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3 books out of 12 left on the Polari First Book longlist, 7 out of 12 remaining on the main longlist. a colossal show of solidarity esp from debut authors
14 of 24 authors have now withdrawn.
First Book:
Curtis Garner, Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Eleanor Medhurst, Ciara Maguire, June Thomas
Main:
Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth, Jane Traies
Judges:
Nicola Dinan, Bob Hughes
First Book:
Curtis Garner, Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Eleanor Medhurst, Ciara Maguire, June Thomas
Main:
Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth, Jane Traies
Judges:
Nicola Dinan, Bob Hughes
August 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
3 books out of 12 left on the Polari First Book longlist, 7 out of 12 remaining on the main longlist. a colossal show of solidarity esp from debut authors
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Wes really hit the ground running, meeting with a bunch of hate groups within weeks of the election
Wes Streeting held a meeting with:
• Genspect
• Bayswater Support Group
• CAN-SG
• Integrated Psychology Clinic
• LGB Alliance
• Transgender Trend
"To discuss gender policy issues"
• Genspect
• Bayswater Support Group
• CAN-SG
• Integrated Psychology Clinic
• LGB Alliance
• Transgender Trend
"To discuss gender policy issues"
August 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Wes really hit the ground running, meeting with a bunch of hate groups within weeks of the election
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To clarify: When the puberty blocker ban came in, it was stated that young people ALREADY on blockers under NHS treatment would be allowed to CONTINUE getting them.
These are some of those young people.
The NHS is now BREACHING the blocker ban ruling!!! 😠😤
These are some of those young people.
The NHS is now BREACHING the blocker ban ruling!!! 😠😤
The NHS are forcibly detransitioning trans kids in Brighton and calling it “managed withdrawal.” Their own impact assessment acknowledges trans kids will be at increased risk of harm as a result, don’t want this, and are likely to just use DIY hormones instead
August 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
To clarify: When the puberty blocker ban came in, it was stated that young people ALREADY on blockers under NHS treatment would be allowed to CONTINUE getting them.
These are some of those young people.
The NHS is now BREACHING the blocker ban ruling!!! 😠😤
These are some of those young people.
The NHS is now BREACHING the blocker ban ruling!!! 😠😤
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This👇
Transmisogyny is just this bizarre clusterfuck where people treat you like a woman, in that they talk over you, call you overly emotional, sexualise you, judge you harshly on how well you embody femininity, disbelieve you when you say you've been mistreated, all the while insisting that you're a man
August 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This👇
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It's important to note that the Polari Prize is not an automatic submission situation. You have to ASK to be considered.
I doubt many authors will be asking next year. Even if they don't support trans rights, the reputational damage and stress if something like this happens again is enough.
I doubt many authors will be asking next year. Even if they don't support trans rights, the reputational damage and stress if something like this happens again is enough.
August 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
It's important to note that the Polari Prize is not an automatic submission situation. You have to ASK to be considered.
I doubt many authors will be asking next year. Even if they don't support trans rights, the reputational damage and stress if something like this happens again is enough.
I doubt many authors will be asking next year. Even if they don't support trans rights, the reputational damage and stress if something like this happens again is enough.
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Queer writers are standing shoulder-to-shoulder with their Trans+ family, friends, and colleagues - and against the creeping normalisation of transphobia.
When figures like John Boyne use their platform to legitimise their transphobic rhetoric, they doesn’t just negatively impact Trans+ people
When figures like John Boyne use their platform to legitimise their transphobic rhetoric, they doesn’t just negatively impact Trans+ people
UPDATE: 10 of the 24 longlisted authors have now withdrawn from the Polari Prize.
First Book:
Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire
Main award:
Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth
Judging panel:
Nicola Dinan, Bob Hughes
First Book:
Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire
Main award:
Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth
Judging panel:
Nicola Dinan, Bob Hughes
August 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Queer writers are standing shoulder-to-shoulder with their Trans+ family, friends, and colleagues - and against the creeping normalisation of transphobia.
When figures like John Boyne use their platform to legitimise their transphobic rhetoric, they doesn’t just negatively impact Trans+ people
When figures like John Boyne use their platform to legitimise their transphobic rhetoric, they doesn’t just negatively impact Trans+ people
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Can I just put in a word for medieval and early modern people.
The average age of marriage for a woman was 25.
The average age of marriage for a woman was 25.
August 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Can I just put in a word for medieval and early modern people.
The average age of marriage for a woman was 25.
The average age of marriage for a woman was 25.
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I was in a shop earlier and an assistant, wearing terf colours, asked if she could help. When I declined she took a shit in my shopping bag.
This is totally true. Don't ask any follow ups, just put it in the paper.
This is totally true. Don't ask any follow ups, just put it in the paper.
August 7, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I was in a shop earlier and an assistant, wearing terf colours, asked if she could help. When I declined she took a shit in my shopping bag.
This is totally true. Don't ask any follow ups, just put it in the paper.
This is totally true. Don't ask any follow ups, just put it in the paper.
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This is not caused primarily by "screen time".
It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
‘Worrying’ levels of screen time means young people losing confidence to socialise in person, minister warns – UK politics live
Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says ‘majority of young people spend all, or almost all, of their free time alone in their bedrooms, online’
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
This is not caused primarily by "screen time".
It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Our statement on the actions at Wes Streeting's office last night.
We refuse to sit and watch as trans young people have their healthcare stripped from them. We refuse to allow Streeting to cover up their suicides. We refuse to endure the violence and humiliation. They will have to go through us.
We refuse to sit and watch as trans young people have their healthcare stripped from them. We refuse to allow Streeting to cover up their suicides. We refuse to endure the violence and humiliation. They will have to go through us.
August 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Our statement on the actions at Wes Streeting's office last night.
We refuse to sit and watch as trans young people have their healthcare stripped from them. We refuse to allow Streeting to cover up their suicides. We refuse to endure the violence and humiliation. They will have to go through us.
We refuse to sit and watch as trans young people have their healthcare stripped from them. We refuse to allow Streeting to cover up their suicides. We refuse to endure the violence and humiliation. They will have to go through us.
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How can you not love Seth Green?
July 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
How can you not love Seth Green?
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The grotesque sight of a Labour Chancellor protecting actual fraudsters from the consequences of their acts, rather than supporting the millions of people defrauded. Turns out capitalism - however badly it acts - is more important to Labour than the population it supposedly acts for.
July 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
The grotesque sight of a Labour Chancellor protecting actual fraudsters from the consequences of their acts, rather than supporting the millions of people defrauded. Turns out capitalism - however badly it acts - is more important to Labour than the population it supposedly acts for.
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Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.
“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”
July 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.
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This isn’t the female gaze. This is the male gaze. It’s men who are obsessed with the physicality of other men. Women, in the main, would much rather see a man who looks like he’d make himself a stack of buttered toast and let you steal a slice
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No room for wokeness!
@Wokenessisevil
Notice how no one, not a single soul, has ever complained about the female gaze in entertainment.
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July 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This isn’t the female gaze. This is the male gaze. It’s men who are obsessed with the physicality of other men. Women, in the main, would much rather see a man who looks like he’d make himself a stack of buttered toast and let you steal a slice
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sure would have been nice if the WSJ and NYT had published these stories about Trump and Epstein a year ago
“What seemed to draw them together, according to those who knew them at the time, was a common interest in hitting on — and competing for — attractive young women at parties, nightclubs and other private events.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/u...
Inside the Long Friendship Between Trump and Epstein
www.nytimes.com
July 19, 2025 at 10:31 PM
sure would have been nice if the WSJ and NYT had published these stories about Trump and Epstein a year ago
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Updated: Starmer’s Labour: The most anti-LGBT+ govt since Thatcher. A list of the awful things they've done and said regarding LGBT+ people, especially trans people.
July 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Updated: Starmer’s Labour: The most anti-LGBT+ govt since Thatcher. A list of the awful things they've done and said regarding LGBT+ people, especially trans people.
TalkTV is airing attacks on trans people without broadcasting the views of those who support trans rights. Call on Ofcom to take action: goodlaw.social/66f6a3
Ofcom: stop TalkTV broadcasting hate
TalkTV is Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News for the UK – a constant source of toxic hate and far-right lies. Over the last 11 weeks, TalkTV has been spouting transphobic hate again and again – totally ignorin...
goodlaw.social
July 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
TalkTV is airing attacks on trans people without broadcasting the views of those who support trans rights. Call on Ofcom to take action: goodlaw.social/66f6a3
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www.gov.uk/government/n...
This guidance mandates that children are taught that they have different legal rights based on their biological sex.
So much for kicking misogyny out of classrooms.
This guidance mandates that children are taught that they have different legal rights based on their biological sex.
So much for kicking misogyny out of classrooms.
Misogynistic myths kicked out of classrooms to protect children
Government publishes final statutory relationships, sex and health education guidance for schools.
www.gov.uk
July 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
www.gov.uk/government/n...
This guidance mandates that children are taught that they have different legal rights based on their biological sex.
So much for kicking misogyny out of classrooms.
This guidance mandates that children are taught that they have different legal rights based on their biological sex.
So much for kicking misogyny out of classrooms.
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All my friends are leaving academia because it’s impossible to get a job in the UK
July 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
All my friends are leaving academia because it’s impossible to get a job in the UK
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The temporary shutdown had flushed a lot of stress toxins secreted by my organic parts and I actually felt better.
July 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The temporary shutdown had flushed a lot of stress toxins secreted by my organic parts and I actually felt better.
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all i want is to one day own a modest sized home in a walkable neighborhood and raise money for shelter animals. wear an outfit i like, walk to the grocery store, buy some nectarines, feed cats, and live in peace. just don't understand why achieving this is so hard
June 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
all i want is to one day own a modest sized home in a walkable neighborhood and raise money for shelter animals. wear an outfit i like, walk to the grocery store, buy some nectarines, feed cats, and live in peace. just don't understand why achieving this is so hard
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With a eugenicist as Minister of Health, what could possibly go wrong...?
NHS plans to DNA test all babies in England to assess disease risk
NHS plans to DNA test all babies in England to assess disease risk
Scheme is part of the government's 10-year plan for the NHS in England aimed at easing pressure on services.
www.bbc.com
June 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
With a eugenicist as Minister of Health, what could possibly go wrong...?
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Hillary Cass was selected from a candidate pool of one.
Kishwer Falkner was appointed by Liz Truss because they viewed the EHRC as too close to Stonewall.
Christian Concern are behind the Darlington Nurses and Wes Streeting.
Kishwer Falkner was appointed by Liz Truss because they viewed the EHRC as too close to Stonewall.
Christian Concern are behind the Darlington Nurses and Wes Streeting.
June 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Hillary Cass was selected from a candidate pool of one.
Kishwer Falkner was appointed by Liz Truss because they viewed the EHRC as too close to Stonewall.
Christian Concern are behind the Darlington Nurses and Wes Streeting.
Kishwer Falkner was appointed by Liz Truss because they viewed the EHRC as too close to Stonewall.
Christian Concern are behind the Darlington Nurses and Wes Streeting.
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Kathleen Stock quit, she wasn't fired.
Maya Forstater's temporary contract wasn't renewed, she wasn't fired.
Hadley Freeman quit, she wasn't forced out.
Maya Forstater's temporary contract wasn't renewed, she wasn't fired.
Hadley Freeman quit, she wasn't forced out.
June 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Kathleen Stock quit, she wasn't fired.
Maya Forstater's temporary contract wasn't renewed, she wasn't fired.
Hadley Freeman quit, she wasn't forced out.
Maya Forstater's temporary contract wasn't renewed, she wasn't fired.
Hadley Freeman quit, she wasn't forced out.