It's hard not to see the aggressive sexual language of GCs (shouting "penis, penis, penis" at Judith Butler at the Royal Festival Hall to give a recent example) as a class flex. They know they're allowed to say things their opponents can't, and they get off on the impunity

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Of course, Professor Dame Baroness Saint Hilary Cass *could* come out and defend her review's recommendations but she only seems to do that when trans people criticise it

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Vice Precedent

When you've definitely met more than one trans woman

the arc of history is long. it's long as hell. it's just—whew. it's a long-ass arc, is all I can tell you.

This is a recurrent feature of anti-trans radicalisation: bored, comfortable people in their 50s/60s with grown-up kids, trying to regain the thrill of parental authority by becoming "the adults in the room" attacking "noisy, immature activists"

I'm not one to blame political trends on stuff that annoys me online, but the Leopards Eating People's Faces reply is such an empty yet corrosive bit of posturing. STOP IT!

Just saw a thread about a guy calling into cspan saying his diabetic supplies increased from 5 dollars to 80 dollars and somebody in the comments, probably multiple people but I stopped reading, replied “FAFO” and I can’t stress enough how much you need to stop doing that shit

I'm no scholar of history, but I paid attention in college and can tell you this man will be fortunate to die in a prison cell

I interviewed the very talented and brave accidental activist Dr Lydia Foy: www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Just spotted @xychelsea.tv among the massive crowd of Mangione supporters, who says she’s here “exercising my sixth amendment right to observe our court proceedings.”

Last week, a number of prominent UK feminists declared Donald Trump a "feminist hero" for banning trans women from playing sports. How did we get here? A new book by @reproutopia.bsky.social explores how reactionary tendencies have created Enemy Feminisms throughout the history of feminism

Change in Headline

Remarkable sights today, j*sse s*ngal posted an article observing that Trump's USAID cuts have already caused deaths and this is an immoral disaster - and dozens of his subscribers promptly commented to tell him that these kinds of opinions are absolutely not what they are following him for

“If those in power want to protect women’s spaces, they should focus on the most dangerous place for women in Ireland-their own homes. We have seen the harm this State can do to those it believes should be hidden” Brava Jenny Maguire #TransRightsAreHumanRights #translivesmatter

Nice to see a review of a "gender critical" book that points out how utterly inane its preoccupations are archive.is/7gWDV

His illiquidity is the danger. He has to keep doing shit like this. The Not Actually Real Money Bus must be kept above $200 billion or it will explode. All of this shit is basically debt and blackmail and it's forcing people like Musk into increasingly precarious and dangerous positions.

The only trans voices that seem to get any sort of traction in the UK are currently deeply conservative, willing to collude with the far right media in return for "platform", disregard strategic discussions within the community.

The only reason passports include sex markers AT ALL was because of a previous moral panic over gender.

Tfw you remember what happened the last time the ECB loosened monetary policy to revive a sluggish German economy

some context: Jesse is currently writing a book on gender-affirming care & trans youth – his standard "both sides" "just asking questions" Atlantic/NYT approach. that doesn't play so well if GAC has been banned & trans ppl stripped of rights already. so Jesse is desperately playing down Trümp's EOs

Guys I’m beginning to think all of this isn’t about fairness in women’s high school sports

while we're doing the standard post election mutual recrimination, I figure it's a good time to get an esoteric theorycel one in: I hope the present political moment is clarifying for all that it's worth being invested in reason/rationality and not ceding this ground to bigots

"Male dominant society has defined women as a discrete biological group forever. If this was going to produce liberation, we'd be free." - MacKinnon What galls me is the idea that "knowing what a woman is" is a political end in itself, when it is clearly step 1 of discrimination and social control

task: imagine a trans woman in her 30s cis people: ever since he was a child, mark has wanted to be martha. now, with his wife leaving him for a real man, he is ready to try on some panties trans people: Zoe lives with her three partners. They're making a video game together.

Love this letter from David Velasco (the former Artforum editor fired for publishing an open letter against the carnage in Gaza) responding to that Harper’s piece lamenting the contamination of contemporary art by politics.

i’m losing my shit at this

transition has been mostly DIY and community-organized since forever. when you're ready, figure out what you can offer and what you need. talk in real life, use signal, get creative, don't get caught. they can't break us in a way that matters!!!! I love you.

Thread on banking, finance and growth – and its very complex relationship to regulation 1/ 🧵

i can see how you would come to this conclusion if your job didn't require you to ever be correct

"ZIRP culture tends towards nostalgia, interiority, familiarity, asociality, infantilisation, glibness, authoritarianism. It creates an inward-looking society oriented towards the past, in which people view themselves as having agency only as consumers." soula.substack.com/p/triumph-of...

The thing about Tories and Reform splitting the right-wing vote is that if Labour go below 25% that process goes into reverse and they start losing seats all over the place. To wit:

Before the decade-long international campaign to muddy the waters, beliefs like this were what "gender ideology" referred to

We've finally defeated cancel culture. Now people only get fired for criticizing the government

Stuck on the Dáil coverage just now and Paul Gogarty was quoting Chappell Roan lyrics at the government. We are so back

don’t worry guys executive orders aren’t REALLY legal. but DO worry guys because the law isn’t REALLY real in any real sense. but DONT worry because they’re kind of too incompetent if you remember but also DO worry because maybe this time it’s different. but DONT worry bec

couldn’t even find two trans athletes for the photo spread

But lies about migrants, transgender people and crime are being pushed by mainstream media outlets, and climate denial long predates social media. There's a deep unwillingness to acknowledge the elite anti-activist consensus which has developed in the US since 2020 and pervades "liberal" media

"I wasn’t some loose-lipped Joycean of singular vision who didn’t need middlebrow approval. I was desperate to be seen, needy in a way only I could perceive, in a way I had to hide, so I wrote for no one, so that no one could truly reject me." soula.substack.com/p/on-being-g...

"I wasn’t some loose-lipped Joycean of singular vision who didn’t need middlebrow approval. I was desperate to be seen, needy in a way only I could perceive, in a way I had to hide, so I wrote for no one, so that no one could truly reject me." soula.substack.com/p/on-being-g...

i will never let men off the hook for making misogynist art because david lynch, an old cornpone white guy from montana, was able to make one of the only television shows that took violence against women seriously and, in fact, framed child sexual abuse as a legitimately apocalpytic evil

"You know who this heterosexual man in a heterosexual marriage committing heterosexual rape is the fault of? QUEERS." Self-parody from Bindel, though I suppose she crossed that rubicon several drinks ago

If you’re not afraid of getting canceled, you fucking coward, why didn’t you let them print your name?

Incredible how the UK's laissez faire, pro-business equality legislation – put simply, if a service provider isn't blatantly taking the piss, there's no reason for the state to get involved – has been reinterpreted by a small number of activists with media/political connections...