💜 thank you Sam!

It begins with chipping off Art 3 (freedom from torture) and Art 8 (right to privacy and family life) for foreign criminals to assist deportation, then it will be extended to all asylum seekers, after that - who knows? It's the thin end of the wedge. Human rights should always belong to all humans.

The summer has seen anti-trans campaigns across the UK and US, alongside a crisis in healthcare. But what use could trans history have in these time, beyond proving 'we have always been here'?

Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures:
www.historyworkshop....

UK medical establishment consulting with 8 anti-trans groups on medical policy on puberty blockers: Bayswater Support Group, Clinical Advisory Network on Sex & Gender, Genspect, LGB Alliance, Sex Matters, The Integrated Psychology Clinic, Thoughtful Therapists, Transgender Trend

The speed with which Labour came to the, at least implied, defence of Linehan, despite a track record of abuse and threats from him, exemplifies just how embedded the dehumanisation of trans and non-binary individuals has become as government policy. They really don't care who gets hurt.

We encourage our supporters to write to the BBC to complain about the use of a slur against trans women in this article www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Ahh thank you! ☺️

Honoured to speak to Jake Hall for their fantastic piece here, about something that leaves me frightened and furious.

That's super helpful, thank you! 💜

Fellow freelancers, a boring tax question: do you use any accounting software, and would you recommend it? I currently, & happily, use an Excel spreadsheet - but I see this whole ~making tax digital!~ thing looming, so am reluctantly in the market for recommendations of more complicated things 🙏

This is so lovely Marty - thank you ☺️ it was wonderful to talk with you, I'm so in awe of everything you've done with Trans History Week!

It's✨publication day✨! You can order a copy, or get the open access ebook, at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-and-d.... And I've got 5 spare hardback copies to give away to anyone who runs a book-sharing scheme or would struggle to access the ebook - hmu if that's you 🏳️‍⚧️📚

Ahh thank you so much for reviewing! ☺️

Note also how France 24 refers to ‘trans people and their supporters’. In contrast to ‘trans activists’ when uk media reports. The uk has chewed on the shitty tablet of culture wars for far too long now

Thank you! ☺️ It'll be at www.bloomsburycollections.com/home, but not until the physical version is released I think

So proud of the incredible list of contributors, at the cutting edge of decolonial work on gender in the arts & humanities, that Jon and I have managed to pull together! Feat. @evacyli.bsky.social @slgrange.bsky.social @onnigust.bsky.social @zeus-japonicus.bsky.social @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social

It's HERE!!! I'm ridiculously excited to finally be holding NEW AND DECOLONIAL APPROACHES TO GENDER NONCONFORMITY: FORGING A HOME FOR OURSELVES in my hands. You can preorder, or find where to get the OPEN ACCESS ebook, at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-and-d...

We will be at parliament today reporting on the mass lobbying day.

And we will try to keep you updated on the events as they unfold.

Today’s bonus Pride episode is about ancient Rome’s short-lived trans Emperor, horny teenage Elagabalus. I’m joined by @krheyam.bsky.social to discuss this teenage wild child’s short, weird reign. episodes.fm/aHR0cHM6Ly9m...

"Could I be a single-issue ideologue with no medical expertise? No, it is the doctors who are wrong"

They are literally attempting to re-write history.

"You may have had rights in the past, but now we are changing it so you never did"

Barbican Renewal has a consultation which closes tonight which gives more toilets accessible to women and more toilets for everyone as a whole, including building in protections for trans visitors if the EHRC start to police toilets. Could you respond positively?
www.barbican.org.uk/barbican-ren...

Also big fan of them using a rainbow gradient cause they know using an actual pride flag would upset their target audience of bigots lmao

Very excited to see the piece I wrote with @krheyam.bsky.social on ‘Gendering Material Objects in Heritage Practice’ now out in The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Gender’ which stems from our project www.genderingthemuseum.co.uk