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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

This is reminding me i haven't done my good news thread. Whats your good news of the week? What's your good news?

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

ICE in Charlotte. The guy in the headlock is a restaurant worker. Barbarians.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Trans and non-binary individuals have been warning for years that anti-trans policies will also harm cis women. Determining access to toilets based on how someone looks inevitably means anyone who doesn't look exactly like some stereotype transphobes have in their heads will end up getting harassed.

Trans people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look

The Times has seen the equalities watchdog's final guidance, which Whitehall figures fear Bridget Phillipson is delaying to avoid a political backlash

Geraldine Scott, Assistant Political Editor

Wednesday November 19 2025, 8.50pm, The Times

Transgender people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on what they look like, according to new equalities guidance seen by The Times.

Under the new guidance, places such as hospital wards, gyms and leisure centres will be able to question transgender women over whether they should be using single-sex services based on how they look, their behaviour or concerns raised by others.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

In April, I wondered what a trans toilet ban might look like in practice. Trans people and their cis women allies have been sounding these alarms for years. It now seems clear that the UK government took all these dire warnings as policy proposals. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

With 8,000 holders of gender recognition certificates now unsure if they’re barred from peeing once they leave the house, some have argued that the provision of millions of unisex toilets might be the answer. Considering these would be the same unisex toilets they never got round to building for Britain’s 4m pre-school age kids — and their awkward dads — we can dismiss this stalling tactic with the contempt it deserves.
We might also consider what this means for the millions of cis women who do not fit the standard, sexist notion of “femininity” which logic dictates they must be checked against to enforce this ruling.
Too tall, perhaps, too strong-jawed, or short-haired — anything that one patron, one witness, one supermarket or leisure centre security guard might consider cause to question their femininity. And how might they prove their “real” gender?
How would you? Perhaps my conception of feminism has been mis-calibrated all this time, and true freedom for women is mandating that they carry their birth certificates around with them all day, so they can be checked by citizen genital inspectors, male and female, encouraged to presume you’re a predator first, and work backwards from there.

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Sarah O’Connell @sarahoconnellshow.com · 20/11/2025

Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. Since 31st October 2024, at least 340 trans people have lost their lives to anti-trans violence, or suicide. Transphobia kills. Please be an ally every day. tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports?from...

tdor.translivesmatter.info

Remembering Our Dead - Reports

1 Nov 2024 to 20 Nov 2025

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 20/11/2025

Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance #TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames *** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *

MOURN THE DEAD, FIGHT LIKE HELL FOR THE LIVING
TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE
THIS IS WHY WE'RE SO FUCKING ANGRY

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Did anyone on the production team pause to consider the narrative consequences of that? Did they think, "Hey! Wasn't a big part of the original debate here about whether a privileged white author was persistently centering herself and aggressively adopting a victim pose in response to criticism?" 3/

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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

God, the whole article is so deeply dishonest. Clanchy's book was "suddenly derided" - no mention that the "sudden" trigger was Clanchy loudly demanding an obscure Goodreads review be taken down b/c of racist quotes she claimed were made up, prompting everyone to check and find out they were genuine

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Roxy Hart @roxyhart.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Whenever I see the tide turning against a popular actress I wonder which powerful man she turned down

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Nightmareliner Ontario @mostlyharmless.northsky.social · 16/11/2025

Emily Maitlis seems unable to apply the same standard to her (or the media's, more generally) coverage of "trans issues" 🤔 In fact, it's worse than that. Her starting point is simply that healthcare experts are wrong, for #reasons, and she and her fellow GC journos are brave for pointing it out.

A picture of journalist Emily Maitlis (she's wearing a strappy black dress for some reason, and has a slight smile).

The quote reads, "It might take our produces five minutes to find 60 economists who feared Brexit and five hours to find a sole voice who espoused it.

"But by the time we went on air we simply had one of each; we presented this unequal effort to our audience as balance.

"It wasn't."

Emily Maitlis, former BBC Newsnight presenter

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

please don't do this. MAGA hats are made from an acrylic blend, which will release toxic chemicals when set on fire, potentially harming you and downwind woodland creatures

The Patriotic Blonde on Twitter writes: "People are posting this all over social media.

What a sad end to something we all worked so hard for.

I never thought it would end this way."

Attached are four photos of people burning their MAGA hats.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

When you think other people are your “growth opportunities” or “lessons you lose all concept of it”

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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

SCOOP: In text messages sent in 2017, Jeffrey Epstein appears to position himself as a middleman between president Donald Trump’s administration and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates. He seemingly represents himself as passing on information directly from Trump to Gates through an intermediary.

wired.com

Jeffrey Epstein Claimed Intimate Knowledge of Donald Trump’s Views in Texts With Bill Gates Adviser

In text messages from 2017, Jeffrey Epstein seemingly represented himself as positioned to pass information from the Trump White House to Bill Gates through an intermediary.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Listen. We all need to agree to block any user who makes or shares memes about Epstein. The last thing we need is to be surrounded by rape jokes with a visual component.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

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Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

It's wild to me that Kate Clanchy felt like she could make a living being a keen tutor to and observer of other people and yet, she seems totally unprepared to grow as a human being. Who hasn't had their unconscious prejudices challenged over their career?

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rampancy @jancheta25.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Glad I'm not the only one who hasn't forgotten about Kate Clanchy. If she were teaching in Ontario she would have at the very least been suspended by the provincial regulatory body for teachers, for her harmful and racist writing.

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⳽ⳑⲇⳕⲛⲉ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 04/11/2025

kate clanchy is a racist and no amount of british media whitewashing will change that.

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rankamateur @rankamateur.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Ahh, the pitiful anonymous Clanchy apologists have slunk over from X, I’m sure the tube73 family are terribly proud of you for spending your time sticking up for her, Bob.

bobtube73.bsky.social replies to my post supportive of Kate Clanchy’s victims by stating that
“True victims don't usually put on a blatant and laughable act for the cameras” because in bobtube73’s opinion if you’re a brown person being called a terrorist for daring to quote words Clanchy wrote you’re not allowed to be upset by that. You racist fuck, bobtube73

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Another of Clanchy's defenders was Philip Pullman. Ignoring the clearly bigoted and discriminatory content of her book, which was accurately reported, he thought it appropriate to brand her critics the Taliban.

Philip Pullman

@PhilipPullman

Replying to @LiseHencken and @NABurkinshaw

Critics of Kate Clanchy: is this the kind of support you welcome? Someone who thinks it's not necessary to read a book before condemning it? What a shameful attitude. It would find a comfortable home in Isis or the Taliban.

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rankamateur @rankamateur.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Solidarity with the true victims of this. Because Kate Clanchy and her pals are in no way the victims.

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Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Katie Razzal's bizarre decision to attempt to rehabilitate racist, sexist, ableist creep Kate Clanchy should haunt her.

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Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Kate Clanchy is back in the news, with a multi-part series on BBC radio to sympathetically explore her 'cancellation' this is what will be covered up again, and the racist pile-on which followed

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Helen @helenm40.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

What happened to Kate Clanchy? She attacked an amateur book reviewer for accurately quoting her work. Then when it was proven to be accurate, set her publishing pals on people who politely critiqued her work. It is genuinely bonkers that Clanchy has been reframed as some sort of victim.

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Aidan Comerford @aidancomerford.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

And, the BBC have managed to wangle an actual apology (???) out of Kate Clanchy's former publisher, whom she parted ways with not long after this controversy for the "hurt" it caused her. You'd think a journalist might follow up and ask them what about the hurt that Clanchy caused people?

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Oh no. Not a podcast on Kate Clanchy, you must be shitting me.

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Aidan Comerford @aidancomerford.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

The BBC are dragging up the whole Kate Clanchy affair, four years later, with a SIX part podcast. There is no public interest reason for this, and they are just going to retraumatise the victims: the people who criticised Clanchy. One of them has already started receiving hate mail again.

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Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The framing on the BBC website is infuriating. "The review accused her book of using racist language. Kate rejected this". Ah. So, could we see the language? No? Why might this be? Why might it not be convenient to have examples like 'Ashkenazi nose' or 'chocolate skin' put in front of us?

In 2021, Kate Clanchy found herself in the eye of a Twitter storm after posting a negative review from the website Goodreads of her memoir - Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me - based on decades of teaching students from marginalised backgrounds in UK state schools. The review accused her book of using racist language. Kate rejected this – and initially posted the review onto Twitter to call attention to what she saw as inaccuracies - but soon, more critics started to publicly call the language in her book racist, ableist and classist.

Just the year before, the same memoir had won the prestigious Orwell Prize for Political Writing. When it was released, it was praised for offering a raw and human portrait of the realities of teaching. But in a matter of months, Kate Clanchy went from literary doyenne to cultural outcast. Her career, she says, destroyed.

For many who were involved in this story, these events changed their lives. Today, Kate Clanchy still feels she was treated unfairly. Her critics believe they were right to call her out.

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The BBC and The Times have decided to resurrect the victimhood of Clanchy. But the facts are the facts: Clanchy wrote her racist, Islamophobic, ableist, and Anti-LGBT thoughts for all to see, and when challenged attempted to deny it. (See full 🧵). bsky.app/profile/snig...

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Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

this sounds hyperbolic and yet somehow it's actually the case — four whole years after the initial racist pile-on the ability of parts of our *public media* to simply ignore some (articulate, clear) voices in favour of others (with appalling words in print anyone can check) is deeply disturbing

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beaumontsociety.bsky.social @beaumontsociety.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Sadly, the BBC seems to think it is the Farage Press Office.

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Dr Neutopia @oceanclub.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Reminder this all started off when someone quoted her book on Goodreads and she threatened to sue them. For quoting words that she wrote. In her book. That she wrote.

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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Yet again there appears to be no crime more egregious than people of colour accusing a white person of racism. Why can't white folks (I am one btw) ever take on board that maybe you didn't intend to be racist but it's possible to learn and be better.

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Atul Haria (immigrant) @atulharia.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

This thread is an excellent summary for those who don't know the story... bsky.app/profile/snig...

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Sara Gibbs is Scary Enough Already @sararoseg.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

The racism was bad enough, the subsequent lies, gaslighting and bullying campaign against the people who pointed it out was beyond disgusting

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Michelle @perfectcircle77.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Oh, they can all fuck off with this. This racist, ableist piece of shit wrote a terrible book and then cried bullying when she was called out on her own words. And the people that went to bat for her can also fuck off.

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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Very very excited for this!!

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Alison Lear @aslear.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I have just finished … 📖 ‘refuge stories of war (and love)’ By @profsunnysingh.bsky.social … and what an incredibly powerful and thought provoking read it has been. If you are looking for your next book, make it this one. It will stay with you. 🙏📘🌷 Signed copies @stanfordstravel.bsky.social 🖋️📚

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Dr Han-kenstein 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Since Kate Clanchy is back in the news again due to a misguided BBC podcast series about 'cancellation' - I feel it's worth mentioning that one of the writers actually harmed by that whole situation posted a tearful video to Instagram earlier stating she's already had hate mail from it.

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