Tig Slater
@tigslater.bsky.social
Queer, trans, disability studies,sociology, education stuff. Currently working on a project about preventing harassment of people doing LGBT+ research: Tinyurl.com/LGBTImpact
The TERF movement has been going for decades and the GC movement has been funded by multiple billionaires for over a decade and they STILL haven't come up with a biological definition of female that includes all cis women and excludes all trans women. Maybe that alone should tell you something
Talia "Pre-Order CALL ME KIMBERLY" Bhatt ⚢@taliabhatt.itch.io · 2mo agoHonestly, the cloying desperation to find a perfect definition that will exclude trans women from legible, legitimate womanhood has in and of itself demonstrated (almost as well as any materialist feminist can) that sex is social, mutable, and a regime of violent policing.
Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people. This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists. The study underpinning this played one particular trick. Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5
Trans healthcare needs to be led by trans people, to be accountable to trans communities and trans youth. Folks who don't believe in the existence of a trans child cannot continue to hold the reins of healthcare policy and governance. This is where we start.
Their "student experience" was adversely affected by the pandemic emergency? Everyone's fucking life experience was adversely affected, and millions died. The rhetoric of this being a customer service dispute is offensive.
The number of trans youth suicides in the UK quadrupled in 2021 following significant restrictions in access to care. The NHS tried to cover this up with a fake report that tried to hide the truth. goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...
New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project
A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare
goodlawproject.org
Re-upping this again, because it’s a great take-down of the restrictive transphobic “data” activism.
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The people who came to Brianna's vigil were the many friends, as an isolated trans girl, she had made on social media. The people who were convicted of her murder knew her in real life, and used transphobic slurs to discuss her.
Solidarity with my colleagues who are experiencing this - as the leaflets we handed out to students on the picket lines said - when you go on strike you lose your wage because you stop working. It's ridiculous to have to make up the work you've already lost pay for 😡
Mark Pendleton@markpendleton.bsky.social · 7mo agoWell that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...
Piloting the methods tonight. I'm all about the quants now
Em Nunn@ebnunn.bsky.social · 7mo agoTig has made a new years resolution to taste and rate a new flavour of crisps every week in 2026 and now there's a spreadsheet being designed and discussions over how to define "value for money" when it comes to crisps
just for anyone who lost track; The inch bigots were given a decade ago has turned into several miles and my friends are suffering for it.
Lost for words at where we are, the absolute cruelty
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 8mo agoTrans girls banned from joining Girlguiding
I find it very strange how a legal decision which relates solely to gender recognition certificates – something under 18s definitively cannot have – is being used to justify changes to longstanding policies on including trans kids.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 8mo agoTrans girls banned from joining Girlguiding
Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies. This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
The message on IG from Alice (posted by her friend Sandy Ho). As always, Alice blazes a path for the rest of us, fearlessly & with humor: "I'm honored to be your ancestor & believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all."
Incredibly sad to hear of the death of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social. I was always amazed by her generosity in our (small) interactions, and I've got a lot from her writing. Rest in power, what a force.
There are people you never have the honor of knowing but you feel the ripple effects of their person and their work from the folks who have met them. Alice Wong made waves that went far. A tremendous loss. Memory eternal.
no brain, only alison@alisonborealis.bsky.social · 9mo agoThe incredible, indomitable, inspirational Alice Wong has left us. I'm so grateful to have known her on social media, and so grateful for all the words she shared with us and all the actions she encouraged us into making. May we live up to her example. (so you don't have to go to Instagram)
Missing being with these beauties on the picket line ✊️
UCU Hallam@ucuhallam.bsky.social · 9mo ago📢 Solidarity in Action: Day One Strike Highlights Today was powerful! Our members showed incredible unity and resolve on the first day of strike action. We stood together, loud and proud, demonstrating our commitment to fighting in our dispute!!! #SaveSheffieldHallam
Solidarity with SHU UCU on strike. I’m on a research project based there just now and the loss of so many Professional Services staff is acutely noticeable. It’s inexplicable to treat a sector that brings so much to the UK as disposable and its staff as if they aren’t people. Stop it.
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 9mo agoIt is the second time this year members of the University and College Union (UCU) at Sheffield Hallam have taken action.... Bob Jeffery... [UCU Sheffield Hallam], said: "Massive cuts have been pushed through, so we've lost about 1,000 staff in the last two years."'
I'm off sick at the moment so not able to strike, but so grateful to all my colleagues on the picket lines ✊️
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 9mo agoIt is the second time this year members of the University and College Union (UCU) at Sheffield Hallam have taken action.... Bob Jeffery... [UCU Sheffield Hallam], said: "Massive cuts have been pushed through, so we've lost about 1,000 staff in the last two years."'
As we come to the end of our @edicaucus.bsky.social funded 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' project, we're delighted to invite you to 'Accessing Archives and Collections: Disability, Neurodivergence, Chronic Illness' - a free online symposium on 17th and 18th November. 1/n
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Been having a pretty grim mental health time, but was at least reassured to see an old faded rainbow zebra crossing to welcome all the mad queers into the psych assessment unit (regrets at not taking a photo)
The man in the queue behind me said Oh excuse me miss, you dropped ---- and then we both stared at the conker I'd dropped on the ground And he said Umm --- And I said Oh! My conker! :(