Beth worked as a doctor for years until a transphobe turned up. Now, she's had to leave her job, leave her home, move to the other side of the world and is still being hounded and harassed by the media and cult.
She did nothing but exist as trans in the orbit of Sandie Peggie.
Tweet by Martina Navratilova. "Predator. That is how he should register. A sexual predator…" quote-tweeting a tweet by "Biology Rules OK" about Dr. Beth Upton, a trans woman
This tweet is highly defamatory and Martina Navratilova should be fired from BBC Sport for it.
It demonstrates an horrendous level of hatred for a trans woman (who was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recent tribunal) because she is a trans woman.
I usually start my reading a couple of months in advance, which I choose to believe isn't cheating.
I've just read your write-up of THE OLD MEN AT THE ZOO. If that's the terrible novel in question, then I sympathise - I love Angus Wilson, but that's the one novel of his I found a real trudge. Other people love it, I just didn't get it.
Oh, isn't it great? All hail Queen Ivy! #1961Club
Finishing off my #1961Club odyssey with a slightly self-indulgent post (surely not) about Larry McMurtry's lovely HORSEMAN, PASS BY. Also contains Laurel & Hardy, Copland and a tiny bit of Sondheim. Thanks to @stuckinabook.bsky.social and @kaggsy59.bsky.social again! #BookSky
I am doing two talks on Zoom on Renaissance art, as fundraisers for the bookshop - we're a bit behind with finances! They will be recorded, so you don't have to be able to watch live. Accessible, fun, gorgeous art, supporting the bookshop, can't go wrong!
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Today's #1961Club offering is an excursion into poetry (with a diversion into film) as I return to an old favourite, Thom Gunn, and his collection MY SAD CAPTAINS #BookSky
—What ails thy brother? Can he not hold his water, at reading of a ballad?
—Oh, no: a rhyme to him is worse than cheese or a bagpipe.
'And talk about a preachy book! Everybody's a sinner! Except for this guy...'
For years I've meant to read the Scottish writer James Kennaway, and the #1961Club gave me the push I needed with his novel HOUSEHOLD GHOSTS. Maybe I'll have better luck next time... #BookSky
Some thoughts on In A Summer Season by Elizabeth Taylor for my next #1961Club read www.stuckinabook.com/in-a-summer-...
It's Ivy Compton-Burnett o'clock in my #1961Club journey, and I'm not sure I've enjoyed any of her novels more than THE MIGHTY AND THEIR FALL! #BookSky
The greatest novel of 1961? Reading this makes me want to read it again right now, but I have to ration myself. #1961Club
Can't help but think about the 'virginity testing' carried out by immigration officers in the 1970s - and that the Home Office has yet to apologise:
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The official brutality towards immigrants is a feature, not a bug.
I had a lot of fun with Anthony Burgess's TV quiz show novel ONE HAND CLAPPING for the #1961Club #BookSky
Looking back at the films I've loved from 2001, it doesn't seem the most vintage year. GHOST WORLD, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, L.I.E. ... None of them outright favourites of mine. A few years ago I saw Todd Solondz's STORYTELLING with TS in attendance, which was a great experience. Rewatching that soon.
Post your favorite film from the year you turned 18
Woohoo! Makes a difference having a really nice edition too. #1961Club
My next #1961Club read is Elizabeth Taylor's IN A SUMMER SEASON, with intrusions from an earlier reader. #BookSky
When you talk out of turn
And my ears start to burn
That's a paddlin'
When you stare at my shoes
Like you've nothin' to lose
That's a paddlin'
Also, this is why I have absolutely no time for people online who say you can't be queer and Religious/Christian.
This is the kind of thing that rhetoric enables, and it's actively harming vulnerable people in real life. Just because you can't be queer and religious, doesn't mean other people can't
When you talk out of turn
And my ears start to burn
That's a paddlin'
When you stare at my shoes
Like you've nothin' to lose
That's a paddlin'
BBC Sport headline reading 'Coventry all hyphen but promoted despite Sheff Wed stalemate'
Yesterday's atrocity
Jasper from The Simpsons holding his paddle and saying 'When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine ... oh, you better believe that's amore'
- When I was a doctor, one of my patients was a famous swimmer. He was very trendy, but a complete nitwit. I can't tell you who he is though.
- Hip, aquatic oaf?
- Yeah and Data Protection too.
I've got a bunch of books to post about for the #1961Club this week, the first of which is Peter De Vries's THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB, which sent me overboard. It's really something. #BookSky
It's a great list of films, I'll try to watch one or two myself. A possible omission: Carry On Regardless. I'm only partly joking, it's got a sublime scene where Joan Sims gets drunk at a wine tasting.