Liam D'Arcy (siad/iad)🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

IMAGINE if Mary Lou was photographed with a twenty grand birkin handbag. The Irish Times letters page would be throbbing for weeks.

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I’m so tired. Every time I try to critique—politics, Star Trek, whatever—I’m told to shut up, be a cheerleader, stop being “negative.” It’s depressing how fear of fascism has made ppl defend the status quo instead of thinking critically & get antagonist to anyone who asks them to push further.

The NHS are forcibly detransitioning trans kids in Brighton and calling it “managed withdrawal.” Their own impact assessment acknowledges trans kids will be at increased risk of harm as a result, don’t want this, and are likely to just use DIY hormones instead

The Polari first book Longlist with books by Curtis Garner, Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Eleanor Medhurst, Hanako Footman, Ciara Maguire, June Thomas crossed out to show they've withdrawn

The Polari prize Longlist with books by Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth, Jane Traies crossed out to show they've withdrawn

15 of 24 authors, and two judges, have now withdrawn.

First Book:
Curtis Garner, Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Eleanor Medhurst, Hanako Footman, Ciara Maguire, June Thomas

Main:
Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth, Jane Traies

John Boyne is the person who accidentally included a recipe from Zelda: Breath of the Wild in his book because he just googled the recipe for dying fabric and didn't realize "red lizalfo tails and Hylian shrooms" were not real.

Yeah - aside from his vicious hatred for both trans and asexual people he's also a poor writer. Got into a public spat with the Holocaust Museum of all people over the factual inaccuracy of '...Striped Pyjamas' and used a Legend of Zelda dye recipe in an apparently serious historical novel.

The Polari prize first book Longlist with crosses over books by Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire to show they've withdrawn

The polar prize award Longlist with crosses over books by Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth to show they've withdrawn

UPDATE: 10 of the 24 longlisted authors have now withdrawn from the Polari Prize.

First Book:
Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire

Main award:
Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth

Judging panel:
Nicola Dinan, Bob Hughes

Critics claim gender clinics are seeing an excess of trans boys. But new data suggest otherwise Some claim ‘social contagion’ is driving teenagers who were assigned female at birth to identify as transgender and seek medical care.

I'm glad this specifically names and discusses the mechanisms of societal transmisogyny and harsh policing of transfemininity under patriarchy, which results in transfems staying closeted for longer. While the number of trans men and women are roughly equal, trans women tend to come out later.

Transgender people aren't even close to the real problem. We just show everyone what the real problem is, which is that standards for women are so severe society thinks it's ok to destroy you if you don't meet them.

The Pedro Pascal smear campaign And sexual harassment allegations against a leftist influencer.

Pedro Pascal spoke up for trans rights and has been targeted with a smear campaign as a result. False allegations lobbed by TERFs have since become a meme and entered the YouTube podcast sphere—not unlike the previous anti-MeToo smear campaigns I’ve covered.
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If anyone has spent enough time watching how GCs talk with each other online you realise soon enough that underneath all the misleading language and supposed ideals are a bunch of bullies with no personality. They're hateful, racist, self-hating losers with no moral fibre, empathy or compassion.

Cuba Will Now Allow Trans People to Change Gender Markers Without Bottom Surgery A new law allows trans Cubans to update their identification cards by request without providing proof of genital surgery.

Cuba now brings the number of countries globally where trans people have the right to gender self-determination to 22.

Nach bhfuil tuirse orthu?

It's been ten years since the Gender Recognition Act became law. How did we get to such a victory, and how much further do we have to go? Read more at the link 👉 gcn.ie/10-years-gen... #GenderRec10

Dr Lydia Foy holds the first Irish gender recognition certificate

Now that pride month is over & all the fanfare over marriage equality has died down will there be any enthusiasm & Irish pride around gender recognition which has it's 10th anniversary in 2 weeks? Are we also going to have a serious conversation about trans people's treatment over this past decade?

Dachau in July 1933... reported in the New York Times

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A pride comic about the midnight turn of rainbow capitalism on July 1st and then various queer friends and family happy and loving each other featuring the text, "Brands turn back into pumpkins, colors go on clearance, but you're still here. I'm glad you're still here.

"July 1st."

I've had complicated feelings about this comic this year. We've seen so much quiet quitting of rainbow capitalism--a canary in the coal mine. I started wondering if I was naive to not think of when I drew this as "the good times."

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

'I Just Wanted To Get Home Safe': Ireland's Non-Binary Passport Problem Learn about Ireland's non-binary passport problem through Sil's journey, highlighting the need for bureaucratic reform.

#Ireland does not legally acknowledge nevermind have #Pride in non binary people.

Don't let FF/FG fool you into thinking they are allies.

#speirgorm

gay45.eu/irelands-non...

Oppose Your Kids’ Gender Transition? Spain Wants You Behind Bars The ‘center-right’ has joined the Left in a surreal proposal to amend the Spanish Penal Code.

"imposes prison sentences of up to two years on those who oppose gender transition treatments for minors."

Spain leading the charge on human rights 🇪🇸

europeanconservative.com/articles/new...

Those "corporations washing away rainbows on July 1" jokes kinda got ruined by all the corporations just telling us to go fuck ourselves right off the bat this year.

'I Just Wanted To Get Home Safe': Ireland's Non-Binary Passport Problem Learn about Ireland's non-binary passport problem through Sil's journey, highlighting the need for bureaucratic reform.

This is getting embarrassing at this stage. I'm so tired of the negligence and inaction of our government. The sink or swim mentality of this country for minorities is sickening. Get your finger out!

gay45.eu/irelands-non...

Hey folks, if you're looking for a good graphic novel to read this Pride, here's a thread of some of our favourites that we have in store.

“Putting on a Gas Mask.”

Tag or send to your friend Chicago, Seattle, Philadelphia, Northern
Virginia, New York.

Sincerely, California.

Person dressed as a knight with a trans flag and a cape with a trans flag shield that says “Trans Knights are human Knights”

This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵

Is breá liom é seo!!!

You want me to pay 5 dollars a year so you can be a penguin with more puffles?????

Happy pride month