This poem does not support Palestine Action
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"Your trans colleagues are receiving emails from their bosses saying that they have to use segregated facilities because they’re frightened of getting sued.
"You have to be able to present those bosses with something scarier than the anti-trans legal budget."
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Orkney friends, we're coming home with Deep Wheel Orcadia a week today.
www.scissorkick.co.uk/tour
I'm teaching a course at Moniack Mhor in September, with Hannah Lavery, & our guest is Roger Robinson.
It's space to think about how politics & writing intertwine, what we can & can't do with words, the possibilities and frustrations of activist writing.
www.moniackmhor.org.uk/courses/2537...
Some words from Poland on multilingualism, with a speculative translation of Màiri Mhòr at the end:
I'm sick of English bullshit
I'm really fucking sick
Sorry not sorry my song's so long
I'm sick of English bullshit
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Stop lobbying the government, start taking direct action to resist trans segregation:
This hits very hard.
I, and many of my trans colleagues, operated from this logic by default. Many now, I think, are waking up to its flaws. Some, sadly, still do not and cling to the hope of a quick fix or compromise.
"We cannot show segregation as the moral abhorrence, practical disaster and mechanism of terrifying social control that it is with open letters, symbolic protests and lobbying campaigns. We show segregation for what it is by collectively making segregation impossible to enforce"
"Your trans colleagues are receiving emails from their bosses saying that they have to use segregated facilities because they’re frightened of getting sued.
"You have to be able to present those bosses with something scarier than the anti-trans legal budget."
substack.com/home/post/p-...
"Your trans colleagues are receiving emails from their bosses saying that they have to use segregated facilities because they’re frightened of getting sued.
"You have to be able to present those bosses with something scarier than the anti-trans legal budget."
substack.com/home/post/p-...
