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One of the striking things about this article is the role of severe poverty and lack of access to healthcare play in people choosing murderous health cults

"Crip guts, stomas, and the violence of ‘returning to normal’: a feminist queer crip approach to the gut" by Órla Murray www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nice to see Empire of Normality recommended here. blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

Sorry to post an Unherd article but surely emboldened by how trans rights have been sucessfully undermined - and her support from many UK philosophy colleagues - Kathleen Stock is now starting to question abortion rights. It is important to recognise the trajectory here. unherd.com/2025/11/what...

I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.

Labour minisers are rightly demanding Farage answer for his teenage racist and antisemitic harassment. But this does seem odd given that teenage Nigel Farage would clearly have been ecstatic with Labour's rhetoric and policy on immigration today.

Important journalism linking Farage with Bannon and Epstein. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

Ear defenders are inexpensive and dont inconvenience anyone. The only reason to go after people using them like this is if you are in principle against inclusion and desegregation. Reform is a fascist party and disabled people are one of fheir key targets. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

Imagine if Starmer was actually still a trot, sent specifically to destoy the labour party, so that a new left party can take its place, free of the labour bureaucracy. I don't think this is the case, but if it was true, he would be doing a great job.

Not at all suprising but helpful to have a thorough account from multiple witnesses. www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

At this point i basically think a fair bit (not all) of the public spats and press leaks around the top of Your Party are functioning as a proxy for their differing commitments, especially on trans rights.

“If Labour don’t do this, we’ll get a Reform government” Trans people, disabled people, migrants, people of colour and people seeking asylum already have a Reform government. You just want to feel superior to those who like the idea of Nigel Farage as PM.

Losing Alice feels like the ground shifting beneath us—I'm devastated—but to have known & shared even part of this life with her was an honor. She was one of the most fearless, generous & visionary disability activists. It’s impossible to measure how much she shifted the world—I feel it everywhere.

My statement from @americanprogress.bsky.social on disability justice activist, author, MacArthur fellow, and cyborg oracle Alice Wong.

Really intersting panel on this new book at Historical Materialism, i'm looking forward to reading it.

I've finally started writing for my substack again. This is on the fascist mass mobilisation of disabled people and why recognising this is important for fighting fascism today. open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...

Louisiana’s Medicaid program stopped covering trans care. So Trans Income Project stepped in to become the defacto “payer” for that care at one key clinic in the state. Today we hear how and why the project came to be:

It was great that there were so many disability talks and panels at Historical Materialism. It feels like momentum is building for a convergence between revolutionary theory/praxis and disability theory/praxis. Something which is more necessary now than ever.

Adam Curtis is pretty good at splicing random clips together to make a story maybe he should be put in charge of panorama now?

Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down

Of course, because this is precisely why they were put up and what they’re for.

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Some of my favourite people on a panel @ historical materialism @drrobertchapman.bsky.social

Rewatched Fight Club recently and was struck by how it portrayed the fascist (Durden) as a latent psychological possibility already contained within the liberal (the narrator), rather than fundamentally different to them. Surely the film's most important insight.

His victory is brilliant for so many reasons. One of them being this video: www.youtube.com/shorts/4gRey...

This is true but it's also what the Guardian has insisted on euphemising as "populism" for over a decade The mainstreaming of far-right politics would not have happened without mainstream actors enabling it (see BBCQT etc). It's not too late to seriously reflect and change course.

“I am not hungry now,” said the Dark Frog. “I have eaten too many tasty frog children. But after I jump rope one hundred times, I will be hungry again. Then I will eat YOU!”

Didnt realise this was out but I read an early draft and it was the best thing i've read on neurodiversity in years. It surely got a lot better by the time it was published. I'm excited to read the final version.

A Genealogy of Neurodiversity and Its Entangled Politics by Tom Walters. spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

FWIW, this is the MP who works with and co-authors with leading critical psychiatry proponents and PTMF authors. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/far...

This is something @aaronwinter.bsky.social and I explored in our report for the @runnymedetrust.bsky.social in the lead up to the 2024 election Once more, the key question is not whether immigration is a popular concern, but why it has been made so www.runnymedetrust.org/publications...

It actually looks quite desperate when the billionaires personally focus on trying to recruit nerds in their 40s to their fascist vanguards.

All else aside, I think its worth joining your party before the conference next month to help push it towards adopting a pro-trans rights stance, as at the moment this is far from guarenteed. The last thing we need is another transphobic political party.

Looking forward to going to Historical Materialism in London next month. Will be speaking on the "Political Pathologies: revolutionary and counter-revolutionary approaches to mental health" panel. www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/twenty...

This book is titled “Disabling Intelligences” for many reasons. First, because so-called “AI” is built from historical commitments to the excision of disability from the classification of humanity. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Something I've learned is institutions treat inclusion less as a right and more as a kind of weapon, offering it where it benefits them and then subtly withdrawing it selectively, say, to punish or intimidate. In this dynamic even the acts of inclusion become a form of division and domination.

At one point he gets to know that famous pro-natalist couple uncritically profiled in the Guardian and so on, and in private they were basically open about being dedicated to eugenics and race science. Which isn't surprising but its good to have the evidence. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Harry Shukman's recent book is an excellent piece of undercover journalism inside the contemporary far right, ranging from violent gangs in Britain to Sillicon Valley eugenicists. I highly recommend it. www.penguin.co.uk/books/468856...

Thrilled and delighted to say that my new book, Utopian Variations: Utopia in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture, is now out! Thanks to the University of Essex's open access fund, it's available via open access too. You can download the full book for free here: www.peterlang.com/document/156...

There was a poll last year that found 32% of people in the uk thought it likely that a civil war would occur here in the next decade. I don't think that will happen, but i do think it's significant that so many people believe it. And it's significant that this idea has come from the far right.

I've started writing a new book. The first chapter is on the early Scout movement as forming around a proto-fascistic necropolitics. Which would explain a lot, really.

Interesting to read Gramsci saying in 1925 that "We are among the few who have taken fascism seriously, even when fascism seemed nothing more than a blood-stained farce, when fascism was discussed in the common terms of "war psychosis"". It reminds me of all those who dismissed trump as "insane".

Despite all the very real problems with psychoanalysis, I feel that it has room to account for certain things in ways cognitive psychology just doesn't have room for.

Hate it when the washing machine lies about how long it has left to finish. It's such a petty and unnecessary lie.

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