Obviously, while my musings are topical - Carl Sagan had already said the crux much more eloquently and succinctly.

Has a single living former US President –– Clinton, Obama, Bush, Biden –– condemned Donald Trump's threat to commit mass-scale war crimes against the civilian population of Iran?

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

Wireless Festival boss defends decision over Kanye West appearance Its managing director calls the rapper's past comments

I also believe in forgiveness. But it's not a right, you have to work for it, it takes time to earn. And this is much much too soon: it's only last year he was Heil Hitler-ing. Wireless has got this very wrong.

Disingenuous prick. He has embedded transphobia as policy. He has denied young trans people access to medication and support. His government has brought back a version of Section 28 against trans young people. He is actively denying trans and non-binary individuals safety and respect.

Tower Hamlets trans needs: new research calls for action — The Love Tank CIC New community-based research, developed in collaboration with the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and The Love Tank, highlights the on-going and pressing needs of trans communities within the eas...

New community-based research conducted in the east London borough of Tower Hamlets highlights on-going and pressing needs.

We call for the implementation of key recommendations to improve the health and well-being of trans communities by a range of stakeholders.

www.thelovetank.info/news/tna

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we need to make the internet so uncool again

everything got worse when it became possible to be publicly cool online

this is my laziest hottest take

the internet was better when it was for losers and outcasts

agreed on every single count! all this stood out to me too!

what? there are at least three people in this article doing so.

we have to be able to have conversations about porn consumption and production in the realist middle ground between puritanism and vacuous, reactive and uncritical sex positivity.

the therapists quoted in this piece offer very empathic descriptions of porn addiction (which I believe is as real as any other form of addiction) that don’t centre porn itself, but rather the culture within which it is being consumed, as problematic. i appreciate that enormously.

a woman produces perhaps the most culturally significant story ever written about the hubris of men ,,, but we need TWO women scientists in it who talk about the monster to make it feminist enough

have just seen someone criticise the new adaptation of mary shelley’s frankenstein for failing the bechdel test…. Media literacy is dead

We’re in an STI crisis. Once again, Black women are being left behind The gonorrhoea vaccine should be a major breakthrough, but young Black women are being left out of sexual health policy – with devastating effects.

excellent article by @tabbykibugiwriter.bsky.social on continued inequities faced by Black women in sexual health: national.thelead.uk/p/sti-crisis...

great observations!!!

you have nothing to apologise for! 🫶

not only do i agree with you - it’s something i advocate for consistently in my PH work! something is getting lost in translation I think. it is my view that we will promote trans health by forwarding an agenda of bodily autonomy BUT one that recognises trans need within it as exceptional.

completely agree! just don’t think when we use it as a “gotcha” it’s advancing this.

yes, they are similar. no, they are not the same. what we are demanding when we demand dignity and care for trans communities is a demand for an end to barriers and cruelty that render gender-affirming care life-saving *in the first place*. the same is not true of veneers.

but to make an argument in the public sphere that, say, a cis hair transplant is the same as *gender affirming care* is to undermine the terms that require us to make a plea for trans rights to gender affirming care in the first place.

hormone use, for instance, is now routine, normalised and even aggressively advertised to people cis and trans alike.

torrey peters once said in interview (and i am paraphrasing, poorly) that many of the experiences of transness are not unique to trans people and that the work ahead is to remind people of our commonalities in this regard. and i agree. wholeheartedly.

gender affirming care is *life-saving* - on a scale of thousands and thousands across years. the same cannot be said of hair transplants for cis men - not matter how prohibitively expensive they are.

folks i think it is actually politically expedient to stress that "gender affirming" and "confidence building" are contiguous and similar but *not identical*.

the right folks will keep advocating that HIV justice work - health justice work in general - is anti-racist, pro-trans, pro-migrant. but this needs to be much more widespread a sentiment. /6

worse still, a reform government may (or: will) eventually use these realities as arguments that shore up the need for strong borders. they will say migrants bring infection to our country, instead of the truth: that it is our country that places them at risk. it is our country who is sick. /5