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Traveller Pride Team

@travellerpride.bsky.social
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A UK social group ran by and for LGBT+ Travellers, used in the most inclusive sense - Including Roma, Irish Travellers, Gypsies, Boaters, New Age Travellers, Showmen, and other Travellers both "ethnic" and "new" living traditionally or settled.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
If every one of us put a drop in the bucket every day, we'd fill so many buckets. The unsung heroes are just as important.
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 20/12/2024
People who catastrophise about Gillick having been thrown out are going to sew a lot of confusion about the law in the UK. It's really important to listen to legal experts on these topics and not panic. Conservatives do desperately want to destroy Gillick but the court of appeal isn't about to.
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Traveller Pride Team @travellerpride.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Great explanatory thread about the new CPS guidance on "sex by deception". The key is, it's hard to know whether or not someone else knows you're trans, and many trans people just don't talk about it much, or at all. Not to mention, this adds a whole legal layer of risk to gloryholes and darkrooms.
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Traveller Pride Team @travellerpride.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
This incidentally is why I am always wary of "stranger danger" stuff posing as feminist: Bc when you imagine "A strange man in an alley" you picture him as unalike the men you know as possible- Which often means if you're white, the man you see as the danger, is a man of colour. It gets racist fast.
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ben smoke @bencsmoke.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
pretty much my final big piece @huckmag.com is this from @travellerpride.bsky.social on their incredible work and their amazing plans for the future (which you can help realise by donating!) give it a read + donate here! www.huckmag.com/article/the-...
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The LGBT Travellers fundraising for survival
This Christmas, Traveller Pride are raising money to continue supporting LGBT Travellers (used inclusively) across the country through the festive season…
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Traveller Pride Team @travellerpride.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Even the threat of this reduces trans people's quality of life: If you know it's coming, you reduce your dose, trying to save a few days' worth at a time so that you have a buffer for when the prescription inevitably is delayed. Meaning your hormone levels are chronically low, which is bad for you.
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
GPs cite “lack of expertise”. Then bloody learn. At Alice’s inquest Dr Barratt Tavistock GIC lead clinician said he could teach GPs how to treat trans people in a couple of hours. It’s not lack of knowledge. It’s lack of will to treat. Any doctor who won’t treat any patient shouldn’t be a doctor.
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Heather Herbert is Baking Bread. @heatherherbert.uk · 13/12/2024
Has anyone thought about a die in at the Xmas day mass of wes's church? Just putting it out there
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wobblerocket 🎲🎮 @wobblerocket.com · 13/12/2024
Good morning, friends and fiends! It's Friday, which means I can FINALLY share my interview with the incredible @pennyblake.bsky.social! I've been fighting the urge to hit the publish button early all week because this one is just so so good. What are your weekend plans? #dnd #ttrpg
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An Interview with Romani TTRPG designer Penny Blake – WobbleRocket
I sat down for a chat with Romani TTRPG designer Penny Blake to talk about Romani and Traveller culture in TTRPGs, including harmful stereotypes.
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Fabian Blake(he/him)Rose tint my world @glitzydemon.itch.io · 13/12/2024
You can read my article on the government's alarming lack of transit sites for Romany Gypsies and Travellers in the UK here freedomnews.org.uk/2024/12/13/o...
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Only 31 councils still keep legal sites for travellers - Freedom News
Three decades after Criminal Justice Act took away legal duty, FOI requests reveal systemic racism across the UK ~ Lulu Smith ~ A newly-released report highlights the lack of transit provisions for Ro...
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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT. @distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting. Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...
HRT - Harm Reduction Toolkit

A white first aid kit icon with a pastel pink cross, overlaid onto a pastel blue background. 

Distribute Aid Logo

Link to the fundraiser (available in the post text).
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Traveller Pride Team @travellerpride.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Now that SEENinpublishing are ramping up their crusade to hide all published evidence of trans people existing from kids, it is more than ever your moral duty to make zines about us - Our culture, our lives, our thoughts, our ways - and litter them around where they can be found, shared and copied.
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Traveller Pride Team @travellerpride.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Having just had a conversation with @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social that included the statement "You can't sleep here, there's too many cursed little guys...' I must throw their hat in the ring!
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ben smoke @bencsmoke.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
incredible piece from the legends at Trans Kids Deserve Better on stunning action outside Wes Streeting’s constituency office yesterday. so much of the coverage of the puberty blocker ban has spoken for or over trans kids - now hear directly from them: www.huckmag.com/article/we-a...
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We are young trans people occupying Wes Streeting’s office
Following the Health Secretary’s decision to permanently ban puberty blockers for young Trans people, activists from Trans Kids Deserve Better have…
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 12/12/2024
Another action in Nottingham Protest on sunday www.instagram.com/share/p/BABz...
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sasha baker @sasha98.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Trans Kids Deserve Better members told me that two gender critical activists hung around their encampment for about 2 hours messing around with their stuff, and appear to have stolen a trans teen's mobility aid.
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Korlis @korl.is · 12/12/2024
My take on the letter (full text included in the ALT). Sent to Streeting and copied in to my local MP. Just seen an indication that at least one of his inboxes is already full. Don't let up.
Mr. Streeting,

I am writing to you to express my condemnation of yesterday's decision to indefinitely extend the puberty blocker ban for trans youth under 18. I am calling on the government to reverse this decision immediately.

Puberty blockers are safe medications that ensure children - cis or trans -  can have the space, time, and care they need to be a kid so they are able to grow up and flourish into happy and healthy adults. The ban explicitly targets trans children but is not extended to cisgender or intersex children for the simple and obvious reason that the medications are known to be safe. It is an ideologically driven ban with no scientific merit.

As a queer man a similar age to myself, you ought to know the impact of scaremongering and misinformation, whether Section 28 or barriers to care during the AIDS crisis. I was outraged to hear you try to justify your actions in parliament in extending the ban on the basis of the homophobic abuse you received in the past, abuse no doubt driven or amplified by the endemic homophobia of the Britain we both grew up in. Today’s transphobia is a blatant repetition of the gay panic that fuelled that hatred.Currently, only 100 children are prescribed puberty blockers and the waiting list time for under-18s is more than 4 years long. I want a government that will focus on the real crisis - the lack of adequate care for young people in the UK. Not just those seeking assistance with their gender but across the whole of the NHS waiting lists are obscene. Demonising trans people and punishing trans kids specifically does nothing to remedy that situation.

Despite the relatively low number of children receiving puberty blockers or who might seek them, the evidence is unquestionable that this will have a devastating impact on their psychological health. Refusing puberty blockers is tantamount to forced detransition or conversion therapy and it is gravely concerning that this is only another step in dismantling the already torrid state of trans healthcare in the UK.

We can only hope that those affected survive this ordeal. The blood of those that don’t will be on your hands.

In closing, I want to draw your attention to the young trans people who camped outside your office last night in the freezing cold to protest this cruel ban. They deserve to get the same dignity and opportunities as their cis peers. They should not have to build their young lives around political activism just to get basic healthcare.

Drop the ban.

Signed,
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Ghooouuuls! Scheele 👻 @julesscheele.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
If you’re a cis person who often posts here or on Twitter about transphobia and how you disagree with it, please consider calling or writing to Wes Streeting today - there’s a script here to make it easy: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Drop the Ban - Phone & Email Blockade 12/12/24
WES STREETING PHONE & EMAIL BLOCKADE - Thursday 12th December 2024 Call on Wes Streeting to drop the ban on puberty blockers! Yesterday, the government permanently banned puberty blockers for trans ...
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Korlis @korl.is · 12/12/2024
Signed. I hope I can appeal to even my limited number of followers to do the same.
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 11/12/2024
They've left now, and they've advised everyone to stay warm.
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 11/12/2024
Alt text isn't working for some reason. Description of the image is of two police officers standing outside Wes Streetings office.
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 11/12/2024
Police have now appeared.
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 11/12/2024
Apologies for the lack of ALT text on the previous picture. I will write ALT texts from now on.
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 11/12/2024
It's pizza time! Very kind person has given us some pizza.
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 11/12/2024
Socks Powerbanks Sleeping bags/mats Stand to pee devices (no toilets here!)
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 11/12/2024
Hi everyone, Lily here! I'll be taking over for a bit as this protest goes on. I hope to spend the night here. It's SO cold TKDB need for the Wes Streeting office occupation ASAP: Jumpers/coats/warm clothes Handwarmers/hot water bottles Water Toothbrushes/toothpaste Deodorant
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 11/12/2024
Okay, our reporter is gonna be there overnight. Handing them the reigns for this thread to Lily. You can check out her personal account here: @nearchitecture.bsky.social
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 11/12/2024
Food has been delivered
Cardboard box of food on floor with tupperware container containing food with spoon in it. 
Floor is paved.
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 11/12/2024
I can only stay up till 10pm tonight. So I might have to continue this in the morning. But tkdb will be there overnight tonight.
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 11/12/2024
The length of this protest is going to be lengthy so updates may be slowish as it progresses.
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 11/12/2024
Been told the folks at the site need as many adults on location as possible. Last action outside the department of education. There was not enough of a turnout of adults and it was not good enough. We need to rectify this now.
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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 11/12/2024
Press Release from TKDB transkidsdeservebetter.org/teenage-tran...
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Teenage trans activists begin an encampment outside the office of Wes Streeting constituency | Trans Kids Deserve Better
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Folklore Centre Todmorden @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Next year’s programme is shaping up nicely! 💚
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Traveller Pride Team @travellerpride.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Also feels apropos to say: We have binders and are giving them away to any Traveller of any kind who needs one. A mix of mostly pre-2019NOS GC2B and Spectrum Outfitters, and a few odd one offs of other brands, in sizes 2XS to 5XL - styles and colours are too varied to list, so ask and we'll answer!
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Traveller Pride Team @travellerpride.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Wes Streeting REALLY making sure he earns our first annual Ernst Röhm Award, to the point that by now I can't even remember who the three other contenders were.
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Shiv (they/them) @shivanidave.co.uk · 10/12/2024
Big up all the brave people who have spoken about against years of alleged abuses of power against Pink News CEO and COO. This isn’t just a Pink News issue, but hopefully exposing this will be the start to creating a safer media landscape for LGBTQ+ journalists
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Dr Lucie Fremlova 🍉🌻🦋 @inclusivelucie.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
A Romani friend of mine has just sent me a photo of my book, which she found on the shelves of the Queer Britain Museum book shop. So happy and truly honoured!
My book Queer Roma at the Queer Britain Museum
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Traveller Pride Team @travellerpride.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
As someone who is semi-accidentally running a queer art collective now: These are so important to support. Giving us a chance to work together, to influence each other's styles, and to put bread on the table, is worth a fortune. And you can help it happen, by buying from collectives like this!
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Mark Walton @mark-walton.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
One of the joys of my life is being part of the small but perfectly formed @travellerpride.bsky.social crew doing great work at the intersection of two marginalised communities that I’m proud to be a member of If you want to help you can support our work here … www.gofundme.com/f/traveller-...
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Donate to Help Traveller Pride Keep Existing, organized by Percy Henderson
Hallo, I'm Percy and I'm one of the 3 exec of Traveller Pride. Having spoken to… Percy Henderson needs your support for Help Traveller Pride Keep Existing
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Traveller Pride Team @travellerpride.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
We love Delaine LeBas ❤️
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Traveller Pride Team @travellerpride.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
As much as winter is the season of bare branches, the few winter blossoms are really something special. The yellow is mahonia; A sweet, perfumey, hyacinth smell that carries half a mile in frosty air. The pink is viburnum, which is rich like clover honey. Only three weeks until the days get longer.
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Traveller Pride Team @travellerpride.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I am amazed by how fast we are gaining followers here so - thank you! We are Traveller Pride, we're a small CIC (a team of 3, none of us full-time) who work to provide things to the LGBT& or Queer people who are also Travellers - Both being defined as broadly as possible.
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Charlie the Fox @sabcharlie.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Supporters of the Kurdish Community Center in London have called for a march tomorrow to protest against state repression. Date: Sunday 1st December Time: 1:30pm Start point: Trafalgar Square #HandsOffKurds
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Traveller Pride Team @travellerpride.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
We are EDIRPRËLL EVÅRT, a joyful modular design that fits right in to your trailer, boat, or museum.
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Traveller Pride Team @travellerpride.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I'm getting a wisdom tooth removed this afternoon, so expect slow or no replies over the weekend (or, potentially, nonsensical replies as I log in out of habit whilst still under anaesthetic.) So if you need us, email us, and one of the other two will get back to you!
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Fabian Blake(he/him)Rose tint my world @glitzydemon.itch.io · 29/11/2024
Today it's Creator Day on itch.io ! That means if you purchase my charity solo TTRPG inspired by Romani and Traveller folklore, even more money will go to @travellerpride.bsky.social 🙏🙏💚❤️💙🐴https://pennyblake.itch.io/light-in-the-lantern
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LIGHT IN THE LANTERN by PennyBlake
A Cozy Autumn Solo Game
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Fabian Blake(he/him)Rose tint my world @glitzydemon.itch.io · 27/11/2024
Poem in response to the disgraceful treatment of Romany Gypsy and Traveller children by Manchester Police last weekend. The resistance flag was designed by Dean Rheims. I'll be recording and publishing soon. Feel free to use and share as part of your own activism in support of the GRT community 🐴💚❤️💙
Red Thunder poem by lulu smith aka Penny Blake and flag by Dean Rheims

There was thunder in the blue above
Thunder rising from the green below
Thunder deep in the red of our hearts

Thunder was their anger at our existence, 
Raining down their rage
At our audacity
To keep breathing in and out
To keep occupying
Their stolen spaces
Their palaces of air
Their palaces of mind
How dare we
Like a hail they tried to exterminate our last breath
The last fruit of our womb
Even our tongue – cut out

But thunder was the drum of our resistance
The beat of our horses hooves upon the road
The beat of our wagon wheels upon the road
The beat of our feet 
in dance and toil
The resonance 
of our persistent presence 
Upon the land
Under the thunder of our living, the land grows green
Joyful
Wild
And riches bloom all around their stolen spaces
Yet
We are still down in the dirt of their minds eye
Under the thunder of our living and breathing
Still we strive
Still we strive to survive



















For too long now 
The roads have been silent
But RISE!
RISE!
The thunder is still in the sky above
The hail rains down upon our children now
RISE!
RISE!
Now is the time for the thunder in our hearts
The red wheel of fire of our hearts
To rise

Raise the red thunder, the fire in your heart!
Raise your voice like thunder across the land!
Bring the song of your heart
Bring the the skill of your hands
The dance of your feet

The strength of your resistance
A thunder to match their thunder
A love to overwhelm their hate 

Brothers, sisters, siblings, friends

There is thunder in the blue above
But we will bring
Thunder rising from the green below
And
Thunder deep and red within our hearts
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Traveller Pride Team @travellerpride.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Seeing posts back to back, of the upcoming protests against GMP for their brutality towards Traveller children, and then images of paper coffins from the Trans Kids Deserve Better protests, and it feels like the defining characteristic of the State as we have it is just cruelty towards children...
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Traveller Pride Team @travellerpride.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Linking the tweet because the video is longer than sixty seconds: Our friend and comrade Martin Ward, exhorting us all to come to the demonstration tonight at 6 in Manchester, against the brutality and unfairness of Manchester police x.com/TravellerLGB...
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Fabian Blake(he/him)Rose tint my world @glitzydemon.itch.io · 24/11/2024
Manchester Anti Fascist Collective announce: Tuesday 6pm a peaceful demonstration will be held by the people of Manchester in support of the Romany Gypsy and Traveller Community in a stand against police violence and discrimination here and across the UK 1/2 www.instagram.com/p/DCwuuYBNfo...
Traveller solidarity demonstration manchester tuesday 26th november 2024 Arndale shopping centre exchange square entrance steps
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