It started ten minutes later than advertised with people still coming in after the second film had started. No one said anything to the person blatantly recording the screen on their mobile phone. I kept falling asleep during but luckily had a bearded woman in the seat next to me, who generously jumped about in her seat about once a minute, so just enough to stop me nodding off completely. The host of the event, apparently an experienced hand at hosting panels, behaved like a shy little girl and urged everybody to leave the screening for a comfort break once Uyra’s nine minute credit sequence started to roll. We also had a BSL interpreter to sign for the panel plus both films had subtitles with sound description too. Annoying.
More twitter threads
This is just a page with some of my past Twitter threads thrown together. Prison abolition thread Mridul Wadhwa Discussion of queer book with author
Book review: Jeffrey Marsh ‘How to be You’
Where did Jeffrey Marsh come from? Wikipedia tells us little, except that they wanted to be a musical star. However, we can establish that Marsh has been annoying since at least 2016 with this article describing him as genderqueer and has been dressing badly since at least 2008 (see video above).
John Waters: False Negative
John Waters, the legendary filmmaker and writer with a brilliantly twisted mind, presents a fast-moving, all-new, comic monologue covering his career, movies, fashion, art and
Including trans people in sport
Simon opened the training by saying that trans people don’t feel comfortable in sport and ‘self-select’ out of it. However, inclusion was possible, it just required us to reappraise ‘stereotypes’ and change the way we do things.
Simon read a quote from GI’s ‘research’ from a trans person who was relying on sport to keep them going whilst they waited for ‘hormones and surgery’. A quote from the IOC told us that ‘sport was a human right’. So why did ‘trans folk’ find it hard to take part?
Trans awareness training with Amanda Jette Knox
About this event In her signature talk, based on her bestselling book by the same name, Amanda shares the personal story of her family’s journey
The Lies They Tell 
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