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Lloyd Meadhbh Houston

@lejhouston.bsky.social
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IRISH MODERNISM AND THE POLITICS OF SEXUAL HEALTH (OUP); Director and Qualitative Research Lead of Transnnual; BAIS and BSLS Executive; Co-host of 'Censored'; FRHistS and FHEA.

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𝙱𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚢 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚅𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚒𝚛𝚎 𝚂𝚕𝚊𝚢𝚎𝚛 @bethyvampireslayer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yes, the adult thing to do is sit in silence while rights and societal inclusion you have had for decades are now being removed and the candidate who is supposed to represent you agrees with those rights and inclusions being removed. Your reaction isn't adult or responsible.
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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm on strike for the next five weeks with @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social because management continues to threaten mass compulsory redundancies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Edinburgh University lecturers begin five-week strike over cuts
Members of the University and Colleges Union are walking out in part of a long-running dispute over job and course cuts.
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
For Houston and Angel, some forms of knowledge become available only once we stop merely talking about creeps and fully become creep. 🪲 Configurations of Creepiness 📖 Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1080/0969... #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness
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PSYCHOPATHIC HYMN FOR THE CREEPS
This article combines techniques from critical neurodiversity studies, trans auto- and autist-ethnography, and speculative creative writing to offer a neuroqueer account of creepiness from the insi...
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
... a collaborative roundtable featuring @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @mostlyvoids.bsky.social @lejhouston.bsky.social @madeleinerose.bsky.social @sholtonbradley.bsky.social, asks what happens when creepiness becomes a way of researching, reading, creating, and thinking together. #CreepStudies
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Nels Anderson @nelsanderson.zone · 02/09/2026
If you too would like to stop using increasingly shitty software made by bad people who make the world worse, I wrote a guide for how to lessen/end your small team's dependence on US-based tech services: nelsanderson.zone/a-guide-to-d...
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A Guide to Ditching US Tech (for Game Developers)
This post is based on a guide from Paris Marx, host of Tech Won't Save Us, author of one excellent book and upcoming (likely also excellent) book last updated September 2nd, 2026 At this point, it's...
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Birmingham UCU @birminghamucu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Please read and share this open letter from staff at risk of compulsory redundancy in Modern Languages at the Uni of Birmingham. It calls for the redundancies to be halted, for the equality impact assessment to be released, and for meaningful consideration of alternatives.
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“A national catastrophe” at home: open letter on redundancies
We write as Translation and Interpreting staff at risk of compulsory redundancy at the University of Birmingham, together with the Birmingham UCU Committee. In brief: a University whose Vice-Chance…
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Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Genuinely so stoked to be part of this incredible, tentacular, gleefully bizarre venture. Huge congratulations to our amazing editors and to all involved. Run, don't walk, to read it.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
This is the world JK Rowling helped create. This is what Harry Potter is funding. All the legal challenges to enforce this regime are backed by Rowling and her Harry Potter money.
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Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Experimenting with erasure poetry over on Substack: lejhouston.substack.com/p/tolerances...
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Houston and Angel develop a neuroqueer, autoethnographic account of creepiness from the inside, transforming a "too-close reading" of J. G. Ballard's Crash into a methodology for "talk[ing] about creeps." #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #NeuroQueer
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🎶 Psychopathic Hymn for the Creeps: Neuroqueering Creepiness from the Inside Lloyd Meadhbh Houston & K Angel What if “creep” wasn’t a label but an assignment to embrace? #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #Ecocriticism #QueerEcology #NeuroQueer
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It is publication day for Configurations of Creepiness. More to come over the next few days, but for now, enjoy this sneak peek at our Foreword. Read the full issue here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cang20/3...
Screenshot of front page of publication entitled Congogurarions of the Creepy, illustrated with cover image of entwined branches and insects hiding in plain sight.
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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
More posts to this #CreepStudies and #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness mega thread today! Featuring @lejhouston.bsky.social and K Angel.
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Minx Marple @minxmarple.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Delighted to share the publication of THE EROTIC HAUNTOLOGY OF AUTOCORRECT: in Angelaki: Vol 31 , No 3-4 Configurations of The Creepy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... If you’d like a review copy, let me know
Angelaki visual logo addressed by a voice that sears your identity 
your own voice answers the call of love 
of inconsistent messaging,
hating rapid change and eroded privacy, spills your all to the void 
(a technotext) implicates the delicate buddings 
of technologies and individual preferences

i am your erotic haunting, the error message in your grammar of need, 
the receiver to which you default 
the organising principle of your textual leakage.

First para in black, second in red
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Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It's here! "Psychopathic Hymn for the Creeps: Neuroqueering Creepiness from the Inside" is a collaborative autist-ethnographic romp by myself and K Angel: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Fans of Ballard, Cronenberg, and all things fleshly and losing, check it out.
Screenshot of the cover page for "Psychopathic Hymn for the Creeps: Neuroqueering Creepiness from the Inside" by Lloyd Meadhbh Houston and K Angel
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Headlines: Such-and-such technology may someday be as smart as human brains! Reminder: *We already have human brains.* Billions of them. Most of them living in poverty and being exploited for the obscene benefit of a tiny number of the worst people in the world.
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Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I'm doing a sponsored fire walk in October for the amazing Cabaret Vs Cancer. I'd really appreciate any support you can offer: wonderful.org/fundraisers/...
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Lloyd Is Fire-Walking for Cabaret Vs Cancer | Wonderful.org
My best friend, Karl, is a cancer survivor. He developed an extremely aggressive cancer in his late 20s that ultimately required the removal of most of
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The Daily Mail's best paid columnist is Boris Johnson. A man more deserving of scrutiny across the last two decades than practically anyone else in public life.
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Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I have set up a Substack (sorry) and posted my first piece - a collaboration with the amazing @amygaeta.bsky.social originally written for a zine on s*x and disability: lejhouston.substack.com/p/fucking-au... Check it out and give me a follow if you fancy.
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Fucking Autistically (with PJ Harvey)
written in collaboration with Amy Gaeta
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Belfast Telegraph @belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 27/07/2026
I’ve thought long and hard about commenting on the controversy over the cancellation of the Women’s Rights Network (WRN) event at Féile an Phobail — not because I don’t have an opinion, but because it is a debate that attracts the most toxic elements, writes Allison Morris 🖋️ tinyurl.com/bdhmtsju
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Kirsty McTear 🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @kirsty-mctear.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This was posted over on LinkedIn by @hexhampride.bsky.social, and I endorse every word of it…
Over the past decade, the UK has witnessed a profound and deeply damaging reframing of transgender identity; one that has stripped
agency from the very people the law was designed to protect. Institutions that should uphold equality have instead normalised transphobic rhetoric. Media outlets, political actors, the EHRC, and even the courts have adopted narratives that marginalise transgender people rather than challenge discrimination. As a result, the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and Equality Act 2010 now function as protections in name
only, not in lived reality. We have seen the UK legal system defend and legitimise speech that dehumanises transgender people, including rhetoric from individuals and groups who have openly advocated hostility or violence. Rather than safeguarding those targeted, public bodies have platformed these voices and the media has reacted with outrage when their decisions are questioned. Those who openly point out the transphobic hate of such
individuals and groups are threatened with expensive legal action. This is not just a policy failure. It is a safeguarding failure. It is a failure of
leadership, of courage, and of the values Britain claims to uphold. For many of us, attempts to focus on work, family, and community have been repeatedly undermined by external actors and systemic institutional shortcomings. The cumulative impact has had a significant detrimental affect on our community with Samaritans reporting a 40% increase in calls from transgender adults since the erroneous Supreme
Court ruling.

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Remaining silent or restrained in the face of escalating hostility is no longer viable. The extremism directed at transgender people is growing because it has been permitted to grow. And unless this trajectory is challenged, it will continue to escalate. It was never enough to simply remove the legal and social protections for transgender people; the discourse has repeatedly demonstrated that transphobic actors will not cease until transgender people are eradicated from society. Downplaying
this rhetoric as hyperbole is a disservice to humanity. And, this does not stop with transgender people. Pride flags are removed, LGBTQIA+ library books removed, and our community is
attacked. This is a call for accountability, for integrity, and for a recommitment to the basic principle that every person deserves to live a hardworking,
joyful, and prejudice-free life. The UK can and must do better.
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 07/07/2026
"Any time in the last 20 years, Simon Baron-Cohen could have asked the autism community or looked beyond his own biases at the existing literature […] but he was too busy being galaxy brained about autistic people." @ejwillingham.bsky.social on SBC, in our newsletter. buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...
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Simon Baron-Cohen has entered the chat again
This time in a Guardian piece in which he (sort of) retracts some previous assertions about autistic people and tees up a new multimillion dollar project.
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Lucy James @lucyjames.games · 01/06/2026
Some news from me! I quit GameSpot to launch something new. Introducing @lookingfor.game, an independent weekly newsletter where I highlight upcoming PC games and deliver demo codes straight to your inbox. Sign up at lookingfor.game 🥳
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lookingfor.game is a weekly newsletter that highlights upcoming PC games and delivers demo codes and playtesting opportunities straight to your inbox. Curated by Lucy James. It's time to find your ne...
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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
50 free advance eprints available of my review of Katherine J. Parkin, The abortion market: buying and selling access in the era before Roe www.tandfonline.com/eprint/FMHAH...
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The abortion market: buying and selling access in the era before Roe
Published in Women's History Review (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Meme of a tabby cat standing between two arrows making a cycle, the top says “I wake up” the bottom  says “there is something wringer with Britain”
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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Going through an issue of the TLS from last December, I find a philosophy pun courtesy of Nigel Warburton that surely deserves wider currantsy.
Yet, although he imagined the possibility of a serious and good philosophical work told as a series of jokes, Wittgenstein didn’t think it should be a series of pithy sayings. He made this point with an aphorism: "Raisins may be the best part of a cake; but a bag of raisins is not better than a cake.” (We might call this Wittgenstein's “Critique of Pure Raisin”.)
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 06/05/2026
But tell me again how gender is fixed, innate, and binary.
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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Have been on the same dose of Prozac for 22 years, after doctors trying different SSRIs/dosages throughout my teenage years. SSRIs have saved my life: they're not 'happy pills,' they're not shameful, and eugenicist bastards like RFKJ are precisely that - eugenicist bastards.
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Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Genuinely thrilled to have collaborated with the amazing Zara Slattery on this comic based my research on sexual health and cultural value. Huge thanks to @drannehanley.bsky.social and @claireplmartin.bsky.social for facilitating it, and to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding the underlying research.
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Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Given that academic job interview season is in full swing, for those of you who are in permanent positions - maybe check in on your precarious colleagues. I can guarantee a lot of them are having an awful time which is exacerbated by the fact that they have to do this every year.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/04/2026
Feels like reality is setting in that there's been no oil getting through the strait of Hormuz for 2 months and countries are literally going to run out. Europe is on the verge of being out of jet fuel. Meanwhile, the stock market is st all time highs. None of it makes any sense.
A screenshot of a Google Finance chart for **Crude Oil Futures (NYMEX: CLW00)**.
The current price is displayed as **106.82 USD**, with a green upward arrow indicating an increase of **+45.84 (75.17%)** over the past 6 months. The timestamp reads Apr 30, 6:42 AM EDT.
The line graph visually plots this 6-month period:
 * **Y-axis:** Ranged with markers at 50, 100, and 150.
 * **X-axis:** Marked with Dec 2025, Feb 2026, and Apr 2026.
 * **Trend:** The price remains relatively stable around 60 USD from late 2025 through February 2026. In late February, the line begins a sharp, volatile upward trend, peaking just above 100, experiencing a sharp brief drop in early April, and then climbing again to end at the current point of 106.82.
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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
This is one of the most upsetting and disgusting things I've ever read.
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Megan Woodward @megan-woodward.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I'm very pleased to be supporting Dr Alice Hall and Dr Melissa Oliver-Powell in running the brand new research network, Reproduction and the Humanities, at York. We welcome members working on themes relating to reproduction across a range of disciplines reproductionandthehumanities.wordpress.com
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Reproduction and the Humanities
A research network funded by the Centre for Modern Studies, University of York
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Kathryn Salamander: Witches' Road or bust 🎃 @transsalamander.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Biological sex does not mean "the thing we assume you are based on your genitals observed at birth." It's mostly a misnomer, but insofar as it describes anything real at all, it's a collection of biological attributes, many of which can be changed with HRT. It's neither binary nor immutable.
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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇩🇵🇸UnionBaddieMaddie @decolonizeunions.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
👇🏻🎯Mandatory reading for my cis followers
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 26/03/2026
It's actually really fucked up watching so many people clamor to watch a new television series created by a woman who has proudly bragged she'll use the money she makes to try and kill my entire community.
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This week’s horror is our introductory module, which examines the literature, art, music, dialect, film and TV from the region 1500-2025 being forcibly replaced by an entire ‘success in HE’ module featuring two weeks on how to use AI. I designed my module to incorporate proper study skills…
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Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Had an amazing day facilitating a neurodivergent zine-making workshop and doing some lino printing as part of Rebecca Worthy and Tiffany Murphy's brilliant "Different Strokes" event. It felt really good to slow down, chat, and think with and through my body rather than in spite of it.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
1/3 Since I wrote this response to Nigel Biggar’s malicious and completely false attack on me and university colleagues in The Spectator he has re-published it on his subscribers-only substack with me as the poster boy for “bad” history teaching at Sussex. alanlester.co.uk/blog/smearin...
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Heartbreak Welkin @umabreakdown.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I love that these financial phantoms are all that gets quote unquote produced now. From now until the rapidly approaching apocalypse, a series of rug pulls and cries of "all my apes... ☹️".
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
i wind up tweeting this basically every time there's an article like this, but the fundamental thing to me: ask yourself whether you earnestly believe there's more social pressure to be trans, or more social pressure to be cis. it's actually a super easy one!
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it. The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it
“The purpose behind the release of herbicide on the villages remains unclear.”
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Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Looking forward to talking eggs and autism with @amygaeta.bsky.social tomorrow as part of the @ndhumanities.bsky.social symposium tomorrow: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/neurodiver... You guys aren't ready for The Zone.
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Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Thrilled to be performing in some new work by the amazing Danielle James as part of the Front and Centre festival at the Playhouse in Derry this Saturday. www.derryplayhouse.co.uk/event/first-... If you're in town, don't miss it.
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 01/03/2026
CN: Murder Today is the Disability Day of Mourning, where we hold vigils for disabled people killed by their caregivers. George Hodgins—whose murder inspired Zoe Gross to hold the first DDOM—went to my son's school. My feelings remain raw 14 years later. -SR thinkingautismguide.com/2012/09/auti...
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Autistic Lives: Not Less Valuable — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
Our society needs to more honest about parenting realities, & how to accept, support, and respect children with autism and other disabilities.
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Lloyd Meadhbh Houston @lejhouston.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Delighted to read Divya Victor's fantastic "Angelical Salutation of Every Girl in History" as part of @trincollcam.bsky.social's LGBTQ+ Arts Night yesterday. Huge congratulations to Jaysol Doy and his team, Lord Smith, and @trevorproject.bsky.social for a beautiful celebration of queerness.
The cover of the programme for LGBTQ+ Arts Night, featuring the Trinity College clock town painted in rainbow watercolour.A picture of the candlelit chapel of Trinity College before the event began.A screenshot of the title of Divya Victor's poem as it appears in The Atlantic magazine.
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parker @p42k32.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Divya Victor's Angelical Salutation lifts every girl into a chorus of resilience. I read it with liberation theology and Christ consciousness, then share the piece here: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/02….
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A poem by Divya Victor: ‘Angelical Salutation of Every Girl in History’
A poem
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Rachel Martin @racheljo.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
www.mapresearch.org/2025-norc-su...
Poster which shows color photo scene of moving, a room with boxes and clothes sitting on the floor, a chair, and the end of a bed (white rails forming a headrest and a mattress with a red cover). The text of the poster is: "Impact (small logo top left)," "According to a new survey by the Movement Advancement Project, approximately 401,000 transgender people have relocated from one U.S. state to another since the 2024 presidential election." "The mass relocations in 2025 due to safety concerns, political conditions, and anti-trans laws nd policies have largely impacted conservative states across the country."
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