One day when I really want to get cancelled I'm gonna say that the basic idea of the rainbow flag including all the colours sufficed to signal "everyone" and the various editions to mean "but really really everyone this time we mean it" were trying to solve substantive cultural issues via symbolism.

(This is why masculinity is always in crisis, because it's in a perennial state of needing to be 'proved' through ritualistic patriarchal violence against the abject and effeminised. What is 'manly' is often synonymous with what is reactionary.)

We're all gutted to have to miss this, and furthermore could really do with the ticket money to help cover medical and hospital travel costs for Friz's eye recovery period. If you're a #Dropout fan and are interested, please get in touch!

You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all I can see in your eyes – the walls, the walls!

LET US FUCKING VENT. UNSOLICITED MEDICAL ADVICE ALMOST ALWAYS MAKES THE EXISTING SITUATION WORSE. JUST LEARN TO FUCKING WITNESS US & BE PRESENT?!

screaming and waving a knife in Lidl, demanding to see the single sex crisps

Emi Koyama is an OG of trans, Asian, disabled sex worker and anti violence organizing who is battling cancer; the org she started, Aileen's, provides barrier free support to street sex workers on the Pacific Coast Highway. Donate to keep Aileen's going while Emi fights cancer. gofund.me/cd8374855

Sama'a's father has suffered partial vision loss after being injured by an Israeli bomb. The terrors and daily demands of life in Gaza continue to mount, and Sama'a relies on us to help her navigate them. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/1575...

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” Dune (1965) Frank Herbert

Many disabled people over the years have been like “no matter how difficult it is, full acceptance of never getting ‘better’ is essential to your wellbeing” And for years I was like “no no can’t do that too difficult too painful.” And then I gave it a try for real and yeah, they’re right.

Every trans-supporting cis person in the UK needs to make peace with becoming more annoying, persistent, and pedantic than they ever thought possible. EHRC guidance is full of contradictions - they're relying on transphobic compliance out of fear. DON'T GIVE IT TO THEM

Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago

3/3. Thinking specifically of that Independent piece designed to drive a wedge between disabled and trans people (ignore the massive intersection) - please don't fall for it. Don't mistake gladiatorial media framings for real world possibilities. The EHRC has repeatedly failed us both. Join forces.

if you want a vision of britain, imagine a quango writing guidance on how a boot may humanely and proportionately stamp on a human face – forever

Actually in ye olden days the femmes were the providers because they were more gender conforming and could get hired in those professions that were regarded as feminised labour---secretaries, salons. Butches had seasonal work at best. This is obvious if you're not, you know, making stuff up.

Since the concept is being misunderstood and misused, let's talk about what "third-sexing" means as a mechanism of transphobia. I built on an idea first discussed in @juliaserano.bsky.social's "Whipping Girl" that discussed how, interpersonally, cis people refuse to acknowledge our genders.

The more I think about Burnham rushing to assure people that he will carry on with all of Labour's most destructive policies the more I am struck by how politicians seem to think 'I will fundamentally change as little as possible' somehow meets this moment in our history.

All forms of oppression—transphobia, racism, sexism, worker exploitation, etc—ultimately result in disability or death. Oppressors disable targeted group or redefine them as disabled, then wait for ableist society to abandon them. You must be actively anti-ableist to be effectively pro-liberation.

Stacey day year six llps.substack.com/p/sending-yo...

Writing IS the process. "AI" writing doesn't make sense to me. It's not writing; it's throwing words in a blender, while writing is putting your own pain, memories, joy, and perspective through a sieve until something worth showing the world remains. How is this not obvious?

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There are currently 320 responses, and I would love to get to 500. The survey will be open until September. Thank you to all who have participated and shared!

Today is an excellent day to donate an eSIM!!!!! If it seems daunting you can donate to this fund. disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2023/12/25/c...

please understand. artists don't get nearly as much feedback (praise, comments or otherwise) as you think they do. much less than years and years ago. we don't know how much you like it. we don't know how it affected you. unless you say something, or recommend it, comment, reblog. anything.

Bitter - Akwaeke Emezi Model Home - Rivers Solomon The City We Became - N. K. Jemisin

The idea that it's wrong or dehumanizing to be specifically attracted to fat people is born completely out of fatphobia, both internalized and otherwise.

Hammam’s last BlueSky account lasted a couple of days - they are constantly suppressing him & other Palestinians who are simply trying to live. Nobody should have to work this hard to survive. Please support him & his mother here: chuffed.org/project/1490...

being a person takes so much energy and not being a person somehow takes even more

So who are the immunocompromised / disease-conscious / respirator-wearing writers you read? Are you such a writer? Where are the masked and online reading series, and do they also have access for other disabled people (e.g. level access, captions, sign language, quiet space)?

I recently read Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg & it was so nourishing!

Please support Hammam & his mother to survive the ongoing genocide & access his mother’s vital treatment! chuffed.org/project/1490...

A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.

Labour MPs calling for an orderly transition but unfortunately their government needs to be at least 18 years old with four doctors to sign off first

The people told to “stop living in fear” for the last few years have actually been *adapting* to a world where respiratory illnesses are easier to spread and pandemics are more common, and as a result, a lot of us have gotten very comfortable with the tools you need to actually not live in fear.

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"unwanted male attention" I'm super tired of this pretence that lesbians and trans women are mutually exclusive groups and that (implicitly cis) lesbians are categorically uninterested in trans women. It isn't true. Lesbians are a pretty genderfucky demographic. Fuck off.

Immediately after? As a consequence?! I knew Girls Aloud were powerful but this is next level

nature is healing?

The problem is actuallyyyy the solution if you make more of the problem 😊

Antisemitism is not a side note or a distraction or a lesser problem. It arises from the same genocidal impulses that also inform the targeting of Muslims, migrants, and trans people. We must stand together, lest we fall apart.

Reupping this thread in case people wonder why trans women in particular care about getting run off social media. Guess what! When you're excluded from the formal economy, if you can't reach out and ask for help, you ✨fucking die ✨

This week's post is for all the non-passing girls. Everyone hates a brick until it’s time to build a house or throw things at cops. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/brick-pride

if trans women were as actively hostile and aggressive towards our oppressors as people like to portray us as being, there wouldnt be any people portraying us that way left

there is nothing in the world better than being a dyke

I see myself in mutual aid seekers. Is it easier for me because I need mutual aid sometimes myself & get what it's like to be shit out of luck with nothing from my life experiences? Perhaps. But you all need to see yourselves in them. You could be them. Even if you never are, they're just like you.

Nominations have closed and the shortlists are up, congratulations to all the finalists! You can check out the shortlists here: indietransfemaward.wordpress.com/2026/05/02/a... Or jump straight into voting here, open until May 31: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

If there's one thing I really wish was better understood about bigotry, domination, and systems of power, it's that contradictory logics and beliefs are actually very useful. Those deemed inferior are deemed inferior first, to render them exploitable, and the rationale for it is fitted post factum.

The bombing of the Admiral Duncan was 27 years ago It’s hard to explain just what it did to our community, everyone was angry upset and afraid I was working just around the corner on Wardour Street when the bomb went off