Protesters across the UK were a diverse crowd, with slogans ranging from plaintive to militant ~ Kell w Farshéa ~ Mass demonstrations took place across the UK yesterday (19 April) protesting the Supreme Court decision on the interpretation of transgender people’s rights under the Equalities Act. A march in London drew between ten and twenty
The ones who want trans folks out of the public sphere will now feel emboldened to challenge us, to abuse us, to misgender us ~ Kell w Farshéa ~ It’s the sheer sadism of it—the corks popping outside the Supreme Court as a group of women and a couple of men cheer at excluding one
What does it mean to be a trans anarchist at this point in the 21st century? What does it mean to be a white working class English trans person living in relative security in London at this point of the global climate catastrophe, where wars rage across continents, where the police force of the rogue
Content note: this article discusses violence against trans people. On the 11th December, Eleanor Rykener was brought before the courts in the City of London for the crime of prostitution. She had a long history of sex work having worked in London and in Oxford over a number of years. But she also lived and
As the state doubles down on binary gender, trans resistance challenges the machinery of control from below ~ Blade Runner ~ On 16 April 2025, the UK Supreme Court ruled that the term “woman” in the Equality Act 2010 refers exclusively to so-called “biological sex”.
From destroying the environment to betraying the disabled, the government is running the same play—will people fall for it?
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the party and protest phenomenon’s first high-profile action on Camden High Street in 1995 and to mark the event, it’ll be back on May 17th ~ Anon ~ Although Reclaim The Streets (RTS) had existed in embryonic form for several years before May ’95, that action marked an
Their work in supporting anti-authoritarian armed resistance against Russian occupation has spilled over to directing aid to civilians living on the front ~ Josie Ó Súileabháin ~ “If people are tired of this war, tell them to come and join the fight.
As a new chancellor is inaugurated, German companies are preparing to increase arms production and stop relying on US protection ~ Omar Kardoudi, El Confidencial ~ The geopolitical shift in the landscape brought about by Donald Trump’s arrival in the White House has forced European countries to develop their own defence plans.
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