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It’s Pride Month and my publisher @edinburghup.bsky.social asked me to write a blog about my new book and reflect on Pride. As we confront anti-LGBT political resentments with our joy, anger, shame and pride, we need to think critically about how these emotions shape rights and enable solidarity. 🌈🎓

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"We need to show grace, and reach across the aisle, even as those on the other side of the aisle yell obscenities at us." #abundance

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I always forget Bend It Like Beckham isn't actually about lesbians.

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Look, I'm not deep in the weeds on how Drag Race is potentially problematic (it is), but in a time where governments are trying to make it illegal to employ us, our going to war against a TV show that mainstreams a lot of concepts for cis straight people feels a bit like distraction therapy.

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Reminder that if you're doing the EHRC consultation, do send a copy of your submission to @transactualuk.bsky.social. This is so we can collectively document the concerns people are raising, which is especially important if the EHRC refuse to make their submissions public. To submit to us... 1/

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Labour are doing their job for them

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I was thinking about ways to just talk online without needing to worry about production values or structure, and that means Twitch. What tips do you have if I want to do Twitch streams? What do I need to remember, and what should I avoid? I already have the tech, just want to not be bad. #Twitch

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www.translegalproject.org/post/the-ris... 1/3 Our thoughts on engaging with the EHRC through their current consultation. We have submitted our response - and you can access it (and use it if helpful) here. TLDR? Their interpretation of the For Women Scotland ruling is constantly wrong...(cont...)

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World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

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docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Open Letter Opposing The Use of Plantir for NHS Data Management

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AIPAC might have something to say about that, unfortunately.

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JayEmm is off on one. I do hope he keeps his upstairs windows locked after this video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBbi...

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Hearing Liverpool want to replace Jarell Quansah with Marc Guehi is rough. I'd rather have an imperfect rough diamond who came from the academy than an England player who scrawls on a rainbow armband. Liverpool as a club has always welcomed LGBTQ+ fans; new signings need to do the same. #Liverpool

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Most anti LGBT government of my lifetime

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This is an incredible day to give money to the Trans Income Project, who will give that money directly to trans people Moreover, ICE must be destroyed www.transincomeproject.org/donate

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“You deserve the world that's in your vision, but you’ll have to fight for it every day … I want you to be defiant. If there was ever a time to disobey, this is it. We are a creative, disruptive people who have never accepted silence.” Energisingly hopeful words by @raquelwillis.com to trans youth.

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The Guardian did the same after the backlash to the UK Supreme Court judgement. They got (the wonderful sports writer) Nicky Bandini to write a scathing op-ed, and I guess that solved their record on trans rights?

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Okay, explain it to me like I'm 12: I thought Candace Owens was a standard-issue alt-right MAGA shill - when did she start supporting Palestine, and what's in it for her? It's like hearing RFK Jr. owns a pet rescue shelter.

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I really hope we hear from the flotilla crew soon. According to Israel most of them have been sent home, but it's very odd that we've had no interviews with any of them. If they've been tortured we should know about it - but instead there's a media blackout.

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Amazingly I've only this week discovered Finnster, and now I'm both obsessed and wondering how it is that the world of Twitch streamers is so separate from mainstream media that I could have never heard of them.

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@katierae.bsky.social Hey Emma! Just wondering, are you a member of @prismaticmotorsports.com ? They're great, even if you don't actually simrace like I don't 😄

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Congrats to @natacha.bsky.social on some really important research capturing the impact on trans children of the puberty blocker ban. My own child is one of those children directly impacted (though we were too stressed to participate directly in this research). 1/5

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I live for the day when I can film reels in my flat without worrying about the mess people can see on camera.

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I have been signed up to MyAnimeList. I have started an Anime club with my friends. I'm finally turning into the stereotypical trans person I always threatened to be.

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Bluesky is dying... or Bluesky helped create one of the most effective spontaneous protest movements of the year?

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Listened to the first half of Sarah McBride and her views on trans rights on the @ezraklein.bsky.social show, and had to pause because it was too painful. I agreed with some, but it sounded like a career Democrat lecturing activists for being too angry, and I need a break before I finish it.

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Currently listening to the Chris Cornell Timbaland album from 2009 and feeling that I will forever be the only person who likes it. What can I say? He stopped making dirge-rock, whacked a vocoder and an 808 on his songs, and I'm basic enough to enjoy it.

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There's a lowest level of F1 content which has existed solely since DTS series 3, which produces videos with titles like 'Yuki Tsunoda To Be Fired?' and has a channel called something like 'SimonFP1'. Honestly, I love a hustle, but nobody thinks the things in the title are going to happen. #F1

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Happy Pride everyone. What I’m thinking about this Pride is, despite their attempts to make us go back in the closet, there are more of us now than ever before. They couldn’t make us go away if they tried their hardest.

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One of the things that coming out does is it sorts the people who want to be on your journey to the ones who don't think it's real, or who aren't "ready". I wish there were a manual for how to tell friends I don't see as much any more that their sense of abandonment may not be entirely my fault.

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When did Jehovah's Witnesses start dressing like hipsters? Is it a new strategy? They've given up asking me. Something about the entire physical vibe I give off.

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Yes, and also "take that good thing and make it American" doesn't work for everything. Remaking Kakegurui in an American school doesn't work because American schools are much less likely to be permissive of gambling. The only series that made the American remake work was The Office.

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Ref Download and its trans exclusion policy…. Partner companies are pulling out. Just had this from Lush who had a partnership with the event. Thank you Lush Team for putting morals ahead of profits. ✊🏳️‍⚧️✊

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Same as it ever was. FIA President always disliked by majority of F1 (though MBS has done a remarkable amount to speed that process) relies on votes of auto clubs, where the President can put funding, races, or other action up as a sweetener. MBS the best person for the job? That's not the point.

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Been looking for a topic to launch the new Motion site over on Medium, and I think the #F1 Academy series on Netflix might be it.

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