Marty Davies
@smartypantsmarty.com
Writer, artist, campaigner & creative cultural strategist.
Founder @transhistoryweek.com
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· Jul 8
The Glass Lion should be impossible to judge | Marty Davies
Published in Campaign on 6 July 2026 Lessons from inside the jury room on my Cannes debut. I’m back. I took some time away from this column
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After a long hiatus I've returned to my column with @campaignuk.bsky.social to debrief an extraordinary debut at @canneslions.bsky.social - being part of the awarding jury for the prestigious award category: Glass: The Lion for Change.
June has certainly been a memorable month!
Added to Patreon:
June has certainly been a memorable month!
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Bonnie will be missed. She is someone who I always listened intently to when she spoke. I’ve long admired her intellect and compassion.
I just want to publicly share my love and sympathies with her friends and family.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I just want to publicly share my love and sympathies with her friends and family.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bonnie Greer: British-American author and critic dies at 77
Her husband says the playwright and cultural and political commentator died after a brief illness.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 16, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Bonnie will be missed. She is someone who I always listened intently to when she spoke. I’ve long admired her intellect and compassion.
I just want to publicly share my love and sympathies with her friends and family.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I just want to publicly share my love and sympathies with her friends and family.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I’d like to feel less alone in my innate human desire to treat people fleeing persecution with compassion and comfort.
People seeking asylum after horrendous life experiences are then met with fear, judgement and rejection.
I find it shameful.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
People seeking asylum after horrendous life experiences are then met with fear, judgement and rejection.
I find it shameful.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans
Piddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 16, 2026 at 1:35 PM
I’d like to feel less alone in my innate human desire to treat people fleeing persecution with compassion and comfort.
People seeking asylum after horrendous life experiences are then met with fear, judgement and rejection.
I find it shameful.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
People seeking asylum after horrendous life experiences are then met with fear, judgement and rejection.
I find it shameful.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is a great letter 👇
There are serious issues for Parliament to resolve, to make legal and practical gender recognition for trans people a reality again in the UK.
My letter to the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission: www.sianberry.org.uk/news/monitor...
My letter to the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission: www.sianberry.org.uk/news/monitor...
Monitoring the impact of new guidance From The Equality and Human Rights Commission - Sian Berry MP
I have once again written to the Equality and Human Rights Commission, asking questions of how they plan to monitor the impact of their new guidance, the Code of practice for services, public function...
www.sianberry.org.uk
September 10, 2026 at 7:51 AM
This is a great letter 👇
“The move is not without risk for Polanski, with the former prime minister’s seat traditionally considered to be safe for Labour.”
Green party members back Zack Polanski to stand in London byelection
Party leader in England and Wales seen as favourite to contest Holborn and St Pancras after Starmer’s resignation
www.theguardian.com
September 4, 2026 at 8:26 PM
“The move is not without risk for Polanski, with the former prime minister’s seat traditionally considered to be safe for Labour.”
Appears to be clear criminality caught on camera.
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
channel4news.substack.com
September 3, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Appears to be clear criminality caught on camera.
"Nobody wants to have baldness, deepening of the voice or enlargement of the clitoris."
Trans men reading this:
Trans men reading this:
September 2, 2026 at 5:14 PM
"Nobody wants to have baldness, deepening of the voice or enlargement of the clitoris."
Trans men reading this:
Trans men reading this:
Monumental achievement.
2014: Harmful air pollution above legal limits.
2024: Harmful air pollution driven down to legal limits.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
2024: Harmful air pollution driven down to legal limits.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
September 2, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Monumental achievement.
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I'm really relying on a little extra GoFundMe money to get me through this month's bills
If you'd share with your networks who may want to help out a struggling trans science communicator, I'd deeply appreciate any extra support
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If you'd share with your networks who may want to help out a struggling trans science communicator, I'd deeply appreciate any extra support
www.gofundme.com/f/help-trans...
Donate to Help trans activist Jey McCreight recover from hate crime, organized by Jey McCreight
I am a transgender activist and science communicator who was v… Jey McCreight needs your support for Help trans activist Jey McCreight recover from hate crime
www.gofundme.com
September 2, 2026 at 4:38 PM
I'm really relying on a little extra GoFundMe money to get me through this month's bills
If you'd share with your networks who may want to help out a struggling trans science communicator, I'd deeply appreciate any extra support
www.gofundme.com/f/help-trans...
If you'd share with your networks who may want to help out a struggling trans science communicator, I'd deeply appreciate any extra support
www.gofundme.com/f/help-trans...
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🚨🆕 @wearequeeraf.com and @whatthetrans.com can reveal that the NHS has cancelled all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of the Welsh Gender Service
Some trans patients received the news just days or even hours before they were due to take place 👇
www.wearequeeraf.com/nhs-cancels-...
Some trans patients received the news just days or even hours before they were due to take place 👇
www.wearequeeraf.com/nhs-cancels-...
NHS cancels all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of Welsh Gender Service with immediate effect
Some trans patients received news their surgeries had been cancelled just days or even hours before they were due to take place
www.wearequeeraf.com
August 28, 2026 at 4:09 PM
🚨🆕 @wearequeeraf.com and @whatthetrans.com can reveal that the NHS has cancelled all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of the Welsh Gender Service
Some trans patients received the news just days or even hours before they were due to take place 👇
www.wearequeeraf.com/nhs-cancels-...
Some trans patients received the news just days or even hours before they were due to take place 👇
www.wearequeeraf.com/nhs-cancels-...
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“We need to think about attacks on Pride as a signal that our democracy is under threat. All of us in our democratic societies need to value Pride more and protect it.”
Great to interview Marty Davies for Gay Times.
@smartypantsmarty.com
www.gaytimes.com/marty-davies...
Great to interview Marty Davies for Gay Times.
@smartypantsmarty.com
www.gaytimes.com/marty-davies...
Marty Davies: 'Attacks on Pride are a signal that our democracy is under threat'
Philip Baldwin speaks with Trans+ History Week founder Marty Davies about protecting Pride and "democracy itself".
www.gaytimes.com
August 26, 2026 at 4:46 PM
“We need to think about attacks on Pride as a signal that our democracy is under threat. All of us in our democratic societies need to value Pride more and protect it.”
Great to interview Marty Davies for Gay Times.
@smartypantsmarty.com
www.gaytimes.com/marty-davies...
Great to interview Marty Davies for Gay Times.
@smartypantsmarty.com
www.gaytimes.com/marty-davies...
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I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money.
That's Dolly.
That's Dolly.
August 25, 2026 at 6:36 PM
I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money.
That's Dolly.
That's Dolly.
Londoners have a tradition of protesting retailers upon store opening when values misalign.
I recall the Canada Goose flagship store opening on Regent Street in 2017 to PETA protesters.
I recall the Canada Goose flagship store opening on Regent Street in 2017 to PETA protesters.
August 25, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Londoners have a tradition of protesting retailers upon store opening when values misalign.
I recall the Canada Goose flagship store opening on Regent Street in 2017 to PETA protesters.
I recall the Canada Goose flagship store opening on Regent Street in 2017 to PETA protesters.
Dolly Parton is a genuine inspiration to so many.
She left the world better than when she entered it. The ambition we should all have.
Through the Imagination Library she gifted over 300 million books since inception.
What a woman. Be more like Dolly.
She left the world better than when she entered it. The ambition we should all have.
Through the Imagination Library she gifted over 300 million books since inception.
What a woman. Be more like Dolly.
August 25, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Dolly Parton is a genuine inspiration to so many.
She left the world better than when she entered it. The ambition we should all have.
Through the Imagination Library she gifted over 300 million books since inception.
What a woman. Be more like Dolly.
She left the world better than when she entered it. The ambition we should all have.
Through the Imagination Library she gifted over 300 million books since inception.
What a woman. Be more like Dolly.
I feel like you’ve all been gatekeeping Kacey Musgraves. So I’m not speaking to any of you.
August 24, 2026 at 7:38 PM
I feel like you’ve all been gatekeeping Kacey Musgraves. So I’m not speaking to any of you.
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I spoke with Philip Baldwin at Gay Times about the state of Pride.
Marty Davies: 'Attacks on Pride are a signal that our democracy is under threat'
Philip Baldwin speaks with Trans+ History Week founder Marty Davies about protecting Pride and "democracy itself".
www.gaytimes.com
August 21, 2026 at 9:36 PM
I spoke with Philip Baldwin at Gay Times about the state of Pride.
I spoke with Philip Baldwin at Gay Times about the state of Pride.
Marty Davies: 'Attacks on Pride are a signal that our democracy is under threat'
Philip Baldwin speaks with Trans+ History Week founder Marty Davies about protecting Pride and "democracy itself".
www.gaytimes.com
August 21, 2026 at 9:36 PM
I spoke with Philip Baldwin at Gay Times about the state of Pride.
30% of Americans believe there are other countries across the globe that are better than the United States.
It was 11% almost a decade ago in 2017
Seems Americans don’t believe America has been made “great again”
It was 11% almost a decade ago in 2017
Seems Americans don’t believe America has been made “great again”
August 19, 2026 at 10:34 PM
30% of Americans believe there are other countries across the globe that are better than the United States.
It was 11% almost a decade ago in 2017
Seems Americans don’t believe America has been made “great again”
It was 11% almost a decade ago in 2017
Seems Americans don’t believe America has been made “great again”
It is incredibly wearing to have different parts of your reality picked away at and described as fictions.
To live in modern Britain is to be swimming in open letters, petitions and complaint forms.
Anyway, complain to Ofcom about that Channel 4 documentary:
adhduk.co.uk/challenging-...
To live in modern Britain is to be swimming in open letters, petitions and complaint forms.
Anyway, complain to Ofcom about that Channel 4 documentary:
adhduk.co.uk/challenging-...
Complain to Ofcom - ADHD UK
adhduk.co.uk
August 19, 2026 at 8:57 PM
It is incredibly wearing to have different parts of your reality picked away at and described as fictions.
To live in modern Britain is to be swimming in open letters, petitions and complaint forms.
Anyway, complain to Ofcom about that Channel 4 documentary:
adhduk.co.uk/challenging-...
To live in modern Britain is to be swimming in open letters, petitions and complaint forms.
Anyway, complain to Ofcom about that Channel 4 documentary:
adhduk.co.uk/challenging-...
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I've added my name to the open letter calling for a public inquiry into the tragic death of Professor Jason Arday. Will you join me?
goodlaw.social/625453
goodlaw.social/625453
Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
goodlaw.social
August 18, 2026 at 8:49 PM
I've added my name to the open letter calling for a public inquiry into the tragic death of Professor Jason Arday. Will you join me?
goodlaw.social/625453
goodlaw.social/625453
If you haven’t yet signed this make some time to do so tonight.
We cannot let this story fall to the way-side. We need urgent press regulation. Sign the open letter for a public inquiry into Jason's death. Repost and tag friends in the comments.
⬇️ Add your name ⬇️
goodlaw.social/n1ck
⬇️ Add your name ⬇️
goodlaw.social/n1ck
August 18, 2026 at 7:56 PM
If you haven’t yet signed this make some time to do so tonight.
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We cannot let this story fall to the way-side. We need urgent press regulation. Sign the open letter for a public inquiry into Jason's death. Repost and tag friends in the comments.
⬇️ Add your name ⬇️
goodlaw.social/n1ck
⬇️ Add your name ⬇️
goodlaw.social/n1ck
August 18, 2026 at 5:07 PM
We cannot let this story fall to the way-side. We need urgent press regulation. Sign the open letter for a public inquiry into Jason's death. Repost and tag friends in the comments.
⬇️ Add your name ⬇️
goodlaw.social/n1ck
⬇️ Add your name ⬇️
goodlaw.social/n1ck
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That is a wild fact isn’t it.
Two-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven’t mentioned climate change.
Unsurprising, maybe…
But so illuminating is that fact about just how captured the media have become. And how ill-informed we are as a result.
Two-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven’t mentioned climate change.
Unsurprising, maybe…
But so illuminating is that fact about just how captured the media have become. And how ill-informed we are as a result.
Two-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven’t mentioned climate change - but ignoring it doesn’t make it go away, it just makes averting the worst of it even harder @eciu.net
Two-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven't mentioned climate change
Analysis from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit adds to concerns that national newspapers are failing to link this summer's extreme weather to climate change and the net-zero policies necessary to mitigate its drastic effects.
uk.themedialeader.com
August 17, 2026 at 7:49 PM
That is a wild fact isn’t it.
Two-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven’t mentioned climate change.
Unsurprising, maybe…
But so illuminating is that fact about just how captured the media have become. And how ill-informed we are as a result.
Two-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven’t mentioned climate change.
Unsurprising, maybe…
But so illuminating is that fact about just how captured the media have become. And how ill-informed we are as a result.
Thank you, Julia 🙏
“I once wrote under a pseudonym so I could keep serving. I write now in my own name for the same reason.”
“I once wrote under a pseudonym so I could keep serving. I write now in my own name for the same reason.”
August 17, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Thank you, Julia 🙏
“I once wrote under a pseudonym so I could keep serving. I write now in my own name for the same reason.”
“I once wrote under a pseudonym so I could keep serving. I write now in my own name for the same reason.”
More of this please
Bye 👋
August 17, 2026 at 7:58 PM
More of this please
That is a wild fact isn’t it.
Two-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven’t mentioned climate change.
Unsurprising, maybe…
But so illuminating is that fact about just how captured the media have become. And how ill-informed we are as a result.
Two-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven’t mentioned climate change.
Unsurprising, maybe…
But so illuminating is that fact about just how captured the media have become. And how ill-informed we are as a result.
Two-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven’t mentioned climate change - but ignoring it doesn’t make it go away, it just makes averting the worst of it even harder @eciu.net
Two-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven't mentioned climate change
Analysis from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit adds to concerns that national newspapers are failing to link this summer's extreme weather to climate change and the net-zero policies necessary to mitigate its drastic effects.
uk.themedialeader.com
August 17, 2026 at 7:49 PM
That is a wild fact isn’t it.
Two-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven’t mentioned climate change.
Unsurprising, maybe…
But so illuminating is that fact about just how captured the media have become. And how ill-informed we are as a result.
Two-thirds of UK news articles about wildfires this summer haven’t mentioned climate change.
Unsurprising, maybe…
But so illuminating is that fact about just how captured the media have become. And how ill-informed we are as a result.