iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Ed Davies @edaviesauthor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hey, trans archivists: if someone already had copies of certain censored reports from a major organisation earlier this year, but was looking for a copy of the 11-page technical explanation behind the methodology of one of them... Who might have it? (Sheesh. What a time we live in.)

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Ed Davies @edaviesauthor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Telling transphobes that they forgot about trans men makes for a snappy “gotcha” moment. But it doesn’t fix anything—in fact, it plays right into the way transmisogyny deals with transmasculinity. So this week, I wrote about the “gotcha” problem.

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Trans men are not your “gotcha”.

Using transmasculinity to score points doesn’t fight transmisogyny—it perpetuates it.

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Important🧵from Cal at the coal face. “the school staff cried” doesn’t move me any more, it angers me, as they proceed to act on govt policy and cause harm. Streeting told me, meeting the trans youth whose medication he’d removed was “really upsetting for me, really hard”. We need more than tears.

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Ed Davies @edaviesauthor.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The “social contagion” panic posits that the increasing number of transmasculine people are misled women trying to escape misogyny, and will ultimately change their minds.

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Ed Davies @edaviesauthor.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"The assumption that trans men attain male privilege stops trans men and our allies from noticing when our bodily autonomy is not respected." I’m back with the first in a series of short essays highlighting the transmasculine theory I’m writing about in my book EXILED.

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How could women know that they’re men?

Trans men are not the authority of our own experiences… and that should sound familiar.

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Chelsea M. Cameron (she/they) @chel-c-cam.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

This fight over “should authors get paid for their work” debate boils down to this: many, MANY people do not see art as labor. If art isn’t labor, then you don’t have to change your political views to justify piracy. Easy peasy!

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.

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Ed Davies @edaviesauthor.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Need a little escapism? Grab my bestselling #mmromance “Splinter” free on Amazon, only until Friday! 💖 getbook.at/Splinter #gayromancebooks #biromance #queerromance #lgbtqreads #authorsofbluesky

A graphic describing a book on sale. Text says: Free on Amazon March 20-21. There are two icons. First is the Amazon #1 best seller flag. The other says: available in audio. Below this is the book cover, depicting two shirtless men standing together above a blue-washed background of the Smoky Mountains. The title is Splinter, and the author is E. Davies. The description reads: "A grumpy park ranger & a bad boy who needs his North Star..." At the bottom is the URL: getbook.at/Splinter

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Ed Davies @edaviesauthor.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

“If we claim to be men, we cannot experience oppression based on our unique position within patriarchy; if we insist on accurately naming our experiences, then we must erase our identities as men.” Read more: open.substack.com/pub/edaviesa... (Free, ofc—we don’t give these guys money.)

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Ed Davies @edaviesauthor.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I’ve been working on my first nonfiction book. “The Desert: The Exile of Transmasculinity” is about why/how we must be made invisible or impossible in the public imagination. But we need transmasculine conversations toward liberation now, so I started a Substack. Here’s the first post.

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The double bind of transmasculinity.

Silencing is not safety or privilege—it's exile.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record) I don’t remember seeing anything like this before

A mostly blank page with the words Strong and Free, from the English version of the Canadian national anthem )
Below the fold of this newspaper sheet , in smaller type, news and editorial references to the trade war

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Dr.DreadPirate @pnwdreadpirate.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

My wife shared this today. She is the best. #poetry

Don't Hesitate, by Mary Oliver.

If You suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. It. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happens better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that's often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Get in good trouble, necessary trouble.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 24/01/2025

All applications for gender marker change are on hold while the State Department changes this policy. Anyone who now submits an application for a change runs the risk of losing access to their passport and documents while their application is being processed.

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Ed Davies @edaviesauthor.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Introducing Rena Yehuda Newman… my husband. 💖 I can’t describe how proud and happy I am. The last few years have been the hardest of my life; Rena Yehuda has been my cornerstone. Even after a decade of writing happy endings, I keep discovering what it means to love and be loved so well.

Rena Yehuda, dressed in a blue suit with a pale gold yarmulke, putting a ring on Ed’s finger; Ed has pink hair and is wearing in a white dress with pink and blue flowers. Both are smiling joyfully.

Holding hands, with everything else out of focus; Rena is wearing a gold wedding ring, and Ed is wearing a silver and ruby ring.

Two people kissing in front of a mini storage building with New York skyline and traffic in the background. Ed has pink hair and a blue puffer jacket over a white floral dress; Rena is in a blue suit with red leather jacket and earmuffs. Both are popping one foot behind them.

Ed and Rena sealing their marriage with a kiss; Ed has pink hair, glasses, and hearing aids, and is wearing a floral white dress. Rena is dressed in a blue suit with red shirt and pale gold yarmulke. The officiant, holding a guitar, is smiling in the background.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

The looters I want to talk about are the ones who stole our safe and stable climate from us. Millennia of planetary harm for individuals' profit. They set the fires.

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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 28/12/2024

Reminds me of the time @edaviesauthor.bsky.social and I were writing in the same room and paused to mime so we could figure out scene blocking. Ed was putting hands together to check sex positions. I was holding an imaginary shotgun to sight along. We write very different genres 😂

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Helen Juliet // HJ Welch @helenjuliet.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

CALLING ALL AMERICAN READERS! . @edaviesauthor.bsky.social, his boyfriend Rena Yehuda Newman and I are squeezing in a quick US sign and ship event of signed paperbacks, zines and art! . THE ORDER FORM CLOSES ON SATURDAY! So don't delay! . forms.gle/xr7kDeWk1vXn...

All the info on the pic is in the post, but the pic has an adorable selfie of Helen, Ed and Rena in front of a pale blue and pink sky with just the hint of a city skyline where the shore meets the sky.

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Ed Davies @edaviesauthor.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Teapigs advent calendar (from @poopraven.bsky.social) plus writing deadlines equals… I can’t believe I’m pretending to review tea on the internet. #writerlife Anyway, we started strong! Real punchy winter smell, but without tasting like the garnish from the office Christmas party punch bowl.

Day 1: Teapigs sachet, “spiced winter red tea”

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Helen Juliet // HJ Welch @helenjuliet.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Did you know that @edaviesauthor.bsky.social & I are doing a UK Sign & Ship! Order paperbacks in time for Xmas! Did you also know that I’m offering TWO paperback exclusives that you can’t get from Amazon? One of them has limited stock, so once they’re gone, THEY’RE GONE! forms.gle/7vW8Fpe5e25X...

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

chuck tingle, notable 'joke' and 'bit', still wildly successful despite neurotypical people thinking autistic folks cant possibly create 'real' art

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Stacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.

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The Mystery of Food Deserts

They didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

"Cis people are afraid that trans people will laugh at them. Trans people are afraid that cis people will kill them"

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Ed Davies @edaviesauthor.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

FYI, I’m editing and reposting an old thread from the bad place, but I only have brainpower for 1-2 posts at a time. This may take a while. 🙈 I’m calling it “slow theory”. 🤣

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

MASSIVE win for a Monday morning - campaigners in Scotland have succeeded in getting NHS Lothian to drop their openly discriminatory surgery ban for trans people aged under 25.

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All referrals for gender-affirming surgery resumed in NHS Lothian | Lothian Sexual Health

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Ed Davies @edaviesauthor.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

We can’t keep pretending that trans men are not targets of transphobia and misogyny. The patriarchy needs to protect the unchangeable category of woman (as an asset). Trans men can’t be allowed to exist. The silence about us is not accident, ignorance, tolerance, privilege—it’s a threat.

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GibbertyFlibbet @thecorrection.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

brutal to get toasted so when I haven't even had second breakfast

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 24/11/2024

If nothing else read this for the part in the mid-2000s when RWA begs Nora Roberts to stop shit-talking them because she doesn't understand that the lesbians are trying to take over RWA.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 24/11/2024

This thread up & down is important reading for Romancelandia lore (tho all of us who were there undoubtedly remember too well) But the thing I will DIE MAD over is that the complaint said having Courtney chair the ethics committee was akin to having a neo-nazi in charge of a human rights commission

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Ed Davies @edaviesauthor.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Recovery is at the “mostly boring” stage. But occasionally it’s very exciting, because I have both a catheter and the sweetest little violent baby 🤣

Author sitting and smiling on a couch, wearing a tie dye T-shirt that says “I’ve got irreversible damage and I’m serving cunt”, and scratching a tabby cat’s head. She looks slightly feral yet delighted and has her fangs bared and eyes almost closed.

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Kriss Lowrance @krisslowrance.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Yep. The goal of anti-porn laws isn't to stop people from seeing pornography. It's to create a class of speech that's legally suppressible, and then apply it to dissent.

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Ed Davies @edaviesauthor.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I wanna follow other trans authors, especially UK-based. Self-pubbed/hybrid/trad, any genre. Help me out, say hi! 🏳️‍⚧️4️⃣🏳️‍⚧️

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Tabby Lamb @tabby.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Ok so now i’ve settled in a little, maybe it’s time for an intro post: I’m an award winning transfeminine writer for stage, screen and audio. My work centres trans folk, and transfems specifically but on a wider note i’m interested in exploring stories of othering & being othered. also i’m hot x

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Mona Tewari @monatewari.com · 19/11/2024

My best writing advice? Avoid the scarcity mindset. When you see others who are succeeding, be happy for them and remember, if they could do it, so could you. Give them their flowers & have hope for your future. The book you're writing *right now* could be the thing that changes everything for you.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 18/11/2024

Speaking as an expert on transphobia and the gender critical movement: Block them. Hide replies. Report them. Do not "debate" them. The fact that they are campaigning so hard against blocking and in favour of debate/their right to harassment should tell you - it serves their interests to engage.

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Ed Davies @edaviesauthor.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

So we can post about our hobbies and the algo won’t punish us? 😍 WELL THEN! Buckle up for all kinds of shenanigans 🤣 Pictured: the Barbie dress I made last Halloween; my allotment plot; a messy 2-tone oil sketch; giving a speech on stage at a dance show.

The author sitting on a bed wearing a handmade pink gingham dress in the style of Barbie’s perfect day from the movie with white tulle petticoat. Also chunky pink heels, and a large faux pearl necklace and earrings.

An allotment plot in England, arranged in beds with woodchip paths. There’s an octagonal cedar greenhouse at the back of the plot. It’s bursting with plants, including a flower bed and strawberries in the foreground.

Oil pastel sketch of two naked men lying facing each other, legs entwined.

The author giving a speech on stage, under an intense spotlight as the audience is faintly visible in the background. They have pink hair and they’re wearing a rainbow skirt and white top.

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Ed Davies @edaviesauthor.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I had my “final” stage of bottom surgery in January. The implant immediately broke—faulty batch. Another surgery in August to replace it. Then I had 13 weeks of excruciating pain, peeing blood, fever, and much more. 2 weeks ago, I finally got a scan. The implant reservoir was INSIDE my bladder.

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Ed Davies @edaviesauthor.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Anyway you may also wanna follow me to hear about trans stuff—especially transmasc theory, my bottom surgery (phallo) journey through the NHS, and hard-won dick jokes.

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Ed Davies @edaviesauthor.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

It’s funny getting set up on a new platform and trying to choose and arrange your most important lore by its recency and necessity.

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Ed Davies @edaviesauthor.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hi, lovelies 🥰 Impromptu bio: unapologetic femme transfag, and MM romance author since 2013. Pretty obsessed with queer HEAs: book #52 (Unmoored) is on preorder now! Canadian living in London, cat daddy, T4T forever, hobby collector, and particularly a fan of flowers and bees.

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