Colin Wilson

@colinwilsonN16

LGBT and socialist activist with , author at and

London, England
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Joined January 2008
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    Aug 16

    PROTEST: Defend migrants in the Channel! Wednesday 19th 6-8pm • Home Office SW1P 4DF Solidarity with the oppressed. Open the borders. Humanitarian aid not state violence. No-one is illegal. All migrants are welcome. Share on Facebook >>

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    Aug 10

    According to Donald Trump, the Spanish Flu of 1918 ended WWII...which began 21 years later. Who the hell hired this guy?

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    Aug 1

    Last time I accessed gynaecology care in the UK: Hospital 1 assumed my referral was a mistake, unceremoniously dumped me off the waiting list. My lovely GP was annoyed ('do they think I'm a moron?'), wrote back to them to spell it out.

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  4. Jul 22

    Shameful behaviour by bosses. Supermarket staff risked their helth to keep us all going in the lockdown - now they have to clean the shops and their own toilets.

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    Jun 30

    Wrote a thing about what's going on with BLM in the British context that some people might find useful. Mainly to summarise events & clarify some convos taking place. Thanks to those who helped, esp and for really useful comments.

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  6. Jun 29

    At the they are very keen on the 3 Rs but they cannot spell good.

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  7. Jun 29

    As thousands leave Labour, the risk is that they become demoralised and inactive - they need to plan a political future, and it looks as if there will be a new era of struggles to join.

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    Jun 24

    Writing about US food the way the NYT covers Asian fruit: In a nation torn by racial conflict, one unlikely food unites. To those accustomed to chopsticks, the greasy parcel known as a 'burger', a sort of split bao, is crude and messy. Yet it encapsulates a nation's violent past.

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  9. Jun 21

    on Netflix is an informative, moving documentary about the extent of transphobia in US tv and movies, and about how trans people have fought for change

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  10. Jun 17

    It's America, not a problem here, British cops aren't racist etc etc.

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    Jun 16

    I still have a letter I received as a teenager from William Hague (as Leader of the Opposition) around 1999/2000, explaining to me that Section 28 would NOT be repealed, and the age of consent would NOT be equalised, and that that was that, go away.

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  12. Jun 15

    So, with Trump and Johnson? Or with trans people, Black Lives Matter and Angela Davis? That's the choice. It shouldn't be a difficult one.

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  13. Jun 15

    And, most of all, this is now clearly a struggle with oppressed people on one side and Trump/Johnson on the other. Johnson's attack on trans women reflects precisely the talking points of transphobic feminists - the destructive nature of their politics is, again, plain to see.

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  14. Jun 15

    Or is it more important to maintain relationships with people in official positions, to be published in little-read newspapers, to protect your turf?

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  15. Jun 15

    So, the choice really is simple. Do you side with a huge and vibrant movement of young people of all ethnicities, genders and sexualities which is fighting to change society every day?

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  16. Jun 15

    = Angela Davis has spoken about the positive contribution trans people have made to the movement

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    Dr. Angela Davis on the role of the trans and non-binary communities in the fight for the feminist abolition she advocates for: “The feminism I’m referring to does not respect the binary structure of gender...”
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  17. Jun 15

    But, also: = tens of thousands of people gathered yesterday in Brooklyn to support a Black Trans Lives Matter demo, after literally dozens of black trans people, especially women, have been murdered every year, year after year

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  18. Jun 15

    = in Britain, it's reported that the Johnson government is to stop GRA reform, and to introduce new laws restricting the rights of trans women. This is the first time the government has made a direct attack on British LGBT people since the time of Thatcher.

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  19. Jun 15

    = in the US, the Trump administration has removed trans people's healthcare rights. They did this on the fourth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting.

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  20. Jun 15

    Anybody on the British left who isn't now behind the struggles of trans people needs to think about what has happened in the last few days:

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