Gray Mitchell 🏳️🌈 🏴 (they/them)
@dkscully.bsky.social
BSc, MA, MRes. Queer. Poly. Geek. Feminist. Academic magpie. Photographer. Sabreur. Knowledge activist. Hat wearer. Mostly harmless…
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PictCon 2, is October 17th 2026, Perth. Tickets are on sale now: £30, £20 concession. A science fiction and fantasy convention in Scotland, about Scotland's science fiction and fantasy.
Our guest is editor and author Neil Williamson.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1794793438...
Our guest is editor and author Neil Williamson.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1794793438...
PictCon2
A Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention for everyone who reads, writes and watches.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
PictCon 2, is October 17th 2026, Perth. Tickets are on sale now: £30, £20 concession. A science fiction and fantasy convention in Scotland, about Scotland's science fiction and fantasy.
Our guest is editor and author Neil Williamson.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1794793438...
Our guest is editor and author Neil Williamson.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1794793438...
It occurred to me this morning, while reading another article about what's going on in the US, why in SF media it's almost always where the aliens start their attack...
And it's not because it's the bastion of peace, freedom, democracy, and all that's good in the world!
And it's not because it's the bastion of peace, freedom, democracy, and all that's good in the world!
August 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
It occurred to me this morning, while reading another article about what's going on in the US, why in SF media it's almost always where the aliens start their attack...
And it's not because it's the bastion of peace, freedom, democracy, and all that's good in the world!
And it's not because it's the bastion of peace, freedom, democracy, and all that's good in the world!
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The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!
survey.gendercensus.com
It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
survey.gendercensus.com
It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
July 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!
survey.gendercensus.com
It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
survey.gendercensus.com
It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
Love this tribute.
May 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Love this tribute.
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The problem with polling on low public-engagement issues is that that polling is basically marking the homework of how effectively the media have told the public what to believe on a topic and how well people requesting the polling have framed the questions to advantage their own cause
May 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The problem with polling on low public-engagement issues is that that polling is basically marking the homework of how effectively the media have told the public what to believe on a topic and how well people requesting the polling have framed the questions to advantage their own cause
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📣 Check the NEW MURAL in Govan honouring Mary Barbour as a modern #activist! 🔥
🤓📚We shared our research on #MaryBarbour to artist Jeks, highlighting MB's key role in the 1915 Govan Rent Strikes.
Image 1
TOP–Mural by @jeks_nc on Govan Rd
BELOW–1915 #RentStrike at 10 Hutton Dr from our archive
🤓📚We shared our research on #MaryBarbour to artist Jeks, highlighting MB's key role in the 1915 Govan Rent Strikes.
Image 1
TOP–Mural by @jeks_nc on Govan Rd
BELOW–1915 #RentStrike at 10 Hutton Dr from our archive
May 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
📣 Check the NEW MURAL in Govan honouring Mary Barbour as a modern #activist! 🔥
🤓📚We shared our research on #MaryBarbour to artist Jeks, highlighting MB's key role in the 1915 Govan Rent Strikes.
Image 1
TOP–Mural by @jeks_nc on Govan Rd
BELOW–1915 #RentStrike at 10 Hutton Dr from our archive
🤓📚We shared our research on #MaryBarbour to artist Jeks, highlighting MB's key role in the 1915 Govan Rent Strikes.
Image 1
TOP–Mural by @jeks_nc on Govan Rd
BELOW–1915 #RentStrike at 10 Hutton Dr from our archive
Just a little extra incentive for me to get trundling properly in May... can you help me throw a bit of dosh towards the Charity for Civil Servants at the same time?
Help me make it MEGA
I’m taking on the Mega Miles Challenge to raise money for the Charity for Civil Servants and I need your support.
fundraise.cfcs.org.uk
April 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Just a little extra incentive for me to get trundling properly in May... can you help me throw a bit of dosh towards the Charity for Civil Servants at the same time?
Well, that seems like good news!
Non-hormonal male contraceptive implant lasts at least two years in trials
Product known as Adam implanted in sperm ducts could offer a reversible alternative to condoms and vasectomies
www.theguardian.com
April 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Well, that seems like good news!
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Research request:
Researchers from the University of East London are conducting a piece of research to explore transgender men’s experiences of cervical smear testing in the NHS. If you are interested in sharing your story with them in an online interview, please email u2631772@uel.ac.uk
Researchers from the University of East London are conducting a piece of research to explore transgender men’s experiences of cervical smear testing in the NHS. If you are interested in sharing your story with them in an online interview, please email u2631772@uel.ac.uk
April 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Research request:
Researchers from the University of East London are conducting a piece of research to explore transgender men’s experiences of cervical smear testing in the NHS. If you are interested in sharing your story with them in an online interview, please email u2631772@uel.ac.uk
Researchers from the University of East London are conducting a piece of research to explore transgender men’s experiences of cervical smear testing in the NHS. If you are interested in sharing your story with them in an online interview, please email u2631772@uel.ac.uk
How very interesting!
Shakespeare did not leave his wife Anne in Stratford, letter fragment suggests
Professor says text shows Hathaway lived with playwright in London, upending the established idea of an unhappy marriage
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 9:19 AM
How very interesting!
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Today we’re publishing our Gender Inclusion Statement.
The recent UK Supreme Court ruling is not a victory for women. We stand firmly in solidarity with trans people.
Read the full statement on our website:
buff.ly/obTLrF4
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
The recent UK Supreme Court ruling is not a victory for women. We stand firmly in solidarity with trans people.
Read the full statement on our website:
buff.ly/obTLrF4
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
April 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Today we’re publishing our Gender Inclusion Statement.
The recent UK Supreme Court ruling is not a victory for women. We stand firmly in solidarity with trans people.
Read the full statement on our website:
buff.ly/obTLrF4
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
The recent UK Supreme Court ruling is not a victory for women. We stand firmly in solidarity with trans people.
Read the full statement on our website:
buff.ly/obTLrF4
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
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Yeah can we stop asking politicians ‘what is a woman?’ and start asking them ‘what proof are you insisting women give you before you’ll let them go to the toilet?’
Asked if Keir Starmer still believes that a trans woman is a woman, his spokesman replies "no".
Says that trans women must now use men's bathrooms
Says that trans women must now use men's bathrooms
April 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Yeah can we stop asking politicians ‘what is a woman?’ and start asking them ‘what proof are you insisting women give you before you’ll let them go to the toilet?’
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Megathread of pro-trans petitions on Parliament’s petition website. If Labour suddenly gets hit with debates for a bunch of pro-trans petitions, maybe they’ll realise this issue isn’t going away and they’ve fucked up.
I’ll add more as I find them.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
I’ll add more as I find them.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
April 18, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Megathread of pro-trans petitions on Parliament’s petition website. If Labour suddenly gets hit with debates for a bunch of pro-trans petitions, maybe they’ll realise this issue isn’t going away and they’ve fucked up.
I’ll add more as I find them.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
I’ll add more as I find them.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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We are Dublin 2029, a bid for the 87th Worldcon! We are a growing group of fans and we want to host the World Science Fiction Convention, Worldcon, in Dublin in 2029 - and we'd love your help! Follow us on our social medias here - linktr.ee/dublin2029 - or support our bid at dublin2029.ie/ 💚
April 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
We are Dublin 2029, a bid for the 87th Worldcon! We are a growing group of fans and we want to host the World Science Fiction Convention, Worldcon, in Dublin in 2029 - and we'd love your help! Follow us on our social medias here - linktr.ee/dublin2029 - or support our bid at dublin2029.ie/ 💚
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📣 STOP PRESS– Working-Class Suffragette Janet McCallum featured in The Herald!
📰 Article by Dani Garavelli features previously unpublished pix of a Holloway Prison Medal awarded by the Women’s Freedom League for Janet's 1908 campaign efforts.
Read the full story 👇🏽👇🏽
buff.ly/ukIYohi
📰 Article by Dani Garavelli features previously unpublished pix of a Holloway Prison Medal awarded by the Women’s Freedom League for Janet's 1908 campaign efforts.
Read the full story 👇🏽👇🏽
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Blacklisted and imprisoned: The Scots suffragette who could finally be honoured
Fife mill worker and trade union activist, Janet McCallum, was jailed for scaling a statue of Richard the Lionheart during a Votes for Women…
www.heraldscotland.com
March 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
📣 STOP PRESS– Working-Class Suffragette Janet McCallum featured in The Herald!
📰 Article by Dani Garavelli features previously unpublished pix of a Holloway Prison Medal awarded by the Women’s Freedom League for Janet's 1908 campaign efforts.
Read the full story 👇🏽👇🏽
buff.ly/ukIYohi
📰 Article by Dani Garavelli features previously unpublished pix of a Holloway Prison Medal awarded by the Women’s Freedom League for Janet's 1908 campaign efforts.
Read the full story 👇🏽👇🏽
buff.ly/ukIYohi
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🎖👀 We've been collaborating w/ the McCallum family to uncover more of Janet's history, and we support the student-led @campaignforjanetmccallum (on insta) to name a new high school after her!
If you haven't yet cast your #VOTEforJANET then today is the day! Link in our bio and via images below!
If you haven't yet cast your #VOTEforJANET then today is the day! Link in our bio and via images below!
March 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
🎖👀 We've been collaborating w/ the McCallum family to uncover more of Janet's history, and we support the student-led @campaignforjanetmccallum (on insta) to name a new high school after her!
If you haven't yet cast your #VOTEforJANET then today is the day! Link in our bio and via images below!
If you haven't yet cast your #VOTEforJANET then today is the day! Link in our bio and via images below!
Oh well... :-D
February 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Oh well... :-D
"And what one has is a case of institutional reflexivity: toilet segregation is presented as a natural consequence of the difference between the sex-classes, when in fact it is rather a means of honoring, if not producing, this difference."
Erving Goffman, 'The Arrangement between the Sexes' (1977)
Erving Goffman, 'The Arrangement between the Sexes' (1977)
February 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"And what one has is a case of institutional reflexivity: toilet segregation is presented as a natural consequence of the difference between the sex-classes, when in fact it is rather a means of honoring, if not producing, this difference."
Erving Goffman, 'The Arrangement between the Sexes' (1977)
Erving Goffman, 'The Arrangement between the Sexes' (1977)
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Mary, Queen of Scots’ last letter will be on display in Perth Museum later this year as part of the National Library of Scotland’s centenary celebrations 📜✍🏽
#NLS100
#NLS100
January 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Mary, Queen of Scots’ last letter will be on display in Perth Museum later this year as part of the National Library of Scotland’s centenary celebrations 📜✍🏽
#NLS100
#NLS100
They really don't like platforms that they can't control...
having succeeded in purchasing positions of influence inside the White House, the billionaires and tech VCs have now set their sights back on Wikipedia
January 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
They really don't like platforms that they can't control...
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All institutions are made up of individuals.
Individuals can say "no". If enough individuals refuse, orders don't get carried out.
It's hardest for the first person, but often you discover that others want to say "no", but haven't the practice that gives you courage.
1/3
Individuals can say "no". If enough individuals refuse, orders don't get carried out.
It's hardest for the first person, but often you discover that others want to say "no", but haven't the practice that gives you courage.
1/3
January 24, 2025 at 9:28 AM
All institutions are made up of individuals.
Individuals can say "no". If enough individuals refuse, orders don't get carried out.
It's hardest for the first person, but often you discover that others want to say "no", but haven't the practice that gives you courage.
1/3
Individuals can say "no". If enough individuals refuse, orders don't get carried out.
It's hardest for the first person, but often you discover that others want to say "no", but haven't the practice that gives you courage.
1/3
I've signed up to run a fun, night time 5k at the Kelpies in March and I'm raising money for LGBT Youth Scotland.
Being young and queer remains harder than it needs to be and these folks do a grand job.
If you can, please consider chipping in to help. Thanks!
www.justgiving.com/page/gray-mi...
Being young and queer remains harder than it needs to be and these folks do a grand job.
If you can, please consider chipping in to help. Thanks!
www.justgiving.com/page/gray-mi...
Gray's fundraiser for LGBT Youth Scotland
Help Gray Mitchell raise money to support LGBT Youth Scotland
www.justgiving.com
January 9, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I've signed up to run a fun, night time 5k at the Kelpies in March and I'm raising money for LGBT Youth Scotland.
Being young and queer remains harder than it needs to be and these folks do a grand job.
If you can, please consider chipping in to help. Thanks!
www.justgiving.com/page/gray-mi...
Being young and queer remains harder than it needs to be and these folks do a grand job.
If you can, please consider chipping in to help. Thanks!
www.justgiving.com/page/gray-mi...
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Want my wedding ring? Come and try to take it.
December 3, 2024 at 1:00 AM
Want my wedding ring? Come and try to take it.