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This is where all the anti-trans hysteria in the press and online leads: a young mum savagely beaten with a crowbar by a gang of 13 people for no other reason than they thought she was trans. Lauren Garrison was enjoying a night out with her friends when she was called a “dirty d***” and… [more]
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I know it’s necessary but I’m long past the point of expecting Glasgow’s COVID restrictions to be lifted any time soon: that’s us going into week 38 of the temporary 2-week restrictions that we’ve been living under since September. As Fraser Stewart pointed out on Twitter, there are Glaswegians who fell pregnant at the start… [more]
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One of the downsides of not buying overtly transphobic newspapers is that I’m not supporting the work of good people such as Zoe Williams. Today’s column in the Guardian on the so-called war on woke is wise and witty: Your average transgender woman could be forgiven for wondering what exactly she did so wrong that she’s… [more]
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Back in the 1980s, various fundamentalist right-wing loons decided that the board game Dungeons and Dragons and heavy metal music were corrupting the minds of children. Apparently the game was “an occult tool that opens up young people to influence or possession by demons.” This obvious lunacy came from the religious right, but it was… [more]
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There’s a very good piece in the LA Times by LZ Granderson about the US Republican anti-trans bills. Well, if you follow the money and the lawsuits, the Alliance Defending Freedom is a good place to start looking for answers. …This isn’t the first time ADF has attacked the LGBTQ community. The organization supported banning… [more]
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Something wonderful happened in the Scottish elections this week. A whole bunch of politicians who’d bet on transphobia being a vote-winner were either kicked out of office or failed to get elected in the first place. The most obvious example of that is self-confessed sex pest Alex Salmond’s sleepy cuddles party, Alba, which failed to… [more]
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My talented musical pal Becci Wallace made this. It’s funny because it’s so very true. [more]
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There was an important legal judgement yesterday that, despite being about trans people, has somehow failed to make it into the papers. London’s High Court threw out the attempted judicial review of the Equality Act 2010 by LGB Alliance co-founder and trustee Ann Sinnott, saying that her case was “unarguable” and that her interpretation of… [more]
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The unprecedented legislative attacks on trans people, particularly teens, in the US are horrific. Writing in Jewish Currents, Jules Gill-Peterson explains why there are so many anti-trans bills being introduced by Republican lawmakers and what ideology is behind them. the right-wing proponents of this legislative avalanche have greater ambitions than mere electoral dominance. As HB… [more]
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It’s Lesbian Visibility Week. That’s important, because research suggests that gay men are more than twice as likely to be out in the workplace than gay women; gay trans women tend to stay closeted in the workplace too. Visibility matters. I grew up in a period of viciously anti-LGBT+ media and Section 28, and it wasn’t… [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.
