Im rarely on twitter anymore due to the whole... everything BUT i do like keeping this account as twitter always meant so much to me growing up, so i will be popping back every now and then & replying to DMs when i see them...
Not me on the tube talking about how fit Ncuti is as the doctor, only to look up and see him pull his baseball cap down and grin to himself from across the carriage??
Then HE WINKED AT ME WHEN HE GOT OFF???
I cannot deal.
To be clear - i wont be answering any questions about what train or where. it looked like he was going home and wanted to be low key (hence why i didnt say hi) and I have no desire to dox him... but it was a cute interaction and he looked GOOOOOOD.
Do you agree with Ofsted's chief inspector Amanda Spielman that arts courses promote unrealistic career prospects to potential students? Vote in this week's poll here
Harvey has missed both christmas and new year now, they have to be somewhere and someone has to know what's happened. Please keep sharing - we can't give up!
Harvey Parker is STILL missing two weeks after leaving Heaven nightclub in Charing Cross, London, at 2.15am on December 17.
Police searched the river near Golden Jubilee Bridge, but there were no reports of the 20-year-old being found.
Any info:
@LambethMPS
| Ref 21MIS039522
I feel like I should mention that Graham came to see
#QueerHappyMeal
. He doesn’t just say ‘listen to trans people’, he actively engages and listens to us. He is a strong, quiet ally and I am proud to have had a small part in his education
#IStandWithGrahamNorton
i love olly, i’ve followed his career for years, from tiny pub theatres to wembley stadium.
but this is just pink washing - no queer should be celebrating eurovision when Isreal are still contestants. You’re just normalising genocide.
this was very difficult to keep quiet omg !! so excited to announce that I’m the uk's
@Eurovision
entry for 2024 💕 !!! i’ve wanted to do this for a long long time and it feels like the right moment to start releasing music under my own name 🥺
Guys, I'm hearing word that all our emails to Boris Johnson & our MP's about the GRA have totally shocked Parliament & they're actually considering reversing their decision. Keep this up - keep emailing, keep speaking to your family members & keep this momentum going!
After this offer, my mum has someone staying with them this week! they’ve been welcomed with open arms & she’s even cooked dinner. We do not deserve her.
anyway, lets ignore the TERFs and celebrate good news! This week i got my first TV offer to create a new series that centres trans joy. That is what's important.
At the weekend, over a shared can of Fizzy Vimto your favourite couple decided to queer the institution of marriage together so now I am engaged.
I am suitably excited/amazed/deliriously happy.
Just shouted some creepy man down on the tube. He was sat next to me and I spotted him using his phone camera to zoom in and try take photos of a woman’s butt infront of us. I stopped him and embarrassed him *loudly* before he had the chance to take any.
This is so powerful. So many white women of Dawns age, hell even Dawns best friend & collaborator can't see us as human beings, so hopefully Dawns appreciation, joy and acceptance will spread! Thank you
@Rob_Madge_02
<3
Well 😭. This woman is one of the most generous, most brilliant people. Not to be very uncool and fangirly but she has been one of my heroes for bloody ages and hearing this on telly blew my tiny little cow mind.
All I want is to create a queer space that is a theatre, but also a vegan/gf cafe/bar and a book shop & a gender free underwear & sex toy shop! Is that too much to ask?
it’s
#TransDayOfVisibility
today, as if we’re invisible the rest of the year and not a just right wing punching bag. visibility is not liberation. visibility is not human rights. visibility is not safety. but visibility does mean you can see my cute outfit:
We're thrilled to announce the 6 emerging filmmakers taking part in this year's
@BFIFlare
x
@BAFTA
Crew Mentoring programme, in partnership with
@bfinetwork
!
Find out more about all of them here 👇
To the idiots in my mentions: never once have I said, it even implied that cis women don’t face danger when waiting at bus stops. Just because I too get scared leaving the house, doesn’t mean I’m devaluing you’re fears. The patriarchy is the problem, not trans femmes.
A
#pride
hot take no one asked for:
I fucking hate
#loveislove
.
Love has nothing to do with who I fuck, how I present, what my gender is, or my queerness. Love has nothing to do with the lack of safety I feel in public spaces. Love is irrelevant.
Ps if you work FOH at the savoy and your lame is Lewis (or Louis) the girls behind me are talking about you scanning their tickets and they call you
#FitLewis
.
decided to wear all the colours and all the prints today. if you’re at the
@bafta
’s today plz say hi cz despite being this hot n iconic i’m also an anxious mess w/ no pals! xoxo
hugely disappointed in the trend of arts folk questioning (at best) or outright laughing (at worst) at access needs? if you don’t want a trigger warning don’t read it - it’s that simple????
‘If no-one knew you had said it, what would you say?’
Meet the 13 writers premiering anonymised work in Burnt at the Stake, or The Whole of the Truth – an evening of new writing ✍️
13 October in the Globe Theatre:
The only Cis Person who will ever be allowed to play a Trans Person is Miriam Margoyles who will be playing me in an upcoming CITV+ fantastical biopic called Tranimals.
Today we start rehearsals for my pilot, Dead Name before an industry sharing on Thursday. We have proper telly people in it & working on it & I have major imposter syndrome… but I can’t wait to dive in!
Today I had a trial shift at a pub - my first non theatre job in 20 years, and my first non writing job in 5. I got the job & feel both celebratory and also ashamed I couldn't make writing fulltime work any longer.
I am this close to giving up. I'm so bored and tired of the constant attacks. Today I woke up to the news that a former bff of mine was on national radio spouting about being cancelled over her gender critical views. YOU'RE ON THE FUCKING RADIO BABE.
I know that not everyone of my followers who also follows JK Dickhead is a transphobe, but I also need you to acknowledge that you following her (whether you agree with her or not) increases her profile and her reach.
Shout out to the queer artists, the working class artists, the artists from the global majority, the neurodivergent artists, the disabled artists, the underfunded everyman artists of the people. We might not make lists, but we make impact.
10 years ago when I didn’t get into drama school, if you told me I’d be walking in to one of the top schools to create a show for their third years - I wouldn’t have believed you.
But here I am. Day 1 of writing a brand new musical and I feel like royalty.
Fuck the Cass Report. Fuck all cis people meddling in trans lives. Fuck the gatekeeping of life saving medical intervention. Fuck the entire trans medical system in general. Fuck people desperate to eradicate trans kids. Fuck everyone who doesn't uplift and support the vunerable.
I’ve got an idea:
let’s get rid of Redmayne in Cabaret, and have Jessie Buckley & Billie Piper alternating Emcee & Sally each night.
Who do I need to talk to?
ok, i’m putting this out there: BAFTAs 2022 i attended as a guest & met gaga as a fan, by BAFTAs 2030 i’m gonna attend as a nominee & be working with gaga.
oh fuck this and all who sail in it!
YOU DO NOT GET TO USE OUR FLAG WHILST FUNDING OUR DESCTRUCTION
YOU DO NOT GET TO PINK WASH HER WORLD TO MAKE A PROFIT THAT GOES TOWARDS REMOVING OUR RIGHTS
Trans Kids deserve to become Trans Adults, they deserve to grow up. They deserve to live out their lives. Why is this so fucking hard for people to understand? Denying them is a death sentence.
I submitted a script to
@bbcwritersroom
back in January, and just got an email telling me that despite it not getting through, I was in the top 14% of 3,383 submissions which I'm pretty damn proud of!
Nice rejection emails seem to be a quarantine trend!
Tomorrow i get to go home and go inside my parents house for the first time in 2 years. i get to meet my new 8 week old niece Ada. i get to spend my first Christmas with my family as Tabby and i get to spend my first Christmas with my fiancé!
At 22 I was living in Cornwall, smoking way too much weed & wondering if there'd ever be a place for this weird queer boy in the theatre industry. At (nearly) 31 I'm making that space for the weird queer woman I've become, and hopefully for many other queer & trans artists.
We are beyond excited to announce we have commissioned playwright
@TheTabbyLamb
to create a brand new show exploring the trans-trailblazers Michael Dillon & Roberta Cowell - the first individuals to receive gender affirmation surgery in the UK - right here in
#Basingstoke
!
cis is not a slur. it is a descriptor. it is also not new, it is a latin derived prefix that simply means ‘not trans’.
if being called not trans offends you so much, why not join our gang? we have badges!
#CisIsASlur
#CisIsNotASlur
i’m so fucking angry.
#SpongebobTheMusical
is a show about inclusion. it’s a show about tolerance. it was the first show on broadway to have gender neutral costumes, yet
@ArtsEdLondon
has somehow made even the most pure show transphobic.
Breaking: Come Hear the Music Play.
#EddieRedmayne
and
#JessieBuckley
close to completing negotiations to play the Emcee ( Redmayne has long dreamt of playing the role in the W.End) & Sally Bowles in Kander & Ebb’s Cabaret at Playhouse Theatre. Likely from early November 2021.
Honestly obsessed with me not getting into drama school but now getting to go into drama schools and chat shit about making queer theatre AND they pay me. Living the dream tbh.
I received a pretty big rejection this morning, but this evening I received an even bigger (and totally unexpected) offer.
The lord cher works in mysterious ways.
Going to my first wedding in a dress tonight and the only person I know there is my own fiancé…. So I guess I’ve gotta look sickening and upstage everyone else, right?
How is it 2021 and we're still awarding cis folk for stealing trans roles?
HALF YOUR CAST HAVE QUIT IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE COMMUNITY AND YOU STILL DONT FUCKING GET IT!?!