Carrie plays guitar 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@carriem.co.uk
Writer, parent and guitar wrangler from Glasgow. Author of Small Town Joy and Carrie Kills A Man, singer in Unquiet Mind. Trans, she/her. https://linktr.ee/carrieplaysguitar. Pic: Omar Salam
Pinned
Closer To The End Than The Beginning, by Unquiet Mind
from the album The Nest That You Have Flown EP
unquietmind.bandcamp.com
I'd like to play you some music that my band and I have taken far too long to finish. We gigged this one over a year ago; it's about the retreat of corporate pride, and it's given me an opportunity to indulge my Talk Talk obsession a little bit.
unquietmind.bandcamp.com/track/closer...
unquietmind.bandcamp.com/track/closer...
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They pushed out this new code in such a rush, with so little care for the people it affects, that they didn’t even finalise the impact assessment, or bother sending it to the minister who’s supposed to oversee equality. /3
November 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
They pushed out this new code in such a rush, with so little care for the people it affects, that they didn’t even finalise the impact assessment, or bother sending it to the minister who’s supposed to oversee equality. /3
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if I were in town on sunday I’d be going to see carrie talk to a pop star I had a poster of on my wall aged 10, pls go in my absence
Sunday! This is quite the story, and it’s going to be a really interesting evening. Do come.
Pop Scars: Anthony Kavanagh with Carrie Marshall - Glasgow Life
Aye Write 2025 presents Pop Scars: Anthony Kavanagh with Carrie Marshall
www.glasgowlife.org.uk
November 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
if I were in town on sunday I’d be going to see carrie talk to a pop star I had a poster of on my wall aged 10, pls go in my absence
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Transphobia now threatening to derail work on tackling climate change.
Billionaires who own super yachts and fly in private jets overjoyed at the distraction.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Billionaires who own super yachts and fly in private jets overjoyed at the distraction.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Row over definition of ‘gender’ hangs over Cop30 plans to support women
Advocates say conservative states’ push to define gender as ‘biological sex’ would backslide on decade-old language within the UN
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Transphobia now threatening to derail work on tackling climate change.
Billionaires who own super yachts and fly in private jets overjoyed at the distraction.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Billionaires who own super yachts and fly in private jets overjoyed at the distraction.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@kariebookish.bsky.social one for you…
Split Enz's gloriously eccentric early years—when they were co-led by Tim Finn and Phil Judd, and very far away from the sharp, succinct pop songwriting of Neil Finn—are collected on the new box set ENZcyclopedia, Volumes 1 & 2. My review:
Split Enz, ENZcyclopedia, Volumes 1 & 2
A five-disc set that thoroughly chronicles Split Enz's early years, when the band was co-led by Tim Finn and Phil Judd.
sterlewine.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
@kariebookish.bsky.social one for you…
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Let’s be clear: @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social and Labour own this cruelty
Trans+ children and teenagers are being harmed by a Health Secretary who could stop it all tomorrow
But every day Streeting refuses to end his anti-Trans+ crusade, he makes a deliberate choice to let his cruelty continue
Trans+ children and teenagers are being harmed by a Health Secretary who could stop it all tomorrow
But every day Streeting refuses to end his anti-Trans+ crusade, he makes a deliberate choice to let his cruelty continue
Please read this statement by Anne Health.
Trans children are being subjected by Sussex NHS to the physical torture of being forcibly detransitioned.
This is unnecessary cruelty and in my view constitutes torture, violence and child abuse on the part of NHS Sussex.
Trans children are being subjected by Sussex NHS to the physical torture of being forcibly detransitioned.
This is unnecessary cruelty and in my view constitutes torture, violence and child abuse on the part of NHS Sussex.
Anne Health response: NHS Sussex Investigation into WellBN GP Practice - Anne Healthcare
We are deeply concerned by the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s updated Code of Practice which has been sent to Secretary of State, Bridget Philipson, this week.While presented as clarification,...
anne.health
November 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Let’s be clear: @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social and Labour own this cruelty
Trans+ children and teenagers are being harmed by a Health Secretary who could stop it all tomorrow
But every day Streeting refuses to end his anti-Trans+ crusade, he makes a deliberate choice to let his cruelty continue
Trans+ children and teenagers are being harmed by a Health Secretary who could stop it all tomorrow
But every day Streeting refuses to end his anti-Trans+ crusade, he makes a deliberate choice to let his cruelty continue
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And now that this is coming to light for those same people to start moving on to "well maybe it isn't such a big deal that these men have engaged grooming and pedophilia?" is going to make me vomit up my entire skeleton in inchoate rage.
November 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
And now that this is coming to light for those same people to start moving on to "well maybe it isn't such a big deal that these men have engaged grooming and pedophilia?" is going to make me vomit up my entire skeleton in inchoate rage.
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I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
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So an excerpt of my play Ophelia & Cassandra will be performed on November 25th at @playpiepint.bsky.social's Slice of the Pie scratch night! I'm very excited for this, come along to Oran Mor and give me feedback on this play about death, denial, and masking! :D
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November 13, 2025 at 2:58 PM
So an excerpt of my play Ophelia & Cassandra will be performed on November 25th at @playpiepint.bsky.social's Slice of the Pie scratch night! I'm very excited for this, come along to Oran Mor and give me feedback on this play about death, denial, and masking! :D
www.instagram.com/p/DQ__mzOEY0...
www.instagram.com/p/DQ__mzOEY0...
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heylo. this is a week on saturday. nae tickets left for the matinee, and down to fewer than you can count on your fingers and toes for the evening show.
don’t miss out:
wegottickets.com/event/662553
don’t miss out:
wegottickets.com/event/662553
November 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
heylo. this is a week on saturday. nae tickets left for the matinee, and down to fewer than you can count on your fingers and toes for the evening show.
don’t miss out:
wegottickets.com/event/662553
don’t miss out:
wegottickets.com/event/662553
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so glad the child sexual abuse panic was squarely pointed at folks like me by the people actually doing it & the public was like “yeah, seems right—freaks did it. not the men with all the money & fighting to keep child marriage legal, the women that are legal to kill in 30 states if you’re nervous.”
What a great day for finding out that a lot of things people thought were conspiracies are actually backed up by emails that are like hey pedo, let us pedo together in pedoland on the second day of the pedo month
November 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
so glad the child sexual abuse panic was squarely pointed at folks like me by the people actually doing it & the public was like “yeah, seems right—freaks did it. not the men with all the money & fighting to keep child marriage legal, the women that are legal to kill in 30 states if you’re nervous.”
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An FOI to the Department for Business and Trade, requesting the minutes and correspondence relating to a meeting on 24 Oct 2023, between Kemi Badenoch and Transgender Trend, has been returned to us heavily redacted. 1/
November 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
An FOI to the Department for Business and Trade, requesting the minutes and correspondence relating to a meeting on 24 Oct 2023, between Kemi Badenoch and Transgender Trend, has been returned to us heavily redacted. 1/
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Again and again and again I have said that transphobia is a tool of Patriarchy that protects predatory men. I've been dogpiled over there for saying it. Yet here we are looking at yet another example of how transphobia deflects attention from what men are doing.
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Again and again and again I have said that transphobia is a tool of Patriarchy that protects predatory men. I've been dogpiled over there for saying it. Yet here we are looking at yet another example of how transphobia deflects attention from what men are doing.
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This is the most cursed idea I’ve ever seen and it’s immediately obvious that this is where we’re headed
not too hard to imagine a comprehensively gambling-obsessed political media, maybe soon nymag.com/intelligence...
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This is the most cursed idea I’ve ever seen and it’s immediately obvious that this is where we’re headed
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35 years ago in November 1990, PSB released “Being boring” as the 2nd single from their 4th studio album, “Behaviour”. The song was inspired by a party invitation from Neil’s Newcastle days which quoted Zelda Fitzgerald’s line “She was never bored, mainly because she was never boring”.
#PetShopBoys
#PetShopBoys
November 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
35 years ago in November 1990, PSB released “Being boring” as the 2nd single from their 4th studio album, “Behaviour”. The song was inspired by a party invitation from Neil’s Newcastle days which quoted Zelda Fitzgerald’s line “She was never bored, mainly because she was never boring”.
#PetShopBoys
#PetShopBoys
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The reality (that trans people exist and are under attack from hate groups, political class and media) hasn't changed.
What has changed, is the hate groups, with support of wealth and political support, have become institutional and are trying to shame anyone who dares stand up for what's right.
What has changed, is the hate groups, with support of wealth and political support, have become institutional and are trying to shame anyone who dares stand up for what's right.
If one of the journalists who covered the Tavi can actually say, hey the BBC isn't actually pro-trans, why can't any of the other journalists?
BBC reporter who covered gender dysphoria questions claim of ‘systemic bias’
Deborah Cohen says she is not aware of any attempts within corporation to stop or shape her reporting on trans issues
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The reality (that trans people exist and are under attack from hate groups, political class and media) hasn't changed.
What has changed, is the hate groups, with support of wealth and political support, have become institutional and are trying to shame anyone who dares stand up for what's right.
What has changed, is the hate groups, with support of wealth and political support, have become institutional and are trying to shame anyone who dares stand up for what's right.
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working at the nyt
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
working at the nyt
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Getting really sick of pundits talking about all three “major issues” of the BBC complaint as if they need to be treated equally.
One of them led to the resignations. The only one that has any substantive evidence behind it.
The other two are just empty right wing complaints.
Whole thing reeks.
One of them led to the resignations. The only one that has any substantive evidence behind it.
The other two are just empty right wing complaints.
Whole thing reeks.
November 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Getting really sick of pundits talking about all three “major issues” of the BBC complaint as if they need to be treated equally.
One of them led to the resignations. The only one that has any substantive evidence behind it.
The other two are just empty right wing complaints.
Whole thing reeks.
One of them led to the resignations. The only one that has any substantive evidence behind it.
The other two are just empty right wing complaints.
Whole thing reeks.
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Robyn is so good at this, she knows the perfect time to release music to capitalize on the gay people with seasonal depression market
November 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Robyn is so good at this, she knows the perfect time to release music to capitalize on the gay people with seasonal depression market
Len's great. Typewronger in Edinburgh is also great.
November 13, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Len's great. Typewronger in Edinburgh is also great.
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We asked trans people in Scotland about their experiences of accessing public services - this includes things they may use everyday such as public spaces and public transport, as well those they might need in difficult situations.
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
We asked trans people in Scotland about their experiences of accessing public services - this includes things they may use everyday such as public spaces and public transport, as well those they might need in difficult situations.
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Trans Awareness Week starts today, running until Wednesday 19th. Every day for the next week we’ll be sharing some key figures from our Scottish Trans and Non-binary Experiences Report. You can read the full report and the shorter summary report here: www.scottishtrans.org/our-work/res...
Scottish Trans and Non-binary Experiences Report - Scottish Trans
Home » Our Work » Research » Scottish Trans and Non-binary Experiences Report
www.scottishtrans.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Trans Awareness Week starts today, running until Wednesday 19th. Every day for the next week we’ll be sharing some key figures from our Scottish Trans and Non-binary Experiences Report. You can read the full report and the shorter summary report here: www.scottishtrans.org/our-work/res...
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Story in @glasgowbell.bsky.social this morning about the dire state of the Mitchell Library which needs £25m for stabilising works. If I was an immensely wealthy Scottish writer this is the sort of project I would fund with 2% of my fortune instead of obsessively trying to eradicate a minority group
November 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Story in @glasgowbell.bsky.social this morning about the dire state of the Mitchell Library which needs £25m for stabilising works. If I was an immensely wealthy Scottish writer this is the sort of project I would fund with 2% of my fortune instead of obsessively trying to eradicate a minority group
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Back in the studio, although the discussion was about racism, Glasman turned it about trans rights ‘activists’ and ‘single sex spaces’.
We always knew that Blue Labour was problematic, but it’s now unambiguously clear that he is the driving force behind the government’s attitude towards trans people
We always knew that Blue Labour was problematic, but it’s now unambiguously clear that he is the driving force behind the government’s attitude towards trans people
November 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Back in the studio, although the discussion was about racism, Glasman turned it about trans rights ‘activists’ and ‘single sex spaces’.
We always knew that Blue Labour was problematic, but it’s now unambiguously clear that he is the driving force behind the government’s attitude towards trans people
We always knew that Blue Labour was problematic, but it’s now unambiguously clear that he is the driving force behind the government’s attitude towards trans people
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If it is, objectively, raining, then being neutral between people who say it is & people who say it isn't is colluding in a falsehood.
See also: poverty, exploitation, pollution, corruption, etc, etc, etc...
See also: poverty, exploitation, pollution, corruption, etc, etc, etc...
Neutrality and objectivity are not the same thing and are, in fact, often contradictory goals. The objective truth is often not neutral in its political implications, and it would be a useless exercise if it was.
Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
November 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
If it is, objectively, raining, then being neutral between people who say it is & people who say it isn't is colluding in a falsehood.
See also: poverty, exploitation, pollution, corruption, etc, etc, etc...
See also: poverty, exploitation, pollution, corruption, etc, etc, etc...
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Another day, another bullshit tribunal from someone who's obviously a transphobe exploiting the broken English legal system with Rowling's money to punish colleagues for not wanting a transphobe working with them
Tribunal told woman's comments not seen as transphobic
Sara Morrison, who worked for Belfast Film Festival, believes that people cannot change their biological sex.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Another day, another bullshit tribunal from someone who's obviously a transphobe exploiting the broken English legal system with Rowling's money to punish colleagues for not wanting a transphobe working with them