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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Completely measured, non-hysterical, nor fully demented commentary from the Telegraph

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Dr Laura K (she/her) @laurack.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I Dream in Colour honestly shares one disabled woman's quest for bodily autonomy festmag.com/2025/08/03/r...

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Review: I Dream in Colour

A semi-autobiographical, solo snapshot raising questions of bodily autonomy

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

It's notable that the only student speech frequently shut down on university campuses is a) pro-Palestine b) pro-trans-rights. The OfS seems *deeply* unconcerned about that speech being limited. In fact, they want academics who oppose those positions to have the right to 'shock and offend' students.

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

The last time he pulled this Muslim ban BS, people rushed into the streets in disgust & lawyers raced to the airports to help. Now, no one’s shocked, everyone is numb… This country is in seriously scary shape

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Campaign for the Arts @campaignforthearts.org · 06/05/2025

🎤 If the government wants national renewal, they should invest in the arts and culture 🎤 Today, we're launching a petition to remind Rachel Reeves: the arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them 🌱 www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp... 🧶👇

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Dr Laura K (she/her) @laurack.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Headline - sounds good, actually Article - oh, no. No thank you

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Britain's university system is now in freefall. In the last two weeks, redundancies at: *Aberdeen *Arts Uni Bournemouth *Bangor *Durham *Exeter *Falmouth *Greenwich *Keele *Newcastle *Nottingham *Plymouth *Trinity St Davids

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Touretteshero @touretteshero.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I’m profoundly sad to say that as of today, I’ll no longer be able to do my job as co-artistic director of #Touretteshero because of a recent decision by #AccessToWork to cut my support by 61%. Read & share this post, the hardest I've had to write: www.touretteshero.com/2025/05/23/a... 1/4

A photo of Jess Thom, a white, wheelchair using woman looking into the camera with a serious expression. She is wearing a blue and green hoodie, black padded gloves and is pictured in from of a brick wall

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Tommi Bryson @tommibryson.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Talent Development at Sheffield Theatres? I sure hope it does. Below is a thread of our current opportunities! Including the newly announced Theatremakers Group for emerging artists of all disciplines in our region!

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 22/05/2025

Big fan of this as a method, both for bigots and for disengaging with male academics that We All Know About.

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Dr Laura K (she/her) @laurack.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I’m still looking for someone to share my Edfringe digs with. 1-15 August in Leith. It's a 1-bedroom, with a private bedroom and a sofa bed in the living room (I don't mind where I sleep). £1400, so it would be £700 per person for the fortnight. Shout if interested and feel free to share!

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Dr Laura K (she/her) @laurack.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Since the GE, I’ve been saying to anyone that listens that Labour needs to stop pandering to the far right base, and make changes that will improve people’s quality of life, otherwise they’re gonna go full fash and Reform will sweep the next election. So many folks have said that would never happen

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Dr. Manhattan @thenewthinker.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

the white working class falls for it every time. they are told immigrants or queer people are getting “special rights” even as billionaires hoard trillions.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 16/05/2025

For anyone who needs some GOOD news, Nottoway Plantation—burial site of countless victims of the rape, maiming, and slaughter of the formerly enslaved but where white people love to brunch & get married—has burned to the ground. May the ancestors continue to rest peacefully. Amen.

Burned building with a stream of water trying to douse the flames

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around. They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway. It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing

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Dr Laura K (she/her) @laurack.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Love to be reminded that I’m not welcome in the UK purely because I’m foreign, it’s my fave

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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

A lot has been said about Labour's hardening of immigration rules & dehumanising rhetoric, but nobody is sharing the opinions of migrant workers. That's why we commissioned Nandi Msezane, a care worker in East Sussex, to write this piece for us. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

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Opinion: Migrant workers prop up the UK’s social care system. Now…

Labour’s crackdown will break a promise made to workers like me – and leave the system in disrepair

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Dr Laura K (she/her) @laurack.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Starmer making the Hostile Environment policy even more hostile by quantifying migrants’ worth is giving ‘incel telling his mate that the female had it coming because of her high body count’

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same

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Dr Laura K (she/her) @laurack.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Please, stop inviting me to review shows written by/using AI. I’m not going to come or pass the invites to the other writers of TPTTUK

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Anupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

If you're on a visa in the UK (i.e a migrant) you do not have access to public services. You pay for the NHS and pay taxes. So someone like me funds public services 100%

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Dr Laura K (she/her) @laurack.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

This is 43, starting as I mean to go on, aging disgracefully, etc.

A strawberry rhubarb Bellini on a vintage wooden table with a cocktail menu to the left of it

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Close to TWO THOUSAND academics and educators say TRANS RIGHTS NOW. (Sorry if you've seen this (and the historians' letter!) too many times. The lack of an algorithm means we have to keep reposting it to catch people, and this really matters.)

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F-Bomb Theatre @fbombtheatre.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

There are 3000+ shows in the #edfringe, but no way to find those led by women and people of marginalised genders in the website or print programme. Enter: the #FemiFringe Guide! Register your show by Saturday 31 May to be included in our 4th edition. bit.ly/FemiFringe

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Polis Loizou 🐺🎃 @polisloizou.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

As a queer migrant, I am very tired of British people telling me I must understand, sympathise with and forgive people voting far-right. But either these voters refuse to listen to facts and reason, or they just plain don't want people like me to exist. Either way, why give them my time?

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Dr Laura K (she/her) @laurack.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

UK-based feminist academics, you know what to do!

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The Stage @thestage.co.uk · 30/04/2025

"Future of Theatre is for everyone who works in theatre" And we're off! Co-chairs @matthemley.bsky.social and Amanda Parker have kicked off today's #FutureOfTheatre conference💡 Catch up on today's programme for what's to come: www.thestage.co.uk/future-of-th...

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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK. Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

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Palestinian Scholarship

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

This is fucking incredible.

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Dr Laura K (she/her) @laurack.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Honestly this is one of my biggest fears as a lecturer

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 26/04/2025

Time is of the essence and we need to fight the EHRC interim guidance before it becomes statutory and Parliament make it law. Don’t just shout about it, write to them. Also tell the media, if you can get them to care. I’ve posted this on Instagram. Speak to your unions and staff networks at work

hello venues, LGBTQ+ clubs and organisations, workplaces and pals

Social posts and posters are nice, but we need you to write to the EHRC and tell them their new guidance (see next slides) doesn't work for you

They can't tell people how to run a gay or lesbian club. And they can't make you be toilet cops. Please tell them it doesn't work for you. A quick email or phone call will help a lot.

From the EHRC interim guidance:

In workplaces and services that are open to the public:
• trans women (biological men) should not be permitted to use the women's facilities and trans men (biological women) should not be permitted to use the men's facilities, as this will mean that they are no longer single-sex facilities and must be open to all users of the opposite sex
• in some circumstances the law also allows trans women (biological men) not to be permitted to use the men's facilities, and trans men (biological woman) not to be permitted to use the women's facilities

From Phoenix: If we pass too well, we aren't allowed in either gendered toilet or changing room. It's not fair to segregate us, never mind the impact on disabled people if abled trans people use their facilities

From the EHRC interim guidance:

Membership of an association of 25 or more people can be limited to men only or women only and can be limited to people who each have two protected characteristics. It can be, for example, for gay men only or lesbian women only. A women-only or lesbian-only association should not admit trans women (biological men), and a men-only or gay men-only association should not admit trans men (biological women).

From Phoenix:
If you run a gay or lesbian club, night, bar, sauna, reading group, walking group etc - the EHRC say you have to exclude trans people or include cishets. Freedom of association is under threat

Time is of the essence. They're going to make this guidance statutory and Parliament will make that law soon. We will try to help with template letters etc, but your initial objections should be logged NOW.

We love you, you need to speak up.

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Phelim McDermott @openspacer.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Dear Theatre conspirators. (Those who breathe together?) What is the next necessary risk? Sharing a question that is working on me at the moment. Not looking for answers just knowing you will have your own personal response.

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 22/04/2025

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 22/04/2025

Morning Bluesky! Have you cancelled a planned trip or move – holiday, work, short-term or long-term – to the USA? Fancy chatting to me about for a piece? @ me or DM if so, especially if you’re located in the UK. (RTs much appreciated too).

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

There isn't a story on the BBC News site about today's trans rights rally at Parliament Square where it's estimated 20k attended. But they did have a story last week about the Let Women Speak transphobe rally in Bristol where 100 people attended.

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Hamza Jahanzeb (isn't here, contact via email) 🚫 Kindly NO DM 🚫 @hamzajahanzeb.co.uk · 18/04/2025

If anyone is alone on Saturday and needs protest buddy, both @marcusjdl.bsky.social and I are going to be going and will be happy to have others join who may feel vulnerable in going alone 🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋 🩷🤍🩵🩷🤍🩵🩷🤍🩵 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

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a poster that says ally is a verb with two hands

ALT: a poster that says ally is a verb with two hands

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 22/11/2024

I have created a Starter Pack for British Trans Activism Let's start organising and making the UK a better place. We've been on the defense for too long 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️✊ go.bsky.app/N6Qai5F

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The photos of gleeful, hateful bigots are really something. Imagine what kind of absolute loser you'd have to be to invest any part of yourself in destroying the rights of some of your fellow humans, let alone your entire identity. Fuck terfs. Trans women are women.

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Emily Garside @emilygarside.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Playwrights! interested in learning more about Self-Producing your work? I'm running a workshop tomorrow (April 15th) on that very thing! from logistics to marketing we'll talk about it all. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/self-produ...

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Self-producing Your Play

Thinking about self-producing? In this 90 minute workshop you'll get the tools you need to get your project started!

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Freelancers Make Theatre Work @freelancersmake.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

📣 ACE are under review — and they want to hear from you. If you’ve ever had thoughts on how Arts Council England works (or doesn’t), now’s the time to share them. Fill in the survey 👉 www.gov.uk/government/c... #FreelancersMakeTheatreWork

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Anupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Will UK universities ever stand up for their international students ( revenue the university desperately needs but happy for the students to be treated like criminals)? Will they ever stand up for their international staff ?

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Dr Laura K (she/her) @laurack.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Maybe I should care more about this economic collapse, but I’m still navigating the consequences of the 2008 one on my life. It’s just giving “same shit different day”

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Dr Laura K (she/her) @laurack.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Re: the Libgen and Meta AI issue, tbh I’m ok with my publications being on libgen. Knowledge and research should be freely available to all and writers should be compensated for their work. The current neoliberal academic hellscape doesn’t generally allow for that,… 1/x

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Disability Arts Online @disabilityarts.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

⭐ @cripticarts.bsky.social are looking for an experienced disabled Producer who will work to deliver Liberty Festival - a festival of work by disabled artists. Closing - 06 Apr Location - London ££ - £30K-£32.5K FTE disabilityarts.online/opportunity-...

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