You’re Welcome for your favorite lazy Sunday read: “What happened to the New York that was run by predators, for predators?”

Sonia Sodha left wing? Jokers. She is not a trained journalist. She is literally further evidence that the British establishment’s idea of diversity is “more clueless privately educated people, but make them Black and Asian”. Her “writing” is crap.

Heads up 😅 Sex Matters have launched their own MP letter-writing campaign insisting on trans segregation, an exclusionary Code etc etc 📝Let’s make sure our letters outnumber theirs+++ Template here! If you’ve already written, grab a mate & get them to write too 🤗 actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

the pet food bank near me has been having to close early from running out of food, so if this is your lane this is another way to help

Transphobia is a pipeline to the far right. An example: Suzanne Moore used to be a left wing columnist at the Guardian. Then came the anti-trans panic. Despite the Guardian also promoting it, it wasn’t enough & she left. Moore is now complaining about wokeness over the Irish famine & colonialism.

Who's Funding the War on Trans Inclusion? “The stated goal of strategic litigation is rarely to win every case. It’s to make the target behaviour—in this case, implementing trans-inclusive policies—expensive, risky, and exhausting”

Yeah I guess I’m kinda simple in some ways — I always marvel at the dehumidifier whenever I empty it out

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

President Trump's anti-trans passport policy is about the government trying to police who we are and how we live. Having accurate identification is essential for trans people to live and travel without fear of harassment or discrimination.

They f*ck you up, your OVC They mean to and they do They kill you with their weird ideas And add some extra, to screw you. But they were buttered up in their turn By consultants in sharp suits, Whose plans all make me churn And woe betide any kid who really wants to learn.

HELLO, BLUESKY! In 2021, @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social published our fantastic symposium, ANTIRACISM IN THE CONTEMPORARY UNIVERSITY. It's worth a re-read. (Also I am sharing for the updated urls, as they've redesigned their site.) READ/SHARE/READ AGAIN! lareviewofbooks.org/feature/anti... 🙌🙌🙌 1/8

monstrous, monumental evil

Waiting at the DMV reading about how Cornell caved and the 6th circuit actually used the ludicrous phrase “biological pronouns.” Truly what fresh hell—

Quite a headline.

Del Toro’s Frankenstein is exactly the kind of Frankenstein I thought del Toro would make I mean that mostly in a positive sense

Oxfam Research Report published Oct 29 2025 Climate Plunder: How a Powerful Few Europeans are Locking the World into a Climate Disaster www.oxfam.org/en/research/...

I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.

🏆 BAAS Awards 2026 🏆 The BAAS Awards are back & accepting submissions! Click through the link to see available awards... buff.ly/WFVkgf7 Deadline: 17th December

Book is really real.

Save 50% on #NewBook Indigenomicon by Jodi Byrd @arsavium.bsky.social, which brings video game studies and Indigenous studies into conversation with Black studies, queer studies, and Indigenous feminist critique. buff.ly/FBknSYW

Q: Is there enough LGBTQI+ content in pre-registration mental health nursing curriculum within comprehensive nursing education? A: NO. Congratultions Mark Hopwood on your first PhD studies publication Read our review here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

TransActual have put together these handy FAQs to respond to MPs (or anyone else) who is still struggling to get their head round why the EHRC’s draft Code of Practice would be so devastating for the trans community. Feel free to share, download, print, whatever! transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd.bsky.social) absolutely suplexing the Platner tattoo apologists in the NYT today. My professional life is spent thinking about what makes Americans so quick to shove overt Nazi stuff to the side in favor of political expedience - she gets this exactly right.

Sharing this piece on the Australia's Special Envoy's report on antisemitism co-written by my new colleague Andrew Dean sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/ancie...

Labour are just ONE point above The Greens. Come on, do the right thing for the country. We've seen the damage the division that the Tories and Labour have brought. It's not what any of us want, regardless of whether we're left or right leaning. Break the cycle and support The Greens.

My great pleasure to discuss with @michelekiricha1.bsky.social about my new book Queering the Asian Diaspora (@sagepub) for @geeksout.bsky.social .

We tried to place this story - very expensive polling, the first of its kind, strong quantitative data about what trans people feel about Britain: bluntly there is no better way to tell the story - with the BBC but it said it was "too weak". But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.

This is coming up soon

Equality and Human Rights Commission FAIL Its not just trans, its EHRC Incompetence... disabled people have been failed also. Close the EHRC now. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/ehrc-struggl...

And if you want the hard copy (it’s beautiful, with glossy paper and >80 color photos), now’s the time! 50% off sale at @dukepress.bsky.social Lots and lots of other fantastic books too!! I just purchased 17 other books.

if you’re looking for good news, this is a great one: Covid vaccines help the body fight certain cancers

Here’s to all of us — ADHD girlies? — who regularly forget at least one (1) item at the gym every 3-4 sessions And only realizing it when you have arrived home 😣

efficiency. The amount of work that goes into applying to these grants is insane -- the academics writing it, the academic colleagues commenting, the Professional Service teams finetuning and sorting out all the costings etc. Surely that time could be used more efficiently *for actual research*?

Each one of those 98/99% of failed applications represents dozens or hundreds of hours of work for the actual applicant; a vast stack of emails about budgeting, cost-centres, reviews, approvals, HR, Finance Office, Research Support... Pissed. Up. A. Wall. For the sake of only picking "winners".

Twice a year I hold a workshop on writing a nonfiction book proposal. It’s organized to lead you through exercises that results in a draft or revision (or just learn about the genre) Next one starts in January

Episode 10 is out! In this episode, I talk to Kelly Hayes, the brilliant journalist and organizer whose writing and podcast so many of us rely on to make sense of the world. Watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.

AI misrepresents news 45% of the time. Hasn't stopped every major search provider enthusiastically adopting it www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Almost 60,000 women have signed this petition by @nionwomen.bsky.social women to say that the transphobes do not speak for them. Meanwhile the Daily Express front-pages seven transphobes, falsely claiming that they “represent women”. If they do not represent you. Please sign. notinourname.org.uk

can't believe we got to the stage of human history where we've just placidly and collectively decided to stop learning stuff

Imagine thinking they ever cared about debt, fraud, waste, abuse, or anything of the sort. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Do people who *aren’t rich* wear their sweater/jumper (probs wool/cashmere) over their shoulders with arms tied around their necks? Or is the faux makeshift cape a purely bourgeois affectation?

Yes, and let's also remember #YourSlipIsShowing, the Black women activists who predicted all of this first and received no credit. "Before Gamergate, before the 2016 election, they launched a campaign against Twitter trolls masquerading as women of color... If only more people had paid attention."

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

1. Many of you have seen a graph purporting to show trans identification has decreased in recent years. Matt Walsh and Elon Musk celebrated it as a victory over "transgenderism." Turns out, the entire graph is based on an egregious math and statistics error. Subscribe to support our journalism.

"Polanski slammed” reports the Daily Express. The person doing that “slamming” is, err, Daily Express journalist Carole Malone. And the reason? Because I want us to follow a science led public health approach to regulate drug use.

Council of Europe’s Commissioner letter to UK Parliament calling for full protection of trans people’s rights, urging legal clarity, dignity, and inclusion, not exclusion. Governments must ensure laws match lived realities, not feed prejudice. #TransRightsAreHumanRights 🏳️‍⚧️

The EHRC has finally, five months after producing its wildly transphobic and, we believe, unlawful Interim Guidance now taken it down. Our judicial review challenge to that Interim Guidance will be heard in less than one month.

So much bad stuff is happening. The Cass Review feels like it got lost in the noise. Yet this incredibly biased £3m project continues to warp discourse around trans healthcare. I've therefore updated my megapost with 6 new major critiques from clinicians, researchers, and a child abuse survivor.

19th-Century Americanists of North America! Will any of you be in Europe in Dec? I've been asked to draw your attention to the BrANCA conference in Paris on Dec 12-13 They would love to see some of you there! @c19americanists.bsky.social branca-2025.weebly.com