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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 1h

It's particularly relevant to a trans community regularly divided by purity politics and respectability politics on top of race and class and ageism and looksism

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 1h

Essentially they are regarding children as their parents' property.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 1h

These are the words I try to live by in my politics.

Ayleth🌺 @aylethm.bsky.social · 9h

I had just started reading this over the weekend...

“…you can't throw anybody under the bus. You can't leave anybody behind. And that's become my favorite thing to say to people: I won't throw anybody under the bus, and I'm not leaving anybody. It has to include us all, or it's not going to work.”

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 14h

Reading Miss Majors Speaks was an incredibly moving experience last year. I can't recommend this book enough for those unfamiliar with her work.

Rest in peace 🖤

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 6h

Small victories are how we survive and thrive.

SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 7h

A significant workplace discrimination win.
Well done Sophie!

uk.news.yahoo.com/trans-postie...

Trans postie sues Royal Mail for harassment and discrimination by colleagues

A trans postal worker has won a discrimination case against Royal Mail after suffering harassment from colleagues. Sophie Cole, 46, from Cambridge, was awarded £12,500 after an employment tribunal fou...

uk.news.yahoo.com

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 6h

Miss Major has passed. One of the best of that generation of trans women of colour who started our fight.

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 13h

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 15h

That works.

You know he left Vivie in a London asylum during the Blitz and wouldn't move her to somewhere safe?

I will show you fest in a handful of dust

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 18h

TS Eliot was a serial killer and Sweeney Agonistes is him boasting about it.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 3d

Oh that's disgraceful and rather out of character given his good work on eg Scientology. Doesn't he see that Tervery is part of the Russo-ChristoFascist hybrid warfare playbook?

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 3d

This is the Lib Dem reporter not the serial killer ot the Scots politician. The only trans reference I find is his praising the trans woman war reporter in Ukraine. You may have better information.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 4d

The Girl Who Was Thursday.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 4d

That's ok. We all sometimes get carried away. I have deleted so many posts down the years.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 4d

Actually, wasn't there a dossier a while back on the difficulty of infiltrating us?

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 4d

The Attorney General of Texas has ordered an undercover investigation for terrorist conspiracy of anti-fascist and trans groups. The forcefem fiction practically writes itself...

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 4d

Good man on this issue...

johnsweeneyroar @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve been appointed to be the local government correspondent of @thenerve_news covering the Russian Spy Party - Нет-нет-нет. Это не «Русская шпионская партия». Это «Реформа Великобритании». Извините за путаницу .

Read @thenerve_news for the latest on @reformparty_uk.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 10d

I don't.

Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 10d

Who is 'they' in that question please?

You really need to rephrase that so you don't seem to impute collective responsibility or imply that solidarity is conditional on reciprocity.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 10d

An excellent LRB piece by the late Connor Gearty which sets the For Women Scotland judgement in a broader context of the current UK Supreme Court walking back all uses of the HRA to limit regressive state power and promote extension of human rights.

He will be missed

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 16d

Demo against Digital ID and surveillance state at Angel. A lot of honking in support.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 17d

The first of many to get caught, I hope. Too many people in public life have taken money from foreign powers to act in ways that harm us all.

Ironic that so many of them tout conspiracy theories while being part of actual conspiracies.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17d

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician.

He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales.

A Brexit Party MEP.

A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him:

"terrific," and "as honest as the day is long."

This is a MASSIVE story

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery

Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 17d

In a war with Nazis, Stalinists, anarchists and Church and King Tories fight alongside each other as they did in the French Resistance and settle other things once the Nazis are done for.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 17d

More joy in heaven over a sinner who repents...

At this point I'll cut some slack for all sorts of people with terrible records depending on where they stand now and deal with their past offences later.

As JFK said, forgive your enemies but keep a.list of their names.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 17d

Get a RADAR key now.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 17d

He will have to abolish GRCs to make that practical and that means pulling out of the ECHR and that means losing the Good Friday Agreement and any concessions from the EU.

I'm not saying he won't do o all that, by the way

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 17d

Farage opposes it vocally because his base dislikes it but will use it in a Draconian fashion if in power.

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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 17d

My poem about Gallus' mistress.

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