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Evan Hayles Gledhill

@gothicbodies.bsky.social
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Professional nerd researching Gothic Fangirls and Families. Disabled, Queer, Socialist. They/them

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 5h
This is almost certainly true, and the UK fails women refugees in multiple ways, including by refusing safe routes to come here, wrongly rejecting asylum claims, barring family reunion & not recognising trafficking victims promptly or at all. If only Mahmood had the power to do something about this
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Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood
Home secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK
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Evan Hayles Gledhill @gothicbodies.bsky.social · 7h
Could TV show writers just ask *any* uni lecturer or grad student to write the 20 second clips of lecturers and assignments they use? The absurd wank they make supposedly intelligent characters spout.
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Mad Professor: I'm For Real!
Alt: Keegan-Michael Key as Mr Harvey the substitute teacher shouting: 'I'm For Real!' in front of a blackboard
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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 16h
A reminder: this is worse than judge-only trials because it means for many offences you will be tried not by a Circuit Judge but 2 or 3 non-lawyer volunteers given legal advice by someone else who may have no experience of practising criminal law in the CPS or a defence firm.
And courts will have the final say over where cases should be heard, preventing criminals accused of relatively minor crimes trying to game the system by electing a jury trial in an attempt to avoid prison.
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Holly Brockwell @hollyqueenofspayeds.com · 13h
I'm tired.
Screenshot of my Instagram story because it won't fit in the text. In short, we've built social media apps that promote content about male violence only to the victims - - women - - and the men get to read about anything else. And then people wonder why we're angry and triggered while they haven't seen a word about Cornell.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11h
Amazing to be out on the doorsteps of Holborn & St Pancras for our final Sunday! Speaking to voters today about rent controls, Thames water nationalisation and keeping oil & gas in the ground. Just 4 days until people vote on Thursday! Join us: linktr.ee/HSP_6thGreenMP
Arianne, Zack and Ross with lots of green party members and volunteersHuge crowd of green party members and volunteers
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Dr Icy Sedgwick @icysedgwick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Where are my textile peeps? Brilliant opportunity to help keep a UK studio open: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-fabri...
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SAVE OUR STUDIO: KEEP FABRICWORKS OPEN
Help us keep FabricWorks open, protecting jobs, skills and pathways into work for women while keeping ethical production alive in London.
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We don’t do the Daily Mail, but as a public service, here is someone with far too much money being attacked by an owl.
Princess Beatrice's friend Alice Naylor-Leyland is attacked by rogue owl during chaotic photoshoot.
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Well, this is a delight. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Comedy wildlife photography award finalists 2026 – in pictures
A selection of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2026 finalists – from a shortlist featuring a caiman wearing a wig, a leopard doing a handstand, a strutting white-tailed eagle and a polar bear appeari...
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Disability doesn’t care how old you are. Specialist food is no cheaper if you’re 19. Employers don’t lose their prejudice if you’re 21. This is blatant intergenerational inequality from Labour. Younger disabled people of all severities deserve better. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Key disability benefit for young people may be axed under major welfare changes
Exclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive support to help young people into employment
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cornish person girl @gemma.transwrites.world · 02/10/2026
funny how pulling the plug is done so fast while providing the health care we are entitled to takes so long. urgent my transgender arse.
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Evan Hayles Gledhill @gothicbodies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cooooooo. What a perfect little guy
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Ash Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Evergreen
Me: I don't get it. I thought I was doing a lot better than I was a few years ago. I'm like 10 times more on top of things than I used to be. How does everything feel terrible now? 

The Tiny Me in OSHA-approved Hi-Vis Gear Who lives in my brain and pulls all the levers: Boss, it's the fascism. You're completely gunked up with cortisol due to the fact that your entire daily life is now underscored with a haunting awareness of the rapid erosion of your rights, dignity, and any and all social safety nets, and you're also bearing witness to the most vulnerable people immediately being persecuted. This creates a natural stress response that basically means you're going to continue having memory and organizational problems, as well as emotional imbalances.

Me: BUT I HAVE A BULLET JOURNAL AND I MEDITATE NOW.

Tiny OSHA Me: BOSS, THE FASCISM.
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Vex Corvine @vexcorvine.itch.io · 01/10/2026
Today my dysphoria is very bad *and* it's my birth month, so I'm feeling extra depressed, li'l scared, frantic about aging, and settling into general despair about existing in this misshapen shell. You know! As you do. Boosts are much appreciated. 🖤✨️
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Donate to Vex Corvine's Top Surgery, organized by Vex Corvine
I'm a trans person living in Sweden, someone for whom trans healthcare in this country is a crue… Vex Corvine needs your support for Vex Corvine's Top Surgery
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Evan Hayles Gledhill @gothicbodies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This morning I was brave, my second dentist appointment after 20 years gap. Might just be able to get back out of bed. I was not expecting the sheer physical stress - overcoming trauma is hard work on body as well as mind.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’d be cool, when reporting on a blind visitor suing over lack of access to the Bayeaux Tapestry, the supposed journalist could make it clear that this isn’t at all a ridiculous request. In fact, it’s completely in line with Equality Act 2010. Museums have provided audio forever.
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Evan Hayles Gledhill @gothicbodies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fantastic book - I have the audio version, listened twice! Also discounted on sale with kobo for ereaders
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. First observed in 2013 as Orange Shirt Day, it is a day for public commemoration, learning and reflection on the history and intergenerational trauma of the Residential School System in Canada.
Poster announcing National Day for Truth and Reconciliation — September 30 — orange background with white Indigenous-style artwork showing a jumping whale, flower, dotted waves and night symbols, with the Government of Canada wordmark at the bottom.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
side effect of AI-in-higher-ed: having to spend my ONE WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE googling footnotes for articles that I can't believe I missed off my reading lists only to discover that they aren't, in fact, real articles
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This notion of bigoted beliefs being a protected characteristic like gender or race is just absolutely barmy. Those of us who’ve experienced genuine discrimination for who we are know there’s no comparison, and the political and legal collusion on this stuff is disastrous.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Evan Hayles Gledhill @gothicbodies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Universal Credit are suddenly claiming I have lots of savings. I actually have nothing because they forced me to get rid of even my pension LISA account. Love the endless admin, forced poverty, and bullshit of being disabled in the UK.
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Lucy Done
Alt: I Love Lucy gif, in which Lucy is pouting in the middle of her living room, and throws a stack of paper into the air above her. The sheets rain down as she stands still and dejected.
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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Three people, including a child, drowned in the Channel today. Our politics is so broken that the debate is never about how we stop these deaths and always about how we can come up with harsher policies that make more deaths inevitable.
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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 28/09/2026
Historic England outsourced their digital image provision to a third-party company. Then the company went bust and now all their images are inaccessible. Tell me again how outsourcing to the private sector is sustainable?
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Wes Streeting continuing to push the govt line that the UK is not involved in the war on Iran. US bombers were taking off from the UK to bomb Iran & UK military forces have been actively engaged in blocking Iranian retaliation. "No part in this war" is a lie.
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Evan Hayles Gledhill @gothicbodies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Such fond memories, of her smile, that kind voice. It takes a village to raise children, thank you for being part of our village. My little niblings will feel like this about Ms Rachel someday.
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Evan Hayles Gledhill @gothicbodies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ten years ago we we're all told we'd gone 'too far' with the phrase rape culture. This thread is a line by line description of the way rape culture is the open institutional and social norm of the powerful.
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Evan Hayles Gledhill @gothicbodies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Abandoned first draft: The Cook, The Thief, his Wife and her Tyrolean Wizard
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Evan Hayles Gledhill @gothicbodies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sounds like a joke, but it's basically what the US claimed about the MOVE activists in Philadelphia. Before the cops murdered them.
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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Scotland has ZERO services or care on the NHS for CFS/ME. Glasgow was still referring patients to homeopathy and the debunked and dangerous GET in 2021, GPs still act like its fake and ignore NICE and WHO guidelines.
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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Since Elon Musk seems to hate this documentary about him from one of my favorite non-fiction filmmakers, Alex Gibney, figured it was my duty to spread a link to the trailer so you can see it for yourself. ENJOY: loom.ly/oA2_-p8
youtu.be
Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
Musk
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Evan Hayles Gledhill @gothicbodies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I just love everything about this, like all Morton content really. Smart, funny, kind, spot on.
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
eugenics, all just eugenics
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Evan Hayles Gledhill @gothicbodies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Watching a US version of a TV show - for research purposes - and FFS they even advertise *during* the show. I'm watching a character's thoughtful reflection on their actions, and I'm getting chat show adverts.
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Evan Hayles Gledhill @gothicbodies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Same bulllshit as affects trans people - reduced social stigma, and improvement in outcomes and options occurs, leads to explicable rise in diagnosis. But the crisis is never the political choice to under-fund, it's reframed as 'what if we went too far with inclusion?!'. The status must quo.
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“this government wants trans people and their families to feel safe and accepted in our society.” I think I can speak for most trans people and their families when I say, they don’t and increasingly they aren’t, precisely because of Labour’s decisions. How can they believe this stuff they type?
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m sick of the bullshit “sorry for your loss”letters I get from the politicians I engage with, the latest from Baroness Merron, Labour peer, who takes 6 pages to say nothing of value and who appears to prefer wilful ignorance and worship at the altar of Cass over genuine engagement with the facts.
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4KitSake 🎃 @4kitsake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So while I do now thankfully have job security? I'm still desperately trying to clear my existing transition debts so that if something like this happens again? I'm not quite as panicked Monday I'm hopefully moving to annual checks but with a new Endo I can't be 100%
gofundme.com
Donate to Help Kit with transition costs, organized by Kit Lynch
Hi I'm Kit, I'm a trans woman who has been medically transitioning for around two years. Over… Kit Lynch needs your support for Help Kit with transition costs
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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Not a criticism of this, just an aside: even if you get the best, most up to date medical advice, even if you're believed, it's impossible to implement the advice given because we're in a society that punishes ill health & disability. There's no wider support to facilitate potential recovery
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Over 900 wheelchairs, intended for wounded children in Gaza, have been held in Jordan since 2025 due to Israel blocking the shipment:
newarab.com
Israel blocks 900 wheelchairs for Gaza’s child amputees
Over 900 wheelchairs, intended for wounded children in Gaza, have been held in Jordan since 2025 due to Israel blocking the shipment.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Useful thread from an ex-Merchant Navy officer here
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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.
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Evan Hayles Gledhill @gothicbodies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
But I also think it can be about places we expect or desire safety and empathy. I'm not sure the betrayal of the fantasy football group chat hits as hard for that reason. We hold certain spaces and groups to a higher standard, they fall much further.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i don’t know how to make it any plainer that the vast majority of dem voters believe holding people accountable IS part of “getting back to work”
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The vast majority of creatives are struggling. Writers are leaving LA in droves. Directors are driving Uber when they aren't lucky enough to get gigs directing dubs or subs for foreign films. Recognizable actors are finding jobs they won't be recognized in. The whole industry is shitty right now.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 23/09/2026
A year-long Channel 4 Dispatches investigation with HOPE not hate has raised serious questions about Stephen Lennon’s finances. Add your name and call on the Government to refer him to HMRC for investigation. secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/199860/...
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CALL FOR AN HMRC INVESTIGATION INTO STEPHEN LENNON
A year-long Channel 4 Dispatches investigation has raised serious questions about Stephen Lennon’s finances. Add your name and call on the Government to refer them to HMRC for investigation.
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Evan Hayles Gledhill @gothicbodies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I hope that child gets some therapy, because god knows what kind of family puts a their kid in that position. This is horrific.
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