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Self defence training is a great way to feel more confident and empowered! Abingdon Queer Action worked with a local boxing studio to provide a free self defence workshop for local queer and trans young people. Let’s work together as a community so that all queer people can feel safe and full of Pride! Originally […]

Following calls on social media from a group of trans young people, and posters around Oxfordshire, we joined this anti transphobia demonstration. People gathered at Bonn Square from 12:15, a speaker was set up as people began chanting and cheering. “Trans Rights are Human Rights!” Over about 45 minutes, people chanted, sang, and listened to […]

Yesterday around 30 people in Abingdon, and countless around the country, protested the new “Police, crime, sentencing and courts” bill. Amongst other things this bill severely limits the right to protest. Effectively allowing police to claim a protest is illegal, even just because there’s a possibility it MIGHT annoy someone. This would then be punishable […]

This evening we held a small vigil in honour of trans day of remembrance. Thank You to everyone who came, the passers by who expressed solidarity, and those who sent messages supporting us. We read the names of some of our lost siblings, held a minutes silence, and expressed our thoughts of sorrow and of […]