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Oxford High Street at night. Photocredit Lionel Leo via Wikimedia Commons

Calls for boycott as Oxford Literary Festival continually promotes bigotry

Two talks under the LGBTQ tag on Oxford Literary Festival have attracted widespread condemnation due to being held by anti-trans campaigners Julie Bindel and Helen Joyce, with Joyce being a straight cisgender woman and in no way LGBTQ. Previous years for Oxford Literary Festival have included a talk by Sharron Davies spreading anti-trans propaganda about the unfairness of leaving trans athletes alone and not being weird about them.

Gemma Stone
A photo of Harrow Leisure Center where the roller skating event the victim was lured to took place. Photo credit Stacey Harris via Wikimedia Commons

UK Press and CPS defends mob who attacked and stabbed teenage trans girl

UK Press outlets are choosing to focus on attempting to manufacture a “queer panic defense” in which the actions of the attackers are excused due to the victim’s gender identity or sexual orientation. While also actively ommitting details which harm that; such as the fact that this attacker was recording sex without consent or that the attack happened over a week after the sex act took place.

Gemma Stone
A train approaches the platform at Sandplace Halt on the Looe Train Line in Cornwall. Photocredit: Rob Farrow via Wikimedia Commons

What I learned from making friends on a train

I don’t know if it was just the Christmas spirit in the air or if I was emitting some sort of powerful “come talk to me” aura, but my usual plan of quietly playing games and hoping to be left alone was immediately smashed. Replaced by a sequence of old men who wanted to chat I guess.

Gemma Stone
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