happy valentine’s to my beautiful angels, the twin lights of my life. here is them both ignoring me in favour of pasta

I’m watching Breathless for the first time and I was not aware it would be such an accurate portrayal of being pursued by the worst man alive

my wife is wearing funeral couture to the function again

increasingly adopting the tinfoil hat theory that tate mcrae is actually an S tier pop girl, who is being suppressed into A/B tier both because she’s low-key personality wise (like dua lipa) and because she’s muscular rather than skinny/dainty

Fanfiction's total cultural victory: defector.com/fanfictions-...

you may think fanfiction's influence on the novel stops at bargain-bin romance books; you would be wrong - it's everywhere. i went deep on the relationship between fanfiction and contemporary publishing for @defector.com defector.com/fanfictions-...

so intensely fascinated / horrified by the social media wars and harassment campaigns surrounding heated rivalry that i’ve been trying to find the book Fandom is Ugly everywhere and have had to request it to my uni library lol

Rowling's people inviting Epstein to a dinner and a performance of The Cursed Child, long after he was convicted of child sexual abuse... exquisite.

btw if you're in belfast tomorrow and have the evening free you should go see my brilliant girlfriend's debut hour at black box www.glistrr.com/events/e/c%C...

I am going to lose my mind. As someone currently doing legal research into sex deception laws, I don’t trust rape law as far as I could throw it, but this is not a CURIOUS FEATURE OF THE LAW

in my attempts to spend more time on bluesky, i’m gonna keep a thread here of my favourite first-time film watches by month January: STOP MAKING SENSE (1984) THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (1928) ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (2025) BLUE MOON (2025)

i hate to be a killjoy but a lot of my mutuals are posting as if Good Law Project just beat Sex Matters in court and the Hampstead Ponds are safely trans-inclusive for good now, when what actually happened is something like 'SM got turned down by one kind of court and told to use a different one'

i just opened instagram, tapped this one trans guy influencer’s story, and got hit with a blast of an original song called ‘pussyboy’ that was so intensely horrifying that i feel like i should be able to file for emotional damages

i do not need more work but i want to write about the traitors and the police/prison/military industrial complex sooo bad. but since the US doesn’t have civilian traitors i’d have to find a british or irish magazine

A surge in harassment and fear has been reported by Black and brown LGBTQI+ people following the UK supreme court’s 2025 ruling on biological sex. Charities say people are facing increased scrutiny and abuse in public spaces. ✍🏼Jaheim Karim hyphenonline.com/2026/01/26/t...

In our latest installment of the Humans of Masafer Yatta x Vashti column, resident of the village of Tuwani Shoug Al-Adara captures in crisp prose how Israel's occupation has turned what should be a simple walk across the street into a minefield. www.vashtimedia.com/how-to-cross...

just got very positive peer review back on my first academic article :):) it’s a three-author collaboration in games studies and i’m so so pleased with what we came up with. excited to finish edits

people constantly hound rape victims for not prosecuting their rapists, saying they’re somehow responsible if the person rapes someone else. meanwhile if you try to prosecute, and you have actual audio evidence that you’ve been assaulted, it could still be used to put YOU through a trial

only problem with traitors s4 endgame being amazing is that people are gonna be gassing up studio lambert all year again

alex and i won £125 at the pub quiz last night despite being the smallest team! so we definitely need to avoid it for a month or two before we bring alecto and emma…

my heated rivalry article is getting syndicated in France which seems like a vote of confidence when it comes to a show about gay sex

Building on the BashBack leak - Who funds the Free Speech Union? democracyforsale.substack.com/p/who-funds-...

In this week’s Pickle, editor Evan Robins (@evenrobins.bsky.social) unpacks the international networks and financial flows behind AI-powered mass surveillance and state terror. www.vashtimedia.com/uks-biggest-...

actually sickening that the ruling talks about Rose as 'a biological male, one believed to be in a sexually functional relationship with a female partner'. i'm working on a piece about this atm but sexual harassment against trans women has just been fully normalised in media and policy

afaict they're announcing a partial victory in the darlington nurses case as if it's a full victory and taking a certain quote out of context, but i don't know what repercussions the judgment might have for trans women until i've read it in full

should gay actors play gay roles? do women like gay shows 'too much'? i wrote about heated rivalry and its associated Discourses: www.dazeddigital.com/film-tv/arti...

i fear lammy would have let the bronzefield strikers die and that he is planning to let heba and kamran die

Palestine Action activist Heba Muraisi, 31, said to be “near death” after 70 days on hunger strike,

Heba Muraisi is on day 69 of her hunger strike. Kamran Ahmed is on day 62 of his hunger strike. They are at risk of dying at any moment. This is a political choice by Keir Starmer’s Labour government. Immediate bail for remand prisoners NOW.

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

ICE are lying pigs. The moderate position is junking the entire agency and prosecuting everyone in their command structure for war crimes. The morally correct position involves twenty-yard scaffolds.

really, really worried about Heba Muraisi, who is on day 64 of hunger strike and is attempting to get moved back to HMP Bronzefield (she was moved to HMP New Hall, which is hundreds of miles from her family, without reason). there is serious serious likelihood she dies this week without intervention

it’s now day 47 for the longest strikers. qesser could easily have died this week if not for the courageous people who refused to leave Bronzefield until an ambulance was called

So everyone is understandably focused on Levy right now but there’s a bunch of other stuff sneaked into the accompanying NHS England letter which I’m gonna flag up 🚩

here’s my initial gloss of the levy review’s 20 recommendations:

levy review is surprisingly not that bad. lot of minutiae to analyse but it reads as overall better for us than for our opponents, albeit still incrementalised & wedded to the GIC model.

Looks like Levy may be dropping at 2pm. 1) Dont panic 2) Itll take some careful analysis so beware people jumping the gun 3) put your own mental health first. If youre posting stuff, be responsible and mind other mental health. Use warnings etc as appropriate. Looks like a busy weekend for me.

it is clear from the mass wave of cruelty that Qesser and her supporters have been receiving that medical neglect is not just rampant in prison, it is considered to be the entire point of prisons. medical malpractice cannot exist in prisons because prisoners are supposed to be injured

my brilliant gf wrote a really incisive article about how reality shows work differently in different countries. why are reality game shows more complex in belgium and korea than in the UK?

Eight people are on hunger strike, several apparently at imminent risk of dying, because our law punishes more harshly those opposing genocide than those supporting it. (And under a so-called Labour Government.) How on earth did we get here? www.vashtimedia.com/hunger-strik...

An important read medium.com/@missfredawa...

if you are interested in trans liberation, you should be amplifying the voices of the trans activists striking for prisoners and for Palestine. you should be amplifying the voices of the Muslim activists striking for prisoners and for Palestine. this is where our energy should be going

In an urgent piece for Vashti, contributing writer Eli Cugini analyses the web of intersecting struggles fuelling the biggest prisoner hunger strike in the UK since the 80s, and asserts how we need to respond. www.vashtimedia.com/hunger-strik...

covered the UK prison hunger strike, looking both at vital info about responding to the strike & wider analysis of how it brings together different forms of liberation struggle. the media blackout is cracking a little but time is very limited. please share widely www.vashtimedia.com/hunger-strik...

Amu Gib is one of the Palestine Action-affiliated prisoners on hunger strike. Today we are publishing an extract from their prison diary which covers the initial days of their hunger strike.

Solidarity with the Filton 24! Solidarity with Prisoners for Palestine!

we live in hell

wrote an account of London’s newest gender clinic, TransPlus, and what to expect if you’re referred there

i wrote about the current state of transmasc representation in film (ft. a little dive into After the Hunt), and why it is filling me with a certain despair: www.dazeddigital.com/film-tv/arti...