An email I just sent to the organisers of an international conference I’m speaking at this year. Social stigmatisation is a powerful tool against the far right. Use it any chance you get. Let others know it’s not all right and you won’t be part of normalising it.

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I am trying to share what is going on in the US with regard to the rise of attacks on the LGBTQA+ communities, and what is happening on twitter, which helps to facilitate some of this.

Started off by suggesting people need to think about how they can on the one hand be committed to safeguarding and be on twitter, given what is going on. More recently however I am trying to up this by saying why are you still on twitter.

Not sure if has any effect on people, but trying to suggest peoples reputations and that of their company / employer is at stake could make a difference.

Advantage is that these blog posts can have embedded toots, which in turn, have links to external sources to back the toots up, so we can't be accused of mis-information, when a toot points to local leglislation voting schedules or local newspaper reports.

There is very little hidng from this now as even the BBC are starting to give things a mention.

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