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Josie Giles @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · Jul 15

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Josie Giles @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · Jul 15

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Josie Giles @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · Jul 15

This poem does not support Palestine Action

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This poem does not support Palestine Action

words on terror

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Josie Giles @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · Jul 9

I'm teaching a course at Moniack Mhor in September, with Hannah Lavery, & our guest is Roger Robinson.

It's space to think about how politics & writing intertwine, what we can & can't do with words, the possibilities and frustrations of activist writing.

www.moniackmhor.org.uk/courses/2537...

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Josie Giles @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · Jul 2

Some words from Poland on multilingualism, with a speculative translation of Màiri Mhòr at the end:

I'm sick of English bullshit
I'm really fucking sick
Sorry not sorry my song's so long
I'm sick of English bullshit

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In Translation

Notes on multilinguality

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Josie Giles @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · Jun 19

Orkney friends, we're coming home with Deep Wheel Orcadia a week today.

www.scissorkick.co.uk/tour

Tour Dates — Scissor Kick

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Josie Giles @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · Jun 16

If you read the piece, you'll see my response to exactly that point.

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Chris(tyn) Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social · Jun 16

This hits very hard.

I, and many of my trans colleagues, operated from this logic by default. Many now, I think, are waking up to its flaws. Some, sadly, still do not and cling to the hope of a quick fix or compromise.

Screen shot of text reading:

I strongly suspect that a major reason so many trans people remain wedded to ineffective tactics is that they – we – are trying to hold on to privilege we’ve lost. I’m speaking to people like me, white and from a middle-class background, who grew up expecting the state the guarantee a certain amount of safety and security. Now that the state has made it very clear that we’re disposable, we experience a certain outrage, or moral affront. “You mean you’re going to treat me like you treat all the people who were already disposable?” Faced with that, we try very hard, against all the evidence that it’s not going to work, to recover our position within the state. James Baldwin on white gay people also applies to white trans people. Instead, we have to recognise with whom our practical solidarity must lie, and act accordingly. The rewards are greater than anything the state can give.

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Nicolete Burbach @nicoleteburbach.bsky.social · Jun 16

"We cannot show segregation as the moral abhorrence, practical disaster and mechanism of terrifying social control that it is with open letters, symbolic protests and lobbying campaigns. We show segregation for what it is by collectively making segregation impossible to enforce"

Josie Giles @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · Jun 16

"Your trans colleagues are receiving emails from their bosses saying that they have to use segregated facilities because they’re frightened of getting sued.

"You have to be able to present those bosses with something scarier than the anti-trans legal budget."

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Stepping Over the Line

Notes on resisting trans segregation

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Josie Giles @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · Jun 16

Stop lobbying the government, start taking direct action to resist trans segregation:

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Josie Giles @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · Jun 16

"Your trans colleagues are receiving emails from their bosses saying that they have to use segregated facilities because they’re frightened of getting sued.

"You have to be able to present those bosses with something scarier than the anti-trans legal budget."

substack.com/home/post/p-...

Stepping Over the Line

Notes on resisting trans segregation

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · Jun 15

I started screengrabbing excerpts of @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social's latest to share, and then had to stop because I was screengrabbing all of it: hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/stepping-o...

Stepping Over the Line

Notes on resisting trans segregation

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Josie Giles @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · Jun 6

I went to visit the last great auk.

"This extinction belongs to me, and I belong to it. I’m named for it. It’s my history, in my place. I came to Fowl Craig to pay my respects to my King."

hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/klumsed

Klumsed

On losing voices

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Josie Giles @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · May 19

dàn beag ùr

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Josie Giles @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · May 9

how is your fuel, your oxygen, your heat?

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Josie Giles @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · May 9

I've been thinking about how to tend to a political fire:

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Luntit

On trying not to burn out this time

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Josie Giles @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · May 6

Want to come see my gay sci fi love story with live string quartet this summer?

26th June 2025 - St Magnus International Festival, Orkney
18th + 19th July 2025 - The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
25th + 26th July 2025 - Eden Court, Inverness

www.scissorkick.co.uk/tour

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Josie Giles @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · May 1

"We learn more about trans life from figures who are worrying and incomprehensible than we do from any potted biography of a political hero. If we look at our inauthentic origins and find them true, we can better live as the contradictions we are."

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On Transfixion

William Sharp and Fiona Macleod: Epilogue

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Josie Giles @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · Apr 22

Stùc an Lochain
Tuppi o the Lochan
Lochan’s Pinnacle
#Munros4TransLiberation NUMBER ONE HUNDRED

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100: Stùc an Lochain

I’m stood on the summit of my hundredth hill, looking south at all the other hills I’ve climbed. There’s snow on the higher peaks of the Lawers range, grey cloud shrouding Sìth Ch…

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Josie Giles @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · Apr 19

If you're at a trans liberation protest today, here's some chants and songs for you! Print and share and use!

Chants: transhealthuk.noblogs.org/resources-fo...
Songs: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zni6r...

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Josie Giles @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · Apr 18

[Community healthcare clinic]

Me: [chanting] blood, blood-

Other queers: blood, BLOOD

Implausibly hot trans woman: [pounding her clipboard] BLOOD, BLOOD, BLOOD!

www.gofundme.com/f/blood-test...

Donate to Blood tests for trans people in Edinburgh, organized by Josie Giles

We're raising money for a pilot scheme to provide free blood tests to trans peop… Josie Giles needs your support for Blood tests for trans people in Edinburgh

www.gofundme.com

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Josie Giles @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · Apr 18

If you want to do a practical thing for trans people, please support and share this fundraiser.

We're organising blood tests for trans people excluded by healthcare. This is the work I wrote about yesterday!

Thank you so much for you kind words and help.

www.gofundme.com/f/blood-test...

Donate to Blood tests for trans people in Edinburgh, organized by Josie Giles

We're raising money for a pilot scheme to provide free blood tests to trans peop… Josie Giles needs your support for Blood tests for trans people in Edinburgh

www.gofundme.com

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Josie Giles @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · Apr 17

The Supreme Court is wishing a problem away and so gifting more problems to trans lives. Those lives can, must and will continue being lived in their fullness and their joy. My sisters, please give all your love to each other and none of it to the state.

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While the Supreme Court ruled, I tore up a fence

On being trans and living a life

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Josie Giles @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · Apr 16

How fabulous! It's online in full here: archive.org/details/roma...

Romantic Ballads and Poems of Phantasy : William Sharp : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

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Josie Giles @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · Apr 15

What do H.P. Lovecraft, Jean Sibelius, Carson McCullers and a 1970s medium in the Isle of Wight have in common?

That’s right, it’s our friend Fiona Macleod.

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On Ghosts

William Sharp and Fiona Macleod, Part Four

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