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Elodie Vidal @elodievidal.bsky.social · 19d

My pleasure!

Elodie Vidal @elodievidal.bsky.social · 20d

We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name

notinourname.org.uk

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Elodie Vidal @elodievidal.bsky.social · 21d

So yeah, @marcusto.bsky.social doesn't play.

His commissions are closed at the moment, but he usually takes them via @theartistbullpen.com.

Thanks Marcus! 🤩

#ComicBookArt #ArtCommissions #Comics #ComicSky

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Elodie Vidal @elodievidal.bsky.social · 21d

Also, I asked @marcusto.bsky.social to draw me #Forge and #Sage looking like partners in crime, and now I own the nerdy duo of my dreams.

#XMen #XForce #ComicBookArt #MarvelComics

Sage and Forge in their X-Force uniforms, one arm over the other's shoulder and fist-bumping. They're both smiling a small smile, looking straight ahead like they're posing for a photo. The piece is signed by Marcus To, in the lower right corner of the image.

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Elodie Vidal @elodievidal.bsky.social · 21d

If you don't fancy #Forge yet, get ready to start because LOOK AT THIS (my commission from @marcusto.bsky.social) 💙 🛠️

#XMen #XForce #ComicBookArt #MarvelComics

Black-and-white drawing of Forge. He's wearing a jacket over a shirt and bolo tie, and dressy trousers with a big belt buckle. His hair is tied back into a half ponytail and it flies gently behind him in an imaginary breeze. A loose strand falls by the side of his face. Make no mistake: he's hot. With the rolled up sleeves, the closed metal fist and the stern expression, the overall feel of the piece is ROOAARRRRRR. Marcus To's signature is in the lower right corner of the image.

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Elodie Vidal @elodievidal.bsky.social · 23d

Hi Marcus! The commissions have arrived and they are GLORIOUS, thanks so much! I'll probably share them on my socials this weekend - please let me know if you'd rather I didn't for any reason. Thanks again and take care! X

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amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · Aug 22

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · Aug 18

Trans Legal Clinic need your support in funding this case. We all have a duty to do something, even sharing this will help, share it other platforms and to allies.

If you can please donate to help fund this case, this is the most important part of the restoration of the our rights:

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · Aug 19

The report gives evidence of people:
- Choosing between going to work or their mental health & dignity
- Outed by insensitive employers
- Excluded from previous safe spaces
- Harassed for following ‘the guidance’
- Harassed for not following ‘the guidance’
- Threatened, bullied and harassed

Experiences of trans segregation following the Supreme Court ruling. Evidence of people:
Choosing between going to work or their mental health & dignity
Outed by insensitive employers
Excluded from previous safe spaces
Harassed for following ‘the guidance’
Harassed for not following ‘the guidance’
Threatened and harassed for not ‘looking like a woman’
Bullied by those now empowered to harass trans people.
tinyurl.com/trans-segregation
-in-practice

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · Aug 19

A new report from TransActual shows that trans and cisgender people face job loss, violence, vigilantism and wholesale exclusion following the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC guidance.

Read the report at: tinyurl.com/trans-segreg...

#Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #EqualityAct #EHRC #TransRights

Experiences of trans segregation following the Supreme Court ruling. A new report from
TransActual shows
Trans and Cis
people face job loss,
violence, vigilantism
and wholesale
exclusion following
the Supreme Court
Ruling and EHRC
guidance. tinyurl.com/trans-segregation
-in-practice

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Elodie Vidal @elodievidal.bsky.social · Aug 18

Gilmore Girls!

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Elodie Vidal @elodievidal.bsky.social · Aug 9

We did, very tasty food! Thanks for the rec, and see you soon on another tour! Xx

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Elodie Vidal @elodievidal.bsky.social · Aug 8

What are the chances? Went to the Bleeding Heart Bistro after doing the @herstorical1.bsky.social Hex & the City tour, and walked into the courtyard just as Maria was presenting to a group.

Hello! We didn't want to interrupt 👋

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Trans Radio UK @transradiouk.com · Aug 4

LGBT+ health evidence review
In April 2025, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care commissioned NHS England to undertake an LGBT+ health evidence review.

www.england.nhs.uk/about/equali...

NHS England » LGBT+ health evidence review

www.england.nhs.uk

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Matt Parent @mattparent.bsky.social · Jul 26

I’m going to really miss @thorneidentity.bsky.social writing in the X-Office. #xspoilers #xforce

John Wraith tells Colossus it’s time for him to be his own man.

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Elodie Vidal @elodievidal.bsky.social · Aug 1

#EyesOfWakanda

Could have watched 5 more episodes of this, easy. Very fun, and so beautiful.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · Jul 30

💥The fight goes on 💥

We are pleased to say that our case against the EHRC’s transphobic guidance will be heard in full in November.

This is just the beginning, and we’re ready to fight it, together.

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · Jul 27

From us in The Guardian yesterday:

"You look at the bathroom ban that’s being proposed and you sort of realise that, although we may consider the UK quite different from a country like America, it’s a bathroom ban that would make someone like Donald Trump proud"

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Tens of thousands of people take to streets for London Trans+ Pride 2025

Event becomes biggest of its kind as more than 100,000 turn out to support its ‘existence and resistance’ theme

www.theguardian.com

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🏳️‍⚧️Erispookability🏳️‍🌈 @erisponsibility.bsky.social · Jul 27

Photos I took of London Trans+ Pride,
A thread 🧵

A photo taken from inside a shop through the window looking outside. Outside on the street there are large crowds of protesters walking by and a large trans flag is carried in the middle.

A photo of the protesters holding lots of signs. The photo is framed by the leaves of a bush in the foreground.

A photo of a small hand crafted shark, resembling an IKEA Blåhaj plush, presumably made of wood or Papier-mâché, holding a small Palestine flag, being carried by a protester.

A photo of a large banner that says "Protect Trans+ Youth" being carried by lots of protesters.

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Elodie Vidal @elodievidal.bsky.social · Jul 25

I LOVE THEM SO MUCH GOD HELP ME

(The way he holds on to her leg 😭)

X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · Jul 25

A goddess and a tinkerer.
Storm and Forge by Jake Castorena
#xmen

Full color drawing against a pink background of Storm standing tall on a rocky outcroping with lighting shooting from her hand, while Forge crouches low arm around Storm's leg , the other ponting a weapon.

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Elodie Vidal @elodievidal.bsky.social · Jul 24

I'm sorry, Emma who?

(From Emma Frost #2, art by Andrea Di Vito.)

#XSpoilers #XMen #Sage #Tessa

Tessa lounging on a sofa in her Hellfire Club attire - that's a corset with open lacing at the front, long gloves and high boots. Also presumably something that passes for panties, although they're not visible here and all you can see is THIGH and HIP. She's also wearing a long cloak attached with a golden chain around her neck, with the collar raised. Her eyebrow is cocked and there's a smirk on her lips, so she looks eeeeviiil. There's a chess set on a table in front of her. Oh, and Sebastian Shaw is doing some combat training in the background, but who cares. I've cropped his head off.

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · Jul 18

Phillipson is being an idiot. Let’s keep the squeeze on.

This letter now has 700+ signatures. Shall we get it to 1,000 before the Tuesday deadline?

Then I’ll print it all out—with every name—and post it to her, plus copy to every supportive MP I know.

Sign here 🤗 docs.google.com/forms/d/180G...

An Open Letter to the Minister for Women and Equalities re the EHRC Code of Practice and Human Rights Risks

The Minister for Women and Equalities will soon be called upon to approve a new Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions and Associations from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), f...

docs.google.com

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Elodie Vidal @elodievidal.bsky.social · Jul 17

How I hate business speech.

Phrase I encountered today:

"persuade more leaders into that 'willing' audience"

So just persuade them then.

AAAAARGGGHHH

Elodie Vidal @elodievidal.bsky.social · Jul 16

Magical realism meets Americana in GennaRose Nethercott's Fifty Beasts To Break Your Heart, conjuring modern folklore, mundane monsters and bewitching fables.

What a wonderful book-friend.

A paperback copy of Fifty Beasts To Break Your Heart on a soft pink knitted blanket. The cover is off-white, with the title in the centre and a tree branch running up the left side and across. On the bottom left, a wolf looks up at a goat woman in a dress on the middle right. Below her is a pink carnation with a skull where its pistil should be.

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Elodie Vidal @elodievidal.bsky.social · Jul 15

Thanks for the conclusion @thorneidentity.bsky.social! I will cherish this run. I'm so glad you got to write Forge, he needed a writer like you. So did Sage.

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