Jude Marr PhD (he/him)

Visual poems from The Island of Dr Prospero.

New report details the harm caused by EHRC interim guidance TransActual will be taking copies of their findings to meet with MPs

New report details the harm caused by EHRC interim guidance

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Love these two

Catherine Connolly, President of Ireland 🥳👏💚

Congratulations 🎉 🥂 👏💚

My Nana, Mary Connolly 💫

So happy with the outstanding endorsement of #CatherineConnolly for President. A special day for Ireland, a vision of hope, collaboration, inclusivity, equality. What a beautiful achievement. My heart is exploding. Extra proud as my grandmother was a Connolly, with roots in Galway!

It's an Animal Heart hang :)

There are so many ways to fight these fascists. Find one. Look locally. Food Not Bombs and other food banks, public libraries, ICE rapid response…. Find your people. Find your thing. Donate. Support. Volunteer.

A cardboard sign with the words IMMIGRANTS MAKE AMERICA GREAT written in marker on it, lying on a carpet with a staple gun next to it

If nothing else it’s an SOS sign. It’s us standing on the beach spelling out HELP in the sand for any passing aircraft to see.

A No Kings sticker on my blue shirt with the yellow stripe

Day trip to Porto #NoKings

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An impressive theater frontage at night, with a very large banner advertising Phantom of the Opera lit up above the entrance

A treat for my birthday, which was last week. Year 68 begins with the Phantom in Lisbon

Come and join us! It will be a wonderful evening. You are welcome to join, even if you can´t donate right now. This is also about sharing space and listening.

More Than 300,000 Black Women Have Lost Their Jobs This Year. The NAACP Says It’s No Accident. | Essence The organization is calling out “systemic disinvestment” and pushing for accountability through new initiatives and job fairs.

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The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...

fits right in with

It’s actually incredible that as a society we never managed to find the political will to force elected officials to tell the truth on TV.

YouTube video by Katie Manning Poetry Rev 65 - Jessica Jacobs - Unalone

If you give me 3 minutes, I'll tell you about and read you a poem from Unalone (Four Way Books, 2024) by Jessica Jacobs. :)

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Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

UK friends, if you haven't already, please consider signing this petition, which now has more than 2.8 million signatures. Aside from all the other arguments against digital IDs, this is one more source of extreme stress for those of us who are trans. Thanks.

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Well, for starters, we eat, we sleep. If we’re going to know it,
we’re going to know it this way. It feels like a trick
sometimes, how we start and then start again.

The new $ feature is by John Gallaher!

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I reassure myself, well, I’m not gonna let ai cook MY brain. I’m going to keep thinking, creating, imagining, struggling, being human. But I want that for everyone. We do those things in community with each other. Each cooked brain hurts us all.

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

UK friends, if you haven't already, please consider signing this petition, which now has more than 2.8 million signatures. Aside from all the other arguments against digital IDs, this is one more source of extreme stress for those of us who are trans. Thanks.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

I second this emotion.

I've been struck lately by how often right-wingers wear t-shirts that are snark at the left. That is, they're having conversations in their head with us whether or not actual us is having a conversation with them or taking the positions they think we are. Maybe that's the definition of reactionary?

Just learned that the clothing & bedding of Black Death victims were often sold to ragmen instead of burned. That cloth became paper became books, & the poetry of that cycle is beautiful to me. Happy Thursday, rascals. 🔮

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025.... For total absolute fucksake! Has this government ever met any refugees? Talked to some maybe? British values? That’ll be the xenophobia, mean-spiritedness I guess.

Did it

Yes. Exactly this.

The fact that there are zero consequences for the young lives he annihilated, the older adult gay couples he destroyed and the myriad of lies he peddled, to appease his self loathing and shame, is a crime against humanity.
I do not want him hurt, but his freedom makes me sick to my stomach.

My mahoosive thanks to these lovely poets with whom it was a pleasure beyond pleasures to spend 90 minutes last night #LastSaturdayPoets. Loved it. Let's do it again! Lxx

An Edwardian china doll, a young girl with dark hair and dirty feet, glowers from under a soft shawl.

"Instead of being left behind, old evils return under new names ... human beings are no more reasonable than they have ever been." John Gray (2018)

Last Saturday Poets: September A poetry salon for the last Saturday of each month. Join some of the finest exponents of contemporary poetry reading their work.

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