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Time for some new music. This is the first song from our brand new Messengers EP, and it’s called Animal. I hope you love it as much as we do. HAVR · Animal [more]
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Emma Thomas is an award-winning creative producer and director who’s currently sending out CVs in her hunt for work. So at first she was delighted when a potential employer got in touch. You can be sure this isn’t the first time he’s tried this. And there are many men just like him. To them, women… [more]
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This is what happens when a trans woman takes a mirror selfie. [more]
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This is disgusting. The Yorkshire Evening Post: Robber carried out ‘humiliating’ sex assault on victim after discovering he had targeted transgender victim Awful, right? It’s something most trans women live in fear of: the violence of straight men who discover we’re trans, the subject of so many “trans panic” defences in courts. But while the crime… [more]
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Ed Yong is one of the finest science journalists we have, and this in The Atlantic is an exceptional piece of journalism: How The Pandemic Defeated America. A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled and humiliated the planet’s most powerful nation. America has failed to protect its people, leaving them… [more]
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Anti-LGBT+ activists try very hard to censor anything they disapprove of. So of course, they’ve complained en masse about a same-sex kiss in a BBC programme. Gay Times: In their statement, the BBC dismissed accusations that the kiss was inappropriate, saying: “The decision to include this moment, as part of a longer storyline throughout series… [more]
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Famous Moments in History, Reimagined By Centrists [more]
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There’s a comic strip I really love in which a trans woman travels back in time to talk to her younger self. It makes me cry every time. Here’s a page: I occasionally daydream about doing the same for the younger, sadder, pre-transition me, but I know it’s a waste of time. Not just because… [more]
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A new report says that right-wing academics are being silenced by the thought police. Inevitably they’re talking about that silencing on the front pages of right-wing newspapers. Here’s Newsweek. There is an experiment of sorts taking place in American colleges. Or, more accurately, hundreds of experiments at different campuses, directed at changing the consciousness of… [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.
