Brains are so annoying. I can write 2000+ words of a paper by 2pm (which I think counts as a good day) and then be completely intellectually checked out. Only to then have my brain chastising me because a work day 'should' finish later... 🙃 Who'd do academia huh?

Turns out I'm a very deep sleeper! Without going into too much detail (I'm completely fine) the firebrigade had to break through my front door just before 5am today because I slept through their minutes of knocking, the sirens outside, and only emerged half asleep as they entered my house...

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

Really delighted to say that our article critiquing the Cass Review from Archaeological, Historical, Mythological, and Heresiological perspectives has been published in the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. You can freely read it below 👇 bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/5/1-...

Enoch Burke was arrested for constantly ignoring court orders and trespassing at a primary school to the endangerment of attending children. I swear if I see another social media post presenting him as some kind of anti-trans martyr I am going to flip. Transphobes hate reality.

The same people who laugh react on Facebook posts about refugees drowning in the English Channel or comment on Twitter that LGBTQ+ people are pedophiles who deserve to die are the same people who say the left are monsters for not mourning the death of someone who created that environment of hate...

How the 2026 Clacton by-election is going to feel as the good Count Binface faces off against exclusively far-right candidates

Would Count Binface winning in Clacton be the UKs greatest by-election result? Quite possibly yes.

How do I go canvas for Binface? Asking for everyone.

Stopiwch y Cyfrif! Gotta say it'd a sight for sore eyes to see Wales top a table in a Rugby Tournament again! (And even prettier for England being dead last...)

Okay so this combination on Netflix made me laugh more than I should... 😅

Was really privilaged to sit on the Advisory Board for this research project on public harrassment in LGBTQ+ research and engagement. The project's final report is now live and you can access it, and the project's other resources, through the link below 👇 www.cssd.ac.uk/Research/Imp...

Is all publicity good publicity? Addressing Public Harassment in LGBT+ Research Impact and Engagement | The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Is all publicity good publicity is a research project funded by the EDICaucus and a collaboration between Tig Slater, Sheffield Hallam University, Charlotte Jones, Swansea University, Rosie Ola-Marie,...

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I love (hate) how anti climatic academic submission forms are. Like I've just submitted an extremely important document and you don't even get do much as an acknowledgement email, just a Microsoft/Google Forms webpage saying "Yeah, form done, you can exit this page now..."

"When acts of acceptance are redefined as causal to transgender identity... in a country looking to define trans causations as conversion therapy, we arrive at a deeply uncomfortable situation"... I have written on my deeper worries on the draft bill here: owenexiehurcum.com/2026/06/30/t...

The UK’s Draft Bill to Ban Conversion Therapy is Dangerous by Design

The UK needs to ban conversion therapy. Of course it does. However, the UK’s recently published draft bill for the purpose of imposing such a ban fails in its stated aspiration. One of the main fai…

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Today might be the day I burn Nvivo15 to the ground. Who needs thematic analysis anyways?

I'm very concerned about the language of the UK's draft bill on banning conversion therapy. The wording, as is, permits "conversion practices" to continue by suggesting there are non-abusive practices, when in reality all conversion therapy is abuse. Moreover, I'm particularly concerned...

This newly published article is excellent. Veale's definition of 'trans eliminationism' and her Anti-trans Ideology Escalation Framework are simply must cites... And I'm only slightly annoyed that I'm going to have to rewrite one of my PhD chapters to fit it in! share.google/0RZpfx4rofIv...

Trans eliminationism: An Ideology Escalation Framework for understanding recent trans health policies

Contemporary political rhetoric targeting trans people is often described with terms such as

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As it was during the recent Tory leadership elections, and the 2024 General Election, expect to see trans topics as a major element of the upcoming Labour leadership election and each prospective candidate racing to the bottom of transphobia in their bids to become Prime Minister...

Good riddance to bad rubbish. Shame we can't really enjoy his resignation as he will just be replaced by another odious twerp

Do not be fooled into thinking that trans people existing are responsible organisations suddenly backing out of supporting Pride. These organisations' abandonment of the community as a whole shows their support was conditional on political expediency. Moreover, it shows they will turn on us all.

Every fucking day the anti-trans and anti-queer movement takes more ground in the UK. We are in the midst of a full blown and accelerating Transphobia Crisis with the singular goal of queer eradication. The UK's (il)liberal democracy has fully turned on us. But we will fight to whatever end.

Welcome to the UK, where soon 17-year-olds will be legally allowed to drive, join the army, work a full-time job, have sex and even vote but not watch YouTube past their bedtime.

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🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer will introduce nightly social media curfews for 16 and 17-year-olds as part of the Government's social media ban [@thetimes]

I couldn't see from the announcement but, have they considered YouTube Kids? As somebody who, through family, interacts with several kids with additional needs who self regulate and even communicate through YouTube Kids, I am really worried about what this ban may mean for them if it is in the ban.

Social Media needs regulation, not an unworkable ban for under 16s. All a ban will do is make kids find ways to access sites with greater levels of risk. The ban effectively elevates the risky parts of social media for kids and limits the beneficial parts. An authoritarian policy.

So if you’re so worried about the kids you do get that they will still access all of this just through dodgy means and that just increases the chances of inappropriate encounters

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🚨 NEW: Under-16s in the UK will be banned from the following 10 social media apps TikTok YouTube Snapchat Instagram X Reddit Facebook Twitch Kick Threads

Re-reading Blanchard's work on his concept of autogynephilia (cos my job demands a near constant engagement with anti-trans philosophy 🙃) and I somehow blocked out how absurd it is. Obviously I knew his theory was offensive and absurd, but it's somehow worse than I remember. Instant psychic damage.

This pride month, to celebrate, help destroy the labour party, all of it, burn it to the ground, even the “good ones“ can get fucked, fuck them all

Labour is the party of trans epistemicide. Not content with their legal assaults on our community, they continue to attack the way society understands us and elide the truth of our existence, propagating fictions about us to further push our ostracisation. www.scenemag.co.uk/new-health-s...

New Health Secretary James Murray says he would no longer use the phrase “trans women are women”

New Health Secretary James Murray has said he has “changed” how he speaks about trans issues, telling BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that he would no longer use the phrase “trans women are women”, a po...

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Having read the EHRC for myself, I have nothing clever to say right now. But I will say this. Fuck Labour and their segregationist policy, and fuck everyone who voted for them. Also, importantly, we will win. We will tear this policy down. You cannot legislate us out of every day life, we will win

I went to the gym today and used the mens changing rooms. And tomorrow I'm gonna go to the gym and use the men's changing rooms. And the next day... well, I'm not gonna go to the gym because it's good to have rest days... But the day after THAT...