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February 1, 2021
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January 24, 2021
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link to the fund: https://www.gendergp.com/the-gendergp-fund/
Things are so bad in the UK for trans people that New Zealand offered asylum to a British trans woman simply because of the hostile and discriminatory environment in the UK:
British transgender woman given residency in ‘safer’ New Zealand
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link to the fund: https://www.gendergp.com/the-gendergp-fund/
Things are so bad in the UK for trans people that New Zealand offered asylum to a British trans woman simply because of the hostile and discriminatory environment in the UK:
British transgender woman given residency in ‘safer’ New Zealand
January 23, 2021
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Ruthless Rhymes for Martial...
Ruthless Rhymes for Martial Militants.
These conservative cartoonsfrom ~1913 depicting angry suffragettes as brutal anarchafeminists were somehow actually supposed to make the subjects look bad, instead of amazingly badass.
January 19, 2021
January 16, 2021
neil-gaiman:This is my friend Storm Constantine, probably around...
This is my friend Storm Constantine, probably around the time I met her, which was (I think) in about 1986, at British Fantasycon. Or anyway, in my memory that’s what young Storm looked like. I can’t find a photo of us online, just a space on her long-forgotten myspace page where a photograph of us once was. I remember being impressed by her, not because she was an exotic person of the kind not usually seen at conventions in those days, but because she was the kind of determined writer who was found, by an editor or a reader, on the “slush pile”. (Terry Pratchett was impressed by her too.)
We were convention friends, mostly, who would run into each other in Australia or Brighton or equally as unlikely places, and she was always funny and sensible and nice. She cared about nurturing younger writers, she tried to make the world better, and was the kind of person who did things and didn’t just talk about them. Today I heard that she’d passed away, after a long illness, and the world is poorer for her absence. Read her books…
January 12, 2021
marauders4evr:“And that quote, “The only disability in life is a...
“And that quote, “The only disability in life is a bad attitude,” the reason that that’s bullshit is because it’s just not true.” - Stella Young
[IDs: Screenshots from the late, great, Stella Young’s TED Talk: I’m Not Your Inspiration, Thank You Very Much. Stella is a wheelchair-user sitting up on the stage in front of a massive crowd. In these screenshots, she’s saying, “No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp. Never. (Laughter. Applause.) Smiling at a television screen isn’t going to make closed captions appear for people. No amount of standing in the middle of a bookshop and radiating a positive attitude is going to turn all those books into braille.]
I use this speech and the underlying theories a lot in my PhD, but Stella Young honestly had one of those voices that needs to be heard by everyone, so I figured I’d post my favorite part of the speech here. If anyone remembers that time I threw myself onto the floor For The Vine, you’ll know that I also hate the quote: “The only disability in life is a bad attitude”. Stella just conveyed the message with less pain.
Link to Stella Young’s TED Talk | Link to the transcript
