D Franklin

Classicist; SFF fan; book addict and bookseller. Angry queer. Prons. they/them

[D Franklin @D_Libris]

2023 Reading Masterthread, with links or whatever, just for recordkeeping.

[Bad Writing Takes 🖊️🏳️‍🌈 @BadWritingTakes]

The "sticking up for transphobia on twitter dot com" to "hanging out with fascists and whining that everything is the fault of minorities" pipeline continues in its 100% success rate.

[D Franklin @D_Libris]

I've got Nicola Dinan coming in in January, in conversation with the great @JosieLong, for what's going to be an amazing event!

[Waterstones Glasgow Argyle St @WStonesArgyleST]

Nicola Dinan returns to the shop to discuss her second novel - the story of Max, a trans woman whose NYE accident prompts her to try out an old-fashioned straight relationship 🎈

It’s a heartfelt & hilarious story of resolutions perfect for the new year!

https://t.co/VMpSywGkoY

[Waterstones Glasgow Argyle St @WStonesArgyleST]

Nicola Dinan returns to the shop to discuss her second novel - the story of Max, a trans woman whose NYE accident prompts her to try out an old-fashioned straight relationship 🎈

It’s a heartfelt & hilarious story of resolutions perfect for the new year!

https://t.co/VMpSywGkoY

[Lauren McKenzie @TheMcKenziest]

This is so good it hurts

[D Franklin @D_Libris]

@Glamrou And this decade has LAYLA!

[Shanice 😈 🇯🇲 🇵🇸 @Shanice_OM]

Class is not lived simply or exclusively through economics, but is mediated and reproduced by race, gender, disability etc. There might be a *conceptual* distinction between class and 'identitarian' categories, but there isn't a *material* one.

[Shanice 😈 🇯🇲 🇵🇸 @Shanice_OM]

This is just a tired re-working of old school class reductionism, with a lil anti-woke flare.

The working class - in all its diversity and complexity - has always been at the forefront of struggles for freedom - freedom in its most expansive sense.

[gianmarco @GianmarcoSoresi]

A reminder that none of these publications are your friend. The moment it’s advantageous to their bottom line they’ll make a “10 up-and-coming transphobes to watch”

[Morgan M Page @morganmpage]

Healthcare is one piece of the puzzle. The pervasive harassment & violence, the everyday acts of exclusion & expressions of disgust, the discrimination in housing and education and work, and the expulsion from families, friends, and communities - these also lead the way to death

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Labour’s manifesto promised to “remove indignities for trans people”, yet the government’s ban on puberty blockers adopts the Tories’ politicised unevidenced approach.

Young people — cis & trans — must have access to healthcare they need. I stand firmly with the trans community.

[D Franklin @D_Libris]

"If we ignore the deaths of trans kids, trans kids haven't died" - @ProfLAppleby apparently

[Caroline Litman@alicemydaughter @alicemydaughter]

Yesterday as the UK government announced a permanent puberty blocker ban I learnt ALICE’S DATA WAS NOT INCLUDED in data sent to Appleby to assess for his rushed DHSC report, that dismissed whistleblower claims of increased suicides in trans youth since Bell.

The report’s a sham.

[Trans Kids Deserve Better @trans_kids_d_b]

Wes Streeting refused to show his face at his offices this morning, and refused to face the community he is doing his best (and failing) to destroy. He saw us standing in community in our grief and he treated it as a threat, as the government and media continually do.

[Becca Jiggens's viva will be in June♿️ 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 @beccajiggens]

This is just bigotry driving medical policy. It is unnecessary, barbaric and shows the fucking fascists that they're winning.

It won't stop with trans people. For a gay man not to get this shows how much higher he regards his personal political power over anything else.

[D Franklin @D_Libris]

@AndrewSparrow @guardian @guardiannews Oh, and @IndiaWilloughby who has been covering this story in the background for a while now. She'd be a good person to get an article from over/after the weekend.

[D Franklin @D_Libris]

This man is unambiguously evil
https://t.co/BCV1pnWHQ9

[D Franklin @D_Libris]

@AndrewSparrow @guardian @guardiannews For future reference, as I presume you won't be using them in the next 40 or so hours, @trans_kids_d_b and @natachakennedy had comments out, and I'd also look to @stephenwhittle. And while a cis voice, @alicescampaign are parents to a trans girl who would have been impacted.

[D Franklin @D_Libris]

@Channel4News @wesstreeting Please provide even the slightest evidence you care about trans kids in any way? Your only action in regards to them so far - the ONLY action - has been harmful. Nothing whatsoever to help them at all

[Jess Barnard @JessicaLBarnard]

Every single Labour MP who claims to be an LGBTQ+ ally should be out speaking against the Wes Streeting ban on puberty blockers.

No excuses.

[SpeakOutSister @speakoutsister]

"Wes Streeting has chosen politics over our lives. We are being put through an experiment.but the experiment is to deny healthcare, not provide it".

[D Franklin @D_Libris]

Would have been really nice if they'd not had to do this... again. But @wesstreeting is utterly determined to undermine trans healthcare and attack and destroy trans kids.