The exhibition coincides with the release of The Word for World, a book edited by @suchmayer.bsky.social and Sarah Shin, co-published by AA Publications. Use the code LEGUIN for 10% off on our site 💙 www.silverpress.org/collections/...

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me” • They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me • Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked • She was filmed while stripped naked Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives" “Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”

reading at this in october!! be there or be thought a square xx

dudes rock

London literary types, I’d love for you to come along to this event we’re putting on next month! Tickets here - www.thehorsehospital.com/events/reenc...

Hello! Would love it if you could all share this & donate if you have anything to spare - so close to the initial goal! Christine is a dear friend & it is so rough trying to fund postgrad study these days! Even just a fiver would help! www.gofundme.com/f/help-chris...

Lest you say "it's not like that in the United States," I am currently representing a person facing criminal charges for - and this is true - saying "protect trans kids" during a school board meeting

The first 11 pages are names of babies who are dead under the age of 6 months. The first 381 pages are all children.

Website/device age verification is a privacy and security nightmare and everyone who tells you that this is a solved problem is lying to you.

defector.com/the-plight-o... “what's really happening is that, in response to historic declines in literature’s value, the industry has itself become a site of more contingent and more precarious work that is more often done by women”

Looking across the papers today, anti-trans rights commentators and politicians also seem to be the ones opposing making abortion legal. It shouldn’t be a shock to anyone - they’re against bodily autonomy. For everyone.

If you know Nan Goldin fans who want to help the trans community... @charliejane.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @transgenderreport.com @cherylmorgan.bsky.social hyperallergic.com/1019335/nan-...

The NUJ joins @ifjglobal.bsky.social in condemning the arrest by Israeli authorities of journalists Yanis Mhamdi and Omar Faiad, who were aboard the Madleen ship carrying humanitarian aid en route to Gaza. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

solidarity with the protesters, solidarity with the flotilla

organizers from the Gaza Freedom Flotilla has announced those aboard the Madleen have been abducted by the Israeli army, and the aid resources aboard taken

Entire Madleen crew representing 7 countries has gone dark and presumed kidnapped by Israel Greta Thunberg Rima Hassan Yasemin Acar Baptiste Andre Thiago Avila Omar Faiad Pascal Maurieras Yanis Mhamdi Suayb Ordu Sergio Toribio Marco van Rennes Reva Viard

The path to the end of Roe V. Wade was paved with abortion providers being killed, and clinics being bombed and set on fire.

For historical reference only: The suffragette movement in the UK did employ violent tactics: www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politi...

Wrote this essay on fantasy & romance & reading! Ft cameos from a number of friends, plus clumsy mediations on Maria Edgeworth, Nora Ephron, Angela Carter & Diane Di Prima open.substack.com/pub/emmatran...

Confidential records obtained by WIRED & @propertyofthepeople.org show the ag industry deploying moles to infiltrate activist meetings, while functionally serving as FBI informants, in a shadow campaign to brand the animal rights movement America's biggest bioterrorism threat. My latest @wired.com:

Interesting (& concerning!) that TERFs are up to this while Dworkin has a revival among trans-inclusive feminists

Wrote this essay on fantasy & romance & reading! Ft cameos from a number of friends, plus clumsy mediations on Maria Edgeworth, Nora Ephron, Angela Carter & Diane Di Prima open.substack.com/pub/emmatran...

No one's "perfect" but many other Women's Liberation Movement bodies of work exist. Ones that aren't rooted in the kind of fascistic claim to innocence that gives rise to - literally, in this case - settler-colonial solutions. What if everyone was doing a Prescod/Nestle/Hollibaugh revival instead...

Until recently I hadn't read "Scapegoat," a book that is never mentioned in the now 6-year-long Dworkin revival going on (even though it seems in many ways to be her magnum opus). It's the book where Dworkin finally says what she thinks women should do. The answer she comes up with may surprise you.

Friday! Come along! Ft @tambourine.bsky.social @kuuhulluutta.bsky.social @pulpyfiction.bsky.social & more! 🎟️ - www.eventbrite.com/e/re-enchant...

guys. GUYS LMAO

Forgot to share here earlier but while still technically may 1 in part of the world - May Day by Phillis Levin 🥖🌹🌱

Female cinematographers are far and few between. Per the annual industry report the Cellulod Ceiling, female DPs shot just 12 percent of the 250 top-grossing movies in 2024. So, when a high-profile male director hires women it’s a big deal; when he keeps hiring women it’s a big fucking deal.

Oh my god

Oh to be a fly on the wall when Denise Colomb took these photos of Leonor Fini & Leonora Carrington in Fini’s Paris apartment

It’s a glorious day when Tessa Hadley writes about short stories tbh

The second post talks about me talking about my research in Madrid, speculative modes of resistance, plus some scattered thoughts on graffiti: open.substack.com/pub/emrystra...

My first post, by way of an introduction, gives a whistle stop tour of what dialectics and historical materialism (with glitter text) mean for me in relation to queer/trans identity, and gay liberationism as a window onto the reification of gender and sexuality: open.substack.com/pub/emrystra...

If you’re free in London this Friday night you should come along! x

The very same kittens 4 months later… can you BELIEVE it

Change of line up in fact! We will now be joined by the fab @tambourine.bsky.social

Lineup is here! Ft @roryisconfused.bsky.social @badsocialism.bsky.social among others!

Anyway the most imp thing I have to share rn is this event I’m co-hosting with some lovely friends, hopefully the first of many! Pls share far & wide with any London based literary types who might be keen! Event is free & byob, readers to be announced soon on our IG @ reenchantmentldn x

Anyway the most imp thing I have to share rn is this event I’m co-hosting with some lovely friends, hopefully the first of many! Pls share far & wide with any London based literary types who might be keen! Event is free & byob, readers to be announced soon on our IG @ reenchantmentldn x

Best lit event I’ve attended in ages! My fave bit was when she wears the boxing gloves x

one curious feature of our particular dismal political era: some people have gotten so addicted to the particular vice signaling around empathy / concern for other people that they seem to see evidence that something will benefit others as evidence that it will harm them

Nothing like skinning your knees to make you feel like you are six years old again

This is hugely disappointing, though not entirely surprising. The drama output on BBC Radio 3 is exciting, innovative and hugely enjoyable – and yet given very little publicity. At Christmas, there were more plugs for Gavin and Stacey than any drama offering of their own. (1/5)

this would fix me

I wrote a little something about my New Year’s resolutions here! open.substack.com/pub/emmatran...

This is my mood for 2025, happy new year and all x