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Sam Hope (they/them)

@samrhope.bsky.social
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Writer, trainer, nerd, gobby, neurodivergent, trans, vaguely hippy, too old and disabled to be patient with both sidesers, appeasers and moderates.

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Emoria - Aftertaste is a Horror Novel @emoria.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is VITAL SHIT
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Dave Wakely @davewakely.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Really proud to have a poem in this wonderful anthology, my author copies of which arrived this morning. Thank yous to @arachnepress.bsky.social, #CherryPotts and @jeremydixonpoet.bsky.social for all your diligent work in making this book possible. #poetry #poets #lgbtqpoetry
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Dakota (Heart Lungs Liver Nerves) @questioningblob.northsky.social · 22/08/2026
Gender is a performance and I hate being on stage
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
extremely alarming the people we give unfettered access to powerful surveillance tools: www.404media.co/florida-depu...
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Florida ‘Deputy of the Year’ Used Flock to Stalk Ex, Held Gun in Her Mouth, Did a Nazi Salute
The deputy resigned after an investigation uncovered an alleged history of racism, stalking, and sexual abuse.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
You can always tell when someone is getting it right; UK mainstream media will lie about them…
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Good Law Project leader hits resists "intellectually dishonest" Daily Mail smear piece
Daily Mail — to no one's surprise — neglected to mention the full statement issued by Good Law Project leader, instead cherry-picking quotes
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
White dude scholars in my feed should take a knee and listen to our marginalized colleagues here. And they sure as shit can refrain from jumping in about academic freedom only when it involves the freedom to be racist.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
PSA2
THE LANCET
Volome 408 - Number 10556 • Pagn 667-260-Aug13-28, 2026
"..movements that seek to undermine LGBTQ+ people are those that seek to control all of us-our freedom of expression, our personal medical decisions, and our privacy."
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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"THE TRANS COMMUNITY ARE LEADERS IN FREEDOM, PASSION, SOLIDARITY, AND FRANKLY, FUN. IT IS IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF OUR SOCIETY TO UPHOLD AND PROTECT THEM. AS THEY HAVE ALWAYS TRIED TO UPHOLD AND PROTECT OTHERS."
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 23/08/2026
this is the whole goddamn thing. separating out sex and gender was a MISTAKE and pathologized gender as a mental health problem, allowing people to dismiss trans people. this, too, is why i push so hard against "gender identity" being a thing.
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𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 @horrorculturist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
... Saying what I want to say would get me banned from Bluesky.
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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The way people get hostile/defensive immediately when ace-spectrum folks start genuinely questioning stuff about media depictions of sex is really unhelpful. Allosexual normativity is deeply antagonistic.
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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
On Wikipedia the articles get flagged when they include language like "many of the high-profile activists" and the flag doesn't go away until they answer the question "who(m)?"
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Madam Karma @madamkarma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I will never understand why some women refer to men as dogs. I myself would never pay them such a compliment. It's a discredit to the canine species dogs should be offended
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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The attempt by transphobes to proclaim their position as 'biological reality' was always a grim mirror of the "race realist" position. The Idea that social relations are sharply overdetermined by biology acts as a blank cheque for discrimination and persecution. TERFs are showing their true colours.
Maya Forstater encouraging academics to sign an open letter against the suspension of eugenicist Nathan Cofnas by the University of Ghent.
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cornish person girl @gemma.transwrites.world · 23/08/2026
it's tempting to think that the transphobes calling out their friends for supporting a racist will have a moment where they realise they are exactly the fucking same, just for trans people. But they won't. As Tom Scott once said; everyone draws the line just below what they are doing.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The power behind Cofnas…
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Power behind racist Cofnas revealed as US threatens Ghent university
US ambassador to Belgium threatened Ghent university for suspending the literal ethno-supremacist 'professor'
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 22/08/2026
Cofnas's primary argument about Arday was that he was an unqualified hire who was given a prestigious post because of his race. Turns out, there's a lot of questions about Cofnas' own hire: he's allegedly a philosopher of biology hired to do...political philosophy. Not his field.
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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I do get that folks are on guard against very real threats from authoritarianism that frequently target depictions of sex. The problem is, as with so many things, the principles folks use to sort of mark out what they have to guard against are often inherently anti-ace.
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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 21/08/2026
"compared to the situation of critical disability theorists, eugenic philosophers enjoy far more publicity, institutional support, and financial security. Now we have a better understanding of *why* these hateful bigots have been so successful..." biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2026/08/20/h...
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How Much Dark Money Is in Professional Philosophy?
One of the purposes of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY is to expose eugenic principles and practices within professional philosophy. As Shelley Tremain has argued persistently since founding this blog, the…
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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Either you care about other people and you want a better world for everyone or you don't. And yes, I do mean everyone. Even the shitty harmful people.
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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 17/05/2024
I've said it before, but when you think it's fine for "some people" to suffer, you find more ways to justify others' suffering. Often, you decide anyone who's suffering falls into the "deserves it" category. And that category grows. And maybe you lie about someone being in that category.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026
This is all because JK Rowling is using her vast wealth and influence to engage in lawfare and censor anything that criticizes her. I won't stand for it. bsky.app/profile/esqu...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026
Lumen confirms that it was Amnesty International that sent the DMCA strike. I will be contesting it as this document is a matter of public debate and abusing copyright in this manner to censor it is absolutely disgusting. What complete cowards.
A screenshot of a "DMCA (Copyright) Complaint to Google" page. The sender is listed as Amnesty International UK, sent on August 19, 2026. The description outlines a copyright claim regarding two documents, "Like a Snowball" and "A Growing Threat," which the sender states were published in error without completing internal review and do not reflect official positions. The complaint targets two allegedly infringing Google Drive URLs.
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
When Jesus jumps up on the counter even though he KNOWS he's not allowed
Two women are cleaning the church in Leipzig in 1938/39 and have hauled the silverware and crucifix out onto the steps, where they spray Jesus with water from a hose.
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Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I've been disturned to hear about LGBTQ+ people being harassed or even assaulted when using Uber services. If you're in the UK and that's happened to you, and you'd be willing to talk about it, please get in touch. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This was document freely available and free to distribute. Lets preserve it the old fashioned way: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:eb3e6f89f9c71404643bc7b9bb6d74963017dda9&dn=Report_A_growing_threat_the_anti_rights_movement_in_the_UK_July.pdf Pop that into your friendly torrent program, no host to dmca.
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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Remember folks, wash out your tin cans before placing them in the correct recycling bin.
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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Race scientists are like asbestos: unwisely built into the fabric of universities many years ago, will absolutely kill people, and require careful but total removal. Also, mostly harmless if embedded in concrete.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 21/08/2026
The most important climate action you can take isn’t obsessing over your individual carbon footprint. We need to change the system so the easiest, most affordable choice for everyone is also the best choice. How do we change a system? It starts with your voice!
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Meryl Streep Say It Louder
Alt: Meryl Streep Say It Louder
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lurker474 (ラーカー) @lurker474.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
It is important to keep this in circulation
Insult Deflection or Insult Reflection is a single-panel cartoon illustrating the effects one's insults or other forms of verbal attacks directed at a disliked person can inadvertently have on their mutuals, depicting a stick figure shooting at another, who then deflects it into a third person. Spawned by a viral Tumblr post about bodyshaming, the cartoon has been used as an exploitable meme since June 2022.
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026
If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:
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Bender @djbthirteen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"If you’re cis and have been challenged or stopped because you’re perceived to be trans or perceived to be a gender that you aren’t (for example, a cis woman being challenged in women’s toilets), this form is for you too."
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Bit of good news.
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Locum suspended for refusing to dispense to trans woman patient
The locum pharmacist was handed a six-month suspension for refusing to dispense prescribed medication to a gender transitioning patient while working at a Superdrug.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 21/08/2026
A thoughtful reflection from Institute of Race Relations (IRR) on Dr Jason Arday’s death, the media coverage surrounding him, and the urgent need for change and accountability.
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Bijan Parsia @bparsia.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
While the Quakers did really well here, I want to stress how bonkers it is that literally every public institution has to work through this and the coming vexatious lawsuits. The court erred with consequence and then the Government compounded it.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
okay but what's the *funniest* thing Channel 4 could make a documentary denying the existence of? I'm gonna vote... trees
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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I’m told my acceptance speech upset some of the BBC journalists who were in the room. I said what I said and it’s the truth 🤷‍♀️
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Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
My latest piece for Bylines Scotland looks at a disturbing phenomenon in Gaza which hardly anybody seems to be reporting on. bylines.scot/news/world/g... 🍉
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Gaza’s new terror: the disappearing children - Bylines Scotland
Palestinian parents fear the worst as children vanish from the streets of Gaza amid claims that they are being abducted
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Joseph Galbo @josephgalbo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
I think about this comic all the time.
Comic by drawer of drawings on Instagram. A detective stands in a kitchen that looks like it's splattered with blood. The detective says, mother of god. Nothing human could have done this. In the bottom panel it says, earlier. And there is a dog uneasily holding a ketchup bottle with its paws trying to put ketchup on a hamburger.
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Trans Revolutionary Anarchist @traexecutive.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Important!
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Sam Hope (they/them) @samrhope.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
"In a tenuous and pedantic way, the statement “sex is biological, binary and immutable” has an obscure and somewhat impractical element of truth to it, and that’s what makes it such an insidious deception." feministchallengingtransphobia.wordpress.com/2026/05/05/i...
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Is it true that sex is biological, binary and immutable?
In a tenuous and pedantic way, the statement “sex is biological, binary and immutable” has an obscure and somewhat impractical element of truth to it, and that’s what makes it suc…
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Andrea Merrell @andifluffkitten.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Pure antisemitism and classic British media hypocrisy.
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Sam Hope (they/them) @samrhope.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
What if we stopped having unnuanced convos about abuse and started talking about power and structural inequalities in all their forms? sam-hope.co.uk/2026/04/02/h...
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How can we re-imagine safeguarding to actually make people safer?
The greatest healing there is, I truly believe, is to hold this truth for clients; “you are not broken. It’s not you that’s deeply ‘fucked up’, it’s what’s happened to you, the context it happened …
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Sam Hope (they/them) @samrhope.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
An old poem of mine for TDOV, "visibility was never our problem". Couldn't decide if this still stands when they're trying to erase us but many of the points still stand. Subtitles tba youtu.be/_W_sI9Nz__4
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Sam hope reading "Visibility was never our problem"
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/02/2026
Yup same
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Oh buddy absolutely not
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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Sex work is work. Solidarity to these workers as they unionize. And kudos to my @wbng.org parent union, @cwaunion.bsky.social, for supporting the organizing. www.cbsnews.com/news/sex-wor...
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Sex workers in Nevada fighting to become first in U.S. to unionize
Nevada is the only state where people can legally purchase sex, and now sex workers at one of the state's oldest brothels, Sheri's Ranch, are fighting to become the first in the U.S. to unionize.
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Chad @kitation.co.uk · 17/02/2026
Another example of how disabled rights and trans rights are linked; this issue with shared care happens to many groups and we need to fight it as a systemic issue
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