Towards a Queer Offensive. On the 14th of September 2021, approximately 60 Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs) gathered by the Senedd to protest the Welsh Government’s LGBTQ+ Action Plan (Which actually does little to help queer people, the TERFs just hate it because it acknowledges our existence). Amongst their ranks were members of Merched Cymru, Lesbian …
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Fuck Anti-Vaxxers!
Fuck Anti-Vaxxers. Over 120 thousand people in the UK have been killed by COVID-19. That’s over 120 thousand parents, friends, children, grandparents, siblings, lovers all dead, and an immeasurably higher number of people left grieving and heart-broken. Yet some sycophants have the fucking nerve to pretend that COVID-19 isn’t real; overwhelmingly petit-bourgeois (academic talk for …
Debunking the Open Letter
The open letter was a short piece signed by 16 professors and doctors who work at Cardiff University in an attempt to persuade the Vice Chancellor to cut all ties with Stonewall, a charity which supports LGBTQ+ rights. This was suggested in the middle of pride month, and specifically related to Stonewall’s views on transgender …
‘The issue is not discussion- it’s abuse’
Recently, there has been a certain perception that progress made towards trans liberation has been going backwards, rather than forwards, due in most part to a wave of mainstream transphobia in the press. It is important to note that according to YouGov polls in February 2021, the general public largely support respecting an individual’s gender …
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“Let the bodies pile high in their thousands.”- Authoritarianism and the Tory Deathcult.
There is a reason why bodygate won’t harm Johnson and that’s because they don’t care! Rather more than that, it’s not just an absence of empathy (though the Tory voters consistently fail to demonstrate any of that), it’s because of authoritarianism. Authoritarian mindsets exist in nominal democracies just as democratic or anarchistic mindsets exist in …
The First May Day
May the 1st, 1886- “Eight hours for work. Eight hours for rest. Eight hours for what we will.” was the watchword of the day. Across the United States of America, up to half a million workers went on strike for the eight-hour day. This was a momentous achievement for the American labour movement, but the …