www.ticketsource.co.uk/arcadia-roll... Great news: Manchester's 3 roller derby teams are getting together to have a massive fundraiser event for Trans rights. Please get your tickets at this link and come support trans inclusive sport

Let’s hear it out. You have the floor, carnivorous death ball

lol

I don't intend to emigrate. My family are here, my friends are here, I love Glasgow, and I'm committed to the fight for liberation. But as a descendent of Jewish refugees, I recognise the signs that I might need to leave the UK for my own safety in coming years if things continue to deteriorate.

the minutes of the October meeting between WellBN and SussexICB are chilling. Andrew Dodson from the Sussex side just openly saying patients will be “deprescribed,” that they’ll have no choice and won’t be allowed to talk to the team taking their healthcare away

"They know this is likely to cause suicides. They don’t care! We jumped through every hoop for years and we followed what the government asked of us. I’m in Surrey, her doctor is in Brighton, you can imagine what this is doing to us." northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...

READ THIS ! "For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does." #Musk #propaganda #X #antifa #fascism news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Note the ‘British soil’ bit. My uni has plans to open a campus in China. The VC scoffed at me when I expressed concern that staff and students wouldn’t be able to speak freely, and that - as he said - the curriculum would be censored. It’s the price of doing business.

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

Read an extract from @suchmayer.bsky.social's forthcoming book, BAD LANGUAGE, a blend of memoir and manifesto exploring the politics of speech, and how language has been used – and abused – collectively and in their own life.

The pandemic was a mass-disabling event and one of the reasons it has largely vanished from day to day political discourse is that those in power don't want to acknowledge the long term care needs it produced.

NHS Sussex are forcibly detransitioning trans people. These patients need full restoration of their healthcare, and everyone involved in doing this needs to be sacked.

If you’ve been looking for an alternative to Amazon-owned A*dible, we have good news for you: we’re now on @libro.fm! Join now to satisfy all your audiobook desires while supporting your favourite independent bookshop.

News from St Pancras www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...

New awareness campaign

I remember the Daily Telegraph printing troll articles from one of their own correspondents under a pseudonym. I remember the Daily Sport saying 40,000 people died on 9/11. Hell, I remember the aftermath of the so-called 'Hitler Diaries'. The idea of print as trustworthy is wild.

Wow, cis people really do live in a different world. Imagine trusting newspapers as a reliable source of truth.

All the TERFs have left, relatively early. As a result, the trans bloc have now managed to occupy the stairs to end off the successful counterprotest.

The TERF bloc is dissipating after only roughly 5 minutes of having a working speaker. Meanwhile, here are some more placards by the trans bloc

"Trans rights are women's rights!" The standoff is continuing at the Senedd.

Some protest placards that the trans bloc have brought.

"I have never ever seen a TERF with any style!" The TKDB bloc are hilariously dissing the TERFs' fashion style with a new protest chant!

The counterprotest has marched over to the Senedd. There are currently 13 TERFs at the Senedd. They also did not bring a megaphone or speaker, meaning they cannot do loud protest chants.

Anti trans activists and GB news trying to agitate Just being drowned out by chanting

This thread will be used for the Cardiff protest, beginning at 12:20. I (Kristina) will return to this thread once I have reached the location of the protest.

Today we will be reporting on the counter protests in both London and Wales today. @nightkristina.bsky.social will be in Wales and I @alyx.whatthetrans.com will be in London. In London I have already left a business card at where the terfs will be congregating at parliament square.

INNOVATION: New Scottish Seating System for WINTER season?

This is an excellent paper and brilliant contribution to queer/crip temporality scholarship. It’s also a really important confrontation with some of ways UKHE harms us. As a disabled academic it was at times a difficult read(in a good way I think). I’ll definitely read it again. Thanks for your work

24% of Disabled people avoid using public transport due to accessibility issues. 4.7 million Disabled people live in poverty. The politicians who make the above stats a reality are choosing to attack the Motability Scheme, instead of the system that locks us out of society.

these panels are wild for a whole host of reasons, but also it just dawned on me that while I may not be as old as the guy in this comic, in my 45 years on this planet I have never seen something that could not easily be explained (by an expert in the field, etc, anyway)

Hope Street

A perfectly normal and not at all suspicious Portugal-shaped gap

in like ten thousand years some future archaeologist is going to find this deep underground in the Vatican archives next to the Holy Grail and the shin bone of Saint Paul

Solidarity with striking BL workers!! A backbone of our national research & knowledge infrastructure and they deserve better!

Excited to be participating in this Glasgow Ursula Le Guin love fest on 4/11 with @suchmayer.bsky.social, @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social, @mjrsangster.bsky.social We're celebrating @silver-press.bsky.social gorgeous new book The Word for World which centres on Le Guin's imaginative maps. Come!

The conversation also covered what I'll call the Force Carrier theory of oppression: every "-archy" has a concept that mediates its oppression. In Patriarchy, oppression is based on gender. And here's my thing: gender is only important insofar as it is carrying oppression.

@notrightruth.bsky.social was on QAA's Science In Transition as a bonus interview, and she described herself as a "material feminist", and "material" is the word that I've been looking for. She's concerned with the material conditions that people experience, not abstract definitions of "woman" 👍

Louis Theroux has interviewed actual literal murderers before, but a musician with views that the British establishment don't like is just a step too far for British Airways.

The world is a dangerous place for intersex people, and new research shows that many feel it’s getting worse | Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social

I have taken over for a bit. this contains a full kilo of fresh tomatoes and is still mostly just garlic.

we’re gonna need a bigger boat

We are finally getting round to recreating this! because we decided to pre-roast the garlic, the flat smells…less of garlic than it could, I guess. (eagle eyes will note only 39 bulbs fitted on the tray; we made up the difference)

Fantastic piece here. Communities over doomscrolling.

📸 MissMolls

It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.

We're excited to be collaborating with some incredible community organisations for 'We Can't Keep Waiting', they'll be running workshops for trans people from across Scotland to come together and work out how we can care for eachother, and push for the healthcare we vitally need.

This is very interesting!