CN Lester 🏳️⚧️
@cnlester.bsky.social
Multi-genre musician
Co-lead @TransUnityQuilt
Founder & Artistic Director of Transpose
PhD on Barbara Strozzi - interdisciplinary work is life
’Trans Like Me’, ‘Furies,’ 2 current trans historical WIP
they/them
www.cnlester.com
www.transpose.org.uk
Co-lead @TransUnityQuilt
Founder & Artistic Director of Transpose
PhD on Barbara Strozzi - interdisciplinary work is life
’Trans Like Me’, ‘Furies,’ 2 current trans historical WIP
they/them
www.cnlester.com
www.transpose.org.uk
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CN Lester 🏳️⚧️
@cnlester.bsky.social
· Jun 23
I'm working so hard on letting other people see me again after some very hard years of fighting the need to defensively hide.
It means so much that I can actually see myself in my new headshots.
It means so much that I can actually see myself in my new headshots.
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This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM
This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
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I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.
My most authoritarian opinion is that the MMR vaccine should be mandatory, with only medical (not religious or floofy) exemptions allowed. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM
I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.
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Best advertisement I’ve seen so far at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival
February 12, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Best advertisement I’ve seen so far at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival
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You need to be listening to @sexabolition.blog
Our government is actively choosing to spend money hounding minority groups rather than funding...literally anything else: medical care, housing, childcare, education, transport, public buildings, environmental initiatives, culture. ANYTHING.
Our government is actively choosing to spend money hounding minority groups rather than funding...literally anything else: medical care, housing, childcare, education, transport, public buildings, environmental initiatives, culture. ANYTHING.
It's unbelievably expensive for our governments to be choosing to do this much harm to society. It's a luxury we can not afford.
February 13, 2026 at 12:04 PM
You need to be listening to @sexabolition.blog
Our government is actively choosing to spend money hounding minority groups rather than funding...literally anything else: medical care, housing, childcare, education, transport, public buildings, environmental initiatives, culture. ANYTHING.
Our government is actively choosing to spend money hounding minority groups rather than funding...literally anything else: medical care, housing, childcare, education, transport, public buildings, environmental initiatives, culture. ANYTHING.
THIS - cis people, if you're going to talk about The Tavistock, make sure you listen to trans people and our supporters first about what it was actually like.
What’s worse is that there are grounds for a scandal:
A scandal about delay, care that was massively behind what was clinical indicated and justified and all the trans kids harmed by the invasive and creepy processes.
The exact opposite of what we got.
A scandal about delay, care that was massively behind what was clinical indicated and justified and all the trans kids harmed by the invasive and creepy processes.
The exact opposite of what we got.
February 13, 2026 at 4:04 PM
THIS - cis people, if you're going to talk about The Tavistock, make sure you listen to trans people and our supporters first about what it was actually like.
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The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:46 PM
The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
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Not only do we have the largest prisoner population in Europe and the 3rd largest per capita, it costs £54k per year for each one. If you spent half that much money on mental health, housing and drug addiction services you could empty many of the prisons.
We already have the third highest rate of imprisonment per capita across the whole continent and the largest absolute prison population full stop. And they want to lock up more people than that.
childrenofprisoners.eu/facts_and_fi...
childrenofprisoners.eu/facts_and_fi...
Prison population total - Children of prisoners
Prison population in European Union countries, Norway, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, including pre-trial detainees and remand prisoners. Source: Aebi, M. F., Cocco, E., Molnar, L. & Tiago, M. M....
childrenofprisoners.eu
February 13, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Not only do we have the largest prisoner population in Europe and the 3rd largest per capita, it costs £54k per year for each one. If you spent half that much money on mental health, housing and drug addiction services you could empty many of the prisons.
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Happy Friday 13th! To celebrate the success of the UK establishment's continued "clarity" on trans exclusion, I am delighted to share a major update to my blog post "What's wrong with the Cass Review?"
The biggest change is an entirely new section on harms caused.
ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w...
The biggest change is an entirely new section on harms caused.
ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w...
February 13, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Happy Friday 13th! To celebrate the success of the UK establishment's continued "clarity" on trans exclusion, I am delighted to share a major update to my blog post "What's wrong with the Cass Review?"
The biggest change is an entirely new section on harms caused.
ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w...
The biggest change is an entirely new section on harms caused.
ruthpearce.net/2024/04/16/w...
You need to be listening to @sexabolition.blog
Our government is actively choosing to spend money hounding minority groups rather than funding...literally anything else: medical care, housing, childcare, education, transport, public buildings, environmental initiatives, culture. ANYTHING.
Our government is actively choosing to spend money hounding minority groups rather than funding...literally anything else: medical care, housing, childcare, education, transport, public buildings, environmental initiatives, culture. ANYTHING.
It's unbelievably expensive for our governments to be choosing to do this much harm to society. It's a luxury we can not afford.
February 13, 2026 at 12:04 PM
You need to be listening to @sexabolition.blog
Our government is actively choosing to spend money hounding minority groups rather than funding...literally anything else: medical care, housing, childcare, education, transport, public buildings, environmental initiatives, culture. ANYTHING.
Our government is actively choosing to spend money hounding minority groups rather than funding...literally anything else: medical care, housing, childcare, education, transport, public buildings, environmental initiatives, culture. ANYTHING.
Brilliant FAQ from @goodlawproject.bsky.social to go with their ongoing vital work - please read it, share it, and remember that trans people aren't going anywhere. We're in this fight to win it, however long it takes.
Here are our FAQs on what the High Court's judgment means. goodlawproject.org/resource/faq...
FAQ: Trans inclusion after the High Court decision on the EHRC’s interim guidance | Good Law Project
An explanation of where things stand for services and workplaces
goodlawproject.org
February 13, 2026 at 11:54 AM
Brilliant FAQ from @goodlawproject.bsky.social to go with their ongoing vital work - please read it, share it, and remember that trans people aren't going anywhere. We're in this fight to win it, however long it takes.
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Wow!
Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report.
This is a *big* legal win.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report.
This is a *big* legal win.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule
Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Wow!
Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report.
This is a *big* legal win.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report.
This is a *big* legal win.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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The EHRC are seeking legal costs of £300,000 for good law projects failed judicial review where GLPs point that the guidance encouraged things that are illegal was broadly accepted by the courts.
We have to fund GLP and through our taxes the bastards resisting GLP's obviously correct point.
We have to fund GLP and through our taxes the bastards resisting GLP's obviously correct point.
February 13, 2026 at 11:31 AM
The EHRC are seeking legal costs of £300,000 for good law projects failed judicial review where GLPs point that the guidance encouraged things that are illegal was broadly accepted by the courts.
We have to fund GLP and through our taxes the bastards resisting GLP's obviously correct point.
We have to fund GLP and through our taxes the bastards resisting GLP's obviously correct point.
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Millions on locking up elderly and clergy over voicing opposition to genocide, shipping out anti trans legal guidance and then defending it in court and being found to fall foul of human rights law. Millions on research to justify conversion therapy that we already knew doesn't work.
February 13, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Millions on locking up elderly and clergy over voicing opposition to genocide, shipping out anti trans legal guidance and then defending it in court and being found to fall foul of human rights law. Millions on research to justify conversion therapy that we already knew doesn't work.
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It's devastating to me how much public money is being wasted in the British legal system purely on maintaining maximally destructive stances on human rights in service to the political ideology of the regime.
February 13, 2026 at 11:29 AM
It's devastating to me how much public money is being wasted in the British legal system purely on maintaining maximally destructive stances on human rights in service to the political ideology of the regime.
Still two and half hour left to do something real and important for immigrants and refugees in the UK. Doomscrolling won't help - this will.
We have until midnight tonight: take 20 minutes to tell the government that immigrants and refugees belong in the UK.
You know the far right are getting their responses in, screaming cruelty. Do something right today, and make your opposition count.
You know the far right are getting their responses in, screaming cruelty. Do something right today, and make your opposition count.
UK folks: if we care about what is happening in the US with ICE, we must take steps to push back against anti-immigrant and refugee policy by our own government.
Fill out this consultation. It really doesn't take long. Amnesty have put together a super clear and helpful guide to follow.
Fill out this consultation. It really doesn't take long. Amnesty have put together a super clear and helpful guide to follow.
February 12, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Still two and half hour left to do something real and important for immigrants and refugees in the UK. Doomscrolling won't help - this will.
We have until midnight tonight: take 20 minutes to tell the government that immigrants and refugees belong in the UK.
You know the far right are getting their responses in, screaming cruelty. Do something right today, and make your opposition count.
You know the far right are getting their responses in, screaming cruelty. Do something right today, and make your opposition count.
UK folks: if we care about what is happening in the US with ICE, we must take steps to push back against anti-immigrant and refugee policy by our own government.
Fill out this consultation. It really doesn't take long. Amnesty have put together a super clear and helpful guide to follow.
Fill out this consultation. It really doesn't take long. Amnesty have put together a super clear and helpful guide to follow.
media.amnesty.org.uk
February 12, 2026 at 3:19 PM
We have until midnight tonight: take 20 minutes to tell the government that immigrants and refugees belong in the UK.
You know the far right are getting their responses in, screaming cruelty. Do something right today, and make your opposition count.
You know the far right are getting their responses in, screaming cruelty. Do something right today, and make your opposition count.
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Transphobia is misogyny is transphobia is misogyny is transphobia is misogyny...
I realise I cropped that poorly, but yes that is apparently a “senior figure” with Starmer making a “chicks with dicks” jibe in a briefing to the Spectator headlined by a quote from another Labour official saying this:
February 12, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Transphobia is misogyny is transphobia is misogyny is transphobia is misogyny...
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A lot of people really don’t realize that there is a vast amount of information out there that is not online and plausibly never will be, or can’t be.
I think that's a point that will surprise a lot of people. There's a lot of calling the internet capable of accessing "the sum of all human knowledge" and such that I think gives people the impression that any and all records exist online somewhere.
February 11, 2026 at 8:47 PM
A lot of people really don’t realize that there is a vast amount of information out there that is not online and plausibly never will be, or can’t be.
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Today is the last day you can fill it in so if you're reading this, do it now! You have time.
February 12, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Today is the last day you can fill it in so if you're reading this, do it now! You have time.
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UK folks: if we care about what is happening in the US with ICE, we must take steps to push back against anti-immigrant and refugee policy by our own government.
Fill out this consultation. It really doesn't take long. Amnesty have put together a super clear and helpful guide to follow.
Fill out this consultation. It really doesn't take long. Amnesty have put together a super clear and helpful guide to follow.
media.amnesty.org.uk
February 12, 2026 at 9:52 AM
UK folks: if we care about what is happening in the US with ICE, we must take steps to push back against anti-immigrant and refugee policy by our own government.
Fill out this consultation. It really doesn't take long. Amnesty have put together a super clear and helpful guide to follow.
Fill out this consultation. It really doesn't take long. Amnesty have put together a super clear and helpful guide to follow.
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Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
www.mprnews.org
February 10, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
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They’re still trying to deport Liam Ramos, for god’s sake. They will admit no wrong for executing Renee Good or Alex Pretti. We’re still having to feed and house tens of thousands of families, many legally in the country, because they are unsafe going outside. This has been going on for two months.
February 11, 2026 at 11:10 AM
They’re still trying to deport Liam Ramos, for god’s sake. They will admit no wrong for executing Renee Good or Alex Pretti. We’re still having to feed and house tens of thousands of families, many legally in the country, because they are unsafe going outside. This has been going on for two months.
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Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.
February 11, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.
Last year over 100,000 people marched through London for Trans+ Pride - this year we'll be carrying an ENORMOUS piece of trans art through the streets. Will you join us?
Save the date and the spread the word: London Trans+ Pride is taking over the capital on Saturday July 25th, and we'll be marching our quilt through the streets together!
We'll need people to join us - interested? Please get in touch - transunityquilt@goodlawproject.org
We can't wait 🏳️⚧️
We'll need people to join us - interested? Please get in touch - transunityquilt@goodlawproject.org
We can't wait 🏳️⚧️
February 11, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Last year over 100,000 people marched through London for Trans+ Pride - this year we'll be carrying an ENORMOUS piece of trans art through the streets. Will you join us?