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The BBC produced a documentary on Eden Knight with help from her friends, their own research and support. Please watch this & please spread the word. Eden’s story deserves to be heard and her legacy deserves to be protected xx 🔆 youtu.be/TFqa-KaMOS0?...

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When we're talking about UK media transphobia, I need people to understand how tiny and incestuous our journalistic environment is, and just how much certain legacy journalists freaked the fuck out when they (very occasionally) had to deal with a trans writer as a colleague in the mid 2010s

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

She's 19% through her goal, let's push it to 20% at least. Black History Month is a great time to help out Black trans women.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

This is huge. My petition got approved. It challenges the UK government to the lift the Puberty Blocker ban on the grounds that it contradicts article 8 of The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of The Child. Please sign and Repost ✊️🏳️‍⚧️ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 27 days ago • 62 comments

Steering wheel lock in a vintage 80's car. Don't really see these things anymore. #canona1 #35mm #kodakvision3500t #vintagecar #car

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Evergreen I suppose (sorry I’m late)

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

We should definitely know what effects hateful government legislation has had on us. Please sign.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Check archive recordings of radio phone-in shows about the AIDS crisis and tell me “no one had a problem with gays in the 90s” I can probably give you the British Library sound archive catalogue numbers if you need them.

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I did want to recommend the new Adam Conover ep with @chasestrangio.bsky.social for cis allies and trans folk alike. Alas still so rare to hear a cis man so comfortable being outraged about what's happening to trans people! and really listening to one of us. podcasts.apple.com/rs/podcast/t...

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

When the Nazis first came to power, within a few months, they raided the Institute for Sexuality which did the first studies of trans people. The books they seized were burned here, including a copy of Heinrich Heines poem that said, "where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people too."

submitted 33 days ago • 29 comments

"I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive."

submitted 32 days ago • 31 comments

Our third featured fundraiser this #FundingSunday is Maia, who is fundraising to cover the costs of surgery. Donate if you can, share if you can't. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-maia-with-her-gender-affirming-surgery #Fundraiser #TransCrowdfund #Donation #Solidarity #Trans #Transgender #Nonbina…

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Trans Safety Network have recieved leaks from a user of Bayswater Support Group's forums. Because of the unrepentant support for abusive conversion practices targetting trans children, we have decided to publish these. transsafety.network/posts/bayswa...

submitted 30 days ago • 8 comments

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

submitted 30 days ago • 310 comments

A starter pack of LGBTQ+ charities and non-profits if anyone would like to follow or share with organisations who might want to join it

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

it is LGBTQ+ history month in the UK, and i am begging programmers to spend this month focusing on the history of the T. Focus on the Nazi purge of the Institute. Draw the parallels with the current American regime. Make it clear that targeting trans folk is an early sign of fascism.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

submitted 31 days ago • 502 comments

That was so good omg. The only thing I can say without spoilers is:

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Getting a “Live Laugh Love” sign for my office but it says “This Organisation Does Not Tolerate Failure”

submitted 35 days ago • 8 comments

The UK isn't the best place to be, but if any of my American trans friends need to get out asap, I legitimately have a spare bed.

submitted 118 days ago • 5 comments

This is from a real interview with Rachel Reeves. (non-paywalled link, so you can verify for yourself that this is, indeed, real.)

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this is a really really stupid understanding of biodiversity, as if it was a little luxury that we could have a bit of once we had got the growth job done. the point is not bats and newts, it is the system. the point of a canary in the mine is not to keep the canary alive.

submitted 38 days ago • 18 comments

i am genuinely upset by the rachel reeves "bats and newts" thing. how could someone be so glib and dismissive of nature?? it's so sad and it gets applause like "yes, the Rational and Grown Up thing to do is wipe out animals and destroy the natural world"

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

I would like Rachel Reeves to be ambushed by bats every time she enters a room or opens a box/drawer/filing cabinet. Just horrid on so many levels.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Stop worrying about bats and newts? No Rachel Reeves MP – start worrying about the future of our economy if we tear down the nature it depends on. Nature isn’t a blocker; it’s the foundation of growth.

submitted 34 days ago • 73 comments

"I can't imagine what it must be like to be a trans person knowing that the government is trying to legislate that you do not exist," 'The Traitors' host and Out cover star said. #transrights #alancumming #lgbtq Read the story and watch the full segment: bit.ly/42FXAgO

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Success!! My petition has been approved. Please sign and share widely. Sex work is work. Petition: Introduce employment rights for sex workers petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 33 days ago • 11 comments

Folks. It's time to help trans people. Directly. Financially. Especially if you are a cis person who considers themselves an ally.

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

Want to do something about Trump’s anti-immigrant executive orders? Download a community defense playbook at defendandrecruit.org, sign up for a training, and check out this op-ed in Teen Vogue today.

submitted 40 days ago • 13 comments

#OtD 28 Jan 2017 protests broke out at airports around the US in protest at pres Trump's executive order dubbed the "Muslim ban" signed the day before. Nearly 20,000 NYC taxi drivers went on strike for 1 hour which Uber tried to undercut by cutting prices stories.workingclasshistory.c...

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thinking again about how Elon went to one of Twitter's data centers and literally started unplugging servers at random. that's our model of government today medium.com/@noahkingdav...

submitted 35 days ago • 21 comments

Here’s something easy you can do today. Block USA Today on Blue Sky. If thousands of us can do it, we can have an immediate impact on their reach on social media.

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Seriously everyone. Keep celebrating moments of defiance like this. These are the sparks that build the flame.

submitted 34 days ago • 6 comments

This is my favorite picture of Stonewall. They knew they were getting arrested just for being LGBTQ+. Yet... they're still here, standing outside of the boarded up Stonewall Inn, smiling as the world was at a fever pitch of hatred against them. I think about it a lot in moments like this.

submitted 34 days ago • 383 comments

It's time to UNHINGE JAW and EAT EGG

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“Orlando had become a woman… Their change of sex, though it altered their future, did nothing whatever to alter their identity… but in future we must, for convention’s sake, say ‘her’ for ‘his’ and ‘she’ for ‘he’.” Virginia Woolf having no problems with pronouns in 1928.

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

I feel moved to write about one of my technological heroes, possibly the most influential on my youth as an 8-bit hacker: a trans woman named Sophie Wilson. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_...

submitted 38 days ago • 5 comments

If you won’t unequivocally call it a Nazi salute, you’re a collaborationist and don’t deserve to be a journalist.

submitted 42 days ago • 5 comments

If people don't even have the moral courage to call a nazi salute a nazi salute, then fascism has already won.

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Absolutely disgusted by major news outlets calling it ‘a gesture’.

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Nikita Hand was so brutally raped by McGregor that she had to have her tampon surgically removed. Here is Farage proudly posing for a photograph with him.

submitted 42 days ago • 54 comments

This is really important for those of us in the UK. @rya.nc's case on their application for a non-binary GRC is being heard today and @reactiveashley.bsky.social is reporting on it.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

If a Nazi does a salute, it's a Nazi salute. He supports the AfD He spreads antisemitic conspirator theories He was cheered on by Nazis You know when you were a kid and you learnt about WW2 and said to yourself, I wouldn't have gone along with them ... Well, the rubber has hit the road.

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“If we have any hope of getting through the next four years and beyond, it’s by calling balls and strikes as we see them—and not kowtowing to fascists hellbent on cloistering themselves away while general suffering metastasizes.” - @marisakabas.bsky.social www.thehandbasket.co/p/the-grotes...

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