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Looney Melodies @looneymelodies.bsky.social · 10d

Minnie the Moocher (1932, Directed and Animated by Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky, Ralph Somerville)

Bimbo is looking down into a well. In the reflection in the water deep down below is three frightened looking Bimbos staring back up at him.

Teddy Hope @bonjourteddy.bsky.social · 15h

i was gonna put Jules gill peterson's work (especially her article from a few months back) in there as a reference but surely this counter arguement to the halberstam-likes started before histories fo the transgender child

Teddy Hope @bonjourteddy.bsky.social · 15h

trans theory peeps help

does anyone know the scholar who turned the general vibe in the field from the halberstamian:"social transitioning is great but medical transitioning? boo" to "actually medical transitioning should be centred in political horizons"

what was the turning point paper?

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Teddy Hope @bonjourteddy.bsky.social · 2d

why does the internet always say true things about me

Fuzzerween @fuzzerhop.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning

Austism iceberg. Above water is social awkwardness and poor eye co tact. Below is always being right and secretly being the funniest person In the room

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d

it would be so easy for all of you who put money where your mouth is over kimmel to do the right thing for trans lives. trans expression is also freedom of speech. attacks on us are attacks on you too

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Teddy Hope @bonjourteddy.bsky.social · 12d

I once saw a pic of Rowling's childhood home in the metro and errr unless there was a boat load of debt on that house she certainly did not grow up poor

Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 12d

just in case anyone has forgotten, JK Rowling used to be poor. She hasn't mentioned it in a couple of days

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

JK Rowling dismisses Emma Watson as 'ignorant' over trans rights row

www.bbc.co.uk

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Teddy Hope @bonjourteddy.bsky.social · 13d

found out this happened to me for the third time and im crying a bit

Teddy Hope @bonjourteddy.bsky.social · 13d

when older academics warn you about PhD grief, they sure do not talk about the pain of having someone else publish something on the exact topic using the same core theoretical models as you....as HOOO BOY.

Teddy Hope @bonjourteddy.bsky.social · 13d

when older academics warn you about PhD grief, they sure do not talk about the pain of having someone else publish something on the exact topic using the same core theoretical models as you....as HOOO BOY.

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Teddy Hope @bonjourteddy.bsky.social · 15d

I MEAN-

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Teddy Hope @bonjourteddy.bsky.social · 15d

looking at pasty, catrin feelings, bonnie ann clyde and elle vosque on drag race uk be like

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Teddy Hope @bonjourteddy.bsky.social · 16d

also In the years before covid, if i went out in broad day light while femme presenting, 1 out of 5 times someone would directly harrass me (not counting quiet conversations I overhear in passing + staring)

Now i don't remember a time after early 2024 when ive gone out and its NOT happened

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Teddy Hope @bonjourteddy.bsky.social · 16d

omg this.
there is way more usage of ableist language and expressions of anti-migrant sentiments in everyday public settings and it makes me so livid.

Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 16d

If you’re not seeing the huge rise in street harassment of people of colour, queer people and disabled people then you basically go from your home to your car to your office and never see people outside your bubble or are wilfully solipsistic

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Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · 17d

This is a really great article, and I agree with it that community is everything. I basically came out as much to access community as for any more obvious transition benefits; and if you haven’t transed yourself yet I would really encourage you to consider how necessary community is for a life.

Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 17d

Amazing piece by @echomikeromeo.bsky.social:

"if we want to tell stories about the past that not only make historiographical contributions but also help people get healthcare [etc] we must start by ensuring that we are in community ourselves and are responsive to community pressures and needs".

Imagining Trans Futures

Sam Rutherford reflects on how trans histories and historians can work towards building power in the trans community.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 20d

The UK has recognised Palestine. It must now end its complicity in its destruction, and in the genocide of its people.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 21d

I think fundamentally, the ability to care about the rights of a small and vulnerable minority (of whom you might know no members) is an important sign of whether you are committed to human rights out of principle, or out of mere convenience.

Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 21d

Being nice to trans people really did turn out to be a load bearing part of liberal democracy ey

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 22d

New blog: Questioning Trans Kids

A summary of the questions asked to trans under 18s and families in the new 'PATHWAYS Horizon' study for the new Children's Gender Clinics.

growinguptransgender.com/2025/09/19/q...

Questioning trans kids

The UK Government and UK research councils have contributed £10 million pounds to a series of research studies on service users of the newly established Children and Young People’s Gender Services.…

growinguptransgender.com

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Teddy Hope @bonjourteddy.bsky.social · 24d

aye im on the same page. the critique was deserved in context of recentring medical transition pathways in theorised political horizons (aka should have been about trends in TSQ) still would have expected shon to be a bit more self reflective about that. otherwise agreed with her tho

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 24d

Can’t disagree with Shon Faye here, though I’m sure many will take umbrage: “transitioning medically makes you significantly poorer and any trans politics should start there” shonfaye.substack.com/p/well-its-o...

well, it's over

a brief eulogy for the "trans rights" movement

shonfaye.substack.com

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Teddy Hope @bonjourteddy.bsky.social · 24d

that feel when Shon makes a direct and praiseful reference to *that* Jules Gill Peterson article

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Teddy Hope @bonjourteddy.bsky.social · Sep 4

me looking at the greggs across the road with the intensity of-

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trasgernder @gemma.transwrites.world · Sep 3

one thing I think the general public need is to be made aware that ONLINE is not really any different to OFFLINE.

It seems a lot of ppl give behaviours which are harassment or violence a pass because it's "only the Internet" or whatever as if that's something entirely separate from "real life"

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Teddy Hope @bonjourteddy.bsky.social · Aug 28

for most other parties I would say " their egos and their legal team are simply too overpowered to remove without sparking a long drawn out mess" but given its reform it would be like taking a cup of water out of a body of more water tbh

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · Aug 26

I’ve been a defender of the BBC for all of my life, I think, and I have worked in their newsrooms and on other shows and projects. Ever since we were told they were going to go further right to appease right wing people, the whole news department has gone mental.

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Teddy Hope @bonjourteddy.bsky.social · Aug 21

for context im writing a bit on takarazuka, which is often marketted and percieved in the cultural consciousness as an "all female" theatre group, but there has been performers who identify as men. how do i get around this??

Teddy Hope @bonjourteddy.bsky.social · Aug 21

question for trans and queer scholars!

i know AFAB and AMAB have been largely retired as academic vernacular, what other words do folk use when discribing groups of people in contexts where they are grouped together by percieved sex?

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