Ruth Pearce
@notrightruth.bsky.social
Activist, punk musician, event promoter, feminist academic. Illegal lesbian.
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Ruth Pearce
@notrightruth.bsky.social
· Sep 25
Reject Trans Doom-Posting
This week I took the long train down to the south of England for my friend Robyn’s funeral. She died very suddenly three weeks ago, aged just 32. Robyn gave so much love to the world, and was so lo…
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New essay: REJECT TRANS DOOM-POSTING.
It's about grief, loss, institutional failures, and the horror of the current moment.
It's also a love letter to trans community, and the things we do with and for one another.
It's about grief, loss, institutional failures, and the horror of the current moment.
It's also a love letter to trans community, and the things we do with and for one another.
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"Dogs don't bark at parked cars" is an all-time great line
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Dogs don't bark at parked cars" is an all-time great line
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It is genuinely insane to see a judge describe Graham Linehan as a “generally credible witness” in a trial where he claimed Sophia Brooks has been engaged in “trans activism” since 2013 (when she would’ve been 6 years old), then, when challenged, claimed her drivers license lied about her age.
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
It is genuinely insane to see a judge describe Graham Linehan as a “generally credible witness” in a trial where he claimed Sophia Brooks has been engaged in “trans activism” since 2013 (when she would’ve been 6 years old), then, when challenged, claimed her drivers license lied about her age.
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What an amazing offer!
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
What an amazing offer!
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excited to read at this on wednesday! ☔️
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
excited to read at this on wednesday! ☔️
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Isn't it so weird to deeply know in your bones something obvious with no equivocation, for years and years, and then to one day see articles about people wondering if maybe the incredibly obvious thing you've known this whole time might be happening, as if the media is discovering it now??
“This is total armageddon for the online right. It’s looking like half of their large accounts were foreigners posing as Americans all along.”
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Isn't it so weird to deeply know in your bones something obvious with no equivocation, for years and years, and then to one day see articles about people wondering if maybe the incredibly obvious thing you've known this whole time might be happening, as if the media is discovering it now??
Is the encore dead?
I've seen five bands headline to audiences of 30 to 2500 over the past three weeks, none of which played an encore. One band, Ratboys insisted they had no intention of "playing peek-a-boo" with the audience. Wet Leg just left the stage to a wave of noise.
I've seen five bands headline to audiences of 30 to 2500 over the past three weeks, none of which played an encore. One band, Ratboys insisted they had no intention of "playing peek-a-boo" with the audience. Wet Leg just left the stage to a wave of noise.
November 24, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Is the encore dead?
I've seen five bands headline to audiences of 30 to 2500 over the past three weeks, none of which played an encore. One band, Ratboys insisted they had no intention of "playing peek-a-boo" with the audience. Wet Leg just left the stage to a wave of noise.
I've seen five bands headline to audiences of 30 to 2500 over the past three weeks, none of which played an encore. One band, Ratboys insisted they had no intention of "playing peek-a-boo" with the audience. Wet Leg just left the stage to a wave of noise.
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You might not like it, but this is what peak male performance looks like
Additionally, hippos - despite being massive - have almost no fat on them. All of that impressive bulk is muscle.
2% body fat. Compare that to Elephants, which are around 8-10%, or rhinos, which are 10-20%.
The average human is around 20-40%, for reference.
They're *all* muscle.
2% body fat. Compare that to Elephants, which are around 8-10%, or rhinos, which are 10-20%.
The average human is around 20-40%, for reference.
They're *all* muscle.
November 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
You might not like it, but this is what peak male performance looks like
Nothing about us, without us.
And with things like the puberty blocker trial, that doesn't simply mean involving trans adults - it means listening to young people and being led by their experience.
And with things like the puberty blocker trial, that doesn't simply mean involving trans adults - it means listening to young people and being led by their experience.
The trans community’s trust in the NHS’ new puberty blocker trial is low and I can’t help but wonder whether they could have prevented that by involving ANY trans people in its design or operation, and maybe not involving several people who have attended conferences of anti-LGBTQ hate groups
November 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Nothing about us, without us.
And with things like the puberty blocker trial, that doesn't simply mean involving trans adults - it means listening to young people and being led by their experience.
And with things like the puberty blocker trial, that doesn't simply mean involving trans adults - it means listening to young people and being led by their experience.
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Regular tapping of the sign: please, please read ruthpearce.net/books/terf-w... by @notrightruth.bsky.social and amazing collaborators. Particularly if you haven't read the source materials. Particularly if you haven't lived as an out trans person through the the times of Raymond onwards...
TERF Wars
“A powerful, exciting and much-needed salvo in one of the most urgent battles against bigotry.” – Sandy Stone The emergence of trans-exclusionary movements raises many questions for feminism …
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November 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Regular tapping of the sign: please, please read ruthpearce.net/books/terf-w... by @notrightruth.bsky.social and amazing collaborators. Particularly if you haven't read the source materials. Particularly if you haven't lived as an out trans person through the the times of Raymond onwards...
this skeet aged like a fine wine
Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
this skeet aged like a fine wine
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On Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honor the lives taken by transphobic violence. This day is credited to Gwendolyn Smith, who started the tradition in 1999 with a vigil for Rita Hester. Pictured is an earlier vigil for Marsha P. Johnson (1992).
Courtesy of NYC LGBT Center.
#TransHistory #TDOR
Courtesy of NYC LGBT Center.
#TransHistory #TDOR
November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
On Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honor the lives taken by transphobic violence. This day is credited to Gwendolyn Smith, who started the tradition in 1999 with a vigil for Rita Hester. Pictured is an earlier vigil for Marsha P. Johnson (1992).
Courtesy of NYC LGBT Center.
#TransHistory #TDOR
Courtesy of NYC LGBT Center.
#TransHistory #TDOR
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I've been thinking about this quote all day
"Every university in Gaza has been destroyed. The mass killing of Palestinians has also extinguished the knowledge, memories, experiences and indeed the histories that they carry as individuals. Genocide targets a people’s past as much as their present."
"Every university in Gaza has been destroyed. The mass killing of Palestinians has also extinguished the knowledge, memories, experiences and indeed the histories that they carry as individuals. Genocide targets a people’s past as much as their present."
Writing History in a Time of Genocide
Anne Irfan asks, what does it mean to write the history of a place as it is being destroyed before our very eyes?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I've been thinking about this quote all day
"Every university in Gaza has been destroyed. The mass killing of Palestinians has also extinguished the knowledge, memories, experiences and indeed the histories that they carry as individuals. Genocide targets a people’s past as much as their present."
"Every university in Gaza has been destroyed. The mass killing of Palestinians has also extinguished the knowledge, memories, experiences and indeed the histories that they carry as individuals. Genocide targets a people’s past as much as their present."
I had literally no idea F1NN5TER was funding Anne Healthcare. Which, I suppose, was the whole point.
Anyway, huge respect to trans people everywhere. In the face of huge normalising pressures, we continue to make the field of trans health thoroughly weird.
Anyway, huge respect to trans people everywhere. In the face of huge normalising pressures, we continue to make the field of trans health thoroughly weird.
November 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I had literally no idea F1NN5TER was funding Anne Healthcare. Which, I suppose, was the whole point.
Anyway, huge respect to trans people everywhere. In the face of huge normalising pressures, we continue to make the field of trans health thoroughly weird.
Anyway, huge respect to trans people everywhere. In the face of huge normalising pressures, we continue to make the field of trans health thoroughly weird.
TDOR has really snuck up on me again. This year I'm remembering my two friends who died in September, plus many more whose lives were taken around the world - especially sex workers and trans women of colour.
November 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM
TDOR has really snuck up on me again. This year I'm remembering my two friends who died in September, plus many more whose lives were taken around the world - especially sex workers and trans women of colour.
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This, re: the Times piece. You need to understand this before you understand the obsession with confinement of trans lives.
We're an undeniable border violation. We exist and we show that the border between male and female is both permeable and not simply a hierarchy. So we have to be dealt with the way border problems are - extreme violence or a complex series of exceptions.
I think you cannot understand anything until you realise the scale of cis society's obsession with transfeminity and the lengths it goes to not only to quarantine and punish it, but construct social rituals to navigate its presence in everyday cis life.
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This, re: the Times piece. You need to understand this before you understand the obsession with confinement of trans lives.
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
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When white people react with hostility to sharing space with Black and brown folk, they don’t care if those folk were born here, migrated legally, or are “illegal aliens.” They only see non-white faces who “don’t belong in their space.” This is why “ordinary concern” about migration is basic racism.
November 3, 2025 at 7:25 AM
When white people react with hostility to sharing space with Black and brown folk, they don’t care if those folk were born here, migrated legally, or are “illegal aliens.” They only see non-white faces who “don’t belong in their space.” This is why “ordinary concern” about migration is basic racism.
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love each other. hate the state.
November 16, 2025 at 2:21 AM
love each other. hate the state.
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This feels like a real, are we the baddies, moment for the people in the Labour Party who still consider themselves soft left
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
This feels like a real, are we the baddies, moment for the people in the Labour Party who still consider themselves soft left
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your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️
If this disgusting racist policy had been in place in the 1940s, I literally wouldn't exist. The British government would have just carted my grandmother back to Germany once the war was over. I'm sure that would have been very "safe" immediately post-Holocaust.
Refugee status set to become temporary in radical asylum reforms
Copying the Danish model, the UK is expected to make refugee status temporary and subject to regular review, while tighter rules on family reunions may also be on the table.
news.sky.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:33 PM
If this disgusting racist policy had been in place in the 1940s, I literally wouldn't exist. The British government would have just carted my grandmother back to Germany once the war was over. I'm sure that would have been very "safe" immediately post-Holocaust.
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collective memory is something you have to work at constantly, and the persistent drumbeat of land acknowledgements is an extremely valuable way to produce widespread consciousness of basic material fact of dispossession and genocide
my wokest opinion is that land acknowledgements are fine. people knowing a little bit about the land you're on, even if one isn't invested in a land back project, is not particularly worse than the status quo, even if one comes by this info in a way that is somewhat cringe and forced
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
collective memory is something you have to work at constantly, and the persistent drumbeat of land acknowledgements is an extremely valuable way to produce widespread consciousness of basic material fact of dispossession and genocide