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@ellis-ralsei.bsky.social
journalist / formerly Straits Times, Reuters, Mashable / NTU WKWSCI alum / opinions here do not represent employer
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Increasingly hard to ignore how British anti-trans-human-rights extremists appear to be putting Trans+ lives at risk far beyond the UK
"elite figures have copied the western right-wing playbook..[].., spreading the same anti-trans, anti-liberal, anti-woke and anti-secular agenda"
"elite figures have copied the western right-wing playbook..[].., spreading the same anti-trans, anti-liberal, anti-woke and anti-secular agenda"
‘She narrowly escaped three bullets’: Pakistan’s trans community shaken by attacks and killings
A wave of violence has left transgender people afraid to go out, as experts say the global rise of far-right ideology is fuelling transphobia
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Increasingly hard to ignore how British anti-trans-human-rights extremists appear to be putting Trans+ lives at risk far beyond the UK
"elite figures have copied the western right-wing playbook..[].., spreading the same anti-trans, anti-liberal, anti-woke and anti-secular agenda"
"elite figures have copied the western right-wing playbook..[].., spreading the same anti-trans, anti-liberal, anti-woke and anti-secular agenda"
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fun fact reminder that meowing is actually voice training
January 8, 2026 at 8:06 PM
fun fact reminder that meowing is actually voice training
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Yet more fanart for @badambulist.bsky.social 's The Sisters of Dorley. I love all these early scenes with Christine sneaking around in the basement; she fucked up so bad! Whoops!
December 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Yet more fanart for @badambulist.bsky.social 's The Sisters of Dorley. I love all these early scenes with Christine sneaking around in the basement; she fucked up so bad! Whoops!
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😭 they didn't have to... But BBC Studios Asia sent me another Bluey holiday gift bundle... Thank you so much...
December 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
😭 they didn't have to... But BBC Studios Asia sent me another Bluey holiday gift bundle... Thank you so much...
I enjoyed working on the cover, and Cathy’s reimaginings of the original (kimmy) is definitely worth a read. Go check it out!
Into the Kimmehverse:
All 17 endings are written! @ellis-ralsei.bsky.social made a beautiful cover!
An anthology of alternate universes with some characters from Alyson Greaves’ novel (kimmy), exploring various ‘what if’ scenarios. Each story uses a different chapter as a jumping-off point.
All 17 endings are written! @ellis-ralsei.bsky.social made a beautiful cover!
An anthology of alternate universes with some characters from Alyson Greaves’ novel (kimmy), exploring various ‘what if’ scenarios. Each story uses a different chapter as a jumping-off point.
December 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I enjoyed working on the cover, and Cathy’s reimaginings of the original (kimmy) is definitely worth a read. Go check it out!
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Also new in Kimmyfics! @ellis-ralsei.bsky.social’s tale of revolutionary robots on the high seas!
archiveofourown.org/works/749367...
Ellis wrote the first chapter and a significant portion of the second, before I suggested guiding the second chapter to a satisfactory conclusion as co-author.
archiveofourown.org/works/749367...
Ellis wrote the first chapter and a significant portion of the second, before I suggested guiding the second chapter to a satisfactory conclusion as co-author.
![Cover art for [one stop shop for a fading revolution], by @ellis-ralsei.bsky.social, based on further unfolding events in the universe of (kimmy) by Alyson Greaves.
A large ship in the middle of the ocean forms the blue background.
Writing credits for Alyson and Ellis are in the bottom left-hand and right-hand corners respectively.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sapcktotjhyuinstg3kh45tt/bafkreigmf4sywydrd5h2c3sswi2trggbi6cgbkxlzpu7tcu43xtodmfnyy@jpeg)
December 6, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Also new in Kimmyfics! @ellis-ralsei.bsky.social’s tale of revolutionary robots on the high seas!
archiveofourown.org/works/749367...
Ellis wrote the first chapter and a significant portion of the second, before I suggested guiding the second chapter to a satisfactory conclusion as co-author.
archiveofourown.org/works/749367...
Ellis wrote the first chapter and a significant portion of the second, before I suggested guiding the second chapter to a satisfactory conclusion as co-author.
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Into the Kimmehverse:
All 17 endings are written! @ellis-ralsei.bsky.social made a beautiful cover!
An anthology of alternate universes with some characters from Alyson Greaves’ novel (kimmy), exploring various ‘what if’ scenarios. Each story uses a different chapter as a jumping-off point.
All 17 endings are written! @ellis-ralsei.bsky.social made a beautiful cover!
An anthology of alternate universes with some characters from Alyson Greaves’ novel (kimmy), exploring various ‘what if’ scenarios. Each story uses a different chapter as a jumping-off point.
November 27, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Into the Kimmehverse:
All 17 endings are written! @ellis-ralsei.bsky.social made a beautiful cover!
An anthology of alternate universes with some characters from Alyson Greaves’ novel (kimmy), exploring various ‘what if’ scenarios. Each story uses a different chapter as a jumping-off point.
All 17 endings are written! @ellis-ralsei.bsky.social made a beautiful cover!
An anthology of alternate universes with some characters from Alyson Greaves’ novel (kimmy), exploring various ‘what if’ scenarios. Each story uses a different chapter as a jumping-off point.
the funniest thing about being a city politics reporter in your late teens and early 20s is politicians you’ve never spoken to wishing you happy birthday on facebook
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 AM
the funniest thing about being a city politics reporter in your late teens and early 20s is politicians you’ve never spoken to wishing you happy birthday on facebook
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Don't trust a New York Times reporter. Don't talk to a New York Times reporter. They are the most ambitious journalists on the planet and will do anything to get the story their editor wants. The truth doesn't matter to them, only getting the story their editor wants so they can move up.
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Don't trust a New York Times reporter. Don't talk to a New York Times reporter. They are the most ambitious journalists on the planet and will do anything to get the story their editor wants. The truth doesn't matter to them, only getting the story their editor wants so they can move up.
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Milo has something to say, and he feels strongly about it.
October 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Milo has something to say, and he feels strongly about it.
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I absolutely love our tenth anniversary cover, beautifully illustrated by @badiucao.bsky.social, paying homage to the Gen Z protesters across Asia and the way they’ve embraced One Piece as a symbol of their determination for freedom and resistance 💪🏼
Really looking forward to everyone reading our tenth anniversary edition! It’ll be with our stockists in November, and is already at the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival bookstore 🤩🤩🤩
October 30, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I absolutely love our tenth anniversary cover, beautifully illustrated by @badiucao.bsky.social, paying homage to the Gen Z protesters across Asia and the way they’ve embraced One Piece as a symbol of their determination for freedom and resistance 💪🏼
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It does ruin some plots, though. You can’t do the thing anymore where you just have to get the thumb drive to the Times and then the evil politician or corporation will lose. The story would be spiked, or if it did go out, the target would post an AI video of them dropping liquid shit from a plane.
October 20, 2025 at 9:35 AM
It does ruin some plots, though. You can’t do the thing anymore where you just have to get the thumb drive to the Times and then the evil politician or corporation will lose. The story would be spiked, or if it did go out, the target would post an AI video of them dropping liquid shit from a plane.
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QRP your most popular piece on BSKY
I think it might actually be this one.
From a series of a few like this, drawn when Milo came out as a trans boy. Milo himself got most of them, but the Ozy one has the most likes for some reason.
I think it might actually be this one.
From a series of a few like this, drawn when Milo came out as a trans boy. Milo himself got most of them, but the Ozy one has the most likes for some reason.
June 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
QRP your most popular piece on BSKY
I think it might actually be this one.
From a series of a few like this, drawn when Milo came out as a trans boy. Milo himself got most of them, but the Ozy one has the most likes for some reason.
I think it might actually be this one.
From a series of a few like this, drawn when Milo came out as a trans boy. Milo himself got most of them, but the Ozy one has the most likes for some reason.
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Honestly neutral is just fine. In my ways I vastly preferred it when nobody thought about trans people at all most of the time. Even I didn’t think about us that much. That seems fairly normal to me.
guy who brought the trans flag we iwo jima’d described himself as “yeah i was pretty neutral about trans people, think i still am honestly, but these people are being so goddamn weird about it that i gotta get off the fence”
October 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Honestly neutral is just fine. In my ways I vastly preferred it when nobody thought about trans people at all most of the time. Even I didn’t think about us that much. That seems fairly normal to me.
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So… I’ve written a fanfic novel based on Alyson Greaves’ sci-fi novel of alienation and transformation, (kimmy).
You can read {steffy}, a novel in nine parts and seventy-two scenes:
HTML: 64ordle.au/steffy/
AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/70531936
ScribbleHub: www.scribblehub.com/series/18504...
You can read {steffy}, a novel in nine parts and seventy-two scenes:
HTML: 64ordle.au/steffy/
AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/70531936
ScribbleHub: www.scribblehub.com/series/18504...
{steffy}, by Catherine Cowie
64ordle.au
October 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
So… I’ve written a fanfic novel based on Alyson Greaves’ sci-fi novel of alienation and transformation, (kimmy).
You can read {steffy}, a novel in nine parts and seventy-two scenes:
HTML: 64ordle.au/steffy/
AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/70531936
ScribbleHub: www.scribblehub.com/series/18504...
You can read {steffy}, a novel in nine parts and seventy-two scenes:
HTML: 64ordle.au/steffy/
AO3: archiveofourown.org/works/70531936
ScribbleHub: www.scribblehub.com/series/18504...
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I've been super proud to work with a bunch of talented authors including @judedoyle.bsky.social and @taliabhatt.itch.io on this package over the past couple months — it's six great stories about the weird, scary moment both the internet and trans people are in
The future of being trans on the internet
The internet has long been a source of information and support for transgender people. Now, trans rights and the internet itself are in a moment of crisis. What happens next?
www.theverge.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I've been super proud to work with a bunch of talented authors including @judedoyle.bsky.social and @taliabhatt.itch.io on this package over the past couple months — it's six great stories about the weird, scary moment both the internet and trans people are in
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ADF was basically behind the Keira Bell case and trans reporters were trying to note similarities between that case and how the group uses lawfare in the U.S. to attack trans rights.
yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.
bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.
bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.
Really important NYT investigation finds that the ADF has been working with Reform, 'courting the party since at least 2024' and that the British arm 'orchestrated Mr Farage’s appearance in Congress, reaching out to ask if he would like to give evidence on censorship'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
October 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
ADF was basically behind the Keira Bell case and trans reporters were trying to note similarities between that case and how the group uses lawfare in the U.S. to attack trans rights.
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I lack the motivation to create a long thread out of this, so please just read these screenshots.
And also this celebration of Pannir’s spirit, love, and triumphs: www.wethecitizens.net/goodbye-pann...
Goodbye, Pannir. You’re free now.
And also this celebration of Pannir’s spirit, love, and triumphs: www.wethecitizens.net/goodbye-pann...
Goodbye, Pannir. You’re free now.
October 11, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I lack the motivation to create a long thread out of this, so please just read these screenshots.
And also this celebration of Pannir’s spirit, love, and triumphs: www.wethecitizens.net/goodbye-pann...
Goodbye, Pannir. You’re free now.
And also this celebration of Pannir’s spirit, love, and triumphs: www.wethecitizens.net/goodbye-pann...
Goodbye, Pannir. You’re free now.
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October 8, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Pre-orders for the November window are now open!
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i’m a journalist. don’t talk to journalists about DIY
when we said not to talk to journalists about diy, we meant it. and we meant it because of shit like this.
😬
October 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
i’m a journalist. don’t talk to journalists about DIY
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If I were an investigative journalist in the UK (are there any left?), I would be having a good look at the extent to which NHS leadership seems to have allied itself with a fringe medical movement that more or less condones conversion therapy. qnews.com.au/australian-r...
Australian report says UK’s Cass review should not guide transgender healthcare
QNews LGBTIQA+ News
qnews.com.au
October 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
If I were an investigative journalist in the UK (are there any left?), I would be having a good look at the extent to which NHS leadership seems to have allied itself with a fringe medical movement that more or less condones conversion therapy. qnews.com.au/australian-r...
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I Returned To Earth And Now I'm Working At A Coffee Shop With The Enemy Mech Pilot?!
August 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I Returned To Earth And Now I'm Working At A Coffee Shop With The Enemy Mech Pilot?!
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For @truthout.org yesterday I wrote about how the government's lies about tylenol and autism reminds me a lot of the government's lies about trans people.
truthout.org/articles/ant...
truthout.org/articles/ant...
Anti-Trans Policy Deserves Same Scrutiny as Trump’s Tylenol Disinformation
As a trans journalist, I see corporate media outlets as inconsistent in their treatment of right-wing disinformation.
truthout.org
September 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
For @truthout.org yesterday I wrote about how the government's lies about tylenol and autism reminds me a lot of the government's lies about trans people.
truthout.org/articles/ant...
truthout.org/articles/ant...