Miranda Debenham

A Black, female actor performs on stage. Red strips of fabric hang behind her as part of the set, and she holds a large round bowl. Her eyes are closed.

Are you a Black, Asian or ethnically diverse theatre maker in the North of England looking to make ambitious new work?

We’ve just launched the £2 million Theatre Breakthrough Fund - find out more 👇
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Image credit: Shadows In Different Shades by Oladipo Agboluaje
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If you're in Sheffield, we can deliver by hand, on foot, to any address in the city encircled by the blue line (and we're happy to gift-wrap books, if you like, at no extra cost). This might be useful for any last-minute Christmas orders (last day to order via this method is Tuesday 23 Dec).

Trans Secret Santa UK- Holiday Cards Trans Secret Santa UK is a community project by Trans+ Solidarity Alliance. In the past two years we have sent out over 1000 gifts to trans+ young people around the UK which is made possible by…

🔄 For extra feel-good action credit, share the link with other parents or young trans people, or in groups where they hang out.

💷 As well as nominating a trans+ person to receive a gift, you can also donate or buy Christmas cards that help fund the project.

🎄Buy here: tinyurl.com/TSSanta-Cards

Take action by spreading a little trans joy this Xmas! Nominations close in 5 days Trans Secret Santa UK - Gift applications close Nov 30th Trans Solidarity Alliance logo Transparent Action heart icon

🤍✊🏻 As our very first suggested individual action that parents can take, we’re inviting everyone to get involved in the Trans Secret Santa campaign, organised by the @TransSolidarityAlliance.bsky.social

A project that brings a little seasonal joy to trans people across the UK.

Spread #TransJoy

4. 자기 꼬리를 물고 있는 설표들…

Today I learned that stalking a 17 year old girl, writing up a 400 page 'dossier' about her, falsely reporting her to the police and smashing her phone does not constitute 'harassment'.

One wonders what *would*.

Hello gays and theys, the end of the year approach-eth, so you know what that means:
The second half of 🏳️‍🌈2025 Queer Adult SFF List! 🏳️‍🌈
Organized by month again, because that seemed to work pretty well last time!

The before photo showing me with very faded almost green hair which looks dry

The after photo with vibrant two tone blue hair with nice curls

Refreshed my hair yayyyy now I look like the ocean again instead of seaweed 🥰

Introducing: the Beres pork sandwich! Sliced roast pork, crackling, stuffing and apple sauce in a bun. Delicious. Has to be from Beres (a local chain pork sandwich shop) to qualify. Looks terrible but tastes incredible

A fully blurred out screenshot of the full screen for a livestream D&D game

Had the best time recording the first episode of #HeartforgeSiege over on @thetransmissions.bsky.social 💜 Can't wait for you all to meet these characters!

On Wednesday 5 November, the very same day the Prime Minister publicly reaffirmed the importance of music education, staff in the Department of Music at the University of Nottingham were informed of the immediate suspension of recruitment to all undergraduate degree programmes. This announcement precedes proposed plans to permanently close all Music degrees at the University. This decision threatens to end over a century of music education in the East Midlands, offered continuously since the University opened in 1881. Across that time, the Department has educated thousands of composers, researchers, performers, educators and other creative professionals. Its graduates have taken up leadership roles within the country’s leading arts organisations, fostering creativity and growth within the UK’s dynamic creative industries. It remains a centre of world-leading research, using music to explore and address complex societal and global challenges.

The Department is deeply embedded in the local community, working with schools, music hubs, community groups and venues. Its closure would not only dismantle a thriving academic and cultural institution but also severely diminish musical life and future opportunities across Nottingham, the wider East Midlands and the nation as a whole. As staff we are devastated, especially on behalf of our students, but also for the future of music education and research in the UK. We remain committed to advocating for the value of Music programmes at Nottingham and beyond. If you share our concern and wish to support efforts to protect music education at the University of Nottingham, please get in touch with protectuonmusic@gmail.com. Your voice can make a difference. Thursday 6 November 2025

Devastated to share the news that was broken to colleagues in Music (and other departments) at the University of Nottingham yesterday. This is obviously a very difficult time for us and our students.

Please contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to be involved.

me to others: it's hard right now. be gentle with yourself
me to me: wtf is wrong with you

Catch my tiny supplement of Baldur’s Gate themed character options as part of this release!

Hey, family - check out this Kickstarter for a new project by Lauren Shippen - for an audio drama set in the 90s about a rock band that exorcises ghosts. If you're so inclined, throw a little support their way.

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Happy "WTF do you mean it's already November???" to all who celebrate.

Remember, folks.

Food Resource List - PDX Food Resources PDX Share this sheet to amplify these existing resources to support individuals & families in accessing food during this government shutdown. A delay in SNAP means over 750,000 families...

Someone has put together a VERY thorough list of resources for people in the Portland area who need food. For those who have enough to share, please consider putting your time and/or money somewhere. For those who need help, here are places to get it.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

FAQs in Response to the Draft EHRC Code of Practice and Supreme Court Ruling We are calling for the EHRC’s “bathroom ban” to be scrapped, and the Code re-written to allow for trans inclusion in single sex services according to lived gender. Below are some common questions that might be raised by MPs (or others), and possible responses you can give to explain why this is needed. QUESTION “The Supreme Court ruling only affects those few thousand trans people who have Gender Recognition Certificates (GRCs). Otherwise, trans people retain all the rights and protections they have always had under the Equality Act 2010.” RESPONSE The Supreme Court ruling disapplies the effect of a GRC to the entirety of the Equality Act 2010. This means that there no longer exists any mechanism whatsoever for trans people to be legally recognised in their acquired gender under the UK’s most significant piece of equalities legislation. This not only affects those trans people who currently hold a GRC, but also the potentially hundreds of thousands of trans people who would wish to obtain a GRC in the future. For this reason, ILGA-Europe removed all legal gender recognition points from the UK this year, meaning that the UK now sits at an all-time low on the ILGA-Europe Rainbow map. There are many reasons why trans people do not apply, or have not yet applied for a GRC. Many report that the UK’s medicalised process for legal gender recognition remains humiliating, invasive and inaccessible for many. In this, the UK is out of step with international best practice, which recommends a model based on self-determination RESPONSE The Supreme Court ruling, as interpreted by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), does not just affect those with a GRC, but all those with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment.

TransActual have put together these handy FAQs to respond to MPs (or anyone else) who is still struggling to get their head round why the EHRC’s draft Code of Practice would be so devastating for the trans community.
Feel free to share, download, print, whatever!
transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...

A layout of pamphlets, stickers, books etc on my kitchen table. They include a tea towel with the seven cooperative principles, a jigsaw puzzle showing capitalism as a pyramid scheme, various lino cut prints saying Be Gay Do Crimes, Let Trans Youth Bloom and Turn Golf Courses Into Sex Forests, a book on growing herbs, and info on housing coops

Everything I bought at the anarchist bookfair today 😍

Never heard endangered before! Good one! Big Foot seems like he's probably a guy to me which is my main objection but new-food-bad is also coming through strong

Enjoying the guy spectrum as a concept thank you

So it's not because he's a guy?

Not really but asking people if they'd eat Big Foot is always a good time

Waitlists for a trans healthcare first appointment are now 224 years in some areas of the UK, according to this report. We are so far ahead of schedule to reach the world of Lichcraft by laurieoconnel, an rpg about trans necromancers and the nhs

laurieoconnel.itch.io/lichcraft

A Practical Guide To Feminizing HRT The futile attempt at answering every possible question for someone looking to trans their sex.

every time i think i can close the project file for pghrt.diy, invariably i get a message from someone asking a clarifying question based on what seems to be their doctor inventing an entirely new hrt myth whole cloth, prompting much bafflement as i decide where address it.

up to 18.1k words now!

A graphic with the bi flag as a background and the text Happy Bisexual Visibility Day

#Animorphs fans, I'm very happy to share that the first three books in the series are being rereleased next May with brand new covers. 🧊🦎

You can learn more here: thenerddaily.com/animorphs-by...

Cover artist: @creepcaptain.bsky.social
Book design: Cassy Price and Christopher Stengel at Scholastic

THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT

wait you're a genius though