Meg Lightheart she/her

I’m coming to #London #Manchester #Edinburgh and #Glasgow touring a book on the long history of #transgender people and the fight for #LGBTQ rights against Nazis in the #Weimar. I’m a journalist, an author, a TV host, a PhD, a podcaster. Interview me. Let’s annoy #TERFS @theguardian.com any takers?

I LOVE threads like this. Yes, give me all your special interest analyses.

This badly written skeet wasn't QUITE how I wanted to launch it, but yes, the brilliant @bschillace.brandyschillace.com is coming to Manchester in October to chat with lil ol moi about how the queers fought the fascists LAST time.

It'll (we'll) be cute. You should come.

Turns out, turns OUT... there might be a sigNIFicant discount on the book for people who come along, so, ya know, sign UP

I mean, she was already coming for an event in the afternoon but I grabbed her for The Intermediaries ~after dark~

This badly written skeet wasn't QUITE how I wanted to launch it, but yes, the brilliant @bschillace.brandyschillace.com is coming to Manchester in October to chat with lil ol moi about how the queers fought the fascists LAST time.

It'll (we'll) be cute. You should come.

Turns out, turns OUT... there might be a sigNIFicant discount on the book for people who come along, so, ya know, sign UP

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

Our combined powers would make us UNSTOPPABLE

*crackly triangle eye gaze*

Dersh has been banging this drum since Trump1 & the really good news is: ostracism works, even on the shameless.

Tons of people miss this--the shameless are hyper-sensitive to stigma.

Civil society should use this free, non-violent tool to punish destructive people a lot more often. It works.

The Intermediaries - In conversation with Brandy Schillace | Social Refuge Join us in discussing the forgotten story of the Institute for Sexual Science, the world’s first centre for homosexual and transgender rights - a bastion of rebellion in the fight against fascism.

I'm hosting a Brandy for a chat in October in Manchester - maybe that could be our first f2f meeting??

www.socialrefuge.com/event-detail...

It was spelled that way in a publicity draft recently, and yeah, I knew they had a Frenchish pronunciation in mind.

Also, I have stopped being surprised that I am one degree of separation from anyone interesting, via @jovanevery.bsky.social.

I’m so excited!

Talking queer resistance with Brandy Schillace What lessons can we learn from the last time the queers faced the fascists?

Why are they attacking trans people? @bschillace.brandyschillace.com knows why.

Join us as we talk about her history of the the first target of fascist bookburning - the legendary Institute for Sexual Science, a haven of research and support for LGBTI+ folk

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-qu...

Talking queer resistance with Brandy Schillace What lessons can we learn from the last time the queers faced the fascists?

Why are they attacking trans people? @bschillace.brandyschillace.com knows why.

Join us as we talk about her history of the the first target of fascist bookburning - the legendary Institute for Sexual Science, a haven of research and support for LGBTI+ folk

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-qu...

show this to every consultant who thinks chasing toxic masculinity is the way to getting going men's votes

@the-independent.com has now scrubbed two articles exposing the bigotry of a nurse spearheading an anti-Trans+ legal crusade

When media outlets censor their own factual reporting to placate extremists, they’re not just failing themselves and the public, they’re undermining democracy itself

No major headlines to report for today [Jul 28].

If you're able, pls consider donating to orgs fighting the man-made famine currently gripping parts of Sudan.

For Darfur: DHRN
www.paypal.com/donate/?host...

For South Kordofan: HRRDS
reframe.network/donate-now.p...

#KeepEyesOnSudan

One thing this world is showing me is that my peace, my joy, my comfort, my determination cannot depend on external events.
It has to come from 'inside', from connection to something greater.

These tears are from letting go of a world that can ever be carefree. But beauty, warmth, love persist.

Blimey. Ooof

The kind of hope I often think about (especially in situations that are particularly hopeless, like prison) I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us or we don't; it's a dimension of the soul; it's not essentially dependent on some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation. Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart; it transcends the world that is immediately experienced, and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons. Vaclav Havel (tr. Paul Wilson), from Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvizdala, published by Vintage Books

Hope in this deep & powerful sense is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but...an ability to work for something because it is good, not because it stands a chance to succeed.

- V. Havel (tr. P. Wilson)

extremely important to remember that you DO NOT TALK TO THE POLICE WITHOUT A LAWYER

I will never not understand how a minority of people have decided that wind farms - significantly prettier than pylons, coal power plants, nuclear power plants, and almost certainly fusion power plants - are ugly. In terms of energy generation, what else are you hoping for that is better?

Oh my god this thread has so many people I didn't even KNOW I was confusing as the same person.

"obscure south asian channel" is fuckin hilarious he did an interview with News18 which hits about 180 million people a week they get more eyeballs in a night than the NYT gets in a year

"We live on a floating rock, just get on with it."

At Trans Pride, I march for a future that teenage me didn't think I'd have Trans Pride isn't just a celebration, it's about survival. Oscar Sharples reflects on how we all need a bit more trans joy in our lives.

“We march to pay our respects to the trans people that came before us, and do our best for the trans people that will come after us. And we’re hopeful, because every happy trans face is a victory.”

Solidarity with everyone at Trans Pride in London today.

✊🏾🏳️‍⚧️

As I continue writing my book on navigating the workplace with a disability, I'm still looking for disabled voices to include. If you're interested in sharing your experiences, please reach out!

Bend It Like Beckham sequel in the works, director tells BBC The British classic's director spoke to the BBC about the plans ahead of the Euros final on Sunday.

Make them lesbians, you cowards!

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.