Honestly what with Tony Blair, Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting all sharing their _aperçus_ on the subject of trans rights – short version, trans people don’t exist, should be shunted into “side rooms” in hospitals – I’m swinging very firmly back towards voting Green. They have their own terf wing, sure, but they seem to have largely locked them away for the duration of the campaign – rather than free-associating the abolition of trans rights on LBC, say
I really had thought that Labour would at least not make things *worse* for trans people, even if they did nothing to make things *better*. But they seem intent on locking in even the horrendous stuff the Tories forced through in the dying days of government – and the logic of their position will force them to go further still
Whereas the Green Party are promising things like self-ID for trans and nonbinary people, X markers in passports, and allowing schools to continue teaching about LGBTQ+ identities, rights and experiences. Oh, and not setting the planet on fire for 0.2% extra GDP growth. Sure, words are cheap, and they're not going to get anywhere remotely near power any time soon, but still. When I look back at the 2024 election, who will I *want* to have voted for?
Yes, but just one minor detail: THEY'RE NOT CHILDREN. THIS IS A POLICY AIMED AT 18-YEAR-OLDS.
"Fining parents for the behaviour of their adult offspring" is a bold policy initiative that definitely can't backfire in any way *I* can think of. /sarc
I did google this and apparently they are, but are they *really*, or would I need to go up half a size to be on the safe side? (I’d already be looking at brands specialising in “the larger foot”, being a size 9 and having very wide feet)
J.M.W. Turner’s snappily titled “Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth Making Signals in Shallow Water, and going by the Lead. The Author was in this Storm on the Night the ‘Ariel’ left Harwich” (1842)
If anyone’s ever considered buying first editions as an investment, this first edition of bisexual classic The Buddha of Suburbia cost £12.99 when published in 1990 – and I just paid £8.99 for it 😳
Anyway, I wanted the original hardback because that’s the one I owned as a teen, before disposing of it in (I assume) the same orgy of internalised homophobia that caused me to get rid of all my other queer-themed books when I became an evangelical Christian in 1994
The one that breaks my heart is the text of Derek Jarman’s Blue, which was a limited edition of about 3,000 copies and is now totally unobtainable (unless you pay several hundred pounds)
Is Strange New Worlds S2E3 the first time anyone in Star Trek has said the quiet part out loud and explicitly (and only half-ironically) called the world of the Federation a “socialist utopia”?
@bri_seven Whereas reading that just brought home to me how I find masculinity, as a concept, incomprehensible. In both its “toxic” and “nontoxic” forms
Autistic. ADHD. Bi. Nonbinary. Ex-Christian. Married to E, offspring T, K & D.Basically a huge problem to a sane world. 🩷💜💙:autism: :heartbisexual: :heartnonbinary: