My next book Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism in Britain is in the @plutopress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalogue (for a May '26 release)! This book is the first joined-up history of trans activism in the UK all the ways from the 40s to the present.

I wrote about the different ways the archive can hurt, and how we nonetheless need it to heal. Cat pic included open.substack.com/pub/emrystra...

If you read theory hard enough you become a historian, this is absolutely the case

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.

MASS LOBBY AGAINST EHRC GUIDANCE Trans+ people and allies - join us in Parliament on the 25th June Register and find more information on our website: transsolidarityalliance.com

BREAKING TKDB are setting up camp outside the EHRC Office in London

I'm in Brighton today to deliver the keynote at the Box Breakers conference organised by @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social The lineup of presenters LOOKS AMAZING and it's also the first outing for new ideas from #RainbowTrap. Equal parts nervous and excited! 🌈 #LGBTQ #queer #book #newbook

🏳️‍⚧️ “Wearing their bikinis and waving a sign saying, “We are transsexual, enough with discrimination” - they headed to the pool” https://www.wearequeeraf.com/tops-off-the-public-pool-protest-that-sparked-the-fight-for-trans-rights-in-italy/

"Which section of the working-class movement is it that thinks some workers shouldn’t be permitted to hold jobs? What “tribune of the oppressed” thinks trans people should be punished by having to choose between public erasure and public diarrhea?" spectrejournal.com/against-bad-...

I gave an interview to Al Jazeera on the Supreme Court judgment, and the surrounding context. I think it's possibly the best thing I've ever done (?) so give it a listen. youtu.be/dhRKIZi60NI?...

My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment. The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010 www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...

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...

Kill the cop in your head

If you're interested in reading about my thoughts about/ research into gay liberationism, dialectical formations of queer identity, and conceptualising trans marxism - plus silly little things I find in the archives - now you can! open.substack.com/pub/emrystra...

have grudgingly accepted that podcasts are a reasonable means of doing research, any recommendations in the pol/phil/theory area?

UK folks, please consider using uk.bookshop.org Shipping is usually pretty speedy, they have many books, and you can choose to support a specific indie bookshop or let it be spread among various indies that are signed up to their program.

'it wasn't a nazi salute, it was an autism salute' is the best take. nobody is topping that

University of Brighton & @CottinghamTrust launch one of the UK’s first PhD scholarships focusing on trans & non-binary inclusion‍ ⚧ The landmark initiative provides an opportunity to advance research that drives equality & transforms lives. Find out more bit.ly/42gt3Gn

Now what did we learn

Announcing the republication of @pinkomagazine.bsky.social’s oral history of the concept of accountability with @haymarketbooks.org next January! We interviewed people involved in the creation and use of this concept and as a bonus got a history of the US left www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2455-a...

Meet the “sickfluencers”: disabled people turn to TikTok for help accessing disability benefits - and the media says they’re scroungers gaming the system. My col. on Fraser Nelson’s stitch up job, and the paranoia those with the least might get an advantage. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Today is a very good day to read Shuli Branson's For A Tranarchist Feminism: Transition as Struggle and Care. Transition has always been much more than the medical and legal legitimacy of our very lives, and we have long known how to help one another transition without and against the state

my first publication “Concealing Gender Non-Conformity: A Trans Phenomenology of Disability” is now forthcoming in the Journal of Philosophy of Disability. In it I explain how cissexist perception shapes and harms the lives of disabled trans people. You can read it here: philarchive.org/rec/KELCGN

Last Christmas I gave you my heart But the very next day you gave it away This year, to save me from tears I am becoming a Body without Organs

today’s klee angels are ANGEL COUPLE (1931)

La fameuse fenêtre d’Overton

Good news from Belgium for sex workers, whose movement for decriminalization has had a big win. Belgian prostitutes now have the same employment protections as other workers, including maternity pay, pensions, and sick days. Power to them 🖤☂️

I've made 7 free online courses to help you read Karl Marx: Reading Marx's Capital v1 (2019 & 2007 eds) Reading Marx's Capital v2 Reading Marx's Grundrisse (2023 & 2020 eds) Marx, Capital, & the Madness of Economic Reason The ABC of Contemporary Capital davidharvey.org/reading-capi...