kj(erstit)/kirsty
@kjerstit.bsky.social
Scandi goth in London. Can't live without books.
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Here (open letter you can sign): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Another template here too: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Another template here too: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Letter to member of the Women and Equalities Committee, June 2025
Please fill out the form below by Friday, 20 June 2025, to add your signature to this letter. Share this form widely to anyone who might be interested.
The author, Anna Langley, is doing this to help...
docs.google.com
June 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Here (open letter you can sign): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Another template here too: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Another template here too: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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In finally admitting that they're trying to take away our rights, they're also admitting that we have exercised these rights for years -decades- and there hasn't ever, ever been an issue with it
June 6, 2025 at 7:50 AM
In finally admitting that they're trying to take away our rights, they're also admitting that we have exercised these rights for years -decades- and there hasn't ever, ever been an issue with it
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Anne-Marie Stephenson's follow list on here showed a preponderance of transphobes that throws doubt on her capacity to be impartial on trans issues.
The fact she had that follow list purged once she was announced as preferred candidate for EHRC chair indicates that she knew it was a smoking gun.
The fact she had that follow list purged once she was announced as preferred candidate for EHRC chair indicates that she knew it was a smoking gun.
June 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Anne-Marie Stephenson's follow list on here showed a preponderance of transphobes that throws doubt on her capacity to be impartial on trans issues.
The fact she had that follow list purged once she was announced as preferred candidate for EHRC chair indicates that she knew it was a smoking gun.
The fact she had that follow list purged once she was announced as preferred candidate for EHRC chair indicates that she knew it was a smoking gun.
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I feel like “a surprisingly small number of people who all know each other, in two closely overlapping and interacting sectors, slowly drove themselves and each other completely wacko apeshit over the course of a decade” is probably more likely than whatever societal diagnosis we decide fits best
This one’s real easy: you got old and comfortable and reactionary, and now you think the Daily Mail has a point. A much more helpful and revealing question than “Are kids selfish and dumb” would be “Why is this bigotry acutely localised to politics and journalism?”
June 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I feel like “a surprisingly small number of people who all know each other, in two closely overlapping and interacting sectors, slowly drove themselves and each other completely wacko apeshit over the course of a decade” is probably more likely than whatever societal diagnosis we decide fits best
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"We need to quote a bigot to show how marginalised groups face bigotry" is something I doubt they'd do for other marginalised groups, and if they did they'd likely make it very clear that the bigot is to be understood as the foil of the piece, rather than just as an opposing perspective.
June 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"We need to quote a bigot to show how marginalised groups face bigotry" is something I doubt they'd do for other marginalised groups, and if they did they'd likely make it very clear that the bigot is to be understood as the foil of the piece, rather than just as an opposing perspective.
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Got my terrible response from the BBC regarding their coverage of What It Feels Like For A Girl, explicitly asking them why they felt the need to incorporate quotes from an anti-trans crank in their coverage of a trans drama, and that they wouldn't ask a homophobe for a quote covering gay drama.
June 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Got my terrible response from the BBC regarding their coverage of What It Feels Like For A Girl, explicitly asking them why they felt the need to incorporate quotes from an anti-trans crank in their coverage of a trans drama, and that they wouldn't ask a homophobe for a quote covering gay drama.
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Think what denying transition or forced detransition mean. It is asserting control over another's self and body. It's visceral evidence you do not belong to yourself, that parts of you are entirely at someone's mercy and caprice.
June 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Think what denying transition or forced detransition mean. It is asserting control over another's self and body. It's visceral evidence you do not belong to yourself, that parts of you are entirely at someone's mercy and caprice.
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Happy Pride month, all! Way back in 2018 I made these galaxy pride flags. They were shared many thousands of times, featured on Vice, and even made their way onto book covers and into video games.
Here are the original ones I created (in no particular order!) so Bluesky can have them too. 💙
Here are the original ones I created (in no particular order!) so Bluesky can have them too. 💙
June 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Happy Pride month, all! Way back in 2018 I made these galaxy pride flags. They were shared many thousands of times, featured on Vice, and even made their way onto book covers and into video games.
Here are the original ones I created (in no particular order!) so Bluesky can have them too. 💙
Here are the original ones I created (in no particular order!) so Bluesky can have them too. 💙
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i've spent nearly every class in my master's program researching this shit & yes, it really does matter that libraries get supportive feedback from their patrons about things like queer programming & pride displays. libraries have tiny budgets & they need to know that the community is benefitting
hey here's something I would love us all to do like RIGHT NOW: find out if your local library is doing any kind of pride programming or display, and if they are, email them to say thank you and why it matters to you. whether or not you're queer. especially if you're in an area where it's fraught
June 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM
i've spent nearly every class in my master's program researching this shit & yes, it really does matter that libraries get supportive feedback from their patrons about things like queer programming & pride displays. libraries have tiny budgets & they need to know that the community is benefitting
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Sonia can’t say “I strongly approve of these crackdowns on universities and students”, because that would make her look like a weird far right crank. But she does, so she says this instead.
June 3, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Sonia can’t say “I strongly approve of these crackdowns on universities and students”, because that would make her look like a weird far right crank. But she does, so she says this instead.
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All right, you want to hear about butterflies digesting stuff with an internal reproductive organ, huh?
June 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM
All right, you want to hear about butterflies digesting stuff with an internal reproductive organ, huh?
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The film is called "What it Feels Like for a Girl" and it's a coming of age story about a trans teen. They can't even let us tell our own damn stories without turning it into an opportunity to be transphobic.
June 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The film is called "What it Feels Like for a Girl" and it's a coming of age story about a trans teen. They can't even let us tell our own damn stories without turning it into an opportunity to be transphobic.
One of my all time favourite books, now for virtually nothing *and* on Kobo!
June 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
One of my all time favourite books, now for virtually nothing *and* on Kobo!
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The Government Should Not Torture People™.
Not if they’re trans.
Or cis.
Or children.
Or adults.
Or convicted of criminal offences.
Or any kind of person whatsoever.
No fucking torture.
Not if they’re trans.
Or cis.
Or children.
Or adults.
Or convicted of criminal offences.
Or any kind of person whatsoever.
No fucking torture.
May 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The Government Should Not Torture People™.
Not if they’re trans.
Or cis.
Or children.
Or adults.
Or convicted of criminal offences.
Or any kind of person whatsoever.
No fucking torture.
Not if they’re trans.
Or cis.
Or children.
Or adults.
Or convicted of criminal offences.
Or any kind of person whatsoever.
No fucking torture.
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@robertmullins.bsky.social's latest on UKCLA. For those keeping score, they've now published 2 blogs criticising the judgment (in the round) and 1 blog supporting it. Short summary: the "sex at birth" interpretation the UKSC pushed for actually produces the confusion it claims to avoid. Whelp. 1/
Robert Mullins: For Women Scotland: Fastening the “Biological” Straitjacket ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/05/22/r...
Robert Mullins: For Women Scotland: Fastening the “Biological” Straitjacket
In her excellent and informed critique of the Supreme Court’s judgment in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16 (“FWS”), Crash Wigley notes that in its judgment the Court negle…
ukconstitutionallaw.org
May 22, 2025 at 8:43 AM
@robertmullins.bsky.social's latest on UKCLA. For those keeping score, they've now published 2 blogs criticising the judgment (in the round) and 1 blog supporting it. Short summary: the "sex at birth" interpretation the UKSC pushed for actually produces the confusion it claims to avoid. Whelp. 1/
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Shabana Mahmood is a hideous authoritarian coming for your bodily autonomy
May 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Shabana Mahmood is a hideous authoritarian coming for your bodily autonomy
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My opposition to generative AI comes from the fact it's a massively wasteful technology built on theft of art and the human experience of creating and viewing art, so if it "works" I actually hate it more.
Bluesky lives in a fantasy world were LLMs are useless plagiarism machines. When the reality is they generally work. Just not well enough for the way the masses are using them. Most people can’t handle something that is sometimes wrong.
I encounter more and more people in real life lately who think AI genuinely is some kind of truth machine and it feels like they are living on a different planet in a way that is just incredibly distressing
May 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
My opposition to generative AI comes from the fact it's a massively wasteful technology built on theft of art and the human experience of creating and viewing art, so if it "works" I actually hate it more.
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Hey yeah so the bench is over there, squat rack here, btw, before you workout, in a friendly and sensitive way, I've assessed your body and need to see a document nobody carries
May 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Hey yeah so the bench is over there, squat rack here, btw, before you workout, in a friendly and sensitive way, I've assessed your body and need to see a document nobody carries
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More performance from Labour.
People that keep our public realm in good shape are skilled and yet this is framed as punishment work. You can also bet that there is plenty of exploitation to be had here at the risk of people's actual jobs.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
People that keep our public realm in good shape are skilled and yet this is framed as punishment work. You can also bet that there is plenty of exploitation to be had here at the risk of people's actual jobs.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Criminals could fill potholes and clean bins under government plans
Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood is said to want to expand unpaid work, which she believes to be too lenient.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM
More performance from Labour.
People that keep our public realm in good shape are skilled and yet this is framed as punishment work. You can also bet that there is plenty of exploitation to be had here at the risk of people's actual jobs.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
People that keep our public realm in good shape are skilled and yet this is framed as punishment work. You can also bet that there is plenty of exploitation to be had here at the risk of people's actual jobs.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Amazingly, the wheels are falling off fast the false EHRC statement. goodlaw.social/2y7y
The wheels are falling off the false EHRC guidance | Good Law Project
The EHRC said that the law was clear. So why do they want so much time to clarify it?
goodlaw.social
May 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Amazingly, the wheels are falling off fast the false EHRC statement. goodlaw.social/2y7y
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you’ll note from gender critical target selection that they are always ‘saving women’ from some outgroup, whether it’s trans people or immigrants, and never addressing male violence or structural inequality or anything else that might actually threaten the status quo or their position within it
April 23, 2025 at 8:14 AM
you’ll note from gender critical target selection that they are always ‘saving women’ from some outgroup, whether it’s trans people or immigrants, and never addressing male violence or structural inequality or anything else that might actually threaten the status quo or their position within it
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Today, the EHRC are supposedly launching a consultation on their plans for trans segregation. To mark the occasion, I've been looking at my notes from 2009. As part of consultations for the Equality Bill, the EHRC held multiple meetings with all affected groups - including of course trans people.
May 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Today, the EHRC are supposedly launching a consultation on their plans for trans segregation. To mark the occasion, I've been looking at my notes from 2009. As part of consultations for the Equality Bill, the EHRC held multiple meetings with all affected groups - including of course trans people.
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Have a think about what this actually means, and what this government appears to believe “subversion” is.
May 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Have a think about what this actually means, and what this government appears to believe “subversion” is.