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Mina
@minaondrums.bsky.social
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Plays drums. Teaches drums. Probably spends too much time thinking about drums 🤷🏻‍♀️

Biological trans woman 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 🕊️

http://linnet.studio
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naomiaklein.bsky.social
One of the highlights of this year was co-hosting a keynote lecture by the magnificent Sherene Seikaly, titled "Palestine as Paradigm."

I am so honoured to be able to share it with you all. Take some time with it. Her message has never been more urgent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq0A...
Palestine as Paradigm: A Keynote Lecture by Sherene Seikaly | Long Arc of Fascism Conference
YouTube video by CCMS SFU
www.youtube.com
May 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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kneecapceol.bsky.social
Our message to London 👇🏻
May 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
🧵 This is a perfect example of how disordered discourse reshapes democratic politics, not by policy failure, but by the performative targeting of identity. Let’s unpack what’s happening.
junlper.beer onion person @junlper.beer · May 22
one of the most insane normalized aspects of our political climate is politicians going after their own constituents in the name of anti-wokeness. what are we doing here
May 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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notrightruth.bsky.social
A useful initial resource on the EHRC's segregation consultation.

Remember - do get employers, venues, and service providers to respond. And don't rush! The EHRC want us to rush. We have six weeks. If you are responding, take your time, and take care.
May 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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jacketdan.bsky.social
This is so fucking good
May 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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tehsamantha.bsky.social
Labour: "We welcome the Supreme Court ruling for the clarity it's brought"

Also Labour: "We're cancelling our women's conference because we're unsure of the legal challenges that will be brought upon us for how we host it."

Not even Swift could write better satire👏
jessicaelgot.bsky.social Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · May 20
Labour to cancel its women’s conference after supreme court gender ruling

Trans rights and gender critical campaigners criticise decision after party told it risks legal challenge if conference goes ahead

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour to cancel its women’s conference after supreme court gender ruling
Trans rights and gender critical campaigners criticise decision after party told it risks legal challenge if conference goes ahead
www.theguardian.com
May 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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annijyn.com
my friend yaya covered the disgraceful telegraph billboard 🥰
a person on a ladder pasting up art of a spotty sausage dog over the telegraph billboard
May 19, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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bernietranders.bsky.social
I'm watching Parliament's debate on self-ID so you don't have to and it's not bad so far (reader, we are only 30 minutes in).
May 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
minaondrums.bsky.social
F*** around and find out, Labour.
hleehurley.com Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · May 13
I hear Labour are furious about the Pride ban. Good morning everybody!
May 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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fasterfizzier.bsky.social
After the disabled have mysteriously disappeared,

while the LGBT community are being re-educated,

and curfews are introduced for non Christian-aryans,

you'll have 'sensible centrists' telling everyone this is the only way to stop Farage.....
sloanelysbeth.bsky.social รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · May 10
this labour government is bat-shit insane and a genuine threat to our democracy.

'policy exchange' is just the heritage foundation - the ppl responsible for the fascist government in the united states.
Maurice Glasman, the Labour peer and Blue Labour founder, told an event at Policy Exchange that the Conservative party had been destroyed and "the same fate will befall this government unless it moves into the space the Conservatives vacated" "Reform is a working-class insurrection against the progressive ruling class, and the only way to counter it is for the Labour government to lead the insurrection, to celebrate the collapse of the era of globalisation, to embrace the space of Brexit, the renewal of the Commonwealth, the restoration of vocation, the primacy of parliament, the integrity of our peace, the effectiveness of our armed forces, the protection of our borders."
May 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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captainpeterquinn.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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saulstaniforth.bsky.social
"Conservatives have created this hostile environment.. we should welcome people wherever they come from.. the UK is better because of immigration.. Lab has been a bit scared of making the positive case for immigration.. we need to turn that round"

The most duplicitous politician in my lifetime
May 12, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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goodlawproject.org
I see the EHRC, Bridget Phillipson and the Supreme Court are #MakingWomenSafe

"I said: “Would you like to see my tits?”
"I started unzipping my hoodie. He panicked: 'No no no, don’t do that!'"
Facebook post from Caz Coronel. TRANS AGGRESSION POST This photo of me was taken a few days ago. This is what I look like, not that it matters, but to set the scene… I was at the Festival Hall. Toilets on either side of two lifts - men’s on one side, women’s on the other. I was in the queue for the women’s. Men were queueing across from me. I was facing into the bathroom, so from behind, you couldn’t see my face. I was just standing there, minding my business, when I heard someone shout, “The men’s toilets are over here!” I ignored it at first thinking someone was letting their mate know. But he kept shouting it "The men's toilet are this side!". Then I felt a tap on my shoulder. He walked up, poked me and said: “Do you realise this is the women’s toilet?!” Up to that point, he hadn’t seen my face. So what was he judging me on? My haircut? My hoodie? Also, I was surrounded by women. It was pretty obvious I knew which toilet it was. His energy was aggressive. I was shocked. I looked him straight in the face and asked: “What sex do you think I am?” Affronted he said: “I don’t know!” Here’s where I wish I’d said, “If you don’t know, then shut the f**k up!” But instead, I said: “Would you like to see my tits?” I started unzipping my hoodie. He panicked: “No no no, don’t do that!” His wife came out of the loo and saw what was going down and said with urgency, “Let’s go now!.” She rushed him away before all the ladies around me properly kicked off. They were horrified by what they saw. One lovely lady said to me “You are welcome here” and another was like I am so so sorry you had to experience that. I can’t believe what I just saw. Another lady said you must report him and get him kicked out! I stood there shocked and unfortunately didn’t react quickly enough. What’s interesting is that he wasn’t a staff member. He was just a random member of the public. Also, my attire was masculine. So if he thought I was a trans woman, why would I be dressing like a man? If he thought I was a trans man, then under the new rules, I was in the right toilet! His policing was based on my hair? My clothes? Maybe I had cancer? Or maybe I just like my hair that way. What makes him think any of that gives him the right to behave like that?! For the record, I’m not offended by being thought to be a man. I have a strong male energy, (female too sometimes!). However I often feel if I could press a button and turn into a man, I probably would. I don’t feel like I’ve earned the right to call myself trans, given the immense things people go through to be right in their body… but in spirit perhaps I am. What was offensive was his assumption that this kind of behaviour is OK. This is what these new laws and rules are doing — they’re not making it safer for everyone. They’re fuelling public entitlement and policing of gender expression. Afterwards, I tried to find them. I thought maybe it would help to have a conversation. To understand. Did he think he was protecting his wife? What made him do that? I’ve been meaning to speak out on this issue (and others that are super important) for a while. But I’ve had a lot going on, it’s been a difficult time and I haven’t felt I had the head space. In a strange way, I’m grateful for this moment. It gave me the push I needed to finally say something. I genuinely believe there’s a lot of misunderstanding from a few of the older cis community about what it means to be trans. I wish I’d got to talk to that guy… open conversations are needed to understand what fear is fuelling their prejudice. More on that in another post. Photo of Caz Coronel.
May 9, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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goddessblade.bsky.social
I've said it before and I'm sure I'll say it again:

The problem haunting most trans peoples' lives is that instead of the nourishment we need to survive, we are given annihilation and expected to make due with it.
May 1, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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katelynburns.com
The best part of the pre social media area was not having access to the random thoughts of the world's biggest dumbfucks.
May 3, 2025 at 1:07 AM
minaondrums.bsky.social
Remove a letter, ruin a movie

It’s a Wonderful Lie (1946)

Apocalypse No (1979)

Wet Side Story (1961)

Apollo 1 (1995) 🔥😢
doublehelix.bsky.social David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · May 2
Remove a letter, ruin a movie.

Toy Tory (1995)

The Texas Chin Saw Massacre (1974)

The Blair Itch Project (1999)

Night of the Living Dad (1968)
tiffanyleigh.bsky.social Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.bsky.social · May 2
Remove a letter, ruin a movie.

Poo Things (2023)
Ope (2022)
Attack of the Cones (2002)
Rash (1996 or 2004)
May 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
minaondrums.bsky.social
When spring feels like the height of summer 🥰

#dogwalk #sheffield #queerswithdogs
Greyhound walking along a path cut through the woods, sunlight beating down, bluebells glowing.
May 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
minaondrums.bsky.social
“Our rights rise and fall together. When one group’s humanity is up for debate, everyone’s freedom is at risk. This is the moment for us to choose solidarity over fear, because a just and inclusive world for trans people is a better world for all of us."

www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/nadi...
MP Nadia Whittome: "The attack on trans women harms all women”
The UK's Supreme Court ruling is a dangerous step in a global campaign to divide marginalised groups and roll back hard-won rights, argues the Labour MP.
www.glamourmagazine.co.uk
May 1, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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katymontgomerie.com
This article is pretty good! Cis lesbian feminist perspective on the UK's recent Supreme Court bullshit

feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/patriarcha...
Patriarchal Hammers
Some thoughts on the recent judgement by the Supreme Court
feministkilljoys.substack.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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katymontgomerie.com
The "Gender Critical" position, pushed by Maya Forstater and the EHRC, of "we can ban trans men because of how they look regardless of their history, we can ban trans women because of their history regardless of how they look" is so blatantly ridiculous when spelled out. Why isn't this the headline
April 28, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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sexabolition.blog
My plan for dealing with this ruling in practice is to just carry on as before until I'm stopped and I think that should be the plan most other trans people in the UK carry on with while we find a way forward.
April 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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transactualuk.bsky.social
TransActual's Director of Operations and Healthcare spoke at the trans rights protest in Liverpool on Saturday. Here's what he said:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_axr...
Liverpool Trans Rights Protest - 19th April 2025
Chay Brown, TransActual’s Director of Operations and Healthcare speaking at the Liverpool Trans Rights Protest on 19th April 2025.
www.youtube.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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translegalproject.bsky.social
URGENT: Following yesterday's public protests & our thread calling for everyone to contact their MP urgently here is some guidance on what you might say in an email.

This is not a time for thinking someone else will fix this. Please read, share and ACT!

www.translegalproject.org/post/urgent-...
URGENT ACTION: Write to your MP to protest the Supreme Court ruling and the EHRC's proposals to impose draconian bans on trans people from single-sex spaces.
The trans community is facing a major crisis in the UK after the Supreme Court ruled last week that for the purposes of The Equality Act 2010 sex should be classified as biological (i.e. as recorded a...
www.translegalproject.org
April 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM