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Dylan McNulty-Holmes
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Writer, editor, author of Survivalism for Hedonists (Querencia Press) www.dylanmcnultyholmes.com
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Karada House is trans. There’s barely a cis person among us.

Here’s our not-so-short response to the cooked fuckery out of the UK last and this week.

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Karada House is trans. There’s barely a cis person among us. Here’s our not-so-short response to the cooked fuckery out of the UK this week: On Wednesday April 16th, the UK Supreme Court decided that trans women are not women. This ruling is part of an unbroken multi-decade attack going back to 1970s second-wave feminism, specifically against trans women and girls. It also rules against trans men and boys, and against non-binary people, as well defining who is a lesbian. It is part of a heteronormative agenda which includes anti-sex work, anti-porn, anti-BDSM, and is entirely born of a European white supremacist, Christian nationalist, settler colonial, racist, carceral, genocidal, capitalist ideology. This legislative attack — like the 850+ anti-trans bills filed in the USA this year alone — is couched in the pseudoscience of biologic essentialism, and in the words of TERF Janice Raymond, states “…that the problem of transsexualism would best be served by morally mandating it out of existence.” What we’re not interested in right now — or frankly ever — is validation or appeals to authority. Empty slogans like ‘trans women are women’ or ‘trans rights are human rights’ do not help us. We need to be safe in the streets. And in the sheets. We need to take a piss in public bathrooms without fear of being assaulted, arrested, and deported. We need uncontested access to material support like hormones, blood tests, top and bottom surgeries, and other medical procedures; rape crisis centres; employment protection; not being put men’s prisons; not having to have (unaffordable, unprocurable) surgery in order to change our ‘gender’ markers on official documents; not having to choose between homelessness or violence at home and school. We need access to puberty blockers and we need hormones at the same age as the cis kids. We need to not waste and lose our lives on this bullshit. Denying us all these things and more are legislative decisions drawn from that moral position which says we must not exist. Just like how making sex work legal is the state once again non-consensually inserting itself in our working lives and bodies, we don’t need legislation, we need decriminalisation. We need sovereignty for ourselves. And we need cis people, straight, bi, queer, however you live your truth, to step the fuck up even harder than you already have and are. We need you to put yourselves up front and take the hits for us. Love, care, compassion, is also resistance. Stay strong.
April 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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"embossed plane / blurred by tongue / and even placeless / it can no longer be denied / i am a man /"

This time last year, we published @hotpoet.bsky.social 's ODE TO MY PREPOSTEROUS TINY MOUSTACHE'S FIRST INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT. Find it in the archive! buff.ly/nr2BwGh
April 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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jlakagi.bsky.social
It’s the first Monday of the month which means a fresh newsletter. Featuring recommendations for poetry and short fiction by @hotpoet.bsky.social @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @bpladek.bsky.social and others.
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4 places to submit + dragon infestation
Plus, my hideous stack of notebooks
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February 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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IT'S DIAGRAM 24.4
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TABLE OF CONTENTS IMAGE FOR ISSUE 24.4
December 31, 2024 at 5:34 PM
hotpoet.bsky.social
My book is out!!!

Survivalism for Hedonists is a collection of cut-up-ish poems & a love letter to queer desire, staying resilient in a world that doesn't feel like it was designed for us & allowing ourselves to survive imperfectly & deliciously.

www.querenciapress.com/survivalism-...
Book cover of "Survivalism for Hedonists", by Dylan McNulty-Holmes. The cover image is a distorted photograph of confetti and tinsel on a pink tiled floor.
November 27, 2023 at 6:53 PM
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katyderbyshire.bsky.social
Very concerned by the Berlin Senat effectively closing the queer migrant cultural space Oyoun over their hosting a vigil by Jewish Voice for Peace. It not only sets a chilling precedent but also takes away from Berlin’s independent culture. www.berliner-zeitung.de/news/berline...
Förderung nach Kritik gestrichen: Berliner Kulturzentrum Oyoun muss schließen
Nachdem Berlins Kultursenator Chialo angekündigt hatte, die Förderung des Oyoun auf den Prüfstand zu stellen, gibt das Zentrum nun sein baldiges Ende bekannt.
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November 22, 2023 at 5:16 PM
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Strange Horizons ran a special Palestine issue in 2021, the year of the last major Israeli bombing of Gaza. Please read these stories. It won’t help the current situation in any way, but Israel is intent on the genocide of the Palestinian people, and this includes their culture. Help keep it alive.
29 March 2021
Palestinian Special
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October 29, 2023 at 6:24 PM