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Brynn Tannehill on fiery form in Public Notice: One of the most popular and profitable grifts in the world of the religious right and MAGA is the production of propaganda to convince Christians that they are horribly discriminated against, or even oppressed, by the government and government funded entities. …This victimhood narrative is central to… [more]
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QueerAF: Seventeen thousand articles were published about so-called ‘trans issues’ by just four British newspapers in five years, according to new research from Amnesty International UK. The four newspapers – The Sun, The Times, The Guardian and The Telegraph – mentioned JK Rowling 106 times in their coverage, with 202 mentions of a prime minister… [more]
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Liberal Currents: “A very small group of very well connected people, funded by international fascism, have decided that trans identity is, at best, a delusion that has been tolerated for far too long. In the space of a few years they have been able to reorder our society and politics to effectively segregate them. …This… [more]
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TACC has answered an important question: how did the EHRC Scotland suddenly become hostile to the trans people it’s supposed to protect? The answer, at least in part, is that a high profile anti-trans activist became one of their commissioners. As with the English EHRC, the body has become captured by “gender-critical” activism. TACC: it… [more]
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My publisher, 404 Ink, is running a promotion where you can get 50% off their ebooks – including Carrie Kills A Man, Small Town Joy and Fierce Salvage. They were all bargains at twice the price. There are lots of really great books in this deal but you’ll need to move quickly, as 404 are… [more]
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The High Court has reversed the Office for Students’ (OfS) decision to fine Sussex University over half a million pounds for supposedly suppressing free speech (ie, not stopping people from criticising a vocally transphobic academic). The verdict is damning and makes it very clear that the OfS was operating from a position of blatant bias… [more]
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This is a hard read: Trans people are dying of suicide more than the general UK population. And UK government policy, which is to deny trans kids healthcare, to underfund mental health provision and to push people into conversion therapy, is a key reason why that’s the case. Data obtained by freedom of information request… [more]
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There’s a good piece by Sasha Baker about how the UK has enshrined “trans panic” in law. Trans panic is a variation of the gay panic defence, which is a tactic used in murder and assault cases to blame the victim rather than the attacker. In the UK it’s sometimes known as the Portsmouth Defence.… [more]
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It’s Trans Day of Visibility today, a day to celebrate trans people’s lives and raise awareness of discrimination. And like any other day, it’s a day when trans people continue to be invisible and powerless. There are no trans people elected to any of the UK’s parliaments; no trans columnists with regular gigs on national… [more]
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Two things can be true at the same time. Meta (and other platform providers such as X) is a wicked and dangerous organisation that does wicked and dangerous things. And Meta losing in court over supposed “social media addiction” is bad because it will have chilling effects. Writing in the New Statesman, Séamas O’Reilly explains the… [more]
Read me in books
My debut memoir, Carrie Kills A Man, was a Scotsman book of the year and Damian Barr’s Literary Salon book of the week, and it was shortlisted for the 2023 British Book Awards book of the year in the Discover category.
My latest book, Small Town Joy, is a celebration of queer influences on and queer artists in Scots music and is out now.
I’m also a contributor to the excellent anthology Fierce Salvage, which is also out now.
