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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️

@cnlester.bsky.social

Multi-genre musician Co-lead @TransUnityQuilt Founder & Artistic Director of Transpose PhD on Barbara Strozzi - interdisciplinary work is life ’Trans Like Me’, ‘Furies,’ 2 current trans historical WIP they/them www.cnlester.com www.transpose.org.uk

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yaoi gagarin@mel.bzky.team · 7h ago

renaissance painter: hey man i finished your commission for an icon of saint sebastian, its real fuckin sexy just like you asked catholic bishop: yes, this IS just as i asked. Gloria in Excelsis Deo

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sja@sam-ja.bsky.social · yesterday

i'd recommend people read the response from an LGBTQ+ cancer charity to last year's EHRC proposed guidance - been thinking a lot about this particular section ever since i first read it (full response here outpatients.org.uk/2025/06/26/e...)

Screenshot of article reading: "The suggestion that transgender people should only be accommodated in side rooms is unfeasible. As anyone in healthcare knows, available side rooms are a rare commodity. If their use was mandated for all transgender patients it would largely be unenforceable. It is necessary to consider the broad variety of people who require side rooms and their availability across the NHS. As per NHS Estates documents, increased floor area, capital cost, management, and staffing issues also need to be considered. If a redrafted single-sex accommodation policy aligns with the EHRC’s Code of Practice, we feel that it could leave transgender people without reliable accommodation options, putting their clinical outcomes at risk."Quote from article '“Let us take the example of Joelle, a trans woman who died of an eminently treatable cancer after waiting for eight days on a general ward, because clinicians could not agree whether she should be placed on a men’s ward or a women’s ward. The delay in treatment cost her her life.” -Dr Roz Savage, MP'
Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 2d ago

Yvette Cooper confirming that NHS guidance is coming forth shortly banning trans people from single sex wards. She waffles about ‘alternative provision’ but let’s be realistic here, this will massively massively disadvantage trans people’s care. Fuck Andy Burnham

Autumn Wolff | Lesbian Author & Narrator@autumnwolff.bsky.social · 3d ago

"Pronouns used to be a funny joke, Hank. Until the government tried to tell me I couldn't use them anymore. So now I'm adamant about making sure trans people are gendered right. Not for their sake. But because I'll be damned if the US government is going to tell me what words I can and can't use."

Dale from King of the Hill
Ruth Pearce@notrightruth.bsky.social · 3d ago

The EHRC guidance does not apply to workplaces, and trans people are not criminalised for using any toilet in the UK. But the whole point of this - as with Section 28 back in the 1980s - is to intimidate people. Don't give into that fear.

Slurms MacKenzie@slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 3d ago

Just a reminder that: - this isn't for workplaces and if your work is trying to implement it scare them over discrimination claims - the onus is on the service provider, not the service user to comply - the code *itself* says enforcement of toilet facilities is unworkable and low priority

Vicky ACAB@vickyacab.bsky.social · 5d ago

Im a more or less professional discourser! I love to discourse! But the first rule of doing cool shit club is you don't talk about doing cool shit, especially online. If you find this hard just do what I do: tell yourself you're saving it for the memoir lmao

CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️@cnlester.bsky.social · 5d ago

Should be pinned to the top of every single intercommunity argument about tactics. In particular: the people doing the kind of direct action work that other people like to fantasise about online are ABSOLUTELY not talking about it online, are you high? Doing the work > masturbatory discourse

CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️@cnlester.bsky.social · 5d ago

Should be pinned to the top of every single intercommunity argument about tactics. In particular: the people doing the kind of direct action work that other people like to fantasise about online are ABSOLUTELY not talking about it online, are you high? Doing the work > masturbatory discourse

Astrid@astridsramblings.bsky.social · 5d ago

One final take: The people doing the hard yards of effective work, whether grassroots activism, legal work or lobbying, do not talk much on here about it. Because it’s difficult, exhausting interpretations are too bad faith, and the other side can see your posts. Bluesky is not the real world.

Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · last wk.

I wish there was a single politician willing to say we need more immigrants here in the UK, immigration is a fundamental freedom and good in-itself, and we should accept all migrants as new neighbours and fellow children of god, as the nominal official religion of this country supposedly preaches

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.

"Sinking in Polls, Farage Plans Week of Attacks on Immigration" Reform plan to make next week Immigration Week It could finally be the moment for broadcast media to notice the > 75% drop in net migration since 2024. There is also a 42% drop in boat crossings

Bloomberg: Sinking in Polls, Farage Plans Week of Attacks on Immigration Reform UK party is planning to hold multiple press conferences on immigration to turn public attention to the issue, despite the number of migrants arriving in the country nearly halving from the same time last year. A total of 14,200 immigrants have arrived in the UK via small boats so far this year, down 44% compared to the same period last year, with the Home Office and National Crime Agency increasing seizures of small-boat engines and improving enforcement cooperation with the French. The issue of immigration threatens to be riskier territory for new Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who is already facing disquiet from backbench colleagues over reforms proposed during his predecessor's tenure.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · last wk.

it’s never a great sign for your society when all the competent people who believe in doing a good job for the sake of it conclude that they’re actively being punished for these qualities, while malignantly stupid criminals are making bank

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · last wk.

looking at the headlines and reflecting once again on how all the smart, hard-working, honest people I know feel like they’re going at least a little insane in our era of total Stupid Immoral Asshole ascendancy

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last wk.

your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors

Ed Newton-Rex@ednewtonrex.bsky.social · last wk.

I've confirmed that the UK's new Sovereign AI Fund does no due diligence on whether AI companies use copyrighted work without permission before investing in them. It took me 3 Freedom of Information requests to find this out: 🧵 1/10

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️@cnlester.bsky.social · last wk.

Bluesky, help me out - an old manuscript where a young person draws their (teacher?) as a (wolf?) monster? Some kind of glorious doodle from history? Not Onfim's drawings of himself as a glorious monster - my brain wants to say that this is Old or Middle English? Weird little guys? Thank you!

Katherine Alejandra Cross@quinnae.com · last wk.

In any other disaster, you cleave to your people. Your family, your loved ones, your community. You come together, physically, and you have each other when all else is lost. Plagues/pandemics require the exact opposite, and it is uniquely traumatizing.