i have a pretty severe case of bipolar 1. in my highs i’m disconnected from reality, wildly, dangerously delusional, harming myself in incomprehensible ways. in my lows i’m suicidal and convinced i’m burning in hell. i’ve been sectioned twice. i currently qualify for 0 PIP points

Update: they have now banned us from speaking Irish (the official language of an EU state) and told us we’re not allowed to be anywhere near the Bundestag

its so funny that conservatives are like “colleges are breeding grounds for communism” meanwhile every university is like “unfortunately, after our students decided to violently speak about politics, we were forced to expel them from the Koch/Pepsi Department of Genocide Studies”

The BDS movement condemns Google’s repression of its workers protesting the company’s shameful complicity in Israel’s #GazaGenocide against 2.3 million Palestinians.

We salute the meaningful and principled solidarity of the No Tech For Apartheid campaigners.

We call on institutions…

“where’s the free speech crowd now” ok so the thing is they are racist and hate muslims so

The stuff that The Spectator manages to get away and still remain within the respectable mainstream tells us perhaps more about that respectable mainstream than it does The Spectator

In 2019, Glodi Wabuela became the first ‘county lines’ drug dealer to be tried & convicted for human trafficking. It was a shock to realise I’d gone to primary school with him. I’ve spent the last year putting together his story for The Guardian Long Read

theguardian.com/law/ng-interac…

wrote about ‘girl’s girls’ feminism and rhetoric and how women online use it to bully and police other women xx dazeddigital.com/life-culture/a…

I wrote a bit about the prayer ban and secularism in schools:

Dounia still has not been able to leave Gaza. I don't think people realize how insanely hard it is and how often the amount of money needed exceeds what Palestinians are told. Please consider sharing and donating, she is so close to her goal
gofundme.com/f/wztjsc-evacu…

Speech is rarely just 'speech'. Those with significant platforms must be extremely careful about how the words we say create discursive environments for the Right and the British state to target those already in the cross hairs of right wing violence

I have a book coming out with Stanford Press in February -- very excited that it'll finally be out in the world.

Eros and Empire is a history of struggles for sexual freedom during the period of US-led transnational capitalism.

sup.org/books/title/?i…

I wrote about the Joe Lycett 'fake news' stunt and how it draws little attention to the real problems causing the spread of disinformation – but how it is very successful at drawing attention to Joe Lycett newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

i just raced to get this written up - there is a specific part of the cass review that is trying to discredit autistic trans youth, and it's based on a study claim that is a) flat out wrong and b) riddled with really disturbing red flags

eliacugini.medium.com/the-cass-revie…