Reposted by Mars NicolíSword Liv-sbian @oblivias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is actually the most important theme in the movie 119521
Reposted by Mars NicolíGwendolyn Ann Smith @gwensmith.com · 12/09/2026Whether intentional or not, what @lillywachowski.bsky.social has said is *precisely* what needs to be said, at *precisely* the time it needs to be said. This puts Rowling on her back foot at the worst possible time for the HBO series. Brava, Lilly! 71781425
Reposted by Mars NicolíCN Lester 🏳️⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Essential thread from @sexabolition.blog - white supremacy, transphobia, misogyny, xenophobia, eugenics - it's all tied up together, and we must fight back together or lose everything. 1157
Mars Nicolí @marsnicoli.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Still a few days left to send me your films for a screening in Sheffield in October! If your film has a connection with transness and with the North of England, send along :) 163
Reposted by Mars NicolíDr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I've just popped up another talk for later in the month! Come here Dr Lucy Allan talk about the history of Queered Frankenstein adaptations 27th September at 10am and 7pm BST 10 - buytickets.at/romancingthe... 7 - buytickets.at/romancingthe...buytickets.atSelect tickets – An Introduction to Queered Frankenstein with Lucy Allan – ZoomAn Introduction to Queered Frankenstein with Lucy Allan – Zoom, Sun 27 Sep 2026 - Our series of talks is funded exclusively by donations. The talks are free to access but if you can support the projec... 0116
Reposted by Mars NicolíEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.techdirt.comHackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a... 81148267740
Reposted by Mars NicolíDr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Did you miss last week's talk on Alison Rumfitt's Brainwyrms and transgender technohorror? Catch it here! youtu.be/6nci9cPlK1Yyoutu.beAlison Rumfitt's Brainwyrms and Transgender Technohorror with Mars NicoliYouTube video by Romancing the Gothic 153
Reposted by Mars Nicolítelsie 🦬 @telsie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026it’s really fucked up that the only way out is through 122455399
Reposted by Mars NicolíDr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I imagine this is a worry for people at the moment. To be clear, my classes are explicitly and actively trans inclusive. People can feel excluded from Higher Education for a whole host of reasons from disability, to neurodivergence, to race, to queerness, to class. If you have any worries, DM me. 03923
Reposted by Mars Nicolílastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Top-tip: if anyone wants to give you the kind of "mentorship" that you being unionised would prevent, get a new mentor fast. 14612124
Mars Nicolí @marsnicoli.bsky.social · 29/08/2026If you're free tonight I'm giving this talk again!! 💕 2101
Reposted by Mars NicolíDr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Ok, so this was excellent. Roll up, roll up! There's still time to get tickets for the second one. 1127
Reposted by Mars NicolíBriony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026‘A whack-a-mole approach to … regulation is simply not acceptable when young people’s lives are at stake. We’ve seen this fail when it comes to social media bans: 81% of Australian teenagers can still access social media despite that country’s ban.‘ Regulate companies, not users! #auspol 0159
Mars Nicolí @marsnicoli.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I've noticed a return of the expression "my spirit animal" amongst white people. I truly thought we'd left that in 2015 000
Reposted by Mars NicolíT(errifying) C(ryptid) Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 13/08/2026When the woman who made the fucking *Matrix* can't get funding for a project because the queerness scares the VC horses, you know we're all fucked Support trans creators. Publish trans books. Visibility STILL MATTERS 828471195
Reposted by Mars NicolíLouise Weard @weard.moe · 23/08/2026'Will the woman he loves love the woman he wants to be?' coming to cinemas this fall. a heartwarming story about lives in transition. youtu.be/m4bMbH_9XZUyoutu.beCastration Movie Chapter iii.ii Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage (Trailer)YouTube video by Louise W 412230
Reposted by Mars NicolíEli Omen @eliomen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Tired: using torrents to download the latest Harry Potter movie. Wired: using torrents to download the Amnesty International report that JK Rowling wants to censor. 332741699
Reposted by Mars NicolíAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026One thing I wish people would realize is just how central JK Rowling is to the entire anti-trans ecosystem. Looking at a network node analysis of the top 200 anti-trans X accounts, she is the most central figure spanning both sides of the Atlantic from Republicans to Labour. 5653102159
Reposted by Mars NicolíAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately. 542970825
Reposted by Mars NicolíEsse House UK @essehouse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026This afternoon, we welcome our first permanent resident to our trans and non-binary social housing initiative. Their deposit has been covered by the community, and their move-in costs are just the remainder of the 1st months rent. 1/2 311615
Reposted by Mars NicolíThe Ghost Of Titsmas Future @antinoe.prettyfem.me · 14/08/2026the french social media ban law got killed by the constitutional court, who says the law is a disproportionate restriction on freedom for no measurable benefit 18722
Reposted by Mars NicolíMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 13/08/2026The excesses of woke 1 were shit like trans people being able to make silly queer fun media with references to psychiatric violence so we can't have that anymore. Humanity is on an austerity budget. You'll consume your Marvel DC Disney Adult media and you'll fucking like it. 3606151
Reposted by Mars NicolíDr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 13/08/2026“Until there’s a clear plan to protect everyone from the extreme heat, it’s up to us to keep our colleagues & community safe by removing ourselves from unsafe workplaces. ...we’re supporting the bus drivers voting to strike when it’s too hot to work... join your union & join the Heat Strike"morningstaronline.co.ukPM rejects unions and climate activists' calls to set maximum workplace temperaturePRIME Minister Andy Burnham rejected calls to set a maximum workplace temperature by a coalition of unions and climate activists today, as the Met Office predicted this summer will become Britain’s wa... 513549
Reposted by Mars NicolíAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I love it. Crip time in practice. 615522
Reposted by Mars NicolíHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Now do everywhere else www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comMeta glasses banned from courts in England and WalesExclusive: Court service says anyone trying to enter buildings with glasses will have them confiscated and returned when they leave 626071
Reposted by Mars NicolíSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 10/08/2026KEEP BULLYING THEM IT WORKSwired.comThe AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an ImpactPlatforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content. 2663342783
Reposted by Mars NicolíAmber @risettemd.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Please stop paying for anything Harry Potter. This is where your money is going. At this point, you're not an ally, you're an abuser and we're your victim. 5347052318
Reposted by Mars NicolíLilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 10/08/2026There’s a Wendy Carlos like character in mine and @mrmahoney.bsky.social new script! Trans people are magic! 2050343
Reposted by Mars NicolíPatrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 06/08/2026Aaron Swartz deserves more justice and reconsideration than almost anybody in this century 142213661
Reposted by Mars NicolíPatrick Samphire 🏴 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 31/07/2026@amnestyuk.bsky.social have decided to grovel to threats made by JK Rowling and so abandon trans people. I have supported Amnesty for many, many years, but no longer. If you don't support rights for all, you don't support rights for anyone. But I'm not a billionaire, so they probably don't care. 0204
Reposted by Mars NicolíBenjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I've always loved this passage from Metz on the dangers of cinephilia. There's a kind of analysis of film that is trapped by the author's love of the medium; one that always ends up only saying, "Oh, great cinema! How we love you!" 26015
Reposted by Mars NicolíBASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 26/07/2026The article is, in fact, available now: removepaywalls.com/https://www....removepaywalls.comhttps://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/proscribe-militant-trans-group-bash-back-ex-political-violence-tsar-l9t757tjnView article without paywall 1019569
Reposted by Mars NicolíMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 26/07/2026Proscribing trans people for seeking to achieve these basic human rights is wildly antidemocratic, not that it matters to a government that uses a sex pest for a counter terrorism chief. 11279
Reposted by Mars NicolíRobert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 26/07/2026ah the lord walney who quit as an mp to avoid an investigation into sexual harassment claims against him 314632
Reposted by Mars Nicolísara @saradotfeminism.bsky.social · 22/07/2026www.saramoiseff.com/tsf the premier journal of transfeminism. get your copy now 094
Reposted by Mars NicolíLouise Weard @weard.moe · 19/07/2026Castration Movie Chapter 3 is coming to the Prince Charles Cinema! princecharlescinema.com/film/3161743...princecharlescinema.comCastration Movie Chapter iii.ii Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift Film Times and Tickets | The Prince Charles CinemaBrowse film times and buy tickets for Castration Movie Chapter iii.ii Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift at The Prince Charles Cinema 0195
Reposted by Mars Nicolíelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Jesus. 35 UK universities quietly- without debate - joined the Ministry of Defence’s “Battlefield Alliance” which seeks to “reorientate academia towards Defence and National Security” They’re destroying the social sciences and humanities while militarising the institutions 71018571
Reposted by Mars NicolíSusan Stryker @susanstryker.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Getting close: "Changing Gender: The History and Future of a Concept" literally rolling off the press... 410516
Reposted by Mars NicolíKJ Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026y'all the final lap is truly in sight for the @muscledistribution.bsky.social kickstarter they are about 75 percent there--and it would be amazing to finish way ahead of schedule now is the time to pledge and *especially* to spread the word here you go: www.muscle-distribution.com/kickstarter 11317
Reposted by Mars NicolíThe Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 01/07/2026Anyway let this serve as a PSA that using AI art is a great way to deny your book acclaim and critical exposure for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Cause I'm not reviewing this shit. 08112
Reposted by Mars NicolíAlex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Keeping your horror stories thriving despite the sunshine, with six weeks of guest horror workshops and more with SUMMER SCARES! www.eventbrite.com/e/summer-sca... #horror #horrorfiction #horrorwriting #horrorwriters #horrorauthors #horrorstories #horrorbookseventbrite.comSummer Scares - 6-week horror writing schoolJoin us for six weeks of horror writing workshops, feedback sessions and more, where we'll be proving summer can be scary too... 022
Reposted by Mars NicolíTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 01/07/2026"Gender is dress-up and we can humour the freaks who want to be different, but sex is an INHERENT UNCHANGEABLE BIOLOGICAL TRUTH" and its consequences. Many cis people fully believe themselves to be allies of trans people when they espouse this view, even as it denies us dignity and humanity. 4463100
Reposted by Mars NicolíRowan Woodcock @ragingwoodcock.bsky.social · 30/06/2026One of the best non-fiction books I've read in years and absolutely essential for anyone who loves film and trans history. 1186
Reposted by Mars NicolíNorthern Horror Hub @northerhorrorhub.bsky.social · 30/06/2026@northumbriauni.bsky.social is home to the best Horror studies conference in the world, hosted annually by @horrorstudies.bsky.social. We'll be sharing news from the horror academy including our own events with a stellar cast of academics, authors, illustrators and creative writing tutors. 061
Reposted by Mars NicolíJessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 27/06/2026"The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury 029969
Reposted by Mars NicolíMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 26/06/2026I see this kind of comment, "but still the right will deny and delay..." Yeah they will. They will happily kill you and your relatives to suit their ambitions for a more brutal world built on wealth. It's not because they're stupid or ignorant it's because the waves of death do not matter to them. 5975332
Reposted by Mars NicolíDiversity in Horror (they/them) @diversityhorror.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I just learned bookshop offers ebooks!!! Yaaaaaay! 1111
