Ardat-lilî

Ardat-lilî

@network-nomad.bsky.social

She/her 🇺🇦🇨🇦

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Erin Reed
@erininthemorning.com

Replying to @erininthemorning.com

Sports are a foot in the door, intentionally so by the anti-trans organizations that push it. They know that if they can get you to accept an asterisk on who we are in one arena, they can get you to accept it everywhere.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux
@bretdevereaux.bsky.social

Alas, they won't. I discussed the chud-history alt-right Twitter ecosystem a while back for the Bulwark here: www.thebulwark.com/p/why-stone-...

thebulwark.comWhy Stone-Faced Fascists Keep Getting Antiquity WrongOnline bigotry masquerading as a love of history in the fever swamps of Elon Musk’s X.
Lane Stellmaker@hipcrimevocab.net

Please, alt-right dorks, I am begging you, just one history book. Just open it. Maybe you will learn something by osmosis.

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QueerAF
@wearequeeraf.com

🚨🆕 @wearequeeraf.com and @whatthetrans.com can reveal that the NHS has cancelled all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of the Welsh Gender Service Some trans patients received the news just days or even hours before they were due to take place 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/nhs-cancels-...

wearequeeraf.comNHS cancels all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of Welsh Gender Service with immediate effectSome trans patients received news their surgeries had been cancelled just days or even hours before they were due to take place

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Andrew A.N. Deloucas
@aandeloucas.com

The first cuneiform text found after George Smith's decipherment of the Epic of Gilgamesh's Flood Tablet in 1872 was a literary text called šarru ana dīni lā iqūl, or 'The King Does Not Regard the Law'. 'The King Does Not Regard the Law' concerns rulers who act out in a state's self-interest:

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her)
@moudhy.bsky.social

As a historian of the very ancient past, including some of the earliest known written records, I can confirm. (I really need to do a thread on gender fluidity in ancient Mesopotamia.)

Dr. Kristopher Wells@drkristopherwells.bsky.social

Trans people have always existed throughout history around the world. What’s new is the “anti-gender” movement attacking trans and LGBTQ+ communities. www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...

hks.harvard.eduTransgender Day of Visibility and the Unfinished Work of LiberationThe views expressed below are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights or Harvard Kennedy School. These perspectives have been presented to encourage debate on important public policy challenges. Transgender Day of Visibility is our perennial opportunity to celebrate the precious lives and powerful achievements of transgender people. So let us do that – loudly, widely, proudly.

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Kat Tenbarge
@kattenbarge.bsky.social

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

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