Ashleigh Talbot 🏳️⚧️
@ashleigh
Trans, femme, co-founder of @whatthetrans.com, fighter of MS, wheelchair user, player of TTRPG's, Lego enthusiast, solarpunk, bassist, theremin player and Green. 💚 she/her.
Reminder that, six years ago, the Tory government at the time was somewhere to the left of Starmer's government on trans rights.
New glasses! Because I am over 40 and now officially An Old™️ it turns out I need different glasses for reading and for distance. I know varifocals exist but the lenses for them are suuuuuuper expensive and apparently take a lot of getting used to.
I'm trying to sign up but I'm stuck in a loop on your Action Network page. I enter my details, click through and just get this over and over again
Also the secret, extra spicy answer is that I kept planning to take myself out of the equation, permanently. Then one day I snapped and was like:
That's your view, is it Andy? Because it's incoherent. There is no way to implement the SC ruling and the new EHRC guidance without further marginalising an already marginalised community because that's what the ruling and guidance are for, to push trans people further out of public life.
Awesome! My spoils from @delospublishing.co.uk that I mentioned on the podcast have arrived! The 'We Resist' zine is very satisfying, even beautiful in parts. Looking forward to looking through the new avant-garde later tonight.
These are apparently actual suggestions for The Party Currently known as Your Party. If they end up with For the Many the acronym will be FtM, which should amuse any trans men in the room.
It kind of feels like Zarah Sultana is the one and only member of Your Party who isn't a committed transphobe.
Normal island. Unbiased media, not a problem, nothing to see here.
Manchester pride discussing cranking up their own pay, ditching the activism and hiring overpriced music acts to attract the hetros.
Me: "What, ID cards? Fuck off, Tony Blair. Get another hobby" *monkey's paw curls*
Yesterday I shared a post claiming that the BMA had drafted a motion strongly criticizing the recent supreme court judgement. It has turned out to be a fake image. I should have tried to check it out first before I shared it. Sorry, all. My bad.
Another "provocative gesture" that the media refuses to name. Call it what it is!
Last week's craft project was this mask, which I absolutely loved. I'd tag the designer but they're not on BlueSky (yet). If you're interested it's from wintercroft.com/collections/.... You print the design, stick it to your choice of cardboard then cut it out & stick it together. It's good fun ☺️
The 2 Strange New Worlds episodes are "Something Lives Beneath The Hearts of Men" (Enterprise crew encounters something difficult and morally ambiguous at best) or "Heisenberg Whomp" (the crew are caught in a weird space thingy which causes them to express emotions through interpretive dance)
I've been getting back up to my old tricks today, filming and recording for a project to be released in late January. Stay tuned!
I am off out doing A Thing tomorrow, for which I have to look semi-professional. So I got my hair done appropriately. The professional side is on the right, the fun side is on the left. More pictures tomorrow! Probably.
@laurajanegrace.bsky.social at @bandonthewall.bsky.social last night! BOTW are really nailing "how to do accessibility for gigs". Fan-fucking-tastic gig, had a brilliant night.
I was looking for this the other day, about how it's in some ways easier to just give up. We shouldn't, though.
Warming up after this year's TDoR event in Sackville Gardens. The list of names grows longer every year, I don't think the next few years will see it get shorter. A very solemn occasion, as always. Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living Xx