afternoon. I am mildly diseased and will be decompressing in the brief window that punctuates today’s 3-hour teaching bloc, but she’ll be onscreen in all her glory!

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza. Instead, 461 people—including New Yorkers—have been detained by the Israeli military. They must be freed at once. And the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now.

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

There is no more time for excuses: as the evidence of Israel’s genocide continues to mount the international community cannot claim they didn’t know.

It is over for the genocide deniers. Even the BBC is now splashing on the UN commission of inquiry concluding that Israel has committed genocide. Those who supported Israel's onslaught: You backed a genocide. You will never scrub the shame away.

This article on #LOTE has long been a passion project of mine. I can’t express how grateful I am to the brilliant Sarah Sharpe at JISS/Aberdeen for making time/space for (as I was then) unaffiliated ECRs to develop their research and make that idea a thing. jiss.aberdeenunipress.org/article/411/...

oh, we can detect it, with our eyes. It's that we don't have the time or resources to evidence or the reassurance that our academic misconduct systems support us. Plus: I'd rather invest energy in supporting students to develop their skills & knowledge than in chasing those who don't want to learn.

Sensing Starmer's departure, and aware his performative hatred of trans people has fatally harmed his own ambition to become PM, he utters some warm words - and commits less than £3 per person to tackle the problem his bigotry helped to create. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

Yvette, I'm confused.

Close and slow...

reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland

Wanted my first #EdFringe related post to be a positive one BUT we needed to kill time between shows and popped in to the Pear Tree at a time when Daniel Muggleton was doing a free gig and…yeah, steer clear of this casual homophobia-laden dogshit.

We’re heading to court tomorrow for the first step in our challenge against the EHRC’s transphobic guidance. Together with two trans people and one person who is intersex, we’ll be asking the court for permission to bring our case. We’ll let you know as soon as the court decides.

We've been cutting and folding zines in anticipation of our event TONIGHT with Éadaoín Lynch and Zosia Kuczynska to launch a new zine "Remember How You Are Liberated." Rock on by to find out more...

🥁🎺ZINE LAUNCH at @typewronger.bsky.social TOMORROW!! 🎺🥁 Collaborating with @eadaoinlynch.bsky.social on this archive-based poetry project has been a true gorgeousness, and I'm so thankful for their generosity in bringing me on board. Come help us celebrate! www.eventbrite.com/e/remember-h...

Had a blast thinking and talking around #queerjoy and digital infrastructures with my forever brain crush @katherinewyers.bsky.social at my erstwhile stomping ground of Avenue Campus, @unisouthampton.bsky.social. Thanks to the Queer Joy Revisited symposium for having us!

'Nowhere else in modern life, whether urban or rural, is there a public space where anyone can enter and remain without the expectation of payment or labour.' Check out @eadaoinlynch.bsky.social's 🔥 report on public libraries for Scottish Book Trust. www.scottishbooktrust.com/uploads/stor...

Journalist request: If you live in Scotland and your employer has recently changed its bathroom policies to exclude trans people, I want to hear from you. Drop me a direct message.

Just my beloved @katherinewyers.bsky.social being a extraordinary…

Come along tomorrow & see me wax lyrical about mystery book lesbians, sparkling wine, & my recent collab with @eadaoinlynch.bsky.social at the #LavenderMenace Archive! 🍾 (Also the delectable @katherinewyers.bsky.social will be showcasing her new saxophone composition, because she's fab like that.)

And one about all the international condemnation of the Supreme Court ruling and EHRC repsonse, including a statement from 18 UN Human Rights Experts docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This warms the cockles.

Okay, so very briefly, here’s the state of abortion in the U.K.: it’s still illegal in GB! (Legal in NI) However, you can get one legally if you get a doctor to affirm that it’s a risk to your health- and that includes mental health, so it is de facto very easy to get a free legal abortion. BUT.

Intersectional feminists know that trans people are just a wedge issue for the patriarchal forces trying to push back abortion rights, gay rights, assisted dying and the emancipation of women and people of colour. We stand together or fall apart. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

tfw your leader does a rivers of blood speech and you get banned from pride in the same week

We're collecting data and stories on what the appalling Supreme Court decision means for trans and gender non conforming people. Lawyers will review all responses - please share your story because if we don't know we can't act. (And please share with friends.) goodlawproject.org/about/trans-...

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Bump 🏳️‍⚧️

that's fully just white supremacy speak. My god.

If you haven't already, please give as much as you can to the @goodlawproject.bsky.social fundraiser so they can challenge this heinous anti-trans ruling. #TransRightsHumanRights goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

I'm sure we all agree that signing an open letter will be far more effective in the fight for trans liberation than actors withdrawing their labour from a TV series that will in all likelihood fund the next big anti-trans legal case in the UK... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Truly a mindfuck to be reading Monique Wittig in this day and age and wondering what the hell happened to make me nostalgic for the Second Wave.

The rights of trans people do not conflict with the rights of lesbians. It’s why polling shows that, more than any group, lesbians and bisexual women are supportive of the trans community. Our community’s liberation is bound together. #LesbianVisibilityWeek

A summer of protest it is, then.

See you there, Nottingham folks 🏳️‍⚧️✊

Join @againsttransphobia.bsky.social, @nottspastelproject.bsky.social and Trans Pride Notts in protesting the naked prejudice of the Supreme Court's judgment on trans women. This Sunday, noon at the Brian Clough Statue, Nottingham City Centre.

Find your local protest and show up for your trans siblings 🏳️‍⚧️

List of planned actions happening in the UK after the supreme court ruling. Please get in contact if you see a protest that hasn't been listed so we can share it out.

In this piece, which I am proud of and I stand by every word, I make two serious criticisms of the procedure that the Supreme Court adopted. goodlawproject.org/the-supreme-...

Today's Supreme Court Ruling - which will decimate trans lives - is a direct result of a case funded substantially by J K Rowling. This is what we mean when we say support J K Rowling & Harry Potter has tangible harms for trans people.

Another hideous day on TERF Island. Decisions like these mandate and pave the way for an ever narrower and more violently exclusive vision of femininity that will harm and confine everyone, cis or trans. Please, please do not take this lying down.

The priest caste of an unpleasant island that once ruled far too much of the world—facing collapsing living standards, a crumbling civil society, and increasingly globally irrelevant economic and political leadership—chants “Adult Human Female” as if it were a spell that could banish their curse.

"rendering them incoherent and unworkable" They seemed to be working pretty well until the castle-dwelling zombie began throwing money at anything that excreted transphobia like a circus seal begging for mackerel.

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It's not true that all benefit claimants are unemployed: 37% receiving Universal Credit work. But in any case, our party exists to serve the whole working class, including those out of work. Cutting welfare would have disastrous consequences. We can tax extreme wealth instead.

'Balancing the books' on the backs of poor and disabled people was wrong when the Tories did it, and it would be wrong now. It’s a political choice - one that could push 700,000 households into poverty. Our government should instead tax the ballooning wealth of the super-rich.

I spoke to the Today Programme this morning about why cuts to disabilty benefits are a political choice - and the wrong one.