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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 18/11/2025

🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 I'm pleased to say my article 'Cis-Supremacist Pasts: Constructing a History Against Contemporary Trans Equality' has been published today with International Public History and it is fully open access! Check it out here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Cis-Supremacist Pasts: Constructing a History Against Contemporary Trans Equality

This paper uses Cal Horton’s theory of Cis-Supremacy to demonstrate the interplay of trans exclusionist histories and contemporary cis power structures. The paper, through this preliminary discussion,...

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BABAO 2025 Annual Conference @babao2025meeting.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

3.24 — Next Xander King et al. discusses ‘Refitting in dry dock: Considering archaeological naval cemetery populations through commingling and fragmented human remains’ 🪖🪦🦴 #BABAO2025

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Xander King @transmascosteology.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Ahmed's donations have really slowed and he's struggling. Anyone willing to match my £10? chuffed.org/project/1249...

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Help the Shaban Family Evacuate Gaza

Hi All,

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

The good news is that she won’t cause trans people will exist forevermore and she won’t let herself know peace as long as we breathe soooo

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Xander King @transmascosteology.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Thanks to Owen for organising and inviting me on my most fun dig yet! Echoing the thanks to my amazing volunteers who hauled dirt and drew too many contexts. When's next season?

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 09/08/2025

Maisa used to be on here but unfortunately her account continues to be reported and shut down. She has a campaign for donations on PayPal - others have verified her before, so you can donate here if you can. www.paypal.com/pools/c/9hgv...

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Support Raed & Maisa's Family

القصة Hello my friends I'm Ronya and I'm the host of Raed & Maisa's Family Fundraiser. Raed is my dear friend from Gaza. His family consists of Raed 38, Maisa 37, Fares 15, Adam 13, Lana 7. They are...

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 04/08/2025

Some exciting publication news! Mine and Colleen Morgan's (@clmorgan.bsky.social) chapter on the archaeology of the National Transgender Memorial in Manchester has just been published in this exciting edited collection by Chris Fennell! www.routledge.com/Combating-Op...

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Combating Oppression with New Commemorations

Combating Oppression with New Commemorations examines the ways in which marginalized groups can confront oppressive regimes through commemorations and advocacy of their own heritage. Presenting case s...

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 02/08/2025

Malak is a real Palestinian trying to raise funds for herself and her disabled sister, but is constantly pushed off of the website by the cruelty and racist of the mods on here. Please donate and share the link to her fundraiser widely: chuffed.org/project/help...

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Help me to save my family and my sister

I am Malak Jamil, a Smart Systems and Computer Engineering student. I completed my high school education with an excellent grade, and it has always been my dream to study engineering and contribute to...

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 11/07/2025

Yall... The news is so bad... the prices are so high. Getting mortifying reports from the fams. We're going to try to do quicker transfers over the weekend if needed. It's catastrophe. chuffed.org/project/hope...

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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that the...

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 06/07/2025

It’s been devastating to watch Mohammed’s family lose weight due to starvation while trying to raise funds online Please, if you can, donate here: chuffed.org/project/1377...

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Helping feed my Children and Family

Mohammad Nashwan: The Story of a Father Who is facing Famine and trying to provide for his family

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 01/07/2025

WE HAVE 24 HOURS TO KEEP A FAM HOUSED. As we highlight Nya for the giving circle, she’s facing eviction. Her disabled parents CAN’T be in the street. Nya wrote on Chuffed days ago: “You left me to face my family's fate alone.” Prove her wrong. We’ll match 100. 0/1000 chuffed.org/project/help...

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Give 8 Innocent Souls a Chance to Survive the War

We are a Palestinian family from Gaza, made up of 8 members. Before the war, we lived a simple life with dignity. Our father worked hard to provide for us, and we had a home—a place of warmth,…

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Agent of Chaos @fionacoward.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I know there's a LOT going on right now (waves hand inarticulately at the world) - this is just a small part but a part nonetheless www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2522297...

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University staff to strike after "disgraceful" job cuts plans

Bournemouth University staff will begin four days of strike action on Wednesday in opposition to a “devastating attack” by the university.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 23/05/2025

So the University of York has now moved all future meetings on this matter to online only, capped attendance at 12, and sent me an email asking me to cancel my place at the next one... Sure sounds like they want to listen to trans people. Fucking Spineless!

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Xander King @transmascosteology.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Got any leftover money at the end of the week? Match, double or half my £7?

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Dr Chris Noone @chris-noone.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 29/04/2025

My open letter to the EDI Team at the University of York in response to their 28th April Statement on the Supreme Court Ruling and EHRC Guidance. If you also want to contact York with your concerns you can email them at equality@york.ac.uk. We won't go down quietly.

A Screen readable version of this letter can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_FABMmDx2gwF0xXrWR9OpkgRjrw0K235RYbx1i2YvtI/edit?usp=sharing

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 29/04/2025

So my home institution, the University of York, has just published a statement about the Supreme Court ruling. To say this statement is distressing is an understatement. It appears the Uni of York intends to segregate its trans users... 1/? york.ac.uk/students/news/2025/supreme-court-statement/

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University statement on UK Supreme Court Ruling - Student home, University of York

The University is committed to creating an environment that is safe, inclusive and welcoming for all staff, students and visitors. This includes supporting people who wish to make or have made changes...

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 22/04/2025

Trans. Men. Are. Not. A. Gotcha.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 21/04/2025

I think what a lot of people don't realise is how manufactured transphobia is as a policy point in the UK. Trans people get basically no mention in the 2010 and 2015 Manifesto's for any major party. Come 2017 and 2019 the work of trans activists has ensured that Labour, LibDems, and SNP, have...

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𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐋™ @devononearth.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Theres no one property that *is* "Biological Sex". Changing even one of the properties that make up the cluster is making concrete and real changes to your sex, and the act of transition makes profound changes to many of them. Trans men grow prostate tissue, women develop a hormonal cycle,

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Xander King @transmascosteology.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

As bio anths, we really need to examine our role in this and challenge bio essentialism and the harm that our work is causing my/our community because fucking hell

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Dont know if i can ever forgive the people that still chose to vote labour despite telling me they disagree with their transphobia thanks for letting me know i was disposable

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 12/04/2025

I donated £50 to help this family - if 10 of you just commit to donating £5 each, that’s £100 in total right there. Please don’t second guess how much even a small donation and a share can have - join me in donating to and sharing this call for support!

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Agent of Chaos @fionacoward.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Unpopular opinion of the day no.2: I don't think blaming people who couldn't bring themselves to vote for a(nother) apologist for genocide is quite the own you think it is

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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Totally onboard for regular ethical self-reflection about how we handle and discuss ancient human remains in museum collections but for various reasons I would be uneasy with museums referring to human remains from Britain as 'ancestors' in this way. www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

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November Kelly @postoctobrist.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

oh by the way, the other day I got into a weird headspace and did a whole long thread about how I’m feeling. no way I’m rewriting it all for alt text so here’s a link x.com/postoctobris...

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Xander King @transmascosteology.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Driving everyone around me a bit mad by getting unsustainably excited for every piece of animal bone

A black gloved muddy hand holding part of a pig mandible (lower jaw) with teeth on a sunny day

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𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐋™ @devononearth.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Exactly one year ago, 25 year old US Airman Aaron Bushnell took his own life by self-immolation in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC. Rest in Power, brother. I didnt know you in life, but I will never stop thinking about the strength, resolve, and compassion you showed in death

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

#StandingStoneSunday against fascism… This monolith in Vigo by Francisco Pazos, entitled 'Fiestra á liberdade', stands at the place where barricades were erected in July 1936 to oppose the military uprising against the Spanish republic, in tribute to all who gave their lives in defence of freedom

Night-time view of a standing stone in a city street. The granite monolith has two handprints below a small 'window' at the top.

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Xander King @transmascosteology.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Avebury, Wiltshire for #standingstonesunday! At some point, I need to try and get #1800sgravestonetuesday going to make use of my entire camera roll.

A large standing stone, at Avebury, surrounded by green grass, sheep and a worn footpath. Its heading towards dusk on a sunny day.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

“Well but surely you can agree we could restrict trans care for imprisoned criminals” No. Transition is not a luxury its a goddamn human right and to deny it is torture

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I assure you. Every time you insist on saying "ethnic cleansing" you mean genocide.

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Ashleeee 🌊🪭 @reactiveashley.cat · 05/02/2025

1/🧵 The Cass Review final report was quietly amended in December 2024, just before the permanent ban was announced, and it seems to have gone unnoticed. While most of the changes were minor and clerical, two of them were significant. Both changes relate to informed consent.

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Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

A beautiful photo of Roundway Hill Fort - the very one mentioned in my poem! I’m not sure how visible it will be anymore from here with the solar farm that’s being proposed. #poetry #blueskypoets #hillfortswednesday

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Xander King @transmascosteology.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I have no idea how to interact with this platform so here's Roundway hill fort for #hillfortswednesday

A sideway view of a tiered hill fort in a sunny winter day

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Gotta be the hottest canary in this here coalmine

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Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

This is the exciting paper drop. New aDNA science out of Dublin. Matrilineal descent systems demonstrated for Late Iron Age Dorset. Building on the work of Mel Giles (2012) who first spotted the potential for it in the archaeology of Middle Iron Age Yorkshire. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain - Nature

An analysis of ancient mitochondrial and nuclear DNA shows evidence of matrilocal communities in Iron Age Britain.

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𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐋™ @devononearth.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

This morning, after a night of very heavy bombing, Ahmed is searching for medication for his daughters Jana and Lana, and his wife Layla. The winter flu is worse than ever this year. Any amount you can contribute helps keep these guys alive

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Kat @byekitty.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

the will has so far defeated three people. are you the person who can read it?? (auction catalogue all done, thanks!)

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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

"... the forces of racism have regrouped on the borders of legitimate science and transformed themselves into a dynamic and creative citizen science movement capable of exploiting features of human genetics... human geneticists need to contend with the evolving practices of this ... movement"

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Confronting the “Weaponization” of Genetics by Racists Online and Elsewhere

Genomics research is regularly appropriated in social and political contexts to publicly legitimize unjust and malicious political views, policies, and actions. In recent years, there have been high-....

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Xander King @transmascosteology.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Amazing time @tag45.bsky.social! Such a supportive environment for my first presentation and thanks to everyone there for being interested in my theory adjacent project. Onwards and upwards!

A small transgender man stood in front of a powerpoint stating "Plymouth Naval Hospital and Cemetery"

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