just had my first gender clinic appointment after almost 5 years on the list. bit surreal. def backed up the general sense that TransPlus is the best clinic option in the UK alongside Manchester’s Indigo - gonna be writing up an account soon

just got offered a gender clinic appointment next week after five years on the list lol

regrettably this is so unsurprising - ghey has entirely capitulated to the cultural demand that she rewrite brianna as a victim of childhood transness rather than of transphobic murder. she’s betraying her daughter to save her own skin

wrote up a quick account of a trans teenager who was murdered by their father [allegedly] and is being treated as a cis woman by all relevant media coverage. hasn't been picked up by queer media even though he wrapped them in a pride flag after killing them eliacugini.medium.com/onyx-cornish...

I think Onyx being trans should be salient to this reporting. He deserved so much better, and their memory still does

@support.bsky.team i have tried to verify my age via every available method you have provided me, and it won't accept any of them. i have been a legal adult for ten years, and i need to be able to message other activists on here for work

'i'll watch punch-drunk love, it's a rom-com' - man who is 60 minutes in and is now about as stressed as when he saw uncut gems

i'm watching my first paul thomas anderson movie!

'Positive masculinity' promises a compelling vision of happy, secure, gender-equal boys and men. But is it just an airbrushed reinforcement of traditional masculinity? www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

alex: bloody wimbledon me: what's happened with wimbledon alex: it's on

"The literary festival is an institution that deserves more suspicion than it gets" writes @eliacugini.bsky.social, uncovering the right's co-option of the Oxford Literary Festival and the free speech industrial complex pumping its festering heart. vashtimedia.com/how-the-oxfo...

After the Oxford Literary Festival gave Sex Matters director Helen Joyce her first festival booking, I did a deep dive into the festival - and into how the right-wing 'free speech' grift is encroaching on British arts spaces, with potentially dangerous results. vashtimedia.com/how-the-oxfo...

watched je tu il elle and now i wanna howl at the moon

periodic reminder that the right-wing Swift Press / Forum Press is publishing an alarming amount of ‘anti-woke’ conservative & reactionary nonfiction in the UK (including Abigail Shr*er’s work), and is backed by a massive indie press alliance headed by Faber & Faber

tonight's episode of Genius Game is an all timer (i got a screener) and my girlfriend designed the main match !!

sex is changeable; this is scientific reality. everything is changeable about sex - this is why changing it is punished with its revocation

who named them capybaras and not guinea bigs

i’m going to make yellow and green happen if it kills me

ok so an important thing i really think people on bluesky need to hear about the anti-trans megabill the tl;dr is that you could actually turn the tide of trans rights in america right now but if you don’t act now, then we’re all cooked indefinitely please read on 🧵

it's so funny to me when straight guys are like 'the dating market is doomed for straight men. women just want Chads' and then they show their dating profile and it makes it look like they want to feed you to their snake

Manchester and Merseyside Disabled People Against Cuts have both jointly put out a statement criticising the EHRC for their active interventions against dealing with racism, disablism and transphobia under Kishwer Falkner. manchesterdpac.com/2025/05/16/s...

soccer mommy fit

for my debut with @lwlies.com i profiled ireland’s first trans & nonbinary film festival, TITE, at which i spent a very joyful and intense weekend in april lwlies.com/festivals/ti...

reminder that if you are a cool and sexy outlet, you could do a really cool and sexy thing during pride month by commissioning one of the UK's Extremely Small Number of trans people actively working in culture journalism. such as me hi

New poem in www.aftershockreview.com edited by @maxwallis.bsky.social 💜

it’s #GeniusGame time i could not be more stoked for people psychologically ruining each other over Big Wordle

i wrote for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social about the supreme court judgment, and how the idea that it ‘clarifies’ gender is actually a violent project to reify right-wing ideas of ‘nature’ and produce a two-tier gendered system

benjamin geniusgame is everything to me i would be his friend in real life

Episodes 1 and 2 of my #GeniusGame podcast Dealer’s Room are up now! Thank you to special guests @roarjustice.bsky.social and @chubicki.bsky.social for joining me and chatting with the eliminated contestants. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d... open.spotify.com/show/16mg7V6... Fighting!

Won’t share the link (the pdf is easily found on the Sex Matters website). Posting this screenshot of a longer passage from the Sex Matters letter of 28 April to CEO of NHS England for those still unaware of the arguments being made. Of course this is a trans rights scandal.

my gf @undeniablyalex.bsky.social is hosting the genius game podcast with the eliminated contestants!! some v exciting special guests queued up too. ep1 is out here: open.spotify.com/episode/68dc...

TRANS FUNDRAISER It's wild how in Glasgow, it's extremely difficult for trans ppl to get their bloods done by a doctor. This initiative is raising money for a pilot scheme to provide free blood tests to trans people in Glasgow! It's run by good people, please donate if you can! gofund.me/2a3efdce

this feels like a weird and disorientating time to be on holiday but i’m gonna take the rest before rejoining the work. here’s my gf looking bomb in a rollercoaster queue btw

My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment. The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010 www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...

people doing on the ground work in the UK to actually define what the ruling says and its risks to trans people would really like this type of uninvested bombastic doomerism to stop

I'll be working as fast and as thoroughly as I can today, but I am not going to beat the GCs who have seen this judgment days in advance. Please wait for actual analysis from friendly sources to come out before believing whatever propaganda gets spread about this case.

out of 12 comedians at the frog and bucket gong show last night, i was one of only 4 to beat the gong! here's a clip from my set :)

Eli Cugini was - of course - a delightful and brilliantly perceptive interlocutor! Check out our conversation about antifeminisms and feminisms, enmity and innocence here:

for dazed, i talked to sophie lewis (!!) about her new book www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

just got out of FLOW which is very pretty but which i didn’t really connect to - a film more interesting to talk about than to see, at least for me

as a newbie standup comic there is perhaps nobody i fear more on earth than people who are a little too intense about standup comedy

my friend ilya has been doing incredibly crucial work on the intersections between CBT for BDD and avenues for conversion therapy

sick of seeing wingstop be the go to 'good chicken chain' in the UK. wingstop is mid. slim chickens and doner shack both blow that shit out of the water

such a fun night 🥰

i'm performing at xs malarkey in manchester tomorrow! last minute addition 👀 athena kugblenu is headlining!

today is the day i finally visit The Place (trafford centre)

didn’t know it was possible for a balatro run to go this badly

alexandra’s lgbtq+ history month lecture at kellogg college oxford is available now on youtube! youtu.be/0UYoO717qsc?...

i wrote this essay on polyamory for my substack last year, i care about it very deeply, and i think it's a deeper treatment of the subject than is easily available in basically any magazine or newspaper eliacugini.substack.com/p/on-polyamory

Eli Cugini revisits Season 8 of 'Are You the One?' and what happens when a straight show goes queer for a season. "AYTO is not really a show about couples. It is a show about dating shows."