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stumbling through life in a queer and confused fashion. she/her
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"I wondered which border I had crossed without my knowledge" -- Rumeysa Ozturk, imprisoned for writing an op-ed in the Tufts University student newspaper. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...
“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.
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July 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Also as an addition; sign this petition ASAP if you're someone in the UK.

Rather than just sitting around and doing fuck all, we need to make it clear that this Bullshit OSA won't work. Ever. Nor do folk fucking want it.

Contact your MPs about the bill too.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
July 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Whatever "concessions" the government offers, it won't be enough if benefit cuts remain.

Too many disabled people already miss out on support. Too many live in poverty.

Conservative cuts cost lives. Ours will too.
June 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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'Starry Night', Norman Cornish, pastel and chalk on paper, 20th cent.
June 23, 2025 at 8:37 AM
among the things they don't tell you about becoming a medievalist is that you will end up having the most ridiculous beef with a large number of french municipal libraries
June 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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For Pride, I'm going to reshare a piece I wrote when still semi-closeted, about how Fester Addams in the 90s films helped me on my journey of accepting myself as a trans woman.

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

www.dreadcentral.com/editorials/4...
Fester Addams From The Closet
Lawrence Harding reflects on how Uncle Fester's journey for acceptance echoes their own experience of coming to terms with being trans.
www.dreadcentral.com
June 7, 2025 at 7:57 AM
genuinely and with all my heart: why the hell are silm fans on ao3 so weird about elwing.
June 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Lawrence is a great writer, & she’s good people so this is win win
Been hit by an unexpected dental bill so today would be a good day for people to indulge in some monastic dark fantasy and vampiric horrors 👇👇👇

#booksky 💙📚
Excited to announce that I've got my act together, just in time for the New Year!

My Ko-Fi Shop has been updated, and now you can get *all* my self-published short story collections and novelettes in PDF, Epub and Mobi formats there. Perfect for not giving Bezos any dosh.

ko-fi.com/lawrencehard...
June 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
500 WORDS OF FIC WRITING YEAH BABEY. THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT
June 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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⭐ NEW! ⭐

Meet Maria & Hicela Orseolo, the wife and daughter of Doge Pietro II Orseolo of Venice. When Pietro returned from his victorious Dalmatian conquest in the summer of 1000, he also brought back a new husband for his daughter Hicela, the hostage Croatian prince Stejpan Svetoslavić.
June 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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This is a one-night event but is viewable on a livestream (or for two weeks after the performance) and is a fundraiser for a UK trans charity.
May 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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P. S. If you're in the UK and you or someone you know is struggling with steady Internet access, do check your nearest data bank location, we genuinely want to be giving these things away.
Some locations also double up as device banks as well.

www.goodthingsfoundation.org/our-services...
What Is The National Databank | Free Mobile Data For Digital Inclusion | Good Things Foundation
Learn about the National Databank, a Good Things’ digital inclusion service that helps people in need access the internet through free mobile data.
www.goodthingsfoundation.org
May 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
another month another employer startled to discover they have employed, instead of a normal person who can use a computer the normal way, The Type-a-tron 3000(TM)
May 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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This reads like more evidence that the interim EHRC guidance was drawn up by Kishwer Falkner and cronies, without input from neutral expert staffers.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
May 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Fantastic ending to Baroness Kidron's speech in the House of Lords yesterday, which led to the government's defeat on AI & copyright.

Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."
May 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
May 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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To celebrate my first Gentleman Necromancer story escaping exclusivity, I've made it free on Patreon!

Join Memris Proge as he drags his boyfriend around endless eateries to investigate why he hasn't had a decent lunch in months in "A Matter of Taste".

#booksky 💙📚

www.patreon.com/posts/matter...
A Matter of Taste | Lawrence Harding
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May 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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this thread is the best book I’ve read all year and my key takeaway is that Pope Leo may have used his first homily to declare war on the US bishops council’s right-wing ghoul caucus
I swear this was the short version.
May 10, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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People are like "is the Pope left wing or right wing?" and I hate to break it to you but you cannot place a Pope's politics onto a simple line like that. In fact, the kind of space onto which you can plot the politics of a Pope requires a degree in Quantum Physics to even begin to understand.
May 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
you've heard of "struggling to send a mildly confrontational email", now get ready for "attempting to read the reply without on some level deeply believing you're going to be killed for your presumption"
May 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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This letter from Tony Vaughan KC, the MP for Folkestone, is the clearest articulation I’ve seen on the flaws of the interim update from the EHRC. The section titled ‘Legal Incoherence’ hits the nail on the head.
May 4, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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"He donated his £3,000 prize money from his BBC Young Musician award to keep the school’s cello lessons going. 'It’s completely different now, if I’m honest,' he says. He still has one sister at the school, and visited her. 'Everything is reduced.'" www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
‘Music is never fixed in me’ … cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason on surviving a ‘volcano of racism’
A remark about Rule, Britannia! led to uproar but the star musician is concentrating on the joy and power of classical music. As his first book is published, he talks to Charlotte Higgins• Read an exc...
www.theguardian.com
May 3, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Small thing but nice...
STATEMENT FROM ENGLISH FOLK DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY
May 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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