Marty Davies

After a long hiatus I've returned to my column with @campaignuk.bsky.social to debrief an extraordinary debut at @canneslions.bsky.social - being part of the awarding jury for the prestigious award category: Glass: The Lion for Change. June has certainly been a memorable month! Added to Patreon:

I’m glad to read this intervention. An important step toward addressing adspend’s role in funding harmful content. www.insidetrack.org.uk/releases/adh...

Have seen a lot of people questioning the quote 'may' in this headline. I understand why, in the context of a very similar case that has been shared widely. But a few things we should be careful about - short 🧵

Today is Intersex Awareness Day. 30 years after the first protests members of the UK intersex communities have come together to write this important open letter to the UK government: openletter.earth/open-letter-... Please do read, sign and share widely.

Here is a letter you should sign, led by intersex campaigners openletter.earth/open-letter-...

👀 Here's your October list of companies advertising on GB News & Talk TV (highlighted = appeared on both) --- Ad revenue plays a major part in media funding. Where brands advertise is what they bankroll. Join the movement pushing back against media hate 👉 follow us for more #StopFundingHate

RAYE is a worthy winner of the Mercury Prize this year. I love ‘THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE’ …but I did wonder how Lily Allen’s album ‘West End Girl’ fared. How was it not even on the list? That album set a new standard for storytelling within an album format. The live performance is a stage play

Did he just hear “press pool”? This is like when he thought “asylum seeker” referred to a mental asylum

📚 One of the Nazis’ first major book burnings targeted the world’s first Trans+ clinic, where more than 20,000 books and pieces of research into Trans+ lives were erased. For #BannedBooksWeek, from our archive with @smartypantsmarty.com 👇

QueerAF can reveal figures that show 618 people have died while under the care of an NHS gender clinic, at least 21 by suicide. www.wearequeeraf.com/the-deadly-t...

📚 One of the Nazis’ first major book burnings targeted the world’s first Trans+ clinic, where more than 20,000 books and pieces of research into Trans+ lives were erased. For #BannedBooksWeek, from our archive with @smartypantsmarty.com 👇

Remember that more innocent time when people would give themselves a Halloween name for October. Let’s bring it back.

The Dubai-Tel Aviv flight attack is one of the most shocking and unbelievable stories. Wow.

Are there any conference floor votes for Trans+ rights this year? I’m struggling to find much information.

Pessimism is a luxury

Lib Dem conference votes overwhelmingly in favour of the motion "Restoring Trans Rights" 🎉🏳️‍⚧️

Bonnie will be missed. She is someone who I always listened intently to when she spoke. I’ve long admired her intellect and compassion. I just want to publicly share my love and sympathies with her friends and family. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’d like to feel less alone in my innate human desire to treat people fleeing persecution with compassion and comfort. People seeking asylum after horrendous life experiences are then met with fear, judgement and rejection. I find it shameful. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is a great letter 👇

Appears to be clear criminality caught on camera.

"Nobody wants to have baldness, deepening of the voice or enlargement of the clitoris." Trans men reading this:

Monumental achievement.

I'm really relying on a little extra GoFundMe money to get me through this month's bills If you'd share with your networks who may want to help out a struggling trans science communicator, I'd deeply appreciate any extra support www.gofundme.com/f/help-trans...

🚨🆕 @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-...

“We need to think about attacks on Pride as a signal that our democracy is under threat. All of us in our democratic societies need to value Pride more and protect it.” Great to interview Marty Davies for Gay Times. @smartypantsmarty.com www.gaytimes.com/marty-davies...

Londoners have a tradition of protesting retailers upon store opening when values misalign. I recall the Canada Goose flagship store opening on Regent Street in 2017 to PETA protesters.

Dolly Parton is a genuine inspiration to so many. She left the world better than when she entered it. The ambition we should all have. Through the Imagination Library she gifted over 300 million books since inception. What a woman. Be more like Dolly.

I feel like you’ve all been gatekeeping Kacey Musgraves. So I’m not speaking to any of you.

I spoke with Philip Baldwin at Gay Times about the state of Pride.

I spoke with Philip Baldwin at Gay Times about the state of Pride.

It is incredibly wearing to have different parts of your reality picked away at and described as fictions. To live in modern Britain is to be swimming in open letters, petitions and complaint forms. Anyway, complain to Ofcom about that Channel 4 documentary: adhduk.co.uk/challenging-...

I've added my name to the open letter calling for a public inquiry into the tragic death of Professor Jason Arday. Will you join me? goodlaw.social/625453

If you haven’t yet signed this make some time to do so tonight.

We cannot let this story fall to the way-side. We need urgent press regulation. Sign the open letter for a public inquiry into Jason's death. Repost and tag friends in the comments. ⬇️ Add your name ⬇️ goodlaw.social/n1ck

That is a wild fact isn’t it. Two-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven’t mentioned climate change. Unsurprising, maybe… But so illuminating is that fact about just how captured the media have become. And how ill-informed we are as a result.

Thank you, Julia 🙏 “I once wrote under a pseudonym so I could keep serving. I write now in my own name for the same reason.”

More of this please