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he/him | “sorren, stop talking about dragons for one second.” | cofounder at planar prod | host on the hidden bookcase podcast
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Sorren 🐺 @sorrenbriarwood.com · Oct 10
I was lucky enough to participate in TELEPHONE, an international, iterative art game translating pieces from medium to medium & artist to artist:
telephonegame.art/game

Check out my story for cyberpunk flavours, pretty prosthetics, and backroom biohackers:
telephonegame.art/artists/sorren-briarwood
Sorren Briarwood - TELEPHONE
View Sorren Briarwood's artwork in the TELEPHONE exhibition. a lover of storytelling in all its many forms. I write primarily speculative fiction, and hope to do so in as many mediums as I can before ...
telephonegame.art
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scott1gray.bsky.social
Zadie Smith.
writeups.org Writeups.org @writeups.org · 1h
With alt text.
You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out thatwhat a country values can change overtime. Sometimes, though, there's a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you've actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word - but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass - and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island - even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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secondlina.com
Ballet [1/4]
A cartoon crow looks up at a poster for a ballet studio that includes art of 6 ballerinas dancing and a guide of the first 5 ballet feet positions. The crow marvels that humans can glide on the ground as birds do in the sky. The crow decides to try dancing too, following the illustrated poses on the poster. The crow crosses their legs and bounces.
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
sorrenbriarwood.com
With the sheer number of people engaging with AI, we can’t necessarily infer a causation here. That said, this is all really alarming. The “reduction” of poor responses they’re framing as a boast, but can’t prove the efficacy of, is just not good enough- and that’s them trying to make it sound good.
October 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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damselindystopia.bsky.social
People who use they/them pronouns face documented employment discrimination. Is that material enough for you?

newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/pronoun-disc...
Pronoun Disclosure and Discrimination on the Job Search
Nonbinary folks who use they / them pronouns do experience discrimination on the job search. According to research by Taryn Eames, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of T...
newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca
October 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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sketchesbyboze.bsky.social
If you want to push back against tech's encroachment into every corner of our lives, you have to read books. They're eager to create a future in which most people are illiterate and hooked on slop, a world without imagination or knowledge. Reading is resistance.
October 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
sorrenbriarwood.com
I was lucky enough to participate in TELEPHONE, an international, iterative art game translating pieces from medium to medium & artist to artist:
telephonegame.art/game

Check out my story for cyberpunk flavours, pretty prosthetics, and backroom biohackers:
telephonegame.art/artists/sorren-briarwood
Sorren Briarwood - TELEPHONE
View Sorren Briarwood's artwork in the TELEPHONE exhibition. a lover of storytelling in all its many forms. I write primarily speculative fiction, and hope to do so in as many mediums as I can before ...
telephonegame.art
October 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
sorrenbriarwood.com
Shame on #VirginActive (who walked at London Pride this year) for introducing transphobic rules and bowing to transphobic pressures.

I learned to swim at a local pool that is now VA.
October 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
sorrenbriarwood.com
I actually don’t care whether you, a cis person, think what Emma said about the TERF-in-chief was too forgiving, not forgiving enough, or just right. Spend the five minutes you’re spending crafting your ever so erudite post about it writing to your reps, signing a petition, donating to a trans org.
September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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inmyleylines.bsky.social
There are so many pieces of this that I want to pull-quote, but this in particular is so important. Transformative fandom spaces are not without their own ugly biases, but the stories that get "uplifted" into tradpub books only serve to reinforce whose stories are already seen as worthy of telling.
Feed fanfic into capitalism, and it comes out shaped like capitalism. The job of agents and editors is to find authors whose books will be successful, which means finding ways to cash on social media trends—like the BookTok popularity of Dramione and Reylo. And those trends aren’t neutral. The TikTok algorithm that produced them is racially biased, suppressing content from Black and queer creators. At the level of the basic mechanics of the platform, virality accrues first and most to white tastemakers and their interests. The publishing industry, whose gatekeepers are overwhelmingly white, has racism problems of its own. The issues of racism, sexism, ableism, and heterosexism compound.
September 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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amnestyuk.bsky.social
Recognition is no doubt significant but it will be a hollow gesture if the UK does not also seek to end Israel's genocide, illegal occupation, and system of apartheid against the Palestinian people.

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Photo with Keir Starmer and copy that reads: RECOGNITION OF A PALESTINIAN STATE IS A HOLLOW GESTURE WITHOUT MEANINGFUL ACTION TO END ISRAEL'S GENOCIDE, APARTHEID & OCCUPATION
September 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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andymb.bsky.social
Finally my petition is approved!

There’s a list of flags you can fly in England and Wales without planning permission, including the rainbow flag.

Sign here (anyone in the UK) to try and get the progress flags added to the list.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Add the Progress Pride Flags to the flags that don’t require permission
There are rules about the flags that can be flown without local planning authority consent. The Rainbow Flag is already listed, subject to certain restrictions. We would like the Progress Flag & its...
petition.parliament.uk
September 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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wearequeeraf.com
The police will have the power to make it a criminal offence to cover your face at a public protest if Labour’s proposed policing bill becomes law, putting LGBTQIA+ people attending Pride events in danger of being outed
New police powers could criminalise wearing a mask at Pride
The police will have the power to make it a criminal offence to cover your face at a public protest if Labour’s proposed policing bill becomes law, putting LGBTQIA+ people attending Pride events in danger of being outed
www.wearequeeraf.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
sorrenbriarwood.com
My dear friend is raising money for #CALM this October! If you’d like to put a little good out into the world today, please consider donating or sharing ♥️ Just £12 could fund a potentially life-saving phone call for someone in crisis!
justgiving.com/page/maria-k-1?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL
Maria's fundraiser for CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably)
Help Maria K raise money to support CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably)
www.justgiving.com
September 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
sorrenbriarwood.com
However you feel about them, the EU parliament’s decision to downgrade wolf protections is a scientifically unsound nightmare for biodiversity:
wwf.eu/?18127416/Europe-turns-its-back-on-the-wolf-and-on-science

Please sign this petition against it:
secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/stop_wolf_hunting_loc/
Europe turns its back on the wolf and on science
Environmental groups condemn EU Parliament’s approval to downgrade wolf protection as an attack on nature
wwf.eu
August 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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nywolforg.bsky.social
The Red Wolf Recovery Program has confirmed 4 wild litters on the Albemarle Peninsula this year, bringing 16 new pups into the world!

With only 18 known adults left in the wild, every birth is a vital step forward for this critically endangered species.

Read more: www.selc.org/news/hope-fo...
Hope for red wolves
Full tree canopies and blooming goldenrod. Shifting bird sightings with migrating flocks. The thrum of cicadas, late sunsets, and lightning bugs.  The final remnants of summer are all around — and in ...
www.selc.org
August 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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kefyor.bsky.social
Every UK petition is like this
Mockup drawing of a UK parliament petition where the petitioner has asked for "good thing please" with description "we think the UK needs this". Government responded: "No."
July 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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goodlawproject.bsky.social
🚨24 hours left to take action 🚨

Join over 21,000 people and stop TalkTV’s transphobic hate 👇
action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-t...
Ofcom: stop TalkTV broadcasting hate
TalkTV is Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News for the UK – a constant source of toxic hate and far-right lies. Over the last 11 weeks, TalkTV has been spouting transphobic hate again and again – totally ignorin...
action.goodlawproject.org
July 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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wearequeeraf.com
Organisers say 100,000 people attended London Trans+ Pride yesterday 🏳️‍⚧️

The theme this year was existence and resistance.

Team QueerAF were there and witnessed a strong, empowered community that was turning its rage, into a powerful fight back 👇
Person wearing beige vest and green hot pants holds sign that says bless the t girls and all the in between girls Black dog with trans pride bandana held in a crowd with sign that says #notinourname in the background Two signs that read we will always existed and I love my patchy beard Sign thay reads honk if you support trans rights
July 27, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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itsviviactually.bsky.social
I dunno, I just think universal basic income would solve a lot of these problems
July 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
sorrenbriarwood.com
Now more than ever, we need to look after each other 💕🏳️‍⚧️

Jien, a nonbinary transfemme, has been forced back to Malaysia- the 2nd worst country for the trans community w/ the highest danger rating. Please consider supporting them back to their chosen family in the UK:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-jien-...
Donate to Help Jien stay and remain in the UK, organized by Jia Wei Lee
ABOUT: Our dear Jien's visa is ending, and unless they find another visa, they are… Jia Wei Lee needs your support for Help Jien stay and remain in the UK
www.gofundme.com
July 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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forgeforwardtrans.bsky.social
Submissions for issue #3 of the Trans Survivors Zine are now open! We're looking for poetry, short fiction/nonfiction, and visual art around themes of aging and growth. We want to hear about your experiences with change, growth, and identity across your lifetime. forge.tips/submit!
[Image: Yellow text over a pink background. Text: "call for submissions. Trans survivors zine: Issue #3. Aging and Growth. Submissions open July 14 – August 1. poetry, art, and short fiction/non-fiction; $25 contributor payment. forge.tips/submit." FORGE logo.]
July 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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scottishtrans.bsky.social
Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh are looking for submissions to their printed zine 'Supreme Injustice!'

You can find out more and submit here, deadline is 25th July! 🏳️‍⚧️ cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
A TRANS COMMUNITY ZINE SUPREME INJUSTICE! SUBMISSIONS OPEN WE REFUSE TO BE SILENCED After the unjust and discriminatory Supreme Court ruling against trans rights on 16 April 2025, as well as the subsequent EHRC guidance, we are accepting submissions for a zine titled Supreme Injustice!, which will document and archive trans people's voices, art, and resistance against this ruling. THE THEME: Art as Resistance: My response to the Supreme Court ruling Submissions close on 25 July 2025 (23:59). Link in bio! WE'RE ACCEPTING TEXT AND ART SUBMISSIONS! Short stories, Song lyrics, Articles and essays, Digital art, Photos, Speeches, Comics, Poetry This list is not exhaustive. If it can go in a zine, we're accepting it! Your submission should be your own work. It can be as short as a few lines, and up to 750 words or 2-3 A5 pages. (Toward 1000 words is OK, but not more!) Submissions close on 25 July 2025 (23:59). Link in bio!
July 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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byconniechang.bsky.social
If you’re an artist of color, you need to keep making art. Especially if you’re also trans. Our world needs your voice.

In the face of increasingly hostile and murderous systems, this is what we can do. This is what we have to do.
July 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM