Talia "'Brown/Trans/Les' OUT NOW!" Bhatt ⚢
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Co-host of @crackedivorypod.bsky.social with @dolphindiaries.bsky.social!
Co-author of RCBG!
Yours truly, sincerely, this bitch
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Our episode on Transfeminism and the battle for the narrative in gender politics with @taliabhatt.itch.io is out!
Don’t miss this incredible conversation with such a brilliant writer, and after you listen make sure you check our her books, substack, and podcast, @crackedivorypod.bsky.social !
Don’t miss this incredible conversation with such a brilliant writer, and after you listen make sure you check our her books, substack, and podcast, @crackedivorypod.bsky.social !
We had a lovely conversation about 'Brown/Trans/Les', my work in general, and when 'Estro Junkies' is releasing this year! Thank you so much for inviting me on, and for spotlighting my work <3
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So now that Imane Khelif has revealed that she apparently has a SRY gene, people who were already calling her a man before are saying she's been "proven" to be a man.
My question is, what would they do? Should she be forced to change sex markers? To have genital surgery?
My question is, what would they do? Should she be forced to change sex markers? To have genital surgery?
February 7, 2026 at 5:20 PM
So now that Imane Khelif has revealed that she apparently has a SRY gene, people who were already calling her a man before are saying she's been "proven" to be a man.
My question is, what would they do? Should she be forced to change sex markers? To have genital surgery?
My question is, what would they do? Should she be forced to change sex markers? To have genital surgery?
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Either she's a woman with a SRY gene, which is the common sense position, or she's now apparently a man with a vagina and uterus, female sex markers on her papers, and an entire life of living as a woman which she doesn't want to change. Which, according to anti-trans activists, does not exist.
February 7, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Either she's a woman with a SRY gene, which is the common sense position, or she's now apparently a man with a vagina and uterus, female sex markers on her papers, and an entire life of living as a woman which she doesn't want to change. Which, according to anti-trans activists, does not exist.
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So what should we do? Should she be treated the way David Reimer was?
February 7, 2026 at 5:22 PM
So what should we do? Should she be treated the way David Reimer was?
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Note that just like Caster Semenya, anti-trans activists aren't saying "She's a woman but we think that her genetic code gives her an advantage blah blah blah" they're saying "He's a man".
February 7, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Note that just like Caster Semenya, anti-trans activists aren't saying "She's a woman but we think that her genetic code gives her an advantage blah blah blah" they're saying "He's a man".
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Can't believe most of bsky was treating this guy like a modern John Brown as recently as last month. This dweeb would lose his MIND if he saw what Indigenous people in Brazil do with blockades.
I didn't even see this when I posted the first skeet lol
February 7, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Can't believe most of bsky was treating this guy like a modern John Brown as recently as last month. This dweeb would lose his MIND if he saw what Indigenous people in Brazil do with blockades.
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People who don't understand the point of tbe blockades in Minneapolis not insert themselves and argue that they're pointless or that they shouldn't exist. They will exist as long as Minneapolis is under federal occupation. They help keep the community safe.
February 7, 2026 at 8:05 PM
People who don't understand the point of tbe blockades in Minneapolis not insert themselves and argue that they're pointless or that they shouldn't exist. They will exist as long as Minneapolis is under federal occupation. They help keep the community safe.
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The radical and unrealistic position of "no concentration camps"
The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"
The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"
February 8, 2026 at 4:58 AM
The radical and unrealistic position of "no concentration camps"
The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"
The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"
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A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 AM
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
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I've written a blog aimed at cis ppl, on the recent revelations of rising trans suicide rates since NHS England removed gender affirming care for u18s, in particular about my involvement with trying to seek the truth and the trauma the gaslighting by Appleby, Streeting, Cass and the media causes.
Trans youth suicide - the truth we've always known. What it means to me and what I've been doing about it.
Last week Queer AF broke a story that revealed the suicide rate in trans under eighteens is around fourteen times higher than you might expect from census data.As the parent of Alice a trans woman who...
www.carolinelitman.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:38 PM
I've written a blog aimed at cis ppl, on the recent revelations of rising trans suicide rates since NHS England removed gender affirming care for u18s, in particular about my involvement with trying to seek the truth and the trauma the gaslighting by Appleby, Streeting, Cass and the media causes.
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Reminds me of this disgusting moment from Duffield, Cherry and whoever the bloke is. Never forget these fucking awful humans www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7cx...
Joanna Cherry rolls eyes and says "What rubbish" when hearing about trans suicide
YouTube video by Jean Wilda
www.youtube.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Reminds me of this disgusting moment from Duffield, Cherry and whoever the bloke is. Never forget these fucking awful humans www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7cx...
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It's neither controversial nor surprising that the puberty blocker ban corresponded with a number of vulnerable young people to give up hope. At least it wasn't an unexpected outcome until they started trying to cover it up and hide the bodies to help justify their ideologically driven policies.
February 7, 2026 at 3:59 PM
It's neither controversial nor surprising that the puberty blocker ban corresponded with a number of vulnerable young people to give up hope. At least it wasn't an unexpected outcome until they started trying to cover it up and hide the bodies to help justify their ideologically driven policies.
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The thing that's the most egregious about this cover up is that before all this happened, there was evidence from similar policy changes in the United States of rises in suicidality amongst trans youth (and also significant drops in youth LGBT suicide with pro LGBT policies).
One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.
New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project
A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare
goodlaw.social
February 7, 2026 at 3:59 PM
The thing that's the most egregious about this cover up is that before all this happened, there was evidence from similar policy changes in the United States of rises in suicidality amongst trans youth (and also significant drops in youth LGBT suicide with pro LGBT policies).
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Can The Subaltern Shut Up For Once
He's arguing that gender "wasn't political" in India before the British raj while quite literally talking about widow-burning
February 7, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Can The Subaltern Shut Up For Once
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This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
February 6, 2026 at 10:23 PM
This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
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This is from The Pancatantra, which was compiled over 2000 years ago taking about burning women, disfigurement of women as a punishment for adultery, women being deceitful and child marriage. All the thing women have to navigate even today but yeah somehow we don't need feminism.
February 8, 2026 at 2:16 AM
This is from The Pancatantra, which was compiled over 2000 years ago taking about burning women, disfigurement of women as a punishment for adultery, women being deceitful and child marriage. All the thing women have to navigate even today but yeah somehow we don't need feminism.
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Also the book is not just some relic of the past, it is wildly popular fairy tale book that kids still read today, there are cartoons based on these. The stories are filled to the brim with some of the most sexist and casteist messages written long before long before raj was a thing.
February 8, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Also the book is not just some relic of the past, it is wildly popular fairy tale book that kids still read today, there are cartoons based on these. The stories are filled to the brim with some of the most sexist and casteist messages written long before long before raj was a thing.
The discourse between feminism and anti-feminism has always been "women don't deserve this" v/s "yes you do and actually, you like it, so shut up"
February 7, 2026 at 8:57 PM
The discourse between feminism and anti-feminism has always been "women don't deserve this" v/s "yes you do and actually, you like it, so shut up"
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For anyone interested, Sarah Gerard wrote a book about Caroline’s murder that includes a section on how Botstein’s indifference enabled violence against women at Bard. It includes a discussion of his one book, on the education of adolescents, which includes his thoughts on girls’ “menarche.”
February 7, 2026 at 2:59 PM
For anyone interested, Sarah Gerard wrote a book about Caroline’s murder that includes a section on how Botstein’s indifference enabled violence against women at Bard. It includes a discussion of his one book, on the education of adolescents, which includes his thoughts on girls’ “menarche.”
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Sex between faculty and undergraduates was permitted and tacitly encouraged. He berated a consent activist. Title IX proceedings were known to have his scorn. He personally intervened on behalf of male students accused of violence against women, including the man who murdered my friend Caroline.
February 7, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Sex between faculty and undergraduates was permitted and tacitly encouraged. He berated a consent activist. Title IX proceedings were known to have his scorn. He personally intervened on behalf of male students accused of violence against women, including the man who murdered my friend Caroline.
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Hard to overstate the extent to which Leon Botstein’s personal scorn for feminist anti-rape politics permeated Bard College’s culture while I was there. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
A $50,000 Watch and Friendly Notes: One College Leader’s Ties to Epstein
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Hard to overstate the extent to which Leon Botstein’s personal scorn for feminist anti-rape politics permeated Bard College’s culture while I was there. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
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And never forget that Dame Hilary Cass belittled as "shroud wavers" those of us asking, begging, for a regime that would keep trans children alive.
One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.
New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project
A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare
goodlaw.social
February 7, 2026 at 8:07 PM
And never forget that Dame Hilary Cass belittled as "shroud wavers" those of us asking, begging, for a regime that would keep trans children alive.
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I just don’t understand how a condemnation of colonialism requires pretending that no non-western people ever do anything wrong? Feels almost patronizing tbh
February 7, 2026 at 8:11 PM
I just don’t understand how a condemnation of colonialism requires pretending that no non-western people ever do anything wrong? Feels almost patronizing tbh
I am going to bed now
February 7, 2026 at 6:47 PM
I am going to bed now
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“Women with more serious problems don’t need feminism” is a common expression of this, as Talia has often illuminated. The angle here is to continually frame “more serious problems” as never having to do with gender
February 7, 2026 at 6:16 PM
“Women with more serious problems don’t need feminism” is a common expression of this, as Talia has often illuminated. The angle here is to continually frame “more serious problems” as never having to do with gender