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  • Make Your Mark on the Portland Dress!

    Make Your Mark on the Portland Dress!

    Inspired by the amazing Red Dress project (which travelled the world gathering stitched stories from 51 countries!), we’re creating our very own version right here on the island — the Portland Dress! 🌍🧵

    This is your chance to add your voice, your story, your creativity to something truly special. We’re inviting you (yes, you!) to create a small textile or embroidered piece that will become part of the Portland Dress — a beautiful, wearable patchwork of our island’s spirit.

    Don’t worry if you’ve never embroidered before — local artist Antje Rooke will bring all the bits and bobs you need and guide you every step of the way. Honestly, she’s yet to meet anyone who couldn’t make something both gorgeous and meaningful. 🧶✨

    Once it’s all stitched together, the Portland Dress will be proudly on display at the BIG b-side weekend, 11–14 September 2025. So come along, get crafty, and help make Portland history — one stitch at a time! 🪡❤️

    Come and join us:
    LGBT+side, 77a Fortuneswell, DT5 1LY
    Weds 28th of May, 1800-2030

  • Trans Solidarity

    Trans Solidarity

    Last week’s Supreme Court ruling was a blow to trans people and their allies. At best, it was short-sighted, ill-judged, and uninformed. The Court upheld a legal interpretation that allows trans women to be defined as men under certain provisions of the Equality Act—specifically, in the context of single-sex services like women’s shelters. This decision will not only affect trans and non-binary people across the UK, but also endanger cis men and women who don’t conform to traditional gender norms.

    Even before this ruling, there were reports of cis women being harassed, bullied, or even reported while using women-only spaces—simply for being butch, having short hair, or being perceived as “too tall” to be a “real” woman. The Supreme Court has, in effect, told transphobic and trans-critical individuals that this kind of behaviour is acceptable. It clearly isn’t.

    On 23 April, YouTuber and trans activist Katy Montgomerie hosted a three-hour livestream discussing the ruling and its broader consequences for both trans and cis people. Toward the end (linked here), she shared several ways that we, as trans folk and allies, can take action. We’ve included the links she shared below, but we also encourage you to watch the final section of her stream to hear her call to action directly. (If the link doesn’t take you to the right moment, the relevant section begins at 02:48:00.)

    Trans rights are human rights.

    Learn
    We Are QueerAF: Supreme Court Rules Trans Women Aren’t Women
    Good Law Project: Supreme Court ignored Trans Voices

    Petitions
    What The Trans: Compalation of Petitions for Trans Rights

    Protests
    What The Trans: Complation of Protests Against Supreme Court

    Politics
    Transactual: Write To The PM
    Trans Legal Project: Write To Your MP
    Write To Your MP Template Letter

    Donate
    Good Law Project: Fighting Fund For Trans Rights