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My next book Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism in Britain is in the @plutopress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalogue (for a May '26 release)!

This book is the first joined-up history of trans activism in the UK all the ways from the 40s to the present.

Dig it On pain and pleasure in the archive

I wrote about the different ways the archive can hurt, and how we nonetheless need it to heal. Cat pic included open.substack.com/pub/emrystra...

If you read theory hard enough you become a historian, this is absolutely the case

Until recently I hadn't read "Scapegoat," a book that is never mentioned in the now 6-year-long Dworkin revival going on (even though it seems in many ways to be her magnum opus). It's the book where Dworkin finally says what she thinks women should do. The answer she comes up with may surprise you.

Join our mass lobbying day - wednesday 25th June 1-4pm - Against the EHRC Guidance. Together we can make a difference. Register via www.transsolidarityalliance.com Trans+ Solidarity Alliance logo. Unite 4 Trans Rights logo. A picture of a trans flag being held over Westminster Palace.

WHAT IS A MASS LOBBY? A mass lobby is when a group of people contact their MP or contact members of the House of Lords and arrange to meet them in parliament on the same day and at the same time. It's a great way of making it clear to parliamentarians that their constituents (or in the case of the House of Lords, UK citizens) are passionate about an issue, and is an effective way of encouraging them to take action. WE WILL BE RELEASING INFORMATION PACKS

TRANS+ OR ALLY WE NEED YOU! The Equalities and Human Rights Commission has produced a draft code of guidance to the Equality Act that - if implemented - will have a devastating impact on the day to day lives of trans+ people in the UK, excluding them from settings ranging from specialist support services to gym changing rooms and toilets. We need our parliamentarians to step up and speak out NOW to prevent this draft guidance becoming law. Join us on 25th June you can register via our website www.transsolidarityalliance.com REGISTER TO COME!

Let's demand better for Trans+ people in the UK!

MASS LOBBY AGAINST EHRC GUIDANCE

Trans+ people and allies - join us in Parliament on the 25th June

Register and find more information on our website: transsolidarityalliance.com

Banner saying "listen to us" outside a glass fronted building. 2 people set up the banner

After the transphobic supreme court ruling the EHRC has issued guidance which ultimately moves to push trans peoples out of public life. This guidance is transphobic. We demand it must be changed to support trans people. Please come down to the offices in support of- the more supporters the better!!

BREAKING

TKDB are setting up camp outside the EHRC Office in London

A slide from a talk that reads: Rainbow Trap. A requirement to be classified, as a condition of being included, catches LGBTQ communities in a rainbow trap. With the image of Kevin Guyan's new book, Rainbow Trap.

I'm in Brighton today to deliver the keynote at the Box Breakers conference organised by @ctsgbrighton.bsky.social

The lineup of presenters LOOKS AMAZING and it's also the first outing for new ideas from #RainbowTrap. Equal parts nervous and excited! 🌈

#LGBTQ #queer #book #newbook

Tops off: The public pool protest changed Trans+ rights in Italy One summer in Milan, a group of trans women's topless protest was a spark to a broader movement in Italy that changed Trans+ rights across the country

🏳️‍⚧️ “Wearing their bikinis and waving a sign saying, “We are transsexual, enough with discrimination” - they headed to the pool”

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/tops-off-the-public-pool-protest-that-sparked-the-fight-for-trans-rights-in-italy/

Against Bad Arguments for Terrible Things – Spectre Journal Holly Lewis takes a sledgehammer to John Rees's attempt to Marx-wash antitrans bigotry.

"Which section of the working-class movement is it that thinks some workers shouldn’t be permitted to hold jobs? What “tribune of the oppressed” thinks trans people should be punished by having to choose between public erasure and public diarrhea?"

spectrejournal.com/against-bad-...

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English UK court defines 'woman'; trans women left in limbo | The Take

I gave an interview to Al Jazeera on the Supreme Court judgment, and the surrounding context. I think it's possibly the best thing I've ever done (?) so give it a listen.

youtu.be/dhRKIZi60NI?...

UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren’t Women under the Equality Act 2010 The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people: This is what it means for Trans+ rights in the country

My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment.

The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010

www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...

Welcome to the gay revolution... Leave your genders at the door.

My first post, by way of an introduction, gives a whistle stop tour of what dialectics and historical materialism (with glitter text) mean for me in relation to queer/trans identity, and gay liberationism as a window onto the reification of gender and sexuality: open.substack.com/pub/emrystra...

toastyglow 5d ago why be radically exclusionary abt queerness when you could be radically inclusionary instead. let's inflate the numbers. let's become the majority. the sky's the limit toastyglow 5d ago "we can't let just ANYONE call themselves queer!!" what are you talking about. I'm steepling my fingers and gleefully cackling every time we Get Another One and you should be too. lock in. 17,929 notes

Kill the cop in your head

The second post talks about me talking about my research in Madrid, speculative modes of resistance, plus some scattered thoughts on graffiti: open.substack.com/pub/emrystra...

Welcome to the gay revolution... Leave your genders at the door.

My first post, by way of an introduction, gives a whistle stop tour of what dialectics and historical materialism (with glitter text) mean for me in relation to queer/trans identity, and gay liberationism as a window onto the reification of gender and sexuality: open.substack.com/pub/emrystra...

If you're interested in reading about my thoughts about/ research into gay liberationism, dialectical formations of queer identity, and conceptualising trans marxism - plus silly little things I find in the archives - now you can!

open.substack.com/pub/emrystra...

have grudgingly accepted that podcasts are a reasonable means of doing research, any recommendations in the pol/phil/theory area?

UK folks, please consider using uk.bookshop.org

Shipping is usually pretty speedy, they have many books, and you can choose to support a specific indie bookshop or let it be spread among various indies that are signed up to their program.

'it wasn't a nazi salute, it was an autism salute' is the best take. nobody is topping that

Funded PhD project in trans and non-binary inclusion An opportunity to develop a PhD project around trans and non-binary inclusion within health and social care.

University of Brighton & @CottinghamTrust launch one of the UK’s first PhD scholarships focusing on trans & non-binary inclusion‍ ⚧

The landmark initiative provides an opportunity to advance research that drives equality & transforms lives. Find out more bit.ly/42gt3Gn

Bizarre reason why McDonald's worker might not receive $60,000 reward for identifying Luigi Mangione The strict rules could mean the tipster might not even get a dime

To receive the FBI reward, the McDonald's worker would first have to be nominated by an involved agency and then be approved through the committee. If the Secretary of State were to agree, they would then determine how much money the information provided by the employee is worth, up to but likely not totaling the $50,000 advertised.

Now what did we learn

After Accountability

Announcing the republication of @pinkomagazine.bsky.social’s oral history of the concept of accountability with @haymarketbooks.org next January! We interviewed people involved in the creation and use of this concept and as a bonus got a history of the US left www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2455-a...

Meet the ‘sickfluencers’ of TikTok – and don’t be fooled by the outrage obscuring the real scandal | Frances Ryan That desperate people have to look online for help accessing disability and sickness benefits is what should truly upset us, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

Meet the “sickfluencers”: disabled people turn to TikTok for help accessing disability benefits - and the media says they’re scroungers gaming the system.

My col. on Fraser Nelson’s stitch up job, and the paranoia those with the least might get an advantage. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For a Tranarchist Feminism: Transition as Care and Struggle by Shuli Branson This is an essay I published last year (2023) in the free-access academic journal Coils of the Serpent. It fits in with some of the other writing I have done, but due to its academic...

Today is a very good day to read Shuli Branson's For A Tranarchist Feminism: Transition as Struggle and Care. Transition has always been much more than the medical and legal legitimacy of our very lives, and we have long known how to help one another transition without and against the state

Bella-Rose Kelly, Concealing Gender Non-Conformity: A Trans Phenomenology of Disability - PhilArchive Cissexist perception involves a prejudicial judgment and an unmediated affective response, such as that of disgust, directed at the gendered aspects of another person. In this paper, I advance a view ...

my first publication “Concealing Gender Non-Conformity: A Trans Phenomenology of Disability” is now forthcoming in the Journal of Philosophy of Disability. In it I explain how cissexist perception shapes and harms the lives of disabled trans people. You can read it here:
philarchive.org/rec/KELCGN

Last Christmas I gave you my heart
But the very next day you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I am becoming a Body without Organs

today’s klee angels are ANGEL COUPLE (1931)