Sarah Clarke
@damselindystopia.bsky.social
Researcher of anti-trans harms. Moody anarchafeminist. Just some dickhead. We protect us. She/her.
https://damselindystopia.ghost.io
https://damselindystopia.ghost.io
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I cannot empahsise this enough; I am just some dickhead. If you have experience living in the world as a trans person and a baseline level of intellectual curiosity about the world you have the same qualifications to do this stuff I do.
If there are three things I want to impress on everybody who reads anything I write they are:
* It's about power
* Don't take fascists at face value
* I am literally just some dickhead
* It's about power
* Don't take fascists at face value
* I am literally just some dickhead
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I love to take my views on feminism and "gender ideology" from the professional Woody Allen defender.
"gender ideology is anti-gravity nonsense that only the desperate, the deluded and the double-dealing grifters still believe": just in case you were still wondering quite how consumed with hatred are Hadley Freeman and The Sunday Times.
November 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I love to take my views on feminism and "gender ideology" from the professional Woody Allen defender.
[trying to mollify fandomites] Look, I'm not saying you're a bad person for liking media with deep rooted misogyny and heterosexism at its core. I mean I enjoyed Supernatural for the most part despite its obvious disinterest in its female characters and...why is everybody even madder at me?
November 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
[trying to mollify fandomites] Look, I'm not saying you're a bad person for liking media with deep rooted misogyny and heterosexism at its core. I mean I enjoyed Supernatural for the most part despite its obvious disinterest in its female characters and...why is everybody even madder at me?
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Cis people disagree with a trans person without hamfistedly bringing our transness into it challenge 2k26.
November 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Cis people disagree with a trans person without hamfistedly bringing our transness into it challenge 2k26.
The attempt to post less so I don't rant and rave in public is going very well.
November 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The attempt to post less so I don't rant and rave in public is going very well.
The creepy, misogynistic rage against a woman for giving a piece of media some bad reviews wouldn't be out of place at the hieght of GG tbh.
Romance hetleresses are currently trying to cancel a trans woman booktuber, Willow Heath, because she said romantasy hetslop was kind of dumb and tradwifey or something. A selection of comments:
November 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The creepy, misogynistic rage against a woman for giving a piece of media some bad reviews wouldn't be out of place at the hieght of GG tbh.
Ngl, it doesn't feel awesome that so much discourse about policies designed specifically to hurt trans people is about the negative effects it might have on some cis people.
Not cos it's not bad that it will have broader incidental effects but because it should be enough that it will hurt us.
Not cos it's not bad that it will have broader incidental effects but because it should be enough that it will hurt us.
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Ngl, it doesn't feel awesome that so much discourse about policies designed specifically to hurt trans people is about the negative effects it might have on some cis people.
Not cos it's not bad that it will have broader incidental effects but because it should be enough that it will hurt us.
Not cos it's not bad that it will have broader incidental effects but because it should be enough that it will hurt us.
There's a misconception I see a lot wrt to the social model of disability and disability pride more broadly that when we say these things we mean that disability isn't real or that our impairments don't cause real problems for us.
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
There's a misconception I see a lot wrt to the social model of disability and disability pride more broadly that when we say these things we mean that disability isn't real or that our impairments don't cause real problems for us.
Don't engage, you're just giving them what they want.
November 20, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Don't engage, you're just giving them what they want.
It's fucking wild that the GCs have developed such a sense of impunity that they're just actively harassing and smearing members of a tribunal panel they are supposedly trying to win over.
Terf legal nonsense - A judge has thrown out an application for a panel member to be dismissed at an employment tribunal case between the Belfast Film Festival (BFF) and former employee Sara Morrison.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Judge rejects application over employment tribunal panellist
Sara Morrison, who worked for Belfast Film Festival, is taking a discrimination case against her former employer.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
It's fucking wild that the GCs have developed such a sense of impunity that they're just actively harassing and smearing members of a tribunal panel they are supposedly trying to win over.
I hate the context collapse machine and I should probably stop sticking my fingers into its gears.
November 19, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I hate the context collapse machine and I should probably stop sticking my fingers into its gears.
Happy international Men's Day to trans men and cis men who would introduce their trans girlfriend to their mums only.
November 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Happy international Men's Day to trans men and cis men who would introduce their trans girlfriend to their mums only.
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Black trans women are paid dust by cis people and trans people. 21 is too young for a trans girl to die. It's not fucking fair. But per the course, Girlalala will be lost in a sea of stories of trans women of color who aren't as loved or as protected as we should be.
May she rest in peace.
May she rest in peace.
TikTok Star Girlalala Dies at 21 as Boyfriend Is Arrested on First-Degree Murder Charge
The creator, who had hundreds of thousands of followers, worked as a hairstylist in Pompano Beach, Fla.
ca.news.yahoo.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Black trans women are paid dust by cis people and trans people. 21 is too young for a trans girl to die. It's not fucking fair. But per the course, Girlalala will be lost in a sea of stories of trans women of color who aren't as loved or as protected as we should be.
May she rest in peace.
May she rest in peace.
I have way too many mutuals with a guy whose idea of defending trans people is conflating our interests with those of actual rapists.
November 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I have way too many mutuals with a guy whose idea of defending trans people is conflating our interests with those of actual rapists.
It's quite funny, to me, how upset liberals get when they realise that you're not joking about the anarchism thing and your value system is, in fact, fundamentally different to theirs.
November 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
It's quite funny, to me, how upset liberals get when they realise that you're not joking about the anarchism thing and your value system is, in fact, fundamentally different to theirs.
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Wow, people get very upset when you off handedly imply rapists deserve to die, huh?
"What about [form of abuse that is mostly de facto decriminalised right now anyway]?"
I didn't say abolish bullets, did I?
I didn't say abolish bullets, did I?
November 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Wow, people get very upset when you off handedly imply rapists deserve to die, huh?
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When they rescue trafficked victims from farms, that's often how they describe their situations. The smugglers take their passports and valuables, keep them in appalling conditions and make them work to pay off the cost of being brought here (which is generally impossible).
November 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
When they rescue trafficked victims from farms, that's often how they describe their situations. The smugglers take their passports and valuables, keep them in appalling conditions and make them work to pay off the cost of being brought here (which is generally impossible).
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Oh cool, indentured servitude. Legally recognised throughout the democratic world as a form of unfree labour aka slavery. Also literally how the people traffickers that this legislation is supposedly meant to stop imprison their victims.
Watching the Mahmood announcement and debate. Tory backbencher (Karen Bradley) suggests putting refugees into debt and making them repay during the rest of their lives. Mahmood says she’ll think about it.
November 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Oh cool, indentured servitude. Legally recognised throughout the democratic world as a form of unfree labour aka slavery. Also literally how the people traffickers that this legislation is supposedly meant to stop imprison their victims.
November 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"You simply must win over men and the only way to do that is to indemnify us from all consequences forever. Why are you all covering your drinks?"
In order to move men, we have to welcome folks who have done things in the past we abhor. We have to allow folks to redeem themselves.
It’s sometimes uncomfortable, but it’s the only way we can win moving forward.
The math doesn’t math without more men.
It’s sometimes uncomfortable, but it’s the only way we can win moving forward.
The math doesn’t math without more men.
November 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
"You simply must win over men and the only way to do that is to indemnify us from all consequences forever. Why are you all covering your drinks?"
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For the record - traffickers and other predators advise this because they know it works. Society is very much poised against survivors and "false memories" is a cultural beast that will not die.
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
For the record - traffickers and other predators advise this because they know it works. Society is very much poised against survivors and "false memories" is a cultural beast that will not die.
Pffffffffffft.
Blimey. Major new split in Your Party. Blackburn MP Adnan Hussain -who is secretary of the Your Party company - says he's quitting due to "persistent infighting, factional competition, and a struggle for power, position and influence rather than a shared commitment to the common good."
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Pffffffffffft.
"We were 5 metres outside the archive when the historical materialism kicked in." - Hunter EP Thompson
November 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"We were 5 metres outside the archive when the historical materialism kicked in." - Hunter EP Thompson
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70% of trans people believe BBC News is hostile. (And anyone who has listened to Justin Webb knows they are clearly right.) goodlaw.social/kyxv
Poll shows 70% of trans people think BBC News is ‘hostile’
The right wing claims the corporation is ‘pro-trans’, but the people at the sharp end of its coverage disagree. The BBC must stop its attack on trans people.
goodlaw.social
November 14, 2025 at 10:27 AM
70% of trans people believe BBC News is hostile. (And anyone who has listened to Justin Webb knows they are clearly right.) goodlaw.social/kyxv
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Seeing a lot of people I frankly thought better of misunderstanding this. It means case by case re. the service provider not the individuals using the service. This is how the Equality Act has worked for years - with providers having to justify exclusion as proportionate.
NEW:
While remaining a neutral party to the case, Bridget Phillipson's lawyers have told the High Court they don't think the EHRC's proposed blanket bathroom ban is the right reading of the law
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
While remaining a neutral party to the case, Bridget Phillipson's lawyers have told the High Court they don't think the EHRC's proposed blanket bathroom ban is the right reading of the law
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Seeing a lot of people I frankly thought better of misunderstanding this. It means case by case re. the service provider not the individuals using the service. This is how the Equality Act has worked for years - with providers having to justify exclusion as proportionate.