@tcparker.bsky.social
(Neuro)queer Luddite. Writin' (and publishin') dyke at Nefarious Bat Press 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ PhD, media/politics. Work in social/cultural semiotics, CDA, material culture, storytelling. Rage as deep as the abyss Fiction at: https://tinyurl.com/mr2rd9bj
Why yes, I AM writing that presentation this morning - why do you ask?
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I'm from Leicester, so this whole thing feels very "what if Keith Vaz, but bigger, longer and uncut?"
They're joke people
Carry On Spying levels of espionage competence from the We Demand To See Your Genitals crew, there
Starting to think there were more undercover ticket-buying TERFs at Trans Mission than there were regular concert-goers
Thanks for the donations, I guess?
Pre-emptively hovering over the Preorder button
Ooooooh... 👀
“She’s the exception, I am the rule.”
Such articulate cutting through of the nonsense around puberty blockers and eg Keira Bell’s detransitioning from Stephanie Lynnette on GMB this morning. It is also a refreshing relief to see a trans person actually being allowed to speak for once!
Wonderful early blurb for @discobooks.bsky.social's upcoming THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS from the phenomenal @sethhaddon.bsky.social
Can't wait to share this one with you in September
And in the meantime - why not preorder a copy, so it's with you on release day?
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GPR2FY4T
There's no one Sugababes, to be fair. They're the Ship of Theseus of 00s British pop
Though for me the Mutya/Keisha/Siobhán lineup is forever the Ur-Sugababes
Let's take a ride... My next book is coming out with @faberbooks.bsky.social. Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains will be published March 12 2026. Preorder links in profile, and lots more on the book and the remarkable stories people told me to come over the next few months...
Looks brilliant. I loved Iconicon, so really looking forward to this one
i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”
I don’t know, if I spent all my time online claiming that a group of people were so terrifying and dangerous that they should be excluded from public life and any space I am in, I wouldn’t spend money to willingly go to a concert with up to 10,000 of them
Never say never 🤣
Imagining a dozen Sugababes-denialist TERFs weeping as one on realising Joan Armatrading once wrote a song about a drag queen and Amy Ray is nonbinary
COMPETITION
The Darkness in the Fields Folk Horror Festival returns to Derby QUAD on March 21 with Dog of God and The Virgin of the Quarry Lake. We've also got an exclusive folk horror book bundle to give away. Full details and lineup: #FolkHorror #FilmFestival
@alexdavis1981.bsky.social
The painful realization that most autism research is built on the following assumptions:
- deviation from NT neurology & norms is a deficit
- any response to trauma is unnatural
- compliance is healthy, self-advocacy is not
- a "cure" > acceptance
- research by NTs > lived experience by autists
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(If I weren't already committed to spending my lunch break making Bat movie posters, you KNOW I'd be doing something with that...)
Tracy Chevalier went on Today 2 days ago to promote Human Authored on behalf of the SoA. And proceeded to tell everyone how she uses LLM extruders for book "research"
Grotesque. And embarrassing
(Will dig up the link)
Two days on, and I'm still raging about that Today show slot
Not only would I rather look at an otter on my currency than a genocide-happy misogyno-imperialist... I am quietly confident an otter - any otter, no matter its pedigree - could've beaten him in a fight
By every metric, it's a win for Team Otter
I chuckled louder than I should've done at this
Mangled flesh and serrated bones cut through a wall to your left. The shriek rings in your ears.
Your eyes remain cold. The revolver chirps in the air.
BANG!
Tell us who you are, what do you write, and what’s your favourite piece of action horror media?
#HorrorWritersChat
Bit of good tech news for once!
Amazing news!!!
THE GRIFTERS!!!!
