i do find it quite funny how conspicuous it is that my credentials would cash in if i was cis and right-wing. gonna go get that doctorate that magically becomes a fake doctorate if you’re trans

@suchmayer.bsky.social saw you’re at the SSS next week, are you just coming for the session or are you going to be around manchester for a bit? :)

the entire basis of the EHRC code is that specific kinds of cis discomfort - even imagined discomfort, fantasised-about potential discomfort - outrank the rights of trans people to public life within the eyes of the law

i went through the ballots of the guardian’s 100 best novels of all time list, found the most obscure novels that were recommended once, and made a goodreads list to counter the ubiquity of the official list: www.goodreads.com/list/show/41...

have been stoked for this to come out for some time. this and night night fawn are gonna be my special treats this summer

i was like 'where do i know this guy's name from' and then i remembered

feedback so far essentially amounts to 'this is great also why would you do this to me' so if you enjoy that vibe in your games, consider playing. it's free with an optional donation button and its playtime is only like 5-10 minutes

scam caller just called me, i hung up, and then she immediately called me back and was like 'why did you hang up' LMAO

i made a twine game about getting your sex toys stolen eliacugini.itch.io/intimacy

have discovered mint magnums aren’t that good. i will be withdrawing from public life in protest

It's concerning that the Minister did not explicitly confirm the updated guidance will explain how organisations can lawfully remain trans inclusive. If you want your MP to hold the government to account over this, now is your last chance to tell them. Email them using our tool. Takes seconds 👇

told my girlfriend that my boyfriend's staple diet appears to consist mostly of bread and she cracked up over the line for 15 seconds before replying 'you're in love with the muffin man'

good incentive for my works for a pro palestine collective ass to go ✈️ graduation

partner’s radio alarm went off at 8:30am due to it not being turned off for the bank holiday and it immediately started blasting PINKY UP by KATSEYE which should count as a terrorist attack

bar regular was shocked that my bf is not straight and now i’m kind of peeved that nobody has ever, not once, reacted that way towards me. i could be straight. i could be straight so good

the suburbs - arcade fire easy lover - bailey & collins visions of gideon - sufjan stevens fast car - tracy chapman september - earth wind & fire bull believer - wednesday paradise circus - massive attack rest my chemistry - interpol night shift - lucy dacus bros - wolf alice

if rick devens has no fans i am dead

Have had a couple of dropouts, so am still looking for scholars (ECR and above), speakers, and/or writers for my panel on family abolitionism and literary studies in Leeds on May 29. Any suggestions?

with the caveat that i don’t know the intricacies of the sussex / stock judgment yet: hahahahaha yessss eat shit arif ahmed

trying to have a serious professional brand for my serious professional job is difficult because i am perennially one minor inconvenience away from posting nudes

in my 8th year of uni and still find it shocking how much easier it is to get hold of books if you're at oxbridge compared to anywhere else. i'm a student at one of the largest universities in the country and i cannot find Shit in here. meanwhile oxbridge's libraries have everything by default

yeah whenever americans call the UK terf island i’m like so true bestie, do you follow my colleagues and i or do you think we’ve all died already lol

still coming off the high highs of anne hathaway catwoman vs the low lows of talia al ghul

i see people are talking about ben lerner

little off base here odeon

listening to the audiobook of my bf's favourite book (catch-22) while i clean up my room and the audiobook is really bringing into focus how fucking gay it is. i recognise that if you have a hammer everything looks like a nail but i didn't remember it being THIS gay

struggling both with being overloaded with PhD work and with being pissed off about all the essays that i want to be writing, but do not have the time to pitch or do, because of the whole 'i need to get a doctorate' thing

bookselling taught me - and taught me repeatedly and aggressively - that the Right has a near-monopoly on determining what books represent an acceptable diversity of opinion, vs what books should be purged or their existence never acknowledged in the first place

it’s so nice out so i am doing my spring/summer ritual: going for a sunshiney walk and sneezing every 5-6 seconds

have 1 essay left to mark and class left to plan and i’m exhausted and pissed off lol

on essay 18 of 20

spending a weekend at a festival feels soooo good until you fly home monday morning on not much sleep and suddenly you have 4 essays to mark and a class to plan by EOD

was chatting to an actress from one of the shorts last night with a vague background hum of 'i recognise her from something' and then realised this morning that 5 years ago i was self isolating in my flat watching her in a digital stream of a national theatre show

forgot about the Problem that if you are staying in a cheap (well, not cheap enough) hotel then the walls may be thin enough that you can hear literally everything, and it sounds like someone is trying to enter your room every 2 minutes, which makes it hard to sleep

In this week's Pickle, editor Kendall Gardner on Starmer and the UK's pitiful response to the US-Israel war on Iran. www.vashtimedia.com/spineless-st...

opened instagram reels by accident and the FIRST reel they deliver me is that fucking american chaser guy. burning sage over my phone

can’t believe that when i visit my gf in belfast and refer to that as being in a ‘different country’ she makes fun of me. girl are we fighting the good fight or not!

MAJOR UPDATE: I found the best free restaurant bread in the United States www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

i see people are doing 'queer kink is just much purer and more caring than straight kink' again

‘the supreme court ruling was touted as a win for clarity but has actually made nothing clear’ haha yes about that tribunemag.co.uk/2025/05/a-mu...

finally got to show my natasha lyonne loving queer girlfriend but i’m a cheerleader

i love my research i'm currently editing a section where i talk about how anna kornbluh talks about autofiction as if it's pornography, and then i follow that up with 'and maybe it is!'

i'm not fond of the hashtag symbol. it's a little grating

reading through TJA's gloss of different Circuit rulings re forced outing of trans kids and every time i see the phrase 'biological pronouns' i say 'kill yourself' out loud

don't think i shared my full lindy west deep dive on here, so here ya go! www.deeptrouble.net/p/the-lindy-...

My article in NW Bylines about the Starmer government’s deployment of the misleading term “gender questioning” for trans kids. Trans kids need help resisting this loaded term. IMO it is being used to open the door to what I characterize as a government policy of “wraparound conversion therapy”

bit fucked to put this as the title for an interview with an actress

Ok. Here we go. I'm looking for £800 to put both my shows onto the EdFringe site. A CERTAIN APPEAL is a show about my fight with DWP and PIP to prove I'm disabled WHAT'S IN THE BOX is my cult panel show with a box Wanna help me get these to Edinburgh? paypal.me/frizfrizzle ko-fi.com/frizfrizzle

i didn’t have room to talk about this in the pixar piece really but it is insane how nervy pixar are about girls and how much manoeuvring they have to do to render female protags acceptable to them. mei in turning red is a MASSIVE outlier

wife: i dreamt about a cleaning company called ‘good and bad cleaning’, which advertised itself as there for all of your cleaning needs, whether you needed the clean to be good, or to be bad