Happy #WorldBookDay 📖✨
If today has got you thinking about the literacy crisis in the UK, please consider giving my latest #Medium article a read if it catches your intrigue- linked below.
Text reads: All about the 2026 Trans Rights Readathon! How to sign up, participate, dates, & more...
Header: 2026 Readathon Dates Text: Mark your calendars! This year the 4th annual Trans Rights Readathon will be Tuesday, March 17th through Tuesday, March 31st! This year is our longest year yet!
Header: What is the Trans Rights Readathon? Text: The Trans Rights Readathon is an annual decentralized call to action for readers and book lovers in support of Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) on March 31st.
header: The #TRR isn’t just reading, it’s Action! Text: The Trans Rights Readathon encourages readers to seek out books by and about trans, nonbinary, 2Spirit, and gender noncomforming authors and characters, along with taking action on the mutual, local, and national level! Below are three boxes, saying uplift, amplify, and support (with a dollar sign for the S)
Welcome back to another year of the Trans Rights Readathon!
This year’s readathon will take place from March 17 to March 31. If you want to officially sign up, fill out the form on our 🕸️site to join the fun!
#TransRightsReadathon #trr26 #TransBooks
Trans kids under age 10 - the NHS's project R22:
New blog examining the NHS's latest pilot project on younger trans children: growinguptransgender.com/2026/03/02/t...
Are you aware of @transplanarrpg.bsky.social? Might also be of interest! 🎲
A graphic featuring an oil painting of a red-haired boy reading a book at the table, titled: "Boys Don't Read," - "The Hidden Demographics of the UK's Literacy Crisis," with text below reading "We urgently need a cultural shift concerning gendered expectation around reading." Smaller text below reads "Read for free on Medium / Link in bio." The graphic is decorated with scrabble tiles, a school bell, pencil shavings, a wooden pawn, bookmarks, a scrap of paper, and an old fashioned globe.
I have a new piece up on #Medium today! This one is about who exactly is being left behind admist the #LiteracyCrisis in the UK and how we might be able to fix it.
Read it for free at medium.com/@sorrenbriarwood
#NationalYearOfReading #GoAllIn #Literacy #SaturdayRead
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".
2026 basically
For those that are able, this is a great cause to support 💞
If anyone has any poems with a strong sense of place that would be accessible for young children (aged 6-11) please drop them in the replies. Bonus points for urban settings, especially London, and bonus-bonus points for themes of home and/or community.
#poetry #creativewriting
Have you signed our letter yet? Image of pop art woman wearing blue wig pointing to sign.. We've got 80,000 signatures NION Women icon
Eighty thousand signatures 💛🩷🩵🤍🎉
Eighty thousand trans allies.
Eighty thousand voices saying clearly: Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community
✍️ Sign and share: notinourname.org.uk
Iron Man meme, edited, Obadiah Stane yelling, "Your ancestors made timeless art in a cave! With berries and ash!"
"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"
One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.
Reflecting on how silly CBT is for those who have a chemical imbalance and not a thinking pattern problem this morning, when I reacted to a burst water pipe/minor flood with: “At least one of us was awake, neither of us were at work, it wasn’t raining outside, the cats are safely in my bedroom…”
The Penumbra Podcast is great! The Juno Steel episodes are mysteries, styled after an old noir detective series but set on Mars and very queer. There’s alsoCity of Ghosts which features a detective who can talk to ghosts, and Night Shift which has an overarching mystery and a fun meta format.
Photo of my ye olde trans rights and trans knights stickers
Photo of my Jekyll's potion wooden pins.
Photo of my victorian mourning jewellery button badges set
Photo of my spooky bookshelf print.
obligatory shoppe is now open post to support me in my top surgery recovery! thank you so much! ✨💖🏳️⚧️
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It’s a fantastic book, but whilst the protagonist of Pet is a black trans girl, Emezi themselves isn’t transfemme! ♥️
Ella! Well done, this is so exciting- a massive congratulations to you 🎊🥳🎉
We're almost at our target to be able to take this family's case to the European Court of Human Rights.
No survivor should face harm from the system that is meant to protect them.
Help us reach our target
https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/the-law-has-failed-a-woman-and-her-child-fight-back/
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Rough day for Sex Matters
It’s consistently gut wrenching to see children being scapegoated by adults for their selfish political agendas, with no regard for the impact on their health and happiness. Wishing peace and pride to the little girl in this article.
If you’d like to lend your voice, sign here:
c.org/Z5MVbTBkKx
@jzweston.bsky.social on guilty pleasures in general and legends of tomorrow in specific
Reminds me of the USA’s “ugly laws.” Simply by existing and living our lives (in this case, working to keep the population healthy) our existence is deemed offensive. It’s funny that the right characterise us as overly sensitive when apparently they feel harassed by our audacity to breathe.
Text that reads: Bathrooms: A new FOI with data from 382 public services, including councils and NHS trusts, found that over a two-year period, only four complaints were made about Trans+ people using bathrooms. In each of the complaints, it was about the policy, not an individual's use - Translucent.
Just four complaints were made about trans+ people using bathrooms over two years across 382 public services, a new FOI has found.
In every case, the complaint was about policy - not an individual (via @translucent.org.uk)
I’ll have to set aside some time to read those meta-analyses, thank you for the links. I quite agree with Montgomery that Haidt does overlook how valuable online community can be and has some conservative-leaning takes, and that the current bans are not going to solve the problem.
I’d be very interesting to read some contrasting literature if you have any recommendations for me. Psychology graduate here with multiple generations of mental ill health in my family, too.
Have you read it? I agree that blaming smartphones and social media is overly simplistic, and the book is by no means perfect, but he absolutely implicates the lack of autonomy and freedom modern children and teens suffer from, the lack of third spaces, etc.
If only there was as much effort put into improving youth services, making sports, arts and crafts available and affordable, and making the physical environment more 'teen-friendly' as there is for banning kids from social media or taking their phones away.
“but I have no skills!” really? could you:
• map at-risk communities by tapping squares at mapswipe.org
• provide visual descriptions for blind people at bemyeyes.com
• or click a button to donate to charitable organisations for free at greatergood.com?
you can always make the world better.
No source I can find that corresponds with this screenshot. I know we want to believe this, but would urge people to think before circulating.
What would be the incentive to create and spread this in a left-leaning space, if not to convince us that Reform isn’t a threat, and can be safely ignored?
In this Year of Reading, a gentle reminder:
The best way to get your kids reading is to let them see *you* reading. The way to *stop* your kids reading is to criticize their choices, or to make reading a competition, or a punishment, or a race, or a learning tool. Let it be fun. Let them read.
A collage titled: “Love Thy Stranger: Whispering of the Heart, Night Windows, and Storytelling,” with text beneath reading “Whisper of the Heart shows the mundane for exactly what it is, and insists upon seeing the beauty in it, from its very first scene.” A smaller subtitle reads “Read for free on Medium ⭐️ Link in bio.” The venture of the graphic includes a screen cap from Whisper of the Heart, featuring a girl grasping something brightly glowing in her hands, spots of colour leaking out between her fingers. The graphic is decorated with cutout style photographs of Japanese stamps, a full moon, star string lights, a moth, a bicycle wheel, a page of sheet music, a cat tail, and a borrower’s card from a library book.
New year, new #Medium piece! This one is about the opening of my favourite #Ghibli film, peering into strangers’ windows at night, and speculating about strangers as the basis of #storytelling…
🌟🌃🌙
Read it free at medium.com/@sorrenbriarwood
#WhisperOfTheHeart #StudioGhibli #WritersOnWriting
