Ruth Pearce
@notrightruth.bsky.social
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Activist, punk musician, event promoter, feminist academic. Illegal lesbian. http://ruthpearce.net
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notrightruth.bsky.social
New essay: REJECT TRANS DOOM-POSTING.

It's about grief, loss, institutional failures, and the horror of the current moment.

It's also a love letter to trans community, and the things we do with and for one another.
Reject Trans Doom-Posting
This week I took the long train down to the south of England for my friend Robyn’s funeral. She died very suddenly three weeks ago, aged just 32. Robyn gave so much love to the world, and was so lo…
ruthpearce.net
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hagenilda.bsky.social
Join your union. Make a stand. Get involved.
robbhawkes.bsky.social
As more of my valued colleagues face the threat of redundancy, here’s a quick reminder that it takes years and years of public investment to train an academic. Cutting someone with this wealth of experience loose isn’t “saving” anything. It is a massive waste of our collective resources.
UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance
by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…
moneyontheleft.org
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taliabhatt.itch.io
Medical institutions treat trans people as a population to surveil, manage, and dissect, rather than as people to assist or treat with basic dignity.
tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social
Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.
aninehartmann.bsky.social
Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.
notrightruth.bsky.social
"Television at its best is a beacon, it's a lighthouse, it's an emergency flare. It's a light in the dark. It is a torch bearer that stands for truth and insight and wisdom and justice, and we must not let that flame go out."
iainjclarkart.com
Part of Russell T Davies' speech on being awarded Outstanding Contribution to Television at the Bafta Cymru awards. (via www.instagram.com/baftacymru)
notrightruth.bsky.social
Thanks pal, and I'm sorry. It's some sad sad shit.
notrightruth.bsky.social
it's long covid, so maybe in another four years?! who can say

(but there are better and worse times, and this is a worse time, so I will feel better soon, thank you!)
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erin.ruins.party
This is really neat! More information and link to the report in question here: www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
Would love to see a similar programme tried here ❤️
mikeachim.bsky.social
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
notrightruth.bsky.social
"By enabling policies of mass killing and displacement, and by repeatedly linking everyday Jewish life in the UK and the genocidal actions of Israel, the Government has created conditions of division and mistrust in which racism – including anti-Semitism – flourishes."
Prominent Scottish Jews issue plea over reaction to Manchester attack
As Jews we absolutely reject the weaponisation of the Manchester attack to suppress protests against the genocide in Gaza
www.heraldscotland.com
notrightruth.bsky.social
You're right - covid brain strikes again! I'm going to re-post about this (and probably incorporate it into my Cass Review megapost) when I'm feeling a bit better and more on it.
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onnigust.bsky.social
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notrightruth.bsky.social
This is incredibly basic but you can in fact oppose murder while also opposing murder.

I don't trust the police to protect synagogues given they literally just shot and killed a Jewish man at a synagogue. But if I did, that would surely be far more important than arresting a bunch of pensioners.
UK police urge cancellation of Palestine protest after Manchester attack
Protest group Defend Our Juries has said in response a planned demonstration for this weekend will still take place.
www.aljazeera.com
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ozeza.bsky.social
You're reading this because you're human... and I'm writing it because I need a human like you.
Click the link and let's turn this brief moment into a full life saved
gofund.me/334c7485
notrightruth.bsky.social
got it! now I just need to find a spare five minutes to update the blog...maybe sometime next week?!
notrightruth.bsky.social
oooooof. yeah I have a few updates I need to make at some point, this will be one of them!
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natacha.bsky.social
There are now TWELVE (possibly 13...) peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review.

I have listed them all on my blog, now updated with links to all of them. Trying to keep it as up-to-date as possible.

For a fuller list, @notrightruth.bsky.social has them all here; ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w...
UnCommon Sense
Peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review (In chronological order) Horton, C (2024) The Cass Review: Cis-supremacy in the UK’s approach t...
uncommon-scents.blogspot.com
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
If this process of converting organs from one blood type to another can get refined and go wide, relatively soon, that'd be some amazingly good news. The immediate and downstream benefits would be enormous.
notrightruth.bsky.social
This is incredibly basic but you can in fact oppose murder while also opposing murder.

I don't trust the police to protect synagogues given they literally just shot and killed a Jewish man at a synagogue. But if I did, that would surely be far more important than arresting a bunch of pensioners.
UK police urge cancellation of Palestine protest after Manchester attack
Protest group Defend Our Juries has said in response a planned demonstration for this weekend will still take place.
www.aljazeera.com
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erinbiba.bsky.social
My fellow Jews: protect your heart and don’t read the replies to this post.

My fellow allies: read all of these replies, internalize the antisemitism problem on the left, and start gathering your thoughts about how you will fight this vile rhetoric.
ocasio-cortez.house.gov
I am sickened by today’s attack in Manchester. Antisemitism is on the rise around the world, and we must do all we can to stomp it out. I am grateful to first responders and congregants who showed incredible bravery, and I am praying for those who were killed.
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thatrabbicohen.bsky.social
And this is the problem.

Because antisemitism is always, always wrong.

This was an attack on British Jews, praying in their shul on the holiest day of the year.

If your response to hearing of their murder starts with “but Gaza” you are missing the point.
self.agency
i really don't know how much more vocally anti-israel and anti-genocide i have to be before goyim actually care about what i have to say about their antisemitism
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scumbelievable.bsky.social
Sama'a's baby, Talia, is suffering from the heat and insects in their tent. Please, please give what you can to help.
notrightruth.bsky.social
Call for abstracts!

The World Community Development Conference is coming to Glasgow in summer 2026. We invite proposals from practitioners, activists, researchers, educators, and students who wish to share and discuss their ideas and experiences.
Call for Abstracts
www.wcdc2026.org
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loosechangeling.bsky.social
So much for the golden shower, I can't even start
There's liquid in my bladder, but anger in my heart
You don't know what it's like, not even a bit
If you did then you would know why I can't give a shit!
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loosechangeling.bsky.social
There I was completely busting, desperate for a slash
All inside it's so frustrating, dodging toilet fash
Feel like everybody cares even if I go alone
So I might as well piss before I get a kidney stone