Dr Jay Allan (they/them)

Too many cis people see trans right as a luxury for decadent times and are far too eager to surrender us when times get tough

Ofcom, stop GB News broadcasting hate *CW: Homophobia, hate speech GB News is no stranger to spouting hatred and toxic lies. They take pride in it, and pretend the rules don’t matter. But they do. And they must be enforced. On 22 January,...

I know that I don’t have much of a following on here, but please consider signing this if you’re UK-based and have an issue with LGBTQIA+ people being described in ways that I refuse to repeat:

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For what it’s worth, which probably isn’t much, the more shit they throw at us, the more determined I become to be ferociously, vocally queer and trans. It took me until my 30s to break free of all the boxes in which I’d (un)willingly let myself be trapped, and I won’t be shoved back into them now.

Just going to jump on this (somewhat cheekily) to say that thoroughly editing academic books on the humanities and social sciences is very much my jam, if anyone is looking! PhD, extensive experience of working in scholarly publishing (and trans). Please feel free to DM me, if you’re interested.