Emma Woolerton
@ewoolerton.bsky.social
Writer (just completed MFA at York St John, retelling Greek myths in 1980s Britain). She/her
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If the Equality Act had never existed, and someone proposed to pass a law banning women’s organisations from choosing to welcome trans people, we’d think it was a pretty extreme proposal. I don’t think it’s less extreme because it’s come about as a result of a new interpretation of an old law.
December 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
If the Equality Act had never existed, and someone proposed to pass a law banning women’s organisations from choosing to welcome trans people, we’d think it was a pretty extreme proposal. I don’t think it’s less extreme because it’s come about as a result of a new interpretation of an old law.
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if you are concerned that magistrates are being given more powers and you think that the demographics of magistrates might mean that these powers are unfairly deployed, a good thing to do is to look up the qualifications to become a magistrate and to think seriously about doing that yourself
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
if you are concerned that magistrates are being given more powers and you think that the demographics of magistrates might mean that these powers are unfairly deployed, a good thing to do is to look up the qualifications to become a magistrate and to think seriously about doing that yourself
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Moratorium on posh novelists/screenwriters writing about working class people disrupting a posh family out of spite & desire; more novels by working class people writing working class characters who occasionally have to interact with the rich and are like: what the fuck is this bullshit.
October 12, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Moratorium on posh novelists/screenwriters writing about working class people disrupting a posh family out of spite & desire; more novels by working class people writing working class characters who occasionally have to interact with the rich and are like: what the fuck is this bullshit.
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Farming is “worthless” as a career if you decide - as many retail businesses did - that you won’t pay properly for its products. That doesn’t mean we don’t need food any more.
October 8, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Farming is “worthless” as a career if you decide - as many retail businesses did - that you won’t pay properly for its products. That doesn’t mean we don’t need food any more.
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It’s clear that the cruelty is the point. Anything to distress, frighten, undermine, create divisions. And the answer has to be to say ‘no’, ‘never’, not ‘this wouldn’t work’. Anything less is complicity.
September 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
It’s clear that the cruelty is the point. Anything to distress, frighten, undermine, create divisions. And the answer has to be to say ‘no’, ‘never’, not ‘this wouldn’t work’. Anything less is complicity.
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So knickers and bras is a no-no but can fellas go into the ladies shoes department? Handbags? Ooh, what about tights? And is the bit of the shelf in the Co-op with the tampons off limits too? Gosh, it’s all terribly confusing, almost like it’s utter bullshit.
Notably in here: "Sex Matters" now taking the position that even the "Men's" and "Women's" sections of a clothing retailer should be regarded as prescriptive "single sex spaces" where anyone they judge to be the "wrong" sex/gender should not be allowed.
August 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
So knickers and bras is a no-no but can fellas go into the ladies shoes department? Handbags? Ooh, what about tights? And is the bit of the shelf in the Co-op with the tampons off limits too? Gosh, it’s all terribly confusing, almost like it’s utter bullshit.
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“The ‘grown women’ of Ireland remember very well what erasure and control and lack of bodily autonomy feel like and it’s for this very reason that we stand so passionately with the trans community today”
#TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie
#TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie
August 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
“The ‘grown women’ of Ireland remember very well what erasure and control and lack of bodily autonomy feel like and it’s for this very reason that we stand so passionately with the trans community today”
#TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie
#TransRightsAreHumanRights @independent.ie
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Every tech billionaire’s personality can be distilled down to “what if friend computer?”
July 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Every tech billionaire’s personality can be distilled down to “what if friend computer?”
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A lot of people who are like “you shouldn’t eat this, you shouldn’t eat that” couldn’t even point to Potato on a map
July 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
A lot of people who are like “you shouldn’t eat this, you shouldn’t eat that” couldn’t even point to Potato on a map
Very pleased and chuffed to get my author copy of the @yorkliteraryreview.bsky.social, and especially honoured that my short piece, "Landscaping", was added to with a beautiful little illustration. Huge thanks to all the YLR team.
June 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Very pleased and chuffed to get my author copy of the @yorkliteraryreview.bsky.social, and especially honoured that my short piece, "Landscaping", was added to with a beautiful little illustration. Huge thanks to all the YLR team.
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A takeaway from this debate - pretty much all the supportive MPs quoted their constituents as to why they support trans rights. We are cutting through
Keep writing to your MPs. If you wrote last month, write again. Write to your MP until you can’t type anymore. Make our voices impossible to ignore
Keep writing to your MPs. If you wrote last month, write again. Write to your MP until you can’t type anymore. Make our voices impossible to ignore
I'm watching Parliament's debate on self-ID so you don't have to and it's not bad so far (reader, we are only 30 minutes in).
May 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
A takeaway from this debate - pretty much all the supportive MPs quoted their constituents as to why they support trans rights. We are cutting through
Keep writing to your MPs. If you wrote last month, write again. Write to your MP until you can’t type anymore. Make our voices impossible to ignore
Keep writing to your MPs. If you wrote last month, write again. Write to your MP until you can’t type anymore. Make our voices impossible to ignore
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Weird how the press allow Farage to self-identify as a working class man of the people when he was assigned son of a stockbroker at birth and spent most of his life presenting as a posh wanker
May 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Weird how the press allow Farage to self-identify as a working class man of the people when he was assigned son of a stockbroker at birth and spent most of his life presenting as a posh wanker
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I once again find myself wondering what this country would look like today if the Green Party had been given even half the media attention that Farage’s various vanity projects got over the last ten years.
May 2, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I once again find myself wondering what this country would look like today if the Green Party had been given even half the media attention that Farage’s various vanity projects got over the last ten years.
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⚽️ “Throughout it all, no matter what team I’ve played with, or who I play against, my teammates and my opponents have always been extremely supportive of me as a trans woman. I have never had a remark or issues with anyone on the pitch” - Fae Fulconis, for @metro.co.uk
#TransWomenBelongInFootball
#TransWomenBelongInFootball
The FA stopped me playing football because I'm trans - then offered therapy
My teammates and my opponents have always been extremely supportive of me as a trans woman.
metro.co.uk
May 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
⚽️ “Throughout it all, no matter what team I’ve played with, or who I play against, my teammates and my opponents have always been extremely supportive of me as a trans woman. I have never had a remark or issues with anyone on the pitch” - Fae Fulconis, for @metro.co.uk
#TransWomenBelongInFootball
#TransWomenBelongInFootball
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you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you
May 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you
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That Supreme Court ruling sure has exposed how quickly some people and companies will leap to jump onto the wrong side of history, given a shred of encouragement. Don’t be displaying those pride flags on your website if your “support” vanishes in a light breeze.
May 1, 2025 at 9:36 AM
That Supreme Court ruling sure has exposed how quickly some people and companies will leap to jump onto the wrong side of history, given a shred of encouragement. Don’t be displaying those pride flags on your website if your “support” vanishes in a light breeze.
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Reminder to cis journalists, editors, podcasters, etc: actually ask trans people to write and speak about the Supreme Court ruling and EHRC update.
Half of you don’t know the difference between a trans man and a trans woman. Your opinion isn’t needed. Ours is.
Half of you don’t know the difference between a trans man and a trans woman. Your opinion isn’t needed. Ours is.
April 29, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Reminder to cis journalists, editors, podcasters, etc: actually ask trans people to write and speak about the Supreme Court ruling and EHRC update.
Half of you don’t know the difference between a trans man and a trans woman. Your opinion isn’t needed. Ours is.
Half of you don’t know the difference between a trans man and a trans woman. Your opinion isn’t needed. Ours is.
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Just a reminder:
-I'm closed to unagented submissions UNLESS you're a trans or nb writer in UK. Send me your mss until the END OF APRIL!
-AGENTS! literary mysteries; lush prose; folk horror; upending genre, du Maurier-inflected, spin on the locked room, mash up w something like gothic, etc 💗
-I'm closed to unagented submissions UNLESS you're a trans or nb writer in UK. Send me your mss until the END OF APRIL!
-AGENTS! literary mysteries; lush prose; folk horror; upending genre, du Maurier-inflected, spin on the locked room, mash up w something like gothic, etc 💗
a close up of a man wearing a white shirt and a white hat .
Alt: a close up of a man wearing a white shirt and a white hat .
media.tenor.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Just a reminder:
-I'm closed to unagented submissions UNLESS you're a trans or nb writer in UK. Send me your mss until the END OF APRIL!
-AGENTS! literary mysteries; lush prose; folk horror; upending genre, du Maurier-inflected, spin on the locked room, mash up w something like gothic, etc 💗
-I'm closed to unagented submissions UNLESS you're a trans or nb writer in UK. Send me your mss until the END OF APRIL!
-AGENTS! literary mysteries; lush prose; folk horror; upending genre, du Maurier-inflected, spin on the locked room, mash up w something like gothic, etc 💗
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"Every time they try to destroy us,
we learn how to live forever."
we learn how to live forever."
April 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM
"Every time they try to destroy us,
we learn how to live forever."
we learn how to live forever."
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A statement from the Board of Trustees of the Vagina Museum regarding trans inclusion.
April 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
A statement from the Board of Trustees of the Vagina Museum regarding trans inclusion.
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"He knew his son
would outshine him
from the beginning,
so taught this child the
only thing he could:
The skill of taking
blades and wood,
and turning death
into something
else entirely."
would outshine him
from the beginning,
so taught this child the
only thing he could:
The skill of taking
blades and wood,
and turning death
into something
else entirely."
April 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
"He knew his son
would outshine him
from the beginning,
so taught this child the
only thing he could:
The skill of taking
blades and wood,
and turning death
into something
else entirely."
would outshine him
from the beginning,
so taught this child the
only thing he could:
The skill of taking
blades and wood,
and turning death
into something
else entirely."
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Pretty sickened by UK's Supreme Court 🤮
So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇
So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇
April 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Pretty sickened by UK's Supreme Court 🤮
So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇
So I'm opening my submission inbox to unagented trans authors in the UK until the END OF APRIL. I'm not currently open to general subs BUT if you're a trans author writing folk horror, weird, experimental, mystery, literary/upmkt fiction, take a look below 👇
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Still time to apply for this year's summer school, so keep the applications coming in! Learn ancient Greek -- and see Greek plays performed (or take part yourself), like last year's production of Aristophanes's Wasps! Head to www.greeksummerschool.org to apply #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky
March 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Still time to apply for this year's summer school, so keep the applications coming in! Learn ancient Greek -- and see Greek plays performed (or take part yourself), like last year's production of Aristophanes's Wasps! Head to www.greeksummerschool.org to apply #classicsbluesky #ancientbluesky