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Policy Analyst, Criminal Defence Lawyer, prisoners' rights & HIV activist. NonBinary Trans, They/them/iel, Queer. I💜lemon meringue. New College, Oxford. #sexwork=work #nooneisillegal #IndigenousRising #refugeeswelcome #union #stillmasking

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 19/04/2025
"At Michigan, students have been told the casualties include orientation events for new Latino, Arab and Asian American students, along with the LEAD Scholars program, a financial aid award for Black, Latino and Native American students." These things harm no one. He just wants nonwhite suffering.
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DEI rollbacks hit campus support systems for students of color
As U.S. colleges are pulling back on diversity, equity and inclusion practices, students of color say they are starting to lose campus mentors, move-in events, scholarships and diversity offices where...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Yeah it is when the question is do these people deserve to exist in society Yeah id say the Trans Question is pretty fucked up just like uhhh yknow that other ~Minority~ Question the big bads did that one time dontcha think
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The UK Data (Use and Access) Bill is currently being debated in Parliament and anti-trans campaigners are trying to amend the Bill so it requires public authorities to collect data about 'biological sex' (see below). 🚨 THIS NEEDS TO BE OPPOSED 🚨 publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...
The amendment reads:

To move the following Clause— 

“Directions to public authorities on recording of sex data (1) The Secretary of State must, within three months of the passage of this Act, issue regulations relating to the code of practice set out in section 49 of this Act which require public authorities to— 

(a) collect, process and retain sex data only where it is lawful to do so in accordance with data protection legislation; 

(b) request and record sex data accurately, in every circumstance where sex data is collected, in accordance with following category terms and definitions— 

(i) ”Sex” meaning male or female only based on “sex at birth”, “natal sex” or “biological sex” (these terms carrying the same meaning and capable of being used interchangeably); and, (ii) in addition, where it is lawful to do so in accordance with data protection legislation and the Gender Recognition Act 2004, “Acquired Gender” meaning male or female only, as recorded on a gender recognition certificate issued in accordance with the Gender Recognition Act 2004.
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Freddie AP 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ @freddie5by5.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Fabien was tortured, not interrogated. Like there is no sex with a child only rape. He was tortured because he's a gay man with a green card, bc nobody is going to stop torture under the current government of fascist Donald Drumpf. Barack Obama decided not to prosecute CIA officers for torture.
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Rakoen Maertens @rakoenmaertens.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
|| New Publication (Nature Communications) Psychological Booster Shots Targeting Memory​ Increase Long-Term Resistance Against Misinformation doi.org/10.1038/s414... Press Release www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-03... Key Findings * Inoculation works * Effects dissipate * Booster shots remedy this (1/10)
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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
And “pronoun policing” just means…what? “Respecting a trans person?” all we’re asking for is to be referred to correctly. No police, or even consequences, for not doing so - beyond perhaps a trans person being upset - are ever involved!
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The People Mover Who Was Promised @pmwwp.givesky.social · 07/03/2025
It wasn't political campaigns that changed peoples minds on gay marriage- but activists work, media, friends+family and the fact that they were right.
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Freddie AP 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ @freddie5by5.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Great point by t0ussaint: "its not an 80/20 issue among young ppl who a majority think should be allowed to participate in whatever sport they want. that proves this is abt education and exposure and bigotry, not a forgone conclusion" medicine.umich.edu/dept/family-...
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Freddie AP 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ @freddie5by5.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Listen to Trans Athletes.
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Greg McKee @gregorymmckee.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
80,000 Ukrainian soldiers killed, 400,000 wounded 12,605 civilian deaths, 29,178 injuries 461 children murdered, 923 wounded. At the hands of Putin. And JD Vance wants a "thank you," from Volodymyr Zelenksyy.
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Freddie AP 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ @freddie5by5.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Zelenskyy is the only man here. The others are babies. Donby and Vancby. 🍼🍼 Two babies with a temper tantrum.
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Donald Tusk @donald-tusk.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
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Freddie AP 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ @freddie5by5.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Germany 🤦🏻 Yesterday, Berlin police stormed the premises of the Junge Welt newspaper to prevent a conference of the UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese and the head of the German office of Amnesty International Julia Duchrow on the situation in Palestine.
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Freddie AP 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ @freddie5by5.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The Historical database Suriname & Caribbean conference took place in Curaçao. Plans made for more intensive archive cooperation within the Kingdom (& with Suriname) for 2025-2028. Curaçao is a Papiamento & Dutch speaking country in the Kingdom of The Netherlands: an island in the Caribbean.
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Freddie AP 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ @freddie5by5.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
For those of us having to endure 🍑 and co, follow comedians in other countries and get a translation app for Bluesky. Michel Baeten Marriage proposals: the silent killers. News headline 102 year old Dutch woman survived a robbery and a marriage proposal by an African chieftain. 🤣🤣🤣
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Freddie AP 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ @freddie5by5.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Very interesting. I'll post this on a Queer students' Fb group, don't think they have migrated to 🦋 yet. And the summer school is only across one ocean...
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Siobhan McAlister @siobhanmc74.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Still time to apply for these great collaborative studentships with hugely supportive supervisory teams
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Adam Kluge @arkluge.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Global Prisoners’ Families, an interdisciplinary research network examining the intersection of punishment, criminal legal processes, and justice-involved families is now on Bluesky as @familyjustice.bsky.social. Please do give us a follow and spread the word! @oxfordcrim.bsky.social
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Chris G Daniel @chrisgdaniel.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Idk, most writers would struggle with moving from genocide apologia to outright stupidity and then closing out with transphobia.
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HJA Civil Liberties @hjacivillibs.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
‘For women especially, prison is a place of chaos and trauma where vulnerable people struggle to maintain their dignity, let alone sanity… into these containers of suffering are dropped women whose only crime is mental illness.’
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Claire Fitzpatrick @clairefitzpatrick.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
NEW ARTICLE. ‘Power in the Courtroom: Judicial Perspectives on Care-Experienced Girls & Women in Court’ just published – by me, Katie Hunter, @jostaines.bsky.social & Julie Shaw. This one was a very long time in the writing and so pleased to see it out. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Power in the courtroom: Judicial perspectives on care‐experienced girls and women in court
This article focuses on rarely heard judicial perspectives, and the little explored challenges facing care-experienced girls and women in court. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with judges and ...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
MIKE LUCKOVICH APPRECIATION POST @mluckovich.bsky.social is one of the greatest political cartoonists of all time. Thank you for 3 decades of scathing satire, remarkable insight and helping us all laugh to avoid weeping openly. 🙏 Your longtime fan, Mar🐫
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Freddie AP 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ @freddie5by5.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I have a Merry and co. And we have Mark Hamill.
Small black pug on lap and small black cat on bed sleeping. The most beautiful face in the world, half asleep. Black pug.
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Tim @timward2014.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Weird. You mean you just made public transport affordable and then people (checks notes)... used it enthusiastically? Well, bugger me down dead. Who'd have thunk it? #Ōtautahi #nzpol
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The Cocky One @cockymf.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
And to be honest none of them will acknowledge that 2015 and the Bernie Sanders crowd has all these Knuckleheads out here thinking that their politicians need to inspire them instead of what you really want a politician that's going to win and move your needs forward.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
REP. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social says billionaires like Elon Musk want Americans to blame immigrants and trans people etc. for their economic struggles when their insatiable greed is behind the Gilded Age levels of inequality 🎯 🇺🇸 💰
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
We were just told that they won’t let us in. They are denying entry to 2 dozen members of Congress. Elon Musk has all our private information & we have no idea what he’s doing with it. This is happening completely behind closed doors. HELL NO. It’s illegal. We demand oversight!
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Truthout @truthout.org · 04/02/2025
A pair of labor unions have sued the U.S. Treasury Department in an effort to halt Elon Musk’s team’s dangerous access to a critical government payment system. “The scale of the intrusion into individuals’ privacy is massive and unprecedented.”
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Unions Sue to Halt Musk Team’s Access to Critical Treasury Payment System
“The scale of the intrusion into individuals’ privacy is massive and unprecedented,” the complaint states.
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Freddie AP 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ @freddie5by5.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Tiffany Cabán: “That executive administrative action is not the law of the land - and it sure as hell isn’t the law in New York City or New York State.” A Trans man's top surgery was cancelled. By a NY hospital. JFC. What is wrong with cis folks ?! Two Spirit & Trans people have ALWAYS been around.
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Freddie AP 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ @freddie5by5.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Exactly. The erasure of us 2 Spirit and Trans in public life is BECAUSE the TERFs, the Magats, the gendercriticals know that the science and evidence is against them.
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Invisible Histories @invisiblehistories.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
If you're at a Southern university/institution that is closing your LGBTQ or DEI/DEIA offices please reach out to us. We are helping people preserve their department's archival history and will work with you to help ensure folks remain anonymous.
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Freddie AP 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ @freddie5by5.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
By criminal Drumpf does not mean people who have been convicted of crimes, he means *all* the hard working, essential migrant people who do not have US documents (yet). And Dreamers.
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LGB With The T @lgbwiththet.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
So America is now doing a modern take on book burning... Demanding references to certain minorities in health and education, get deleted. Straight from the Nazi playbook.
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Freddie AP 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ @freddie5by5.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
LOVE> thise. "paleopronoun users be like thou/thee/thine" 😁
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Freddie AP 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ @freddie5by5.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Black women lead. Always. Remember that when you argue against Diversity, Equality, Equity and Inclusion. Lift them up. Support them. Listen to them. They have had to work 10x as hard to get where they are. They excel. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryEveryDay #BlackTransLivesMatter
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Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Today on the pod we recognize legally blind Judge Vanessa Bryant & polio survivor & Irish revolutionary Seán Mac Diarmada. Please subscribe on Apple, Amazon or Spotify: disabilitydaily.podbean.com/e/january-27... #blind #polio #history #disability #a11y #CT #Ireland #BlackWomen #law #GayMarriage
Tw black and white photos. The first, Judge Vanessa Bryant with short black hair and bangs smiles and wears a dark jacket and light necklace and earrings.
The second, Seán Mac Diarmada with slicked back hair wearing a dark tie, vest, and jacket with a white shirt. He has a prominent brow and stares off to his left with a serious expression.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life
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Gen Michael Hayden @genmhayden.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.
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Freddie AP 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️ @freddie5by5.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Trail blazing Black women: Dr. Dorothy Lavinia Brown-surgeon. Do follow @the_astro_stud, a Black lesbian Astrophysicist, on IG for Black scientists this month! Day 1 Dr. Warren Elliot Henry (Magnetism, superconductivity) Day 2 Dr. Gladys West (GPS) Day 3 Benjamin Banneker (Math/astronomy etc) Gay?
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A/Prof Bianca Fileborn (she/they) @snappyalligator.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
“Gender-affirming care is potentially life-saving, or at the very least life-affirming. It almost invariably leads to better social and emotional outcomes. Further restricting access is not the “protection” its opponents claim.” theconversation.com/can-a-child-...
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Can a child legally take puberty blockers? What if their parents disagree?
Recent political attention might imply gender-affirming care is risky, controversial, perhaps even new. But Australian law views it as a legitimate medical treatment.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Even drunk-out-of-his-mind Boris Yeltsin would have grabbed a small army of supporters, the entire press corps, and blocked the entrance to USAID to prevent Musk's summer interns from their incipient coup This is a "Car 54, Where Are You?" moment for the Democrats
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 03/02/2025
1. Multiple hospital systems are complying with an unlawful executive order with dubious enforcement mechanisms and pulling their trans kids off care. While most have not, those that have are harming their trans patients. The latest from Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Handful Of Hospitals Complying With Trump's Illegal Order To Stop Trans Care Under 19 Years Of Age
A small handful of hospitals nationwide have put fear of President Trump over the needs of their transgender patients, and are withdrawing trans youth from care due to a recent executive order.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 03/02/2025
Anyways, here's the name of DOGE employees and the article confirming it. Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. We still have a constitution and I intend to use it. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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