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There’s a very good (and very detailed) piece by Nathan J Robinson in Current Affairs about everybody’s favourite litigious author. How did we get from the one place to the other? How did we go from the “beautiful fantasy world†to this exhibition of fear and dehumanization? Was she always like this? Why is she… [more]
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Yesterday, the Scottish Daily Mail ran a front page story damning Scotland’s proposed new anti-hate crime legislation. The source of the story is Lois McLatchie, who the Daily Mail says “works with the UN Human Rights Council”. That’s a very clever way of implying she’s part of the Council. She isn’t; in fact, she is… [more]
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I wrote the other day about how if you’re in a customer-facing role, you’re expected to call male customers “sir” and female customers “madam”. This, from a travel industry talk last year by Billy Kolber, discusses the gendering and inclusivity of the hospitality industry. When travel destinations and brands say they’re LGBTQ+ friendly, what they… [more]
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Journalist Jane Fae has written a heartfelt article to the people who seem to hate trans people so much. It is a letter to friends I once had “that side of the wallâ€. Women, mostly, with whom I broke bread, and shared my house. Women with whom I campaigned, long and hard, against male violence.… [more]
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Over the past few weeks, some very wealthy writers have been very vocal about the importance of free speech. People should be free to voice their honestly held opinions, they say, no matter how offensive or hurtful those opinions may be. This week, the same writers have sent their lawyers after multiple people and publications… [more]
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CTV News: An Ontario pastor who came out to her congregation as a transgender woman last month has been fired after the congregation voted to remove her. Metalsucks: Ex-Absu Guitarist Details Being Fired From Band After Coming Out as Transgender NBC News: Transgender man files discrimination suit after Maryland hospital cancels hysterectomy… the center canceled… [more]
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Jessica Valenti is very tired of writing the same column over and over again. I hate that I’m writing this column. Over the years, I’ve published versionafter version of it: how the majority of mass shooters have a history of domestic violence; how misogyny is a clear and obvious indicator of future violence; and how… [more]
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Another week, another wise and witty column from Jenny Boylan. I won’t spoil the opener because it really made me laugh and I think it will really make you laugh too. But the column isn’t just about a funny misunderstanding. It’s about having a disability, about consideration for others, about being different. I’ve spent too much… [more]
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Labour MP Nadia Whittome has a way with words. Today she said the government’s endless prevarication over gender recognition (GRA) reform was “fanning the flames of populist hate”. She’s right. We’re now going into the third “silly season” where it’s open season on trans people in the media and on social media. GRA reform is… [more]
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On Twitter, Dan Barker has posted an interesting thread showing how terrible reporting becomes conspiracy theory nonsense. It begins with The Telegraph. Its science editor reported that lockdown could cause as many as 200,000 preventable deaths, and the headline was clear: The same claim was then posted by other news outlets citing the Telegraph. For… [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.
