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[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Nicola Coughlan has raised over £70,000 and counting for Not A Phase, a charity committed to uplifting and improving the lives of trans people across the UK:

“To see an already marginalised community being further attacked and attacked in law is really stomach-churning and disgusting and to see people celebrate it is more stomach-churning and disgusting. If you are a cisgender person who is an ally of a trans person, I think now is the time to just speak up and make your voice heard and let your trans and non-binary friends and the community at large know that you are there for them and will keep fighting for them.”

[KWAJO- Social Issues Campaigner @Kwajotweneboa]

Why is Camden Council destroying tents belonging to Homeless people?

Will Camden be putting them up in temporary accommodation? I’m guessing not.

[Monisha Rajesh 🍉 @monisha_rajesh]

AND MEN! My god, Arab men are people too.. they’re journalists, volunteers, aid workers, clearing people from rubble, comforting orphaned children, picking up bits of their own children and keeping their loved ones safe.

[ayan. @artan_ayan]

The Director of the UN's New York office just resigned after thirty years at the organisation over the UN's handling of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians.

The entirety of his resignation letter is a necessary read but this first page blew me away.

[Patrick Wintour @patrickwintour]

In speech Starmer to rule out support for a permanent ceasefire saying it would leave Hamas in place and able to mount further attacks. He wants a humanitarian pause of unspecified length to enable the necessary space to get people out, for aid to be distributed safely, and for diplomatic progress to be made. He says military operation must be measured.
UN officials last night briefed SC that Israel is inflicting collective punishment on Palestinians.
The UNRWA official said “An entire population is being de-humanised.
The atrocities of Hamas do not absolve the State of Israel from its obligations under International Humanitarian Law. Every war has rules, and this one is no exception.
Hannah Arendt said, ‘The death of human empathy is one of the first and most revealing signs of a culture that is about to fall into barbarity.’
More than ever, Gazans deserve our empathy.
Its absence will deepen the polarization in the region and further push away any prospect of peace”.

[Michael Walsh @thatbloodyMikey]

F*ck Labour, & F*ck Keir Starmer

[fen @fenplex]

Petition: Do not remove LGBT content from the Relationships Education curriculum https://t.co/yYMnFYHrcu

[Lauren Aquilina @laurenaquilina]

nah this is so disappointing.. they couldn't come up with one single woman who might be deserving of this award????

[Vivienne Westwood @FollowWestwood]

29th December 2022. 

Vivienne Westwood died today, peacefully and surrounded by her family, in Clapham, South London.

The world needs people like Vivienne to make a change for the better.

[Rob Hastings @robhastings]

🚨 Undercover investigation finds workers in China making clothes for Shein, world’s biggest fast-fashion brand, are:
👗 Paid 3p per item
👚 Working 18-hour days
👙 Given no weekends + only one day off a month

@Channel4 findings shared with @theipaper:
https://t.co/rKma5ewuQU

[fen @fenplex]

it rocks my world

[Letterboxd @letterboxd]

what is the lowest rated film you’ve given 5 stars?

[amorphous @loneamorphous]

.@beyonce's 'plastic off the sofa' meets @solangeknowles' 'cranes in the sky'. 💞

[Andrew Cunneen @Cunneen92]

Ian Wright could have joined in with the painstaking cheerleading going on around him. But instead he chose to suggest that if this night doesn't act as the catalyst for girls nationwide being able to play football in PE, then it's worthless. Superb. https://t.co/XXzyah2L6c

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

WWE's Vince McMahon paid out $12 million in settlements to suppress allegations of sexual misconduct and infidelity over the past 16 years, people familiar say https://t.co/6HHLPmtIxX

[fen @fenplex]

this is so funny, literally local sainsburys

[Krista Koeller @KristaLerista]

Today is the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, the reason Pride is in June.

In 1969, it was illegal to wear clothes that were considered inappropriate for one's sex and when the police raided the Stonewall Inn's gay bar, they started to do a genital check (as was procedure).

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Forced birth in a country with:

—No universal healthcare
—No universal childcare
—No paid family & medical leave
—One of the highest rates of maternal mortality among rich nations

This isn't about "life." It's about control.

[BANKS @hernameisBANKS]

Guns officially have more rights than women 💔 A shameful day for America. Heartbroken.

[fen @fenplex]

Evan Rachel Wood’s Documentary ‘Phoenix Rising’ Is a Harrowing but Necessary Story of Survival https://t.co/7AnaOGWvu6