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Eleanor

@tangendentalism.bsky.social
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Academic librarian, sometimes researcher. Feminist, vegan, trade unionist, uncompromising leftist. Solidarity, ethics, and the Oxford comma. She/her

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Eleanor @tangendentalism.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Not sure if I'm the only person who missed this (or if it hasn't been widely publicised), but the EHRC consultation on changes to its Code of Practice relating to gender and sex is open now until 30th June. www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/EHRC-code-... #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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Code of Practice Consultation
Please take the time to complete our survey. Your feedback is important.
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Eleanor @tangendentalism.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Loughborough University is hiring a Law Librarian: vacancies.lboro.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... Come work with us! #libraries #academia
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Eleanor @tangendentalism.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
'If despotism does come to Britain, it will ... happen because nobody wants to make a fuss. It will happen because it’s socially awkward to stop it happening. ... not ... because everyone hates the outsiders and gender freaks - but because too few of us have the guts to defend them.' #TransRights
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TERF Island: the embarassing truth about Britain's Trans Panic.
Condemning an entire category of people on the basis that one of them might commit a crime is the very essence of prejudice. And that prejudice plays straight into the hands of the far right.
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The rights we take for granted – eight-hour days, weekends and safe workplaces – were won by workers of the past, who organised and fought for them. This #InternationalWorkersDay, join a union and stand up for a better future for all workers. www.tuc.org.uk/join-a-union
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TUC Union Finder: Find Your Union >>
Tell us about your work and we'll find the right union for you.
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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
UCU statements by its LGBT+ members' and Women members' National Standing Committees, on the terror unleashed on the trans, non-binary and intersex communities by the Supreme Court ruling. We unequivocally reject the ruling made by the Supreme Court: www.ucu.org.uk/article/1400...
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Statements from UCU women members' and LGBT+ members' standing committees
In light of the recent Supreme Court ruling on the legal definition of a woman, UCU's women members' standing committee (WMSC) and LGBT+ members' standing committee (LGBT+MSC) have released statements...
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Eleanor @tangendentalism.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
'Everything you need to know about the trans Supreme Court case' - This is a really clear explanation and analysis of this awful mess #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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Everything you need to know about the trans Supreme Court case
What it said, what it didn't, and what happens next.
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Eleanor @tangendentalism.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Happy #InternationalWorkersDay comrades! www.tuc.org.uk/news/may-day... #WorkersOfTheWorkdUnite
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Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
🪧 STRIKE RALLY TODAY 🪧 Bring yourselves, bring your banners, bring your flags, bring your solidarity and, with the sun due to shine bright, bring your sunscreen ☀️☀️☀️ - health & safety: important to us if not to our employer! So come and join us at noon outside UCU head office in London.
12-1pm, Thursday 1 May
UCU head office (outside)
Carlow Street
London, NW1 7LH

Join our strike rally as part of our Campaign for a Safe and Professional Workplace Culture
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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her) @illdoitanyway.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Happy #InternationalWorkersDay! I am on strike with my union @bcu-ucu.bsky.social for jobs and professional respect! 🪧 #BCUstrike #May1
Me with placard reading on strike today ucu
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Louis Coiffait-Gunn @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Every voter for 21 Councils, 6 Mayors, & 1 by-election has a statutory right to a comprehensive & efficient public library service, creating opportunities & growth. Yet budgets were cut -53% since 2010. What are candidates saying about libraries? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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When are the May 2025 local elections and who can vote?
Voters in parts of England will elect councillors and mayors on 1 May.
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Eleanor @tangendentalism.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
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More than 400 actors and industry figures sign open letter backing trans rights
Eddie Redmayne, Katie Leung and Nicola Coughlan among those expressing solidarity after supreme court ruling
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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
There's an amazing SF&F community fundraiser for trans rights going on at the moment. Read all about it here: www.cheryl-morgan.co...
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Genre Creators for Trans Rights | Cheryl's Mewsings
The Supreme Court decision on trans rights was announced just before Easter, and so was fresh in everyone's minds at Eastercon. In response Lauren Beukes and Jeanette Ng decided to run a charity auction to raise funds to fight for trans rights. As Lauren is involved, the money is being split between the UK (specifically
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Eleanor @tangendentalism.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
#TransRightsAreHumanRights ✊🏳️‍⚧️
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UK’s first trans judge appeals to European court of human rights over supreme court ruling
Victoria McCloud brings action against UK for infringement of her human rights after ruling on biological sex
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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
It was a joy to talk to book artists & film designers Brian & Wendy Froud (Dark Crystal, Labyrinth) and Alan Lee (The Lord of the Rings) at the British Library last year. For those who love their work but missed the talk, it's available online here: www.living-knowledge-network.co.uk/library/visu...
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Fantasy Worlds: A Day of Talks Visualising Fantasy
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Eleanor @tangendentalism.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
I've just emailed my MP using the below as a guide. Please do the same. www.translegalproject.org/post/urgent-... #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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URGENT ACTION: (REVISED 23/4/25) Write to your MP to protest the Supreme Court ruling and the UK government's rush to introduce a blanket ban on trans women from women's spaces.
THIS IS A CHANGING SITUATION WITH GOVERNMENT POLITICIANS CURRENTLY LINING UP TO INFLICT FURTHER CRUELTY ON TRANS WOMEN IN POLICY ANNOUNCEMENTS OR STATEMENTS TO THE MEDIA. PLEASE KEEP UP TO DATE WITH T...
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The rights of trans people do not conflict with the rights of lesbians. It’s why polling shows that, more than any group, lesbians and bisexual women are supportive of the trans community. Our community’s liberation is bound together. #LesbianVisibilityWeek
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Trump and his followers revel in declaring "There's only two genders!" but the truth is we are far more complex beings than that. Time to go beyond the binary.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
Beyond XX & XY—Human Sex And Gender Were Never A Simple Binary
Humans are more complicated than most online experts think.
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Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
xkcd going pretty hard (all art has to go pretty hard to keep up with reality these days and going hard is in fact a great response by artists) you can't usually click on the image on xkcd; this time you can...
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PhD Timeline
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 25/04/2025
Today we launched our crowdfunder to challenge last week’s Supreme Court’s decision – which we believe has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act 🏳️‍⚧️
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Help us challenge the Supreme Court’s judgment on trans rights | Good Law Project
We use cookies where necessary to allow us to understand how people interact with our website and content, so that we can continue to improve our service.
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Eleanor @tangendentalism.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Happy perfect date day!
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 24/04/2025
Tonight's inaugural Agnes Flues Memorial Lecture brought together Mick Lynch, @lopa.bsky.social and @drjogrady.bsky.social Together we honoured Agnes’ legacy of solidarity, justice and education for all.
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Eleanor @tangendentalism.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Excellent turnout at the first annual Agnes Flues Memorial Lecture. Jo Grady introducing Mick Lynch. #BecauseItsNotOver #UCU #TradeUnion #WorkersRights
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Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com · 23/04/2025
We're blown away by how much love and support there's been for the Genre Creators for Trans Rights in SA and UK auction. We've got awesome donations from SF, fantasy, romance, horror and crime writers, artists, creators and one neuroscientist. Please share! Please bid! bit.ly/genrefortrans.
Screengrab of the Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SA charity auction. bit.ly/genrefortransScreengrab of some of the lots of the Genre Creators for Trans Rights charity auction bit.ly/genrefortrans including the novel Call of the Black Wing, a photograph of neuroscientist Bea Costa Gomez offering science consults for writers, crocheted hanging plant earrings and a custom hand painted fanScreengrab of the Genre for Trans Rights auction, featuring various novels and a collectible Wicked & The Divine bit.ly/genrefortrans
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Vegan FTA @veganftaofficial.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Life's too short to make another's shorter.
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Eleanor @tangendentalism.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-tra...
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The Gist: Trans rights are Data rights
A UK court has made a decision defining genders which has put it at odds with a less noticed, more important, decision from the CJEU. This is the Gist.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 23/04/2025
We won't stop fighting for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ We’re creating a fighting fund to look at both domestic and international cases, all the way up to the European Court of Human Rights. Will you join us? goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
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Fighting fund for trans rights | Good Law Project
Stand up for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the rollbacks on trans rights in the UK.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Without fail, whenever there's an article about a transgender person, the comments have at least one person who boldly declares: “There are only two genders! XX and XY!” The reality, of course, is not that simplistic, far from it.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
Beyond XX & XY—Human Sex And Gender Were Never A Simple Binary
Humans are more complicated than most online experts think.
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.
A screengrab from Twitter.

HeatherLhaney @heather_l... asks:
“Why do you think we have so many more kids with Autism”

David Dennis Jr. @DavidDTSS quotetweets this reply:
“Probably for the same reason there are so many more planets in outer space now than there were before the telescope was invented”
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Eleanor @tangendentalism.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
~500 people at the trans rights protest in Nottingham ##TransRightsAreHumanRights
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
🧵NOT BY ME, this is a post from someone who wants to remain anonymous but works extensively with trans people pre-transition. They were asked by someone “why do you think that’s so much [coverage of trans people] in the news at the moment?” This was their response:
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 20/04/2025
If you’re a creative and want to fight back against big tech mining your work for their AIs, please register below – and then share with your community. And, if we get enough people, we believe we’ll be able to sue – and hold them to account. goodlawproject.org/authorsai/?u...
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Stop AI giants stealing our work | Good Law Project
Use the form and let us know the nature of your enquiry, so we can pass it to the relevant team as quickly as possible.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Women's appearance and behaviour is about to get even more highly policed in the UK, with a few people doubtless being emboldened to "take action". This whole billionaire-funded enterprise dials back gender equity by decades.
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Eleanor @tangendentalism.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Yup. I started walking out of school at 10 and was officially off-rolled at 14. I have no regrets. I still refuse school now. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Absentee students should make us ask, what is school for? | Eva Wiseman
Low school attendance is a symptom of the problem, an expression of something deeper
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 19/04/2025
We are committed to stand with the trans community, whatever it takes. Will you join us? goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
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Fighting fund for trans rights | Good Law Project
Stand up for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the rollbacks on trans rights in the UK.
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 19/04/2025
UCU was proud to stand in solidarity at today’s emergency protest for trans rights in London. ✊ Today, and every day, UCU stands with the trans community. We will never stop fighting for trans rights and equality. 🏳️‍⚧️ #TransRightsAreHumanRights #UCU #Solidarity
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Simon Lamrock @simonlamrock.com · 19/04/2025
Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.
Photo of thousands of people with placards and flags packing Parliament Square.

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.
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Eleanor @tangendentalism.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
whatthetrans.com/compilation-... #TransLivesMatter
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Compilation of Protests Against the Supreme Court – What The Trans!?
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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This thread is spot on.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
hate that I have to keep re-upping this, but STUDY AFTER STUDY has shown that TRANS PPL POSE NO THREAT to cis ppl in restrooms & other sex-segregated spaces, those studies are detailed in this essay: juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-... which has been adapted into this video: youtu.be/nK41ePuOmzY
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Debunking Myths About Trans People & Restrooms (& other “sexual predator” tropes)
YouTube video by Julia Serano
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StephenCox Wiz-4 "funny raunchy romantic, satisfyingly twisted" @stephencoxauthor.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Food Banks can buy food cheaper than you can. Give money, ideally.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
London bus stop near Amazon HQ 🔥
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 18/04/2025
If you're affected by the Supreme Court's decision this week, you're not alone and we stand with you 💜 Here are some resources for our trans friends and allies 👇
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Support resources for our trans friends and allies | Good Law Project
At a time when anti-trans discrimination is rife and hate crime has reached record levels, it’s important to know what support is out there for trans, non-binary or gender-questioning individuals and…
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Eleanor @tangendentalism.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
##TransRightsAreHumanRights
theguardian.com
Ruling on ‘woman’ definition at odds with UK Equality Act’s aim, says ex-civil servant
Giving trans women same sex discrimination rights as biological women was ‘clear premise’, says key figure
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
if you change the name on a CV from a man to a woman's name, recruiters immediately rate it as 18% less competent. they don't stop to check gametes/wombs. pretending all sexism is rooted in a particular biology leaves us with no way to talk about systemic bias against female intellect & ambition.
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Eleanor @tangendentalism.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
Poster in trans flag colours with cute creatures surrounding these words: dear trans bestie, no matter how you choose to show up in this world, you belong here. There are so many of us who are proud to stand beside you. We see you. We celebrate you. We support you. Made by Sugar and sloth.
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Eleanor @tangendentalism.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Really useful letter template for demanding employers affirm the security and dignity of trans women in their workplace: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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Request for Clarity and Reassurance on Protections for Trans Women Employees
Below is an email template you can send to your employer or HR department requesting reassurance and clarity on how the company will continue to protect and support trans women employees after the rec...
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