Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️

Tom Juniper🏳️‍⚧️

@tomjuniper.bsky.social

Your weird, AuDHD, trans auncle. Sometimes poems and stories, sometimes unsolicited info dumping. I don't care if you talk about me as long as you do so using he/him or they/them pronouns.

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Our next show is Sunday 1st November as part of Nottingham Comedy Festival and boy howdy do we have a lineup for you. Details soon!

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But there are problems: currently, most media outlets are far more interested in buzzy, counterintuitive, controversial takes rather than measured nuance. It's hard to bait rage-clicks with an article called: 'Autistic People are Pretty Cool & Deserve Small Changes to Make Work A Bit Less Grim'.

At my middle school. If a class had perfect attendance for a week, the head would give that class a big bag of sweets to share. BUT ONLY IF they wrote a sycophantic letter to the head, to be read out in assembly. It was all very tongue-in-cheek, but God knows what we were supposed to learn from it!

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My god, that's flown. Learned a lot about the show, what works, what doesn't, and how it goes over with audiences. I love the way I can spot the folklore nerds in the audience by the way they get excited when they figure out who "Mrs B" is, or go "Ooohhh" when I mention the Barguest.

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RW Netflix shouters and court jesters to bone saw killers: I'm actually incredibly brave. Maybe the bravest comedian there is Friz: oh hey, I've gone blind, could you whop a knife in my eye in time for my show this afternoon?

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WHAT'S IN THE BOX TUESDAY 11TH AUGUST Featuring... 📦 Katie Pritchard 📦 MARA Joy 📦 Adam Larter 12pm, Southsider, W Richmond St. Bring something! #edfringe

I'm rewatching Baz Luhrnan's Romeo and Juliet. It generally holds up. But friar laurence's opening monologue... Its supposed to be him musing to himself about botany, but here... Like, for no reason at all, he's topless, and talking to 2 altar boys. about drugs. Was Baz calling the friar a nonce?

Just got an NHS letter inviting me to take part in a prostate health survey. But don't worry, there was a trans inclusive footnote. It's "open to men, trans women, and non-binary people who were assigned male at birth." So... Open to trans men, then? You sure about that, hon?

Me: "OMG not everything has to be anthropomorphic. It's a car, not your kid🙄" Also me; "I can't throw her out! I forgot about her! And she was all by herself in the back of the cupboard! And she grew LEAVES 😭😭😭 You're gonna be OK, sweet potato child of mine!"

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I'm happy for venues to adopt this model, if "trans people can't use gendered spaces" legislation is actively enforced. Another option for venues is to make almost all your toilets and changing spaces gender neutral. One (single occupancy) stall per venue designated "cis only" should be fine.

For hospital wards, you know those curtains they have around the beds? The ones the NHS already believe have magical soundproofing abilities? Why not go the extra mile and rebrand those as wards? Suddenly you've got a single gender hospital ward ready for every gender imaginable!

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Oh, and the cis toilets were godawful: no loo roll, no working flush, no soap, certainly no complementary post-poo chocolates or champagne*. BUT you only had to use them if you minded people thinking that you were trans/were a dickhead about it. *I was asleep. Don't @me about the hygiene logistics.

Oh, in the dream, it wasn't always the venues doing this. If venues weren't maintaining the mandatory trans bogs, because the staff "didn't want to go in there", the trans community were secretly gussying them up, maintaining them, and getting trans friendly venues to donate promotional freebies.

In my dream, you had to go and ask for "the trans key", which was awkward but once you got in, it was beautiful; you got a gift bag, vouchers for other "participating venues" and a map of all the other luxury trans only facilities in town. But I guess I'm just Cartman with a fucking bow on his hat.

TMI post I just did a shit for the entirety of Starmer's resignation speech, while receiving live updates from my partners in the next room via messenger. One such message was "...He's got fucking inspirational backing music!" That he had, gentle reader. That he had. *Parp*

Trying to find your partner at pride feels like a Lucy and Yak sponsored edition of Where's My Cow. Where's my partner? Is that my partner? They're wearing dungarees! The dungarees have sunflowers on them! That's not my partner!