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@gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social
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‘You look like spring.’ ‘Goth MILF’ ‘Whore of Babylon.’ ‘Are you a goth?’ ‘Nice boobies.’ ‘Useless cunt.’ ‘A beautiful woman.’ Not my words: the words of the general public. Colleagues: I will not post about you. My employer shares none of my views.

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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 1h
Queuing up for the toilet and thinking about how the mandated shift to single lockable rooms undoes the solidarity that can sometimes be found in a women’s bathroom. It clearly still exists on occasion. But the state segregation makes everyone more isolated by forcing many of these spaces to change.
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 2h
I am quite uncomfortable about the people excitedly discussing their discovery that a minor recurring TNG actor, who appears to still be alive as far as I’m able to tell, was a trans woman. Our need for a history does not give us cause to out a living person, especially now.
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 2h
When we talk about the involuntary gender ambivalence that Goodwin declared impermissible, we generally mean something like “I can be a wife but not a mother or even a woman under UK law”. But I think that this kind of involuntary ambivalence also covers the NHS’ total failure to see trans patients.
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 5h
UK-based cisgender people, please read this.
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 15h
I think that the fact Miasma is so full of jokes is a massive cop out, and constantly gives the audience a way out of feeling really anything. I also find it very difficult that a film which speaks so directly to some of my own traumas has to be watched in a room full of guffawing cowards.
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ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 22h
English is a funny language, the same word can have completely different meanings depending upon context: Urgent safety concerns (when it comes to providing trans healthcare) means it must be stopped immediately Urgent review (when it comes to restarting) means, we'll get around to it, sometime
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 20h
One week down, ten to go!
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Greetings from the uncanny valley, where I have just had two separate people stop in their tracks and stare as I walk past, fully swivelling their bodies in order to keep me in sight. It would be useful if I could sometimes issue people a survey so I could understand what precisely they’re thinking.
Me in orange dress, black jacket, pink shoes
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One downside of being a fancy middle class professional tran is that it’s clearly unethical for me to ever ask for money to help with the medical things that I really do actually need and can’t afford. And this means I react in quite emotionally ugly ways to my trans siblings getting what they need.
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reach a stage in your transition where the major year on year difference is how tired you look.
Me in November 2025, in red dress, red tights, black boots, black jacketMe today, in red dress, red tights, black boots, black jacket
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have cleared my email inbox, but at the cost to other people of having sent 48 emails today.
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Remember when senior Labour ministers made a specific intervention against this guys arrest for inciting violence and as a result abolished non hate crime incidents? I do x
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hello I am currently so busy as to more closely resemble a function than a person.
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You know what? I actually think I might be carrying too many burdens.
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of my favourite things I do in my teaching each year is that I ask the students on my roughly 200-student module to each choose a song for a shared playlist. It creates this massive playlist that sounds and feels like an aggregate of all the humans taking the module. It’s different every year.
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My to-do list is the crushing set of multiple incompatible obligations that I carry around in my brain at all times.
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
After a lifetime of buying and purging clothes, I have developed an aversion to chucking articles of clothing. However my over six years’ worth of vests and t-shirts are now too much, and I take it as a sign of actual emotional growth that I am now ready for a cull.
Clothes, Blåhaj and cat on a bed.
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
22 and 23 are literally impossible because they would mean no longer punching the Labour Party’s victims in the face.
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Because I’m normal, I counted 340 hairs eliminated in this afternoon’s electrolysis session. Assuming that’s a representative speed, I am now at a little under 11,000 zaps, at a cost per hair of approximately 24p. Sadly I still have a long way to go.
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pretty much the first thing Andy Burnham did on reentering government was to endorse a segregationist politics of hate. It’s quite hard for me to be very interested in the man’s plans for a hypothetical 2029-34 Parliament when that’s your starting point.
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Cobie Cipher Triangulation Agency @cobieef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Edge Hill SU apparently dropping the T for LGBTQ+? There is an email on this advert if anyone wants to ask what they're doing.
Job advert for an "LGBQ+" Students Officer at Edge Hill University.
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My heart sings, of course, whenever I learn that I matter to someone else or even that they’ve made some meaningful decision in which I have figured at all. But I am always just so *surprised*.
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am delighted to be able to report that the conference organiser appears to literally not have called security himself. On calling them myself just now, I was told that they had been sitting with security since the conference. Fantastic stuff.
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My new article, co-authored with @sandraduffy.bsky.social is out today, please read & share: "Criminalising and eliminating affirmative healthcare: Trans childhood in a moral panic" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Criminalising and eliminating affirmative healthcare: Trans childhood in a moral panic - Cal Horton, Sandra Duffy, 2026
Trans children in the UK are the targets of an escalating moral panic, centred around access to affirmative adolescent healthcare. Combining moral panic theory ...
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The fundamental issue is that we have a bench and a bar who are, as a social and professional group, unable to understand what discrimination is; and who are therefore literally, technically incompetent as regards the lives of minoritised people.
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Lucy Gaynor @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Accusing striking staff of 'weaponising students' ignores the extent to which students have ALREADY become nothing but £££ signs for a University management depriving generations of future students of much more than 5 weeks of teaching.
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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it sucks that the teaching is a ‘bargaining chip’ but it is, in fact, the only chip we have as workers. the students absolutely understand that. they might not like how it affects them but they do understand how this system works and most of them want us all to keep our jobs.
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m sorry to have to bring such a disaster to your attention so early in the morning, but I cannot find my purple lipstick.
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My dream would be for someone to complain about my character design. Like wdym her shoes have both fish AND snakes on them?
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wonder what fresh indignities this new day will bring.
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Don’t ever kill your darlings. Write things that are extra, absurd, impenetrable and obviously your writing.
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Friday: new version of a book chapter submitted. Monday: new version of an article submitted.
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have a total of nineteen minor fixes to do to this article before it is finished, none of them very bothersome. But it feels a little like nearing the end of a pile of marking, where suddenly the mental effort involved becomes utterly insurmountable. Anyway I have sixteen to go.
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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Absolutely it has! We now have the situation where, if a trans woman with a GRC were to get married, she’d be recognise as female for the wedding ceremony, but should not be using the women’s toilets at her wedding reception, unless they’re designated as trans inclusive.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've talked to a few journal editors who are concerned about similar problems re: anonymous reviewers. If a peer reviewer wants a little help & feeds your unpublished submission into an AI system, they've just shared your proprietary work & broken confidentiality. A nightmare to think about
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Imagine if trans people and the people who love us had this kind of cash available. We are systematically impoverished and also given significantly more expensive lives by the practical withdrawal of NHS provision. But the people who hate us are disproportionately wealthy enough for this nonsense.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 27/09/2026
Burnham, as expected, fuelling far-right narratives instead of addressing them He knows painting these as "legitimate concerns" will only embolden and legitimise them He knows they are minoritarian but he makes them "the people" He's comfortable for the rest of us can suffer the consequences
Burnham says concerns of women in Piddington about camp for asylum seekers 'understandable'

Q: What would you say to the women of Piddington concerned about having a camp for asylum seeker near their village, or women in other villages with similar concerns?

Burnham replied:

    Those concerns are understandable and they have to be addressed in whatever solution is finally agreed.

    There were also concerns expressed about the use of hotels and the reason why the nature of accommodation is changing across the country is because a commitment was given to end the use of hotels, and that was what many people were calling for a few years ago.
Burnham says he will be 'relentless' in dealing with small boats, but sidesteps offshore processing question

Q: Would you consider more radical policies, such as sending asylum seekers to a country like Albania to have their claims processed there?

Burnham avoided the question, but stressed there was some evidence that “things are going in the right direction.”

He said he would be “relentless” in addressing this issue.

And he praised what Shabama Mahmood, the home secretary, is doing on this.

    She’s got a strong grip on this issue. What we have been doing is working, but more is needed and more will be done.
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just thinking about the hilarious way my endocrinologist tried to comfort me - I don’t think I was visibly projecting that I needed comfort - in the immediate wake of the For Women Scotland decision. They said “I don’t want you to worry about those Scottish women” and I calmly, sagely, nodded along.
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Lockdown clearly made everyone feel terrible, faced as they were by their own life stripped of all its usual distractions. And as far as I can see the only workable solutions anyone landed on were to wait it out, to finally trans your gender, or to fully embrace fascism.
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s a fear of democracy that has to recast it as a mob. This is precisely the same thing as the GCs’ recent pivot, hurling their endless wealth towards shutting down the member democracy of the trade unions.
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Whatever happens to me while I’m out and about, I basically always manage to keep my cool. But I was just passed in the street by a group of Star Wars cosplayers. So I glance up from my phone and I’m face to face with a Stormtrooper. I was PANICKED.
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One thing I find extremely annoying about the life I have build for myself is that I do so many different things, but the things are sufficiently different as to not have any overlapping people. Which means I never get “I’ll give you some space because I can see how busy you are”. Nobody can really.
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I had the delightful experience this summer of standing and talking to an old friend who was traditionally the same height as me. I checked with other people that I wasn’t imagining now being shorter than him. I was also wearing a small amount of heel.
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’d just turned 25, and showed up to my interview 20 minutes early. This was apparently a faux pas. I was asked if I wanted a coffee. I said yes because I didn’t want to seem difficult. I was asked if I wanted milk. I said no because I didn’t want to seem difficult. I am 39 and still have that job.
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Lyra @8bitblackmage.co.uk · 24/09/2026
"NHS Impose requirement to live in your desired neurotype for 2 years before being able to seek treatment"
Screenshot of Guardian Article headline reading: "NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and Autism assessments"
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is an absolutely fantastic way of doxxing all your trans participants.
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026
We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Right, teaching starts on Monday and the final unresolved detail for my module on criminal evidence is the cover image for the VLE. In 2024, I had Renee Falconetti looking devastated. In 2025 it was Toshiro Mifune tied up and looking cheeky. What should I go for this year?
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is not the branding I would go for I think if I was tasked with producing signage.
A sign in a menswear section that reads 100 years of fash at M&S, with the letters ‘ion’ below and to the right of the word fash.
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Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One really important part of the trans experience is thinking about that person who has completely disappeared amidst state repression and wondering what precisely the story is with them.
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