@megalightheart
I help deep thinkers with big jobs take wise next steps. Complexity and mess, liberation from oppression and planetary futures. White, bi, poly, neurosparkly, trans. Long-term meditator and EXCELLENT baker. Views my OWN. 🍉. Manchester. megalightheart.com
As an intersex person whose assigned gender was medically enforced from infancy
As an intersex person whose body does not, cannot & never will conform to neatly-labeled boxes of M or F
As an intersex person public about my identity in the media
The Kansas ruling is a bleak omen of horrors to come
Oh.
Watching Broadchurch for the first time. Why didn't you tell me how good it was?
It's got EVERYONE. Two Doctors Who, the gay one from Bridgerton, the cute but wooden one from HTGAWM, Olivia fucking COLEMAN?
Only on S1E1 and cried three times already.
Enticing!
I read the doc yesterday and it states that there are 1 million 'illegal immigrants' in the country. No ref for that number, obvs. Terrifying.
247 plz
Ohhhh. I use greaseproof paper for this purpose but I love a bit of reusable kit. 👀
20+ years of bread making and I haven’t heard of a dough sling. *off to DuckDuckGo I go*
It avoided any obvious ‘gaijin in Japan yuckyuck’ things. Honestly was beautiful, light, deep, layered. Love when art changes you a little bit. Also made me cancel my Odeon membership (nothing I’ve wanted to see in months) and sign up for membership of the indie cinema.
Mari Yamamoto and Brendan Fraser, sitting at a bar, laughing.
Just sobbed my way through the last half of Rental Family.
What a beautiful meditation on connection, belonging, grief, preciousness, loss and community.
Made me miss my Mum and want to find happiness in the life I'm actually living, as well touching a longing for another, warmer world.
Can confirm also true for trans women. This is the real definition of a woman, take note.
Hmmm. How am I? Persisting despite the horrors? Doing my best to witness, take action and fight despair with connection?
Oh my god owwwwww
I'm back. Anything happen since October?
Hey lovely - I uninstalled bsky just after you left Manchester (not personal lol) and just got enticed back today. I don't think it was me that said someone was using Intermediaries in a class, sorry.
I’m coming to #London #Manchester #Edinburgh and #Glasgow touring a book on the long history of #transgender people and the fight for #LGBTQ rights against Nazis in the #Weimar. I’m a journalist, an author, a TV host, a PhD, a podcaster. Interview me. Let’s annoy #TERFS @theguardian.com any takers?
I LOVE threads like this. Yes, give me all your special interest analyses.
This badly written skeet wasn't QUITE how I wanted to launch it, but yes, the brilliant @bschillace.brandyschillace.com is coming to Manchester in October to chat with lil ol moi about how the queers fought the fascists LAST time.
It'll (we'll) be cute. You should come.
Turns out, turns OUT... there might be a sigNIFicant discount on the book for people who come along, so, ya know, sign UP
I mean, she was already coming for an event in the afternoon but I grabbed her for The Intermediaries ~after dark~
This badly written skeet wasn't QUITE how I wanted to launch it, but yes, the brilliant @bschillace.brandyschillace.com is coming to Manchester in October to chat with lil ol moi about how the queers fought the fascists LAST time.
It'll (we'll) be cute. You should come.
Turns out, turns OUT... there might be a sigNIFicant discount on the book for people who come along, so, ya know, sign UP
Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."
It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes
Our combined powers would make us UNSTOPPABLE
*crackly triangle eye gaze*
Dersh has been banging this drum since Trump1 & the really good news is: ostracism works, even on the shameless.
Tons of people miss this--the shameless are hyper-sensitive to stigma.
Civil society should use this free, non-violent tool to punish destructive people a lot more often. It works.
I'm hosting a Brandy for a chat in October in Manchester - maybe that could be our first f2f meeting??
www.socialrefuge.com/event-detail...
It was spelled that way in a publicity draft recently, and yeah, I knew they had a Frenchish pronunciation in mind.
Also, I have stopped being surprised that I am one degree of separation from anyone interesting, via @jovanevery.bsky.social.
I’m so excited!
Why are they attacking trans people? @bschillace.brandyschillace.com knows why.
Join us as we talk about her history of the the first target of fascist bookburning - the legendary Institute for Sexual Science, a haven of research and support for LGBTI+ folk
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-qu...
Why are they attacking trans people? @bschillace.brandyschillace.com knows why.
Join us as we talk about her history of the the first target of fascist bookburning - the legendary Institute for Sexual Science, a haven of research and support for LGBTI+ folk
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talking-qu...