Bobi King

I spend a lot of time talking about all the things historical games do wrong when representing (or, mostly, not representing) women in the past - for a change, here I wrote about some games which I think do something better and more interesting in their depictions of historical women & girls!

!! this rules!

this is not an exaggeration

Image description: A poster with three colours, red, green and white. There is text in the top right and bottom left corner, and diagonally down the middle. There is a large star in the bottom right. Text reads: Republican Festival Clwb Y Bont 4th May 16:00-20:00 Radical Welsh Music, art, politics, stalls Music Rap artist Chrxn Talks ‘WHAT IS THE CROWN ESTATE?' 'WELSH FASCISM & ANTI-FASCISM'

🚩 REPUBLICAN FESTIVAL 🚩

Are you a Republican, a Socialist? Come and join us and our friends on the 4th of May at Clwb Y Bont in Pontypridd.

With music from the rapper Chrxn, talks on issues like who owns our land, and the history of fascism and anti-fascism in Wales!

Image description: a white background with red text at the top, on the left of the text is a red hammer and sickle with a dragons tongue, on the right is a crossed over hammer and pickaxe. Underneath, there is an image of a trans flag flying with a hammer and sickle on it. Underneath that are three words, the first has a pink background, the middle has a white background, the third has a blue background. Text reads: PLAID GOMIWNYDDOL CYMRU WELSH UNDERGROUND NETWORK JOINT STATEMENT LIBERATION NOT BIGOTRY

BRITISH NEUTRALITY The UK Supreme Court's ruling of April 16*h is a disgraceful assault by the British state upon the dignity, humanity, and rights of trans women. This is not the pursuit of justice. This is a calculated escalation of state violence, a ruling soaked in reaction, an act of patriarchal authoritarianism, executed under the pretence of safeguarding cis women but, in truth, exposing how little the capitalist state cares for any of us. The ruling was not impartial legal reasoning, but a show trial. Trans voices were silenced, a trans judge was denied the right to speak, and three of the four interveners are anti-trans bigots. The British state does not seek truth or equality, it seeks control.

BIOLOGICAL TRUTH The truth is that womanhood cannot be reduced to mere biology, and certainly not biology at birth. As Marxists we understand that essentialism will confine swathes of society to poverty and oppression. Throughout history, powerful men have used "biology" to argue that the Irish are prone to alcoholism, Black Africans are able to withstand more pain, and women are weaker. And now, to the shame of us all, so-called feminists are claiming that trans women are guaranteed to be devious abusers and "biological women" are defined by chromosomes alone. The British state seeks to divide the working class, to impose biological essentialism on us all. Not in the name of equality but to entrench class domination.

A SLIPPERY SLOPE This ruling will not protect women, it will harm them, especially those who are already most at risk. Trans women already face violence, poverty, medical neglect and housing insecurity. This worsens the oppression of trans women on the basis of biological essentialism. Already, the British Transport Police have already changed their policy so that a trans woman with a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) will be searched by men. This decision was taken within 2 days of the ruling. This emboldens every landlord, boss, cop and bureaucrat who seeks to discriminate and exclude. It will not stop with trans women, it will further marginalise intersex people, non-binary people and any woman who does not conform to gender norms.

🚩🏳️‍⚧️ JOINT STATEMENT WITH @welshundergroundnetwork.cymru

This ruling is an attack on trans women and the trans community. Transgender people are a vulnerable section of the working class and we reject all attempts to dismiss and sideline this ruling as irrelevant to the working class struggle.

A picture of a man with a keffiyeh holding a Palestinian flag, in front of a crowd who are shaded in red. They’re holding Welsh and Palestinian flags. Text reads: BLOC PALESTEINA RHAN OR ORYMDAITH ANNIBYTIRETH OYE SAOWRN 26-04-25 SCWAR Y BRENIN I2YP

A picture of a man with a keffiyeh holding a Palestinian flag, in front of a crowd who are shaded in red. They’re holding Welsh and Palestinian flags. Text reads: PALESTINE BLOC PART OF THE MARCH FOR INDEPENDENCE BARRY SATURDAY 26-04-25 KING SQUARE I2PM

✊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇵🇸🚩 PALESTINE BLOC PART OF THE MARCH FOR INDEPENDENCE

Join us as we march for our right to self-determination and the right of Palestinians to self-determination.

Saturday 26th, April, 12pm, Kings Square, Barry

Palesteina Rhydd 🚩 Cymru am Byth 🚩 Yma O Hyd

this song has what i consider the perfect pop punk guitar tone

We already have one great confirmed panellist, @bobiking.bsky.social presenting the first results of their PhD research on Celticism and the contemporary right

Cyflwyniadau yn y Gymraeg neu'r Saesneg

I'm organising a panel at this September 2025 conference in Aberystwyth under the @carantes.bsky.social banner - papers to address egalitarian anti-fascist approaches to Celtic Studies (broadly defined), non-traditional ideas welcome, happy to chat details over DM

Including our government.

Reminder: UK police still report rape victims who are undocumented migrants to immigration. That scares victims, so they don’t report.

The only safe place for these rape victims is A&E.

Because Home Office has rejected all calls for an information firewall between police & immigration

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eira yn y cymoedd

Vimto from a can from the offy

gross! from the looks ours will all be sludge by tomorrow

bwrw eira heddi

he loves to sniff

i have been spending years trying to get my friends to play caravan cus i honestly love it

All classics cant fault em

he keeps shoving his nose in my face while i try to work

making a conscious effort to use twitter less now because its increasingly a hellscape

i guess im posting my art/propaganda

she metal my gear til i solid

sweep the cat is preparing to read lying in a sun puddle under his bookshelf

aah perfect reading weather

me and sweep have started attempting digital art recently. Sweep has requested a pen that is suitable for his lack of thumbs.

you cant argue with that % increase in productivity!!

sleepy tabby cat on my lap

he is helping me work

Baby raccoon with paws crossed Text: I see your still awake Despite saying You would go to bed On time

Me af

always

berlin has given me a taste of a city that both has great public transport and is REALLY queer and i love it

is now a bad time to admit i thought it was pronounced ‘bloo-ski’ until i downloaded it and seen it was.. the sky