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Luke Aspell

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Later today, my video Wasp Light II will be shown in Jamie Jenkinson’s video programme and talk at Newcastle University’s Culture Lab for wildpop 2025.

wild-pop.org/saturday-pro...

Saturday Programme — WILDPOP

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November 8, 2025 at 5:57 AM

Luke Aspell

@lukeaspell.bsky.social

What if the past makes me sad, Photobucket? What if I don't want to think about Death galloping towards me?

October 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM

Luke Aspell

@lukeaspell.bsky.social

At the Ithell Colquhoun exhibition at Tate Britain!

Sign above door into Ithell Colquhoun exhibition, with first finger of left hand pointing up at it.

October 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️

@cnlester.bsky.social

Just for clarity: Wes Streeting is an bald-faced quisling, whose rights as a cis gay man wouldn't exist without the struggles and sacrifice of the trans and gender diverse people who came before him. If you believe him now I have a bridge to sell you.

Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · Sep 16

In an "olive branch" Streeting defended everything he did to strip healthcare from young trans people as right and justified and said absolutely nothing about any way he'd move away from that targeted campaign to eradicate trans people.

Come ON @theguardian.com. This is atrocious.

"In an olive branch to the trans community, many of whom felt betrayed by Streeting’s early decision as health secretary to pause the use of puberty blockers, he said he knew “young trans people who are desperately worried not just by the toxicity of some of the debates, but about this community’s safety and wellbeing”.

“I know there are questions in our community about my motivation on this issue and the decisions that I took within days of coming into office,” he said. “My motivation has only ever been to make sure that medicine given to children is safe and effective, and grounded in robust evidence.

“More broadly, I’ve sought to acknowledge the tensions that have arisen between trans rights and the sex-based rights of women, so that as a country, we can find a way through that ensures equality, dignity, safety and inclusion for all,” he added."

September 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM

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Will Sloan

@willsloanesq.bsky.social

I would like to opt out of the enforced international week of mourning for a fascist YouTuber if that’s at all possible.

September 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM

Luke Aspell

@lukeaspell.bsky.social

Great stuff.

September 11, 2025 at 4:31 AM

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨

@davidgerard.co.uk

to disable the fucking AI chatbot in Firefox:

* go to about:config
* set browser.ml.chat.enabled to false

July 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM

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The Braag | Press & Journal

@thebraag.bsky.social

UK writers can submit
⭐ Poetry Pamphlets
🌟 Novellas/fiction experiments/flash or short story collections up to around 30,000 words

Writers worldwide can submit
💫 9 a5 pages of work for limited run micro-chapbooks

We pay our authors! We never use AI! Could you please share this? We want your work!

The Braag is a Poetry and speculative fiction publisher looking for manuscripts June 15th - July 31st

thebraag.co

July 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM

Luke Aspell

@lukeaspell.bsky.social

Fred Camper broke the news of P. Adams Sitney's death on Frameworks 25 minutes ago. A devastating loss.

June 9, 2025 at 12:22 AM

Luke Aspell

@lukeaspell.bsky.social

The new Pope has started out on the right foot in naming himself after the great Leo Gorcey.

The great Leo Gorcey. Judging from his age and costume, this pic is from the Bowery Boys era.

May 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM

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Trans Safety Network

@transsafety.network

Press release: 141 LGBTQ+, feminist and allied organisations call for transphobic political parties to be banned from Pride events

141 LGBTQ+, feminist and allied organisations have signed an open letter calling for the organisers of Pride events to take a stand against transphobia by barring all political parties advocating for ...

transsafety.network

May 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM

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Dominic

@psychicentity.bsky.social

When I teach LGBTQ+ film classes I spend a lot of time giving students (who are usually part of the community) LGBTQ+ history because, as Hugh points out, most gay people don’t know all that much about their own history. It’s the most meaningful work I do. Excellent thread, highly suggest you read!

Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social · Apr 19

(long🧵) Watching some gays & lesbians celebrate that heinous UK Court ruling against trans women has me again thinking about how little most gay people know about their own history. No, I'm not rehashing if trans people were at Stonewall (they were). I'm talking about the long arc of what it even...

April 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM

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So Mayer

@suchmayer.bsky.social

I have multiple & contradictory thoughts about including non-binary writers (such as me) in IWD book displays.

*if all ur nb writers are all afab, congrats ur the Women's Prize & it's a fail

*if u include afab nb writers & no trans women it's a double fail & pure transphobia

So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · Mar 6

international women's world book day week month challenges to libraries, bookstores, events & lists milking the conjunction:

1) INCLUDE TRANS WOMEN BC TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN.

2) DON'T INCLUDE TERFS BC TERFS DO NOT INCLUDE ALL WOMEN IN THEIR DEFINITION OF WOMEN.

Have seen TOO many fails.

March 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM