2023 Reading Masterthread, with links or whatever, just for recordkeeping.

The "sticking up for transphobia on twitter dot com" to "hanging out with fascists and whining that everything is the fault of minorities" pipeline continues in its 100% success rate.

I've got Nicola Dinan coming in in January, in conversation with the great @JosieLong, for what's going to be an amazing event!

Nicola Dinan returns to the shop to discuss her second novel - the story of Max, a trans woman whose NYE accident prompts her to try out an old-fashioned straight relationship 🎈 It’s a heartfelt & hilarious story of resolutions perfect for the new year! waterstones.com/events/nicol…

This is so good it hurts

Class is not lived simply or exclusively through economics, but is mediated and reproduced by race, gender, disability etc. There might be a *conceptual* distinction between class and 'identitarian' categories, but there isn't a *material* one.

This is just a tired re-working of old school class reductionism, with a lil anti-woke flare. The working class - in all its diversity and complexity - has always been at the forefront of struggles for freedom - freedom in its most expansive sense.

A reminder that none of these publications are your friend. The moment it’s advantageous to their bottom line they’ll make a “10 up-and-coming transphobes to watch”

RT @morganmpage: Healthcare is one piece of the puzzle. The pervasive harassment & violence, the everyday acts of exclusion & expressions o…

Labour’s manifesto promised to “remove indignities for trans people”, yet the government’s ban on puberty blockers adopts the Tories’ politicised unevidenced approach. Young people — cis & trans — must have access to healthcare they need. I stand firmly with the trans community.

"If we ignore the deaths of trans kids, trans kids haven't died" - @ProfLAppleby apparently

RT @trans_kids_d_b: Wes Streeting refused to show his face at his offices this morning, and refused to face the community he is doing his b…

Every single Labour MP who claims to be an LGBTQ+ ally should be out speaking against the Wes Streeting ban on puberty blockers. No excuses.

"Wes Streeting has chosen politics over our lives. We are being put through an experiment.but the experiment is to deny healthcare, not provide it".

Would have been really nice if they'd not had to do this... again. But @wesstreeting is utterly determined to undermine trans healthcare and attack and destroy trans kids.

I fully believe @wesstreeting cares about the issue of trans people. The problem is I can only believe, based on all the evidence, that he cares about it as a problem to vanish, not a group of people deserving rights, equality, and healthcare.

Labour said they would end culture wars, but this is a clear continuation of them. This ruling will have devastating consequences for young trans and non binary people. It must be challenged.

This is what level of julio-claudian we're in right now: he's exiled his son's disgraced former mistress to an administrative position in Greece.