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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It is absolute and utter neglect to let this come this close to the wire just as the US has let most of its overseas broadcasting shutter.
And another bites the dust?
The BBC World Service will run out of funding in just seven weeks. Its funding arrangement with the Foreign Office finishes at the end of March. There is no plan for what happens next.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The BBC World Service will run out of funding in just seven weeks. Its funding arrangement with the Foreign Office finishes at the end of March. There is no plan for what happens next.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling | Editorial
Editorial: With just seven weeks before its funding runs out, the UK’s greatest cultural asset and most trusted international news organisation must be supported
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:32 PM
It is absolute and utter neglect to let this come this close to the wire just as the US has let most of its overseas broadcasting shutter.
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
February 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
Much as I loved Planescape, genuinely think Torment: Tides of Numenera is the greater game, and its greater understanding and exploration of gender and sexuality is a huge part of that
The good about Planescape:
It's a universe where the metaphysical is physical. Good and evil (and many other philosophical and moral dispositions) have real physical domains and inhabitants. The protagonist is cursed to be reborn in a land of purgatory where the dead are managed by a cult of...
It's a universe where the metaphysical is physical. Good and evil (and many other philosophical and moral dispositions) have real physical domains and inhabitants. The protagonist is cursed to be reborn in a land of purgatory where the dead are managed by a cult of...
February 15, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Much as I loved Planescape, genuinely think Torment: Tides of Numenera is the greater game, and its greater understanding and exploration of gender and sexuality is a huge part of that
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3. Even primary school kids know that humans have migrated, traded, reproduced, fought and shared materials, ideas & practices in ever-changing permutations since they first evolved in Africa. Any society that has ever interacted with another is the result of innumerable cultural influences.
February 15, 2026 at 3:14 PM
3. Even primary school kids know that humans have migrated, traded, reproduced, fought and shared materials, ideas & practices in ever-changing permutations since they first evolved in Africa. Any society that has ever interacted with another is the result of innumerable cultural influences.
Did anyone else grow up with the extra lines after Roses are Red/Violets are Blue/Sugar is Sweet/And So are You - These are the words you bade me say/For a new pair of gloves on Easter Day?'
Been stuck in my head since yesterday morning, and just thought I'd ask
Been stuck in my head since yesterday morning, and just thought I'd ask
February 15, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Did anyone else grow up with the extra lines after Roses are Red/Violets are Blue/Sugar is Sweet/And So are You - These are the words you bade me say/For a new pair of gloves on Easter Day?'
Been stuck in my head since yesterday morning, and just thought I'd ask
Been stuck in my head since yesterday morning, and just thought I'd ask
Immigration is good and necessary, and will only become more so as the climate crisis worsens, and I just want to vote for a political party that knows that and says it with their whole chest.
February 15, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Immigration is good and necessary, and will only become more so as the climate crisis worsens, and I just want to vote for a political party that knows that and says it with their whole chest.
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ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 1:51 AM
ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
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keep it shut down until 2029
BREAKING: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shuts down due to lack of funding
February 14, 2026 at 5:47 AM
keep it shut down until 2029
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Be part of the first-ever book exploring transness in cyberpunk
Your support is an act of resistance in a time of surveillance & censorship
What’s more punk than that?
Not-for-profit crowdfund runs until March
Let’s chronicle the new cyberpunk canon together!
🔗 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
Your support is an act of resistance in a time of surveillance & censorship
What’s more punk than that?
Not-for-profit crowdfund runs until March
Let’s chronicle the new cyberpunk canon together!
🔗 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
February 9, 2026 at 7:03 AM
Be part of the first-ever book exploring transness in cyberpunk
Your support is an act of resistance in a time of surveillance & censorship
What’s more punk than that?
Not-for-profit crowdfund runs until March
Let’s chronicle the new cyberpunk canon together!
🔗 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
Your support is an act of resistance in a time of surveillance & censorship
What’s more punk than that?
Not-for-profit crowdfund runs until March
Let’s chronicle the new cyberpunk canon together!
🔗 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
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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.