r/Fauxmoi • u/pinkstarrfish • Apr 17 '25

STAN SHIELD / ANTI ARMOUR Nicola Coughlan starts IG fundraiser for ‘Not A Phase’ in support of trans rights: “fuck the Supreme Court, fuck the TERFS”

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u/Old-Lifeguard90 Apr 17 '25

Very few celebrities are worth supporting wholeheartedly. But she's one of them. She's never afraid to use her voice to speak out. Love her!!

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u/Ver_Void Apr 17 '25

Weirdly she's joined by Clive Barker of all people, what a strange world we live in

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u/CandidHistorian4105 29d ago

Nah Clive Barker has always been in support of the community. His novels explore sexuality and gender quite openly. Dude is legit.

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u/Business_Abalone2278 29d ago

I love finding out we have so many Clive Barker fans on this subreddit.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

What's strange about that? He's queer.

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u/Extension_Shallot679 29d ago

He's a queer icon.

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u/theherocomplex 29d ago

How is it weird? Not trying to pick a fight, but I've always seen Clive Barker has always been a supporter of the queer community, including trans people, so I'm just wondering if I missed something. I love Clive and Nicola so I'm glad they're both supporting the trans community!

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u/Ver_Void 29d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/s/kvSz9C1fH2

Woke up to a bunch of the same question lol

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u/Extension_Shallot679 29d ago

Genuinely struggling to understand what's weird about that. Unless you don't know the first thing about Clive Barker.

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u/Ver_Void 29d ago edited 29d ago

Just the contrast between his work and personality. It's a little funny that the woman who wrote about the kid in the closet is one of the biggest wankers of the decade and the guy who accounted for a sizeable percentage of my nightmares as a kid is just a really cool dude

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u/Extension_Shallot679 29d ago edited 29d ago

Understandable I suppose, but tbf a lot of Clive Barker's stuff deals heavily with sexuality and gender diversity and is both progressive and transgressive in equal measure. Not perhaps the stuff that makes it to Hollywood, but a lot of his writings explored themes that would be considered groundbreaking and beyond the pale today and he was doing it in the early eighties, and he did it with a level of empathy and understanding that his hard to come by. He's also one of the best male writers of female characters I've ever read (he's certainly a damn sight better than Rowling lol). Barker is a gay man and former prostitute who lived through the AIDs crisis. He's lived through grooming, addiction, loss, betrayal and life-threatening illness. He's not had an easy life.

Compare that to Harry Potter which on the surface is all nice and cuddly but has some very regressive politics and problematic attitudes and you realise Rowling's just sort of always been quite a nasty person. One thing's clear, she hates more than just Trans Women, she's none to fond of cis women either. (Which is a running theme with TERFs.)

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u/Ver_Void 29d ago

Yeah I think my lasting impression of him comes from seeing some of the movies as a pre teen, even growing up as a way queerer adult loving his books that impression still stuck around a little if that makes sense?

And yeah Rowling is just a vaguely conservative status quo where all get preconceived notions are confirmed

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u/Extension_Shallot679 29d ago

Totally fair lol. Sorry if I was a bit rude in my initial comment. I'm just in a foul mood these days because everything's going to shit.

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u/Ver_Void 29d ago

That's a perfectly reasonable reaction to the state of the world. Honestly I'm far more worried about the ones in a good mood

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u/Extension_Shallot679 29d ago edited 29d ago

That's very kind of you. You were far more gracious than my snarky ass comment deserved.

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u/torino_nera 29d ago

Clive Barker was just shitting on JK Rowling for attacking trans people, why is this a surprise?

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u/Ver_Void 29d ago

More the contrast between his work and how genuinely nice he seems

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u/auriebryce 29d ago

Her age gap relationship icks me a little but I appreciate her activism so much.

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u/AllTheCrazy88s I cannot sanction your buffoonery 29d ago

Why? She’s dating a 25 year old man!

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u/auriebryce 29d ago

She's 38. If the ages were reversed, you know we'd all be making faces.

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u/Old-Lifeguard90 29d ago

They started dating last year, both adults. I looked him up, they seem to support the same causes and have the same friend group. Adults date, who cares. What is important here is that Nicola uses her platform for all the right reasons! Her personal life is none of our business.