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writer/phd from STS UCL / head of research @thelovetankcic (views are my own) / bodybuilder / they/he / insta: @benvyle / ✡️ 🍉

[ben @benvyle]

if you don't know, within @thelovetankcic, i helped put together a sex and gender-inclusive harm reduction guide to anabolic steroids. it includes advice about risks and side effects (and how to manage these), safe injection practice, and body image:
https://t.co/jWaj6YxLLI

[ben @benvyle]

https://t.co/ZN43jhPtB8

[ben @benvyle]

ok, i am *officially* no longer going to post or engage with posts on this app. the time to divest from this toxic machine is long overdue.

i will occasionally come here to check my DMs but if you need me you can find me on bluesky (linked below) or instagram (@benvyle).

[ben @benvyle]

@bookmunkey you don’t even follow me… what the fuck are you doing

[ben @benvyle]

moving over slowly. see you there? 🦋

[ben @benvyle]

https://t.co/ZN43jhPtB8

[ben @benvyle]

this is great!

[ben @benvyle]

is there an easy way to migrate who i am following here onto there? 🥲

[Jaime Garcia-Iglesias jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social @JGarciaIglesias]

What will DoxyPEP implementation look like in the UK? Join our roundtable on Nov 29th

feat. @DewsnapClaire Manik Kohli @GilmoreJNurse @benvyle & @EdFTMxxx

Register: https://t.co/tmMesuvwdf

[ben @benvyle]

@dredlifter 21s !!!

[ben @benvyle]

today

[ben @benvyle]

waking up from a 20 year coma in 2008:

[Asad Zafar 🇵🇸 @as1z_]

Just discovered Rachel Stevens, listening to some girls in the hospital cafe xx

[ben @benvyle]

if you think that the problem of declining literacy and interest in literature is found in the content of books - static across time - and not the wider, shifting (material) culture within which literature is situated, you are not fit to be in charge of anyone’s education.

[ben @benvyle]

“these are not books to ignite a passion for reading”; and yet they have for many hundreds of people for many decades.

no doubt curricula are in need of constant reform - not least to incorporate a breadth of themes, ideas and perspectives - but this approach is misdiagnostic.

[Mouhssin Ismail OBE @Mouhssin_Ismail]

‘The most widely studied literary text in the UK these days is JB Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, closely followed by A Christmas Carol and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. These are not books to ignite a passion for reading. I would happily throw out the study of Dickens from schools, and likewise Priestley. Even our obsession with Shakespeare needs discussion. I am open to the idea of an entire Shakespeare text not being mandatory at GCSE but can you imagine the outcry?’

‘All is not lost. I sit on a working party that is looking at how to reform the English GCSE. The government has begun a review of the curriculum and some ministers are listening.’

I hope there are some opposing views to provide a balanced perspective.

https://t.co/99WKRXw5k7

[ben @benvyle]

anyway

[ben @benvyle]

probably time some of you realise that existing on this website in such close proximity to unfettered fascism is, shockingly, being internalised by some of you and, at best, shifting you to a discursive terrain that entertains some of the most deplorable fascist discourses.

[ben @benvyle]

(CW: suicide) horrible tweet. the lion's share uptick in calls to LGBT suicide hotlines are very likely to be from young people now trapped in abusive living situations. the trump victory will both be sensitising for victims and emboldening for abusers.

[ben @benvyle]

most depressingly of all: the image of the histrionic (white) tenderqueer 'crying suicide' is one that emerges from the belly of the right wing. you are following their rulebook!