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Activist, punk musician, event promoter, feminist academic. Illegal lesbian. http://ruthpearce.net
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WE WANT REVENGE AND WE WANT IT NOW! The Lesbian Avengers. Glasgow, June 2025.

Defied the trans toilet ban in parliament and used the men’s 🏳️‍⚧️✊

I invited @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to this event, and so proud of it! I originally invited him (as part of the organizing team) hoping he would speak. I wanted more people to hear him, hoping more people would support him. We decided not to have politicians speak, but Zohran came anyway.

WTT are reporting live from the mass trans lobby of the UK Parliament today.

The obvious point is PIP bears no relation to unemployment; it’s a disability benefit. You can learn more about PIP here: www.gov.uk/pip The less obvious point is when you hear this tosh, double down: we as human beings deserve unemployment benefits that would make a sultan blush

This is an image maga is posting to stoke fear of Mamdani. A list of things that sound awesome

This is great - Glasgow’s bridges to nowhere. I’m fascinated by the utopian visions of mid-20th century planners and how badly wrong some of them were.

the unknown guy who ran with and for trans people won the nyc dem mayoral primary over the big name candidate who hired a consultant from an anti-trans campaign

happy zohran day to all who celebrate

"Lastly, and perhaps most importantly to some, you can now issue a command to pet the scout unit's dog"

This new Laura Jane Grace record is gonna be a defining album of the summer for everyone who wears black to the Pride parade. Every pre-released song is an absolute fucking banger. Just listen to this. A bunch of gays drinking in the street! A BUNCH OF GAYS DOING RENEGADE THIIINGS!

Just back from leave - I'll be adding this important article to my Cass Review roundup soon!

BREAKING: Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds confronted by young PIP claimants over deadly disability cuts. Labour would rather plunge hundreds of thousands of disabled people into poverty than tax wealth. It's time to stop #TakingThePIP, and make the super-rich #PayUp. @gndrising.bsky.social

Despite being banned by new Hungarian legislation, Budapest Pride will still take place on June 28. Throughout history, laws and society have attempted to deny, erase or crush LGBTQ lives. They have always failed.

The first 'Whose Rainbow?' project publication! Whose Rainbow? explored LGBT+ staff & student experiences of rainbow symbolism & EDI schemes in HE. In this paper, we think specifically about the extra labour required of LGBT+ people (to survive!) in HE. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Okay, I've done contemporaneous notes on the whole session, as best I could. I've highlighted in pink the bits I think are especially relevent, and might be worth following up in further lobbying of MPs and / or challenging of EHRC. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Conclusions now I’ve had a break: - EHRC aren’t trying to hide that they’re transphobic & their interpretation of the Supreme Court judgement makes no sense - MPs regularly cited what they’re hearing from members of the public in their questioning. Keep writing to them. They’re listening.

I am so proud to be part of this project... Also, my story in it is the first fiction I've finished since I rounded off the Rhapsody Of Blood books in 2022.

Another angle on this. Just the *threat* of *potential* peaceful protest is enough to shut down EHRC board meetings, wasting thousands of pounds in the process. I'd imagine that's extremely useful information for activists opposing their segregation drive.

I've been to a lot of the EHRC protests in Glasgow - they are, actually, the first things that made me feel normal after the Supreme Court decision - and characterising them as a 'serious risk of violence' is laughable

Faulkner is a fragile, haughty middle class ideologue who doesn’t like to be challenged. That mindset doesn’t belong in charge of anything let alone UK Equality oversight. Her time as head of the EHRC being over is a good thing. Not that they will then magically become better of course.

It's DARVO all the way down with UK transphobes. All of them in positions of power. All of them wilting flowers, attacked by the big bad transes.

In hindsight there were perhaps some subtle hints in some media that perhaps the Imperium was not entirely meant to be viewed as straightforward good guys.

Absolutely wild. The EHRC appear to have cancelled their board meeting in Glasgow because of the protest outside their offices on Friday 2nd May. You can see the "serious risk of violence" play out for yourself in this video.

When your corporate values statement actually means something.

People power 💪🏽

No sleep for ICE tonight as activists found their hotel again. Hotel managers have to decide whether that GSA per diem money is worth having their hotel completely surrounded 24/7 by protesters.

NOW: thousands of protesters have shut down DLSD in downtown Chicago, protesting ICE raids and Trump's deportation policies.

This is how. Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.

Live now! I'm working through the awful EHRC consultation with @katymontgomerie.com. Want to fill it in but don't want to be alone? Join us!

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.