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2023 Reading Masterthread, with links or whatever, just for recordkeeping.
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D Franklin
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D Franklin
@D_Libris
Classicist; SFF fan; book addict and bookseller. Angry queer. Prons. they/them
Glasgow, Scotland Se unió Mart 2013
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The "sticking up for transphobia on twitter dot com" to "hanging out with fascists and whining that everything is the fault of minorities" pipeline continues in its 100% success rate.
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I've got Nicola Dinan coming in in January, in conversation with the great @JosieLong, for what's going to be an amazing event!
Waterstones Glasgow Argyle St@WStonesArgyleST
Nicola Dinan returns to the shop to discuss her second novel - the story of Max, a trans woman whose NYE accident prompts her to try out an old-fashioned straight relationship 🎈 It’s a heartfelt & hilarious story of resolutions perfect for the new year! waterstones.com/events/nicola-…
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Nicola Dinan returns to the shop to discuss her second novel - the story of Max, a trans woman whose NYE accident prompts her to try out an old-fashioned straight relationship 🎈
It’s a heartfelt & hilarious story of resolutions perfect for the new year!
waterstones.com/events/nicola-…
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Class is not lived simply or exclusively through economics, but is mediated and reproduced by race, gender, disability etc. There might be a *conceptual* distinction between class and 'identitarian' categories, but there isn't a *material* one.
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This is just a tired re-working of old school class reductionism, with a lil anti-woke flare.
The working class - in all its diversity and complexity - has always been at the forefront of struggles for freedom - freedom in its most expansive sense.
Bhaskar Sunkara@sunraysunray
It is important to remember, if we campaign on everything, we campaign on nothing. In the coming years, we need to pursue a ruthlessly focused politics that highlights issues that will best build a popular base for the Left. My latest in @inthesetimesmag inthesetimes.com/article/social…
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A reminder that none of these publications are your friend. The moment it’s advantageous to their bottom line they’ll make a “10 up-and-coming transphobes to watch”
Variety@Variety
'Am I Racist?' Star Matt Walsh and Director Justin Folk on Getting Exhibitors to Take a Chance on Controversial Doc and Whether or Not They're Trolling Hollywood variety.com/2024/film/news…
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Labour’s manifesto promised to “remove indignities for trans people”, yet the government’s ban on puberty blockers adopts the Tories’ politicised unevidenced approach.
Young people — cis & trans — must have access to healthcare they need. I stand firmly with the trans community.
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"If we ignore the deaths of trans kids, trans kids haven't died" - @ProfLAppleby apparently
Caroline Litman@alicemydaughter@alicemydaughter
Yesterday as the UK government announced a permanent puberty blocker ban I learnt ALICE’S DATA WAS NOT INCLUDED in data sent to Appleby to assess for his rushed DHSC report, that dismissed whistleblower claims of increased suicides in trans youth since Bell. The report’s a sham.
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Wes Streeting refused to show his face at his offices this morning, and refused to face the community he is doing his best (and failing) to destroy. He saw us standing in community in our grief and he treated it as a threat, as the government and media continually do.
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This is just bigotry driving medical policy. It is unnecessary, barbaric and shows the fucking fascists that they're winning.
It won't stop with trans people. For a gay man not to get this shows how much higher he regards his personal political power over anything else.
ITVPolitics@ITVNewsPolitics
Streeting delivers a message to trans young people - 'I know it won't feel like it based on the decisions I'm taking today, but I really do care about this' The health secretary announced he's putting an 'indefinite' ban on puberty blockers for under-18s
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@AndrewSparrow @guardian @guardiannews Oh, and @IndiaWilloughby who has been covering this story in the background for a while now. She'd be a good person to get an article from over/after the weekend.
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@AndrewSparrow @guardian @guardiannews For future reference, as I presume you won't be using them in the next 40 or so hours, @trans_kids_d_b and @natachakennedy had comments out, and I'd also look to @stephenwhittle. And while a cis voice, @alicescampaign are parents to a trans girl who would have been impacted.
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This man is unambiguously evil
#block-67599cc08f08ded9b2a374d3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/politics/live/…
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@Channel4News @wesstreeting Please provide even the slightest evidence you care about trans kids in any way? Your only action in regards to them so far - the ONLY action - has been harmful. Nothing whatsoever to help them at all
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"I know it won't feel like it based on the decisions I'm taking today, but I really do care about this", Health Secretary Wes Streeting says as his department announces that puberty blockers will be banned indefinitely.
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Every single Labour MP who claims to be an LGBTQ+ ally should be out speaking against the Wes Streeting ban on puberty blockers.
No excuses.
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"Wes Streeting has chosen politics over our lives. We are being put through an experiment.but the experiment is to deny healthcare, not provide it".
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Would have been really nice if they'd not had to do this... again. But @wesstreeting is utterly determined to undermine trans healthcare and attack and destroy trans kids.
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