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I think there are widespread structural problems with the beauty industry when it comes to ageism alongside other forms of representation. In this case I think the interviewees are young because that reflects the areas and orgs that were reached out to in casting.

I empathise with your point here but I have already told you that I had no input into the interviewee list.

yeah i think if you're gonna relay what a mix of trans people think, you're gonna end up relaying stuff that doesn't align with your own framework. i don't agree with ella's framing here but i'm glad she doesn't accept the 'biological man' framing

I agree that would have been a good addition. I wasn’t involved in choosing the interviewees, so I can’t speak to that part of the process; I think there are various structural reasons that people in their 20s-30s would be more likely to do this project.

they all have very different perspectives, and together they build a complex portrait of trans fatigue and trans resilience under brutal state persecution. i’m grateful to Cosmo UK for their care in creating this project.

interviewing Jazmeen, Alexandra, Jude, Hannah, Johanna and Jen for this was both an joy and a serious responsibility; I hope I’ve brought their words to print the way they desired.

One Year On: 13 people on the ruling that changed their lives On 16 April 2025, the UK’s Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of a woman is based on their biological sex assigned at birth. Forget the rage-bait headlines and attempts to divide us through...

my first piece (cowritten with Catriona Innes) in a print magazine comes out today: we interviewed 13 people, mostly trans women, about how the Supreme Court ruling has affected them for Cosmo UK

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no sexual subculture is safe from the sharp eye of danny max & i

christian hubicki protagonist edit in survivor 50 good things can happen and have happened to me

was out all day yesterday in gorton & denton with the greens and my official take on the by-election is that you should join the green party now, immediately. this is my first taste of actually feeling hopeful about this fucking country in 6-8 business years

happy valentine’s to my beautiful angels, the twin lights of my life. here is them both ignoring me in favour of pasta

Free her!!!

I’m watching Breathless for the first time and I was not aware it would be such an accurate portrayal of being pursued by the worst man alive

my wife is wearing funeral couture to the function again

yes her voice is meh yes she’s probably right wing But so close to what is one of the best pop albums of the 2020s. like if that had come out in ‘06 we’d have all shit ourselves.

increasingly adopting the tinfoil hat theory that tate mcrae is actually an S tier pop girl, who is being suppressed into A/B tier both because she’s low-key personality wise (like dua lipa) and because she’s muscular rather than skinny/dainty

I believe she's been claiming neither her 'nor her team' had any contact with Epstein?

it’s no problem! will delete my comment too

Fanfiction’s Total Cultural Victory | Defector In 2012, a self-published author of erotic Twilight fanfiction, whose books had gained a large fan base online, was offered a seven-figure contract by a major American publisher. E.L. James’s Fifty…

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I think there's just a pretty direct link between the anti-Corbyn stuff and the TERF stuff - there's an essay in Capitalism's Conscience about how the Guardian's escalating transphobia was very bound up with anti-Corbyn stuff

fwiw i think the latter should be in use! i’m just trying to connote the ‘lowest-common-denominator romance mulch’ type reception of things like the After series, rather than tarring all romance with that brush.

Fanfiction’s Total Cultural Victory | Defector In 2012, a self-published author of erotic Twilight fanfiction, whose books had gained a large fan base online, was offered a seven-figure contract by a major American publisher. E.L. James’s Fifty Sh...

you may think fanfiction's influence on the novel stops at bargain-bin romance books; you would be wrong - it's everywhere. i went deep on the relationship between fanfiction and contemporary publishing for @defector.com

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are people actually sitting down and going ‘yes, i should make infidelity rape in law’ or are they just being swayed by particularly nasty cases

they’re not even teenagers! they’re all like 26!

i remember posting something like ‘what’s with all the people getting mad at arnaud all of a sudden this is insane’ and having someone within a half hour tell me i was failing as a journalist for talking about this rather than ‘the big racist accounts’ (which i had not seen and so had no comment on)

like there’s a whole layer of racism towards hudson but then there’s Also a level of parasocial investment in the one plausibly straight cast member that means that if you defend arnaud then the stans call you a racist and bark at you re ‘why aren’t you talking about hudson’. it’s head-spinning

so intensely fascinated / horrified by the social media wars and harassment campaigns surrounding heated rivalry that i’ve been trying to find the book Fandom is Ugly everywhere and have had to request it to my uni library lol

Rowling's people inviting Epstein to a dinner and a performance of The Cursed Child, long after he was convicted of child sexual abuse... exquisite.

Céilí Rae Minogue: Emotional Rollercoaster Tickets Buy tickets for this event at The Black Box, Belfast on Mon 2 Feb 2026. Powered by glistrr.

btw if you're in belfast tomorrow and have the evening free you should go see my brilliant girlfriend's debut hour at black box

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