I’m coming to #London #Manchester #Edinburgh and #Glasgow touring a book on the long history of #transgender people and the fight for #LGBTQ rights against Nazis in the #Weimar. I’m a journalist, an author, a TV host, a PhD, a podcaster. Interview me. Let’s annoy #TERFS @theguardian.com any takers?

I LOVE threads like this. Yes, give me all your special interest analyses.

This badly written skeet wasn't QUITE how I wanted to launch it, but yes, the brilliant @bschillace.brandyschillace.com is coming to Manchester in October to chat with lil ol moi about how the queers fought the fascists LAST time. It'll (we'll) be cute. You should come.

Turns out, turns OUT... there might be a sigNIFicant discount on the book for people who come along, so, ya know, sign UP

This badly written skeet wasn't QUITE how I wanted to launch it, but yes, the brilliant @bschillace.brandyschillace.com is coming to Manchester in October to chat with lil ol moi about how the queers fought the fascists LAST time. It'll (we'll) be cute. You should come.

Turns out, turns OUT... there might be a sigNIFicant discount on the book for people who come along, so, ya know, sign UP

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

Dersh has been banging this drum since Trump1 & the really good news is: ostracism works, even on the shameless. Tons of people miss this--the shameless are hyper-sensitive to stigma. Civil society should use this free, non-violent tool to punish destructive people a lot more often. It works.

I’m so excited!

Why are they attacking trans people? @bschillace.brandyschillace.com knows why. Join us as we talk about her history of the the first target of fascist bookburning - the legendary Institute for Sexual Science, a haven of research and support for LGBTI+ folk www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-qu...

Why are they attacking trans people? @bschillace.brandyschillace.com knows why. Join us as we talk about her history of the the first target of fascist bookburning - the legendary Institute for Sexual Science, a haven of research and support for LGBTI+ folk www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-qu...

show this to every consultant who thinks chasing toxic masculinity is the way to getting going men's votes

@the-independent.com has now scrubbed two articles exposing the bigotry of a nurse spearheading an anti-Trans+ legal crusade When media outlets censor their own factual reporting to placate extremists, they’re not just failing themselves and the public, they’re undermining democracy itself

No major headlines to report for today [Jul 28]. If you're able, pls consider donating to orgs fighting the man-made famine currently gripping parts of Sudan. For Darfur: DHRN www.paypal.com/donate/?host... For South Kordofan: HRRDS reframe.network/donate-now.p... #KeepEyesOnSudan

One thing this world is showing me is that my peace, my joy, my comfort, my determination cannot depend on external events. It has to come from 'inside', from connection to something greater. These tears are from letting go of a world that can ever be carefree. But beauty, warmth, love persist.

Hope in this deep & powerful sense is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but...an ability to work for something because it is good, not because it stands a chance to succeed. - V. Havel (tr. P. Wilson)

extremely important to remember that you DO NOT TALK TO THE POLICE WITHOUT A LAWYER

I will never not understand how a minority of people have decided that wind farms - significantly prettier than pylons, coal power plants, nuclear power plants, and almost certainly fusion power plants - are ugly. In terms of energy generation, what else are you hoping for that is better?

Oh my god this thread has so many people I didn't even KNOW I was confusing as the same person.

"obscure south asian channel" is fuckin hilarious he did an interview with News18 which hits about 180 million people a week they get more eyeballs in a night than the NYT gets in a year

"We live on a floating rock, just get on with it."

“We march to pay our respects to the trans people that came before us, and do our best for the trans people that will come after us. And we’re hopeful, because every happy trans face is a victory.” Solidarity with everyone at Trans Pride in London today. ✊🏾🏳️‍⚧️

As I continue writing my book on navigating the workplace with a disability, I'm still looking for disabled voices to include. If you're interested in sharing your experiences, please reach out!

Make them lesbians, you cowards!

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”

How you play is what you win. HOW YOU PLAY IS WHAT YOU WIN. I keep saying it to myself. (quote from Ursula Le Guin I now need to track down in context) how you play is what you win

Protect Josh Johnson at all costs.

Slopper is going into my vocabulary permanently, now

This has blown my MIND. #Breadsky did y'all know about this?

Hey Manchester! Liberation - the brilliant, bittersweet, galvanising play about the 1945 Pan African Congress is BRILLIANT. If you turn up at (or phone) the @rxtheatre.bsky.socialbox office at 12pm, you can get £10 tickets! Only on till Saturday - the best theatre I've seen in YEARS

You ever working on something, have it be so easy, that you automatically think you’re skiving and should be working on something else, but no, you’re actually doing the most important/urgent thing, it’s just not a struggle? Or just me and my ADHD stars aligning?

Just finished reading @bschillace.brandyschillace.com's brilliant and vital book The Intermediaries on the Nazis and the Hirschfeld clinic, a haven for trans, queer and intersex people. Felt sick and had a cry as it got to the end, and you can see it all happening. WILDLY relevant for this moment.

Alan Cumming on bathroom bills: "Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

We don't normally assign sentience to computer programs, but natural language patterns seem to be an exploit in our brains. See! It's alive! I must respect it! *ignores trees, rivers, humans not in our house or our phone*

THIS TIME

Adoption is an alternative to parenting, not to pregnancy. Abortion is an alternative to pregnancy. People need to understand the difference. Pregnancy is not a health neutral state. It can cause serious harm. No one should be forced to remain pregnant who doesn’t want to be.

For as long as democracies exist, white supremacists running for office should be asked the following: “what’s the magic number of white babies that you want the average white woman to breed for you to restore white dominance? Please be specific - is it 5.4? 6.3? 7.2?” We should insist on a figure.

At Trans Pride Brighton yesterday the awesome Kate Nash mentioned the @nionwomen.bsky.social petition for cis women against state transphobia, which has now exceeded 38,000. Please sign and share…. www.change.org/p/not-in-our...

I decided to dig up the front patch of grass in front of our rental and turn it into a 'wildflower meadow'. Took me about a month to do what with one thing and another. At the end of April it looked like this, and remained looking like this for QUITE a while.

Framing is important and insidious.

The entire point of good reporting or good scholarship is to tell us something we didn’t already know and the idea that they could ever be replaced by AI tools that rely on scraping the internet database of what we *do* know is just ludicrous.

Oooh. Would love to bring this to Manchester

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If NYC gets a mayor who rapped about chapattis and got slapped by Madhur Jaffrey, we might reset the timeline, you know.

Starting to feel like most humans aren’t equipped to deal with something that confidently lies and communicates those lies with a fluency almost no actual humans possess

people are not built for having an evil genie whispering in their ear about how amazing and perfect they are and confirming every bias they ever had, to say nothing of the constant vigilance for lies and misinformation

I spent the first week of my 50s in solitude, in an attempt to reset my splatted brain and reclaim my attention. Let’s just say I learned a lot. medium.com/@megalighthe...

It asks if a Black woman who’s drowning in student debt can join up with her mall coworkers to defeat the Debt Police and destroy their student loan company by pulling off the heist of a lifetime.