Kelechi
@engelsbeauvoir.bsky.social
Finally left X! Here to reconnect with interesting folk from there & hopefully restart on a new footing. I plan to do some writing very soon.
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We've always had these dead-eyed socipaths around. It's just a few years ago they were ignored and now they're "senior fellow" at places funded by evil millionaires + going on podcasts with a brain-rotted ex-PM.
Harrison Pitt accuses the King of treachery. Pitt is a Senior Policy Fellow for Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain, who also regularly co-hosts podcasts with his ally Tomlinson (who advocates banning all ethnic and faith minorities from public office). Like Lowe, Pitt is keen to dissolve boundaries/norms
December 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
We've always had these dead-eyed socipaths around. It's just a few years ago they were ignored and now they're "senior fellow" at places funded by evil millionaires + going on podcasts with a brain-rotted ex-PM.
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This is a real tweet.
December 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This is a real tweet.
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There are many postliberal reactionary types preempting this already. Some of their solutions will involve explicitly arguing to roll back women’s rights. Self styled “reactionary feminist”, Mary Harrington, has been explicitly arguing along these lines for a while.
December 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
There are many postliberal reactionary types preempting this already. Some of their solutions will involve explicitly arguing to roll back women’s rights. Self styled “reactionary feminist”, Mary Harrington, has been explicitly arguing along these lines for a while.
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There is no such thing as "toxic masculinity" because there aren't degrees of a constructed hierarchy to keep women inferior to men. There isn't a polite way of doing that, the system is a binary & is itself the problem.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Boys to learn difference between porn and real life to tackle misogyny in England’s schools
Teachers to be given extra training as Keir Starmer warns ‘toxic ideas are taking hold early and going unchallenged’
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
There is no such thing as "toxic masculinity" because there aren't degrees of a constructed hierarchy to keep women inferior to men. There isn't a polite way of doing that, the system is a binary & is itself the problem.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Amia Srinivasan: The Impossible Patient
YouTube video by London Review of Books (LRB)
youtu.be
December 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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📣 The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs is calling for evidence on drug use in LGBT+ communities, including chemsex. This will help shape national policy and future services. If you have lived or professional experience share your thoughts here:
www.gov.uk/government/c...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Drug use in LGBT+ communities and chemsex
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) is reviewing the evidence of drug use in LGBT+ communities and in the context of chemsex in the UK.
www.gov.uk
December 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
📣 The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs is calling for evidence on drug use in LGBT+ communities, including chemsex. This will help shape national policy and future services. If you have lived or professional experience share your thoughts here:
www.gov.uk/government/c...
www.gov.uk/government/c...
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With £1,000,000 now spent Allison Bailey loses again.
December 18, 2025 at 11:03 AM
With £1,000,000 now spent Allison Bailey loses again.
One thing I’ve been surprised by is that some people actually enjoy being in hostile volatile environments because they would otherwise be bored. I just don’t get it.
"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
December 16, 2025 at 12:06 PM
One thing I’ve been surprised by is that some people actually enjoy being in hostile volatile environments because they would otherwise be bored. I just don’t get it.
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"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
December 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
"Bluesky is an echo chamber."
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
"Bluesky doesn't have enough reach"
"Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right"
I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.
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Practicing peace is hard. It means practicing justice and it means not indulging an understandable desire for revenge. This is hard. But practicing peace is practicing survival for our species and our ecosystems.
December 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Practicing peace is hard. It means practicing justice and it means not indulging an understandable desire for revenge. This is hard. But practicing peace is practicing survival for our species and our ecosystems.
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Home Office urged to be transparent about deaths of asylum seekers in its care
Home Office urged to be transparent about deaths of asylum seekers in its care
Campaigners call for quarterly data to be published in line with other departments instead of FoI route
Human rights and refugee campaigners are calling on the Home Office to be transparent about the numbers of asylum seekers who die in its care by publishing quarterly data as other government departments do.
The only way to obtain data about asylum seeker deaths is via freedom of information (FoI) requests to the Home Office, which officials do not always comply with. However, the NHS produces regular figures about deaths in hospitals and the Ministry of Justice does so with deaths in custody. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Home Office urged to be transparent about deaths of asylum seekers in its care
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I thought I'd share a full draft of a paper I've been working on on FWS and "biological sex". papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 11, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I thought I'd share a full draft of a paper I've been working on on FWS and "biological sex". papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
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Should you be passing through Paris (or resident) and need a book critiquing Post-Liberalism pop along to Shakespeare and Co
December 13, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Should you be passing through Paris (or resident) and need a book critiquing Post-Liberalism pop along to Shakespeare and Co
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Baroness Falkner questions “veracity” of a judge’s judgment.
In a possibly unique statement the immediate former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Baroness Falkner is reported by the BBC as having questioned the ‘veracity’ of the Judgment of the Judge in Peggie v Fife and Upton.
In a possibly unique statement the immediate former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Baroness Falkner is reported by the BBC as having questioned the ‘veracity’ of the Judgment of the Judge in Peggie v Fife and Upton.
December 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Baroness Falkner questions “veracity” of a judge’s judgment.
In a possibly unique statement the immediate former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Baroness Falkner is reported by the BBC as having questioned the ‘veracity’ of the Judgment of the Judge in Peggie v Fife and Upton.
In a possibly unique statement the immediate former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission Baroness Falkner is reported by the BBC as having questioned the ‘veracity’ of the Judgment of the Judge in Peggie v Fife and Upton.
The headline on website is different to what was posted here? I wonder if it has been changed.
At the very least journalists should point out to Kishwer Faulkner & other EHRC officials that their presentation of the practical effects of the SC judgement has been inaccurate & legally contentious.
At the very least journalists should point out to Kishwer Faulkner & other EHRC officials that their presentation of the practical effects of the SC judgement has been inaccurate & legally contentious.
Trans doctor changing room case: does it amount to a bathroom ban?
Trans doctor changing room case: does it amount to a bathroom ban?
Some businesses still waiting for final EHRC guidance while firms that moved early to exclude trans people show no sign of backtracking
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
The headline on website is different to what was posted here? I wonder if it has been changed.
At the very least journalists should point out to Kishwer Faulkner & other EHRC officials that their presentation of the practical effects of the SC judgement has been inaccurate & legally contentious.
At the very least journalists should point out to Kishwer Faulkner & other EHRC officials that their presentation of the practical effects of the SC judgement has been inaccurate & legally contentious.
I loved listening to Shon’s point on how the experience of class inequality is gendered. Very much in line with how Stuart Hall thought of how class relations are equally shaped by race in which he said, “Race is the modality in which class is lived”.
December 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I loved listening to Shon’s point on how the experience of class inequality is gendered. Very much in line with how Stuart Hall thought of how class relations are equally shaped by race in which he said, “Race is the modality in which class is lived”.
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If you’re tired of explaining yourself and the misreporting of the Peggie tribunal to your lazy and ignorant friends save your energy and send them this.
open.substack.com/pub/ajustsoc...
open.substack.com/pub/ajustsoc...
When the Law Said No: How Gender Critical Arguments Failed in Court
A plain English guide to what the Peggie judgment actually decided
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
If you’re tired of explaining yourself and the misreporting of the Peggie tribunal to your lazy and ignorant friends save your energy and send them this.
open.substack.com/pub/ajustsoc...
open.substack.com/pub/ajustsoc...
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Decision in the Sandie Peggie case.
She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
Sandie Peggie -v- Fife Health Board and another (judgment and summary) - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
Case number: 4104864/2024 Employment Tribunal, Scotland 8 December 2025 Before: Employment Judge A KempTribunal Member L BrownTribunal Member C Russell Between: Mrs Sandie Peggie -v- Fife Health Board...
www.judiciary.uk
December 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Decision in the Sandie Peggie case.
She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...
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Only first instance but this feels quite significant - it was lawful, post For Some Women Scotland, to offer trans inclusive workplace toilets.
BREAKING: Employee who demand a trans-exclusive toilet policy loses employment tribunal. All claims, direct and indirect discrimination, harassment, and 1992 Regs, dismissed.
Judgment: www.gov.uk/employment-t...
Judgment: www.gov.uk/employment-t...
B M Kelly v Leonardo UK Ltd: 8001497/2024
Employment Tribunal decision.
www.gov.uk
December 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Only first instance but this feels quite significant - it was lawful, post For Some Women Scotland, to offer trans inclusive workplace toilets.
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Next week I'm moderating an @histmat.bsky.social event on the instantly-canonical 'Feminism Against Cisness' with @riislover667.bsky.social, @reproutopia.bsky.social, Lola Olufemi, and @weakanalogy.bsky.social.
Thursday, December 11, 6pm GMT, online
To register: www.eventbrite.com/e/feminism-a...
Thursday, December 11, 6pm GMT, online
To register: www.eventbrite.com/e/feminism-a...
December 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Next week I'm moderating an @histmat.bsky.social event on the instantly-canonical 'Feminism Against Cisness' with @riislover667.bsky.social, @reproutopia.bsky.social, Lola Olufemi, and @weakanalogy.bsky.social.
Thursday, December 11, 6pm GMT, online
To register: www.eventbrite.com/e/feminism-a...
Thursday, December 11, 6pm GMT, online
To register: www.eventbrite.com/e/feminism-a...
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Two theses on this:
1.Historians cut religion out of political history too early. Well into the 80s, UK politics is still saturated in the stories, referents & norms of Christianity (irrespective of belief).
2.The collapse of that common culture is the most neglected factor in more recent politics
1.Historians cut religion out of political history too early. Well into the 80s, UK politics is still saturated in the stories, referents & norms of Christianity (irrespective of belief).
2.The collapse of that common culture is the most neglected factor in more recent politics
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Two theses on this:
1.Historians cut religion out of political history too early. Well into the 80s, UK politics is still saturated in the stories, referents & norms of Christianity (irrespective of belief).
2.The collapse of that common culture is the most neglected factor in more recent politics
1.Historians cut religion out of political history too early. Well into the 80s, UK politics is still saturated in the stories, referents & norms of Christianity (irrespective of belief).
2.The collapse of that common culture is the most neglected factor in more recent politics
Yep. Don’t remember where I saw the recommendation, but there’s an app called “WeCroak” that sends daily reminders to contemplate your mortality. Incredibly liberating for me.
also if I can Stoicism post just a bit: this is also what memento mori is for. you are going to die someday - do you really imagine than one of your regrets will be that you didn't organize more of your life around what random Redditors think is gay?
bsky.app/profile/maxk...
bsky.app/profile/maxk...
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Yep. Don’t remember where I saw the recommendation, but there’s an app called “WeCroak” that sends daily reminders to contemplate your mortality. Incredibly liberating for me.