this as an action cis people can take to reduce the risks presented to trans women and femmes. cis people, especially cis women, can also use their voices to fight against workplaces who enforce trans-exclusionary rules around bathrooms. please never assume trans people don’t work with you.

pretty sure this is a black mirror episode

police have a history of this. when the black panthers distributed food to children they sabotaged those efforts by urinating on the food. unreformable & grotesque. though on the other hand, a big sign that mutual aid programs are considered a real threat to the status quo

i think it’s also worth being honest about the fact that researchers by and large engage with sex work through an inherently oppressive gaze; one which looks down upon all sex workers, but especially trans sex workers, and seeks to delegitimatise it as a form of work as a whole.

And like even more than that, they see transition as a whole as frivolous - so needing to sell sex to pay for rent while living as a trans person due to becoming unemployable is seen as a matter of lifestyle choice that could be abandoned if you detransitioned.

watching yet another ridiculous and cisheteronormative reality show (for my sins) and thanking the universe eternally for making me a lesbian, not just because it’s truly amazing and an unfailing gift, but also because genuinely what the fuck is wrong with cishet men? lmao

this just in: going outside improves your mood! shock! applause! the nation is scandalised (the nation is me)

Crips against cuts protests planned for this weekend. Please follow the QR for details and please please please repost on your accounts 💜 @crips-against-cuts.bsky.social

having the worlds nastiest flare up and i don’t think all the stress around the cuts is a coincidence. it will be making so many people a lot sicker.

reminder that this is tomorrow!

Disability assessments are notoriously incredibly traumatic and triggering. Many claimants have increased self-harm, suicidal ideation and sometimes hospitalisation before them. Imagine the pressure it would now be if 4 points ON ONE ITEM is necessary not just for PIP but LCWRA!

labour think disabled people are an easy target; a vulnerable group to pick on & punish with cruel cuts, plunging us further into poverty all to cosy up to fascism & keep their mates & donors rich. fuck that. we’re fighting back. protests this saturday organised by @crips-against-cuts.bsky.social

Hate to be this dickhead again, but if anybody can help me out with moving expenses, I will be eternally grateful… I’ve got a new place, they’re being lenient as hell about deposits etc but I’ll still need to rent a van, buy household stuff, take time off work etc… www.paypal.com/paypalme/kat...

Reading The Times report on speculated PIP cuts, I’m struck by not only how many people will lose vital support but how much we are already degraded to qualify. Have a stranger ask you how you wash “below the waist” and then tell us how easy it is to claim disability benefits.

The barrier to entry for receiving PIP for mental illness is already staggeringly high. It is unfathomable that this government is moving to make people experiencing psychosis, bipolar disorder, severe OCD, depression, personality disorders, PTSD...more financially insecure. To what possible end?

What to expect at our Bristol demo!💚

#WelfareNotWarfare DPAC Day of Action! Wednesday 26th March 2025 #WelfareNotWarfare 📢 Join us📢✊🏼

We’ve united with Scope, @disrightsuk.bsky.social @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social and @turn2us.bsky.social against cuts to disability benefits. Together, we’ve published an open letter urging the govt to safeguard them. Read the full letter on Scope’s website. buff.ly/FhxKY7U #Disability

I would urge Starmer to slowly feed his hands into a paper shredder but I'd accept introducing a wealth tax as a compromise

we need to push harder. we must force them into not just a u-turn on all proposed cuts and freezes but a vast improvement of the system. we can’t be forced backwards into accepting PIP as it is. people are stuck in poverty and they are dying waiting for benefits right now, already, today.

i cannot express enough how fucking terrifying this is. it is not an exaggeration at all to say these cuts are going to kill disabled people. it’s hard to even explain to someone who hasn’t been through a PIP application process how evil, barbaric and unashamedly discriminatory these changes are.

“DWP claimed there had been a “staggering 319 per cent increase” in working-age people on the health and disability element of universal credit/ receiving ESA. The increase is likely to be about 30 to 35 per cent, if comparing 2019-20 with 2023-24.”THEY’RE LYING to do ideologically driven austerity.

chican3ry.medium.com/cisgender-te... Not sure if this will be of interest to anyone. I'm mixing transfeminism with need to look at "incel" sympathising discourses

“Stop engaging in this race to the bottom, stop yearning to be kings or queens of a mountain of bodies. We have enough space, enough resources, between all of us, to create a world where our safety is all upheld, our suffering is all grieved, our needs are all met.”

Keep in mind when you talk about marriage equality that until disabled people can get married without losing access to benefits, marriage equality doesn't exist.

This, from a DWP press release yesterday (gov.uk/government/n...), is outrageous In two short paragraphs it peddles multiple falsehoods about the current system that will be used to justify upcoming cuts & changes Here's what MPs & journalists should be challenging... 🧵

When you mention this stuff as a disabled person, often able people wade in with Well Intentioned Suggestions. Please don't

i honestly have nothing to say about the planned cuts to uc and pip as someone on both and LCWRA because actually i can’t be fucking arsed. two years of fighting for PIP as a wheelchair user with multiple disabilities but it’s “too easy to get pip”? fuck off

the media is irresponsibly portraying a hormonal management option for endometriosis as a groundbreaking new treatment. people with endometriosis deserve better than re-purposed medications which only manage symptoms sold as brand new miracle drugs. especially when talking about early-menopause.

This is why chronically ill folk need chronically ill friends Me: I’ve tested positive for X @fiadhaich.bsky.social: That’s great news hun

tell me why toxic town on netflix is the first am hearing of how corby’s corrupt new labour council poisoned people, specifically pregnant women, through toxic waste by cutting corners and costs reclaiming the steelworks plant. definitely something everyone should watch.

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““What’s going on in these places are inhumane. The civil war in Sudan, the oppression and the war and the tyranny that’s going on in Gaza, is inhumane. And these people are connected with us all as humans, and especially with me in faith.””

“Are you going to be a coward?” Zül-Qarnain Nantambu asked himself before taking the field for Kendrick Lamar’s show. “Are you going to take a stand?”

We have enough validity right now, but what cis folks CAN actually do: - Contribute to GFMs for trans care and travel (we are a very impoverished demographic!) - Help a trans person get a job - Help a trans person move - Vocally oppose anti-trans legislation (yell at reps, not random bigots online!

I would like a word with whoever taught cis people that if they see a trans person who is upset about the rise of transphobia, they have to tell them they’re “valid” I’ve been out as trans for 13 years. I know I’m a man, I don’t need your personal validation, maybe protest against fascism instead?

the deeply inhumane levels of violently criminalising and deporting people and then filming them to broadcast how you’re destroying their lives, all in the game of who can cheer on fascism the most. this is who labour always has been, a party of imperialism, colonialism and racism.

was trying to find out who i got my widows peak from (my mum) but when i typed ‘dad’ into my photos, only my partners dad came up - which is possibly the most adorable thing. just estranged things!

I don't think Trump's "resettlement" talk will go anywhere for now, but it is a clear signal to the Israeli government that it could ethnically cleanse Palestinians out of Gaza + the West Bank. The US would be ok with it. Of course, this depends on the timing, pushback etc.

we really have to start questioning ethical stances that are used to defend fundamentally anti-solidarity performative actions. US trans people need our support, not a boycott of what will often be their only financial income while under significant and severe threat from a fascist trump government.

took the plunge and shaved my hair off, the euphoria is realllll

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

Today is my birthday and I’m finally launching my crowdfunder for a wheelchair. I’ve spent 5 years housebound and it’s time for that to change. Anything you can give is appreciated, even if that’s just sharing this tweet with your followers ♿️ #NEISvoid #MutualAid #DisabledSky gofund.me/f7901daa

people’s political understandings of fascism has to move past liberal electoral politics. the democrats enable fascism through their own policies, their own rhetoric, just as uk labour do. you will not be saved from fascism by putting a vote in a box every few years then screaming about it.

super overwhelmed with the idea of posting atm. feel like when things are just really bad politically it triggers my freeze response and i just don’t want what to say or even how to take in information.

The failure to reckon with transphobia as a currently central motivation of the far right will continue to plague those disturbed by its rise for a decade or more Rather than standing with trans people many liberals have pursued appeasement and helped the wider shift to the far right in the process

nothing like being an acts of service butch to get me out of the house at 8am on less than 4 hours sleep to put the car in for a service ahead of charley’s driving test 😌

watching the california fires, i feel deep grief; for the people, for those risking their lives to fight fires made by colonial capitalism - including incarcerated people - for indigenous people watching their stolen land be destroyed, and for the land itself. we aren’t supposed to live like this.

@stillicides.bsky.social i finally get dragon age inquisition: i wasn’t playing it right last time and lost interest bc i just kept going to do things above my level 💀 but after playing veilguard i actually get it and omg am loving it! it’s weird playing it talking to solas ngl