Josie Giles
@hjosephinegiles.bsky.social
Writer. www.harryjosephine.com
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Want to come see my gay sci fi love story with live string quartet this summer?
26th June 2025 - St Magnus International Festival, Orkney
18th + 19th July 2025 - The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
25th + 26th July 2025 - Eden Court, Inverness
www.scissorkick.co.uk/tour
26th June 2025 - St Magnus International Festival, Orkney
18th + 19th July 2025 - The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
25th + 26th July 2025 - Eden Court, Inverness
www.scissorkick.co.uk/tour
This poem does not support Palestine Action
words on terror
open.substack.com
July 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I'm teaching a course at Moniack Mhor in September, with Hannah Lavery, & our guest is Roger Robinson.
It's space to think about how politics & writing intertwine, what we can & can't do with words, the possibilities and frustrations of activist writing.
www.moniackmhor.org.uk/courses/2537...
It's space to think about how politics & writing intertwine, what we can & can't do with words, the possibilities and frustrations of activist writing.
www.moniackmhor.org.uk/courses/2537...
July 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I'm teaching a course at Moniack Mhor in September, with Hannah Lavery, & our guest is Roger Robinson.
It's space to think about how politics & writing intertwine, what we can & can't do with words, the possibilities and frustrations of activist writing.
www.moniackmhor.org.uk/courses/2537...
It's space to think about how politics & writing intertwine, what we can & can't do with words, the possibilities and frustrations of activist writing.
www.moniackmhor.org.uk/courses/2537...
Some words from Poland on multilingualism, with a speculative translation of Màiri Mhòr at the end:
I'm sick of English bullshit
I'm really fucking sick
Sorry not sorry my song's so long
I'm sick of English bullshit
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/in-transla...
I'm sick of English bullshit
I'm really fucking sick
Sorry not sorry my song's so long
I'm sick of English bullshit
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/in-transla...
In Translation
Notes on multilinguality
hjosephinegiles.substack.com
July 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Some words from Poland on multilingualism, with a speculative translation of Màiri Mhòr at the end:
I'm sick of English bullshit
I'm really fucking sick
Sorry not sorry my song's so long
I'm sick of English bullshit
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/in-transla...
I'm sick of English bullshit
I'm really fucking sick
Sorry not sorry my song's so long
I'm sick of English bullshit
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/in-transla...
Reposted by Josie Giles
This hits very hard.
I, and many of my trans colleagues, operated from this logic by default. Many now, I think, are waking up to its flaws. Some, sadly, still do not and cling to the hope of a quick fix or compromise.
I, and many of my trans colleagues, operated from this logic by default. Many now, I think, are waking up to its flaws. Some, sadly, still do not and cling to the hope of a quick fix or compromise.
June 16, 2025 at 9:02 AM
This hits very hard.
I, and many of my trans colleagues, operated from this logic by default. Many now, I think, are waking up to its flaws. Some, sadly, still do not and cling to the hope of a quick fix or compromise.
I, and many of my trans colleagues, operated from this logic by default. Many now, I think, are waking up to its flaws. Some, sadly, still do not and cling to the hope of a quick fix or compromise.
Reposted by Josie Giles
"We cannot show segregation as the moral abhorrence, practical disaster and mechanism of terrifying social control that it is with open letters, symbolic protests and lobbying campaigns. We show segregation for what it is by collectively making segregation impossible to enforce"
"Your trans colleagues are receiving emails from their bosses saying that they have to use segregated facilities because they’re frightened of getting sued.
"You have to be able to present those bosses with something scarier than the anti-trans legal budget."
substack.com/home/post/p-...
"You have to be able to present those bosses with something scarier than the anti-trans legal budget."
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Stepping Over the Line
Notes on resisting trans segregation
substack.com
June 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
"We cannot show segregation as the moral abhorrence, practical disaster and mechanism of terrifying social control that it is with open letters, symbolic protests and lobbying campaigns. We show segregation for what it is by collectively making segregation impossible to enforce"
"Your trans colleagues are receiving emails from their bosses saying that they have to use segregated facilities because they’re frightened of getting sued.
"You have to be able to present those bosses with something scarier than the anti-trans legal budget."
substack.com/home/post/p-...
"You have to be able to present those bosses with something scarier than the anti-trans legal budget."
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Stepping Over the Line
Notes on resisting trans segregation
substack.com
June 16, 2025 at 8:09 AM
"Your trans colleagues are receiving emails from their bosses saying that they have to use segregated facilities because they’re frightened of getting sued.
"You have to be able to present those bosses with something scarier than the anti-trans legal budget."
substack.com/home/post/p-...
"You have to be able to present those bosses with something scarier than the anti-trans legal budget."
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Reposted by Josie Giles
I started screengrabbing excerpts of @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social's latest to share, and then had to stop because I was screengrabbing all of it: hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/stepping-o...
Stepping Over the Line
Notes on resisting trans segregation
hjosephinegiles.substack.com
June 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I started screengrabbing excerpts of @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social's latest to share, and then had to stop because I was screengrabbing all of it: hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/stepping-o...
I went to visit the last great auk.
"This extinction belongs to me, and I belong to it. I’m named for it. It’s my history, in my place. I came to Fowl Craig to pay my respects to my King."
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/klumsed
"This extinction belongs to me, and I belong to it. I’m named for it. It’s my history, in my place. I came to Fowl Craig to pay my respects to my King."
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/klumsed
Klumsed
On losing voices
hjosephinegiles.substack.com
June 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I went to visit the last great auk.
"This extinction belongs to me, and I belong to it. I’m named for it. It’s my history, in my place. I came to Fowl Craig to pay my respects to my King."
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/klumsed
"This extinction belongs to me, and I belong to it. I’m named for it. It’s my history, in my place. I came to Fowl Craig to pay my respects to my King."
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/klumsed
May 19, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Want to come see my gay sci fi love story with live string quartet this summer?
26th June 2025 - St Magnus International Festival, Orkney
18th + 19th July 2025 - The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
25th + 26th July 2025 - Eden Court, Inverness
www.scissorkick.co.uk/tour
26th June 2025 - St Magnus International Festival, Orkney
18th + 19th July 2025 - The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
25th + 26th July 2025 - Eden Court, Inverness
www.scissorkick.co.uk/tour
May 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Want to come see my gay sci fi love story with live string quartet this summer?
26th June 2025 - St Magnus International Festival, Orkney
18th + 19th July 2025 - The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
25th + 26th July 2025 - Eden Court, Inverness
www.scissorkick.co.uk/tour
26th June 2025 - St Magnus International Festival, Orkney
18th + 19th July 2025 - The Lemon Tree, Aberdeen
25th + 26th July 2025 - Eden Court, Inverness
www.scissorkick.co.uk/tour
"We learn more about trans life from figures who are worrying and incomprehensible than we do from any potted biography of a political hero. If we look at our inauthentic origins and find them true, we can better live as the contradictions we are."
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/on-transfi...
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/on-transfi...
On Transfixion
William Sharp and Fiona Macleod: Epilogue
hjosephinegiles.substack.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:56 AM
"We learn more about trans life from figures who are worrying and incomprehensible than we do from any potted biography of a political hero. If we look at our inauthentic origins and find them true, we can better live as the contradictions we are."
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/on-transfi...
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/on-transfi...
Stùc an Lochain
Tuppi o the Lochan
Lochan’s Pinnacle
#Munros4TransLiberation NUMBER ONE HUNDRED
munros4translib.wordpress.com/2025/04/22/1...
Tuppi o the Lochan
Lochan’s Pinnacle
#Munros4TransLiberation NUMBER ONE HUNDRED
munros4translib.wordpress.com/2025/04/22/1...
100: Stùc an Lochain
I’m stood on the summit of my hundredth hill, looking south at all the other hills I’ve climbed. There’s snow on the higher peaks of the Lawers range, grey cloud shrouding Sìth Ch…
munros4translib.wordpress.com
April 22, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Stùc an Lochain
Tuppi o the Lochan
Lochan’s Pinnacle
#Munros4TransLiberation NUMBER ONE HUNDRED
munros4translib.wordpress.com/2025/04/22/1...
Tuppi o the Lochan
Lochan’s Pinnacle
#Munros4TransLiberation NUMBER ONE HUNDRED
munros4translib.wordpress.com/2025/04/22/1...
If you're at a trans liberation protest today, here's some chants and songs for you! Print and share and use!
Chants: transhealthuk.noblogs.org/resources-fo...
Songs: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zni6r...
Chants: transhealthuk.noblogs.org/resources-fo...
Songs: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zni6r...
April 19, 2025 at 9:31 AM
If you're at a trans liberation protest today, here's some chants and songs for you! Print and share and use!
Chants: transhealthuk.noblogs.org/resources-fo...
Songs: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zni6r...
Chants: transhealthuk.noblogs.org/resources-fo...
Songs: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zni6r...
[Community healthcare clinic]
Me: [chanting] blood, blood-
Other queers: blood, BLOOD
Implausibly hot trans woman: [pounding her clipboard] BLOOD, BLOOD, BLOOD!
www.gofundme.com/f/blood-test...
Me: [chanting] blood, blood-
Other queers: blood, BLOOD
Implausibly hot trans woman: [pounding her clipboard] BLOOD, BLOOD, BLOOD!
www.gofundme.com/f/blood-test...
Donate to Blood tests for trans people in Edinburgh, organized by Josie Giles
We're raising money for a pilot scheme to provide free blood tests to trans peop… Josie Giles needs your support for Blood tests for trans people in Edinburgh
www.gofundme.com
April 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
[Community healthcare clinic]
Me: [chanting] blood, blood-
Other queers: blood, BLOOD
Implausibly hot trans woman: [pounding her clipboard] BLOOD, BLOOD, BLOOD!
www.gofundme.com/f/blood-test...
Me: [chanting] blood, blood-
Other queers: blood, BLOOD
Implausibly hot trans woman: [pounding her clipboard] BLOOD, BLOOD, BLOOD!
www.gofundme.com/f/blood-test...
If you want to do a practical thing for trans people, please support and share this fundraiser.
We're organising blood tests for trans people excluded by healthcare. This is the work I wrote about yesterday!
Thank you so much for you kind words and help.
www.gofundme.com/f/blood-test...
We're organising blood tests for trans people excluded by healthcare. This is the work I wrote about yesterday!
Thank you so much for you kind words and help.
www.gofundme.com/f/blood-test...
Donate to Blood tests for trans people in Edinburgh, organized by Josie Giles
We're raising money for a pilot scheme to provide free blood tests to trans peop… Josie Giles needs your support for Blood tests for trans people in Edinburgh
www.gofundme.com
April 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
If you want to do a practical thing for trans people, please support and share this fundraiser.
We're organising blood tests for trans people excluded by healthcare. This is the work I wrote about yesterday!
Thank you so much for you kind words and help.
www.gofundme.com/f/blood-test...
We're organising blood tests for trans people excluded by healthcare. This is the work I wrote about yesterday!
Thank you so much for you kind words and help.
www.gofundme.com/f/blood-test...
The Supreme Court is wishing a problem away and so gifting more problems to trans lives. Those lives can, must and will continue being lived in their fullness and their joy. My sisters, please give all your love to each other and none of it to the state.
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/while-the-...
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/while-the-...
While the Supreme Court ruled, I tore up a fence
On being trans and living a life
hjosephinegiles.substack.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The Supreme Court is wishing a problem away and so gifting more problems to trans lives. Those lives can, must and will continue being lived in their fullness and their joy. My sisters, please give all your love to each other and none of it to the state.
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/while-the-...
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/while-the-...
Reposted by Josie Giles
What do H.P. Lovecraft, Jean Sibelius, Carson McCullers and a 1970s medium in the Isle of Wight have in common?
That’s right, it’s our friend Fiona Macleod.
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/on-ghosts
That’s right, it’s our friend Fiona Macleod.
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/on-ghosts
On Ghosts
William Sharp and Fiona Macleod, Part Four
hjosephinegiles.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
What do H.P. Lovecraft, Jean Sibelius, Carson McCullers and a 1970s medium in the Isle of Wight have in common?
That’s right, it’s our friend Fiona Macleod.
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/on-ghosts
That’s right, it’s our friend Fiona Macleod.
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/on-ghosts
Reposted by Josie Giles
If you thought the story of William Sharp and Fiona Macleod I've been telling couldn’t get any weirder, let me now tell you about how Tennessee Williams’ lover met them at a seance.
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/on-ghosts
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/on-ghosts
On Ghosts
William Sharp and Fiona Macleod, Part Four
hjosephinegiles.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
If you thought the story of William Sharp and Fiona Macleod I've been telling couldn’t get any weirder, let me now tell you about how Tennessee Williams’ lover met them at a seance.
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/on-ghosts
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/on-ghosts
If you thought the story of William Sharp and Fiona Macleod I've been telling couldn’t get any weirder, let me now tell you about how Tennessee Williams’ lover met them at a seance.
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/on-ghosts
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/on-ghosts
On Ghosts
William Sharp and Fiona Macleod, Part Four
hjosephinegiles.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
If you thought the story of William Sharp and Fiona Macleod I've been telling couldn’t get any weirder, let me now tell you about how Tennessee Williams’ lover met them at a seance.
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/on-ghosts
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/on-ghosts
What do H.P. Lovecraft, Jean Sibelius, Carson McCullers and a 1970s medium in the Isle of Wight have in common?
That’s right, it’s our friend Fiona Macleod.
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/on-ghosts
That’s right, it’s our friend Fiona Macleod.
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/on-ghosts
On Ghosts
William Sharp and Fiona Macleod, Part Four
hjosephinegiles.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
What do H.P. Lovecraft, Jean Sibelius, Carson McCullers and a 1970s medium in the Isle of Wight have in common?
That’s right, it’s our friend Fiona Macleod.
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/on-ghosts
That’s right, it’s our friend Fiona Macleod.
hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/on-ghosts
In May I'm going to walk the outline of Gaza across Edinburgh and Midlothian, as part of a group raising emergency funds for displaced families from Gaza.
I'd be really grateful if you'd contribute.
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
I'd be really grateful if you'd contribute.
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
Help raise £400000 to support families in Gaza – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to support families in Gaza. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
www.justgiving.com
April 14, 2025 at 9:39 AM
In May I'm going to walk the outline of Gaza across Edinburgh and Midlothian, as part of a group raising emergency funds for displaced families from Gaza.
I'd be really grateful if you'd contribute.
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
I'd be really grateful if you'd contribute.
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
My pal Dr Christina Neuwirth has today released the results of 7 years of research into gender inequality in Scottish literature. I'm so, so proud of them.
www.quinereport.com
www.quinereport.com
April 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
My pal Dr Christina Neuwirth has today released the results of 7 years of research into gender inequality in Scottish literature. I'm so, so proud of them.
www.quinereport.com
www.quinereport.com
Cruachan Beann is Stob Daimh
Rucksome Ben an Hert’s Stab
Hill of Stacks and Stag’s Stump
#Munros4TransLiberation 98-99
munros4translib.wordpress.com/2025/04/08/9...
Rucksome Ben an Hert’s Stab
Hill of Stacks and Stag’s Stump
#Munros4TransLiberation 98-99
munros4translib.wordpress.com/2025/04/08/9...
98 & 99: Cruachan Beann is Stob Daimh
A great overwhelm. I’d had a long stretch of hard work, new experiences and strong emotions, and was looking to release it all in the quiet of the hills. But instead the hill of peaks kept up…
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April 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Cruachan Beann is Stob Daimh
Rucksome Ben an Hert’s Stab
Hill of Stacks and Stag’s Stump
#Munros4TransLiberation 98-99
munros4translib.wordpress.com/2025/04/08/9...
Rucksome Ben an Hert’s Stab
Hill of Stacks and Stag’s Stump
#Munros4TransLiberation 98-99
munros4translib.wordpress.com/2025/04/08/9...