Hesse Phillips

This is what institutionalized transphobia has wrought in the UK - abuse, humiliation, terror.

Sometimes I think I should post about the food I make just to mix things up but my willpower is the problem, I always eat it before I can take a picture.

(Please imagine seitan lettuce wraps with lime, fish sauce, mushrooms and cashews, topped with avocado and pickled red onions. 🤤)

Look at that solidarity gets the goods

This list is begging to be Ocean's Elevened.

“He was asking what he had done wrong […] and if the teachers don’t like him,” said his mother Anne, 45. Jake said he was planning to avoid using the toilet at school by limiting the amount he drinks, and was even worrying about how much liquid was in his yoghurt at breakfast”

11 year old trans boy

Lol I have TRIED to get used to Celsius, I really have, but my body knows Fahrenheit better than my brain will ever know Celsius. I love pretending to understand it in conversation, though. I just know anything above 30° is "oooo, hot one today!"

Screenshot of weather app forecasting today's temperature to be between 99° F and 103° F throughout the afternoon. Yesterday was the same. The day before too. Kill meeeeeee.

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Nasty little all caps Twitter troll trolls nasty little all caps Twitter troll by tweeting in all caps. Revolutionary. 🙄

Note that the greyhound's tail is firmly tucked between its hind legs, which is very greyhound. Always bringing the "ohshitohshitohshitohshit" energy.

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Writers were making stupid jokes about our "emotional support em dashes" on Tumblr before LLMs were a twinkle in Sam Altman's eye.

Of course I wish ill on a woman who is pouring her billions into terrorizing trans people & burning decades of feminist progress to the ground. She could have written books about wizard kids & made people happy - she could have done that with her life. She chose this. She thrives on it. Monster.

There’s no cure for transness,

But there is a cure for our suffering-

Getting to live normal lives,
Love happily,
And be ourselves without fear of violence or loss.

I wish the world was kinder to me back then.
I wish I got to keep the stars in my eyes I had when I first came out.

“trans kids in high school are only *temporarily* banned from participating in part of public life and they’ll be able to play with their peers again—maybe; if enough people think they’re as human as other humans—in 5 years.”

quick: how long is high school?

I've been back from vacation *one day* and in that time I've had to google "how to tell if your toe is broken" and "ear mites vs ear infection in dogs images" so shit's going great 👍

for those with lesser-known names and smaller platforms than Boyne's - especially given the sympathetic treatment he's receiving in the media.

Please support the authors who have done the hard, scary thing. Buy their books - Sacha's is awesome, btw - & follow their work.

always, ALWAYS higher than the consequences of being called out for anti-trans views. Boyne and his hateful friends will be just fine, however much he might be suffering now. The 14 authors who have withdrawn so far may face long-term difficulties and career setbacks, not so easily overcome -

A few months ago, I went through just a fraction of the bullshit Sacha and the other withdrawing authors are currently experiencing, and all my solidarity, empathy and gratitude is with them. Take it from me: no one made this decision lightly. The consequences for standing up for trans people are -

I’m Thrilled to Announce I’ve Been Cast as Stickles the Gender-Policing Elf in HBO Max’s New Harry Potter Series The rumors are true: I’m overjoyed and not at all ashamed to share that I’ll be joining the HBO Max Harry Potter family as Stickles the Gender-Poli...

"Stickles is 'a mischievous, unpredictable creature who brings levity and chaos to the Hogwarts grounds while reminding students there are forms of self-expression so indulgent and dangerous, they make Avada Kedavra look like a nursery rhyme.' Also, he wears a jingly hat."

Go through this thread some time

The Working Families Party is also organizing actions on Saturday

Submissions are open for the International Debut Novel Competition until 14 September.

We’re celebrating past winners with our ‘Opening Lines’ clips + memories.

This is 2022 winner, Hesse Phillips, author of Lightborne.

Full competition details: irishwriterscentre.ie/internationa...

Screenshot of a Guardian article, the headline reading Thousands evacuated in Spain as deadly heatwave fans Mediterranean wildfires

The whole damn country is on fire from Cadiz to Galicia but "climate change is a woke hoax." 🤡

There's a national appeal to veterinarians for euthanasia meds to help the burnt and injured animals pass, and I just can't.

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Are you a business? Do you want to be able to operate on an inclusive basis?

Sign this letter.

Two things can be true at once.

1. Wikipedia is often flawed and not terribly reliable and should not be both the beginning and end of research if you really want to understand a subject.

2. Everyone should have access to it.

Wow I feel safer already knowing people can't access information.

We really are in the midst of the most simultaneously infuriating and stupid time to be alive.

next time you hear me say that originalism is just 'make America great again' with a law degree, remember this demand for Smithsonian museum exhibits to align with "Trump's interpretation of American history"

This explains so much.

I'm gonna be honest and say it was probably my namesake's Siddhartha. Think I was about 10.

Bisexual escapades and metaphysical ramblings for everyone!