@hjosephinegiles.bsky.social
Writer. www.harryjosephine.com
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15.07.2025 14:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
This poem does not support Palestine Action
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/this-poem-...
I'm teaching a course at Moniack Mhor in September, with Hannah Lavery, & our guest is Roger Robinson.
It's space to think about how politics & writing intertwine, what we can & can't do with words, the possibilities and frustrations of activist writing.
www.moniackmhor.org.uk/courses/2537...
Some words from Poland on multilingualism, with a speculative translation of MΓ iri MhΓ²r at the end:
I'm sick of English bullshit
I'm really fucking sick
Sorry not sorry my song's so long
I'm sick of English bullshit
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/in-transla...
Orkney friends, we're coming home with Deep Wheel Orcadia a week today.
www.scissorkick.co.uk/tour
If you read the piece, you'll see my response to exactly that point.
16.06.2025 13:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This hits very hard.
I, and many of my trans colleagues, operated from this logic by default. Many now, I think, are waking up to its flaws. Some, sadly, still do not and cling to the hope of a quick fix or compromise.
"We cannot show segregation as the moral abhorrence, practical disaster and mechanism of terrifying social control that it is with open letters, symbolic protests and lobbying campaigns. We show segregation for what it is by collectively making segregation impossible to enforce"
16.06.2025 08:20 β π 6 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1
Stop lobbying the government, start taking direct action to resist trans segregation:
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"Your trans colleagues are receiving emails from their bosses saying that they have to use segregated facilities because theyβre frightened of getting sued.
"You have to be able to present those bosses with something scarier than the anti-trans legal budget."
substack.com/home/post/p-...
I started screengrabbing excerpts of @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social's latest to share, and then had to stop because I was screengrabbing all of it: hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/stepping-o...
15.06.2025 16:40 β π 15 π 8 π¬ 1 π 1
I went to visit the last great auk.
"This extinction belongs to me, and I belong to it. Iβm named for it. Itβs my history, in my place. I came to Fowl Craig to pay my respects to my King."
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/klumsed
dΓ n beag ΓΉr
www.juliejohnstone.com/essence-pres...
how is your fuel, your oxygen, your heat?
09.05.2025 13:31 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1
I've been thinking about how to tend to a political fire:
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/luntit
Want to come see my gay sci fi love story with live string quartet this summer?
26th June 2025 - St Magnus International Festival, Orkney
18th + 19th July 2025 - The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
25th + 26th July 2025 - Eden Court, Inverness
www.scissorkick.co.uk/tour
"We learn more about trans life from figures who are worrying and incomprehensible than we do from any potted biography of a political hero. If we look at our inauthentic origins and find them true, we can better live as the contradictions we are."
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/on-transfi...
StΓΉc an Lochain
Tuppi o the Lochan
Lochanβs Pinnacle
#Munros4TransLiberation NUMBER ONE HUNDRED
munros4translib.wordpress.com/2025/04/22/1...
If you're at a trans liberation protest today, here's some chants and songs for you! Print and share and use!
Chants: transhealthuk.noblogs.org/resources-fo...
Songs: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zni6r...
[Community healthcare clinic]
Me: [chanting] blood, blood-
Other queers: blood, BLOOD
Implausibly hot trans woman: [pounding her clipboard] BLOOD, BLOOD, BLOOD!
www.gofundme.com/f/blood-test...
If you want to do a practical thing for trans people, please support and share this fundraiser.
We're organising blood tests for trans people excluded by healthcare. This is the work I wrote about yesterday!
Thank you so much for you kind words and help.
www.gofundme.com/f/blood-test...
The Supreme Court is wishing a problem away and so gifting more problems to trans lives. Those lives can, must and will continue being lived in their fullness and their joy. My sisters, please give all your love to each other and none of it to the state.
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/while-the-...
How fabulous! It's online in full here: archive.org/details/roma...
16.04.2025 15:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
What do H.P. Lovecraft, Jean Sibelius, Carson McCullers and a 1970s medium in the Isle of Wight have in common?
Thatβs right, itβs our friend Fiona Macleod.
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/on-ghosts
If you thought the story of William Sharp and Fiona Macleod I've been telling couldnβt get any weirder, let me now tell you about how Tennessee Williamsβ lover met them at a seance.
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/on-ghosts
If you thought the story of William Sharp and Fiona Macleod I've been telling couldnβt get any weirder, let me now tell you about how Tennessee Williamsβ lover met them at a seance.
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/on-ghosts
What do H.P. Lovecraft, Jean Sibelius, Carson McCullers and a 1970s medium in the Isle of Wight have in common?
Thatβs right, itβs our friend Fiona Macleod.
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/on-ghosts
In May I'm going to walk the outline of Gaza across Edinburgh and Midlothian, as part of a group raising emergency funds for displaced families from Gaza.
I'd be really grateful if you'd contribute.
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
This report is published freely, independently and without institutional backing, to put the information directly in the hands of the writers and literature workers who need it. I'd be really greateful if you helped pass it on and make this the story it deserves to be.
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