Joyce Activated

From this point on most issues of this newsletter will be subscriber-only. If you sign up in the coming days for a full year I’ll send you a signed copy of my paperback! (If you’re outside the UK, we’ll have to discuss postage.) It’s due out

One of the most vexed questions for all of us writing about the sex’n’gender mess is that of “preferred pronouns”. Media guides from trans lobby groups and official regulators like IPSO [https://www.ipso.co.uk/media/1275/guidance_transgender-reporting.pdf]—and also, unfortunately, the internal style guides

I feel I owe it to my new subscribers to talk a bit about The Lunch. If you haven’t read the pieces by Julie Bindel [https://unherd.com/2022/04/jk-rowling-and-the-lunch-of-secrets/] and Suzanne Moore, you definitely should—and also the op-ed by Janice Turner [https://www.thetimes.co.uk/

My road to writing about trans ideology has been long and winding. In my 20s I took a B.A. in mathematics from Trinity College Dublin, and earned a distinction in Part III Mathematics from Cambridge. I went on to gain a PhD in mathematics from University College London (my