Rohan Fox

Today I've written to Bridget Phillipson to ask for clarity on how the government will ensure trans people's rights in the wake of the recent Supreme Court ruling and EHRC guidance. At a moment of extreme worry and distress for the trans community, govt must step up and give assurances.

For #worldcurlewday here are some clips of Eurasian Curlew all filmed local to me. I love their haunting call

#curlew #wader #waders #worldcurlew #birds #birding #birdwatching

@wwtworldwide.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @curlewaction.bsky.social

Could not agree more

Could not agree more

It's much of the same reason I support sex work decriminalization vs sex work legalization

To be honest, I think referring to this position as gender decriminalization is the path toward solidarity

No liberation can come from a State

Trans women aren't keen on sleeping with terfs. Concerning yourself so much with other people's sex lives is a bit odd, and it sounds like you don't know what a fetish is. It will be moreso, if you start policing what a woman is thats not going to go well, and it's happening already.

To get one thing straight, as I think will be coming clear to people in the UK this morning, that Supreme court decision doesn't just disadvantage women who are trans, it also disadvantages *all* women. We can now be questioned as to our gender, wherever, by whoever. Probably in whatever way.

This is hilarious. What do you think is going to happen to the butch/gender non conforming cis women after this? Do you think you'll be left alone?

Transphobe reasoning is like “you don’t understand - I just need to see their genitals to make sure they’re not a pervert”

Weight loss drugs are dangerous and part of fatphobic capitalism. Fatness =\= unhealthy, and eating less =\= improved health.

A header from the Crowdfunder page Help the All-Terrain Wheelchair Project (www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-the-all-terrain-wheelchair-project). The picture beneath it is taken by someone sitting in a wheelchair. It shows a pair of knees in camo trousers on a rugged all terrain wheelchair with an orange frame and mountain bike wheels, on grass covered ground.

OK, so we at @sitrws.bsky.social are piloting a project to maintain a library of off road wheelchairs, supporting disabled folx to have access to outdoor spaces and events. Can you help us out?

Shares are as good as monies.

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-the-a...

Nuthatch and Cuckoo flowers in goauche. Feeling inspired by Spring!

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#art #traditionalart #goauche #bird

Wood anemones! I love these flowers that blanket the woodland floor in spring like a carpet of stars.

#uk #nature #spring

if you’re an artist who ever thought “what’s the point? The world is Hell and I should do something that matters instead”

even in an ICE detention center people will treat art as sacred, seek it out, and find joy and comfort in it. You aren’t making art, you’re making hope.

a Labour Party which claims that people are faking mental health problems in huge numbers, that the benefit system is too generous, and that the severely disabled—and even terminally ill!—can and *must* work is a cruel, extreme far-right party. and, yeah, a fascist one.

I could go on..access to green spaces, de-criminalisation of drugs, waitlists for ADHD/autism dx, free trauma-informed therapy at point of need, fixing social care, accessible & affordable public transport, the cost of living crisis, prescription drug shortages..

6. Access to healthcare includes access to trans health care. Many trans people are struggling with their mental health due to years long wait lists for gender-affirming care.

5. Reform the benefits system so that disabled people don't need to re-apply for unfit for work UC payments if they try a job and it breaks them. Stop the whole dehuminising sickness benefits process, stop forcing disabled people to repeatedly prove their disabilities are real.

4. Force employers to comply with reasonable adjustments for disabled employees, make flexible working hours a compulsory reasonable adjustment, create more accessible jobs, increase sick pay, stop forcing people into the office.

3. Housing - cap rent, crack down on landlords whose properties aren't fit to live in, create affordable housing stock and more council housing, inc accessible homes. Stop housing discrimination against benefits claimants. Cold, damp housing leads to poor health outcomes.

2. Fund the NHS and shorten waiting lists, so that people can access healthcare to improve health outcomes. This includes mental health waitlists.

1. INCREASE benefits - or, better yet, create a universal basic income. So that disabled people can meet their basic needs, improving their health to some degree, so that they can begin to think of working. A UBI would also prevent people becoming sick/disabled. #disability #uk

Ok, so here is a list of things the UK Govt could do if they actually truly wanted to help disabled people into work 🧵-

I was 18 when the Tories got in in 2010, since then I have been solely reliant on the punitive and dehumanising benefits system for income, and had naively hoped a Labour govt would make things easier for disabled people. But nope, not just more of the same - worse.

#disability #uk

Photo of a small rectangular goauche painting on canvas, of a jay perched in a bare rowan tree with berries.

Close up of the Jay painting

Painted this Jay on a Rowan tree as a gift for a friend recently. Making art with friends in mind adds to the motivation!

Gouache and charcoal on linen canvas.

#traditionalart #goauche #birds #jay

Photo of a small rectangular goauche painting on canvas, of a jay perched in a bare rowan tree with berries.

Close up of the Jay painting

Painted this Jay on a Rowan tree as a gift for a friend recently. Making art with friends in mind adds to the motivation!

Gouache and charcoal on linen canvas.

#traditionalart #goauche #birds #jay

Disabled people are not a burden. They are our neighbours and friends — and they deserve to live fulfilling lives just like anyone else.

A statement from the Independent Alliance on cuts to welfare.

I love how Monk sometimes breaks with the conventions of the impossible crime genre by just not explaining how the impossible part was done. Who cares about that nerd stuff? Here's twenty minutes of Tony Shalhoub straightening things.

BREAKING: The government denies it's abandoning people with extreme disabilities by slashing their benefits, pointing out that it's removing the safeguards on assisted suicide to give them a cost-effective way out x

Full length photo of me, a white trans masc non binary person, with round glasses and short brown curly hair. I'm wearing indigo chore jeans, a Breton top, black waistcoat, brown blundstone boots, and a blue neckerchief.

It's a scary time to be a disabled trans person rn, but I'm seeking out joy where I can to stay sane.

My joy today was wearing this outfit and seeking out vintage treasures at the market!

#ootd #trans #disabled #queer

Do they really think all the people publicly thirsting after this guy are going to be turned OFF by this? He’s on trial for murder, but no, no—porn is a bridge too far! 😤

Top tip: sex-shaming doesn’t work if you’re not ashamed of sex

Went to a local art/craft market today, admired some linoprints and ceramics at a stall and got chatting to the artist, we exchanged business cards and she realized she already followed me, and got all excited to meet me irl! Said how much she loved my work!

More interactions like this please!