Soula Emmanuel
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Soula Emmanuel
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· Nov 18
Wild Geese
WINNER OF THE GORDON BOWKER VOLCANO PRIZE (SoA Award) 2024WINNER OF THE LAMBDA AWARD IN TRANSGENDER FICTION 2024Soula is the most exciting new voice in Irish writing’ Barry Pierce, i-D’…
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I should introduce myself: I'm Soula, and I wrote a novel called Wild Geese which came out last year. It won the Lambda Literary Award for Trans Fiction and the Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize for writing about being away from home. I think it's good #queerwriters footnotepress.com/books/wild-g...
It's hard not to see the aggressive sexual language of GCs (shouting "penis, penis, penis" at Judith Butler at the Royal Festival Hall to give a recent example) as a class flex. They know they're allowed to say things their opponents can't, and they get off on the impunity
I'm kind of convinced that there's a sort of hygiene politics in the UK that finds trans people dirty and therefore anti trans people are clean.
This same politics finds overt Nazism and Trumpist rhetoric dirty too. The reason there's some line drawing to distinguish is because of that.
This same politics finds overt Nazism and Trumpist rhetoric dirty too. The reason there's some line drawing to distinguish is because of that.
The British media love Stock because they love gender fascism
March 28, 2025 at 10:45 AM
It's hard not to see the aggressive sexual language of GCs (shouting "penis, penis, penis" at Judith Butler at the Royal Festival Hall to give a recent example) as a class flex. They know they're allowed to say things their opponents can't, and they get off on the impunity
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Check out a small press book we love: Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante!
A Small Press Book We Love: Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante
Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—wh…
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March 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Check out a small press book we love: Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante!
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Of course, Professor Dame Baroness Saint Hilary Cass *could* come out and defend her review's recommendations but she only seems to do that when trans people criticise it
Confirmation they are now targeting the puberty blocker trial saying that "It beggars belief that, after the Cass Review, we would even consider a clinical trial of puberty blockers"
March 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Of course, Professor Dame Baroness Saint Hilary Cass *could* come out and defend her review's recommendations but she only seems to do that when trans people criticise it
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This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Vice Precedent
Vice Precedent
theonion.com
March 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Vice Precedent
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When you've definitely met more than one trans woman
March 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
When you've definitely met more than one trans woman
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the arc of history is long. it's long as hell. it's just—whew. it's a long-ass arc, is all I can tell you.
November 11, 2024 at 8:33 PM
the arc of history is long. it's long as hell. it's just—whew. it's a long-ass arc, is all I can tell you.
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This is a recurrent feature of anti-trans radicalisation: bored, comfortable people in their 50s/60s with grown-up kids, trying to regain the thrill of parental authority by becoming "the adults in the room" attacking "noisy, immature activists"
I know the material reasons for the rise of fascism. I also think another reason - which doesn’t get talked about as much because it’s embarrassing that humans can be that naive - is that when you are financially comfortable but bored, abstract cruelty can give you a sense of purpose.
February 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This is a recurrent feature of anti-trans radicalisation: bored, comfortable people in their 50s/60s with grown-up kids, trying to regain the thrill of parental authority by becoming "the adults in the room" attacking "noisy, immature activists"
I'm not one to blame political trends on stuff that annoys me online, but the Leopards Eating People's Faces reply is such an empty yet corrosive bit of posturing. STOP IT!
Just saw a thread about a guy calling into cspan saying his diabetic supplies increased from 5 dollars to 80 dollars and somebody in the comments, probably multiple people but I stopped reading, replied “FAFO” and I can’t stress enough how much you need to stop doing that shit
February 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I'm not one to blame political trends on stuff that annoys me online, but the Leopards Eating People's Faces reply is such an empty yet corrosive bit of posturing. STOP IT!
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Just saw a thread about a guy calling into cspan saying his diabetic supplies increased from 5 dollars to 80 dollars and somebody in the comments, probably multiple people but I stopped reading, replied “FAFO” and I can’t stress enough how much you need to stop doing that shit
February 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Just saw a thread about a guy calling into cspan saying his diabetic supplies increased from 5 dollars to 80 dollars and somebody in the comments, probably multiple people but I stopped reading, replied “FAFO” and I can’t stress enough how much you need to stop doing that shit
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I'm no scholar of history, but I paid attention in college and can tell you this man will be fortunate to die in a prison cell
February 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I'm no scholar of history, but I paid attention in college and can tell you this man will be fortunate to die in a prison cell
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I interviewed the very talented and brave accidental activist Dr Lydia Foy:
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Dr Lydia Foy: ‘I never got an apology actually. It would be nice to get one’
The trans activist who fought the State for years for the right to change her gender on her birth cert would prefer to ‘talk about me as a person rather than all the baloney with the courts’
www.irishtimes.com
February 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I interviewed the very talented and brave accidental activist Dr Lydia Foy:
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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Just spotted @xychelsea.tv among the massive crowd of Mangione supporters, who says she’s here “exercising my sixth amendment right to observe our court proceedings.”
February 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Just spotted @xychelsea.tv among the massive crowd of Mangione supporters, who says she’s here “exercising my sixth amendment right to observe our court proceedings.”
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Last week, a number of prominent UK feminists declared Donald Trump a "feminist hero" for banning trans women from playing sports.
How did we get here? A new book by @reproutopia.bsky.social explores how reactionary tendencies have created Enemy Feminisms throughout the history of feminism
How did we get here? A new book by @reproutopia.bsky.social explores how reactionary tendencies have created Enemy Feminisms throughout the history of feminism
‘I won’t cede the ground’: Sophie Lewis wants feminists to know their enemies – even if they’re other feminists
In a new book, Enemy Feminisms, the scholar traces a line from reactionary tendencies in history to anti-trans feminists enabling the far right today
www.theguardian.com
February 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Last week, a number of prominent UK feminists declared Donald Trump a "feminist hero" for banning trans women from playing sports.
How did we get here? A new book by @reproutopia.bsky.social explores how reactionary tendencies have created Enemy Feminisms throughout the history of feminism
How did we get here? A new book by @reproutopia.bsky.social explores how reactionary tendencies have created Enemy Feminisms throughout the history of feminism
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Change in Headline
February 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Change in Headline
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Remarkable sights today, j*sse s*ngal posted an article observing that Trump's USAID cuts have already caused deaths and this is an immoral disaster - and dozens of his subscribers promptly commented to tell him that these kinds of opinions are absolutely not what they are following him for
February 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Remarkable sights today, j*sse s*ngal posted an article observing that Trump's USAID cuts have already caused deaths and this is an immoral disaster - and dozens of his subscribers promptly commented to tell him that these kinds of opinions are absolutely not what they are following him for
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“If those in power want to protect women’s spaces, they should focus on the most dangerous place for women in Ireland-their own homes.
We have seen the harm this State can do to those it believes should be hidden”
Brava Jenny Maguire
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #translivesmatter
We have seen the harm this State can do to those it believes should be hidden”
Brava Jenny Maguire
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #translivesmatter
February 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
“If those in power want to protect women’s spaces, they should focus on the most dangerous place for women in Ireland-their own homes.
We have seen the harm this State can do to those it believes should be hidden”
Brava Jenny Maguire
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #translivesmatter
We have seen the harm this State can do to those it believes should be hidden”
Brava Jenny Maguire
#TransRightsAreHumanRights #translivesmatter
Nice to see a review of a "gender critical" book that points out how utterly inane its preoccupations are archive.is/7gWDV
February 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Nice to see a review of a "gender critical" book that points out how utterly inane its preoccupations are archive.is/7gWDV
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His illiquidity is the danger. He has to keep doing shit like this. The Not Actually Real Money Bus must be kept above $200 billion or it will explode. All of this shit is basically debt and blackmail and it's forcing people like Musk into increasingly precarious and dangerous positions.
may be beside the point/extremely obvious but i feel like you can only ignore extreme wealth inequality for so long before it metastasizes into something that fundamentally remakes and destabilizes the world by giving people access to so much money that they are fully above consequence
A consortium led by Elon Musk has made an unsolicited bid to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI for $97.4 billion. Huge scoop by @jtoonkel and @berber_jin1 www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...
February 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
His illiquidity is the danger. He has to keep doing shit like this. The Not Actually Real Money Bus must be kept above $200 billion or it will explode. All of this shit is basically debt and blackmail and it's forcing people like Musk into increasingly precarious and dangerous positions.
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The only trans voices that seem to get any sort of traction in the UK are currently deeply conservative, willing to collude with the far right media in return for "platform", disregard strategic discussions within the community.
February 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The only trans voices that seem to get any sort of traction in the UK are currently deeply conservative, willing to collude with the far right media in return for "platform", disregard strategic discussions within the community.
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The only reason passports include sex markers AT ALL was because of a previous moral panic over gender.
February 8, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The only reason passports include sex markers AT ALL was because of a previous moral panic over gender.