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Marxist aesthete, bookworker, v into fragrance/film/fashion πŸ₯–πŸŒΉ | sometimes i write things @ emmatranter.substack.com

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The exhibition coincides with the release of The Word for World, a book edited by @suchmayer.bsky.social and Sarah Shin, co-published by AA Publications. Use the code LEGUIN for 10% off on our site πŸ’™ www.silverpress.org/collections/...

15.10.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Greta Thunberg: β€œIsraeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

β€’ They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
β€’ Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
β€’ She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

15.10.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3073    πŸ” 1698    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 176
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EHRC withdraws interim guidance encouraging trans exclusion After six months of confusion and delay, the EHRC has taken down interim guidance rushed out in April. But the damage has already been done.

"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives"

β€œNow the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”

15.10.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 605    πŸ” 234    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 11

reading at this in october!! be there or be thought a square xx

26.09.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Tumblr post from every-lemon 
Sep 8

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed.
I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

Tumblr post from every-lemon Sep 8 so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff. they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed. I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

Follow up tumblr post 
every-lemon
Sep 9
it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.

Follow up tumblr post every-lemon Sep 9 it was a smash hit. a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud. he was home by 6:30am.

dudes rock

22.09.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 8396    πŸ” 1912    πŸ’¬ 89    πŸ“Œ 246

Ft @forgetfulsurf.bsky.social among others!

24.09.2025 11:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Event poster:
Re-enchantment Readings
17th October 
7.30-10pm
The Horse Hospital 
WC1N 1JD

Featuring:
Ebrubaoghene Abel-Unokan
Alexander Orlov
Nadia Awad
Phoebe Stuckes
Tori Mangan

Tickets Β£4

Event poster: Re-enchantment Readings 17th October 7.30-10pm The Horse Hospital WC1N 1JD Featuring: Ebrubaoghene Abel-Unokan Alexander Orlov Nadia Awad Phoebe Stuckes Tori Mangan Tickets Β£4

London literary types, I’d love for you to come along to this event we’re putting on next month! Tickets here - www.thehorsehospital.com/events/reenc...

24.09.2025 11:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Donate to Help Christine finish her Master's Degree!, organized by Vera Chapiro Hi everyone, My name is Christine, a student based in London. I’m fundrais… Vera Chapiro needs your support for Help Christine finish her Master's Degree!

Hello! Would love it if you could all share this & donate if you have anything to spare - so close to the initial goal! Christine is a dear friend & it is so rough trying to fund postgrad study these days! Even just a fiver would help! www.gofundme.com/f/help-chris...

19.08.2025 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lest you say "it's not like that in the United States," I am currently representing a person facing criminal charges for - and this is true - saying "protect trans kids" during a school board meeting

20.07.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5583    πŸ” 1971    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 16

I didn’t know this was a thing that could even happen! Outrageous omg

21.07.2025 07:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The first 11 pages are names of babies who are dead under the age of 6 months.

The first 381 pages are all children.

29.06.2025 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Website/device age verification is a privacy and security nightmare and everyone who tells you that this is a solved problem is lying to you.

27.06.2025 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2130    πŸ” 783    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 18
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The Plight Of The White Male Novelist | Defector In July of 2022, Joyce Carol Oates tweeted that her literary agent friend told her editors are no longer interested in reading first novels by young white male writers, β€œno matter how good.” She was s...

defector.com/the-plight-o...

β€œwhat's really happening is that, in response to historic declines in literature’s value, the industry has itself become a site of more contingent and more precarious work that is more often done by women”

25.06.2025 05:36 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
Shabana Mahmood is opposed to two amendments to the crime bill on abortion and Wes Streeting may also vote against them

Justice secretary to oppose abortion amendments in crime bill

The times

Shabana Mahmood is opposed to two amendments to the crime bill on abortion and Wes Streeting may also vote against them Justice secretary to oppose abortion amendments in crime bill The times

Looking across the papers today, anti-trans rights commentators and politicians also seem to be the ones opposing making abortion legal. It shouldn’t be a shock to anyone - they’re against bodily autonomy. For everyone.

14.06.2025 12:18 β€” πŸ‘ 714    πŸ” 250    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 44
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Nan Goldin Sells Prints to Support At-Risk Trans People All proceeds from the two-week sale will go to Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and the Trans Income Project.

If you know Nan Goldin fans who want to help the trans community... @charliejane.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @transgenderreport.com @cherylmorgan.bsky.social hyperallergic.com/1019335/nan-...

13.06.2025 02:15 β€” πŸ‘ 230    πŸ” 137    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 10
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NUJ condemns arrest of journalists Yanis Mhamdi and Omar Faiad by Israeli authorities

The NUJ joins @ifjglobal.bsky.social in condemning the arrest by Israeli authorities of journalists Yanis Mhamdi and Omar Faiad, who were aboard the Madleen ship carrying humanitarian aid en route to Gaza.

www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

10.06.2025 13:13 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

solidarity with the protesters, solidarity with the flotilla

09.06.2025 01:55 β€” πŸ‘ 421    πŸ” 112    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

organizers from the Gaza Freedom Flotilla has announced those aboard the Madleen have been abducted by the Israeli army, and the aid resources aboard taken

09.06.2025 00:41 β€” πŸ‘ 461    πŸ” 340    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 5
Crew of Madleen

Crew of Madleen

Entire Madleen crew representing 7 countries has gone dark and presumed kidnapped by Israel
Greta Thunberg
Rima Hassan
Yasemin Acar
Baptiste Andre
Thiago Avila
Omar Faiad
Pascal Maurieras
Yanis Mhamdi
Suayb Ordu
Sergio Toribio
Marco van Rennes
Reva Viard

09.06.2025 00:31 β€” πŸ‘ 905    πŸ” 675    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 50

The path to the end of Roe V. Wade was paved with abortion providers being killed, and clinics being bombed and set on fire.

08.06.2025 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2860    πŸ” 808    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 8

For historical reference only: The suffragette movement in the UK did employ violent tactics:

www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politi...

08.06.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 181    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 1
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Surrender Fantasy desire, I want to turn into you...

Wrote this essay on fantasy & romance & reading! Ft cameos from a number of friends, plus clumsy mediations on Maria Edgeworth, Nora Ephron, Angela Carter & Diane Di Prima open.substack.com/pub/emmatran...

03.06.2025 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How the Farm Industry Spied on Animal Rights Activists and Pushed the FBI to Treat Them as Terrorists For years, a powerful β€˜Big Ag’ trade group served up information on activists to the FBI. Records reveal a decade-long effort to see the animal rights movement labeled a legitimate terrorism threat.

Confidential records obtained by WIRED & @propertyofthepeople.org show the ag industry deploying moles to infiltrate activist meetings, while functionally serving as FBI informants, in a shadow campaign to brand the animal rights movement America's biggest bioterrorism threat.

My latest @wired.com:

03.06.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 840    πŸ” 395    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 26

Don’t agree w the whole thing but it’s so interesting to read a contemporary response to some of the feminist sex wars stuff

03.06.2025 12:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Porn, Feminism & the Meese Report

Funnily I just read this piece on Dworkin’s usefulness to the Reagan administration www.marxists.org/history/etol...

03.06.2025 12:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting (& concerning!) that TERFs are up to this while Dworkin has a revival among trans-inclusive feminists

03.06.2025 12:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Surrender Fantasy desire, I want to turn into you...

Wrote this essay on fantasy & romance & reading! Ft cameos from a number of friends, plus clumsy mediations on Maria Edgeworth, Nora Ephron, Angela Carter & Diane Di Prima open.substack.com/pub/emmatran...

03.06.2025 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Have been reading discussions of rape law/sentencing/the anti rape movement in general in old issues of the abolitionist recently & was thinking this when I heard about her death! So unambiguously evil

28.05.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

No one's "perfect" but many other Women's Liberation Movement bodies of work exist. Ones that aren't rooted in the kind of fascistic claim to innocence that gives rise to - literally, in this case - settler-colonial solutions. What if everyone was doing a Prescod/Nestle/Hollibaugh revival instead...

27.05.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

27.05.2025 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 93    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

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