What books have changed your brain chemistry recently? I'll start. Miss Major Speaks - Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary is a GIFT. Waking me up to some of what the real work is.
Meg Lightheart she/her
@megalightheart.bsky.social
I help deep thinkers with big jobs take wise next steps. Complexity and mess, liberation from oppression and planetary futures. White, bi, poly, neurosparkly, trans. Long-term meditator and EXCELLENT baker. Views my OWN. 🍉. Manchester. megalightheart.com
Just stepped out for, er, six months. How's things over here?
As an intersex person whose assigned gender was medically enforced from infancy As an intersex person whose body does not, cannot & never will conform to neatly-labeled boxes of M or F As an intersex person public about my identity in the media The Kansas ruling is a bleak omen of horrors to come
Watching Broadchurch for the first time. Why didn't you tell me how good it was? It's got EVERYONE. Two Doctors Who, the gay one from Bridgerton, the cute but wooden one from HTGAWM, Olivia fucking COLEMAN? Only on S1E1 and cried three times already.
Just sobbed my way through the last half of Rental Family. What a beautiful meditation on connection, belonging, grief, preciousness, loss and community. Made me miss my Mum and want to find happiness in the life I'm actually living, as well touching a longing for another, warmer world.
Can confirm also true for trans women. This is the real definition of a woman, take note.
Yanncé ✨@uhnopenottoday.blacksky.app · 8mo agoYou know what women really want? Brine. Olives, pickles, pickled garlic, pickled onions, jars of banana peppers, and jars of jalapeños.
I’m coming to #London #Manchester #Edinburgh and #Glasgow touring a book on the long history of #transgender people and the fight for #LGBTQ rights against Nazis in the #Weimar. I’m a journalist, an author, a TV host, a PhD, a podcaster. Interview me. Let’s annoy #TERFS @theguardian.com any takers?
I LOVE threads like this. Yes, give me all your special interest analyses.
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · last yr.So they found a 125,000 yr old Neanderthal fat rendering plant & I have thoughts. Knowing that they loved saturated fat SO MUCH that they industrialized to get as much of it as humanly possible? Makes me feel seen, heard, supported, etc www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
This badly written skeet wasn't QUITE how I wanted to launch it, but yes, the brilliant @bschillace.brandyschillace.com is coming to Manchester in October to chat with lil ol moi about how the queers fought the fascists LAST time. It'll (we'll) be cute. You should come.
Meg Lightheart she/her@megalightheart.bsky.social · last yr.I'm hosting a Brandy for a chat in October in Manchester - maybe that could be our first f2f meeting?? www.socialrefuge.com/event-detail...
Turns out, turns OUT... there might be a sigNIFicant discount on the book for people who come along, so, ya know, sign UP
Meg Lightheart she/her@megalightheart.bsky.social · last yr.Why are they attacking trans people? @bschillace.brandyschillace.com knows why. Join us as we talk about her history of the the first target of fascist bookburning - the legendary Institute for Sexual Science, a haven of research and support for LGBTI+ folk www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-qu...
This badly written skeet wasn't QUITE how I wanted to launch it, but yes, the brilliant @bschillace.brandyschillace.com is coming to Manchester in October to chat with lil ol moi about how the queers fought the fascists LAST time. It'll (we'll) be cute. You should come.
Meg Lightheart she/her@megalightheart.bsky.social · last yr.I'm hosting a Brandy for a chat in October in Manchester - maybe that could be our first f2f meeting?? www.socialrefuge.com/event-detail...
Turns out, turns OUT... there might be a sigNIFicant discount on the book for people who come along, so, ya know, sign UP
Meg Lightheart she/her@megalightheart.bsky.social · last yr.Why are they attacking trans people? @bschillace.brandyschillace.com knows why. Join us as we talk about her history of the the first target of fascist bookburning - the legendary Institute for Sexual Science, a haven of research and support for LGBTI+ folk www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-qu...
It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
Dersh has been banging this drum since Trump1 & the really good news is: ostracism works, even on the shameless. Tons of people miss this--the shameless are hyper-sensitive to stigma. Civil society should use this free, non-violent tool to punish destructive people a lot more often. It works.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · last yr.Dershowitz says he’s suing the Martha’s Vineyard Farmer’s Market after the pierogi guy refused to sell to him yesterday because he defends Trump. He complains that he’s also banned from the MV book fair, library, synagogue, and can’t get invited to any parties.
I’m so excited!
Meg Lightheart she/her@megalightheart.bsky.social · last yr.Why are they attacking trans people? @bschillace.brandyschillace.com knows why. Join us as we talk about her history of the the first target of fascist bookburning - the legendary Institute for Sexual Science, a haven of research and support for LGBTI+ folk www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-qu...
Why are they attacking trans people? @bschillace.brandyschillace.com knows why. Join us as we talk about her history of the the first target of fascist bookburning - the legendary Institute for Sexual Science, a haven of research and support for LGBTI+ folk www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-qu...
Talking queer resistance with Brandy Schillace
What lessons can we learn from the last time the queers faced the fascists?
eventbrite.co.uk
Why are they attacking trans people? @bschillace.brandyschillace.com knows why. Join us as we talk about her history of the the first target of fascist bookburning - the legendary Institute for Sexual Science, a haven of research and support for LGBTI+ folk www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-qu...
Talking queer resistance with Brandy Schillace
What lessons can we learn from the last time the queers faced the fascists?
eventbrite.co.uk
show this to every consultant who thinks chasing toxic masculinity is the way to getting going men's votes
Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last yr.85% of young men support Zohran Mamdani. 79% of young women support Zohran Mamdani. 67% of Jewish people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani. 65% of Black people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani. Would you have guessed *any* of that with how the media has covered all this?
@the-independent.com has now scrubbed two articles exposing the bigotry of a nurse spearheading an anti-Trans+ legal crusade When media outlets censor their own factual reporting to placate extremists, they’re not just failing themselves and the public, they’re undermining democracy itself
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last yr.The Independent pulled this one, as well
No major headlines to report for today [Jul 28]. If you're able, pls consider donating to orgs fighting the man-made famine currently gripping parts of Sudan. For Darfur: DHRN www.paypal.com/donate/?host... For South Kordofan: HRRDS reframe.network/donate-now.p... #KeepEyesOnSudan
BSonblast@bsonblast.bsky.social · last yr.Today's quick update [Jul 27]: - North Darfur Governor sounds alarm on the critical humanitarian situation in Elfashir, announcing there is now a shortage in the animal feed, which residents of the city have resorted to eating in absence of food. #KeepEyesOnSudan #LiftTheSiege
One thing this world is showing me is that my peace, my joy, my comfort, my determination cannot depend on external events. It has to come from 'inside', from connection to something greater. These tears are from letting go of a world that can ever be carefree. But beauty, warmth, love persist.
🏳️🌈Gosh Darnit of the New Jersey Darnits😷@goshdarn.bsky.social · last yr.If you don't so as you listen to this, are you even human. Once Upon Another Time - Sara Bareilles youtube.com/watch?v=7oZ9...
Hope in this deep & powerful sense is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but...an ability to work for something because it is good, not because it stands a chance to succeed. - V. Havel (tr. P. Wilson)
extremely important to remember that you DO NOT TALK TO THE POLICE WITHOUT A LAWYER
Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · last yr.Just once I'd like to see a quote from the police which says "Oh, well, we've made tits of ourselves here then, haven't we? Bloooody hell"
I will never not understand how a minority of people have decided that wind farms - significantly prettier than pylons, coal power plants, nuclear power plants, and almost certainly fusion power plants - are ugly. In terms of energy generation, what else are you hoping for that is better?
Dan Davies@dsquareddigest.bsky.social · last yr.On holiday, I notice that there are wind turbines on the shore of Lake Garda, which very much makes me think that residents with a view of some incredibly mid Cotswold or other can put a sock in it.
Oh my god this thread has so many people I didn't even KNOW I was confusing as the same person.
Charlotte Lydia Riley@lottelydia.bsky.social · last yr.Liz Truss and Lynne Truss are second only to Lionel Shriver and Lionel Barber in “pairs of people I just assume are one person”
"obscure south asian channel" is fuckin hilarious he did an interview with News18 which hits about 180 million people a week they get more eyeballs in a night than the NYT gets in a year
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last yr.The strategy is striking. Zohran has been doing interviews w/ South Asian television, Pakistani news channel, Punjabi TV, Bangla newspaper, and more. “We are going to heavily feature him in these places throughout the fall,” a Zohran adviser tells me. 6/ newrepublic.com/article/1984...
"We live on a floating rock, just get on with it."
Lou Calvey@loucalvey.bsky.social · last yr.Skegness, one of your absolute finest people right here. Buy her a drink whenever you see her.