🚨DR UK's Statement on the EHRC's New Code of Practice "We are appalled at implications that an adequate workaround is trans people using Disabled toilets instead. We will not be used as a loophole in the wider erosion of trans rights." Full statement👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...

wise words from a friend of the show novaramedia.com/2026/05/29/t...

Why do people love telling me that I "look twelve years old" and then getting surprised when I take it as an insult rather than a compliment and respond in kind lol. Telling me I look young for my age is fine (and true) but please don't tell me I look prepubescent it's quite weird and mean frankly

Hey Bluesky folks. If you’re in education or just follow for my thirst traps, would you please sign this if you can, and share far and wide? c.org/dCKk9vjqxY It’s much appreciated. My university is cancelling all UG humanities degrees. We need support and love right now x

At the end of all these cuts, will Linguistics actually be taught outside of a few 'elite' Universities? (and even at those institutions, the field will be much smaller than it once was) If you aren't seeing this as a Widening Participation issue, then you really don't get what's going on.

DAWKINS: You idiots believe in God? ALSO DAWKINS: The Computer is alive. And it’s also my girlfriend

happy to see one of my poems in the new issue of Frozen Sea, thanks for having me @frozenseapoetry.bsky.social :)

Issue Twelve out now! Check out our link in bio to read some next level work from our contributors 👾🩵🪓 @chrisblackman.bsky.social @birosmudged.bsky.social @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social @ella-b-winters.bsky.social @thejayestofzees.bsky.social

After finishing my PhD in English, I finally have time to take on editing work again. So I'm very excited to announce that I've just launched my own freelance business! junikvarving.com   I primarily offer: 📚 Developmental Editing ✍ Line Editing 💼 Academic Editing 🎓 Tutoring for Academic Writing

If you’ve ever sat and had a full blown full volume conversation in the Quiet Zone on a train when I was in the carriage just know I was exploding you in my mind

A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful. Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.

We're looking to capture experiences of what it means to be queer in the UK today! To do that we're collecting day diaries for 12th February. It doesn't matter what you get up to, or how you record it, we'd love to have it!🧵 (1/4) #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26

#OtD 2 Feb 1988 4 lesbians abseiled into the UK House of Lords in protest at the homophobic section 28. In 2017, 4 other lesbians climbed onto the Houses of Parliament in order to put up a blue plaque commemorating the 1988 action stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9181...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSf_... Thank you @antiquaries.bsky.social QUEERING THE BRITISH HOLIDAY

People are doing discourse about this (shocker) so I’m gonna weigh in and say I think she’s cute and this is a nice thing actually :)

The first pieces for our issue on Pedagogical Resilience, Challenges and Adaptive Strategies, created by students & faculty of the English Department at Al-Aqsa University, are now live! www.briefencounters-journal.co.uk/BE/issue/12/... #EducationMatters #Gaza #Resilience #صمود #Palestine #فلسطين

Here on Bluesky, the image from our appeal campaign page got flagged as "adult content" so every time we link it we have to use this thumbnail instead. Support the Vagina Museum in a world where billionaires censor education and art based on ideology www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2

This is how I feel when I post on Close Friends on insta

I am terrible at promoting my own stuff, but I was recently on a very cool podcast with absolute delights @krheyam.bsky.social and Ann of @vulgarhistory.bsky.social talking all things Anne Lister! It really does get rather vulgar...

This epistolary novel could have been an email

Still on my way back from a cold, dark and wet Halifax visit (fortunately the archives were warm, light and dry)

I enjoyed collaging at the queer studies symposium in Sussex :) I am pleased with my collage personally and excited to display it in our flat to unnerve visitors

🖤 ANNE LISTER 🪶 (3 Apr 1791 — 22 Sept 1840) Anne Lister died on this day, as far from her Shibden Hall home as she had ever been, æt. 49. 💫 Grateful to all who have revived her singular story — and who amplify her ver. “proud spirit” and lifelong commitment to 𝓞𝟧+𝟥 [hope].

Mimi loves queer media

Delighted to share our first call for contributions! We are seeking proposals to lead meetings in any format which will promote conversation and debate among junior Lister scholars. Deadline 15th October. See below & please help spread the word!