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Samantha.B [Goose.Mother]

@sbakey.bsky.social
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Young Historian 📜 Queer Woman 🏳️‍⚧️ Protector of all geese 🪿

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Samantha.B [Goose.Mother] @sbakey.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
There is a great new episode of ABC’s Compass about the campaign led by Julie Bates to get the statue of Joy returned to her plinth on Yurong St. These are rare testaments to the humanity of sex workers, within a media/culture that often refuses to recognise their work or listen. LONG LIVE JOY!!!
abc.net.au
'She was us': History behind Joy, the first sex worker statue
During her short residency in Sydney, the statue of sex worker Joy had many detractors and was even vandalised. Thirty years later, she has returned, with her supporters hoping she will dismantle ster...
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Samantha.B [Goose.Mother] @sbakey.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Stop trans people voting in the midterms ✔️ Make accessing public services impossible, humiliating or dangerous ✔️ Make sure trans people are always identifiable to agents of the state ✔️ Make trans people choose between a UTI, a lawsuit or violence when in public ✔️ #trans #Kansas #LGBTQ
theconversation.com
Kansas revoked transgender people’s IDs overnight – researchers anticipate cascading health and social consequences
With invalid driver’s licenses and birth certificates, transgender people are at risk for more than just steep fines and imprisonment.
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Samantha.B [Goose.Mother] @sbakey.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Great article about the politics of trans kids and the family. Minors' access to gender affirming care is another example of why equality cannot be achieved through assimilation but requires systemic change and the reappraisal of foundational ideological structures like the family.
currentaffairs.org
Don’t Just “Protect” Trans Youth, Actually Support Them
A right-wing “parents’ rights” movement is sweeping the country, and its ramifications for young people and LGBTQ people have already proven disastrous. So why are so many on the left repeating their ...
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Samantha.B [Goose.Mother] @sbakey.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I am so happy to announce that my first peer-reviewed research paper is finally out! It is open access, so please have a read and let me know your thoughts! Thank you so much to the lovely people at Australian Feminist Studies. doi.org/10.1080/0816... #AcademicSky #FeministSky #queeracademia
doi.org
Roberta Perkins: Sex Work, Feminism, and the Dawn of Transgender Activism in 1980s Australia
In the 1980s, Australia witnessed the rise of its first transgender advocacy organisations. The most radical and pathbreaking of these was the Sydney-based Australian Transsexual Association (ATA)....
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
"Who do you call when the police murders? Graffiti seen in Makassar, Indonesia during the ongoing uprising following the police murder of 21-year-old delivery driver Affan Kurniawan during an anti-government protest.
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Samantha.B [Goose.Mother] @sbakey.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Another day, another blow to trans rights. In the UK, it is now not discriminatory to deny trans people access to shelters, gyms, restrooms, etc. For the kind hearted people who think their are two sides to this issue, I urge you to think about the implications of rhetoric when enacted. #trans
edition.cnn.com
UK Supreme Court says legal definition of ‘woman’ excludes trans women, in landmark ruling | CNN
The United Kingdom’s highest court ruled that the legal definition of “woman” excludes trans women, in a case with sweeping consequences for how equality laws are applied.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/04/2025
1. Planned Parenthood of Arizona has "paused" gender affirming care for transgender adults. It appears to be a case of massive over compliance. This kind of move could threaten the majority of trans people's medication in the US. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.
erininthemorning.com
Planned Parenthood of Arizona "Pauses" Gender Affirming Care for Trans Adults
If Planned Parenthood withholds treatment, many trans people may lose access to gender affirming care altogether, experts warn.
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Samantha.B [Goose.Mother] @sbakey.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Shout to my amazing friend and colleague @gemmalucysmart.bsky.social for speaking out on the condition facing Australian academics working or studying in the US. #hps #sts
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Academics won't go to US conferences for fear of being detained | ABC News
YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)
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Samantha.B [Goose.Mother] @sbakey.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Your body, my choice. That is what this decision amounts to. Despite a review finding youth gender services in QLD are conforming to best practices, new prescriptions of HRT to minors through public providers have been halted by fiat. Today, Trump blocked pediatric gender-affirming care nationwide!
sbs.com.au
'Outlier state': Queensland government blocks hormone treatment for minors
LGBTIQ+ advocacy group Equality Australia said the move would have "catastrophic" impacts on transgender and gender diverse young people.
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