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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

An academic and family leave the UK so their trans daughter can have a decent quality of life. I have watched the indifference of former media allies on Novara Media and Owen Jones at the oppression we face. We are disappearing. No one cares. Please read Cal Horton's blog. It's heartbreaking.

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Day 5 of the strike at my place of work, the University of Edinburgh. Great solidarity between students and staff in the face of unnecessary mass layoffs while management sits on huge amounts of capital and a surplus.

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Solidarity to UCU staff at the University of Edinburgh as they fight to save jobs against a relentless senior management 'downsizing' crusade.

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The University of Edinburgh's management is launching a massive job-cutting programme while sitting on a surplus. In the face of this vandalism against one of the city's main sources of employment, 700 students & staff came together yesterday to inspire protest and signal another way is possible.

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Save the date: 19-24 October 2026. The super Glasgow-based Scottish Queer International Film Festival has a programme of queer & trans short films from all around the world. For those wanting trans and queer people to disappear, be very afraid. Maybe see you there... www.sqiff.org/wp-content/u...

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Out now: my book, about the institutional and localized impact of anti-trans campaigns in the UK. C1 + 4 analyse the anti-trans outputs of JKR and R.Gervais; C2 + 3 about GC ideology and anti-trans campaigns on a uni campus; C5 about media; C6 about the beauty and magic of being trans in Edinburgh.

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If you want to know how the anti-trans panic ends, go the Edinburgh Festival. Every year, thousands of queer-adjacent acts. None are 'gender critical.' The idea of theatre portraying a marginalized minority as monstrous would be obscene, it's fascism. And everyone knows it. The future is ours.

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Advice wanted: I've been contacted by Times Higher Education for a statement on the EHRC's CoP and its impact on HE. My instinct is to avoid responding entirely: they'll almost certainly misgender me, and they've been fuelling the anti-trans panic for a decade. Or is engagement better?

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Further disheartening confirmation of Novara’s shift away from coverage that defends trans people. Co-host M. Walker defends Kathleen Stock (49.38) against campus protests, claiming her views reflect the majority of country, & diversity in academia is important (1/5) www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rv3...

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

My hot take: Nolan's Odyssey recounts a stag party gone wrong: bloke and his mates go on a series of destructive adventures; bloke ends up on an island with a woman trying to jog his memory of where he's from; meanwhile, his partner's at home, pacing back and forth, wondering where the f*** he is.

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

With the current Amnesty International situation, I think this is a good time to re-promote my upcoming book, 'JK Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic' (Ohio State University Press), which partly analyses JK Rowling's activism in relation to organised transphobia. Out in September; pre-order now.

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

With our further loss of rights this week, it's more important than ever to celebrate the work of trans artists. In the case of Roz Kaveney's brilliant chapbook The Great Good Time, it's a reminder that things have been bad before, but we will survive. My review: www.ginamaya.co.uk/books-music/...

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Roz Kaveney’s The Great Good Time (2022)

Twenty-eight years after its completion, Roz Kaveney’s semi-biographical novel Tiny Pieces of Skull (2016) won the Lambda Literary prize for its poignant depiction of trans sex workers in 1970s/80s Lo...

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

When trans culture's vitality should be celebrated more than ever, Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social publishes her wonderful new book of poetics: "We’re in a war... share my darlings share listen and read Our texts our bodies all we are and need." Review here: www.ginamaya.co.uk/books-music/...

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Roz Kaveney: Further Selected Poems 2009-2025

It was in 2018 that the trans scholar Aren Aizura highlighted “the enormous groundswell of transgender cultural production in the 2010s” (2018: 89), inclusive of literature and the arts. Since then, t...

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This evening Novara M. finally addressed Labour's assault on trans rights. It took a show hosted by Helena (NoJusticeMTG) and Steven Methven - I'm still not sure Walker or Bastani would have done so - but respect to Helena and Steven for doing this so unambiguously. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE0p...

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Russian Drone Strikes Kill Dozens In Kyiv

YouTube video by Novara Media

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

The framing of D. Cummings as an uncategorizable visionary, as depicted by B. Cumberbatch in 'Brexit: The Uncivil War' (2019), was annoying because Brexit wasn't radical and neither was Cummings. It was a conservative reaction by a conservative reactionary. This development simply confirms it.

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Another great article by Toby Buckle, including about the media on Starmer's legacy on trans rights: "They can only see the middle-class affect, not the substance...One gets the...impression of people who would not notice any amount of oppression providing it was presented in this simpering way."

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Some thoughts about Novara Media, which I've been a paying subscriber for a number of years. The larger they've grown, in recent years, the less they're speaking up about the assault on trans rights, as if trans issues are toxic and divisive to their growing audience ...

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The 'gender critical' depiction of women's prisons as safe spaces (to be protected against trans women's inclusion) is anti-feminist. Prisons are places of violence, as this latest news reveals: archive.ph/KzVEW

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I spend so much time online, but here I am with part of my trans and queer found family exploring the waterfalls and wildlife in the town of Dolar, north of Edinburgh, with perfect hiking weather: cool breeze, no rain. Message to those who wish to legislate us out of existence: we are everywhere.

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

There was a lot of goodwill for Andy Burnham, in order to stop Reform. But it's become clear he's just another Starmer clone, representing a different kind of Labour Marxism: Groucho Marx(ism) and his 'These are my principles, if you don't like 'em, I have others.' I'm off the fence: vote Green.

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

For anyone around Edinburgh tomorrow evening (i.e. Wednesday, 13 May), for one night only at the Filmhouse and co-hosted by SQIFF, the documentary 'Queer as Punk' about a queer/trans punk band in Malaysia battling transphobia/queerphobia through kick-ass music: www.filmhouse.org.uk/movie/queer-...

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Queer as Punk + intro + pre-recorded Q&A

Cinetopia:DOC in collaboration with SQIFF (Scottish Queer International Film Festival) presents this Scottish special preview of Queer As Punk ahead of its wider UK release with T A P E Collective. Th...

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

My academic book, ‘JK Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic,’ is out September 2026. It is my analysis of the moral panic from Edinburgh, the ‘city of JK Rowling,’ where I study and work at JKR’s former university as it became a hub for anti-trans organizing … ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...

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J. K. Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic

Weaves the author’s lived experience as a trans woman with pop culture and media analysis to dissect J. K. Rowling’s emergence as an anti-trans activist within the context of the UK’s anti-trans moral...

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The Office for Students was set up in 2018 after pressure from the dark money-backed, right-wing Policy Exchange and its manufacturing of a campus free speech crisis, in order to enable hate speech. This is a major victory for marginalized groups everywhere, and a defeat for liberal-backed fascism.

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

For aspiring queer and trans filmmakers, SQIFF is inviting applications for its 10-week filmmaking course up in Glasgow between May-August 2026. Click on the link for details for more information:

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

"[James Baldwin] wrote, not because he believed the writing would fix it, but because the alternative of silence, surrender, and the acceptance of someone else’s description of your reality, was itself a form of death." Powerful reflections on the anti-trans climate by Alejandra Caraballo ...

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

A Guardian journalist's condescension against younger generations gets to the heart of some of the adjacent cruelty against trans youth: "We contain multitudes, and nothing is black or white. And whatever young people think now, they will learn this too – and probably sooner than they would like."

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

This is a powerful story for me. Several branches of the Women's Institute are closing across the UK in protest at the new trans-exclusionary ban against trans women. It cuts through the lie by the media and GC groups about speaking on behalf of women. Solidarity. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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‘Carnage of concern and upset’: Women’s Institute groups close after transgender ban

Members warn NFWI decision has opened up toxic culture that deters younger women from joining

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Superb analysis of Sex Matters' eliminationist agenda against trans people: "some are starting to realise supporting Sex Matters’ position has entangled them in something they never sign up for ... those seeking compromise find they have surrendered nearly everything they once stood for"

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Scottish Universities' International Summer School @suiss-edi.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Exciting news for U.K.-based people who love theatre, literature or creative writing and have dreamed of spending summer weeks up in Edinburgh. SUISS are now offering for the first time a Domestic Student Discount of 30% off course fees. Come study with us! Registration now open:

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Accepting Applications: 13th July - 22nd August 2026 – Scottish Universities International Summer School

We're now accepting applications for our summer school courses in Literature, Creative Writing, and Theatre at the University of Edinburgh!

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

For anyone looking for an immersive, LGBTQI+-welcoming experience this summer, come study at the SUISS summer school school in Edinburgh in 2026. Courses on literature, creative writing and theatre, the latter coinciding with the queer-friendly Edinburgh Fringe/Festival and its thousands of shows.

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

My critical analysis of the anti-trans astroturf group, the LGB Alliance, has just been published in the special edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. I recommend the whole special edition - it's open access, no pay wall. bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/4/1-...

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Astro-TERFs - Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies

In the backlash against trans rights in the UK since the late 2010s, the LGB Alliance has been implicated as a leading exponent of the new moral panic, typified by its newspaper campaign against GRA r...

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Dr Charlotte Galpin @drcharlottegalpin.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Are you doing research on anti-trans politics? Consider submitting to the special issue of @cogitatiopag.bsky.social 'Global Politics and Anti-Trans Moral Panics: Transfeminist Perspectives', co-edited by me, @ashstokoe.bsky.social and @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social to be published in 2027 (1/2)

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Future Issues | Politics and Governance

Politics and Governance is an innovative new offering to the world of online peer-reviewed open access publishing in the Political Sciences.

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

The pub I was in yesterday had no gender-neutral toilets. It highlights the impracticality of what's being demanded of us. But that's the lesser issue. Asking trans people to stop using the single-sex toilets that match their gender is asking them to participate in their own detransition.

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

I've just been contacted by a media team that want to interview me for a YouTube show about 'free speech' and 'cancel culture,' provisionally titled 'The impossible conversation.' I said, 'no thanks.' It really hit home the contrived, asymmetrical nature of these continuing narratives ... 1/

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Good news! UCU have won an employment tribunal against the directors of the film 'Adult Human Female,' who claimed UCU's protest against the screening of the film represented discrimination and harassment due to their GC beliefs. UCU press release here for details: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1404...

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Employment Tribunal rejects claims University and College Union discriminated against members on grounds of their gender critical beliefs

The University and College Union has successfully defended claims against it in an Employment Tribunal from two UCU members who claim they had been discriminated against and harassed by the union beca...

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I'm excited to announce that @cnlester.bsky.social CN Lester will be performing at the University of Edinburgh on 25 June, 7-9pm. For an evening of music and words from the transgender imaginary, in the elegant setting of the UoE's Reid Concert Hall, tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/music-and-...

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Music and Words from the Trans Imaginary: An Evening with CN Lester

Join us for an evening of love and inspiration with CN Lester — multi-genre musician, trans/queer/feminist educator, writer, and activist.

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I attended today's hundreds-strong trans rights demo at Holyrood in Edinburgh, not just protesting the Supreme Court ruling and the EHRC / Gov segregationist guidelines, but also the SNP for not challenging the SC decision, which they could have, at the European Court of Human Rights ...

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Here I am, receiving an award from the First Minister at the Scottish Trades Union Congress, as UCU Edinburgh's LGBT+ rep. Later I made one of several speeches for a motion that condemned the Cass Review. The motion passed. Oh, and I used the ladies' toilets with no problem.

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

UCU statements by its LGBT+ members' and Women members' National Standing Committees, on the terror unleashed on the trans, non-binary and intersex communities by the Supreme Court ruling. We unequivocally reject the ruling made by the Supreme Court: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1400...

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Statements from UCU women members' and LGBT+ members' standing committees

In light of the recent Supreme Court ruling on the legal definition of a woman, UCU's women members' standing committee (WMSC) and LGBT+ members' standing committee (LGBT+MSC) have released statements...

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Great analysis by CN on the half-life offered to trans people by the SC ruling: "Out yourself, and have no access [or] hope to god that you’re never outed ... transition as a form of death: the necessity to leave everything behind and assume a new identity ... and hope to god you can stay safe."

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

UCU's LGBT+ UK standing committee (of which I'm a member) is drafting a statement. Unity, sharing and solidarity are vital. Please do reach out to the national committee (me or others) to know what's going on at a national level, so that we've got each other's backs: www.ucu.org.uk/article/2971...

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Equality standing committees

Fighting for equality in education and beyond.

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Brilliant article by Sophie Lewis on the Supreme Court ruling: "This is also paradoxically why TERFism, like all fascist discourses ... imagines itself upside-down, as somehow preyed-upon, bullied, colonized, and at risk of genocidal erasure at the hands of the subjugated group it dehumanizes."

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

If this is something we're beginning to discuss openly on Bluesky, then I may as well say it, I applied for a new passport just a few days ago. I don't want to catastrophize but I think once the EHRC's statutory guidelines are published in the summer, everything is fair game, as in the U.S.A.

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I'm a trans woman who frequently does try to use gender-neutral toilets, and that's why I know that this call for trans people to use 'third space' / gender-neutral bathrooms is unfeasible, not to mention cruel and even dangerous. Here are some of my reflections: www.ginamaya.co.uk/transgender-...

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The Supreme Court and the reality of gender-neutral toilets

Since the Supreme Court decision and the uncompromising ‘clarity’ of EHRC chair Kishwer Falkner’s declaration to blanket-ban trans people from men’s / women’s public restrooms, I’ve gone through all k...

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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

So proud to have been at Edinburgh's massive protest against the Supreme Court stitch-up to take away trans people's rights. It's easy to feel demoralised until you realise the scale of the anger and the strength of the solidarity in support of trans rights. This is the beginning of the fight back.

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