they/themrys
emrystravis.bsky.social
they/themrys
@emrystravis.bsky.social
trans marxist researching gay liberationism ♿🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸
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December 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Our comrades, our hunger strikers, have been starving for 5 weeks in protest of the state's oppression of Palestinian activists and continued participation in Israeli apartheid and genocide.
If you have not done anything to support them, start now.

##SupportTheHungerStrikers
SHOCKING: 7 Palestine Action activists have been on HUNGER STRIKE for as long as 30 DAYS.

The activists have been denied bail, and could be held for over two years before their trial.

WHY is no one talking about this?!

#PalestineAction #RightToProtest #UK #news #politics
December 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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We've written & published a short summary statement regarding the Sandie Peggie V NHS Fife Health Board employment tribunal case & the judgment given yesterday. Much of the media coverage has missed key information, the most important aspect being that all claims against Dr Beth Upton were dismissed
December 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Me, in The Guardian today:

"This is a moment that requires bravery in standing up for what is right. Organisations that value trans people should know not just that the law is on their side – but so, also, are many people who will step up to defend them if they have the courage to take a stand."
The WI and Girlguiding have been pressured to exclude trans women – yet the law is clear as mud | Jess O’Thomson
Since the supreme court decision, organisations have faced lobbying and legal threats. But trans people are protected by discrimination law too, says Jess O’Thomson of the Good Law Project
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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A friend of mine is in the West Bank rn & this school for disabled children she’s been working with just opened a new sports centre. - they still desp need funds, please share & donate if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/build-a-sp...
Donate to Build a Sports Space for Disabled Palestinian Children!, organized by conner reese
Pal-Amal is the premier team representing Palestine at the Englis… conner reese needs your support for Build a Sports Space for Disabled Palestinian Children!
www.gofundme.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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On International Day of Persons with Disabilities we celebrate the innovation & perspectives disabled scientists bring #DisabledInSTEM #ChemSky

Lab accessibility starts with leadership, explore actionable steps & real-world case studies to build #InclusiveLabsRSC

www.rsc.org/policy-and-c...
Case studies library: making laboratories more inclusive
We have collated a collection of case studies showcasing examples of good practices and positive change.
www.rsc.org
December 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Transition is a practice of self-abolition, and it demonstrates that abolition involves both destroying/ending and building/creating in a way that threatens all ideologies of natural right, of hierarchy and power with a simple gesture of desire and self-knowledge
November 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Next week I'm moderating an @histmat.bsky.social event on the instantly-canonical 'Feminism Against Cisness' with @riislover667.bsky.social, @reproutopia.bsky.social, Lola Olufemi, and @weakanalogy.bsky.social.

Thursday, December 11, 6pm GMT, online

To register: www.eventbrite.com/e/feminism-a...
December 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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This Thursday 12/4 7 PM @ CARA in NYC, Pinko editors Lau and M. E. are excited to join artist Nat Pyper to discuss "A Queer Year of Love Letters," queer liberation history, typography and radical publishing. Pinko Issue 4 uses several of Pyper's remarkable fonts celebrating radical queer history.
December 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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“Assuming the theoretical scene I have imagined takes place in the street, the hailed individual will turn around. By this mere 180 degree physical conversion, he becomes a subject. Why? Because IT'S CHRISTMAAAAAAS."
a video of a christmas scene with the words `` it 's christmas aaasssss '' at the bottom
ALT: a video of a christmas scene with the words `` it 's christmas aaasssss '' at the bottom
media.tenor.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Lise Vogel’s The Contested Domain (edited by me) is officially released today!!! I hope it will be a resource for people interested in Lise’s rigorous approach to social thought (spanning 5 decades) that creates theoretical openings for an inclusive Marxist Feminism.
November 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar & writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas & the history of Palestinian resistance, points to 3 factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed...
November 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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“Blah,” said a voice from inside the house.
November 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Graham Linehan is a normal and well man.
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Chemistry should work for everyone. However too many chemists still face avoidable physical & cultural barriers every day

The @rsc.org NEW report shares lived experiences & solutions for accessible labs #ChemSky

Let’s build science for everyone #InclusiveLabsRSC

Read the report rsc.li/4ijV3yN
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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This research was published 14 months ago. In *Nature*.

Three months BEFORE Wes Streeting announced a "permanent ban" on puberty-blockers.

& yesterday, the Tories insisted you don't even need a clinical trial to keep that ban, forever...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Evidence has now emerged of the adverse consequences of the laws banning GAHT for trans youth in both the US and UK. This includes sharp declines in mental health and increased suicide attempts among transgender young people.

t.co/YZaiSgdDAl
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01979-5
t.co
November 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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November 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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I wrote this piece about Trudi Warner and why juries are an important part of our constitution in April last year. I think particularly worth reading today.

goodlawproject.org/high-court-s...
High Court slaps down ‘fanciful’ prosecution of Trudi Warner | Good Law Project
Judge rules that the solicitor general ‘mischaracterised’ the evidence when he charged Warner with contempt of court for holding up a placard.
goodlawproject.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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My next book Deviants and Trailblazers: A History of Trans Activism in Britain is in the @plutopress.bsky.social Spring/Summer 2026 catalogue (for a May '26 release)!

This book is the first joined-up history of trans activism in the UK all the ways from the 40s to the present.
October 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I wrote about the different ways the archive can hurt, and how we nonetheless need it to heal. Cat pic included open.substack.com/pub/emrystra...
Dig it
On pain and pleasure in the archive
open.substack.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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If you read theory hard enough you become a historian, this is absolutely the case
even as a theorist I feel like I half agree with this
Fuck theory. Read history. You can get your theory from memes.
June 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Until recently I hadn't read "Scapegoat," a book that is never mentioned in the now 6-year-long Dworkin revival going on (even though it seems in many ways to be her magnum opus). It's the book where Dworkin finally says what she thinks women should do. The answer she comes up with may surprise you.
May 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM