‘Being Black and British: Before During and After Drama School’ is released on September 22 but is available to pre-order from TODAY. Pre-order now - directly from the publisher on the link, your favourite bookshop, or your institutional or local library. Launch event(s) to be shared…

Sara Ahmed - No Is Not a Lonely Utterance - Manchester Book Launch www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sara-ahmed...

At least 100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 61 in Gaza City, as Al Jazeera reports intensified strikes in the north while Israel prepares to seize Gaza City aje.io/io4cij

UN says one in 10 children screened at their clinics in Gaza are malnourished amid Israel’s siege.

Palestinians say they have no choice but to go to deadly US- and Israeli-backed aid sites amid growing starvation.

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.

A group of lesbians disrupt a GC hate talk This bit is just perfection 😘👌 www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

Israeli officers and soldiers have revealed they’ve been ordered to deliberately shoot at unarmed Palestinians trying to get aid. That’s in Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Israel is deliberately massacring civilians it’s deliberately starving. There are few crimes more depraved.

Israeli tanks opened fire on thousands of civilians gathered at a distribution site in southern Gaza’s Rafah on Sunday morning, killing at least 31 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office aje.io/xx7980

Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says

Fundraiser for legal action against the EHRC

BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.

Jewish creatives warn against false censorship of art critical of Israel www.artsprofessional.co.uk/news/jewish-...

Your mandatory training on 🚨🚨‼️‼️Understanding STRESS 🚨🚨‼️‼️ is OVERDUE⏰⏰⏰ do it NOW!!!!!!!! (Yesterday) or there WILL be Consequences

Starmer's anti-immigrant speech today wasn't just a moral and political embarrassment. It was also an intellectual embarrassment. inews.co.uk/opinion/star...

whooooo remembers "they'll shift to the left once they're in power, they have to say these things to win the election first you idiots"

Os ydych chi eisiau byw yn y Deyrnas Unedig, dylech chi siarad Cymraeg. Dyna synnwyr cyffredin. Felly rydym yn codi gofynion iaith Gymraeg ar draws pob prif lwybr mewnfudo.

This is what happens when the Treasury becomes the master rather than the servant. Accountants who know the price of everything, and the value of nothing www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Happy #TransHistoryWeek! 🏳️‍⚧️ @transhistoryweek.com is a global week-long observance dedicated to celebrating the history of all gender diverse people – including trans, non-binary and Intersex people 🌟

We believe the Supreme Court has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act. Over 8,000 people have supported our case - will you join us? goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

On top of hundreds of biologists, hundreds of feminists, hundreds of businesses, hundreds of historians all writing letters saying the Supreme Court and corrupt EHRC are wrong due to evidence from their fields, even geographers are angry and are providing evidence! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This statement 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia' has over 850 signatures and co-signatures. My bet is that we can get this to 1000 today!

Calling all feminist academics & educators -please add your name and sign ❤️🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🏳️‍🌈👇🏼

The United Nations calls for “concerted” action to stop the “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza as Israel’s total blockade enters its 60th day. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/uz3nxr

The Settlers review – this vital film forces Louis Theroux to do something he’s never done before

Israeli forces have killed at least 44 Palestinians across Gaza since dawn on Monday, including five children in a drone attack on a busy street in Gaza City. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️

🏳️‍⚧️ How to tell our history stories, so we learn from them At this critical moment, how can we tell stories of @transhistoryweek.bsky.social and apply the lessons from them to today’s fight? 🧵👇

the theatre chose seats over the ppl, and one day only the seats will be left

Leeds says #transrightsarehumanrights

Writing for @artsprofessional.co.uk, Liz Harrop explores what it means to build a sustainable and regenerative cultural sector, and the Centre’s role as an infrastructure organisation in this complex and uncertain landscape. www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/fea...

The Supreme Court didn't change any laws, and it's unhelpful to suggest it did. It established what will, for now, stand as the definitive interpretation of the current law. But government can and should change the law to protect trans people and cis women. The responsibility here lies with Labour.

Gary Lineker tells the truth about Gaza - and absolutely humiliates the British media

Like many cultural organisations, the Centre for Cultural Value finds itself at a crossroads. Its manager, Liz Harrop, explores how to build a more inclusive and sustainable sector.

The regret rate for gender transition is less than 0.3% (as compared with an average of 14% for surgery in general and 7% for having kids!) but the media loves to find and platform a regretter.

I’ve been doing the same job for two decades, seeing how people flourish when able to manage their gender-related distress.

It's even becoming a grift, more so in the US but increasingly in the UK too. There’s a lot of money in right-wing transphobia and if you’re outspoken enough against trans people here, there’s always the chance that Lady Blackmould will lob a grand or two in your direction.

Trans is one of the last minorities that can be attacked, freely and publicly, with almost no serious consequence. Indeed, attack trans people and large swathes of Twitter will applaud you as a hero, a brave “speaker of truth”.

Personally, I think there’s an illicit thrill – especially among those who feel, themselves, victimised or marginalised by wider society – in punching down at a minority.

I believe there may be one trans member of the House of Lords and a single trans MP; none of the media outlets are trans-favourable or even trans-neutral; with the exception of Stonewall and Mermaids, no UK charities are explicitly supportive of trans people.

Trans people are, as a minority, pretty powerless, internationally and nationally. Within the UK, there are almost no trans people in positions of establishment power:

Wherever possible, the media provides photos in order that snap judgements can be made on the basis of physical appearance – so everyone becomes an armchair expert.

The media ignores all of this, focusing instead on low-hanging fruit, those areas where lay people who have no opinion can be coaxed into a kneejerk one: the vanishingly tiny number of trans people who are incarcerated in prison, who commit sexual offences and who are professional athletes.

Services for trans people have been allowed to wither through lack of funding. In 2002, the wait for a first appointment at an NHS gender clinic was three months; in 2025, it’s seven years.

imagine if gay men’s health policies were decided by excluding all gay men and all clinicians with experience of the field.

ruling specifically disallowed any trans person from being involved and also refused to hear from those, like myself, with clinical expertise of treating gender dysphoria. I can’t think of any other area where this happens:

At the same time, trans people are specifically excluded from policies and legislation that directly affect their lives, while those opposed to trans rights are invited to take part. The Cass Review, the Sullivan Review and the recent Supreme Court

Despite making up less than 1% of the population and there being no tangible evidence that they pose any threat to women, children or anyone else, trans people find themselves, exhaustingly, in the media more or less constantly.

Don’t get me wrong, the vast majority of the UK population remain entirely neutral – they’re neither massively supportive nor opposed to trans people living their lives – but the media and (previous Tory and current Labour) government keep bouncing trans around as a political football.