Are you a trans writer of colour? Contribute to a new anthology of short stories dreamed up and written by trans people of colour. We will pay you a fee of £1000. Submissions are open now. https://form.jotform.com/253423694960060 Deadline: 8 Feb, 2026 Questions? Email: [email protected]

Out now! Queer Crafts: Material Practices and the Making of Identity available via the Bloomsbury website and all good bookstores! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-cra...

Did a really fun video with the V&A at their cool storehouse location! WAs such a delight to get to see some of really cool objects up close and chat about art ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Js3LV1KZ7M

“The art institution benefits from the frisson of provocation, but without accepting any risk, demonstrating that no one better absorbs the critique of institutions than institutions… The problem with turning theory into ornament is that when you really need it, it isn’t there.”

Donations and attention to Palestinians always drop off during the holidays, and we're approaching a really long one. Use the time w/your loved ones to educate them about the fictitious 'ceasefire,' ongoing settler colonial genocide, and life-saving nature of mutual aid. chuffed.org/project/1491...

"Under this model, formerly colonized nations must ask permission to temporarily access their own heritage, accept conditions dictated by a British institution, and bear the financial and logistical burdens of care, while the museum retains ultimate control." British Museum fully delulu good lord

'Chris Parkes, a senior lecturer in history education at King’s College London, told Times Higher Education that “to be a trans person in the UK right now is to be exhausted and terrified”.' 1/3

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions. It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

Went to an academic career workshop today for PhD students today and uh...this wasn't discussed (we were told to deal with our confidence gremlins instead. What happens when your confidence gremlin is the imminent collapse of your sector?)

Who knew the incoherent, maliciously motivated and practically unenforceable pseudolegal prattle couldn't actually stand up to scrutiny?

It's transgender awareness week, and if you ever wanted to learn more about the history of transness in cinema, you could pick up our book CORPSES, FOOLS AND MONSTERS at your local library or purchase a copy. We wrote this book for trans people like us. Thank you. bookshop.org/p/books/corp...

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

Soviet republic of New York takes first key step towards total communism by publicly owning Andrew Cuomo

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major

LET'S FUCKING GO

Assata Shakur exchanged letters with Audre Lorde from prison, and Lorde wrote for her the poem "For Assata": I dream of your freedom as my victory and the victory of all dark women who forego the vanities of silence 👇Here's the whole poem

it's AI schadenfreude season

Man i fucking wish 1 in 5 were trans. And you 🫵 can help make this dream a reality

Excited to start rummaging around in Ronald Duncan's archives and travel to his writing hut in Welcombe this autumn 🍂 🍂

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational." - Charlie Kirk, 2023

researchers are where the content comes from; it doesn't grow on the Wikipedia tree

“Politics and aesthetics have an uneasy alliance. Too often, trans art—whatever it might encompass, and whatever form it might take—is on the losing end. Creating good work requires time, space, funding, and the motivation to keep showing up.”

Surely they will have to admit this is untenable. Solidarity with everyone standing up against our authoritarian, genocide-enabling government.

Know of any WGs in Berlin with openings? If so please send them my way!

I occasionally do proofreading and editing for non-English organisations. Absolutely spending way more time trying to decipher AI translated nonsense that completely erases original language nuances and meaning (and assume these jobs will dry up now bc I'm costing people more). Hire translators!

Unsurprised, but disappointed, to see that Newnham College's JRFs are being defined as explicitly trans-exclusionary: newn.cam.ac.uk/research/res...

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

TW. Needs to be widely shared with cisgender people, especially politicians. Utterly horrifying that Britain has come to this- that most of Britain is just looking the other way while a whole community is being eliminated from society because of lies and hatred. transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...

"One display is ‘guest-curated’ by the museum’s royal patron Kate Middleton... She has even ✍️ a gallery text. ‘Objects can tell a story... A collection of objects can create a narrative'... If you haven’t lost the will to live by this point[,] then you cld find out about the 14 objcts she chose..."

writing is

still looking for a non scalped ticket for #autechre in #berlin on wednesday

Our colleagues Al Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif & Mohammed Qraiqeh, & cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal & Moamen Aliwa have been killed in a strike on a tent for journalists near Al Shifa hospital. They worked relentlessly through bombing & hunger to document this war. Please remember them

Please help out a sister.

As Israel obliterates Gaza with Berlin's backing, German public support for the war is plummeting. Yet the government is crushing dissent and refusing to change course — all in the name of atoning for Germany's own genocidal history. By Amos Brison. www.972mag.com/germany-gaza...

List of resources in the thread ❤️🖤🤍💚

god bleas the renters cooperative, nothing like a kinda grumpy old lawyer giving you a pep talk to get your deposit back

If there are a million Jules Gill-Peterson fans, I am one of them. If there are a hundred Jules Gill-Peterson fans, you will find me. If there is one Jules Gill-Peterson fan, there I am. If there are no Jules Gill-Peterson fans, I am dead.

"Today, the textile’s history is largely absent from [curricula] + ignored by labor + economic historians, tho [lace] 'embodies everything: gender, wealth, capitalism, colonialism... If you know how to read it, it can talk to us'" untappedjournal.com/stories/elen...

*unlike transitioning, there is a VERY high and probably rising regret rate for academic PhDs. We should probably have some kind of therapy option for people who think they want a PhD before they commit to it... And drop gatekeeping for adults who want to transition!

‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’ Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action. Online early from our next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

In this post I compiled a literature review of research about such gendered service disparities. These dynamics contributed to my resignation from a tenured full professorship last week.

This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.

BREAKING: the EHRC has formally abandoned its contention that employers need to provide single sex toilets. goodlaw.social/4npg

Sadly so predictable yet still so outrageous.

Jules Gill-Peterson isn’t mincing words: Forget euphemisms like “gender euphoria.” “We need hormones, sex changes, and surgeries.” Not affirmation—access.

By the end of this, there will be more trans toilet signs than trans people in the UK and cis women will still be raped regularly by cis men, who will never face justice.

happy pride

Lovely review of 'Burn the Sheets' exhibition from E.K. Myerson in the Bittersweet Review... open.substack.com/pub/thebitte...