sasha

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I spent two years investigating the influence parents who do not accept their trans children have managed to exert on government, via policitians like Miriam Cates. The results were shocking but sadly not surprising. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024...

The parents group at the centre of a rollback of trans rightswww.thebureauinvestigates.com A Conservative MP enlisted Bayswater Support Group in push back on trans education in schools

I read the whole Cass Review, and wrote about how it promotes conversion therapy with any other name, and treats trans kids, and young adults, with total disdain for @Dazed

The British government is throwing young trans people under the buswww.dazeddigital.com Following the publication of the Cass Review, it’s going to be harder than ever for young people to access gender-affirming care in Britain

I wrote about the experiences of former GIDS patients and how the new NHS service for gender-diverse youth will fail to address the real problems with its predecessor for Trans Writes #TransDayOfVisibility

NHS & puberty blockers: Former GIDS patients reflect on long wait times, invasive assessments - Trans Writestranswrites.world Earlier this month, NHS England confirmed its plans to end the ‘routine’ prescription of puberty blockers to trans kids. To most former GIDS patients, the idea that the use of puberty blockers was eve...

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I just need people to understand, as this poem has been circulating where I can see it since October 2023, that it was first published in August 2014

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every writer just wants you to read their little essay

I wrote about how protest has become central to conversations about Islamophobia and antisemitism in Britain, and how it simultaneously creates cohesion and division vashtimedia.com/2024/02/02/f...

Whose streets?: Protest since 7 Octobervashtimedia.com Sasha Baker explores the responses of British Muslims and Jews to a new era of mass protest.

I wrote about the twin flames of transphobia and anti-Palestinian racism animating many prominent British Jewish centrist and right-wing commentators, in particular Hadley Freeman for Vashti vashtimedia.com/2023/12/14/f...

How transphobes became the voice of British Jewryvashtimedia.com The same commentators who have marketed themselves as authorities on antisemitism are among Britain's most prominent purveyors of transphobia, writes Sasha Baker.

In my experience (in the UK) it's been the case for a long time that a lot of people will hear "that's racist" as "you're evil" and jump immediately to asking for reassurance that they are not in fact evil

rufo and his acolytes in the fascist right are breaking the social contract using weaponized unreality to mainstream fascist propaganda and violence. he keeps telling people he’s doing it and no one believes it’s working Believe these people when they tell you what they are and their plan

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Gaza casualty stats cited in the media (e.g. 61% or 68% of mortalities are civilian deaths) are *estimates* based on a clearly stated assumption: that all men 18-59 are [potential] combatants. Huge thanks to @abuaardvark.bsky.social & the team at @goodauth.bsky.social for their work on this piece.

A closer look at the Gaza casualty datagoodauthority.org Palestinians inspect the damage after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, Oct. 10, 2023 (cc) Naaman Omar, Palestinian News & Information Agency (Wafa) in

these are ugly in a way that could absolutely be the height of fashion in six months' time

15 years ago today: the shoes thrown at then president george w bush 43 were size 10 (eu 44) ecco’s in espresso brown

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I think more western journalists should be curious about why so many Palestinian children are locked up in Israeli detention without trial.

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NYT actually doing a journalism.

I think more western journalists should be curious about why so many Palestinian children are locked up in Israeli detention without trial.

Freed Palestinians Were Mostly Young and Not Convicted of Crimeswww.nytimes.com Israel has released a total of 240 Palestinian prisoners and detainees during a weeklong pause in hostilities.

Anyone else with a septum piercing find it kind of painful to breathe in through your nose when it gets to like 0 degrees? Idk if it's because the metal is so cold or the cold air is going through the tunnel created by the piercing but it's weird

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Motaz- journalist on ground in Gaza- sharing a last plea- saying it’s too dangerous now & he’s entered survival mode. Over 60 journalists have been killed already (as well as some of their families targeted) @youcaughtscott.bsky.social @ohrobin.bsky.social @farhana.bsky.social

The news - and specifically how the news is being talked about on Twitter/X - is making it impossible for me to work or sleep properly so gonna try and actually use this account and stay away from the bad place

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"another reason for extensive harm to civilian life in Gaza is the widespread use of a system called “Habsora”, built on AI & can “generate” targets almost automatically at a rate that far exceeds previously possible." https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/

‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gazawww.972mag.com Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an artificial intelligence system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest war on Gaza, a +972 and Local Call investigation reveals.

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and a lot of people these days are showing they learned the same lesson.

Kissinger’s family fled nazism and the lesson he seemed to take from that was “never again… will this happen except only to specific groups I want it to happen to”

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I've said this before but I want to repeat it very blatantly: Antisemitism is NOT just hatred of Jews. It is a mythology that helps people make sense of the world. When people take the step into the mythology, they enter a very deep realm of conspiracy theorizing. It is a totalizing worldview.

My dad when I say ADHD is making my life hard in any way

I think about this cartoon almost every day.

pretty proud of this photo I took today

something nice showed up on an algorithmically generated timeline???

Wow: SELF magazine has published a series called “Let Them Play,” featuring stories about trans youth and sports, written and edited entirely by queer and trans people. This is how you change media. www.self.com/package/let-...

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PSA: you have six days to pull off any big heists and/or capers currently on your to-do list before bisexual visibility month negates all cloaking spells

That old Jewish joke about the rabbi reading the Nazi paper but it's me reading my PIP rejection

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When someone asks me how Judaism I am

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Bottoms, Tops, We all hate cops

I guess this is the part where I learn how to shitpost

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