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Phillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social · Mar 10

Thrilled to see this piece with Douglas Page & Sam Whitt) published in PRQ! We examine how LGBT+ activists can counter backlash by discrediting anti-LGBT+ messengers.

Huge thanks to the PRQ editors and reviewers for their thoughtful feedback.

🔗 Read it here:

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · Feb 7

“Outrage disseminated on social media in response to these ridiculous claims actually reduces the effectiveness of collective action. The result is a media environment that keeps us in a state of debilitating fear and anger, endlessly reacting to our oppressors instead of organizing against them.”

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · Jan 13

The AI Opportunities Action Plan (Matt Clifford report), trailed in today’s morning news is now out in full. I’ve read it, and here’s a few observations 1/10

Link to full report

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · Dec 18

UK WRITERS: You need to fill in this consulation. Govt is very clearly looking to an opt-out model of rights licensing that puts all the burden on creators instead of profiteers. It's long and boring but this is important.

www.gov.uk/government/c...

Copyright and Artificial Intelligence

This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.

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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · Dec 11

We are deeply concerned by the decision by @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social to ban puberty blockers.

It's hard to fathom how he can say he cares for the wellbeing, safety and dignity of trans people, based on this decision.

This is wrong, cruel and heartless.

Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · Dec 11

Continuing the ban on puberty blockers is a worrying decision.

The same medication continues to be used safely by young people for other reasons. By relying on the reason for prescription, is this ban simply discrimination against our
#trans youth? 👇

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · Dec 11

With the UK Parliament reportedly considering a longer-term ban on puberty blockers, here is the evidence against the ban I provided to the UK Government and Commission on Human Medicines.

I have no doubt that Parliament will ignore that evidence today. But this is a long fight we intend to win.

Puberty blocker consultation: my response

In early September I recieved an email from the Department for Health and Social Care, inviting me to participate in a closed consultation on the Labour government’s proposed extension of the…

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Dec 11

As in Tennessee, this ban does not apply to cis children, because the drugs themselves are not a safety hazard. The only thing at risk is a society’s discomfort with allowing young people to make their own decisions about their own bodies.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Dec 11

Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK

Health secretary says emergency measures banning sale and supply will be made indefinite after expert advice Puberty blockers for under-18s with gender dysphoria will be banned indefinitely across the UK, except for use in clinical trials, the government…

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · Dec 11

Caroline Litman is the mother of Alice Litman, a young trans woman who died to suicide at 20. An official inquest found NHS delays in offering medical transition contributed to Alice's suicide.

Today, she has found an audit of trans suicides used to exonerate the NHS did not include her daughter.

Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · Dec 11

BREAKING

On the day the UK government announces a permanent puberty blocker ban I learn:

ALICE’S DATA WAS NOT INCLUDED in data sent to Appleby to assess for his rushed DHSC report, that dismissed whistleblower claims of increased suicides in trans youth since Bell.

The report is a proven sham.

Copy of Caroline’s email sent to the Tavistock and Portman NHS foundation trust, asking if Alice Litman‘s data was sent to the DHSC for Prof Appleby to review.

Reply from head of data at the Tavistock Portman NHS foundation trust, saying Alice‘s data was not included in the audit.

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · Dec 11

Tucked into the Cass Report, deep in the appendices, you'll find that they reviewed thousands of patient records and found no one who'd been harmed by puberty blockers and fewer than 10 detransitions.

Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · Dec 11

It’s even worse knowing that Wes actually met trans kids, listened to them cry about how awful it would be to go through the wrong puberty, how this is a lifesaving treatment, and is fucking doing this anyway

It’s even more heartless than shutting them out of conversations

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Dec 11

BREAKING: I have seen confirmation that the indefinite puberty blocker ban for trans kids that was passed by the NI Executive yesterday will be UK-wide. It will come into effect on January 1 2025 when the temporary ban expires.

It is being laid before Parliament today.

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UCL Science and Technology Studies (STS) @stsucl.bsky.social · Dec 6

Day 6! 🎁🎁🎁 @simonjlock.bsky.social is reading Systems Ultra by @gsvoss.bsky.social which "brings a multidisciplinary eye to the importance of large-scale technological systems from industrial ports to air traffic control to car crash testing, unpicking and challenging how power flows through them".

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RKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · Dec 1

Queer & Trans Studies Cultural Studies Starter Pack. This one was a bit tricky and there’s lots of room left in here still. LMK who I’m missing —was looking to build a list of queer & trans cultural studies (and adjacent) folks mostly, as I haven’t seen on of thede on here yet.

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Nov 28

I can only assume that the Times wanted to keep these definitions

Define a woman? Now French dictionary falls foul
France
Charles Bremner - Paris
The sages of the Académie Française have done nothing in a hurry since the august institution was created in the 17th century to police the French language. This week, however, they have been called on to “urgently rectify” entries in their new official dictionary because they are said to be sexist, homophobic and racist.

The Human Rights League (HRL), founded in 1898 to defend Captain Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish army officer falsely accused of spying, has taken exception to definitions including “woman”, “race” and “heterosexual”. According to the left-leaning organisation, they convey out-of-date attitudes that conflict with modern views on inclusion and tolerance.

Its protest followed criticism of the lexicon of 53,000 words released last week by the 24-member academy, after the completion of a four-volume update of the previous eighth edition, which was published in 1935.

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Simon Lock @simonjlock.bsky.social · Nov 28

Well quite. Good grief.

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Simon Lock @simonjlock.bsky.social · Nov 28

‘Decolonization is not a metaphor’ by Tuck and Yang 2012 is a must if you’ve not read it yet

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · Nov 25

“How’d the world die? A pack of no-talent tech grifters created a digital artbarf machine to spew endless artbarf and each time the machine threw up it drank more water, destroyed more resources. Nobody wanted it but they did it anyway! Eat your roach paste.”

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New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone

A new publisher has claimed it aims to “disrupt” the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Nov 22

This obsession is unhealthy. Our horizons are fine. Also social media, for most, is not a job. It is not school. It is socializing. And it’s fine to say “I don’t want to hang out with Nazis, homophobes, transphobes etc in my free time.”

The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · Nov 22

Opinion - The problem with Bluesky: It won’t broaden our horizons: In the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, the social-media platform has enjoyed a surge of new users looking for an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. But will it be useful, if it just creates an echo chamber for the left?

The problem with Bluesky: It won’t broaden our horizons

In the wake of Donald Trump’s election win, the social-media platform has enjoyed a surge of new users looking for an alternative to Elon Musk’s X. But will it be useful, if it just creates an echo chamber for the left?

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · Nov 22

I have created a Starter Pack for British Trans Activism

Let's start organising and making the UK a better place. We've been on the defense for too long

🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️✊

go.bsky.app/N6Qai5F

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · Nov 21

There can be no left resistance to the reactionary onslaught without an uncompromising radical intersectional commitment

You can't fight fascism if you're not fighting racism, transphobia, ableism, classism etc

There can be no pick and choose and no opposing one to the other

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Simon Lock @simonjlock.bsky.social · Nov 21

Thank you! ☺️

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · Nov 20

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. We have witnessed another year of violence, harassment, and policing of trans people. As we mourn, we must continue to challenge politics that ritually subjects trans folk to debates about their existence and degrades trans lives as an “ideology” or “agenda.”

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Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr. @grodriguezlemus.bsky.social · Nov 19

Normalize Professors:

⁃ Having tattoos
⁃ Having body piercings
⁃ Having colored hair
⁃ Wearing casual clothing
- Wearing (excessive) jewelry
⁃ Speaking non-academic English

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Simon Lock @simonjlock.bsky.social · Nov 19

Omg. Paging @damianbarr.bsky.social

Scarred For Life @scarredforlife.bsky.social · Nov 19

It's Christmaaaaas! BBC4 are repeating THE BOX OF DELIGHTS from Saturday 7th December at 7.10pm, with a new introduction from director Renny Rye at 7pm!

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · Nov 18

since all the "gender critical"/TERFs are migrating here, thought I'd share this primer explaining their history, dissecting their beliefs, & debunking their talking points. no-paywall links, pls share!
Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/a-gender-c...
Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/a-gender-cri...

A “Gender Critical” and “TERF” Primer

for readers trying to make sense of “feminists versus transgender activists” debates

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · Nov 18

I briefly put principles and values aside to make a saltier, crankier case for leaving X: Elon Musk is uniquely insufferable holapapi.substack.com/p/x-out

X Out

A salty, cranky case for letting Twitter die

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Phil Samba @idiosyncraticxl.bsky.social · Nov 18

Whenever I posted this in the bad place I got a load of spam and fake people applying, hopefully I'm in the right echo chamber 🤞🏿

Phil Samba @idiosyncraticxl.bsky.social · Nov 18

Want to help improve future sexual health services in the UK?

Take part in one of our upcoming focus groups.

If you take part in a focus group, you will get a £50 e-voucher as a huge thank you!

To take part go to thelovetank.info/shresearch

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