ok it is the three weeks that suck where i finish my full thesis draft. day 1 was yesterday. keeping track of stuff here so i don't become fully detached from reality

essential reading www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-rap...

“Everything Is Legitimate”: How Israel Uses Rape as a Tool of Genocide

The rape of Palestinian detainees is so commonplace that it’s no longer hidden. It’s filmed, joked about, and celebrated in parliament. This is no mistake; it’s core to Israel’s colonial project.

thekeymagazine.com

tfw you discover you have 641 new metamours

occasionally see someone going viral online who is like five degrees apart from me in the same polycule and it feels like when someone who was in your junior school class gets on the news

also i was literally just complaining about buffy overloading us on heterosexuality and then it delivered buffy/faith lesbian nuclear bomb

have regrettably determined from trip to brighton that i am most in my element in the club a girl described as ‘where to go if you want a camp time’

was out at the weekend with beautiful plus size woman who was feeling down on herself about her weight and we both cooed over an excellent fat seagull and i was like ‘so you’d let the gull be fat, but not the girl?’ and she looked at me like i’d shot her

there’s a really cool bit in édouard louis’s monique s’évade where he was like ‘i was gonna include in this book the exact costs of getting my mother away from her abusive partner but it kind of made the book unreadable and also looked like i was blaming her for how much it cost’

groundbreaking information here but finishing a PhD fucking sucks

i have much respect my monogamous siblings in christ but you gotta learn to post about monogamy being better for you in a way that doesn’t sound like you’re coping and seething

sam and i saw rosebush pruning last night and if it wasn’t 90 minutes i think we would have both walked out

EXCLUSIVE: How one racist tweet about a hotel housing asylum seekers set in motion fascist protests, a government crackdown on couriers, and the eviction of the hotel's residents. www.vashtimedia.com/fascists-v-t...

Fascists v the Thistle

The butterfly effect of one anti-migrant tweet.

vashtimedia.com

it’s my birthday!

have been reading some of a really fantastic trauma studies book from 1996 (one of the foundational texts for the field) that ALSO has the author self-disclose her entire field of personal data - ethnicity, sexuality, CSA history - at the start because she thinks that's the ethical thing to do lol

was ill yesterday so double billed bridget jones’ diary and pride and prejudice (2005). happy for straight people honestly

saw some nothing account say this re the platner stuff and it so neatly encapsulates the masculinist fantasy that stops people believing rape survivors. oh well i’d have responded instantly and the cops would have fully cooperated, and since she didn’t then it must not have been real!

working on a book-length project for the first time ever is making me insane. 'oh you can just cut that section and disseminate its material into the other sections' How. Fucking How

i turn 29 this week. i am compiling a list of fun, minor projects (things to watch, read, play; natural events to see; stuff to do) to attempt before i turn 30. if you have any ideas you can contribute them here. forms.gle/WHEFCWtxeGA9...

eli 29-30 list

i am entering the last year of my 20s and finishing a PhD and i want low-level fun projects to distract me

forms.gle

local man saw fun home and remembered he’s traumatised

🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?

I stand with trans people | Good Law Project

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told gf and bf that i watched jackass 1 and they both brought up the same jackass skit unprompted despite neither knowing that it was from jackass 1 (golf course air horn). i am dating the pluribus hivemind

have talked about hard launching enough times that i remembered to actually do it

i really appreciated this @emilystjams.bsky.social interview on "trans panic media" – why it happens, why it's a suboptimal way of engaging with the moment, how to respond to the very real horrors without freaking out and shutting down and disengaging. episodes.ghost.io/trans-media-...

i talked to the wonderful Shon Faye about the state of trans politics in the UK, strategy & resistance, for the 5th anniversary of The Transgender Issue: www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

Shon Faye: ‘I worry about the threat of far-right politics in the UK’

Five years since the publication of The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice, the bestselling author reflects on the state of trans liberation in the UK

dazeddigital.com

it’s my wife’s birthday!!

have loathed starmer since he was elected party leader and am feeling a mixture of elation and deep sadness for the things i hoped could happen after the tories collapsed, and were ruined by craven, soulless labour rightists

so i watched toy story 5 and i am feeling Pretty Damn Good about that analysis i wrote of recent pixar and their treatment of the child LMAO

I was quoted in this TBIJ piece about a damning Amnesty International report that showed how consistently anti-trans the UK newspaper landscape is, and how said landscape proceeded to ignore the report www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

UK newspapers ignore Amnesty International research on anti-trans bias

Research by human rights group identifies nearly 17,000 articles on trans-related topics in just five years

thebureauinvestigates.com

took the risk of going ‘i’m picking the film’ to discerning cinephile boyfriend and we both first watched the cook the thief his wife and her lover and i’m gonna be dining out on that for WEEKS