Siân🌱

Happy 2026 xoxo

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

And as long as I'm posting again, I might as well reiterate: Trans Rights Now and Free Palestine

Good books I read this summer: The Getaway by Nicola Martin @nmartinwriter.bsky.social, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, Translation State by Ann Leckie @annleckie.com

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

when you, years out from an election, say "i will vote for that triangulating shitbag throwing minorities under the bus because they'll still be better than the other guy" you need to understand that the triangulating shitbag is Watching You: "they'll still vote for me! no need to change course!"

Such Brave Girls season two review – this Bafta-winning comedy is startlingly brilliant The return of this twisted tale of two troubled sisters and their mum is yet more scary, lairy and perfectly portioned comedy. It is knockout TV

Such Brave Girls season two review – this Bafta-winning comedy is startlingly brilliant

Anti-trans activist EHRC commissioner Akua Reindorf has told Trans+ people that they need to accept fewer human rights than cisgender people have

Meanwhile over 24,000 cis women are saying, no, Not In Our Name

Join them here:
www.change.org/p/not-in-our...

#NION

Hundreds stand in solidarity with Bristol's trans community "Trans rights are human rights"

Hundreds stand in solidarity with Bristol’s trans community:

Someone holding a sign saying: Respect existence or expect resistance.

Parents holding up a sign saying: "this mum says trans rights are human rights" and "our beautiful daughter is trans."

Someone holding a sign saying "you can't legislate us out of existence."

Someone holding a sign saying "i love my trans self. I love my trans friends."

Today, thousands gathered across the country - from Hastings to London to Glasgow - to say: we will always stand with trans people.

Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️

We'll be there :)

BRISTOL PROTEST

2PM SATURDAY COLLEGE GREEN

If you think that it's disgusting that a room full of cis people decided that trans people should have their rights stripped away, then say something!

I am really saddened by the level of vitriol and hatred being directed toward the trans community.

We are losing our common humanity. How hard is it to treat people with kindness and respect?

Trans people are human beings — and they deserve to live in dignity like anyone else.

My biological sex is female. It has changed

Phenotype is orders of magnitude more important than genotype for everything from discrimination to healthcare to sexuality

Chromosomes are meaningless and any law treating them as all sex is is wrong

Cigars are fucking disgusting and so is she

Today I went on a walk and took the best picture ever

That simpering Goodbye My Lover song by James Blunt. It came on in an Uber the other day, and I had to put in my earphones and blast some metal or else I'd have turned up at work in the foulest mood ever. James seems like an okay guy but he shouldn't have become a singer

Seven Nation Army

Only the good die young

He reminded me of a young Toadie from Neighbours

Scapegoating refugees has always been a deliberate ploy by governments to distract from their own domestic failures.

Pandering to Reform UK will backfire — and vulnerable people will pay the price.

End dangerous crossings by opening safe routes for fellow human beings instead.

Trump is capitalism in human form, stripped of its disguises. The violent seizure of other people's resources, the exploitation of other people's catastrophes, the predatory gleam in the psychopath's eye.
#Gaza
#Genocide

Reminder that even if you are in a category targeted by your current government (as I am, thrice over), you still have the right to enjoy as many moments of your life as possible under your circumstances.

YOU contain a universe. You are so much more important than the structure that hinders you.

YouTube video by Todd in the Shadows The Top Ten Best Hit Songs of 2024

Right on time

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkXp...

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

I don’t know German but I think I understand this headline fine enough.

Reading Parable of the Talents now by Octavia E Butler. Found this passage relevant to our times. Actually this entire book is relevant to our dystopian reality. #booksky #booktok

Unsolicited writing advice, no. #14151:
You don't need to write for publication, or for money, or for an audience, or for anyone but yourself. Joy is a worthwhile objective. Joy doesn't need a reason.

Petition: Do not stop transgender people from receiving care in mainstream hospital wards The previous government proposed changes to the NHS constitution which would mean transgender hospital patients in England may not be treated in female- and male-only wards. We believe that this segre...

Friends, a petition I've created to go to Parliament for the protection of Trans Healthcare in the UK has just gone live. If you are in the United Kingdom, please sign and share this. If you are not in the United Kingdom, please share it.

#Trans #LGBTQ #UK

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

All my season's greetings to the sabs out today stopping the torture & murder of these poor animals.

Fox hunting is illegal and yet there is rarely any enforcement. But direct action works.