Cathy Brennan

tomorrow evening I’m introducing a rare screening of Yuliya Solntseva’s POEM OF THE SEA (1958), based on Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s script, at IFRU London Institute Francaise www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/poem-...

Have just blocked @forwomenscotland.bsky.social and 61 followers that I don't need in my life.

Labour has tran people’s blood on their hands. Leia Sampson-Grimbly was only 17

Briefly checking in on Twitter and seeing David Aaronovitch being mercilessly bullied by TERFs: justice

We are proud to be collaborating with @Prisoners4Palestine, the prisoner-led collective that represents those who have been detained by the British state in their struggle for Palestinian liberation. We have signed their open letter in support of the ongoing hunger strike, and share their stated goals: • Shut down Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems, with which the UK closely collaborates; • End the proscription of Palestine Action; • End censorship in prisons; • Release illegal detainees on immediate bail; • The right to a fair trial, by releasing all documents relevant to their cases, including those documenting meetings between British and Israeli state officials, the British police, the attorney general, and Elbit Systems representatives.

The struggle for Palestinian liberation and political prisoners is one we share as trans people. As state repression of political dissent against genocide and collaboration escalates, the tools of the state come down ever harder on all those who are criminalised, vilified, and marginalised. We remember Toni Asik, a victim of the transphobic abuses of Sodexo staff in HMP Bronzefield, where the first hunger strikers are incarcerated. When we took action against Sodexo in Leeds, we did so to remember him, and impose his memory on the system that killed him. Today (20th November) marks Trans Day of Remembrance, but it is also a day, as every day, of resistance. As the ever more authoritarian British state abuses and kills its captives with impunity, we ask: what would you do? We do as we must: we fight.

As direct actionists ourselves, we share a kinship with the Prisoners for Palestine, brave opponents to the authoritarian wave that has captured the UK, now putting their bodies on the line to demand the freedom they always deserved. We recognise the twin threat posed by genocidal collaboration and prisoner abuse, which a threat to everyone’s liberation. BASH BACK will continue to fight, in solidarity and rage, against the state and private companies that exclude us, torture us, imprison us, and abuse us. For true liberation. For all of us. From the streets and to the cells. From the river to the sea. Solidarity with Prisoners For Palestine.

Shut Down Elbit Systems Justice for Our Prisoners Justice for Palestine UNTIL ALL ARE FREE xoxo BASH BACK

BASH BACK statement on our collaboration with Prisoners for Palestine:

Again, Harder by Alice Stoehr with a butch dog girl embracing a femme bunny girl released on May 12, 2026 by Feminist Press

my short stories are coming out in paper form from feminist press next may! time to pre order a copy!

Attempting to foster a relationship with art as a social experience that doesn’t reproduce hierarchical notions of “taste“ in the UK, leading to a sense of alienation in spaces like the ICA or Close-Up.

Same

Meiji Milk Chocolate in Apart From You

Union Beer bottle in Apart From You

Consumer products in Mikio Naruse‘s Apart From You (1933)

Guardian headline 17/11/25: "Asylum seekers' jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister" Sub: "Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK" Picture: border force officers processing people who have been detained

Guardian headline 22/10/24: "Paddington Bear given UK passport by Home Office" Sub: "Government issues specimen document to Peruvian-born character, listing him as 'Bear' under its observations" Picture: Paddington holding a British passport

The ideological function of the Paddington franchise.

Eager to support our work and get involved in trans liberation yourself?
Send us an email at bashbackinfo@proton.me

She was transphobe.

I have seen every film Allison Anders has ever made & commission me to write about her, cinema pals! I will especially write about THINGS BEHIND THE SUN (2001), the most #MeToo of MeToo films & a Kim Dickens performance that you will never ever ever forget.

Minibus pulling a caravan on a rainy day with Stonehenge in the distance.

Was watching a 1991 documentary on the Battle of the Beanfield and was struck by this image.

No outlines looks really neat tho I guess it would be difficult to separate them from the environment during gameplay

The day Letterboxd introduces DMs, or heaven forbid a dating app element, I’m exporting my data and getting out.

Calling for a complete ban on allusions to that poem across all forms of media for at least a couple decades.

Earlier this year, I pissed off an older middle-class trans woman when I told her Maitlis is a transphobe.

1. Sex Fish (1993) Is sexy
2. Sugar Cane Alley (1983) Is devastating
3. Gushing Prayer (1971) Is despondent
4. HELLO PERFORMANCE! (2002) Is maternal

VFX artist working hard to ensure CGI sheep entrails are easily perceptible on phone screens in Netflix’s Frankenstein

Dope film. loved the Neon Genesis Evangelion-style control room

I’m sorry. This reminds me of my experience with Sullivan when she lied about me in an academic journal.

There is a week left for the kickstarter for my debut film By Time You See Me There Will Be Nothing Left (link below), we have reached our goal but anything still helps as this is a very low budget film, if you want to get an early screening of this film this is still your chance

Burst into tears after reading the Myrna Glickman story in Airless Spaces.

Shulamith Firestone in Shulie (1967)

Silver PressCc over of Airless Spaces by Shulamith Firestone

Paul America in My Hustler (1966)

Ed Hood and Genevieve Charbon in My Hustler

What I read and watched today after walking several miles to pick up a coat from the post office.

Looking back on when I was a film critic, the hunger for trans cinema was more for creative means of expression. Less what the film was about but how it was expressed by the filmmakers. (Eg. Kokomo City, Racine Grace, Mihra-Soleil Ross)

Want to rewatch Gushing Prayer

This is true. Took part in a group ice breaker earlier this year where we presented our future selves to the class. Everyone younger or older than myself ai generated pornified images of themselves living it up in Dubai.

It was at this point I realised I was going to be unemployable forever.

Need to go back to them