mikael 🏳️‍⚧️

experimenting with glitch poetry today. pretty fun.

YouTube video by Quadeca Quadeca - Vanisher, Horizon Scraper (Full Album Movie)

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Academia gets its own Cass Review in the form of the Sullivan Review. Not in my name. TW I am posting the review in the next post. And doing a rant. This is really dreadful, worrying stuff, and overreaches massively.

happy pride month. that’s right. july is pride month too. in fact it’s pride year, bitches. the pride will continue until rights improve.

GIRES is in urgent need, and they need you.

For decades, the Gender Identity Research & Education Society has supported the trans community with vital research, resources, and advocacy. Now, it’s at risk.

They’re trying to raise £10,000 to keep GIRES going. Please share this and if you can donate.

🧵 The right wing politico-media, as well as extremists - so called ‘Gender Critical’ - literally laugh at the idea that suicide & suicidal ideation exists amongst trans+ ppl. It’s disturbingly frequent as you can see here in devastating replies. Trans+ ppl just want to live without persecution. [1]

Yes. Several who have attempted and died by suicide.

Transphobia experienced was one of - if not the main - factor.

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security would like to bring attention to and condemn recent judicial and governmental developments in the United Kingdom, which attempt to harm transgender and intersex people in the UK by stripping them of privacy and segregating them as ‘others.’ The Lemkin Institute believes these moves are part of a broader process of erasure. It is not only government action but also the media narrative that has fuelled hostility to and debate about the humanity of trans and intersex people while ignoring their voices. We see evidence of genocidal intent and actions targeting these communities. In April this year, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court (UKSC) delivered a judgment declaring that, for the purposes of the Equality Act (2010), “sex” refers to “biological sex,” which it did not define clearly. The Equality Act (2010) provides protection against discrimination on a variety of grounds in public spaces. This ruling at the UK’s highest court means that individuals are now protected from discrimination on the basis of their assigned at birth sex, regardless of how that corresponds to their gender identity, lived gender, or sex characteristics. The decision is the result of a court challenge brought by the gender critical group For Women Scotland, which is financially backed by author J.K. Rowling and characterises itself as “feminist.”

Well done, @humanrightsvicky.bsky.social. 👏
Yet another human rights organisation #TheLemkinInstitute calls out the UK on trans and intersex rights following the Supreme Court ruling.

www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...

They join:
ILGA-Europe
Human Rights Watch
18 UN Independent HR Experts

All the time

YouTube video by Candy Claws - Topic Two Airships

Song for the afternoon youtu.be/6I8fWWS3Lvw?...

BBC Radio 4 - File on 4 Investigates, File on 4 Investigates: Stalker in the Church An investigation into a stalking campaign by a female Church of England preacher.

As you can imagine it's been a difficult few years for me. I won't be online a lot over the next few days (obviously) but if you're a praying person please do keep everyone affected by this in your prayers. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

1) mixing up words and/or structure of sentences, issues with word recall, stammering when exhausted/stressed, tripping over the pronunciation of some words.
2) Before diagnosis: rehearsing every single convo multiple times in my head. Anxiety.

The following thread contains 201 open access articles, books, chapters & reports written and led by First Nations’ researchers. We write our own research across all areas. The order is random and ranges across disciplines, because of course it does.
#201FirstNationsArticles

We will be at parliament today reporting on the mass lobbying day.

And we will try to keep you updated on the events as they unfold.

BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures, Edward Said - Representation of the Intellectual - Available now Available episodes of Edward Said - Representation of the Intellectual

For those of you who are interested, I highly recommend listening to Edward Said’s Reith Lectures from 1993. As a scholar-activist, he invites us to reflect on how intellectual work demands sustained engagement with the world, to critique it and pursue something better. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Episode 38 Plant Poetics with Joela Jacobs, Solvejg Nitzke, and Isabel Kranz In this episode, editors Joela Jacobs, Isabel Kranz, and Solvejg Nitzke share insights from their new book, Plant Poetics. Highlighting the multiple facets of poetics, the discussion ranges plant bein

New podcast episode #38 from Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene with Joela Jacobs, Solvejg Nitzke & Isabel Kranz, interviewed by Kate Brelje, about their new book Plant Poetics: Literary Forms and Functions of the Vegetal. on.soundcloud.com/Zl986QUYIdpJ...

NEW: We’ve uncovered how the EHRC met behind closed doors twice with anti-trans group Sex Matters to discuss rolling back trans rights. What they said will alarm you. 1/6

tacc.org.uk/2025/06/23/h...

Look at Labour’s cruel attitude towards disability benefits, then tell me Keir Starmer cares about 'human dignity' | John Harris These proposed cuts will turn people’s lives into a nightmare. No wonder they are scared about where this all might lead, says Guardian columnist John Harris

If you want a powerful but factual summary of Labour’s upcoming benefit cuts, read this from @johnharris1969.bsky.social - with a bonus take down of Suzanne O’Sullivan’s repulsive “over-diagnosis” book. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Guest Post: What is monotropic split? - Emergent Divergence Tanya Adkin lays out the concept of monotropic split, and how it is at the root of various critical moments for Autistic people.

Got an ADHD person in your life? Wonder why they lose their shit when interrupted whilst hyperfocused on a task?

It’s called monotropic split, and it’s horrible. Painful horrible.

(The link is about autism but monotropism is a key ADHD feature too) emergentdivergence.com/2022/07/14/g...

Excellent thread.

Screenshot from the above webpage. To Women & Equalities Committee We, the undersigned, write to express serious and urgent concerns about the actions of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the apparent unwillingness of the Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) to investigate them. It is becoming increasingly clear that the EHRC is no longer operating as an impartial human rights body. Over the past several years, its leadership has shifted in a direction that appears ideologically driven, hostile to trans equality, and closely aligned with lobbying groups who advocate for the removal of legal protections for transgender people. These groups - including Sex Matters, Policy Exchange, and the LGB Alliance - have played a significant role in reshaping public discourse and influencing legal interpretations of the Equality Act 2010. We are calling on the Women and Equalities Committee to launch an immediate and transparent inquiry into: - The EHRC’s internal decision-making processes regarding the definition of “sex” under the Equality Act 2010; - All communications, meetings, and correspondence between the EHRC and external lobbying organisations from 2020 to the present; - The EHRC’s advice to government departments, ministers, and the courts—especially its role in shaping the outcome of For Women Scotland v The Lord Advocate [2024] UKSC 59. As transgender people and allies, we are gravely concerned that this advice, and the EHRC’s developing policy stance have been influenced not by human rights or evidence, but by ideological lobbying and political convenience. We must understand who the EHRC has been speaking to, what was said, and why these decisions were made. Anything less is a dereliction of democratic oversight.

Open letter calling for an inquiry into the EHRC. I’ve just signed.

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A Conversation with James Aldridge Ruling Passions · Episode

Hi! I've relaunched the Ruling Passions Podcast - new episode available on Spotify, or wherever you usually get podcasts.

Season 2 begins with a conversation with neurodivergent artist James Aldridge.

open.spotify.com/episode/6nEK...

why I don't have a country any more by Kit Barry A procedural/interactive art game about living through a moral panic

Wow.
This deceptively simple blockout-style game uses the number transphobic articles the Telegraph has published over the past 365 days to present short, smart, and kinda brutal message.

The game is live now.
kit-barry.itch.io/brick-out

Thanks to @tacc.org.uk for sharing.
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Snow fairy bird on a branch

So round 😍

Yes - it's VERY HOT!
istheukhotrightnow.com

One day I realised I never would so hit 'mark all as read' and happily went on with ignoring their existence.

I cannot function in this heat 😔

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Yeah. Doesn't help that there isn't much clarity on this, and some digital ethnographies I've read barely grapple with ethical considerations.

Just found this paper, not sure if it would be of any interest/use: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Posts that can be accessed without a log-in, for sure. Unsure about those that do require logging in (presumably due to the sensitive nature of discussions).