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These are the types of questions that can help people get into history because you get to find out that not only did people do backflips in ancient times, but then I as a historian, get to tell you that there was a whole fun cultural tradition in the Minoan period colloquially referred to as Minoan bull leaping where people ran straight at bulls and did a flying front flip over them!

Which might then lead you to ask why did they stop? And I get to tell you that it didn't! Its still practiced in Spain! And in that moment I have given you at least a 3000 year span of history that you know people did flips in cool ways which might prompt you to want to know more about cool acrobatic traditions!

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.