I adore your piece Amanda! It's been such a delight finally getting to see what everyone has made- or perhaps I should say what we've all made together!- today ✨

I was lucky enough to participate in TELEPHONE, an international, iterative art game translating pieces from medium to medium & artist to artist:
telephonegame.art/game

Check out my story for cyberpunk flavours, pretty prosthetics, and backroom biohackers:
telephonegame.art/artists/sorren-briarwood

Remember this: VA is systemically excluding the trans kids skipping to swimming lessons with their friends. Playing mermaids when the lesson is over. Trying to help mum who never gained confidence in the water to swim better.

Shame on #VirginActive (who walked at London Pride this year) for introducing transphobic rules and bowing to transphobic pressures.

I learned to swim at a local pool that is now VA.

I actually don’t care whether you, a cis person, think what Emma said about the TERF-in-chief was too forgiving, not forgiving enough, or just right. Spend the five minutes you’re spending crafting your ever so erudite post about it writing to your reps, signing a petition, donating to a trans org.

There are so many pieces of this that I want to pull-quote, but this in particular is so important. Transformative fandom spaces are not without their own ugly biases, but the stories that get "uplifted" into tradpub books only serve to reinforce whose stories are already seen as worthy of telling.

Recognition is no doubt significant but it will be a hollow gesture if the UK does not also seek to end Israel's genocide, illegal occupation, and system of apartheid against the Palestinian people.

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Finally my petition is approved!

There’s a list of flags you can fly in England and Wales without planning permission, including the rainbow flag.

Sign here (anyone in the UK) to try and get the progress flags added to the list.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Every single time a form of UBI is implemented, it is successful.

The police will have the power to make it a criminal offence to cover your face at a public protest if Labour’s proposed policing bill becomes law, putting LGBTQIA+ people attending Pride events in danger of being outed

My dear friend is raising money for #CALM this October! If you’d like to put a little good out into the world today, please consider donating or sharing ♥️ Just £12 could fund a potentially life-saving phone call for someone in crisis!
justgiving.com/page/maria-k-1?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL

However you feel about them, the EU parliament’s decision to downgrade wolf protections is a scientifically unsound nightmare for biodiversity:
wwf.eu/?18127416/Europe-turns-its-back-on-the-wolf-and-on-science

Please sign this petition against it:
secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/stop_wolf_hunting_loc/

The Red Wolf Recovery Program has confirmed 4 wild litters on the Albemarle Peninsula this year, bringing 16 new pups into the world!

With only 18 known adults left in the wild, every birth is a vital step forward for this critically endangered species.

Read more: www.selc.org/news/hope-fo...

Every UK petition is like this

🚨24 hours left to take action 🚨

Join over 21,000 people and stop TalkTV’s transphobic hate 👇
action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-t...

Organisers say 100,000 people attended London Trans+ Pride yesterday 🏳️‍⚧️

The theme this year was existence and resistance.

Team QueerAF were there and witnessed a strong, empowered community that was turning its rage, into a powerful fight back 👇

I dunno, I just think universal basic income would solve a lot of these problems

Now more than ever, we need to look after each other 💕🏳️‍⚧️

Jien, a nonbinary transfemme, has been forced back to Malaysia- the 2nd worst country for the trans community w/ the highest danger rating. Please consider supporting them back to their chosen family in the UK:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-jien-...

Submissions for issue #3 of the Trans Survivors Zine are now open! We're looking for poetry, short fiction/nonfiction, and visual art around themes of aging and growth. We want to hear about your experiences with change, growth, and identity across your lifetime. forge.tips/submit!

Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh are looking for submissions to their printed zine 'Supreme Injustice!'

You can find out more and submit here, deadline is 25th July! 🏳️‍⚧️ cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...

If you’re an artist of color, you need to keep making art. Especially if you’re also trans. Our world needs your voice.

In the face of increasingly hostile and murderous systems, this is what we can do. This is what we have to do.

Glad you enjoyed it! 💜💛

Other way around- if a generation survives a famine, the next has lower lean mass- so we should see more of that in fantasy!

Sources:
• nature.com/articles/s41598-019-46960-9
• huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/south-asian-health-colonial-history_uk_620e74fee4b055057aac0e9f/

Perhaps when I learn more about the programme, I’ll change my mind. I hope I do. But for now, the ‘Year of Reading,’ feels a bit like lip service to me. [8/8]

These lacks, of course, impact poorer children disproportionately. And not every family takes their child to their local library. That’s assuming they can still access one if they want to, given that almost 200 libraries closed across the country between 2016 and 2024. [7/8]