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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 27/08/2026

They're re-running the smacking bill bullshit playbook for the conversion therapy bill in England. Reads like a Daily Record editorial.

A flyer claiming that "Under the Conversion Practices Draft Bill parents can be criminalised, facing up to 5 years in prison, if they wish to help their children understand the difference between female and male, girl and boy."

"Ada, 4, loves nursery and the climbing frame, where she climbs highest in class, but struggles to sit still. Her teacher has convinced her she must be a boy, as only boys climb and cannot sit still.
The draft Conversion Bill allows the teacher to accuse Ada's mum of conversion practice for telling Ada she is a girl."

"Clare rings her mother from university and asks "Am l a woman?" Her mother replies "Of course you are." Clare's best friend overhears and believes the mother is trying to make Clare deny her transgender identity.
Under the Draft Conversion Bill the friend can report the mother for abusive language."

"Naomi, 13, feels she is trans' and asks her mother for money for a breast binder. Her mother knows she is distressed by her developing breasts (and comments from boys at school) and would like to discuss Naomi's discomfort with her breasts instead.
Is this coercive control? The draft Conversion Practices Bill would let Naomi claim it is."

"Hayden, who is autistic, lives rent-free with his mum and spends all his time online. He begins identifying as a 'trans girl' and occasionally goes out dressed up in female clothes. His mum checks his browser history, is horrified, confronts him and tells him to get a job.
Hayden reports his mum for using economic pressure as an abusive conversion practice."

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 18/08/2026

This is an example of the herald being poisonous again today. It’s very clear what it wants the non-readers of X to take away from the post.

Herald post on x about council trans inclusion with a photo of anti-trans activists: The report is framed almost entirely on the need to support transgender colleagues and others, and to challenge ‘transphobia’

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 07/08/2026

I've ranted about this many times, I know, but the one that really bugs me is the fake Hunter S Thomson quote about the music business that's endlessly shared. What he actually wrote is in the image.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
Which is more or less true. For the most part, they are dirty little animals with huge brains and no pulse.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 04/08/2026

I know there are already many reasons to despise the open bigotry of the daily record but here's another one from yesterday's front page.

Front page newspaper headline: "Afghan man is charged over killing of body in suitcase girl" with the opening sentence "An Afghan has been charged over the death of Scot Elisabeth-Jane Ross found dead in a suitcase."

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 25/06/2026

Queerphoria is out in paperback today! It's very good and you should buy it from your local queer bookshop (or bookshop.org if you're far away). www.vervebooks.co.uk/bookpage.php...

Cover image of the Queerphoria anthology with the text "Quite possibly the best anthology of queer writing I've ever read" from a reader review. The book is out from today in paperback.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 11/06/2026

Proud to be part of this amazing anthology, out in ebook format worldwide today and in print on 25 June. I'll be taking part in Queerphoria events at Category Is in Glasgow on 2 July and The Lighthouse bookshop in Edinburgh on 24 September. They'll be fun :) geni.us/queerphoria

Queerphoria cover with a reader review: "An absolute joy to read full of wisdom, celebration and love for all things queer."

Reader reviews: 'EVERY WRITER BRINGS SOMETHING DIFFERENT, AND MOVING BETWEEN THEM FELT SO NATURAL AND ENGAGING'
'AN ABSOLUTE JOY TO READ FULL OF WISDOM, CELEBRATION AND LOVE FOR ALL THINGS QUEER'
"A STRONG AND BRILLIANT REVELATION OF QUEER JOY!'
'SUCH AN IMPORTANT AND NECESSARY STORY
COLLECTION RIGHT NOW'
'EACH PIECE IS REALLY WORTH SAVOURING'

Reader review: "quite possibly the best anthology of queer writing I've ever read"

DIVA magazine review: "Exploring queer joy in all its forms, this eclectic anthology includes short stories, essays and more. Queerphoria features brilliant new work by dozens of vital voices, like DIVA favourites Joelle Taylor, Laura Kay and Chloe Michelle Howarth. The overarching theme of queer joy feels particularly needed right now. Another reason to read? This beautiful book supports national LGBTOIA+ helpline Switchboard, which receives a £1 donation from every copy sold."

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 22/04/2026

Mildly amused to discover that on Amazon, there’s a brand called TERF that makes locks for toilet doors.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 18/04/2026

Without stating your age, post your favourite film released the year you turned 18.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 08/04/2026

Apple Music’s concerts feature is quite good. Hug and Pint and Bloc+ as well as the hydro and the Barras. It’s just bandsintown but if it helps punt tickets for smaller acts that’s good. Works per artist too - 2nd pic is artist page for @brokenchanter.bsky.social.

Screenshot of Apple Music on iPhone showing a list of concerts taking place in Glasgow on the 21st of April

Screenshot of Apple Music on iPhone showing up upcoming concerts by broken chanter.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 18/03/2026

Selkie the house horse celebrates the news (she’s a rescued racer).

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 07/02/2026

(To the tune of stingray) Bluesky! Book post! Doo do doo doo do doo! Bluesky! Book post! Looking forward to these, by @georgepenney.bsky.social and @stuhennigan.bsky.social :)

New books! Moments of tiny joy by George Penney and Keshed by Stu Hennigan

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 28/01/2026

Stewart Lee cracking up on Harry Hill’s YouTube show had me in tears.

Screenshot of Stewart Lee laughing on the harry hill show. It’s a split screen with Lee on the left, Hill on the right and their guest in the centre.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 31/10/2025

Haim were fun, and had some really creative staging.

Photo of Haim onstage at the hydro in Glasgow. The band are in the foreground and on the large screen behind. There are lyrics overlaid on that screen, and on a smaller see through screen in front of it

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 29/10/2025

In Oran Mor to see @brokenchanter.bsky.social and Emma Pollock and some pals. Gerry Rafferty is playing through the PA. I’ve had worse starts to a night.

Photo of the interior of Oran mor, a converted church in Glasgow. It is lit by coloured lights and a stage is set up for the bands.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 28/10/2025

This, by Seth Insua, is an extraordinary novel and incredible debut: part queer awakening, part forbidden love story, part family drama, part thriller. Cried, obviously. I have two more exciting, acclaimed debuts to read in advance of chatting with the authors at Aye Write!. I love my job.

Carrie holding the book Human, Animal by Seth Insua.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 27/10/2025

This is a wonderful book that’s full of surprises, a real inhale-in-one-go collection (I’m not just saying this because I’m hosting three of the brilliant contributors at Aye Write next weekend. That’s just a bonus). Powerful, resonant, sometimes laugh-out-loud funny.

Carrie’s hand holding the book Who Will Be Remembered Here: Queer Spaces in Scotland

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 22/10/2025

Watching High Potential. It’s good to see Tam from Still Game got a job in the LAPD.

A shot from the Disney show High Potential with an actor, Steve Howey, who really looks like tam from still game.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 20/10/2025

I’d like to think that i am one of the dolls From Randalism & Co near the Barras in Glasgow

Weird doll from Randalism & Co in Glasgow - some kind of strange scarecrow. Taken from their facebook page.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 14/10/2025

If you’ve read Small Town Joy you’ll know that Sunny G Radio is one of its stars, and that I found Steg and Delaina to be really inspiring. So I’m delighted to be the guest for this free Book Week event on 20 November at Sunny G HQ. Come along!

Meet the author promo image for me, Carrie, at sunny g radio at 7pm on 20 November. Tickets are free, email steg@sunnyg.org

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 13/10/2025

Post you from a different era 1999, at a gig experiencing so much stage fright I don't remember a second of it. The guitar has aged much better than I have.

A twentysomething male-presenting person with short fair hair in a black shirt and black combat trousers. They are playing a Fender telecaster in front of a drum kit and another band's backdrop.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 07/10/2025

Here’s a monster who just dragged their owner through a very deep puddle.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 06/10/2025

Another bit of Aye Write! excitement: I'll be chatting with Mae Diansangu, Louise Welsh and Lewis Hetherington on Saturday 8 November about Who Will Be Remembered Here: Queer Spaces in Scotland. www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/who-...

Cover of the book Who Will Be Remembered Here: Queer Spaces in Scotland.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 08/08/2025

Stumbled across Karen Pirie on streaming and really hoping the rest is as entertaining as the first episode: crime! St Andrews! Feminism! Val McDermid! Lauren Lyle is great in the title role.

Lauren Lyle as the character Karen Pirie in the show of the same name.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 08/08/2025

I traded in my ragged 15yo Merc estate in June for a newer, smaller hybrid Skoda. 7 weeks after I filled the hybrid car’s tank there’s about half left after 1,000 miles. 200+ mpg :-o Ofc electricity isn’t free, but on a night tariff it doesn’t cost anything near petrol.

Status screen showing 1,001 miles at 203mpg since last refuelling.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 28/07/2025

The IMAX at Glasgow Science Centre is showing Prince’s Sign ‘o the Times in August. I am very excited about that.

Promo pic for Prince’s Sign ‘o the Times movie

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 24/07/2025

This made me laugh. Protesters in Nantucket earlier this week.

Anti-Vance protesters in Nantucket with a large image of the JD Vance face meme and various placards including one that says "Go hump a couch".

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 02/07/2025

Just a wee reminder that this is happening next week and it’s going to be great fun. The Stand, Glasgow, Wednesday evening.

Poster for Marginalia, an event at The Stand in Glasgow on Wednesday 9 July with Iona Lee, Christopher Macarthur-Boyd, Alan Bissett and me.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 02/07/2025

Via r/glasgow, the Anderston Centre is in the trailer for The Running Man reboot.

A screenshot from The Running Man trailer where the location is clearly Glasgow's Anderston Centre.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 29/06/2025

Saw this on the bad place and laughed. And then saw someone post “grok is this true” and lost a bit more faith in humanity.

A fake news post with a picture of children’s to character Mr Tumble and the text “Butlins have been forced to apologise after Mr Tumble stuns parents by teaching children "Death, Death to the IDF" in Makaton”

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 28/06/2025

It’s a nice day to support your local queer bookshop. Nicer still if you’ve got the new Lorde to soundtrack your trip.

Three books: Trans/Rad/Fem by Talia Bhatt, The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman by Niko Stratis; Aggravated Discontent by Harron Walker.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 02/06/2025

I wrote about Bring It On too! From Carrie Kills A Man, image with alt text.

"In 2000, Kirsten Dunst starred in Bring It On, a lightweight, inconsequential comedy about rival cheerleaders. It's set in San Diego with a few good lines, one very good sight gag, some good choreography, a lot of very pretty young women and a thoroughly average and probably overly generous 63% rating from Rotten Tomatoes. I was a little bit obsessed with it. Not obsessed enough to buy any of the straight-to-DVD sequels, but obsessed nevertheless.

The appeal of Bring It On isn't hard to explain. It features a lot of impossibly good-looking young women bouncing around in cheerleader outfits for quite a lot of the time. As a person who's attracted to women, that works for me. But it also worked on a much deeper level, because while I wasn't deluded enough to think I could ever look like Kirsten Dunst, there was a really big part of me that really wished I could. I was back to the Littlewoods catalogues of my youth, torn between attraction and identification. I wanted to see Kirsten Dunst, and I wanted to be her."

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 30/04/2025

I got this pin from @stonewalluk.bsky.social a few years ago. The second pic is their website today. Nothing about the EHRC, nothing to reassure scared trans folks. They’ll sell me a defiant t-shirt though, they’re trying to get rid of those.

A stonewall pin badge on a canvas and leather bag. It says “come out for lgbt”.

The Stonewall website on a mobile device. The screen is dominated by ticket selling for its workplace conference and overlaid with a donate button that obscures a persistent “donate” banner.

Two activism-themed t-shirts in the stonewall shop: “out of the closets and into the streets” and “LGBT we demand equality”. Neither is available in my size.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 29/04/2025

My (Lib Dem) MP has replied to my email about the Supreme Court shitshow.

I am deeply concerned that many trans and non-binary people in our country are feeling worried, fearful or uncertain after the ruling, and questioning whether they will be able to enjoy the same rights as their peers.

As Liberal Democrats we are pushing the government to provide clarity - with new legislation if necessary - to ensure that everyone’s rights are protected. This must include ensuring the trans community feels safe.

My colleague Christine Jardine, who is the Liberal Democrat Women and Equalities spokesperson has written to the minister asking for a meeting to discuss this.

Many questions remain about the ruling’s practical implications. This is precisely why we need the government to bring forward clarity and clear practical guidance that ensures everyone’s rights are protected.

We must remember that this situation is not about political hypotheticals, it is about real people who are now worried and uncertain as they go about their day-to-day lives.

The Supreme Court ruling reaffirmed that trans people’s rights must be respected under the law. It is vital that this judgement is not used to further divisive culture wars or to justify rolling back anyone’s rights. Liberal Democrats will do everything we can to ensure this is the case.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 24/04/2025

And this is just glorious. I love Kim’s vocal - she’s got a beautiful accent that gives the words amazing shapes.

Apple Music again. She Moves Me by Kim Carrie. The album cover is an outside photo of Carnie. Her eyes are closed and the wind is blowing her light brown hair across her face.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 24/04/2025

This is such a beautiful record. I cry every time I play it.

A screenshot of Apple Music playing the song Mountains by Man of the Minch. The album cover uses blues and purples and shows a drawing of two mermaid-style figures entwined above a rough sea.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 24/04/2025

I’m slightly obsessed by Home & Garden’s weird celeb decor headlines. And this one today is their best yet.

A home and garden article headline: “Charli XCX's front door color 'feels deliberate, and almost calculated' - estate experts say it carries authority (but it comes with a warning)”

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 22/04/2025

Did I mention that I have a book coming out this week? It's mostly about joy but this is on page 240. We all knew what Starmer was. Obligatory book link: www.404ink.com/store/p/smal...

Extract from the book Small Town Joy by Carrie Marshall: "That does not magically make everything okay for
LGBTQ+ people. Sunak’s successor, Kier Starmer, gained
the nickname “queer harmer” before even taking office, has
continued with the Tories’ war on healthcare for trans teens,
and appears to be as spineless and craven as many queer people
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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 15/04/2025

Absolutely delighted by this kind review of Small Town Joy in The Wire, available from quality newsagents near you. STJ is out next week but you can get sneaky preorders from @404ink.bsky.social ❤️

"Music made by marginalised people carries a weight, an urgency, a hard-won wisdom that gives it depth and emotional heft," Marshall writes. Her exploration of queer music’s escapist, visionary
powers brings joy, not in small measures.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 08/04/2025

Re: Scot tories’ vile post. Extract from my piece in Fierce Salvage, full text of the image in the alt text.

While hate crimes against the entire community continue to rise, the media and ministers tell the nation to fear the victims of hate, not the people purveying it. And when you listen to the callers and contributors to Scots radio shows or read the columnists and commenters on Scots newspaper websites, something becomes clear: if the Section 28 ballot were happening today, too many of our politicians, public figures and peers would be voting to keep it.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 29/03/2025

It’s alive! I think pre-orders are already en route with the official launch in a few weeks from now.

Carrie’s hand holding her new book, Small Town Joy, in front of some guitars.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 10/03/2025

Very excited to be part of this Fierce Salvage event at Paisley Book Festival on 27 April. Do come, it'll be great. And tickets are super-cheap/pay what you can. paisleybookfestival.com/programme/fi...

A promotional image for the Fierce Salvage event at Paisley Town Hall on Sunday 27 April. Pictured are Ely Percy, Carrie Marshall and Mae Diansangu.

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Carrie plays guitar 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @carriem.co.uk · 08/03/2025

Palestine Action took a wee day trip to Trump’s Turnberry hotel.

Red paint thrown on property at Trump’s turnberry hotel in scotland.

Holes dug in the golf course at Trump’s Turnberry hotel in Scotland.

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