penwing.blog: a blog by penwing
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Rendered Invisible
The TL;DR is that Warrington Guardian is engaging in trans erasure in its latest charity campaign rendering Warrington queer people invisible in the process.Six months ago, Brianna Ghey was murdered in a Warrington park. Brianna was a 16 year old trans teenager. I live in Warrington. This hit hard.
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BBC On Fedi?
The BBC has joined Fedi… a bit. They’ve started a six month experiment with a Mastodon server for a handful of BBC general accounts (R&D types, Radio 4, 5Live) (i.e. not individuals). Note, BBC News is not one of these accounts (but Radio 4 is). This is, one the one hand, great. We want big…
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Protest
I grew up under Section 28. I was lucky – I had access to the internet in the early days of IRC (NeverNet), Yahoo Groups and GeoCities (West Hollywood neighbourhood) and so was able to work out who I was despite this. And, of course, understand that I was growing up under Section 28. So…
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Nimona
This will contain spoilers for Nimona and its queer themes. This morning, I finally got around to watching Nimona – and wasn’t it a lot of fun? And it’s a delightfully queer movie. This is not Luca with it’s (laughably (un)deniable) gay romance. It’s not Strange Worlds with it’s queer relationship consigned to bookending the…
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It Lives!
Once again, this site is resurrected. This time in WordPress. The old site is still available for those who care, but this is my new home. Initially this is a quick test post to see what works etc. and to try and play around with a few things.
Got any book recommendations?