#basically it’s a way to fuck multiple marginalised people at once

[enbycrip]

I have started a petition to the UK Government to scrap the new transphobic building requirements for every new non-residential building to have separate binary gendered toilets. It’s an ongoing part of the Tory hostile environment that means fewer public buildings will be able to provide ungendered bathrooms, as they are very unlikely to build three separate spaces.

I’m sure you all know how bathrooms are currently a flashpoint for transphobic abuse and violence, but I wanted to raise the fact, as a disabled nonbinary person, that only providing gendered bathrooms mean more trans binary and nonbinary and intersex people who are afraid of facing attack or abuse in them for being perceived as being “in the wrong space” end up having to use accessible bathrooms, even if they don’t have accessibility needs, for safety.

Given how inadequate accessible bathroom provision is, this means more people being forced into using an inadequate number of facilities, which can be really unpleasant for people with GI problems and other reasons they might need to use bathroom facilities very urgently.

Basically, this is a way to screw a whole load of marginalised people at once. I would really appreciate if you could sign and share my petition - I know it’s easy to feel it’s pointless, but given the Tories are such blatant populists, it’s far from the first time they have u-turned when people make noise about an issue.

Please sign and share!

#uk politics #transphobic #transphobia #call to action #fighting back #please sign and share #disableism #basically it’s a way to fuck multiple marginalised people at once #nonbinary #trans #intersex

[a-room-of-my-own]

Amnesty Irland wrote a letter (signed by a lot of "celebrities") in which they said that women don't deserve political representation (if they don't cater to the dick! -.-). It was already a few days ago and they have backpedaled since (basically calling Irish women stupid and that we misunderstood their words, because of our "lady brains"), but that they even dare to say something like this is horrifying! Misogyny is very much alive and every political party just loves to fuck women over!

I think I found it

Today, Trans Day of Remembrance 2020, members of Ireland’s LGBTQ+ community have released a powerful open letter in which they reinforce Ireland’s strong ethos of intersectional solidarity and the inclusion of our trans siblings as valuable members of society.

The letter has been signed by multiple organisations including the National Women’s Council of Ireland, MERJ Ireland and Le Cheile.

Below is the letter in full. It is now open for members of the public to sign on change.org.

For decades the transgender community has advocated, marched, and fought for equality, and inclusion. This fight has never once wavered in supporting movements that garner equality for all marginalised communities. Our work, our fight, our campaigns, have all been underscored by two things, intersectionality and solidarity. The transgender community has always worked in advancing the equal rights and acceptance of all without discrimination. For decades the work of the transgender community was tied to working in wider acceptance of queer people, even when our rights were never mentioned, nor advanced. For decades members of the transgender community marched in Pride, stood for women’s equality, all while our rights were left off the table. Internationally, women such as Marsha P. Johnson and others, marched, shouted and demanded gay rights, while every step of the way recognition of transgender identities and the inclusion of transgender rights were left behind. Here in Ireland the transgender community has continued to show that spirit of solidarity. Members of our community have worked along intersectional lines supporting campaigns that aimed increasing women’s rights, and the wider rights of the lesbian, bisexual and gay communities. Transgender people were active in campaigns in 2015 and 2016 that saw the passing of Marriage Equality in Ireland, and in the repeal of the 8th Amendment. Even now, transgender people continue to work for reforms that will increase the rights of gay and lesbian parents in surrogacy and adoption. Never have transgender people sought to diminish the rights, or acceptance of others.

Now, unfortunately, we see a rise in discriminatory organisations and vocal transgender exclusionary activists using Twitter and divisive antics to attempt to a drive a wedge in queer communities between transgender people and fracture our support from feminists. For our decades of solidarity, some seek to repay our community with a call for division based on falsities and bigotry. Let us say unequivocally that the statements of newly launched organisations that seek to defend biology or fight gender identity and expression do not represent the wider LGBTI+ community nor feminists in Ireland. More importantly, they are not organisations at all, they have no governance, no accountability, and are simply Twitter accounts. Further, they are not supported by the wider Irish community. Ireland has dealt with these pseudo-feminists before, and the work of Feminist Ire dealt swiftly with their attacks by stating “Trans women are our sisters; their struggles are ours, our struggles theirs. They were our sisters before any state-issued certification said so and will always be no matter what any legislation says, either now or in the future.” In addressing these accounts it is simple enough to refute them by stating they are not radical, they are not inclusive, and they are not feminists. They are simply misinformed and transphobic. The vitriol and disinformation these accounts and people share does not represent the beliefs of the legitimate organisations and signers of this letter, and together we repudiate their beliefs, and call for an end in giving airtime to their despicable brand of harassment. In Ireland we exist as a strong coalition of intersectional solidarity. As LGBTI+ and feminist organisations we stand together, we march together, we advocate together. We will not allow transphobia to grow and our history of work together will only continue to propel us to a more equal future for all marginalised people.

We call on media, and politicians to no longer provide legitimate representation for those that share bigoted beliefs, that are aligned with far right ideologies and seek nothing but harm and division. These fringe internet accounts stand against affirmative medical care of transgender people, and they stand against the right to self-identification of transgender people in this country. In summation they stand against trans, women’s and gay rights by aligning themselves with far right tropes and stances. They have attacked LGBT+ education in school, attacked anti-bullying campaigns, and attack access to medical services. They stand to remove equality, and cause a legacy of damaging discrimination. In particular, the road to Gender Recognition was long and public, and we in the trans community are thankful for the support of the many who stood by our side. We are thankful to the wider gay, lesbian and bisexual communities that marched and worked alongside of us for legal recognition. We are thankful for the feminists that saw, and still see, trans women as their sisters and use their voice to speak for equality. We are thankful our community was given a chance to present our case to the country, and that we secured so much support for inclusion and legal recognition. A legal battle, that to remind all, was started by Dr. Lydia Foy in 1992 for legal recognition and bodily autonomy. A twenty three year public debate and case for recognition. A battle that was full of intrusive questions, investigating peer-reviewed and solid research, and public debate. Dr. Foy and many other trans women, trans men, and non-binary people, laid bare their lives to Ireland in an attempt to be legally recognised, to have access to affirming medical care and support. As the years wore on our LGBTI+ community came alongside of us, and so did the Feminist Movement in the country. The basis of the argument is that all people, regardless of gender should have access to legal recognition, and should be treated as the best authority on their body. In the twenty years of public transgender advocacy we are thankful for the many steps toward progress that Ireland has taken. The transgender community along with the many supporters and signers of this letter will not stand by and allow toxic voices to continue to spread disinformation that seeks to restrict bodily autonomy, and equality.

Over twenty years Ireland has changed for the better. Many out transgender adults grew up in the Ireland that these discriminatory voices seek to bring back. One in which trans people were forced to be broadly invisible and silent in. An Ireland that forced trans people to be hidden, and intimidated them into the closet due to hate, discrimination and harassment. It was an Ireland that made transgender people feel ashamed and scared about who they were. The Ireland that we came out in versus the Ireland that we are now visible in, is a different Ireland to the one we were lost and shamed in. It is an Ireland where trans people are visible and legally recognised. We cannot and we must not go back from that. We do not want trans kids growing up and thinking they are the only ones who feel the way that they do or that they should be ashamed of who they see. We need an Ireland of inclusion so trans kids are not pushed to suicide, not forced to live in closets, and are not bullied for being born this way. Ireland has made great strides in terms of trans visibility and representation. Now we are dealing with those who fear and hate that and who would do anything in their power to tear us down and drive a wedge between us and the rest of the LGB+ community.  We must not let them win. Our lives and our very existence should not be up for debate. We deserve to be treated equally and with respect and to be recognised and accepted for who we are. Our twenty years of progress is monumental, and it must stand boldly against any and all fleeting voices of hate that seek to harm us.

As a trans community we are tired, tired of the hate, and the discrimination levied against us at every turn. Transgender people across Ireland seek to live a full, healthy, and included life. We would call on those that are standing in support with us to continue to use your voice to stand for bodily autonomy, a better medical care system, and full inclusion in society for trans and gender expansive people. We would ask that you do not engage with those that seek to simply project false information, or hateful words. Please do not use your voice to engage with people that are bad faith actors. Instead take time to share why transgender rights matter, how transgender rights make society better, and how equality means a fuller and healthier life for all. Use your voice to call on media to accurately portray trans people, and for lawmakers to value our lives. Use your voice as an ally to speak for inclusion, to speak for acceptance, and to speak for a better life for transgender people. Be visibly proud to support your trans friends, family and colleagues.

We know equality means justice and inclusion for all! Supporting transgender people, and standing for transgender equality does not lessen anyone’s rights. Rather as marginalised people are given more equality, we are all given a more equal society. No one has true equality, while some still live under the wheels of injustice. Anyone that continues to use inaccurate science to denigrate trans people is increasing discrimination. Sex and gender are both spectrums, and the full beauty of that spectrum must be supported and included. No one should be targeted or harassed for who they are. Trans children do not deserve to be sent to schools being fed lies about them. Transgender adults should not be fearful that they might be targeted and killed on their walk home for simply living their lives. These are the worries that these organisations are seeking to bring to Ireland. One that sees a rise in trans suicide, violence, and isolation. An Ireland that is not a land of a thousand welcomes, but of a thousand fears. Transgender rights do not attack feminism, they are a continuation of feminist ideals. Transgender men and women do not lessen the rights or threaten gay and lesbian spaces, because trans men are men, and trans women are women.

It is time as a society and as a queer, feminist, radical community we no longer allow bigotry to blossom. In no uncertain terms we agree that trans lives matter, trans people should be given full rights, and trans people should be included fully in society. Trans people are our friends, neighbours, colleagues, classmates and loved ones. We will not allow anyone to promote hate, to trade in bigotry, or to attack legislation, education and programs that affirm transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people. We stand boldly against the rise of exclusionary rhetoric, and name it for what it is, harassment and transphobia. It is not based in truth, it comes with no claims in fact, and is a dog whistle to bigots. We know that by and large these false narratives are not native to the queer and feminist communities of Ireland. These ideas are representative of outsiders that have not worked, laboured, or known the trans community in Ireland. These fringe groups have not been in the trenches for equality. They do not understand, nor appreciate, that together we built a radical and inclusive coalition for equality.

This radical and inclusive coalition denounces their platforms of disinformation. We reject their inaccurate science. We reject their aims, goals, and campaign for discrimination. Ireland is better when it is diverse and equal. Our diversity and equality has been showcased by our coalition of trans, queer, and feminist leaders who in their unity have won tremendous legislative victories that have improved the lives of gay and lesbian couples, women’s rights, and transgender recognition. Our unity, and our work will not stop. Our focus is now on strengthening our resolve, turning away hate, and continuing to support the trans and gender expansive community members from those that would seek to harm them. We will not be bullied, we will not be silenced, and we will not allow transgender rights to be maligned. We move forward with hope and unity for a better world, and a better Ireland

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Nice call for censorship 🙄

#Gender critical

[notcatherinemorland]

more new who thots 

ok so Big Plot Line aside i really liked that juxtaposition they did with law and religion/belief with Rhino Police in the Cathedral.. could also be read as reason vs emotion if you’re feeling a touch spicier. like. there was a LOT to unpack there. the Character Reveal almost makes me want to crack out my hamlet thinkings of appearance (cathedral and her believed identity) vs reality (space police and bio-cloaking) and that’s just a surface level thought rn, im not standing on that hill im just spitballing here . like especially once i take into account the Space Police are basically a rather bureaucratic militia and not a True Proper tool for representing the law or any of the above 

like . there’s a Lot i want to sit down and Un Fucking Pack there. like. a lot. a lot a lot. moving on to the other thing i need to sound off about after i declared my unrationalised love for this ep and i live in fear of being cancelled for being uncritical of my media intake when all i spend my life doing is analysing media i like until its ash and dust on the cold hard ground . yes. 

i have no idea how to phrase this particularly tactfully so my apologies in advance. but given i have no first hand or particularly significant second hand (to my knowledge) with multiplicity / multiple identities (dissociated identities?) .. i do not really know how .. respectful this episode was in terms of that? like i’d say it was better than switch or similar garbage. I say respectful because whilst the episode reads quite clearly to me to have stemmed from that idea (past who canon completely aside right now).. i would not call that representation? i’d say its ‘stemmed from’ or ‘derived from’. and anyone is MORE than welcome to disagree with me, that’s absolutely fine. but when it comes to using things like that .. uh end of sentence. and i’m not calling it a ‘gimmick’ which if you’re critical of this, you’re welcome to call it such, but given how much weight the hidden identity thing had, i’d call it?? a trope? a plot point? idk. 

to expand a little on my thoughts of ‘representation’.. my ideas about what we would call representation as short hand, or reproduction of marginalised and diverse identity in mainstream media for long hand, were forged in the fire of destiel and clexa and 2015. (i’m not going into the use and effect of representation rn bc that’s .. so much) i’m very aware my ideas on representation are both needlessly complex and simultaneously identical to common thought and quite radical. i have no jurisdiction to talk about anything in any official capacity, however this won’t shut me up. 

sci-fi, horror and fantasy is where i spend a lot of my time thinking and even now i Really Really hesitate writing things down bc a) my opinion could change the second i press post and b) i may be seriously misinformed or ignorant of something and people have, can or will assume im acting in complete bad faith and mean harm when im actually just ignorant and my media intake is or has been interpreted differently for a million different reasons. 

i just typed out a massive paragraph that even I didn’t understand so im nixing that one. i have no idea how to articulate my thoughts on representation as defined above , and that means i don’t understand them. which is fair. and then the layer of ‘i have to remember im posting this on tumblr so i have to be incredibly mindful of how i say what i say’ and i can’t do the first, let alone the second hurdle to articulating any of those thoughts. 

the point of that above.. i don’t know how respectful it was to the condition the chameleon arch idea is derived from. im not qualified to give a proper judgement on it to be honest, i can have my own opinion but i can’t give it a passing or failing grade. i have genuinely no idea how critical i should be and under what lens i should look at it. my current opinion is i didn’t think it a tire fire of an idea, was at least in line with canon, and i enjoyed the ‘reveal’. whether or not the ‘reveal’ should have been framed like that, or happened at all, is up there with the previous sentences. 

also either john barrowman forgot how to act, or someone forgot how to write, but either way that dialogue was about as bad as my current fic feels to me LMAO. (funny way of saying it was flat as uncorrugated cardboard and yes im being deliberately provocative with my choice of phrasing fdhfgbjfd)

#dr who wank for ts #doctor who spoilers #doctor who 13 #LONG POST LONG POST #long post that says fuck all but 'i don't know how im supposed to think about this' #hfdihgjb

[badkatdesignsmastersblog]

BASIC NARRATIVE STRUCTURE

Before I start on the full script and screenplay I’ll get to work on planning this out. I read and consume a lot of detective fiction, and the narrative trends of the genre are as follows. I will not be following these 100% to the letter, but it will definitely help me to have a roadmap to refer to while I write the narrative aspect of the game. I will edit this with updates to the story structure; as of the initial writing of this post I’m suffering from a really bad yeast infection and sitting for longer periods of time than 4 hours can agitate the itching. Sorry to the lecturers who have to read this, I know it’s TMI. (edit June 3: reblogging and adding multiple “continue reading” tabs makes for a bad user experience so I’ll just add updates and mark them throughout.)

PHASE 1: THE INCITING INCIDENT  This will be the event that starts the story. Every piece of fiction has them, and in murder mysteries they’re oftentimes the murder or the set up to the murder. For our purposes in mapping out my narrative, this will be the discovery of Vicar Henry Gravesend’s corpse -- this will happen in an introductory cutscene before the gameplay begins. 

PHASE 2: DETECTIVE ARRIVES ON THE SCENE  After all the initial dust clears and everyone can see that the victim is indeed dead, there is a call for someone to solve the crime. This is where the detective comes in, and in my narrative will happen directly after the opening cutscene and character builder. This will have one of three dialogue paths (one for each job). 

ACADEMIC: It’s a late night at the University and you’re busy in the library cramming to finish an abstract meant to be submitted for peer review the following afternoon when a student aide knocks on the door and informs you of the invitation down to Clemency Hill. Dialogue options would be stupid to implement from here, but it could be an interesting way to introduce the attribute scores’ effect. 

PERFORMER: You’re just coming off of your final performance for the evening. Your Guts and Likeability scores dictate whether you are a bareknuckle boxer on Wednesday and Friday nights in the big basement room underneath Ponder Road’s only decent pub, Battery City, or the singer and rhythm guitarist in a newly-minted garage band called The Cobras that play on Wednesday and Friday nights on Battery City’s main upstairs pub stage. As you wipe the sweat (and maybe blood) off yourself you hear a commotion and head outside (or upstairs) and the barman tells you you’ve been summoned to Clemency Hill. 

BEAT COP: You’re in between coffees 10 and 11 on a quiet night - your shift patrolling the cobblestone streets is about to start when your boss tells you that you’ve been told to report at Clemency Hill to investigate the murder of Vicar Gravesend, notorious gossip and pillar of the local community. When you try to protest and beg that they send Sergeant Guts and his sidekick, the commander informs you icily that you’ve been requested specially. 

PHASE 3: FIRST IMPRESSIONS  Once the detective arrives on the scene, the first thing they do is take stock of the surroundings and immediate vicinity of the dead body, and talk to any witnesses hanging around, forming initial conclusions based on circumstantial and incomplete evidence. My narrative will diverge from here because our player character’s girlfriend is already being implicated, so naturally she’ll take the time to talk to her first and get her side of the story before forming impressions of the situation in question. 

EDIT: June 3rd 2021

PHASE 4: INVESTIGATION PART 1 After an initial sweep of the scene and a quick moment spent forming first impressions, the detective will immediately start talking to people and getting a feel for the surroundings. This will largely differ based on economic background in my game, where the first of several clues will show up in dialogue depending on the options chosen. 

NOBLE BACKGROUND: As a noble, your first thought is to question those immediately in your social sphere. You talk to three NPCs and depending on the stats you chose (and how well an internal random integer generator from 1 to 20 rolls), you will glean quick nuggets of info that might later tie into evidence, before being summoned for an audience with Draconis Veride, smarmy patron of the current ruling political dynasty and real piece of shit, for a waltz (3/4 time rhythm minigame) to get you either up to speed or manipulated into his line of thinking - depending on those stats - filling you in on all the stuff he knows and batting away any questions as to his intent before sending you off to investigate the leads he is generous enough to bestow upon you should you succeed in his rhythm game (if the player fucks up the rhythm game 5 times he will consider the dancing a failure and you will go through this first investigation phase without his “help”).

 URCHIN BACKGROUND: You can choose to try to question either the help ir the guests first, but the guests (bar a few) will be dismissive of you in this first section because rich people are like Southern moms - if you don’t measure up to their expectations they will let the poison drip unabated from their mouths while disguising it as honey. Depending on your Street Smarts stat you might be able to figure out something a rich NPC might not want you to know - but for most part your first section will likely be spent chatting to the help. This will further diverge depending on your job:

BEAT COP: As a beat cop most of the help are already aware of you and will have no problem complying with your sleep-deprived demands because they know you could have them incarcerated. Tolliver Stupples, the butler, holds you in particularly high esteem and asks everyone to help you as best they can, but the younger staff are distrustful; cops are a violent wing of the law that oppresses the poor and the marginalised with few to no actions taken towards upper class perpetrators - the judicial/carceral system is vicious and they have seen too many of their friends fall prey to the law to trust you or speak frankly. Trying to prove yourself trustworthy as a detective working within the criminal justice system will not be easy. 

PERFORMER: While some of the older guard below decks are slower to trust you, the younger employees are entirely enraptured with you. They all watch you on their nights off at Battery City and they’re very big fans, so when you ask them questions they won’t try to lie through falsehood. The older generations will take some time to cajole into honesty but most have already let their guard down somewhat because they can see you speak frankly and can handle manual labour (blistered fingers, bruises and bandages can be par for the course as either trade). 

ACADEMIC: No one will trust you initially because most of the help will see your standing in academia as a sign of privilege and therefore disdain towards the working classes. Talking to one miss Daisy and offering night lessons in art history and painting or one mister Mortimer and offering night him lessons in toxicological studies and properties of poisons at the university will help you gain a foothold in your investigation and make it a little easier to talk their peers specifically. Getting others to trust you may not be so easy, but it won’t be impossible.

PHASE 5: CLUES AND FOLLOW UPS This will largely consist of finding things the other characters have mentioned. In the game this will take the form of going to the locations of said clues and working through a minigame to come up with a fragment of evidence that will go on the evidence board for the final solve. These will be dictated by the occupational background you chose. 

Aspects of Phases 4 and 5 will repeat a number of times, each time depending on the outcome of the last time you spoke to an NPC or if you found a clue. Christine, the evening’s entertainment, is capable of fluttering between social strata and becoming your bridge to investigating the other half of the party; you meet her after the first Phase 5 puzzle in both Noble and Urchin backgrounds. 

PHASE 6: THE TURN  Often in detective fiction investigation of initial clues will point to a perpetrator, but this conclusion often gets overturned narratively somehow: sometimes they are working for someone else, or else the evidence will turn out to be circumstantial and not actually relevant to the murder at hand. However, because this is a game, and different occupations will lead to different clues, there will be different turns depending on the character build chosen at the start of the game. A turn can happen at any point in the game’s narrative depending on whenever the player chooses to try for the final solve - they will almost always get it wrong, but I will allow for a small pool of options. This will lead into a Phoenix Wright style interrogation sequence, but like, classier and more serious. 

Edit: June 5th 2021

PHASE 7: POST-TURN INVESTIGATIONS  So if the initial suspicion is wrong, the character often re-examines their clues and hunts around for more, recombining and re-evaluating until the true culprit prevails. This will be for the most part exactly the same for mine, although if the player has jumped to a conclusion about someone’s perceived guilt, they will lose that NPC’s cooperation and help for any clues they may require moving forward. This will be one of the easier things to code. 

PHASE 8: THE UNMASKING  After all the examining and re-evaluating and data gathering, the story climaxes with the final unmasking and social trial of the guilty party. This is where all the clues are finally connected together in a way that makes logical sense and in context works with the guilty party, who is in effect apprehended by the local constabulary. My version of this will work two-fold: the Presto, a final timed version of the red yarn evidence board puzzle; and a final witness interrogation mini-game with the murderer. I will of course be adding in dialogue to show my values surrounding policing and the carceral state regardless of whether or not Vanessa’s chosen background is a cop or not. 

#murder mystery #narrative map #soz for the tmi fellas i know its gross TRUST ME #just be glad i didnt go into detail lol #textpost