Marty Davies
@smartypantsmarty.com
Writer, artist, campaigner & creative cultural strategist.
Founder of @transhistoryweek.com
Founder of smartypantsmarty.com
Columnist for Campaign.
Big sister to Rae ♥️🦦
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Founder of @transhistoryweek.com
Founder of smartypantsmarty.com
Columnist for Campaign.
Big sister to Rae ♥️🦦
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www.patreon.com/martydavies
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🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
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You know the energy we all give those doom posts?
I get that we share that stuff to keep each other informed, for an emotional outlet, to find community and to attempt to sense-make.
But it’s also very draining.
Let’s bring some of that same energy to positive actions and community creativity.
👇
I get that we share that stuff to keep each other informed, for an emotional outlet, to find community and to attempt to sense-make.
But it’s also very draining.
Let’s bring some of that same energy to positive actions and community creativity.
👇
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This is a fascinating read for anyone interested in movement building and communications.
A potted history of how the Green Party got to where they are now in 2025 with all this momentum.
A potted history of how the Green Party got to where they are now in 2025 with all this momentum.
The Inside Story of How the Green Party Turned Red | Novara Media
Zack Polanski’s smash-hit eco-populism might seem like a sudden gear-change for the Green party. In fact it’s part of a tectonic shift some of its members have been driving for more than a decade. Ada...
novaramedia.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:14 AM
This is a fascinating read for anyone interested in movement building and communications.
A potted history of how the Green Party got to where they are now in 2025 with all this momentum.
A potted history of how the Green Party got to where they are now in 2025 with all this momentum.
Reposted by Marty Davies
You know the energy we all give those doom posts?
I get that we share that stuff to keep each other informed, for an emotional outlet, to find community and to attempt to sense-make.
But it’s also very draining.
Let’s bring some of that same energy to positive actions and community creativity.
👇
I get that we share that stuff to keep each other informed, for an emotional outlet, to find community and to attempt to sense-make.
But it’s also very draining.
Let’s bring some of that same energy to positive actions and community creativity.
👇
🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
You know the energy we all give those doom posts?
I get that we share that stuff to keep each other informed, for an emotional outlet, to find community and to attempt to sense-make.
But it’s also very draining.
Let’s bring some of that same energy to positive actions and community creativity.
👇
I get that we share that stuff to keep each other informed, for an emotional outlet, to find community and to attempt to sense-make.
But it’s also very draining.
Let’s bring some of that same energy to positive actions and community creativity.
👇
LinkedIn games 🤝 My ego
November 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
LinkedIn games 🤝 My ego
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Pfft thats an average weekend for me
Pope Leo XIV Will Have Lunch With 4 Trans Women in "Unprecedented" Meeting
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
https://www.them.us/story/pope-leo-xiv-lunch-trans-activists-alesia-nobile
November 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Pfft thats an average weekend for me
This is a fascinating read for anyone interested in movement building and communications.
A potted history of how the Green Party got to where they are now in 2025 with all this momentum.
A potted history of how the Green Party got to where they are now in 2025 with all this momentum.
The Inside Story of How the Green Party Turned Red | Novara Media
Zack Polanski’s smash-hit eco-populism might seem like a sudden gear-change for the Green party. In fact it’s part of a tectonic shift some of its members have been driving for more than a decade. Ada...
novaramedia.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:14 AM
This is a fascinating read for anyone interested in movement building and communications.
A potted history of how the Green Party got to where they are now in 2025 with all this momentum.
A potted history of how the Green Party got to where they are now in 2025 with all this momentum.
Reposted by Marty Davies
Thank you to those media outlets willing to cover positive Trans+ stories.
It won’t surprise you to know that despite Trans+ people endlessly featuring as a punching back in the mainstream media, once again our project fails to feature.
Not evidence on its own. But it does make you wonder.
It won’t surprise you to know that despite Trans+ people endlessly featuring as a punching back in the mainstream media, once again our project fails to feature.
Not evidence on its own. But it does make you wonder.
This week we confirmed our 2026 dates: 4–10 May 2026, anchored by Trans+ History Day on 6 May, the anniversary of the 1933 Nazi raid on the world's first Trans+ clinic.
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Thank you to those media outlets willing to cover positive Trans+ stories.
It won’t surprise you to know that despite Trans+ people endlessly featuring as a punching back in the mainstream media, once again our project fails to feature.
Not evidence on its own. But it does make you wonder.
It won’t surprise you to know that despite Trans+ people endlessly featuring as a punching back in the mainstream media, once again our project fails to feature.
Not evidence on its own. But it does make you wonder.
Reposted by Marty Davies
Trans+ people deserve to live, thrive, and belong in this country - without fear or barriers, and without being dehumanised, vilified, and treated as convenient political targets
📉 But new @yougov.co.uk / @goodlawproject.bsky.social polling exposes just how badly Britain is failing on this
1.
📉 But new @yougov.co.uk / @goodlawproject.bsky.social polling exposes just how badly Britain is failing on this
1.
70% of trans people believe BBC News is hostile. (And anyone who has listened to Justin Webb knows they are clearly right.) goodlaw.social/kyxv
Poll shows 70% of trans people think BBC News is ‘hostile’
The right wing claims the corporation is ‘pro-trans’, but the people at the sharp end of its coverage disagree. The BBC must stop its attack on trans people.
goodlaw.social
November 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Trans+ people deserve to live, thrive, and belong in this country - without fear or barriers, and without being dehumanised, vilified, and treated as convenient political targets
📉 But new @yougov.co.uk / @goodlawproject.bsky.social polling exposes just how badly Britain is failing on this
1.
📉 But new @yougov.co.uk / @goodlawproject.bsky.social polling exposes just how badly Britain is failing on this
1.
Thank you to those media outlets willing to cover positive Trans+ stories.
It won’t surprise you to know that despite Trans+ people endlessly featuring as a punching back in the mainstream media, once again our project fails to feature.
Not evidence on its own. But it does make you wonder.
It won’t surprise you to know that despite Trans+ people endlessly featuring as a punching back in the mainstream media, once again our project fails to feature.
Not evidence on its own. But it does make you wonder.
This week we confirmed our 2026 dates: 4–10 May 2026, anchored by Trans+ History Day on 6 May, the anniversary of the 1933 Nazi raid on the world's first Trans+ clinic.
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Thank you to those media outlets willing to cover positive Trans+ stories.
It won’t surprise you to know that despite Trans+ people endlessly featuring as a punching back in the mainstream media, once again our project fails to feature.
Not evidence on its own. But it does make you wonder.
It won’t surprise you to know that despite Trans+ people endlessly featuring as a punching back in the mainstream media, once again our project fails to feature.
Not evidence on its own. But it does make you wonder.
Listen to your Aunty Marty 💁♀️
Marty nails it.
British media’s framing of “Trans issues”:
Problems supposedly caused by Trans+ people existing at all.
The reality of “Trans issues”:
The daily struggle of Trans+ people trying to live, love, survive, and thrive in a world that remains hostile
Glad to see this being called out
British media’s framing of “Trans issues”:
Problems supposedly caused by Trans+ people existing at all.
The reality of “Trans issues”:
The daily struggle of Trans+ people trying to live, love, survive, and thrive in a world that remains hostile
Glad to see this being called out
Thank you for commissioning polls showing what Trans+ people’s issues are rather than what we tend to get which is what other people’s issues are with Trans+ people.
More of this please 🙌🤓
More of this please 🙌🤓
November 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Listen to your Aunty Marty 💁♀️
Reposted by Marty Davies
Marty nails it.
British media’s framing of “Trans issues”:
Problems supposedly caused by Trans+ people existing at all.
The reality of “Trans issues”:
The daily struggle of Trans+ people trying to live, love, survive, and thrive in a world that remains hostile
Glad to see this being called out
British media’s framing of “Trans issues”:
Problems supposedly caused by Trans+ people existing at all.
The reality of “Trans issues”:
The daily struggle of Trans+ people trying to live, love, survive, and thrive in a world that remains hostile
Glad to see this being called out
Thank you for commissioning polls showing what Trans+ people’s issues are rather than what we tend to get which is what other people’s issues are with Trans+ people.
More of this please 🙌🤓
More of this please 🙌🤓
November 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Marty nails it.
British media’s framing of “Trans issues”:
Problems supposedly caused by Trans+ people existing at all.
The reality of “Trans issues”:
The daily struggle of Trans+ people trying to live, love, survive, and thrive in a world that remains hostile
Glad to see this being called out
British media’s framing of “Trans issues”:
Problems supposedly caused by Trans+ people existing at all.
The reality of “Trans issues”:
The daily struggle of Trans+ people trying to live, love, survive, and thrive in a world that remains hostile
Glad to see this being called out
Reposted by Marty Davies
70% of trans people believe BBC News is hostile. (And anyone who has listened to Justin Webb knows they are clearly right.) goodlaw.social/kyxv
Poll shows 70% of trans people think BBC News is ‘hostile’
The right wing claims the corporation is ‘pro-trans’, but the people at the sharp end of its coverage disagree. The BBC must stop its attack on trans people.
goodlaw.social
November 14, 2025 at 10:27 AM
70% of trans people believe BBC News is hostile. (And anyone who has listened to Justin Webb knows they are clearly right.) goodlaw.social/kyxv
We lost my little sister a year ago today.
Rachel I love you and miss you xo
Rachel I love you and miss you xo
November 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
We lost my little sister a year ago today.
Rachel I love you and miss you xo
Rachel I love you and miss you xo
Something’s afoot isn’t it?
The topic of Starmer being toppled seems to be moving from ‘if’ to ‘when’
The topic of Starmer being toppled seems to be moving from ‘if’ to ‘when’
November 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Something’s afoot isn’t it?
The topic of Starmer being toppled seems to be moving from ‘if’ to ‘when’
The topic of Starmer being toppled seems to be moving from ‘if’ to ‘when’
Reposted by Marty Davies
🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
November 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Reposted by Marty Davies
Our open commissioning scheme is back!
Please share this around and pass this to friends and colleagues and share in your closed networks.
Reaching the right people can be very challenging for a nonprofit so we need you to do the advertising for us.
Thank you!
Please share this around and pass this to friends and colleagues and share in your closed networks.
Reaching the right people can be very challenging for a nonprofit so we need you to do the advertising for us.
Thank you!
🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
November 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Our open commissioning scheme is back!
Please share this around and pass this to friends and colleagues and share in your closed networks.
Reaching the right people can be very challenging for a nonprofit so we need you to do the advertising for us.
Thank you!
Please share this around and pass this to friends and colleagues and share in your closed networks.
Reaching the right people can be very challenging for a nonprofit so we need you to do the advertising for us.
Thank you!
Reposted by Marty Davies
Our education system isn't working.
Natasha Devon breaks down exactly how we got here in tomorrow's episode of Bold Politics with Zack Polanski.
linktr.ee/boldpolitics
Natasha Devon breaks down exactly how we got here in tomorrow's episode of Bold Politics with Zack Polanski.
linktr.ee/boldpolitics
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Our education system isn't working.
Natasha Devon breaks down exactly how we got here in tomorrow's episode of Bold Politics with Zack Polanski.
linktr.ee/boldpolitics
Natasha Devon breaks down exactly how we got here in tomorrow's episode of Bold Politics with Zack Polanski.
linktr.ee/boldpolitics
Reposted by Marty Davies
Emily Maitlis brags about her, Deb Cohen, and Hannah Barnes getting the Tavistock GIDS service shut down.
What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
🔥🧵
What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
🔥🧵
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Emily Maitlis brags about her, Deb Cohen, and Hannah Barnes getting the Tavistock GIDS service shut down.
What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
🔥🧵
What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
🔥🧵
You know the energy we all give those doom posts?
I get that we share that stuff to keep each other informed, for an emotional outlet, to find community and to attempt to sense-make.
But it’s also very draining.
Let’s bring some of that same energy to positive actions and community creativity.
👇
I get that we share that stuff to keep each other informed, for an emotional outlet, to find community and to attempt to sense-make.
But it’s also very draining.
Let’s bring some of that same energy to positive actions and community creativity.
👇
🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
You know the energy we all give those doom posts?
I get that we share that stuff to keep each other informed, for an emotional outlet, to find community and to attempt to sense-make.
But it’s also very draining.
Let’s bring some of that same energy to positive actions and community creativity.
👇
I get that we share that stuff to keep each other informed, for an emotional outlet, to find community and to attempt to sense-make.
But it’s also very draining.
Let’s bring some of that same energy to positive actions and community creativity.
👇
Really proud to be bringing this back for a third year 🤓
Our open commissioning scheme is back!
Please share this around and pass this to friends and colleagues and share in your closed networks.
Reaching the right people can be very challenging for a nonprofit so we need you to do the advertising for us.
Thank you!
Please share this around and pass this to friends and colleagues and share in your closed networks.
Reaching the right people can be very challenging for a nonprofit so we need you to do the advertising for us.
Thank you!
🏳️⚧️ We’re back with paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives!
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? This is for you.
With @transhistoryweek.com we’re investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to make content for Trans+ History Week 2026.
Deadline 2nd Dec 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🗓️
🧵 Details 👇
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Really proud to be bringing this back for a third year 🤓
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Lest we forget.
The Trans+ people who served and who were lost.
And who history forgot.
The Trans+ people who served and who were lost.
And who history forgot.
November 11, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Lest we forget.
The Trans+ people who served and who were lost.
And who history forgot.
The Trans+ people who served and who were lost.
And who history forgot.
A thought that I’m sure will be divisive but that I can’t seem to shake.
Perhaps with behind the scenes coordination Your Party could become a stalking horse for the Green Party. Test the waters on progressive policies, take heat in the media and absorb criticism. Generating insight.
Perhaps with behind the scenes coordination Your Party could become a stalking horse for the Green Party. Test the waters on progressive policies, take heat in the media and absorb criticism. Generating insight.
November 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
A thought that I’m sure will be divisive but that I can’t seem to shake.
Perhaps with behind the scenes coordination Your Party could become a stalking horse for the Green Party. Test the waters on progressive policies, take heat in the media and absorb criticism. Generating insight.
Perhaps with behind the scenes coordination Your Party could become a stalking horse for the Green Party. Test the waters on progressive policies, take heat in the media and absorb criticism. Generating insight.
Reposted by Marty Davies
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
This bit from 27mins in to the latest episode is referred to as the “trans issue” by John Sopel and the others.
It’s genuinely maddening that all these political talking heads flap about a right wing coup of the BBC but fail to see anti trans bias as part of that. Because it is bias they also hold.
It’s genuinely maddening that all these political talking heads flap about a right wing coup of the BBC but fail to see anti trans bias as part of that. Because it is bias they also hold.
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This bit from 27mins in to the latest episode is referred to as the “trans issue” by John Sopel and the others.
It’s genuinely maddening that all these political talking heads flap about a right wing coup of the BBC but fail to see anti trans bias as part of that. Because it is bias they also hold.
It’s genuinely maddening that all these political talking heads flap about a right wing coup of the BBC but fail to see anti trans bias as part of that. Because it is bias they also hold.
I feel really uncomfortable with Brianna Ghey’s name being used to push ill-conceived “phone free education” policy.
A blanket ban can’t be the answer.
A blanket ban can’t be the answer.
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I feel really uncomfortable with Brianna Ghey’s name being used to push ill-conceived “phone free education” policy.
A blanket ban can’t be the answer.
A blanket ban can’t be the answer.