Naomi 💛🤍💜🖤

Now I want a setting with a magical equivalent of Thomas Midgley Jr

*sending a big internet hug*

Hope you can get an IRL hug too

Testicle earrings

The fact that it's all the First Book nominees that are pulling their books is frankly embarrassing for the authors on the main longlist

Girls should be pulverized beneath the boots of girls

Girls should worship girls as gods

Girls should have their wrists bound behind their backs and lick the feet of girls

Girls should be the unquestioned owned property of girls

Polari first book prize Longlist with Sacha coward, Jason okundaye, Amy twigg, and Mae diansangu's books crossed out to show they've withdrawn

The Polari book prize Longlist, with no books withdrawn by authors.

Keeping track of people withdrawing from the Polari Prize Longlist over the inclusion of proud self-described "TERF" John Boyne.

Let me know as we get updates on authors pulling their books in protest.

Here is my statement about the Polari award with alt text. Sorry for missing this the first time. X

Good girl 😊

And that doesn’t work. And they’re starting to realize that. I have a feeling that it’s about to be very, very dangerous to be a trans man, especially with the recent emphasis on fertility. Bc that’s the white woman’s bargain, you go through hell to birth babies and in return

One that is hung upside down on a lamppost

Make sure that your employers know that whether or not you're cis or trans is privileged and confidential information that they're not permitted to share, that your colleagues have no right to share, and that even stating that they have trans employees could be sufficient to effectively out you

Won't do any good, but wrote to the PM basically saying "please don't do this, it will hurt us horribly"

Interesting too that I see most of the trans people on my tl talking about this, much less so with the cis people. It’s gonna take a big effort from cis people to push back on this, make a fuss, make complaints etc and it’s important work that you need to do for us.

Now updated with info on ICE agents!

Someone should prop Keir Starmer's eyes open Clockwork Orange style and make him watch that scene at the end of Pride (2014) where the buses full of miners show up, until he fucking dies of shame.

Ban trans women from single-sex spaces, equality watchdog to say

The EHRC is not changing course on their bathroom ban.

They don’t care what the consultation said.

So what happens now? 🧵

archive.ph/inGpF

My work has offered us a "compressed week" as a morale boost as not had a pay rise in 2yrs+. Work longer 4 days, half day Friday - same total hours.

Given the research showing the benefits, why not just go to a 4.5 day week without working longer? 🥲

I am both quite sure this bullshit will come to pass, and also very cautious that anti trans papers are prone to exaggerate and speculate, and doubtful they have final text

Will there be another trans rights demo this month?

In terms of low impact but high annoyance signs of the enshittification of the internet, how bad autocorrect has become is by far the biggest cause of daily frustration for me 😡

Is there value in using the 100k petition mechanism to get a debate in Parliament on the ehrc guidance adoption, to avoid it being ministerially approved only without discussion?

Someone suggested i
I ask @transsolidarity.bsky.social ?

UK organisations with trans members/service users: this is the time to:-

a) refuse to comply with transphobia
b) make it clear to your trans members/service users that you are going to refuse, so they know they are safe.

Don't be intimidated into appeasing fascists, please.

Oh that's awesome 👌

One of the best things about being in an international server is that if I mention that I live in Bear Country (CO), the Australians all howl about how we need to shut up about Aussie wildlife, because THEIR large carnivores mostly stay in the water, NOT INVITE THEMSELVES INTO THE KITCHEN. (🧵1/?)

Ooh awesome 👌

Do you think it is worth a campaign of writing to the AI company, try to get them to drop the ehrc job and derail the timeline?

Yeah I fear so. Just trying to be cautious about the psychological harm of the panic cycle when I'm already really worried about this.

Is there any actual new info in this? Or is it just based on ehrc intent to deliver guidance at end of month + general Labour govt vibes?

The international community *must not permit* an expansion of warfare against a critically unwell, starved population.

It *must* be stopped, using every tool in our diplomatic arsenal (and it should be seriously considered whether military options also)

I also wish people would view us as having an *equal* claim to womanhood as cis women, and an *equal* right to be in associated spaces, rather than being an afterthought who can be treated as women on the surface only until we inconvenience, or claim equal rights to, or speak for, "real" women.