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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 27/09/2026

If you'll indulge a personal post and some shameless celebrating... Very happy to have secured my first significant international Carcassonne trophy by taking 2nd place at the World Cup of Carcassonne Central 2026. Had an amazing run knocking out two Master rated players on route to the final...

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 23/09/2026

Well that's depressing. Asked for recommendations for fantasy artists I could commission and mostly got a bunch of AI accounts replying with links to their slop... So I'll try again. Does anyone have any recommendations for real human, anti-AI, artists for DnD style fantasy art?

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 23/09/2026

It will never not be strange when I have to academically discuss Wojaks (and often the most offensive examples) in my archaeology... Like yes, here is some detailed gender archaeology, and here is how the internet will use line figures to insult it and attack it, so here's how we we respond.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 14/09/2026

Very pleased to have once again made the UK team for a major international Carcassonne competition; this time the European Team Carcassonne Online Championship 2026. Not sure if I'll get a game as I've asked for a reserve role due to being in my PhD write up - but still pleased to be in the squad

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 13/09/2026

Went clapper bridge spotting in Malham yesterday and had a very lovely time of it. It's easily one of my favourite historic bridge types, with the (I think 17th C.) example in front of Malham Cove being a truly delightful example of the genre

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 11/09/2026

Stumbled upon a holloway with a probable stone flagged path (maybe Cart track?) whilst on a lunchtime walk and was amazed to discover it isn't on the HER despite how clear the remains are! (I have emailed the relevant peope). It's things like this that I really love about archaeology.

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Turns out that if you are an old lady with a banner supporting Palestine, the government arrests you on charges of terrorism. If you are a masked white male thug bringing a national port to a standstill, the government does absolutely nothing, and the media covers it like some lads on a day out.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 07/09/2026

I have been informed that every Plaid Cymru Sennedd member is meeting tomorrow to discuss their next steps regarding the pause to gender affirming surgeries in Wales. So, If you havent already contacted your local Plaid MS do so now. Also, In case you havent seen Plaid Cymru's letter to the NWJCC 👇

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 05/09/2026

My youngest son is autistic and finds a lot of comfort in small and dark spaces (like being in his toy box or a wardrobe). We took him to visit a small historic cave today, and he was a big fan. Makes think what stories archaeology is missing to do with how neurodivergent people across deep time...

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 05/09/2026

I hate generative AI. All of it hurts my soul. But nothing breaks my heart more than seeing AI slop about the Lord of the Rings and the rest of Tolkien's works. Not only is it almost exclusively wrong, but its existence is an insult to Tolkien and the stories of Middle Earth. I weep.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 04/09/2026

Writing about contemporary trans politics for this PhD is such a mind fuck because I'll write a sentence thinking "damn, that's a pretty well written point if I do say so myself" and the point is one describing how society wants to eradicate us all 🙃

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 03/09/2026

Really wanted to go see Coyote vs. ACME at Cinema's, but there are literally no screenings near me after 17:00 which will make it all but impossible to get to! Unbelievable

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 03/09/2026

As someone who has been tweeted about personally by Rowling. And who spends my whole life trying to fight the damage caused by the litigation she funds. I think, personally, I would be less harmed by you giving me an actual kick in the ribs than watching the new Harry Potter & trying to justify it.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I came to fuck up trans rights, and im all outta rights to fuck up

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 02/09/2026

Do not speak to the BBC if you are trans. Just don't do it. Tell them to go fuck themselves. Even if you know the reporter and they are not an ass, tell them to go fuck themselves anyway because they work for the BBC and their editors will do this regardless of the journalist's intent.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 01/09/2026

The only resolution acceptable is to have this pause overturned as soon as possible. Anything less is a betrayal of your manifesto pledge to run the Welsh Gender Service in line with international best practice.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 01/09/2026

Also just to put a bit more perspective on this - Up until 2023 Finland was still chemically castrating trans people - Finland now rank almost 70% above the UK on ILGA-Europe's trans rights index. This places the UK in the same sphere as places like Russia and Hungary.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Trans👏symbol👏does👏not👏mean👏gender👏neutral👏 That👏says👏trans👏segregation👏

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 30/08/2026

Plaid Cymru have the power, and the mandate, to force the the NHS in Wales to reverse its suspension of gender affirming surgeries on the Welsh Gender Service. How they act now is a defining moment for trans people in Wales, as well as for the party. Read More 👇 owenexiehurcum.com/2026/08/30/d...

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Dim Bradwyr Yma? The First Test of Plaid Cymru’s Trans Equality Manifesto

I’m not going to talk here about why the Welsh Gender Service’s decision to suspend gender affirming surgeries and new referrals on the NHS in Wales is fucking bullshit as others have already done …

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Helen Belcher @helenbelcherobe.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The piece reveals exactly how biased the systems are against trans-related healthcate. Well researched evidence demonstrating real issues, simply ignored. One "GC" journalist blog expressing "concerns", no evidence of any actual harm, shuts down vital aspects of care. That's the scandal right there.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 29/08/2026

There will be no widespread outrage at the prohibition of trans affirming surgeries in Wales beyond the trans community because banning affirming surgeries on the NHS is now the majority opinion (as shown in a 2023 YouGov survey) in the UK. Each day consent for our eradication is manufactured...

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 29/08/2026

Since I started my PhD which covers transphobia in the UK the following has occurred: 1. A ban on life-saving puberty blocker medication 2. An unprecedented Section 35 Order to block Self-ID in Scotland. 3. Prohibition on teaching about trans identities in UK schools. 4. A Supreme Court Ruling...

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 29/08/2026

This will kill trans people. It's such fucking bullshit. I don't know what to say. How the Plaid Government react to this will be the true test of this Welsh Government. They pledged support for trans people in their manifesto - now is the time to act. transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/08...

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Statement on NHS Wales pausing gender surgeries – TransActual

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 24/08/2026

Had the pleasure of competing at the MSO Carcassonne Championship in London yesterday and managed to place as UKs 4th highest finisher. Though for me the highlight of the day was being drawn against, and only narrowly losing to, the Latvian Master - and highest ever rated player - Alexey Pegushev.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 15/08/2026

If Jason Arday was white, he wouldn't have been hounded to his death in a coordinated campaign by the national press.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 13/08/2026

I'm proud to say my article on running an explicitly trans inclusive community excavation has been published. I'm sure nobody will be surprised to hear that being trans inclusive in archaeology is actually extremely easy and simple. Read more below 👇 url6649.tandfonline.com/ls/click?upn...

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 12/08/2026

Won some serious cool points with my eldest by winning a solo Battle Royale on Fortnite on only my second ever game - and followed it up by winning a team match with him and my partner after 😎 (I still do not really know how to play this game, but he said he respects me as a gamer now 😅)

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 06/08/2026

I see Kathleen Stock is being as normal as ever... (See also 'First they came for Trans People' etc...)

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 06/08/2026

There has to be a name for the emotional trauma of getting an email from your place of work, written in a way to gaslight you that they are trans inclusive, about what rights you are losing as they implement the EHRC ruling on trans segregation.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 04/08/2026

Brains are so annoying. I can write 2000+ words of a paper by 2pm (which I think counts as a good day) and then be completely intellectually checked out. Only to then have my brain chastising me because a work day 'should' finish later... 🙃 Who'd do academia huh?

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 22/07/2026

Turns out I'm a very deep sleeper! Without going into too much detail (I'm completely fine) the firebrigade had to break through my front door just before 5am today because I slept through their minutes of knocking, the sirens outside, and only emerged half asleep as they entered my house...

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 14/07/2026

Really delighted to say that our article critiquing the Cass Review from Archaeological, Historical, Mythological, and Heresiological perspectives has been published in the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. You can freely read it below 👇 bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/5/1-...

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 13/07/2026

Enoch Burke was arrested for constantly ignoring court orders and trespassing at a primary school to the endangerment of attending children. I swear if I see another social media post presenting him as some kind of anti-trans martyr I am going to flip. Transphobes hate reality.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 11/07/2026

The same people who laugh react on Facebook posts about refugees drowning in the English Channel or comment on Twitter that LGBTQ+ people are pedophiles who deserve to die are the same people who say the left are monsters for not mourning the death of someone who created that environment of hate...

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 09/07/2026

How the 2026 Clacton by-election is going to feel as the good Count Binface faces off against exclusively far-right candidates

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 09/07/2026

Would Count Binface winning in Clacton be the UKs greatest by-election result? Quite possibly yes.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 08/07/2026

How do I go canvas for Binface? Asking for everyone.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 04/07/2026

Stopiwch y Cyfrif! Gotta say it'd a sight for sore eyes to see Wales top a table in a Rugby Tournament again! (And even prettier for England being dead last...)

A table for the Northern Hemisphere in the Nations Championship with Wales on top and Enhland last

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 02/07/2026

Okay so this combination on Netflix made me laugh more than I should... 😅

A picture of Netflix with the film "Tall Girl" next to the Film "Little Women"

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 02/07/2026

Was really privilaged to sit on the Advisory Board for this research project on public harrassment in LGBTQ+ research and engagement. The project's final report is now live and you can access it, and the project's other resources, through the link below 👇 www.cssd.ac.uk/Research/Imp...

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Is all publicity good publicity? Addressing Public Harassment in LGBT+ Research Impact and Engagement | The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Is all publicity good publicity is a research project funded by the EDICaucus and a collaboration between Tig Slater, Sheffield Hallam University, Charlotte Jones, Swansea University, Rosie Ola-Marie,...

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 30/06/2026

I love (hate) how anti climatic academic submission forms are. Like I've just submitted an extremely important document and you don't even get do much as an acknowledgement email, just a Microsoft/Google Forms webpage saying "Yeah, form done, you can exit this page now..."

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 30/06/2026

"When acts of acceptance are redefined as causal to transgender identity... in a country looking to define trans causations as conversion therapy, we arrive at a deeply uncomfortable situation"... I have written on my deeper worries on the draft bill here: owenexiehurcum.com/2026/06/30/t...

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The UK’s Draft Bill to Ban Conversion Therapy is Dangerous by Design

The UK needs to ban conversion therapy. Of course it does. However, the UK’s recently published draft bill for the purpose of imposing such a ban fails in its stated aspiration. One of the main fai…

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 29/06/2026

Today might be the day I burn Nvivo15 to the ground. Who needs thematic analysis anyways?

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 26/06/2026

I'm very concerned about the language of the UK's draft bill on banning conversion therapy. The wording, as is, permits "conversion practices" to continue by suggesting there are non-abusive practices, when in reality all conversion therapy is abuse. Moreover, I'm particularly concerned...

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 22/06/2026

This newly published article is excellent. Veale's definition of 'trans eliminationism' and her Anti-trans Ideology Escalation Framework are simply must cites... And I'm only slightly annoyed that I'm going to have to rewrite one of my PhD chapters to fit it in! share.google/0RZpfx4rofIv...

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Trans eliminationism: An Ideology Escalation Framework for understanding recent trans health policies

Contemporary political rhetoric targeting trans people is often described with terms such as

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 22/06/2026

As it was during the recent Tory leadership elections, and the 2024 General Election, expect to see trans topics as a major element of the upcoming Labour leadership election and each prospective candidate racing to the bottom of transphobia in their bids to become Prime Minister...

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 22/06/2026

Good riddance to bad rubbish. Shame we can't really enjoy his resignation as he will just be replaced by another odious twerp

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 18/06/2026

Do not be fooled into thinking that trans people existing are responsible organisations suddenly backing out of supporting Pride. These organisations' abandonment of the community as a whole shows their support was conditional on political expediency. Moreover, it shows they will turn on us all.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 18/06/2026

Every fucking day the anti-trans and anti-queer movement takes more ground in the UK. We are in the midst of a full blown and accelerating Transphobia Crisis with the singular goal of queer eradication. The UK's (il)liberal democracy has fully turned on us. But we will fight to whatever end.

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