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27 posts todayRT @AlessandraAster: I am never proud of myself. But I am proud to be on the same side of this group of amazing people. I look at them and I know we are fighting the good battle. https://t.co/f4j3xD...
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27 posts todaySeriously sickened, @theSNP & @ScotGovFM, by the lengths this researcher from your party will go to in order to demonise our group. We are now responsible for articles we never saw, concerning events we haven't commented on and apparently the ...
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27 posts todayRT @MLagouste: If your activism does not centre women, your activism is worth nothing. That includes women whose politics or opinions may be different from your own. Our fight is for all women, whether they agree with us or not. Remember what Audre ...
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27 posts todayRT @marstrina: The reason why 'trans racial' is wrong & bad while 'trans gender' is correct & right is that some of the people who stand to have their rights diminished by 'trans racial' politics are men. That's all there is to it. Don't ...
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27 posts todayApparently, it's even our fault when we haven't done something (no idea what he's referring to). Jonny will be blaming FWS for curdling milk by looking in a funny way at his cow next... https://t.co/2gZtmd...
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27 posts todayRT @anyabike: Beardy bros suggesting feminists choose our allies better: we don't get to choose whether the Guardian is there for us or not. Stop talking about things you know nothing about, it makes you sound stupid. And if you want the left to be ...
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27 posts todayRT @LBC: This is Maajid Nawaz's powerful monologue on the issue of transgender and transracial self-identification... @MaajidNawaz https://t.co/Yn3oTu...
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27 posts todayPleased they have said this, it highlights the danger of letting people have control of Twitter accounts (which are, after all, a powerful PR tool) who are likely to respond without due consideration. Too many companies are seeing their reputation ...
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27 posts todayRT @Proud_Mama1: @glosswitch @ForwomenScot My workplace managed to produce a fully planned return to the office for 800 people. Planned all eventualities, right down to temp checks and bring your own cup. They neglected to plan for working mums whose ...
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27 posts todayThe Scottish Government has been "deluged" with almost 2000 responses to the Hate Crime Bill. Let us hope they heed the many and diverse voices calling on them to think again. https://t.co/USkRgN...
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27 posts today"If you believe a man can self-identify as a woman tomorrow in their sex, then you must also accept that a white person can self-identify as a black person in their race... either the answer should be yes to both or no to both" @MaajidNawaz from 1.04 ...
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27 posts todayRT @glosswitch: I think people dismiss the political opinions of mothers because they see the work we do is often repetitive and boring and justify the unfair distribution by telling themselves that's all our minds are fit for (btw, I am bored)
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27 posts todayScottish Prism 5th Sept 2020 - Eileen Spence on GRA and sex education in schools. https://t.co/k16urW...
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27 posts todayRT @intersexfacts: If you want a good example of how the I is tokenised by LGBT+ orgs, here's the CEO of @stonewalluk, who *do not* have a remit for discussing intersex issues, telling us the practice of "conversion therapy", which is not an issue ...
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27 posts todayRT @boodleoops: It is grotesque and reprehensible when people adopt the crude stereotypes and cheap props associated with an oppressed group and claim that this makes them a member of that group https://t.co/KFPt2m...
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27 posts todayRT @wwwritingclub: 🖤 Churchill refused to talk about suffrage so Mary Maloney followed him around ringing a bell, which makes me think we should put in a large order for bells if Liz Truss’ announcement doesn’t come soon... https://t.co/YJR4VZ...
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27 posts todayRT @MForstater: Please @fawcettsociety @Samsmethers could you speak up for women's rights? You have said that there are some circumstances where biological sex takes precedence over gender identity. Women's rugby seems to be a very clear example of a ...
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27 posts todayRT @afneil: I didn’t. I don’t think The Co-op has ever advertised with us. I have not been able to verify your claim. As a general principle, any advertiser who tries to influence our editorial content with threats of a boycott is automatically ...
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27 posts todayRT @afneil: No need to bother, Co-op. As of today you are henceforth banned from advertising in The Spectator, in perpetuity. We will not have companies like yours use their financial might to try to influence our editorial content, which is entirely ...
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27 posts todayRT @SimonFanshawe: @MayorWatermelon This is an amazing essay on exactly that by the venerable black America intellectual Adolf Reed https://t.co/7bajLx...
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27 posts today"We have to defend the speech rights of bigots because the law doesn’t just apply to bigots, but to all of us, and sooner or later ‘bigot’ will be defined wider still to include us anyway." As @JournoStephen says, this bill could wreck your life even ...
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27 posts todayRT @anyabike: Professor, 38, admits she has been falsely claiming to be black for most of her adult life. And yet women will still be told we must assume people are who they say they are. https://t.co/1iY0Ye...
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27 posts todayIt's disgraceful and inappropriate that those like @Nancy_M_K of @stonewalluk continue to appropriate and misrepresent medical conditions. If they really cared about vulnerable people, they would not politicise DSDs. https://t.co/RU7GRO...
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27 posts todayIf you are aiming for this kind of intellectual snobbery, Virginia Woolf did it better in "Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown". It still opened her up to charges that she was sneering at the petty bourgeoisie (along with their chronicler) see, Carey, The ...
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27 posts todayRT @crimeofcupid: A comprehensive thread of female warriors, leaders and influential figures who have, in some cases, been declared trans posthumously: The skeleton found of a female viking warrior is insignificant, because she could have easily been ...
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27 posts todayRT @LucyHunterB: @glosswitch @TheProject_Ed @FionneOrlander Also, I'm very much in favour of people who come up with a THING they wish to have a large impact on law and policy being able to explain and justify that THING in ways which do not require ...
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27 posts todayBlinking heck! I think the professor of Gender studies is belittling women who have children (& motherhood), & suggesting having babies is all some women are good for. https://t.co/w9J1BP...