@lejhouston
IRISH MODERNISM AND THE POLITICS OF SEXUAL HEALTH (OUP); Leverhulme (University of Cambridge); Senior Postdoctoral Researcher (Trinity College, Cambridge); BAIS and BSLS Executive; Co-facilitator of 'Relatively Queer'; Co-host of 'Censored'; FRHistS.
i wind up tweeting this basically every time there's an article like this, but the fundamental thing to me: ask yourself whether you earnestly believe there's more social pressure to be trans, or more social pressure to be cis. it's actually a super easy one!
“The purpose behind the release of herbicide on the villages remains unclear.”
Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it.
The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it
Looking forward to talking eggs and autism with @amygaeta.bsky.social tomorrow as part of the @ndhumanities.bsky.social symposium tomorrow:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neurodiver...
You guys aren't ready for The Zone.
Thrilled to be performing in some new work by the amazing Danielle James as part of the Front and Centre festival at the Playhouse in Derry this Saturday.
www.derryplayhouse.co.uk/event/first-...
If you're in town, don't miss it.
CN: Murder
Today is the Disability Day of Mourning, where we hold vigils for disabled people killed by their caregivers. George Hodgins—whose murder inspired Zoe Gross to hold the first DDOM—went to my son's school. My feelings remain raw 14 years later. -SR
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The cover of the programme for LGBTQ+ Arts Night, featuring the Trinity College clock town painted in rainbow watercolour.
A picture of the candlelit chapel of Trinity College before the event began.
A screenshot of the title of Divya Victor's poem as it appears in The Atlantic magazine.
Delighted to read Divya Victor's fantastic "Angelical Salutation of Every Girl in History" as part of @trincollcam.bsky.social's LGBTQ+ Arts Night yesterday.
Huge congratulations to Jaysol Doy and his team, Lord Smith, and @trevorproject.bsky.social for a beautiful celebration of queerness.
Divya Victor's Angelical Salutation lifts every girl into a chorus of resilience. I read it with liberation theology and Christ consciousness, then share the piece here: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/02/poem-divya-victor-angelical-salutation/685981/.
Poster which shows color photo scene of moving, a room with boxes and clothes sitting on the floor, a chair, and the end of a bed (white rails forming a headrest and a mattress with a red cover). The text of the poster is: "Impact (small logo top left)," "According to a new survey by the Movement Advancement Project, approximately 401,000 transgender people have relocated from one U.S. state to another since the 2024 presidential election." "The mass relocations in 2025 due to safety concerns, political conditions, and anti-trans laws nd policies have largely impacted conservative states across the country."
www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su...
: Half of UK universities face a deficit next year. Up to 50 could close.
That is a sector in crisis. Simply blaming a tuition fee freeze and nudging fees up with inflation is not a plan. Where is the long-term strategy for higher education?
#Universities #HigherEducation
Apply & share! @englishpen.bsky.social writing residencies for "writers currently based in England who identify as experiencing displacement – including (but not only) refugee writers, writers seeking asylum, and writers in exile."
www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...
The chaos isn’t a bug of Trumpism, it’s the business model. The more people believe nothing is true, about elections, law, history, the easier it is for Trump to claim only he is trustworthy and rule indefinitely.
Humiliated in the media, denied healthcare, attacked by the human rights watchdog, shut out by the Supreme Court, bullied by social services and the police, disadvantaged in the jobs market, death figures covered up by the State, harassment de facto legalised, and attackers deified by Ministers.
This is barbaric. There is no world where people don't die because of this policy. That's one of the many, many reasons the courts ordered these policies be changed in the first place after decades of refusal. But that's the point of this change, isn't it?
“I am somebody” shaped how millions of us saw ourselves as kids, including me. That message mattered. It still does.
Rest in power, Jesse Jackson
🙏🏽
This is what "the rule of men, not of laws" looks like.
The cover of Lip Service issue 4, "Sex and Disability", featuring a quasi-collage of a vulva.
The first page of the article "Fucking Autistically (with PJ Harvey)"
Also very excited to see this piece by @amygaeta.bsky.social and I into print in the @vaginamuseum.bsky.social's fantastic zine, Lip Service.
The museum is a fantastic and welcoming space, and the launch was a lot of fun.
The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
Nothing says Valentine's Day like a discussion of sexually pathological corpses...
Delighted to receive my contributor's copy of this fantastic collection.
Congrats to Chris, Bridget, and Matt, and to everyone whose work features.
The NYT's is going into replies now to nitpick criticism against them by trans journalists.
I see that Trump went straight to the 'this art is degenerate and poisons the morality and lifeblood of the Reich' response last night. Very out of character for him...
Amber Glenn, a queer Texan who started ice skating at the stonebriar mall in frisco at age 5, who plays magic the gathering, is an olympic gold medalist
Mandelson breaking an egg with his dog
Like almost everyone else, I thought this was a spoof - but no
Professor Louis Appleby covered up a policy which killed trans children so that the British government could kill some more through neglect and lack of care.
You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.
Richard Dawkins. Steven Pinker. Lawrence Krauss. Jonathan Haidt. Robert Trivers. Prominent atheists and scientists who have pushed anti-trans propaganda for years. They all had ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Some received huge research grants and island trips, and all of them benefited from their ties.
A couple days late because it's been BUSY, but I had such a great time doing the BSLS Winter Symposium with the wonderful @lejhouston.bsky.social on Friday! I can only echo what they say: many thanks to all the speakers, especially Aanchal and Francesca for their excellent plenaries.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
sisko in ds9 saying "im tired of being calm, calm never got me a damn thing"
Star trek had a lot of hard lines over the years, but this remains the fucking hardest
Incandescent. One of the best pieces I've read about what university means to people and their communities - and what will happen to a city and people after one closes. The *Labour* government and Jaqui Smith in particular should be ashamed of themselves and shamed into doing something. Deplorable.
@hehimta on twitter quote tweet update: jk rowling has somehow (despite maritime law) wiped over a decade of port logs/etc, her boat is completely delisted. strange behaviour. @hehimta on twitter oh tweet BREAKING A just watched in realtime as jk rowling's superyacht samsara was completely removed from marinetraffic and other services, not just AIS off; the entire vessel...
Following the release of the Epstein files Jk Rowling has deleted a decade of port logs belonging to the Super yacht Samsara.
What is she hiding?
