A statement on the IOC's decision to reintroduce mandatory sex testing for women. Please share widely. Alt text follows in the following posts.

#OtD 23 Feb 1932 a riot broke out on Old Market Street in Bristol during a protest against the government's 10% cut to unemployment benefits in the middle of the Great Depression. 3-15,000 people were attacked by police but they fought back stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9557...

Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people.

There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.

Richard Reeves is Chair of new Centre for Policy Research on Men & Boys. In his book he argues boys should start school later & have longer early years curriculum (not girls). He says men are biologically more lusty than women. He says biologically men are risk takers & more likely to save others.

Wonderful piece Ruth. At the trans resistance rally in Bristol last weekend, a sister screamed into the mic saying ‘you have the right to be angry’ and I burst into tears. Resistance is fertile 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻

new gender neutral greeting just dropped

Happy May Day!

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Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.

You think the arbitrary arrest of political dissenters cannot happen in the UK? It already does. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Fact check: Musk has always been an apartheid-supporting, resource extracting white supremacist.

A trans woman cozies up to her trans girlfriend with a worried expression. She asks "babe, what's the matter? Why can't you get off?" The girlfriend, forlorn, sighs. She clenches her fist emphatically and looks upward toward an imagined, uncaring God. She says "it's just..." She opens her hand and stares in front of her with a 1000 yard stare and finishes "Neoliberalism." The first woman looks annoyed, pissed off.

The problem is not that Goodwin and co are reactionary grifters, it's been clear for years

It is that they are still invited to "debate" their ideas as if they were legitimate

Fact-checking has done nothing to defeat them. Their goal isn't good faith debate, it's about occuping mainstream space

No AI art pls

Ian Dunt tweet about GC supporting Trump: Just the most frightful horrendous bollocks from people who should damn well know better.

We should not be shocked that transphobes support Trump, their allegiance to the far right was always a given

What should really shock us is how wilfully oblivious to it so many mainstream voices have been - no, transphobes don't "know better", you've just been a conveniently naive fool

It is telling self-proclaimed 'liberals' think the issue with politics today is 'the left' being mean to them rather than really existing liberalism having failed to counter the reactionary onslaught (which in fact it enabled)...

Why reflect when things are going so well...

Sounds super interesting!! Added to my reading list 🤓

We're recruiting for the editorial board of @cdjplus.bsky.social! We welcome applications from
academics *and* practitioners globally, particularly encouraging those from under-represented groups. Application deadline: 17 January.

A brown-haired woman stand before a court in a red drass with a black waistband. She appeals to the judge "your honour, I may have committed mail fraud, but I can also do the entire Kate Bush Wuthering Heights Dance." She extends her arms forward in front of her, then does a flourishing pirouette. The judge bangs his gavel. With great intensity he shouts "I've seen enough! Not guilty!" The women looks humble in her legal victory.

Choose one alive or human

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.

**Tell Everyone**

www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

- James Baldwin

Starting as a mean to go on: the bisexual aesthetic