Door-knocking in Leith yesterday with fellow target candidate @qmanivannan.bsky.social, local councillor @chasbooth.bsky.social and a wondrously large and energetic team of folk, despite the dreich @edinburghgreens.bsky.social

I'm delighted to have been selected as a Scottish Green Party candidate for Holyrood 2026 on the Edinburgh and Lothians East list. I'm asking for your help to get me elected. We rely on donations from folk like you to ensure we can run our campaigns. 🙏 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/chas-booth...

Between the Leonardo case and the NHS Fife case that's two employment tribunal judgements back to back that conclude a bathroom ban is not only unjustified under the Supreme Court judgement earlier this year but would infringe significantly on the rights of trans people. Major, needed, good news.

Thanks to the @edinburghgreens.bsky.social members in our south west group who knocked doors in the Dalry part of the city this morning. Great feedback and enthusiasm from people in the area!

Very surprised to see @zarahsultana.bsky.social sharing the stage with infamous transphobe and bigot Kathleen Stock at this event. @yourparty.bsky.social and @yourparty.scot have my love (there’s room in the Left for us all), but this needs to be addressed. What’s an ethical way to engage here?

Chip in today to elect Q Manivannan – a radical voice to the Scottish Parliament who is ready to fight for change. Any contribution - big or small - will make a huge difference to our people-powered campaign to deliver a record 3 Green MSPs for Edinburgh! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/elect-q-ma...

Delighted to be chairing this discussion with my anthropologist/activist hat on with @rachelcdailey.bsky.social @samgoncalveshorton.bsky.social and Dan Glazebrook on Saturday in Edinburgh 💜 Come along if you’re around!

Speaking at the Scottish International Development Alliance’s conf a few months ago, wee Green me argued amidst MSPs, MPs, & senior political party reps that our insistence on development aid abroad cannot be at odds with our treatment of crisis-stricken immigrants at home. @scottishgreens.org

This Diwali I’m feeling so immensely hopeful and joyful. After all of the hate of the UK’s far right, to see working class people, women, artists, activists, folks in parts of Scotland often unrepresented, queer people, all coming together for a Green movement — one that puts people before profit.

You heard him — and you’ve seen me! We’re not just a white middle-class party. And there’s no climate justice without justice for working class, trans, and immigrant communities. The measure of our society must be how we treat the least privileged. Join the Scottish Greens, and help out 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

That’s me! Help a girl get a job.

We’re seeing a surge in our Scottish Green Party membership too, no doubt because of the excellent work of our team, but also @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s messaging.

Screaming, crying, very quietly so the next office can’t hear me

Come along as we get started on the campaign for the 2026 Scottish Parliament elections! We're holding open meetings over the coming weeks for anyone who wants to get more Greens elected at Holyrood. See our events calendar for more details & upcoming dates: edinburgh.greens.scot/events-calendar/

The Housing Bill, introduced by Scottish Greens, has passed! ✅ Rent controls ✅ The right for renters to keep pets ✅ The right for renters to decorate ✅ Increased council tax on second homes ✅ Support for those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness 👇 And more

I’m pleased to be proposing this motion today 🇵🇸 The Scottish Government took a big step forward in supporting BDS calls from Green MSPs, but now they must do the same for Councils ⚖️ New powers need to be granted to local authorities or else the government position is just warm words ❌ 💬 🤷

YES to @roxanegay.bsky.social: In "this framework, incivility is refusing to surrender to hatred, refusing to smile politely at someone who doesn’t consider you their equal, refusing to carve away the seemingly unpalatable parts of yourself until there is nothing left." #politics #justice #activism

Any academic forums/blogs/journals looking for short-form currently? Have an article on grief through archival returns that I’m keen on sending out but a previous forum fell through!

147 states already do. And, now there are 150 of them. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Strong showing from Edinburgh and East Lothian Greens at today's national demo for Palestine. Our hearts are breaking for Gaza #FromTheRiver 🍉 @edinburghgreens.bsky.social @qmanivannan.bsky.social

A huge win born from years of effort alongside Amnesty, Oxfam, @caatuk.bsky.social and many other groups. Lots more to be done, but this is a significant victory to be celebrated.

✅Scotland is to BAN funding for Israel's arms dealers! Scottish Greens have long fought for this change, alongside @amnestyscotland.bsky.social, @oxfamscotland.bsky.social, and others.

Delighted to meet with the Scottish Wildilife Trust @scotwildlife.bsky.social to gain their advice on how best parties can use the upcoming Scottish Parliament election campaigns to do good for nature, prioritise local ecologies, and fight for well-being, resilience, and sustainable economies.

Edinburgh Poverty Commission’s public consultation for 2025 with the Council ends today (31st August) - you can find it on the Consultation Hub here: consultationhub.edinburgh.gov.uk/ce/end-pover... #edinburgh #council #consultation #scotland #poverty #scottishgreens

Very excited — it was a close margin and Ross and Gillian will be wonderful co-leaders for the years to come. Here’s to a party that continues working for the downtrodden and disenfranchised.

Tomorrow is the last day for members of the public to fill in Environmental Standards Scotland’s consultation on their draft strategy for 2026-2031. It takes less than 15 minutes: find the consultation here environmentalstandards.scot/our-work/our... 🌸 #scotland #environment #public #consultation

Stirling- solidarity kite making on Saturday 30/08/25

.. what pleasure wants is the site of a loss, the seam, the cut, the deflation, the dissolve which seizes the subject in the midst of bliss. – Roland Bathes, The Pleasure of the Text

I'm writing this on a bleak Thursday evening. But the bleakness isn't for us. The despair isn't ours. We don't have permission to let go of hope. One act of hope—help six families in Gaza eat. They depend on us EVERY week. Bet on them. 3260/3835 by Saturday chuffed.org/project/hope...

Crips for eSIMS for Gaza is run by Asian disabled writers @sfdirewolf.bsky.social @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social @thellpsx.bsky.social, and have done so much good. disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/12/25/c...

Congratulations to my wonderful friend Sara Wong on this gorgeous article exploring anti-colonial aesthetic politics. Please read, cite, and share! 🌸

St Andrews staff & students, please sign this open letter calling on the university to sever links with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and all other Israeli universities and if you're not connected to St Andrews, please publicise this anyway. thank you! www.ucustandrews.org/end-links-wi...

Apropos of today’s news I just had a piece published in Radical Philosophy about the turn towards biological essentialism in law and policy. I’m arguing the SC decision in FWS and attempts to restrict disability welfare fundamentally come from the same place of wanting to limit state protections

@katenevens.bsky.social & I visited Parliament courtesy our MSP @lornaslater.bsky.social w discussions & dreams for Holyrood ‘26. We want a kind campaign of peoples & places—our ecologies, local communities, heritage, social enterprises, healthcare & social workers—which all deeply intersect.

“When we put names on things, when we trap them in sentences, do we stop listening? Do we stop feeling? Do we rely so much on words to capture what is that we think that’s all there is?” —Robin Wall Kimmerer, interviewed by Janice Lee www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...

The government of Israel is exterminating every man, woman and child in Gaza. And our governments, and most leaders of liberal institutions in "the West" - parties both left and right, the press, universities - are doing all they can to support this. This is the central political fact of our time.

Some really exciting news 🎉 Scottish Greens have selected our candidates for Holyrood 2026 elections and I'm #2 on the list for Edinburgh & Lothians East! Which means I am in with a good chance of being elected in May 🤩 Alongside the wonderful @lornaslater.bsky.social and @qmanivannan.bsky.social 💚

Congratulations to Lorna on her reselection and to Kate and Q on their selection. I look forward to working hard as a supporting candidate to get them elected.

This is going to be very fun! And a hello from your friendly neighbourhood trans, Tamil, immigrant, pro-Palestine, poet, activist-scholar of an Edinburgh candidate for Holyrood 2026.

💚Our candidates for Edinburgh and Lothians East are @lornaslater.bsky.social, @katenevens.bsky.social, and @qmanivannan.bsky.social. ➡️Put people and planet before profit, help elect Greens today: members.greens.scot/donate/2026-...

We are pleased to announce our candidates for the 2026 Scottish Parliamentary elections! 💚 Help us elect the most Green MSPs ever to Holyrood next year! members.greens.scot/join You can follow our lead candidates here: @lornaslater.bsky.social @katenevens.bsky.social @qmanivannan.bsky.social

When I pointed out King’s will lose 90% of its AHRC student-led places under the new scheme, I got piled on by the AHRC Chair claiming I was wrong and scaremongering. It wasn’t quite 90%. This year King’s students got 27 AHRC student-led scholarships. Next year they’re giving us 3. So 89% then.

Happy Non-Binary Awareness Week! We stand with all Non-Binary people and we hope you can take time to celebrate in your own identity this week. 💛🤍💜🖤 You can read our list of 3 key things to know about non-binary identity here: www.scottishtrans.org/non-binary-a...

Not the PUFFINS supporting my campaign...

With this I’m happy to announce that I’m running to be selected as an MSP candidate for the @edinburghgreens.bsky.social for 2026 Holyrood elections. Same issues, bigger scale.

Look at that transfer graph! A thrilling night for @edinburghgreens.bsky.social and @qmanivannan.bsky.social making it to second place briefly in a close three-horse race. We’ll be back in 2027.

A really strong performance from our excellent candidate @qmanivannan.bsky.social to finish a strong third. Puts us in excellent position to regain a seat here in 2027. Congratulations to Q for an amazingly positive campaign. Your message of a gentler, kinder politics resonated with many.

So we may not have won the local by-election in the 'traditional' sense 😅​ but we did incredibly well, and due to our phenomenal team, the bestest of candidates in Q, and for the party's future, it feels like a victory 🌱​💚​ THANK YOU to EVERYONE who has been involved @qmanivannan.bsky.social

Congratulations to @edinburghgreens.bsky.social and @qmanivannan.bsky.social on this incredibly close result. It wasn't to be this time, but it shows huge potential for the next Council elections.