The wonderful Lavender Menace in Edinburgh are doing a fundraiser to support their operating costs! They've been able to do so much as a staffed organisation - it will be so good for queer life in Scotland if they can keep going: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-laven...
Many vital links in the Glasgow arts scene - including Project Ability, a haven for people with learning difficulties and mental health challenges - are affected by this threatened eviction.
Sign the petition and, if you’re in Glasgow, contact your councillor.
PROPERTY WANTED URGENTLY!
Our charity finds itself having to identify a new community hub/workshop in Edinburgh (& funds) ASAP due to an eviction notice with other charities. We are reaching out to our wonderful community of supporters- plz contact if you have any leads
admin@bikesforrefugees.scot
If ever there was a time for the Scottish Government to take action and kick Trump’s troops out of Prestwick, it is now.
New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#openaccess✅
It’s already happening. Iran attacked a desalination plant in Bahrain.
This war has to end immediately. If it turns into a water war we will be dealing with a whole different level of a humanitarian catastrophe across the region.
aje.news/64yl8m?updat...
Excellent news! 🎉🙏
Today is a dark day for anyone who believes in sanctuary in the UK.
People who've fled war and torture should be able to rebuild their lives in peace and security - not live under a constant threat of removal.
We must not stop fighting these appalling anti-refugee laws.
I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author
I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.
I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.
Sahar Delijani said it best:
The death toll rises and two realities collide: imagine headlines if 148 schoolgirls were massacred in New York, London or Paris. After this and Palestine, the asymmetry of grief in our so-called world order is brutal and impossible to unsee.
Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran.
Iraq lessons must be learned.
Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe.
Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.
The Department of Languages at @heriotwattuni.bsky.social is facing serious cuts with a proposal to make 11 of its staff redundant, stop offering undergraduate Chinese and German and eliminate intercultural studies courses.
Please sign this petition: heriotwatt.web.ucu.org.uk/2026/02/05/s...
Tressa Burke, chief executive officer of the Glasgow Disability Alliance says she turned down an MBE because the recent budget “supercharged the inequalities and unfairness disabled people face”.
“It is fuelling misinformation. It is fuelling hatred. It is fuelling blame and scapegoating."
Bravo ⭐
And to Dave!
Nollaig Chridheil Peigi Bheag!
Absolute bullshit, and authors, if Harlequin has your foreign rights, you should also complain.
Very cool! Thank you, Peigi. 😁
Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive:
https://goodlaw.social/cpfx
Starmer CHOSE to keep the Supreme Court misjudgment despite its obvious flaws and its injustice.
It allows him to deniably harm trans people. It is a mixture of political cowardice, gratuitous oppression, lack of principle and hypocrisy which defines the content of his character.
New ILGA-Europe data shows how stigma, discrimination & economic insecurity push LGBTI people into hidden homelessness across Europe. Change is possible with inclusive policies, trauma-informed services and action on structural discrimination. www.ilga-europe.org/press-releas...
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This is just one “news” paper - The Times. They are OBSESSED with attacking trans people! 😖
They will absolutely KNOW that it’s TDoR today, and will have published this transphobic bilge as a gesture of power and provocation.
It is pure, malicious, propaganda! 😣
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
This is also still ongoing, to fund English translations of African novels written in non-colonial languages! (which do not get translated very frequently!)
Cover of a book: Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains by John Grindrod
Let's take a ride... My next book is coming out with @faberbooks.bsky.social. Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains will be published March 12 2026. Preorder links in profile, and lots more on the book and the remarkable stories people told me to come over the next few months...
Tonight I was talking to a friend about this and she told me, this is one more major milestone in the decline of German democracy. For many people, it will be the thing that makes them decide to pack their bags, in anticipation of what is coming.
Good to hear your shoulder and arm have recovered sufficiently that you can do these tasks and podcast editing. 😊
That's my usual Sunday too. Nice change today. 😊
I've had a very good weekend, thank you, and you?
I worked yesterday and today saw a friend, visited an exhibition, walked in the rain and autumn leaves, and made an apple crumble. 😁
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