Ruth Pearce
@notrightruth.bsky.social
Activist, punk musician, event promoter, feminist academic. Illegal lesbian.
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Ruth Pearce
@notrightruth.bsky.social
· Sep 25
Reject Trans Doom-Posting
This week I took the long train down to the south of England for my friend Robyn’s funeral. She died very suddenly three weeks ago, aged just 32. Robyn gave so much love to the world, and was so lo…
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New essay: REJECT TRANS DOOM-POSTING.
It's about grief, loss, institutional failures, and the horror of the current moment.
It's also a love letter to trans community, and the things we do with and for one another.
It's about grief, loss, institutional failures, and the horror of the current moment.
It's also a love letter to trans community, and the things we do with and for one another.
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Talia's second nonfiction book, Brown/Trans/Les, is out TOMORROW!
taliabhatt.itch.io/browntransles
taliabhatt.itch.io/browntransles
Brown/Trans/Les by Talia Bhatt
Essays on Transfeminism
taliabhatt.itch.io
January 25, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Talia's second nonfiction book, Brown/Trans/Les, is out TOMORROW!
taliabhatt.itch.io/browntransles
taliabhatt.itch.io/browntransles
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"To advance trans children’s rights, it is incumbent on policymakers, educators, and service providers to advocate actively for trans children’s meaningful involvement in decision making about their own lives. Accountability mechanisms are vitally important for upholding child rights"
New research on trans children and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC):
With the UNCRC recently incorporated into Scottish law, @fiercemum.bsky.social and I teamed up to discuss the urgent actions needed to protect trans children's rights.
brill.com/view/journal...
With the UNCRC recently incorporated into Scottish law, @fiercemum.bsky.social and I teamed up to discuss the urgent actions needed to protect trans children's rights.
brill.com/view/journal...
January 25, 2026 at 10:35 AM
"To advance trans children’s rights, it is incumbent on policymakers, educators, and service providers to advocate actively for trans children’s meaningful involvement in decision making about their own lives. Accountability mechanisms are vitally important for upholding child rights"
I was interviewed by @jamesmcenaney.bsky.social for the Herald this week - we discussed my new article with Dr Cal Horton on trans children's rights, what people need to know, and what can be done to support young people. We also touched on the wider issues facing trans-positive research!
January 25, 2026 at 10:47 AM
I was interviewed by @jamesmcenaney.bsky.social for the Herald this week - we discussed my new article with Dr Cal Horton on trans children's rights, what people need to know, and what can be done to support young people. We also touched on the wider issues facing trans-positive research!
New research on trans children and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC):
With the UNCRC recently incorporated into Scottish law, @fiercemum.bsky.social and I teamed up to discuss the urgent actions needed to protect trans children's rights.
brill.com/view/journal...
With the UNCRC recently incorporated into Scottish law, @fiercemum.bsky.social and I teamed up to discuss the urgent actions needed to protect trans children's rights.
brill.com/view/journal...
January 25, 2026 at 10:29 AM
New research on trans children and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC):
With the UNCRC recently incorporated into Scottish law, @fiercemum.bsky.social and I teamed up to discuss the urgent actions needed to protect trans children's rights.
brill.com/view/journal...
With the UNCRC recently incorporated into Scottish law, @fiercemum.bsky.social and I teamed up to discuss the urgent actions needed to protect trans children's rights.
brill.com/view/journal...
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The point must be made that anyone in our communities or workplaces who is alarmed, uncertain, repelled, can't comprehend what is happening in the US - yet is ambivalent or agnostic to the political temperature, public media narrative, and electoral rise of Reform in this country - needs to wake up.
January 25, 2026 at 10:17 AM
The point must be made that anyone in our communities or workplaces who is alarmed, uncertain, repelled, can't comprehend what is happening in the US - yet is ambivalent or agnostic to the political temperature, public media narrative, and electoral rise of Reform in this country - needs to wake up.
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This whole thread is well worth a read.
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 23, 2026 at 5:25 PM
This whole thread is well worth a read.
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I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.
National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
January 23, 2026 at 12:15 AM
I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.
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I just thought everyone should see this
January 22, 2026 at 11:02 PM
I just thought everyone should see this
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well he’s not wrong
January 23, 2026 at 10:17 AM
well he’s not wrong
A good thing at work is to listen to Stupid (Can't Run From The Urge) and have a little dance while waiting for the lift.
Stupid(Crftu)_MV_edit-Apr_precolor.mp4
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January 23, 2026 at 10:03 AM
A good thing at work is to listen to Stupid (Can't Run From The Urge) and have a little dance while waiting for the lift.
Who are the cool, up-and-coming early career trans women and transfem non-binary people doing scholarship in women's and gender studies - particularly outside North America?
I'd love to hear about their work!
I'd love to hear about their work!
January 23, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Who are the cool, up-and-coming early career trans women and transfem non-binary people doing scholarship in women's and gender studies - particularly outside North America?
I'd love to hear about their work!
I'd love to hear about their work!
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A specific outcome of this conference was the phrase "gender mainstreaming", which I'll absolutely admit is a dreadful opaque name for an uncontroversial idea (taking both men and women into account when making policy), which has taken on a life of its own in the non-English right.
Yeah for people not up to date on the back story, the conservative war on "Gender Ideology" actually started as a response to Gender Theory, and specifically the impact of Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" at the United Nations summit for women in 1995.
This is more directly about trans people but "gender ideology" has always kind of meant "the abominal idea that men and women can be equal"
January 23, 2026 at 8:19 AM
A specific outcome of this conference was the phrase "gender mainstreaming", which I'll absolutely admit is a dreadful opaque name for an uncontroversial idea (taking both men and women into account when making policy), which has taken on a life of its own in the non-English right.
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I think both these points are so important. We aren’t playing the same game as most academics, which means we face pressures (crises) most never will, and our individual achievements are less important than whether we get to move the dial for others. And that can only ever be an incremental thing.
January 22, 2026 at 1:45 PM
I think both these points are so important. We aren’t playing the same game as most academics, which means we face pressures (crises) most never will, and our individual achievements are less important than whether we get to move the dial for others. And that can only ever be an incremental thing.
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This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
yeah, just out of interest, how many people choose the pen on the right for real work or art? See a lot of them in professional workplaces, do you?
January 22, 2026 at 12:21 PM
This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
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One of the best things you can do is go to the bookstore of a theatre/art gallery/niche museum and buy a book about something you've never heard of before, then realise that there are a million other worlds out there and - if you're lucky - you get to have the tiniest taste of each of them.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
January 22, 2026 at 1:07 PM
One of the best things you can do is go to the bookstore of a theatre/art gallery/niche museum and buy a book about something you've never heard of before, then realise that there are a million other worlds out there and - if you're lucky - you get to have the tiniest taste of each of them.
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The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
January 21, 2026 at 9:38 AM
The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
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I feel bad for all of us who have to be good at our jobs when the answer is to be sufficiently white, rich and powerful and then you can just drool on yourself and the press will be like “audiences intrigued by his unusual communication style”
January 21, 2026 at 2:37 PM
I feel bad for all of us who have to be good at our jobs when the answer is to be sufficiently white, rich and powerful and then you can just drool on yourself and the press will be like “audiences intrigued by his unusual communication style”
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Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it
Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it
Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it
January 21, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it
Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it
Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it
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If you love metal, watch this. If you don’t love metal, you soon will by watching this.
January 21, 2026 at 3:42 PM
If you love metal, watch this. If you don’t love metal, you soon will by watching this.
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Likewise - and I have no hesitation about saying that they were sometimes the kind of online spaces that people really do not want teenagers to access, where we talked frankly about our mental health/illness and its symptoms. Knowing I wasn't alone saved my life.
January 20, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Likewise - and I have no hesitation about saying that they were sometimes the kind of online spaces that people really do not want teenagers to access, where we talked frankly about our mental health/illness and its symptoms. Knowing I wasn't alone saved my life.
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The way our dog gets into bed with us and sits staring during inopportune moments should be studied.
January 20, 2026 at 8:49 AM
The way our dog gets into bed with us and sits staring during inopportune moments should be studied.
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If anyone has a line to Rose Henderson please lmk
January 20, 2026 at 9:46 AM
If anyone has a line to Rose Henderson please lmk
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New research maps the campaign to erase trans people from UK data 🔢
This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID.
doi.org/10.1080/0958...
This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID.
doi.org/10.1080/0958...
January 19, 2026 at 1:42 PM
New research maps the campaign to erase trans people from UK data 🔢
This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID.
doi.org/10.1080/0958...
This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID.
doi.org/10.1080/0958...
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This is probably the most accurate description.
Someone in their mid-50s today told me that this is the first time he had thought about or been affected by politics. And that guy is actively guarding buildings and his coworkers from ICE.
Someone in their mid-50s today told me that this is the first time he had thought about or been affected by politics. And that guy is actively guarding buildings and his coworkers from ICE.
Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.
This is so smart. I’m so impressed with all the different ways you’re helping your neighbors.
January 19, 2026 at 2:44 AM
This is probably the most accurate description.
Someone in their mid-50s today told me that this is the first time he had thought about or been affected by politics. And that guy is actively guarding buildings and his coworkers from ICE.
Someone in their mid-50s today told me that this is the first time he had thought about or been affected by politics. And that guy is actively guarding buildings and his coworkers from ICE.