So why are people who wear Plasticine Action T-shirts assumed by the police to be supporting Palestine Action but people putting up flags of the Patron Saint of Palestine aren’t? Shouldn’t we arrest them all to be on the safe side? #twotierpolicing
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So why are people who wear Plasticine Action T-shirts assumed by the police to be supporting Palestine Action but people putting up flags of the Patron Saint of Palestine aren’t? Shouldn’t we arrest them all to be on the safe side? #twotierpolicing
Transphobes would have a lot less reach on here if everyone stopped arguing with them and quoting their posts to dunk on them, they don't give a rat's ass about your arguments and enjoy wasting your time.
My last hope for Your Party goes up in smoke as Zarah Sultana ‘welcomes’ Mark Serwotka. His wife founded a Woman’s Place UK, a TERF group constantly trying to rollback trans people’s freedoms and he even wrote this lovely piece calling for ‘respectful discussion’ about our rights: archive.ph/iPb0L
We recently bought 150 new ones in a bigger size than previously. But thank you!
I have started naturally waking up at 6:30am and I'm simultaneously so resentful of this development and also utterly transfixed by the beauty of the light on these long late summer mornings when I open the curtains.
Rob puts up with... So much.
The priest: *walks into the church 45 minutes before one of our biggest services of the year* Me, immediately: "I need you to make me some Holy Water." The priest: "...Why do you nee... Actually. No. I know better than to ask. Where's the water?"
Can't wait for them all to continue saying it, having ignored the sign - or, even better, to ask when we started opening again as if it's a new initiative and we've not had the same opening hours for decades.
People keep coming in to St Nicks and telling us we're "never open" or that they think it's a closed church, so I got petty about it.
First job on the day of Leicester Pride? Fix the vandalised church sign for the second time this week. Luckily, they can't to anything about the external church floodlights being rainbow for the occasion soooo.
I was like FINALLY! some REAL history and America was like "lol no who cares about this ancient thing, come and see what a random racist white man built when your Great Grandma was still alive."
So mad about the time I was in the US and there were some rare Mounds near where I was saying and I got so excited and insisted my host took me to look at them and they were just in a suburb with NO information or interpretation, but the generic 1800's church was all "history" this "incredible" that
so my PERSONAL favourite way to fuck with Americans is to be like “this building is from 1520!” Or whatever and they’ll go “wow we don’t have anything that old!” And I’ll go “yes you do” and just stare at them
Had a blood test today and honestly... I'm too hairy these days for them to be sticking cotton wool to my arm with tape. Next time I'm just gonna bleed all over my shirt. It's less painful than removing the damned tape.
Apparently this is "all my fault" and I should have known that this would be the consequences of my actions when I started medical transition 2 decades ago. Perhaps you can now appreciate why we are upset? (13/13)
At every stage I did what the state asked me to, even though it was humiliating, degrading and cruel. And it kept moving the goalposts, and reneging on the agreements it made, whilst continuing to hold me to them even when they are now mutually contradictory. (12/13)
As it's still valid, presumably if I don't keep following it, I am also breaking the law and subject to arrest. The law of the land simultaneously requires me to be both a man and a woman and if I do either then I am breaking the law and subject to arrest. (11/13)
And that the legal obligation I have to live as female for the rest of my life, which I signed and gave up my marriage for, is still in effect but also if I keep following it, I am breaking the law and subject to arrest. (10/13)
In April of 2025 the state turned round and told me that I had been mistaken. That it never regarded me as female. That I was male the whole time. That the marriage it annulled because it was a same sex marriage was never a same sex marriage (but it stays annulled). (8/13)
I hope they find it helpful!
Obviously upon reading the physical copy I found every typo that slipped me and the proof reader, but that is always the way.
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Thanks for sharing your piece Paul. I know it's gonna mean a lot to a lot of people!
So - if you run an org of any kind, take a lesson from the Quakers. The Sex Matters approach of shoving all trans people into private broom closets always as a way of "protecting women" is not a legal requirement. Stop letting them get away with pretending it is. Be inclusive where you can. /Fin
The Quakers are doing exactly what all public services are legally allowed to do even if the EHRC wants to pretend they're not: say gender-based toilets are inclusive and for anyone bothered by that as a matter of belief, there are stand-alone cubicles that they are very free to use. 1/
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You can read the zine and print your own copies and all of that jazz at the link below. Because it's free. And meant to be shared, grassroots style, by everyone and anyone who thinks it's worth sharing. stnicholasleicester.com/magazine
How many photos is too many photos to take of a zine you designed and have all the print files of? I dunno but I think I've probably passed the threshold.
Finally got my hands on a physical copy of this today (they've been stored with the Priest who we had them delivered to) and it's safe to say that I'm Obsessed.
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
Yeah they're definitely selling off the 9's to make way for the 10's so now is a good time. I had to get a new phone recently and got a Pixel (again because I need the camera for work) and donated, if it makes you feel better that you're not making the choice alone.
I regret it's not exactly affordable but I've long used the Google Pixel range because it allows good control over things like exposure and white/black point that'll assist with archival photos (and in my case church photography) - almost like a real camera, but in your pocket.
There's a lot of confusion in my replies here so to be clear: the zine is FREE. For EVERYONE. For EVER. You can find files to read it, print it, share it, etc at the link in the thread, which I am also putting here: stnicholasleicester.com/magazine That is the entire point and ethos of the thing.
Oooh, if you're at Leicester Pride this weekend, look out for this free zine from St Nicks, it features @museumbums.bsky.social (as well as many others!) 😁🥰👍🏛️🍑
being anti trans has as much scientific and factual bearing as being flat earth or anti left handed. literally the same.
Oh hello! Is this some new "Church Bums" content from Museum Bums?? 😱 Get yourselves down to Leicester Pride this weekend and say hi to the excellent folk at St Nick's Church, and you'll get a free (beautiful!) zine 😁👍🏛️🍑
If you want to find out more about 'Communion: A Queer Christian Zine', how it came into being, and how to share it with your own community, then you can go to stnicholasleicester.com/magazine
To coincide with Leicester Pride this year we're debuting a new project: 'Communion: A Queer Christian Zine', created with an ethos of grassroots organising and radical sharing, with the finished product being freely available for anyone to print and distribute among their own communities.
But that's enough from us... Here's the introduction to this issue, to give you a little taste of what's inside!
Of course! It's a magazine made by a CofE church... The crossword is basically obligatory.
Me, finally getting the opportunity to do some magazine based graphic design and going absolutely feral like...
My boiiiii
Recently chatted to a nun and mentioned "my favourite saint" and she asked who it was and I said "St Robert of Knaresborough" and she just paused and went "...I thought so, from reading your book." And yeah okay that's fair enough Sister, there are a LOT of poems about him in there, I see your point
There's about nine or ten St Robert's actually. Congratulations!
Went to say hi to St Robert, out in the woods by his cave. My friend slipped off to give me some time with his empty grave. And took some photos. I like them. How I disappear into the green and the rock.
They look you up in the system. It's all computerised. If you give the wrong name or address or the photo doesn't match the computer... Well then you've got a whole new level of trouble. But tbh nobody gets pulled over for speeding unless it's really crazy seeds. You just get a fine in the post.
Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
That explains the shape and strength of their teeth. Like woodpecker beaks.
“i have to use AI because i’m bad at drawingggg 😭😭😭”
Apparently it was my fault because in the story I was telling about how my friend was confused about me not having my driving licence on my, that friend was Canadian, and therefore we HAD to be in America because? Canadians? can't? travel? across? water??? I guess? They're vampires or something?
Still haunted by the time people on twitter said I was racist and trying to get black people killed by cops because I said you don't need to carry your driving licence when driving. In the UK. Where I live. And where you don't need to carry your driving licence while driving.
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New cover just dropped
I'm ngl, I am so proud of the cover. I wanna print myself up a poster of it tbh.
(I'm also incredibly grateful to our treasurer who heard me say "can we spend £700 on a big print run of magazines to then give them all away for free" in a church that's been running hand to mouth for decades and said "yes, what's the point of us if we can't help and resource others?")
Click through out more about the zine, and if you're a church, I hope you can find space on your welcome table for a copy. That's the point. It's Communion. We don't keep it for ourselves. We don't charge money for it. It's supposed to be there to offer hope and possibility when people need it.
I have spent months bringing this zine into being, and I'm so grateful to everyone who trusted the vision - of something that's not there to convert people to Christianity, but something that simply says "we exist" and offers some bits of queer theology to a world that thinks that's impossible.
For too long the world of theological magazines and leaflets has been utterly dominated by slick corporate mass produced hatred. It's time for inclusive Christians to lean into the long Queer history of underground printing, zine making, resource sharing, and other such physical tangible activism.
Every now and again at events someone will ask me what my "Influencer Audience Strategy". I'll say: "I dunno. Post whatever weird stuff my brain tells me that moment then forget i did it." It makes them so grumpy. Like I've offended the God of KPIs.
The daughters of Hermann Göring's aide - who refused for years to talk with art-theft investigators - put their home in Argentina up for sale, and GUESS WHAT.
The shrine of St Decumanus was destroyed during the Reformation, and now all that remains is a medieval stone plinth in the north transept, decorated with a neat row of small quatrefoils. 8/8
"verifying you are human" oh im sorry PLATO let me go and fetch my amphora I didn't know the SYMPOSIUM was open
I think about this a lot but when it comes down to it I love this horrible, benighted, miserable rock, I don't want to go anywhere else, and to paraphrase pam from archer I guess they're just going to have to fucking kill me aren't they
On Sunday we're celebrating our annual Rainbow Eucharist, a joyous celebration of the diversity of God’s creation. The Preacher this year will be Fr Jarel Robinson-Brown, Author of 'Black, Gay, British, Christian, Queer'. Come as yourself, and be who God created you to be.
This Saturday is Leicester Pride! Come and find us on the march or at our stall in Abbey Park where we will have hundreds of cupcakes and badges to give away, as well as access packs full of things like water, earplugs, and suncream, to help you have a fun and safe Pride.
Love to discover that the Lemkin Institute (which identifies nations taking steps towards genocide in an attempt to recognise and prevent it) has issued the UK with a Red Warning for Genocide because of recent law changes around transgender people. That's very fun and cool and nothing to worry about
City centre churches, man... They throw up problems you didn't even KNOW you could have.
Unfortunately it's a safe built into the wall so there is no 'on top'
It's very funny but also if the locksmith can't break into it AND cut us a new key, I'm gonna have to do PAPERWORK.
I asked the priest this, and other questions, and he just started drinking his coffee faster while staring into the distance.
This problem of Schroedinger's Reserved Sacrament leads to some interesting theological questions, like: Should we genuflect? Because it's probably best to err on the side of caution and assume Jesus is in and genufley... but if he's not... does that then become idolatrous?
Someone has stolen the key to the Aumbry at church. Until the locksmith breaks into it we don't know if they also stole the reserved sacrament or not. Which means that currently we have Schroedinger's Reserved Sacrament. Until we can confirm it either way, Jesus both IS and IS NOT in there.
“You’re so anti “AI”” I’m anti a bunch of filthy rich tech bros stealing my work and all my artist friends work to make even more money than they already have. My question is why are you so happy for this to be happening when you will never be part of their rich techy club?
When the church reverses it beeps like a delivery van, just in case anyone forgets to pay attention to the direction of 1,252 tonnes of church and machinery.
Mines 13 too! She's called Margaret.
Then we joked about how when the clutch does finally need replacing, which it does on all of those cars (it's notorious), then I'll be fuuuuucked. Ah, mechanics. Never change.
My car is cheap and old and I took it for an MOT yesterday expecting a MASSIVE bill and it passed without a single advisory and both me and the guy at the garage were baffled. He literally said "this is the only one of these old [car model]s I've ever seen do that." Which was both nice and OMINOUS.
I have not heard anything at all from government ministers nor the opposition nor many media outlets about the dangers of this epidemic of sweeping casual racism. It is sometimes seen as comical - as with Rupert Lowe and the rowers - but it is dangerous and dehumanising
(If I were the warden here I think I'd die of stress)
I’d completely forgotten these. The Nineties were odd…
It's outside a private opera house in a billionaire art collectors mansion in the Midlands. I'm not taking the piss. I've seen it.
I have carefully curated my to-read list to make me weirder, actually
Time to watch a church mooooove!!!
www.reddit.com/r/transgende... Guess what? The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions. Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her? Read her own account here.
Leicester Cathedral has a new audio guide, and l'm delighted to announce that I'm the narrator. Swing by sometime and let me (well... my voice) show you around!
So many publishers adopt the aesthetics of leftism without offering the most basic solidarity to the writers that make their business possible.
Obsessed with this: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
our common life depends upon each other's toil
Substack loves to tout high subscriber numbers but that's EXTREMELY sus because in the last five months I've gained literally hundreds of subscribers over there. Despite all my content being purged and replaced with links telling them my newsletter is now self hosted. Such high quality interaction.
There was also a big open letter criticizing Boyne's inclusion signed by other authors (not on the longlists), including several prominent names. In summary, I really didn't see evidence that an online outcry was the motivating force. A few people responded negatively to Boyne's inclusion...
It's this principled decision to withdraw as a judge, by Dunin, that seems to have been key. It brought more attention to the selection of Boyne, which led to both an increase in negative comments and the withdrawal by three more authors. Once three authors and a judge had withdrawn, more followed.
see the terfs will all claim that polari has been cancelled by the 'trans mob' or whatever but the first i heard of this mess was *after* authors, and judges, had started pulling out. they simply can't accept that they're a tiny, but incredibly vocal, minority with a lot of institutional power.
I haven't got as much work done as I wanted to today, but I did play with a kitten and go to the gym and honestly... Sometimes those are the wins we should be chasing.
The logical outcome of this was a pirate crew who's names were Gravy Jim, Curry Phil, Langoustine, Mangoustine, and Mango Steve
My friend has a rule that if a player asks the name of a random NPC that they don't have a name prepared for, that player gets to name them... You can imagine the chaos.
