TC Parker/Dr Nat Edwards (she/her)

Oh yes.

The Shunt is on, @haileypiperfights.bsky.social

Fucking *awesome* work 🥳🥳🥳🥳

NEW HAILEY PIPER COVER REVEAL!

Stop whatever you're doing and behold its majesty

Logically it follows therefore that Cher may be both the Great Red Dragon and The Woman Clothed With The Sun

*Cerne Abbas Giant has entered the chat*

Especially when it's a more and more attractive option by the day!

But have we tried NOT torturing and traumatising the Otherness out of kids*, though?

I mean: I'm no clinical psychologist, but I've heard great things about Not Torture as an approach

(*not actually a thing you can do, obviously)

On par with Tehran's, I'll bet

Possibly the whitest, most cishet op-ed I've ever read, even in UK legacy media

Belongs in a museum

Family-size Dairy Milk for the first person to create an Accidental Muppets account on here

Great news! Congratulations, @natcassidy.bsky.social!

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

And to all you cis people unconcerned that the UK government just banned life-saving treatments for trans kids based on a moral panic, contrived authority and "common sense," they're already coming for you too - autism, adhd, birth control, pushing ozempic, ...

Just don't say we didn't tell you.

The Nine O'Clock Horses: a book to meet your every fictional autophagia need ⬇️

Oooh... a meta feast! Yes. I like it

"Don't go to bat for the most racist film ever made" is always going to be solid advice... but "don't go to bat for the most racist film ever made *when you've never watched it*" feels evergreen

In fact, I am ALREADY ostensibly writing a cannibal book (though we've been quite busy with Bat stuff, so it's kind of on the back burner). I just... got carried away with the possibility of a different one 😔

Sometimes there's a solid reason that incredible idea you just had has never been brought to literary life

A vital but under-discussed part of the writing process:

Getting carried away by what feels like an AMAZING idea, only to realise you were horribly wrong - then moving swiftly on to greener pastures, and sunk costs be damned

This brought to you by "what if Moll Flanders, but a lesbian cannibal?"

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In the mood for something weird and stomach-churning on this grey and foggy Monday morning?

Try The Nine O'Clock Horses - a little book of strange appetites, inspired by The Magnus Archives and every autophagia anxiety dream you've ever had...

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Kill the passive voice in your head

It looks horrific - so glad no-one was hurt

But what can I do – Dr Ruth Pearce Posts about But what can I do written by Ruth

There are two things you can do right now to support young trans people in England.

1) Engage in political advocacy and community support. I've got *loads* of advice on this in my blog post and zine "But what can I do? How to fight the trans panic".

Gender Studies is the most vindicated academic field of all time

Maybe we should be clearer. Jobs aren’t at risk from AI. They’re at risk from amoral shitbag short term spec capitalists using AI against a weakly unionised workforce and broken government.

Throw in some second person and you'll catch the Bret Easton Ellis haters too!

(I don't have much of an opinion on second person in general. But I REALLY hate BEE, and second person gives me Rules of Attraction flashbacks)

Also, for the OP: I've got a semiotics/cultural studies/CDA reading list I use for teaching semiotics and cultural research knocking around - happy to share if it's useful

As a sort of general intro to critical/cultural theory, you could do worse than Peter Barry's Beginning Theory... though for more of a media literacy lens, Machin & Mayr's How To Do Critical Discourse Analysis and Daniel Chandler's Semiotics: The Basics are both very solid