Evan Hayles Gledhill
@gothicbodies.bsky.social
Professional nerd researching Gothic Fangirls and Families.
Disabled, Queer, Socialist.
Disabled, Queer, Socialist.
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What Do We mean by Fandom Anyway? | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
In tis episode I define what I mean when go looking for historic examples of fandoms, and explain how I started this research a decade ago. With a shout out to the 'Sir Harry Page Collection of Victor...
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First full episode of Historical Squee is now live! Possibly of interest if you're interested in eighteenth century literary cultures, Romantic era poets, and sentiment albums and collage, and feminist history!
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As one of the *many* visibly queer residents near the stadium I'm adding a hearty "fuck you" to @tottenhamhotspur.com for making me less safe on my own street. We don't pander to bigots and bullies.
December 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
As one of the *many* visibly queer residents near the stadium I'm adding a hearty "fuck you" to @tottenhamhotspur.com for making me less safe on my own street. We don't pander to bigots and bullies.
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If you give working class people money, that money is going to go straight into their landlord’s pocket, until you fundamentally change the relationship between workers and housing!
This can’t lower rent, it always makes rents go up, because now the subsidy is calculated into the rate!
This can’t lower rent, it always makes rents go up, because now the subsidy is calculated into the rate!
December 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
If you give working class people money, that money is going to go straight into their landlord’s pocket, until you fundamentally change the relationship between workers and housing!
This can’t lower rent, it always makes rents go up, because now the subsidy is calculated into the rate!
This can’t lower rent, it always makes rents go up, because now the subsidy is calculated into the rate!
Bluesky Challenge: post your favourite work of art from 50 years before you were born
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December 9, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Bluesky Challenge: post your favourite work of art from 50 years before you were born
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Here we go again. My brother has dual nationality, but he's white and straight, he's not who their nasty little code is insinuating. this is racially coded, unworkable nonsense playing to a base for whom the phrase 'how would that work in northern Ireland' is just an invitation to a sectarian rant.
The Conservative party’s policy also includes stripping people of their British citizenship when they are found guilty of a crime ⬇️
All criminals with dual nationality must be deported, say Tories
The Conservative party’s policy also includes stripping people of their British citizenship when they are found guilty of a crime
www.thetimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Here we go again. My brother has dual nationality, but he's white and straight, he's not who their nasty little code is insinuating. this is racially coded, unworkable nonsense playing to a base for whom the phrase 'how would that work in northern Ireland' is just an invitation to a sectarian rant.
Every fucking Labour headline these days is a rejected bit from McSweeneys or the Onion
December 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Every fucking Labour headline these days is a rejected bit from McSweeneys or the Onion
After the missile attacks on boats, and immigration bullshit, this is the least subtle 'we're going to do some lynchings' announcement since the KKK pamphlet era. We need to turn quiet social media panic into full scale social action, and fast.
it does feel like an intense societal problem that the founder of palantir, the biggest survellience company, thinks like this
December 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
After the missile attacks on boats, and immigration bullshit, this is the least subtle 'we're going to do some lynchings' announcement since the KKK pamphlet era. We need to turn quiet social media panic into full scale social action, and fast.
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I don't think Netflix should get to eat anything else until it finishes all the prematurely cancelled shows on its plate
December 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I don't think Netflix should get to eat anything else until it finishes all the prematurely cancelled shows on its plate
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A Welsh advocate has launched the UK's first national organisation dedicated to improving the lives of transgender people in rural, remote, and semi-rural areas
Welsh advocate launches UK’s first organisation for rural trans communities
A Welsh advocate has launched the UK’s first national organisation dedicated to improving the lives of transgender people in rural, remote, and semi-rural areas. Rural Trans Alliance CIC, founded in 2...
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December 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A Welsh advocate has launched the UK's first national organisation dedicated to improving the lives of transgender people in rural, remote, and semi-rural areas
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Trans people have always and will always be here.
A very important thread. When I was probably no more than 10, I saw this picture of the woman known as Harlow in the Philly Inquirer. A little babygay, I was shocked that such a glamour queen could live in my hometown and even more shocked to see her described as "a former man."
December 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Trans people have always and will always be here.
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If you’re mad at trans athletes in women’s sports you’re mad about the wrong thing entirely.
Investigators say former coach Sean Gardner created videos showing close-up images of at least 10 minors naked or undressing, which they recovered from his computers last year while investigating reports of sexual abuse.
Gardner has pleaded not guilty and has been jailed pending trial.
Gardner has pleaded not guilty and has been jailed pending trial.
Olympics Sports Watchdog Failed to Stop Mississippi Coach's Sexual Abuse, Women Allege
Two gymnasts who say they were sexually abused at an elite academy in Iowa filed lawsuits Monday against the sport’s oversight bodies.
www.mississippifreepress.org
December 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
If you’re mad at trans athletes in women’s sports you’re mad about the wrong thing entirely.
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🧵1/ I’m releasing my documentary “A Visit to a Homeless Shelter for Transgender Ugandans” in 5 parts.
In Part 1, we begin in Kampala’s “7 hills” to show how far from industry trans ugandans are living—as they try to avoid eviction.
(To support them: gofundme.com/minorityshelters)
In Part 1, we begin in Kampala’s “7 hills” to show how far from industry trans ugandans are living—as they try to avoid eviction.
(To support them: gofundme.com/minorityshelters)
December 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🧵1/ I’m releasing my documentary “A Visit to a Homeless Shelter for Transgender Ugandans” in 5 parts.
In Part 1, we begin in Kampala’s “7 hills” to show how far from industry trans ugandans are living—as they try to avoid eviction.
(To support them: gofundme.com/minorityshelters)
In Part 1, we begin in Kampala’s “7 hills” to show how far from industry trans ugandans are living—as they try to avoid eviction.
(To support them: gofundme.com/minorityshelters)
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there is no natural golden ratio of abled to disabled ppl, and no upper cap on what percentage of population can be disabled. if you sicken and injure enough ppl, and destroy accessibility of public life in a hostile and unsupported society so a wider and wider range are excluded, the skys the limit
December 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
there is no natural golden ratio of abled to disabled ppl, and no upper cap on what percentage of population can be disabled. if you sicken and injure enough ppl, and destroy accessibility of public life in a hostile and unsupported society so a wider and wider range are excluded, the skys the limit
Boo!
(transexual jump scare)
(transexual jump scare)
The good thing about running Romancing the Gothic independently of any institution and supported only by people's donations is that I have no pressure to cowardice or capitulation.
Trans people are right there at the heart of RtG and if you don't like it, that's your problem. Not ours.
Trans people are right there at the heart of RtG and if you don't like it, that's your problem. Not ours.
We still have some talk spaces for next year's Romancing the Gothic online talk series.
A reminder that Romancing the Gothic is explicitly trans-inclusive and our programme next year will be celebrating that in numerous talks. Join us.
romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/02/r...
A reminder that Romancing the Gothic is explicitly trans-inclusive and our programme next year will be celebrating that in numerous talks. Join us.
romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/02/r...
December 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Boo!
(transexual jump scare)
(transexual jump scare)
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We still have some talk spaces for next year's Romancing the Gothic online talk series.
A reminder that Romancing the Gothic is explicitly trans-inclusive and our programme next year will be celebrating that in numerous talks. Join us.
romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/02/r...
A reminder that Romancing the Gothic is explicitly trans-inclusive and our programme next year will be celebrating that in numerous talks. Join us.
romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/02/r...
Romancing the Gothic 2026 Talk Series – Call for Papers
In 2026, our annual conference will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of Ann Radcliffe’s final, posthumous, publications. An early Gothic writer, Radcliffe was known to some as the ‘…
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December 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
We still have some talk spaces for next year's Romancing the Gothic online talk series.
A reminder that Romancing the Gothic is explicitly trans-inclusive and our programme next year will be celebrating that in numerous talks. Join us.
romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/02/r...
A reminder that Romancing the Gothic is explicitly trans-inclusive and our programme next year will be celebrating that in numerous talks. Join us.
romancingthegothic.com/2025/09/02/r...
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I hate to say that sex workers tried to warn y'all this wasn't going to stop at just porn sites, but...
Y'all, I was in Mississippi today for my nephews J-State graduation and got this when I opened Blue Sky
December 6, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I hate to say that sex workers tried to warn y'all this wasn't going to stop at just porn sites, but...
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Being trans disqualified you from being involved or having any say at all in the nyt coverage of trans people. That was true 5 years ago, and it’s true today.
It’s the definition of prejudice.
It’s the definition of prejudice.
Ever wonder why the New York Times abandoned balance and impartiality to lead an old-fashioned newspaper crusade against trans equal rights?
In one of our most read stories for the year, @evanurquhart.bsky.social took readers behind the scenes at NYT.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
In one of our most read stories for the year, @evanurquhart.bsky.social took readers behind the scenes at NYT.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Bias at NYT: Trans Former Employee Speaks Out — Assigned
Billie Sweeney is a trans journalist who was an editor for the New York Times until last year. Here, she recalls her losing battle for the soul of the paper of record.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Being trans disqualified you from being involved or having any say at all in the nyt coverage of trans people. That was true 5 years ago, and it’s true today.
It’s the definition of prejudice.
It’s the definition of prejudice.
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a lovely obituary but this in particular really got me
December 5, 2025 at 5:05 AM
a lovely obituary but this in particular really got me
Fascinated to know what empire I represent as a trans person? Can I choose? Medieval Persia has great aesthetics for gender bending weirdness.
It's fascinating how "the transes went too far" is a kind of floating timeline thing, always placed in the relatively recent past. e.g. Helen Lewis here dating the "over-reach" to after Bostock (June 2020). But she was already decrying the "imperial over-reach of... trans activists" in Jan 2019.
December 5, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Fascinated to know what empire I represent as a trans person? Can I choose? Medieval Persia has great aesthetics for gender bending weirdness.
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Mate, he already has. Keep up.
Trans people: smeared and fucked
Disabled people: smeared and fucked
Women: raped & apparently that's legal now
Workers: replaced with AI & turned into poor people
Poor people: blamed & made poorer
Trans people: smeared and fucked
Disabled people: smeared and fucked
Women: raped & apparently that's legal now
Workers: replaced with AI & turned into poor people
Poor people: blamed & made poorer
December 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Mate, he already has. Keep up.
Trans people: smeared and fucked
Disabled people: smeared and fucked
Women: raped & apparently that's legal now
Workers: replaced with AI & turned into poor people
Poor people: blamed & made poorer
Trans people: smeared and fucked
Disabled people: smeared and fucked
Women: raped & apparently that's legal now
Workers: replaced with AI & turned into poor people
Poor people: blamed & made poorer
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I think it says a lot about how our attitude to welfare has changed that the Christmas Bonus was brought in by Barbara Castle so that even the poorest families could afford a turkey and a few presents and now removing it would prompt protests and rising it would give the Telegraph an aneurism.
Remember, the UK is a country which has been paying a £10 Christmas bonus to pensioners since the 1970s, and yes, it was £10 in the 1970s and is still £10 today, and no, obviously it would be political suicide to take this increasingly meaningless sum away.
December 4, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I think it says a lot about how our attitude to welfare has changed that the Christmas Bonus was brought in by Barbara Castle so that even the poorest families could afford a turkey and a few presents and now removing it would prompt protests and rising it would give the Telegraph an aneurism.
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must emphasize again that the government and courts have not only attacked trans rights built in the last 15 years and that were *explicitly envisaged as part of the Equality Act they are using to attack them* but forcing a rollback of *decades-old* policies by individual groups.
Stuck on this gutting sentence on the Women’s Institute decision. For young people it’s watching the world close to them before they’ve had a shot at life, for older women it’s watching half a century of progress vanish. Either way it’s grossly, unbearably cruel.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
December 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
must emphasize again that the government and courts have not only attacked trans rights built in the last 15 years and that were *explicitly envisaged as part of the Equality Act they are using to attack them* but forcing a rollback of *decades-old* policies by individual groups.
My Spotify wrapped is hilarious - my most listened to album was Horowitz plays Mozart, and most played artist was Mr Mister (am I missing my ex?!?) But officially I have the listening habits of a retiree.
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
My Spotify wrapped is hilarious - my most listened to album was Horowitz plays Mozart, and most played artist was Mr Mister (am I missing my ex?!?) But officially I have the listening habits of a retiree.
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These orgs are not our allies. They may have been before, but now they just are not, they have given up on us no matter how sad they look while they do it they have crossed the line to the anti trans side and deserve all the scorn they get for it sorry
December 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
These orgs are not our allies. They may have been before, but now they just are not, they have given up on us no matter how sad they look while they do it they have crossed the line to the anti trans side and deserve all the scorn they get for it sorry