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Most of the posts before 2022 are syndicated from Medium; I've started blogging here directly more recently. Some of them might even be more than weeknotes sometime soon!

  1. Writing to my MP about trans rights ...again

    Earlier this month, Bridget Phillipson, in her role as Minister “for Women and Equalities” laid a new code of practice before Parliament. As it’s still transphobic bullshit, we wrote to our MP again.

  2. My 2026 Hugo nominations

    I pay for membership of the World Science Fiction Society, so that I can nominate and vote in the Hugo Awards each year. I keep meaning to blog my noms and votes, so here we go…

  3. Complaining to the BBC about anti-trans reporting

    In reporting about Graham Linehan’s conviction for criminal damage, the BBC used offensive language to describe the 17-year-old victim of this crime

  4. Adjective Identity Cryptid №2

    Book review: “Shy Trans Banshee” by Tony Santorella

  5. Book cover for “Seven Recipes for Revolution”, showing a very big kaijū with a man stood atop in a butcher’s apron and some serious looking butchery saws
    Eating kaijū… and the rich

    Book review: “Seven Recipes for Revolution” by Ryan Rose

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