Occasional reminder to my trans and non-binary readers, you're always welcome. I've met so many of you, and I look forward to a future full of your own stories, including about surviving this age of hate. Live well, live defiantly, live beautifully. ♥️

This is a really powerful piece by Jonathan Cash who was in the Admiral Duncan 25 years ago.
'every single journalist, editor and newspaper proprietor who contributed to these attitudes in print is complicit'
theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Sometimes you wake up, and the anxiety is curled on your stomach like an asp. If you move, it may bite. If you don’t, ditto. And the clock is ticking to start the day.

Sometimes you wake up, and the anxiety is curled on your stomach like an asp. If you move, it may bite. If you don’t, ditto. And the clock is ticking to start the day.

JK Rowling seems unconcerned that, in subordinating everything to the issue of trans exclusion, she risks facilitating reactionary forces that seek to curtail women's rights. Yet two weeks after anti-abortionist Matt Walsh tweeted his joy at the end of Roe v Wade, Rowling 1/2

I was once in Wellington, New Zealand for cicada emergence day. Honestly, so loud you couldn't hold a conversation outdoors.

Having stage 3 grade 3 cancer I still did not receive PIP after jumping through all their hoops.

Ben Bradshaw is stepping down as an MP this GE. Elected in 1997 amidst horrifying homophobia, his thoughts on trans are a timely reminder to us all.

The G in LGBT stands for “Get Her Jade”

If you spent the 2010s devoting endless time, money and energy to fighting against the Labour left, the SNP and transgender people, then you are a screaming reactionary and not “on the left of politics”, and this pretence otherwise is dumb and insulting horseshit.

I can understand why the likes of J.K. Rowling might want to shut down any suggestion that the gender critical movement is rife with right wing bigotry, but the evidence is clear for all to see. This example turned up in my thread today. Check the username

Oh yes.

Oh yes.

Really sad to see this - if you are in #Brighton or #Hove and in need of some new children's books please do support the amazing The Book Nook team 📚❤️

55 days until the #YotoCarnegies24 awards. Today’s writing medal book past winner I’m highlighting is Monster of Men by Patrick Ness that won the award in 2011. The Yoto Carnegies @CILIPInfo

Just finished the book by patrick_ness Started with snort laughing continued on an emotional rollercoaster with some ahhhing,some wanting to hug a lizard to make things better & finishing with a smile and hooray!It is brilliantly bonkers but also with a heart & soul that I love.

This book is a work of genius. Technical perfection, incredible storytelling, wildly imaginative, with so much heart and beauty. I’m 50/50 there’s no point in anybody else writing anything now/ridiculously inspired and energised. patrick_ness