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Dudley Benson

@DudleyBenson

2 years

After announcing that we would continue the use of the Vaccine Pass at our bar Woof! in Dunedin, we've been flooded by fake one-star reviews from all over NZ. So I decided to track these people down and phone them, or their workplaces, to hold them account.

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2 years

An update on our Vaccine Pass use over the last week at Woof!: - one-star reviews & homophobic abuse have continued to flow in, now from all over the world - Google is removing those reviews every day or so, thanks to our community flagging them - We had our biggest week of 2022

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FINAL UPDATE: ✨ Cyndi Lauper ✨ wanted me to pass on a message to you all: She loves and supports the transgender community of New Zealand

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@DudleyBenson

1 year

UPDATE: ✨ Cyndi Lauper ✨ came back to Woof! after her Dunedin show, and brought her crew for cocktails She met my jack russell, Rupert. And chatted more with Josh (whose life is now complete)

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- an ANZ 'business intelligence manager' (lol) in Wellington. I am going through the complaints process and expecting a call from his manager. Our bar banks with ANZ 👀 - the (former, as it turns out) workplace of a business consultant in Tāmaki, also deeply embarrassed

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Dudley Benson

@DudleyBenson

11 months

I'm one of the three men who Sir James Wallace was found guilty of assaulting. Today, my name suppression has been lifted by the court, with my approval. In 2008, when I was 24, JW drugged me at a meeting in his home, and in this incapacitated state, attempted to initiate sex.

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2 years

I identified and called: - two evangelical christian brothers, builders from Whangārei. I spoke to one, who sheepishly denied it was him - the workplace of a kiwifruit lab technician. The manager was so embarrassed as she herself previously worked in hospitality

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@DudleyBenson

2 years

You may have heard of Dunedin's notorious transphobe and suspended nurse Jennifer Scott. Scott regularly screams at the rainbow community here about who she believes has a penis, and who doesn't. Please enjoy her back-fired attempt to troll us today.👇 (1/5)

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2 years

Today Dunedin rallied against disinformation and extreme right hate group Freedom & Rights Coalition and it’s Destiny Church pastor leader. It was a phenomenal success. We understood the assignment, and outnumbered F&R 45-400 (at peak).

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1 year

I don’t blame Jacinda Ardern for resigning. Very few of us can imagine the level of hatred and misogyny she receives on a weekly basis, and we don’t hear about the totality of threats of violence against her. “I am human. Politicians are human.”

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1 year

UPDATE: ✨ Cyndi Lauper just visited Woof! and Josh got to show her his Cyndi journal ✨

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@DudleyBenson

1 year

Cyndi Lauper’s management team just came in to scope out Woof! ahead of her Dunedin show tomorrow night. Apparently she saw our sign in the window and said to her manager ‘But how do you know they’re talking about me?’ Image of Josh with his teen Cyndi journal 💋

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2 years

Though they're kind of hapless, the damage transphobes attempt to do is real, especially to our trans kids. I fully encourage clowning TERFS like Jennifer at all opportunities. Happy Suffrage Day everyone: Trans Women Are Women! And Trans Men Are Men! (5/5)

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@DudleyBenson

2 years

Sure enough, genital-obsessed Jennifer showed up with a friend at 7am today, and saw the poster. Here is that beautiful moment when Jennifer realises she is a Trans Icon. 👇 (3/5)

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@DudleyBenson

11 months

My last duty in this whole despicable saga is to make public what the super-predator James Wallace has done, and how he has been enabled by the complicity of the NZ arts world. I'm now working through the best way to do this. Thanks.

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2 years

We heard from someone over the weekend that Scott was planning to 'leave a note for Dudley' at the door of my bar, Woof!. So my queer gang and I decided to leave a note of our own for Jennifer. We photoshopped a sign she'd used, and then put this poster together.👇 (2/5)

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@DudleyBenson

8 months

I'm voting Green! Why? They're the only party with policy responding meaningfully to the climate crisis. Because the @NZGreens care for the most marginalised in our communities, and show up for our LGBTQ+. For the Greens, it's not about power or knighthoods, it's about our future

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1 year

Cyndi Lauper’s management team just came in to scope out Woof! ahead of her Dunedin show tomorrow night. Apparently she saw our sign in the window and said to her manager ‘But how do you know they’re talking about me?’ Image of Josh with his teen Cyndi journal 💋

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@DudleyBenson

1 year

UPDATE: ✨ Cyndi Lauper ✨ came back to Woof! after her Dunedin show, and brought her crew for cocktails She met my jack russell, Rupert. And chatted more with Josh (whose life is now complete)

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@DudleyBenson

1 year

UPDATE: ✨ Cyndi Lauper just visited Woof! and Josh got to show her his Cyndi journal ✨

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1 year

RT if you’re a cis white male who doesn’t expect an apology from Marama Davidson

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@radionz

1 year

National is demanding Marama Davidson apologise to cis white men over her comments from Saturday. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins says he considers the matter closed.

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@DudleyBenson

2 years

@pinkstephness Thank you mete! It does feel great to take some power back. We work so hard to look after people, and I know this is happening to other hospitality venues too.

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@DudleyBenson

2 years

Far-right extremists often have multiple accounts under different pseudonyms, in order to back up their own comments, and give the impression of support & numbers. Sometimes though, they forget to swap accounts before they comment 👇

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@DudleyBenson

2 years

Jennifer did write a confused word-chowder about chromosomes on the footpath - or rather she got her friend to do it - while she mainly concentrated on reviewing photos of herself. (Half an hour later, it took Josh about 30 seconds to spray it off). 👇 (4/5)

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Dudley Benson

@DudleyBenson

2 years

We drowned Derek Tait out with Dancing Queen, YMCA, Queen, chanting against fascists, and solidified how strong we are as communities when we come together to fight bullying and hatred. They were like 🤯

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1 year

Something that surprised me at our Dunedin gathering yesterday: As we walked a few blocks to the Octagon with our signs, *so many* cars tooted in support. They knew. There’s more energy, momentum and understanding from the general public than I realised. Common decency.

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Dudley Benson

@DudleyBenson

2 years

Remember: every time you use the reo name for your town, somewhere, somehow, a racist requires a root canal

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@DudleyBenson

10 months

It's an uncomfortable mix of satisfying & awful to be telling the story of how James Wallace drugged me, and how he has been enabled. But I want this on record, partly because Wallace still has supporters who say that me and the other victims are liars.

How Sir James Wallace targeted one of his victims

Dudley Benson was invited to the wealthy philanthropist's home for dinner. The night became "creepy as hell", and he fled after being assaulted.

www.stuff.co.nz

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@DudleyBenson

1 year

Whoever the next leader of Aotearoa is: I want to know what they’ll do to make it safe for women to enter politics. Because if we’ve learnt anything from the freedom movement, it’s that right now, it isn’t safe.

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Dudley Benson

@DudleyBenson

9 months

The court has just released the full list of the 89 people who wrote letters of support for James Wallace. When he emailed his contacts to beg for support, JW promised these people anonymity. He had already been found guilty of sexual assault of three men, including myself.

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@DudleyBenson

1 year

I guess she’s learning what it’s like when someone doesn’t identify you the way you’d like them to

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@DudleyBenson

2 years

Billy from Facebook let us know what he thought too

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@DudleyBenson

2 years

To people in other places where hate groups plan to march: please know you can stand against them. Don’t let them filth up your house with their dangerous ideas. We need to protect our young people, and show them how to fight back. We did it today in Dunedin, and I’m so proud.

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@DudleyBenson

1 year

Guess who! · 1981 support the Springbok Tour · 1984 oppose nuclear-free NZ · 1986 all but 3 MPs oppose legalising homosexuality · 2010 propose mining conservation land · 2023 support anti-trans, Nazi-aligned hate-inciter in entering NZ National! Utterly Mediocre Since Always

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@DudleyBenson

1 year

Ōtepoti kicked off today with our trans & trans ally community refusing to tolerate TERFs, transphobia, & white supremacy. Octagon packed with f*ckin cool people ✊🏳️‍⚧️

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@DudleyBenson

1 year

To those going the rallies on Sat & Sun to support our trans people: please read & share this. It's already been said that, under no circumstances, can we use violence. I want to explain why this is of *utmost* importance, and why the far-right want and need us to be violent👇

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1 year

I'm finding it deeply emotional, 5 days in, seeing the loss in the north. There's almost a sense of guilt being in the south where we've been fine so far this year, and knowing that people & animals have suffered so badly. Just to say, the north is constantly on many of our minds

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11 months

Me and the two other complainants have been through two trials over four years. Wallace is extremely wealthy, and his shameless lawyer David Jones KC has weaved a way through every loop possible to keep Wallace's identity a secret, until last week.

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2 years

This narrative that overseas has 'moved on from Covid' isn't true. I'm in NYC, and many continue to wear masks, especially on public transport. Testing stations along main streets. Went to a show tonight, 3000+ people at the Lincoln Centre: everyone compulsory-masked entire show

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@DudleyBenson

2 years

Following my original tweet going viral, I noticed: - people in NZ were vastly supportive - as the tweet reached the US, the homophobia ramped up. Many seemed threatened by my nail polish - online bullies are terrified by the thought of people standing up to them in real life

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@DudleyBenson

2 years

This is such a tragedy. Ellis was targeted because of his queerness, and a growing hysteria around child abuse in the early 90s. The case of this innocent gay man defined so much of the years to come in our culture. Men stopped training as teachers for fear of being accused…

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@radionz

2 years

#BREAKING : The Supreme Court has quashed the convictions of Peter Ellis, the Christchurch creche worker who was convicted of child sex offences in 1993, finding a significant miscarriage of justice.

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2 years

A message to all of you in Pōneke standing against disinformation, bigotry and hatred, on behalf of the rainbow activist community of Ōtepoti Dunedin: We stand with you, we are proud of you, we have our hands on your shoulders. Thanks for saying HELL NO to fascism in Aotearoa ✊

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@DudleyBenson

2 years

So proud of my crew as they face off against literal neo-nazis. This is how we fight back in solidarity, strength & joy

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@DudleyBenson

1 year

The content of the hate letters left in my mate @uriohau ‘s letterbox is on another level. Terrifying. Sina’s incredible response: we have to fight back harder in 2023. We have a serious problem with angry white men who can’t keep cope with powerful wahine Māori.

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@DudleyBenson

1 year

If Jacinda Ardern hit a hole-in-one: Bill Gates had the ball programmed, Trudeau controls her caddy using 5G, Pfizer sponsored her golf clubs and she shouldn’t be playing golf anyway why has she ruined my life Nuremberg something

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@DudleyBenson

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Over the next 10 years, I told people what had happened, and to stay away from Wallace. I laboured over it, but eventually went to the police in 2018, because I'd heard that someone else had laid a complaint and that charges were underway. I hoped my story would support them.

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@DudleyBenson

2 years

- Of our 1232 groups through, we had only one person not want to show a Vaccine Pass, and they politely moved on. - Cases remain high in our city, and we will continue the use of the Pass this week - Our community has rallied behind us to a phenomenal level. We are so grateful

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@DudleyBenson

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I don't remember how, but I escaped from him, found a phone, and called a taxi. By the time I was home I could hardly stand, couldn't speak, and vomited. It sounds crazy, but it didn't occur to me for several weeks that I had been drugged. Who would do that? At a meeting?

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5 months

A good day to remember that when Cyndi Lauper visited Aotearoa this year, she unequivocally supported trans New Zealanders

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@DudleyBenson

2 years

PSA: If you have covert conspiracy theorist/disinfo candidates running for local govt elections in your area and want them exposed, but can’t do so yourself - DM me. What I need: - name - what role they’re running for - photograph - screenshots of their views and affiliations

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1 year

Fascinating to note the recent silence from the far-right, anti-vaxx transphobes of NZ Twitter who spend so much time calling the rainbow community ‘groomers’. Very little condemnation of one their own: Anti-vaxx Parliament occupation live-streamer found guilty of child rape.

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@DudleyBenson

1 year

Eleanor Catton throwing shade at John Key on page 6 of Birnam Wood is a beautiful moment in Aotearoa literature. [no spoilers]

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@DudleyBenson

1 year

Just a quick note because people have been in touch, and others are speculating - I'm totally OK and not involved in the shooting in Ōtepoti. Obviously one of our people is, and we're respecting their privacy as they recover.

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@DudleyBenson

2 years

Yesterday I felt the shock. Today, though I’m still in disbelief that Ōtepoti lost Aotearoa’s most progressive mayor, I can start to feel that organising, strategising heat. We’ll be using this Council’s term to be pushing through NZ’s biggest queer crossing, in our CBD 🌈

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@DudleyBenson

2 years

I wrote to Snap Fitness Tauranga about one of their PTs calling a non-binary person ‘tranny’, in order to put them down. Here’s my message and their response.

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2 years

Sending huge strength, aroha and party vibes to everyone in Tāmaki going to Saturday’s counter-rally. We in Ōtepoti are proud of you for saying HELL NO to the disinformation & hatred espoused by Destiny Church & FARC. Be safe, and do the YMCA. ✊10am, The Domain

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2 years

We need to celebrate these wins. It might feel slow, but all the work we’re doing is paying off. 🔥

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@DudleyBenson

2 years

🚨 Dunedin Mayoralty candidate 🚨 Pamela Taylor (online as Pamela Pirie) - obsessive Covid conspiracy theorist - Climate change denier - Believes a woman's right to choose is 'greatest human atrocity' Solution: 1. exclude entirely from your vote 2. tell your mates

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@DudleyBenson

2 years

Aaron Hawkins stood for making Ōtepoti a safer place for queer people. He led us in making our main street look less like Balclutha and more like something from the 21st Century. Devastated to lose him as mayor, to the car park and business-first brigade. Thank you Aaron.

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Alas it wasn’t to be. Thanks everyone for their support over my last nine years at the Dunedin City Council, and through this campaign. I’m proud of what we achieved in my 3 years as Mayor, even if we had plenty more work to do. To Cr Radich and his council all the very best

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@DudleyBenson

1 year

Unacceptable. A person is physically assaulted TWICE in the space of a few weeks in Taupō: “What are you?” as men grab their chest, and push them to the ground. Mark my words, this is real: we are facing a cataclysm of anti-LGBTQ+ hatred in Aotearoa.

Homophobia is driving queer people out of small towns in NZ

People in Rainbow communities say homophobic attacks aren’t rare in small-town New Zealand.

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@DudleyBenson

11 months

I've been waiting a long time for this to happen. I can't yet go into the detail of the damage James Wallace and his accomplices have done, aided by the silence of the NZ arts world, but hopefully soon. For now, immediately rescind his knighthood.

Prominent businessman convicted of sexually abusing three men can now be named

An 85-year-old whose worth was once estimated at $165m sexually abused three young men - and tried to bribe one of them. The government is already moving to strip his knighthood.

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@DudleyBenson

2 years

Ergh! Team Bootcamp in Ōtepoti this morning

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@DudleyBenson

1 year

There were literally zero supporters for Counterspin Media’s Hannah Spierer & Kelvyn Alp this morning at their court appearance in Ōtautahi. These two claimed the 2019 mosque attacks that killed 51 were a hoax, and the victims ‘crisis actors’. Now they’re finding out

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@DudleyBenson

2 years

Want to be super clear on this: if you're going to a bar/cafe/restaurant, and the establishment has failed to make mask-wearing mandatory for their staff, you should be extremely worried about the general hygiene of the place. What else are they cutting corners on?

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@DudleyBenson

1 year

🚨 DUNEDIN: Beware of this woman. Obsessive trans- & homo- phobe Jennifer Scott abused a gay couple at Dunedin Noodle House on Friday evening. They were waiting for their takeaway when Scott approached, asking one of them if they were 'pretending to be a woman'... 👇

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@DudleyBenson

2 years

Auckland, CHCH, Wellington: This disinformation group led by a Destiny Church bully is planning to march on your cities. Don’t let them! Organise now, just like we did in Dunedin when they tried it here. Notice how they’re not coming back? We drove them out, and you can too.

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@DudleyBenson

1 year

Ōtepoti Dunedin: On Saturday, we rally! · Meet at the Octagon at 1pm · We'll support our trans community, and those protesting in Tāmaki Makaurau and Pōneke · We stand against British TERFs spreading hatred & fear in Aotearoa ✊ See you there!

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1 year

For whomever needs to hear this: I’m proud to say I’m a friend of Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa. I met him a year ago, and we’ve had many coffees, breakfasts, and a few drinks together since then. The care and passion this man has for Aotearoa and our people blows my mind. 🧵 1/4

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@DudleyBenson

2 years

So proud that my bar Woof! has won 5 awards at the Otago Hospitality Awards, including Outstanding Bar & Supreme Establishment Award. We stood for prioritising the health of our staff & patrons during a pandemic, and I'm so glad we did. Big ❤️ to my team & co-director Josh Thomas

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6 months

This is part of the reason I left Aotearoa.

James Wallace to be released from prison before Christmas

James Wallace, who had his knighthood revoked, was back before the parole board after being jailed for sexual offending against three young men.

www.stuff.co.nz

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@DudleyBenson

2 years

And that will be happening today, when our communities gather in the CBD at 11am, and proudly tell Derek Tait & F&R to haere atu their phobic asses outta this city! There is no place in Ōtepoti for their bullying. Please share! ✊

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@DudleyBenson

1 year

It’s absolutely time to be re-masking folks. Don’t know about you, but many people around me getting Covid. On my flight from Dunedin-Auck yesterday maybe ten of us were wearing one. I don’t love wearing one, but also I don’t understand who can afford to be sick right now.

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Dunedin. Went to a bar called Woof last night. Realised I was surrounded by gays mixing with normals. Trans agenda very obvious too. A little wees came out.

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2 years

I am still going. I'm fed up with randoms trying to sabotage what our team have worked so hard for, without any consequences. PS Honestly, don't mess with a queer business please

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2 years

Make no mistake: under the thin veil of nice words like ‘freedom’ and ‘unity’, it doesn’t take long for them to really come out with their anger. We are not remotely intimidated. Derek and his QAnon-inspired mates, however, are deeply rattled that Dunedin is standing up to them.

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Tait had been taunting me all week saying he was looking forward to seeing ‘All 3 of us’. Obviously that didn’t pan out for him, and F&R failed miserably at making a presence in our city.

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2 years

Pre-white supremacist-squashing coffee. About to head to the District Court.

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2 years

At a recent event in Dunedin which Chantelle Baker disguised her way into but failed to curtail, she approached me for an interview. I responded that I don’t speak to a transphobic, homophobic, racist audience. She threw her arms in the air “I’m not transphobic!” Her new T 👇

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Ka Tu Kotahi Tatou - We Stand United with Aroha for Our Muslim Whanau. Please join us in a show of solidarity with our Muslim Whānau outside the Christchurch District Court 8am on Wednesday 31st August 2022. #KaTuKotahi

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1 year

Hamish Kilgour was one of our regular patrons at Woof! in our 1st year. Whenever we delivered his drink (he loved trying cocktails) he had a story to tell or issue to dissect. He drew this little canvas for us. We loved him, and he was very happy at that time. ♥️ from us, Hamish

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2 years

My strong fear and suspicion is that trans & 🌈 people will be the next targets of the freedom movement. This year I’ve observed the close and insidious ties between anti-vax & homophobic ideologies in these people, with VFF leadership recently having a go at correct pronoun use.

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2 years

With mask mandates gone, so is the original platform of protest for Voices for Freedom. Now a misinformation expert believes it will start looking for other theories.

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1 year

This is no way to refer to our students

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@DudleyBenson

10 months

The final piece of media I've done to expose the James Wallace assault nightmare is the cover story for this month's @NorthSouthNZ . I wrote it, and vented my rage at those who continue to support him - people like @VincentWardFilm & @RenaOwen - it's like getting assaulted twice.

North & South Magazine

@NorthandSouthNZ

10 months

In the new issue of North & South magazine, we listen to an intensely personal account from musician @DudleyBenson on his encounter with James Wallace. Now, after four years of enforced silence, Benson talks on the arts community’s failure to hold a rich man to account.

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2 years

I’m off to NYC today, and will be meeting with activists fighting disinformation & discrimination. Please share this, and message me with your NYC activist contacts, so we can exchange this vital knowledge and make our movement even stronger ✊

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Dudley Benson

@DudleyBenson

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I've shoplifted before (supermarkets), and I suspect many of the people taking a judgmental view of Golriz's actions have also shoplifted. Shoplifting is not uncommon, and done for a variety of reasons, including psychological disorders/compromised mental health.

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@DudleyBenson

2 years

Post-vigil coffee and connection-making for our next rally at CHCH District Court on Dec 7. Everyone super buzzed and vitalised. We came today and stood in solidarity and aroha, showing that the movement against extremism is growing in Aotearoa.

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@DudleyBenson

1 year

Thanks to you all, I delivered a gorgeous big bunch of flowers to @uriohau . A generous koha was leftover, and this has been handed on to Sina. So lovely & powerful. Our message: in 2023, together we fire up against white supremacy, misogyny & anti-queer rhetoric in Aotearoa. ✊

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@DudleyBenson

1 year

The content of the hate letters left in my mate @uriohau ‘s letterbox is on another level. Terrifying. Sina’s incredible response: we have to fight back harder in 2023. We have a serious problem with angry white men who can’t keep cope with powerful wahine Māori.

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As they say, some personal news from me: at the end of October I’m moving to Naarm/Melbourne. For a while now I’ve been in one of those life stages of wanting change. (1/8)

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1 year

@ChantelleBakerr Chantelle perhaps, if you are truly concerned about child abuse and grooming, you could look at sexual abuse and pedophilia in the evangelical church community, of which you belong and where there is clearly a problem. But you’re not, so you won’t.

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@DudleyBenson

2 years

CHRISTCHURCH: We need your strength & support as we stand in solidarity with our Muslim whānau, at white supremacist Counterspin Media’s upcoming court appearance. Be there, bring your mates, and join our movement against the rise of the extreme right ✊

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@DudleyBenson

2 years

Over the past two nights I’ve received two unprovoked death threats from Freedom & Rights Coalition supporters who today are marching in Dunedin. Then last night Destiny Church cuck and F&R leader Derek Tait took a pic outside our bar and sent it to us and several others.

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@DudleyBenson

1 year

@ChantelleBakerr @TheSpinoffTV I'll connect the dots for you Chantelle: organisations are coming out in support of trans kiwis because people like you put their lives in danger. The more you 'other' trans New Zealanders, and attempt to turn people on each other, the more the rest of us will fight for them.

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@DudleyBenson

1 year

Folks - I’m in Perth, it’s 29°, and I’M HERE TO SEE BJÖRK

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@DudleyBenson

1 year

A police report has been filed against Jennifer Scott. We will build a case against her, so that when she does break the law through her hatred of queer & trans people, there will be a history to show. Do you know anyone who she has approached & abused? I’m happy to support you

Dudley Benson

@DudleyBenson

1 year

🚨 DUNEDIN: Beware of this woman. Obsessive trans- & homo- phobe Jennifer Scott abused a gay couple at Dunedin Noodle House on Friday evening. They were waiting for their takeaway when Scott approached, asking one of them if they were 'pretending to be a woman'... 👇

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@DudleyBenson

2 years

Two strong women uniting against the far right, tangata whenua & pākehā: Sina Brown-Davis ( @uriohau ) & my sister Jess #KaTuKotahi

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@DudleyBenson

1 year

As the baby has now had successful surgery and we *may* be past the apex of emotional contagion on this issue, there’s something we need to remember in the analysis of what happened, because I suspect it will soon be denied by supporters of lawyer Sue Grey. 👇

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Dudley Benson

@DudleyBenson

1 year

There is a Twitter-trend of 'It's OK to punch a nazi'. Do not fall into this trap - it is a lure they are dangling before us. Non-violence is crucial as we show the world - who will be watching on the weekend - how we proceed with strength, dignity & solidarity.✊

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Dudley Benson

@DudleyBenson

4 months

To the people extracting glee from the public shaming of Golriz Ghahraman: - instead of assuming greed, read about the reasons for shoplifting - acknowledge that we have seen high-profile people under extreme stress do *exactly this* - consider why her suffering brings you joy

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Dudley Benson

@DudleyBenson

2 years

Earlier this week @odtnews got it wrong with their imbalanced coverage of transphobic claims about changing room use. We spoke to them, and today they’ve put it right. I’m phenomenally proud of my friend Charlotte for sharing her story and perspective.

Pool use part of normal life

A Dunedin trans woman says her use of the Moana Pool changing rooms has never been an issue, after an anti-trans activist brought the matter to the...

www.odt.co.nz

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Dudley Benson

@DudleyBenson

2 years

Needless to say, Fire & Fury is a deeply disturbing, brilliantly-researched and presented documentary. @paulapenfold and her team have made a film that will be studied decades ahead for its capturing of the disinformation epidemic at this moment.

Fire and Fury

Who’s driving a new, aggro New Zealand where death threats are mainstream and disinformation is contagious. Stuff Circuit investigates the inciters dragging everyday New Zealanders into their den of...

interactives.stuff.co.nz

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Dudley Benson

@DudleyBenson

2 years

Following her trans-panic fantasy, I wrote to each City Councillor (except Vandervis who is beyond the beyonds) to provide them with background on who Jennifer Scott is: an anti-vax TERF, unemployed nurse, not registered with NZNO. Nearly all responded, and know where it’s at.