Decorative promotional image for the TVCE x BIGS symposium event with a Trans Flag filter. Overlaid bold white text reads 'Open Call for July Symposium 2026.' In the background is a lively campus scene with people sitting and walking outside featuring Birkbeck, University of London. Branding logos for Birkbeck and the TVCE are at the bottom of the image.

Symposium 2026 OPEN CALL
Theme: Existing Otherwise.
Inviting proposals exploring transdisciplinary and intersectional approaches to Trans+ research and practice. Hosted at Birkbeck University of London.

More information: tvce.cargo.site/existing-oth...

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Force the government to rip up the EHRC’s transphobic guidance It’s been a year since the Supreme Court's decision that accelerated the rollback of trans rights in the UK. It’s been a difficult year, but it’s also been a year of coming together and fighting back....

I don't have much confidence that my MP will do the right thing here, but I've written to her anyway - in the very least I want her to know that people, women, do not want this. goodlaw.social/de78a7

A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

"It used to feel way better to Go Online, and some of us will remember.[...] We’re down from a thousand and one websites to three, and each of those remaining monolith websites is just a soullessly-regurgitated, compression-down-scaled, AI-up-scaled version of the next."
henry.codes/writing/a-we...

I think we can all now accept that Pret has changed for the worse. But I was not expecting the enshittification of Wagamama.

this post stuck in my head enough that today I saw this & thought of you
www.uniqlo.com/uk/en/produc...

A black notebook with stickers on the cover. One sticker reads Trans Lives Are More Important Than Harry Potter.

A reminder.

Bodily autonomy nonnegotiable. abortion, transition. raised fist.

Sticker on top of dive bar toilet, New Orleans

IT IS HOP-PENING AGAIN...

@thedoublerclub.bsky.social, RED RABBIT II, 19th March, Walthamstow Trades Hall!

The RR, but just a 'hare' different...

DEEP dreams!
FEARFUL mystery!
BEAUTIFUL anthropomorphisms!
EVERY act a rabbit!

TICKETS: the-double-r-club.designmynight.com/68fb7e780ae4...

A special Lynchian Night of the Lepus coming to The Double R next week... Look out for the blood red rabbit 🩸

ahh just encountered the term 'webmaster' in the wild and whoa, the nostalgia. Sent me right back to geocities.

Since 2009! And still the most fun, most welcoming Lynchian dream of a night out 🖤

we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)

this 'needlessly complicated shit' is so joyful and genius.

I can recommend some brands! Not actual physical stores though, sadly.

Preaching to the Perverted Trailer - KickStater Restoration Campaign April 2013 YouTube video by PEACH PERV

i mean, just look at this. Iconic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_d9...

Preaching to the Perverted always gets a repost. I'm always slightly amazed that anyone else remembers this film.

😳 no thank you! Your work is inspirational!

I volunteer on this talkline - a few evenings a month chatting to people who, for various reasons, want to talk to someone about abortion. Any donation this week helps us be there for more people, fight abortion stigma and defend body autonomy.

Dunno if it's just me but something feels kinda off with legally requiring a marginalised group of people carry + present ID papers on a daily basis...

A shiny silver button with a blue sign underneath. The sign reads ‘Do not press the button’. It feels quite tempting.

You are going to be so great x

respect to everyone who has stubbornly maintained a 100% black wardrobe during this heat 🖤👑🖤

Immersive Quarries. — Good Afternoon The 50 million year long story about why the world was inundated with indistinguishable Immersive Van Gogh exhibitions in the 2010s.

@modernistpunk.com i read this yesterday and it feels like the type of investigation into unexpected connections that might be your jam. Plus introduces 'immersive quarry' as a genre - www.goodafternoon.uk/news/immersi...

Gallery - UK AIDS Memorial Quilt Explore the Quilt Our gallery contains images and descriptions of all the Quilt panels we hold in our collection. If you know of other Quilts you would like included in the gallery please do get in to...

So many names, so many stitches and so many hands, so much love + rage www.aidsquiltuk.org/gallery/

So glad to have made time to head to the Tate Modern and see the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt. Beautiful moving work, incredible collective experience. Something I loved about seeing a huge handmade craft piece, made by non-artists, taking up so much space.

when you've exhausted those, may I recommend conversations about the weather and housing prices.

The presenter line-up for our #symposium on 8th July 2025 is now live at: tvce2025.eventbrite.com

#TransPride #TransLivesMatter #Trans #LGBT #AcademicSky #Pride2025 #Pride #LGBTQ #Conference

Bloody excellent news!

Get writing! Things you can do today to challenge the UK Government

The best advice right now, from @janefae.bsky.social;

If you're trans or non-binary,

If you're a cis ally,

If you oppose stripping an entire demographic of their human rights,

Write;

Use

theyworkforyou.com

contact.no10.gov.uk

Be polite, but WRITE.

NOW.

jane-67706.medium.com/get-writing-...