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Robert Young
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I fight for LGBT+ and all human rights. I am anti racist and anti fascist. Woke and proud. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻
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Womans Place UK folding with a faux 'we told you so..' re: the 'embrace of gender conservatism & tolerance of – even support for – the far right in parts of the ‘gender critical’ movement' being an 'enormous danger to women'.

WPUK = the very Petri dish for far-right gender conservatism. [1/2]
November 29, 2024 at 7:13 AM
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I visited a #SouthKordofan camp for displaced ppl last month for @hrw.org and witnessed how #malnutrition #Starvation is killing people in #Sudan, many of them children, as warring parties block assistance and #FoodAid falls short. This is what I saw:
www.justsecurity.org/105227/sudan...
November 27, 2024 at 2:12 PM
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Bronski Beat's Jimmy Somerville slams unapproved use of 'Smalltown Boy' in film by "anti-trans" LGB Alliance

“How dare you! How fucking dare you! I just want to let you know that it's nothing to do with me. We didn't know about it but we will do something about it."
djmag.com/news/bronski...
Bronski Beat's Jimmy Somerville slams unapproved use of 'Smalltown Boy' in film by "anti-trans" LGB Alliance
"I would never allow anything of mine to be used by such a group," Sommerville said in a video posted via Instagram
djmag.com
November 25, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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Pride and protest: a photographic history of the fight for LGBTQ+ rights
Pride and protest: a photographic history of the fight for LGBTQ+ rights
Images by Fred W McDarrah feature in a new exhibition that follows key moments of community and liberation The Manhattan photographer Fred McDarrah came to prominence documenting the Beat movement that overtook Greenwich Village in the 1950s, capturing,…
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 9:20 AM
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Andrew Tate got banned from Bluesky in less than one day.

Another reason things are so much better here than Twitter.
November 19, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant, and Mohammed Diab Ibrahim al-Masri.

These warrants should push the international community to address atrocities and secure justice for all victims in Palestine and Israel.
November 21, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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The head of the Norwegian Refugee Council has likened the situation in Gaza to a ‘dystopian horror film’, with endless destroyed homes and a desperate population on the brink of famine.

The US and UK governments must end all arms sales to Israel now.
North Gaza like 'dystopian horror film' — Norwegian NGO head – DW – 11/16/2024
People are still living in "endless" areas of destruction in Gaza City, said the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, Jan Egeland. In an interview with Die Zeit daily, he said much of the aid enteri...
amp.dw.com
November 17, 2024 at 12:31 PM
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Well this makes a change from the other place - hopefully the far right and the transphobes will stay away - but just in case, I will say that women's rights and trans rights go hand in hand - One Struggle, One Fight!
November 17, 2024 at 1:40 PM
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This is why I am making my way over to friendlier, less rigged skies here. Why play on an unlevel field?
November 17, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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Zing!
November 17, 2024 at 4:17 PM
I’ve deactivated the horrible X. If you’re not right wing, racist, xenophobic, misogynistic, homophobic+ etc I may follow you.
November 17, 2024 at 4:20 PM