mikael 🏳️‍⚧️

mikael 🏳️‍⚧️

@criptimelord.bsky.social

always out of place and time | tired transsexual | black, disabled and audhd queer PhDer | artist and geographer | antifascist | he/him I'm dyslexic and dyspraxic so excuse typos

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Hey friends. thinking about how to re-enter public life a little more. there's SO MUCH we need to do in the world. I 1st got involved in social media bc I saw that so many good people just needed a few tools that i had been lucky enough to grow up with and seek. How to best serve the community?

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Apply for this awesome study group with our Abolition Journalism Fellow by ➡️ June 29 ⬅️! ✨Radical unlearning ✨Love ✨Somatics ✨Abolition

Looks like that's me not getting lower surgery then. I was on the waiting list for almost 3 years.

TransActual@transactualuk.bsky.social

New Victoria Hospital will no longer provide masculising gender-affirming surgery from December. We have been assured by NHS England that it is looking at alternative providers to continue this service, and that they will keep patients informed. transactual.org.uk/blog/2026/06...

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Trust in news has fallen to an all-time low globally. 🏳️‍🌈 As LGBTQIA+ lives become increasingly politicised, our community needs journalism it can trust. We're just a few members away from our Pride Month goal. Help us build something better 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/membership/?...

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“I'm in no doubt about this: the Supreme Court ruling was wrong. And the recent EHRC guidance is wrong all over again. So we're lobbying MPs hard to reject it. And we will keep fighting to change the unworkable, unjust legislation. Our movement has never just sat down and accepted unjust laws.”

UNISON@unison.org.uk

A massive opportunity for change Andrea Egan delivers barnstorming first national delegate conference speech as general secretary, promising to build strength and organisation for all workers #uNDC26 unsn.uk/4xuUxp3

I'm in my 30s. I grew up on irc where adults clocked me as a kid and taught me how to protect myself. I saw the internet as we know it grow, and found countless communities along the way. Oh, and I lived in a country where the net was censored. Don't ban it - work with kids to protect them.

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk

I'm in my 20s. I grew up with social media. Without that and video games, I would have been so completely isolated. We should be making the world safer for kids, not trying to ban them from it.

Absolutely! I have a stutter and a processing speed disorder. It was women in disability justice spaces who taught me abt giving space for disfluent speech - the pauses, the false starts, the silences, the need for some to use assistive software or patiently wait for those who breathe differently.

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This is also something that occurs in disabled speech as people need time to recall words or process their thoughts or may other struggles with speech they're trying to overcome while they buy time. Just fucking let people talk and listen, it isn't so hard.

Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com

The hill I will die on: Women say "like," "um," and "err," so frequently, because when there is the slightest pause in their speech, they are interrupted by men, and don't get the floor back to speak.🤷🏿‍♂️ So people that are frequently interrupted tend to use more verbal fillers. Let women speak.

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Where fiber history meets Pride. This is a large piece (10x28') of one of the two original 30x60' pride flags, the only known surviving section of either. They were designed, hand dyed and sewn by a community of queer artists. The colors are slightly different from most rainbow flags today.

smithsonianmag.comLong-Lost Fragment of First Rainbow Pride Flag Resurfaces After Four DecadesThe brilliantly colored banner—now on view in San Francisco—flew on "Gay Freedom Day" in 1978

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My academic book, ‘JK Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic,’ is out September 2026. It is my analysis of the moral panic from Edinburgh, the ‘city of JK Rowling,’ where I study and work at JKR’s former university as it became a hub for anti-trans organizing … ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...

ohiostatepress.orgJ. K. Rowling and the Anti-Trans PanicWeaves the author’s lived experience as a trans woman with pop culture and media analysis to dissect J. K. Rowling’s emergence as an anti-trans activist within the context of the UK’s anti-trans moral...

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We are calling on anyone who can to raise complaints against this article, it is one sided, from a publicly funded media outlet that is boosting the anti-trans narrative. Platforming a anti-trans org (PHSE Brighton), no pro-trans orgs, no parents of the children who will have their care removed

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How do autistic adults make sense of being assigned the "challenging behaviour" label? *RECRUITING PARTICIPANTS* I am autistic & I have been assigned the "challenging behaviour" label Supervisor: @drstevenkapp.bsky.social Email Chloe.Apter@myport.ac.uk to express interest/for more information

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SO GOOD. A must-listen for those interested in comics history, trans history, lesbian history, and the history of tarot!

Morgan M Page@morganmpage.bsky.social

ONE FROM THE VAULTS RETURNS! For a special Tenth Anniversary season! Ten brand new episodes of the original trans history podcast. In our first episode, we chart the life of tarot master, sci fi writer, and 70s trans activist Rachel Pollack! Please share! m.soundcloud.com/onefromtheva...

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BREAKING: After BASH BACK actionists took direct action against the EHRC's offices, the EHRC have been thrown out by their landlord. Let this be a lesson: if you rent your buildings to bigots, we will BASH BACK. And don't worry, we'll find them again. They can't hide.

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When a University is allowed to threaten its staff with no pay for not going above and beyond their existing contracts, there is a massive issue. The First Minister is not interested in condemning this practice.

Kate Nevens (she/her)@katenevens.bsky.social

✊ Solidarity with University of Edinburgh staff taking action for better conditions, and with everyone organising, supporting each other and refusing to be divided.

This shouldn't even have to be something the Good Law Project is funding to support trans youth which is enraging. But I'm very glad they're doing it. If you can, please donate.

Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org

If the NHS won’t protect trans children, we will 🩵 🩶 🩷 We are dedicating funds to support at least 10 trans kids’ gender affirming care after the NHS suddenly dropped their treatment If you'd like to help us support more trans children's access to healthcare click here👇 https://goodlaw.social/nl30

Good. Fuck this fascist Labour govt.

Owen Blacker@owen.blacker.me.uk

Voters Are Punishing Labour for Gaza A new poll confirms that Labour’s stance on the Gaza genocide is driving a decline in support. To win back voters, the party must defend the Palestinian people. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/06/vote...

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Want to share some thoughts. I know the rioting in Belfast has had lots of coverage. But I still think more needs to be said. This was so incredibly shocking. *people burned out of their homes because of the colour of their skin*.

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This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

As a trans man, I once had a trans friend joke that I could now be a boisterous lad which didn't sit well with me. The cis men I looked up to in my life were gentle, kind and creative and had the time to be caring to me as a misfit gnc kid. They taught me about the importance of uplifting community.

Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social

Someone asked "what model of masculinity is out there to rival what Tate is selling" and I think, we don't need some Master of the Universe paradigm. All we need is: "small and constant acts of kindness to the community around you". (My mentor at uni, now retired, is the perfect example of that.)

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NION Women are proud to support this essential video campaign #SomeoneIKnew, in which survivors speak up for trans+ inclusion and against the EHRC Code of Practice. Trigger Warning for the video: narratives of abuse and SA — please watch with care