Nancy Kelley
Human rights geek | Director Trans Solidarity Alliance | Trustee Bishopsgate Institute | 'might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb'
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- Censorship of queer lives is rising - from algorithms burying our stories to AI-driven misinformation. That’s why we’re crowdfunding to protect access to journalism that fights back. But we can’t do this alone. Support us 👇 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/queeraf202...
- BIG part of the picture is the huge resistance in many schools to actually teaching in a way that works for autistic students www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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- Reposted by Nancy KelleyThe New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
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- Reposted by Nancy KelleyIt is simply a lie to claim that the Conservative government (or any other UK government in recent history) oversaw 'an open borders experiment". No excuse for the PM or Reed repeating this lie or for media not describing it as such.
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- I hate how these articles get framed. People go to A& E b/c they cant get a GP appointment. I was *sent* twice by 111 because my GP wouldn't see me for months. Im probably recorded in these figures. Cough and breathlessness. It was cancer (and they missed it) www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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- Reposted by Nancy KelleyNEW: Labour inherited public services in crisis. Performance had fallen, investment had been cut + spending plans were undeliverable. It's made some progress, providing stability and positive long-term plans. But it has been undermined by poor prep in opposition and lack of co-ordination in govt 🧵
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- Reposted by Nancy KelleyTo explain briefly: at the moment people successful in their asylum claims get permission to stay in the UK for 5 years, then have to apply for permanent residency. At that point a review of their status is done, but it’s rare not to succeed at that point unless they‘ve committed an offence 1/
- Reposted by Nancy KelleyThis is as bad as anything proposed by Reform. Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Nancy Kelley“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.” Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
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- Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
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- For generations people have come here and made *massive contributions to our shared life, some speaking English fluently, some with only a few phrases. I hate that our politics is this debased. www.gov.uk/government/n...
- Reposted by Nancy KelleyRead my two letters to the #UK: 1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly. 2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches 👇#HumanRights www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
- Reposted by Nancy KelleyAnalysis in @thetimes.com by @leaskyd.bsky.social & Anna Dowell of the sharp decline in British identity uncovered by the Scottish Social Attitudes survey. With comment from Sir John Curtice on the polarising of Scottish politics and from myself on the decoupling of Scottish and British identities:
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- Reposted by Nancy Kelley"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage." I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.
- Must watch for anyone who cares to know about the state of trans+ healthcare in the UK👇
- So touched to be nominated for a Trans in the City allyship award. Allyship and solidarity has never been more needed. If you'd like to stand up for the trans community in the UK, go to @transsolidarity.bsky.social 🫶
- Reposted by Nancy KelleySix weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
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- Must read on rising tide of racism in schools. Both of my children are Black and have experienced racism of a type I saw all around me as a child in the 1980s. Schools/teachers are not keeping up.
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- Can't stop thinking about Starmer's pivot from calling Reform's ILR policy 'immoral' and 'racist' to describing Reform supporters as not racist, but rather 'frustrated'. Surely at least some people are attracted to 'immoral' and 'racist' policies because they *like* them? 🧵 tinyurl.com/57cb27cv
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- Reposted by Nancy Kelley"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
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- Reposted by Nancy KelleyThe EHRC guidance is unworkable for business. Signatories include Ben & Jerry's, Lush, Lucy & Yak and hundreds of large and small businesses across the country www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
- Draft EHRC guidance on Equality Act is unworkable for businesses 👇👇👇 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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- Reposted by Nancy KelleyShot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men
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- I found this really interesting and insightful 👇
- Brilliant to see so many MPs signing @lisasmartmp.bsky.social open letter to Bridget Phillipson calling for proper scrutiny, debate and a free vote on EHRC code of practice. 💥GET YOUR MP TO SIGN(resources to help you @transsolidarity.bsky.social and @transactualuk.bsky.social )
- Im an adopter. I have quite a few young people in my family network who are in, or have been in these institutions, and they are *dreadful*. Excessive profits for the companies and young people living in dire poverty, exposed to criminal exploitation living in them.
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- British Election Study data 👇👇 Labour haemorrhaging lesbian, gay and bi+ voters, all heading to the Greens.👏transphobia👏is👏not👏a👏good👏political👏strategy 👏
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- Its blood cancer awareness month, and I'm really grateful to @lymphomaaction.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to talk about what its *really like being queer with cancer. (I'm writing a book chapter on this right now, so watch this space) lymphoma-action.org.uk/support-you/...
- As EHRC leaks a final draft Code of Practice to the Equality Act to the Times then delivers it to govt and attempts to wash its hands of the impact on trans people, its important to recognise and call out the shell game we're in. EHRC will say 'we're just following the Supreme Court judgement' 1/3
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- Must read on the mess were in: UK & reactionary centrists 👇👇👇 (yes another doozie from my brother @polphilpod.bsky.social 😁)
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- Safe and legal routes to enable people to seek asylum. Right to work so people seeking asylum to live dignified lives while their claims are determined. And a high quality claim determination system that has the goal of getting as many claims as possible right first time. Another world is possible.
- When centrists adopt far-right rhetoric, they don’t make themselves stronger. They make themselves look inauthentic, legitimise the far right, and shift the political debate onto terrain defined by their opponents. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
- Really helpful for anyone trying to understand autistic meltdowns (and autistic people generally!) Better
- Reposted by Nancy KelleyLife’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵
- 100%agree with @sundersays.bsky.social here. Shameful, toxic, dangerous stuff👇
- No 10's use of Keir Starmer’s Twitter feed is not something Keir Starmer could credibly defend. What is he doing with the imagery here & why? x.com/Keir_Starmer...
- Really enjoyed this on contemporary liberalism (and its failure to meet the fascist moment). Also by my brother @polphilpod.bsky.social so extra fun for me 😁
- This is a sight I thought I'd never see again - my family walking ahead of me on a hike. Even looking at it makes my ❤️ sing, so here is my mini thread of appreciation for the @nationaltrust.org.uk and for the freeing power of mobility aids! 🧵
- Excellent thread by @sachacoward.bsky.social on the fallout from the Polari Prize longlasting of an anti trans author
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- Reposted by Nancy KelleyNew YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
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