eel, i
@eliacugini.bsky.social
media/culture writer, autofiction phd student, public-facing transsexual. he/they
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eel, i
@eliacugini.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Against the rise of gender critical non-fiction
A case against the publishing industry's apolitical facade.
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pinned thread to help people find me on here:
hello! i'm eli, a UK culture writer (part-time) and contemporary literature PhD student (full-time). i put up this piece on transphobia and zionism in the publishing industry last month:
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hello! i'm eli, a UK culture writer (part-time) and contemporary literature PhD student (full-time). i put up this piece on transphobia and zionism in the publishing industry last month:
vashtimedia.com/books-transp...
just had my first gender clinic appointment after almost 5 years on the list. bit surreal. def backed up the general sense that TransPlus is the best clinic option in the UK alongside Manchester’s Indigo - gonna be writing up an account soon
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
just had my first gender clinic appointment after almost 5 years on the list. bit surreal. def backed up the general sense that TransPlus is the best clinic option in the UK alongside Manchester’s Indigo - gonna be writing up an account soon
just got offered a gender clinic appointment next week after five years on the list lol
November 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
just got offered a gender clinic appointment next week after five years on the list lol
regrettably this is so unsurprising - ghey has entirely capitulated to the cultural demand that she rewrite brianna as a victim of childhood transness rather than of transphobic murder. she’s betraying her daughter to save her own skin
Esther continually deadnamed Brianna during the call and honestly if you didn't already know what happened, you would have assumed suicide. There was no focus on external dangers or how we could combat them. The focus was purely about the dangers of how 'obsessed with social media' she was.
October 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
regrettably this is so unsurprising - ghey has entirely capitulated to the cultural demand that she rewrite brianna as a victim of childhood transness rather than of transphobic murder. she’s betraying her daughter to save her own skin
wrote up a quick account of a trans teenager who was murdered by their father [allegedly] and is being treated as a cis woman by all relevant media coverage. hasn't been picked up by queer media even though he wrapped them in a pride flag after killing them
eliacugini.medium.com/onyx-cornish...
eliacugini.medium.com/onyx-cornish...
Onyx Cornish (2007–2025) was a queer & trans teenager, allegedly murdered by their adoptive father.
Last week, a trans teenager was shot to death in their bedroom in Caldwell, Idaho; their father has allegedly confessed. The case has been…
eliacugini.medium.com
August 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
wrote up a quick account of a trans teenager who was murdered by their father [allegedly] and is being treated as a cis woman by all relevant media coverage. hasn't been picked up by queer media even though he wrapped them in a pride flag after killing them
eliacugini.medium.com/onyx-cornish...
eliacugini.medium.com/onyx-cornish...
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I think Onyx being trans should be salient to this reporting. He deserved so much better, and their memory still does
Delbert Cornish, who admitted to struggling with alcohol use and depression, told police he killed 18-year-old Hope "Onyx" Cornish because his brother had bullied her and his other children.
Idaho man told police he wrapped daughter's body in Pride flag after fatally shooting her
Delbert Cornish, who admitted to struggling with alcohol use and depression, told police he killed 18-year-old Hope "Onyx" Cornish because his brother had bullied her and his other children.
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August 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I think Onyx being trans should be salient to this reporting. He deserved so much better, and their memory still does
@support.bsky.team i have tried to verify my age via every available method you have provided me, and it won't accept any of them. i have been a legal adult for ten years, and i need to be able to message other activists on here for work
August 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
@support.bsky.team i have tried to verify my age via every available method you have provided me, and it won't accept any of them. i have been a legal adult for ten years, and i need to be able to message other activists on here for work
'i'll watch punch-drunk love, it's a rom-com' - man who is 60 minutes in and is now about as stressed as when he saw uncut gems
i'm watching my first paul thomas anderson movie!
July 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
'i'll watch punch-drunk love, it's a rom-com' - man who is 60 minutes in and is now about as stressed as when he saw uncut gems
i'm watching my first paul thomas anderson movie!
July 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
i'm watching my first paul thomas anderson movie!
'Positive masculinity' promises a compelling vision of happy, secure, gender-equal boys and men. But is it just an airbrushed reinforcement of traditional masculinity?
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
The problem with ‘positive masculinity’
In recent years, positive male role models have been touted as a means of saving young boys from the clutches of misogynistic influencers. But can ‘good patriarchs’ really eradicate misogyny?
www.dazeddigital.com
July 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
'Positive masculinity' promises a compelling vision of happy, secure, gender-equal boys and men. But is it just an airbrushed reinforcement of traditional masculinity?
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...
alex: bloody wimbledon
me: what's happened with wimbledon
alex: it's on
me: what's happened with wimbledon
alex: it's on
July 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
alex: bloody wimbledon
me: what's happened with wimbledon
alex: it's on
me: what's happened with wimbledon
alex: it's on
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"The literary festival is an institution that deserves more suspicion than it gets" writes @eliacugini.bsky.social, uncovering the right's co-option of the Oxford Literary Festival and the free speech industrial complex pumping its festering heart.
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How the Oxford Literary Festival became a haven for the right
Behind the liberal festival facade, the OLF is providing a platform for the right-wing Free Speech Union and cashing in on culture wars – and it's not alone.
vashtimedia.com
July 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"The literary festival is an institution that deserves more suspicion than it gets" writes @eliacugini.bsky.social, uncovering the right's co-option of the Oxford Literary Festival and the free speech industrial complex pumping its festering heart.
vashtimedia.com/how-the-oxfo...
vashtimedia.com/how-the-oxfo...
After the Oxford Literary Festival gave Sex Matters director Helen Joyce her first festival booking, I did a deep dive into the festival - and into how the right-wing 'free speech' grift is encroaching on British arts spaces, with potentially dangerous results.
vashtimedia.com/how-the-oxfo...
vashtimedia.com/how-the-oxfo...
How the Oxford Literary Festival became a haven for the right
Behind the liberal festival facade, the OLF is providing a platform for the right-wing Free Speech Union and cashing in on culture wars – and it's not alone.
vashtimedia.com
July 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
After the Oxford Literary Festival gave Sex Matters director Helen Joyce her first festival booking, I did a deep dive into the festival - and into how the right-wing 'free speech' grift is encroaching on British arts spaces, with potentially dangerous results.
vashtimedia.com/how-the-oxfo...
vashtimedia.com/how-the-oxfo...
watched je tu il elle and now i wanna howl at the moon
June 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
watched je tu il elle and now i wanna howl at the moon
periodic reminder that the right-wing Swift Press / Forum Press is publishing an alarming amount of ‘anti-woke’ conservative & reactionary nonfiction in the UK (including Abigail Shr*er’s work), and is backed by a massive indie press alliance headed by Faber & Faber
June 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
periodic reminder that the right-wing Swift Press / Forum Press is publishing an alarming amount of ‘anti-woke’ conservative & reactionary nonfiction in the UK (including Abigail Shr*er’s work), and is backed by a massive indie press alliance headed by Faber & Faber
tonight's episode of Genius Game is an all timer (i got a screener) and my girlfriend designed the main match !!
June 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
tonight's episode of Genius Game is an all timer (i got a screener) and my girlfriend designed the main match !!
sex is changeable; this is scientific reality. everything is changeable about sex - this is why changing it is punished with its revocation
June 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
sex is changeable; this is scientific reality. everything is changeable about sex - this is why changing it is punished with its revocation
who named them capybaras and not guinea bigs
June 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
who named them capybaras and not guinea bigs
i’m going to make yellow and green happen if it kills me
May 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
i’m going to make yellow and green happen if it kills me
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ok so an important thing i really think people on bluesky need to hear about the anti-trans megabill
the tl;dr is that you could actually turn the tide of trans rights in america right now
but if you don’t act now, then we’re all cooked indefinitely
please read on
🧵
the tl;dr is that you could actually turn the tide of trans rights in america right now
but if you don’t act now, then we’re all cooked indefinitely
please read on
🧵
May 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
ok so an important thing i really think people on bluesky need to hear about the anti-trans megabill
the tl;dr is that you could actually turn the tide of trans rights in america right now
but if you don’t act now, then we’re all cooked indefinitely
please read on
🧵
the tl;dr is that you could actually turn the tide of trans rights in america right now
but if you don’t act now, then we’re all cooked indefinitely
please read on
🧵
it's so funny to me when straight guys are like 'the dating market is doomed for straight men. women just want Chads' and then they show their dating profile and it makes it look like they want to feed you to their snake
May 17, 2025 at 10:30 AM
it's so funny to me when straight guys are like 'the dating market is doomed for straight men. women just want Chads' and then they show their dating profile and it makes it look like they want to feed you to their snake
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Manchester and Merseyside Disabled People Against Cuts have both jointly put out a statement criticising the EHRC for their active interventions against dealing with racism, disablism and transphobia under Kishwer Falkner.
manchesterdpac.com/2025/05/16/s...
manchesterdpac.com/2025/05/16/s...
Statement on the Pathways to Work Green Paper and the EHRC
The sustained attacks on disabled people by consecutive governments have been condemned by the United Nations since 2017, when they said that “there is reliable evidence that the threshold of grave…
manchesterdpac.com
May 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Manchester and Merseyside Disabled People Against Cuts have both jointly put out a statement criticising the EHRC for their active interventions against dealing with racism, disablism and transphobia under Kishwer Falkner.
manchesterdpac.com/2025/05/16/s...
manchesterdpac.com/2025/05/16/s...
for my debut with @lwlies.com i profiled ireland’s first trans & nonbinary film festival, TITE, at which i spent a very joyful and intense weekend in april
lwlies.com/festivals/ti...
lwlies.com/festivals/ti...
Challenging representation and centring trans community and craft at TITE 2025
The first edition of the Trans Image / Trans Experience Festival (TITE) in Dublin showcases the multitudes contained in the trans community while providing a vital sense of safety at a time of societa...
lwlies.com
May 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
for my debut with @lwlies.com i profiled ireland’s first trans & nonbinary film festival, TITE, at which i spent a very joyful and intense weekend in april
lwlies.com/festivals/ti...
lwlies.com/festivals/ti...
reminder that if you are a cool and sexy outlet, you could do a really cool and sexy thing during pride month by commissioning one of the UK's Extremely Small Number of trans people actively working in culture journalism. such as me hi
May 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
reminder that if you are a cool and sexy outlet, you could do a really cool and sexy thing during pride month by commissioning one of the UK's Extremely Small Number of trans people actively working in culture journalism. such as me hi
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New poem in www.aftershockreview.com edited by @maxwallis.bsky.social 💜
May 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
New poem in www.aftershockreview.com edited by @maxwallis.bsky.social 💜