Ruth Pearce
@notrightruth.bsky.social
Activist, punk musician, event promoter, feminist academic. Illegal lesbian.
http://ruthpearce.net
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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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November 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Recommended resource we were discussing for postgrad students who are doing insider research
A Methodology for the Marginalised: Surviving Oppression and Traumatic Fieldwork in the Neoliberal Academy - Ruth Pearce, 2020 share.google/ZBuPlTpn4gM0...
A Methodology for the Marginalised: Surviving Oppression and Traumatic Fieldwork in the Neoliberal Academy - Ruth Pearce, 2020 share.google/ZBuPlTpn4gM0...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Recommended resource we were discussing for postgrad students who are doing insider research
A Methodology for the Marginalised: Surviving Oppression and Traumatic Fieldwork in the Neoliberal Academy - Ruth Pearce, 2020 share.google/ZBuPlTpn4gM0...
A Methodology for the Marginalised: Surviving Oppression and Traumatic Fieldwork in the Neoliberal Academy - Ruth Pearce, 2020 share.google/ZBuPlTpn4gM0...
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The face of a cat who conned his staff into providing two breakfasts of Iams chicken in jelly in quick succession this morning.
November 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The face of a cat who conned his staff into providing two breakfasts of Iams chicken in jelly in quick succession this morning.
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www.ticketsource.co.uk/arcadia-roll...
Great news: Manchester's 3 roller derby teams are getting together to have a massive fundraiser event for Trans rights. Please get your tickets at this link and come support trans inclusive sport
Great news: Manchester's 3 roller derby teams are getting together to have a massive fundraiser event for Trans rights. Please get your tickets at this link and come support trans inclusive sport
November 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
www.ticketsource.co.uk/arcadia-roll...
Great news: Manchester's 3 roller derby teams are getting together to have a massive fundraiser event for Trans rights. Please get your tickets at this link and come support trans inclusive sport
Great news: Manchester's 3 roller derby teams are getting together to have a massive fundraiser event for Trans rights. Please get your tickets at this link and come support trans inclusive sport
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Let’s hear it out. You have the floor, carnivorous death ball
November 7, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Let’s hear it out. You have the floor, carnivorous death ball
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lol
I don't intend to emigrate. My family are here, my friends are here, I love Glasgow, and I'm committed to the fight for liberation.
But as a descendent of Jewish refugees, I recognise the signs that I might need to leave the UK for my own safety in coming years if things continue to deteriorate.
But as a descendent of Jewish refugees, I recognise the signs that I might need to leave the UK for my own safety in coming years if things continue to deteriorate.
"YouGov poll reveals a large proportion of UK trans people are looking to emigrate within the next 10 years, with almost 40% of younger people considering a move abroad."
goodlawproject.org/over-a-quart...
goodlawproject.org/over-a-quart...
Over a quarter of trans people likely to leave the UK
YouGov poll reveals a large proportion of UK trans people are looking to emigrate within the next 10 years, with almost 40% of younger people considering a move abroad.
goodlawproject.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I don't intend to emigrate. My family are here, my friends are here, I love Glasgow, and I'm committed to the fight for liberation.
But as a descendent of Jewish refugees, I recognise the signs that I might need to leave the UK for my own safety in coming years if things continue to deteriorate.
But as a descendent of Jewish refugees, I recognise the signs that I might need to leave the UK for my own safety in coming years if things continue to deteriorate.
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the minutes of the October meeting between WellBN and SussexICB are chilling. Andrew Dodson from the Sussex side just openly saying patients will be “deprescribed,” that they’ll have no choice and won’t be allowed to talk to the team taking their healthcare away
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 AM
the minutes of the October meeting between WellBN and SussexICB are chilling. Andrew Dodson from the Sussex side just openly saying patients will be “deprescribed,” that they’ll have no choice and won’t be allowed to talk to the team taking their healthcare away
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"They know this is likely to cause suicides. They don’t care! We jumped through every hoop for years and we followed what the government asked of us. I’m in Surrey, her doctor is in Brighton, you can imagine what this is doing to us."
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
NHS threatens GP practice over trans care
With NHS reply – a GP practice in Brighton and Hove is under investigation for legally providing gender affirming care to trans teens
northwestbylines.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 9:29 AM
"They know this is likely to cause suicides. They don’t care! We jumped through every hoop for years and we followed what the government asked of us. I’m in Surrey, her doctor is in Brighton, you can imagine what this is doing to us."
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
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READ THIS !
"For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does."
#Musk #propaganda #X #antifa #fascism
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
"For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does."
#Musk #propaganda #X #antifa #fascism
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:58 AM
READ THIS !
"For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does."
#Musk #propaganda #X #antifa #fascism
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
"For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does."
#Musk #propaganda #X #antifa #fascism
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Note the ‘British soil’ bit. My uni has plans to open a campus in China. The VC scoffed at me when I expressed concern that staff and students wouldn’t be able to speak freely, and that - as he said - the curriculum would be censored. It’s the price of doing business.
November 6, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Note the ‘British soil’ bit. My uni has plans to open a campus in China. The VC scoffed at me when I expressed concern that staff and students wouldn’t be able to speak freely, and that - as he said - the curriculum would be censored. It’s the price of doing business.
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here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
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Read an extract from @suchmayer.bsky.social's forthcoming book, BAD LANGUAGE, a blend of memoir and manifesto exploring the politics of speech, and how language has been used – and abused – collectively and in their own life.
Exclusive Extract: Bad Language by So Mayer
Read an extract from So Mayer's forthcoming book, Bad Language, a blend of memoir and manifesto exploring the politics of speech…
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November 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Read an extract from @suchmayer.bsky.social's forthcoming book, BAD LANGUAGE, a blend of memoir and manifesto exploring the politics of speech, and how language has been used – and abused – collectively and in their own life.
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The pandemic was a mass-disabling event and one of the reasons it has largely vanished from day to day political discourse is that those in power don't want to acknowledge the long term care needs it produced.
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
UK ‘sliding into avoidable crisis’, major review into workplace sickness warns
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
www.independent.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The pandemic was a mass-disabling event and one of the reasons it has largely vanished from day to day political discourse is that those in power don't want to acknowledge the long term care needs it produced.
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NHS Sussex are forcibly detransitioning trans people. These patients need full restoration of their healthcare, and everyone involved in doing this needs to be sacked.
"Laura fears all will be lost if ICB Sussex forces her child off the medication.
If ICB Sussex get their own way in a matter of weeks and they force detransition, Olive may well take her life."
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
If ICB Sussex get their own way in a matter of weeks and they force detransition, Olive may well take her life."
northwestbylines.co.uk/news/health/...
NHS threatens GP practice over trans care
A GP practice in Brighton and Hove is currently under investigation for legally providing gender affirming care to trans teens
northwestbylines.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM
NHS Sussex are forcibly detransitioning trans people. These patients need full restoration of their healthcare, and everyone involved in doing this needs to be sacked.
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If you’ve been looking for an alternative to Amazon-owned A*dible, we have good news for you: we’re now on @libro.fm!
Join now to satisfy all your audiobook desires while supporting your favourite independent bookshop.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
If you’ve been looking for an alternative to Amazon-owned A*dible, we have good news for you: we’re now on @libro.fm!
Join now to satisfy all your audiobook desires while supporting your favourite independent bookshop.
Join now to satisfy all your audiobook desires while supporting your favourite independent bookshop.
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News from St Pancras www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
British Library chief executive quits midway through PCS strike
The British Library has been thrown into further turmoil midway through a two-week PCS strike with the resignation of its chief executive Rebecca Lawrence.
www.pcs.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
News from St Pancras www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
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I remember the Daily Telegraph printing troll articles from one of their own correspondents under a pseudonym. I remember the Daily Sport saying 40,000 people died on 9/11. Hell, I remember the aftermath of the so-called 'Hitler Diaries'.
The idea of print as trustworthy is wild.
The idea of print as trustworthy is wild.
November 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I remember the Daily Telegraph printing troll articles from one of their own correspondents under a pseudonym. I remember the Daily Sport saying 40,000 people died on 9/11. Hell, I remember the aftermath of the so-called 'Hitler Diaries'.
The idea of print as trustworthy is wild.
The idea of print as trustworthy is wild.
Wow, cis people really do live in a different world. Imagine trusting newspapers as a reliable source of truth.
I feel one million years old here, but we do actually have a pretty reliable way of knowing what news is true. Did a real newspaper publish it? Then probably yes. Can’t find it in a real newspaper? Maybe not.
A large majority of U.S. adults now get news digitally, but nondigital news consumers are less likely to say they extremely often or often encounter inaccurate news.
Read more on Americans’ views of information accuracy and distinguishing truth from fiction:
Read more on Americans’ views of information accuracy and distinguishing truth from fiction:
November 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Wow, cis people really do live in a different world. Imagine trusting newspapers as a reliable source of truth.
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All the TERFs have left, relatively early.
As a result, the trans bloc have now managed to occupy the stairs to end off the successful counterprotest.
As a result, the trans bloc have now managed to occupy the stairs to end off the successful counterprotest.
November 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
All the TERFs have left, relatively early.
As a result, the trans bloc have now managed to occupy the stairs to end off the successful counterprotest.
As a result, the trans bloc have now managed to occupy the stairs to end off the successful counterprotest.
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The TERF bloc is dissipating after only roughly 5 minutes of having a working speaker.
Meanwhile, here are some more placards by the trans bloc
Meanwhile, here are some more placards by the trans bloc
November 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The TERF bloc is dissipating after only roughly 5 minutes of having a working speaker.
Meanwhile, here are some more placards by the trans bloc
Meanwhile, here are some more placards by the trans bloc
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"Trans rights are women's rights!"
The standoff is continuing at the Senedd.
The standoff is continuing at the Senedd.
November 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
"Trans rights are women's rights!"
The standoff is continuing at the Senedd.
The standoff is continuing at the Senedd.
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Some protest placards that the trans bloc have brought.
November 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Some protest placards that the trans bloc have brought.
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"I have never ever seen a TERF with any style!"
The TKDB bloc are hilariously dissing the TERFs' fashion style with a new protest chant!
The TKDB bloc are hilariously dissing the TERFs' fashion style with a new protest chant!
November 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
"I have never ever seen a TERF with any style!"
The TKDB bloc are hilariously dissing the TERFs' fashion style with a new protest chant!
The TKDB bloc are hilariously dissing the TERFs' fashion style with a new protest chant!