Please donate to protect life in Gaza
I shall be swimming & walking 150km from the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon and ending in Rafah, Gaza, from the safety of Brighton.
#Gaza
#MedicalAidForPalestine
It is not a peaceful protest when the crowd are chanting ‘FUCK TERFS’ through a sound system
The police, at this point are supporting the abuse of women
@gmpolice
@AndyBurnhamGM
#WPUKManchester
A huge angry crowd shouts ‘Protect Trans Youth’- which is nice, but bears zero relevance to the
#WPUKManchester
meeting
Inside survivors & refugees discuss single sex spaces and women’s sports
Crowds with pitchforks protesting the wrong people
@BBCNewsnight
The huge numbers of young women now detransitioning whilst left with chronic health issues (balding, infertility, painful orgasm). This is a
#scandal
and will cost the government dearly when the court cases come rolling in. The NHS andschools have allowed a political agenda of...
Just wanted to say, whilst everyone is congratulating the Tories on single-sex hospital wards, it was THE TORIES that brought in ANNEX B, which over rode the single-sex pledge in the NHS constitution.
It's like thanking someone when they stop punching you.
Hi
#PrivateEye
I’m a single mum & survivor in Brighton… Concerned that if I end up in HMP Downview for non payment of bills, that I will be housed with males
Im definitely
#NotABot
& my DM’s are open
#KeepPrisonsSingleSex
Feeling tempted to publish my many email exchanges with my MP
@CarolineLucas
about the need to access single-sex rape crisis services in Brighton.
The harm she has allowed The Greens to do to women is unforgivable.
#DefendingWomensSpaces
In 2010
#Brighton
Pavilion made history by electing me UK’s 1st Green MP & it’s been the honour of my life. My open letter to residents & friends explains why I’m not standing at next General Election. With love & gratitude, I hope I've done you proud 👇
1) Intergenerational feminism- a small thread & an ode to my beautiful daughter
Doing
#FiLiA2021
with my 16yo daughter was a dream 💜
When I booked it 9+ months ago she took some convincing..
In fact she said it would be ‘just a load of middle aged women’
@FiLiA_charity
I have just been thrown out of my Labour Party forum for raising concerns as to why Labour is advocating the mass expulsion of women. Using language like “TERF”.
#VAWG
#ExpelMe
@JoPhoenix1
152- "We considered all the Respondent’s witnesses’ evidence ... to be evasive & resistant to providing the truth to the Tribunal. We simply did not believe Dr Downes, Dr Boukli, Dr Bowes-Catton or Dr Williams’ evidence on this point"
#P45
@OpenUniversity
Men’s Rights Activists have desecrated FiLiAs Wiki page
Its’s a shameful mess of lies, edited by an anon coward with zero accountability
The length that some will go to marginalise & silence women, is disturbingly unsurprising
#FiLiA23
@FiLiA_charity
My son hasn’t seen his dad in 2 months after he told me he wouldn’t maintain contact with his son unless I had sex with him once a week.
I said NO, so he punishes his son by going awol.
Today he put this through my door for me
IT NEVER STOPS
THE FACE OF MALE VIOLENCE-
On Sunday this man slaughtered a woman and her two young children. He killed them in their home.
Not wanting to face the consequences he killed himself in an act of final control.
This is what dangerous men look like- they don’t come with a warning
@NoisyBits
And it also doesn’t follow that advocating for abolition means you abandon the women in prison as we speak.
My question is, why are you advocating for access into women’s spaces…?
#WPUKManchester
🐝
💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛
#FactCheck
WPUK are not transphobic, are not erasing trans people, do not want trans people to be excluded from public spaces, are not funded by the Christian Right & are not Nazis….
When men shame women who are protecting their spaces and promoting safeguarding always ask them what their skin in the game is..
Shame them, call them out and shame their enablers and handmaidens too.
#EVAWG
#PeakTrans
#ThisIsNotADrill
@BBCWomansHour
@Emmabarnett
Graces book tour at Brighton Waterstones wasn’t even sold out. It was a flop. Women have no interest in listening to a man who posts images of his partner with his fist in her mouth, and bite marks on her cheek.
@BBCWomansHour
@Docstockk
@Emmabarnett
I think Womans hour were actively responsible for adding to the cultural context where women are enduring this. Their silence on the roll back of women’s rights has left the heavy lifting to others as well as added legitimacy to the monstering of feminist women
@BritishCycling
There is no mention of women/females in your statement- nor shown sympathy to women excluded through Emily's inclusion. Nor sympathy to the huge barriers women (and girls) face in terms of equal participation in sport. I do hope the 'expert panel' affords women the same respect
@BBCWomansHour
@Emmabarnett
He says that the lack of protests means we don’t exist- oh hell yes we exist- we just don’t think harassment of events and individuals is an appropriate or decent way to object
Lianne is gentle, funny, deeply empathic, tough, smart, powerful, political, driven, and has enriched my life more than she can know.
India Willoughby F💔CK OFF
A woman is born, not worn
The notion that 25 women can meet lawfully without men, but 26 women can not should tell you everything you need to know about the power of collectivism.
Start women only meet-ups in your area. Everything you need to know 👇
#SistersSalon
@ForWomenScot
8) And as for my daughter- I love you so much sweet heart 💜
Thank you for laughing with me, thank you for hugging me when I cried, and letting me hug you when you wept too.
Thank you for making me the proudest mum 💜💜
The world is so much better with you in it my darling X
@BBCWomansHour
@Emmabarnett
So Grace has suggested that hormones defines a sex. So women who block oestrogen for breast cancer and have had mastectomies are not fully women…..?
@SistersUncut
'if you see a TERF punch em in the fucking face'- is not a proclamation of self-defence. It is calling for LITERAL violence against women and girls- many of us survivors- and SistersUncut have no right to try and draw our boundaries- the height of misogyny.
@Tate
A gentle reply that less than 20% of males who identify as females remove their tackle.
Exposing a penis to a women or girl is sexual assault. It is also a crime that is on the increase, & an precursor to more violent sexual offenders.
Respect women, respect our space
@BethDobbin
It breaks my heart that on top of being an Olympian you have to speak out on this. Women and girls should NEVER have been put in this position. The disrespect for us takes my breath away.
@JoPhoenix1
"We accept the Claimant’s evidence on this point. We found the Claimant to be an honest and impressive witness who was measured in her tone and responses." Point 112
@BBCWomansHour
@Docstockk
@Emmabarnett
This is not just an academic debate- as women in Brighton there are no women only rape crisis services.
Kathleen has been heroic in speaking for women in Brighton. Out needs as survivors are not an act of hate 💜 sometimes
#sexmatters
This is incredible news- for too long the sciences have been dominated by women of colour.
Finally, it is great to see this recognition that white men belong in science too
@PhysicsWorld
#HeCan
#MenCan
#MenInScience
We’re delighted to announce
@ClaraMBarker
as the new IOP Inclusion and Diversity Representative.
Dr Barker says: “I look forward to working with different groups who share a passion for physics but feel they cannot achieve their maximum potential. (1/2)
@BBCNewsnight
The vast majority of referrals to Tavistock are girls- of those an alarming amount have ASD, and /or have experienced trauma and sexual abuse. The only language they are equipped with is “trans”... they then sit on clinic waiting lists
#scandal
#CourageCalls
@BBCMorningLive
@xandvt
@BBCiPlayer
My Dad died of prostate cancer.
It advanced rapidly and he didn’t check it. He didn’t know he had a prostate. He didn’t know you get Cancer of it. He didn’t know the symptoms.
But as long as you feel smug…. That’s all that matters
@stonewalluk
Promoting “identities” is embedding homophobia far more successfully than section 28 did.
Gender identity gaslights young lesbians into removing their breasts. Gay boys to be taught their femininity means they are in the wrong body.
Stonewall has been cuckooed by fanatics.
7) To see the perception of middle aged women evolve from irrelevance to super Queens
To see how powerful our daughters are when we hold space for them
When they have a weekend where EVERYONE SMILES at them
When together we raise them up XX
#FiLiA2021
@em_hrnndz
@alexbryant_
Is there anything worse than an exceptionally qualified woman discussing sexuality? Especially when her own sexuality excludes men
Plus you guys have already sent the men in balaclavas to tell her to STFU.
Don’t get me started on women you have to tell twice! Feel your pain bro.
@BBCWomansHour
@Emmabarnett
He says because he wasn’t protested we don’t exist?
@Womans_Place_UK
sell out a venue per month up and down the country- they fill the QE2. Lavery didn’t even sell out Brighton Waterstones.
@SarahSurviving
@treekahlo
@RadFem_KatH
I’m a self excluder. Oh have written to survivors network about this off and on for the last 6years.
They have treated me with contempt.
They should not be getting public funds.
Can I just say it was me he was calling fat and old
I’m 42 & chubby and the truth is I couldn’t be happier.
Working with women to represent the needs of the mist vulnerable women is better by far than a flat tummy
💪🏽
#Wpukprisons
At
@Womans_Place_UK
meeting on the horror of prison for women, and hearing heartbreaking stories of the brutality of custodial sentences. In the meantime, this is going on outside:
@a4cderry
@FemSchoolsNi
You can’t end sexism in education-
1- without defining and acknowledging sex
2- whilst teaching gender-identity theory that upholds reductive and regressive sexist stereotypes.
@lmwald
@biff_lou
@BBCWomansHour
@Docstockk
@Emmabarnett
… arrived encouraging people to try and get them sacked for doing their job..
Having said that the people responsible are known to the Uni… their claim of not tolerating this is flimsy when no one has been held to account…
@Tate
This film is just one small part of a broader rape culture. A society that dismisses sexual violence against women & girls, that frames women as uptight. Bigoted is the new version of frigid.
You should let us debate, don’t manipulate and silence us
#ArtNotPropeganda
2) not only was this not the case, but she was able to see ‘middle aged’ women anew
To see & feel their POWER & wisdom.
To see women as the sum of their work, not the sum of their male-gaze appraised parts
To feel their humour & shelter in their protection
#FiLiA2021
4) Often shy, she learnt how to smile at strangers (her words)
EVERYONE SMILED AT HER
EVERYONE
A million miles from her college corridors where shoulders barge, or the Brighton streets where men & boys leer & mutter
#FiLiA2021
@lmwald
@biff_lou
@BBCWomansHour
@Docstockk
@Emmabarnett
The Uni did send maintenance men to take them down, they arrived as I was leaving- so massively delayed as must have been way past noon.
What I didn’t realise was I was being watched & they uploaded pictures of me taking them down as well as taking pictures of the handymen…
Single-sex spaces. Abortion free at the point of need. Welfare systems that support mothers instead of punishing them. Schools that teach our daughters that their bodies are right. Explicitly anti-racist feminism. NO commercial surrogacy. NO 'sex' trade. ❤️.
#HandsOffMyRights
3) At 16 she broke bread with feminist giants
Women who took the time & interest in her
Women whose work she knows showed her how compassion for our sisters evolves a movement
How we are all equal
How we can all fight
She reeled at how
@Vaishax
could talk without notes 💜
5) she joined us all on the steps for lunch
Raging at the misogyny of the *protestors* she couldn’t consolidate their actions against the richness of the movement inside the building
But she wasn’t intimidated
Held her head high & met their eyes
She is my hero
@LushLtd
For anyone wanting to know what
@Womans_Place_UK
do, they are a principled feminist orgs using, advocating for the rights of women and girls.
That is our right to single sex spaces (prisons, toilets, homeless hostels), single sex sports, sex segregated data....
#WarOnWomen
Trigger warning/ sexual assault
@drkamillak
wrote at great length about how his transition as a GP allowed him to do intimate physical exams on women, esp Muslim women- who were unaware he was male.
Women can not consent to this.
@rcgp
#RASSO
@jk_rowling
@ShonaRobison
My mental health is rinsed from watching law makers portray survivors as hysterical and misinformed
Im one of hundreds of thousands of women reliving trauma whilst villains like
@ShonaRobison
debate our basic human rights.
Leave women alone and allow us our single sex spaces
@Womans_Place_UK
Andrea Dworkin
#secondwavefeminists
she had a public row with her former friend Allen Ginsberg over his support for child pornography and pedophilia, in which Ginsberg said, "The right wants to put me in jail," and Dworkin responded, "Yes, they're very sentimental; I'd kill you."
@PaulBrandITV
It really is embarrassing- but not for the Government
It’s embarrassing that these orgs are demonstrating zero knowledge of the issues being raise in
#CASSreport
@BBCWomansHour
@Emmabarnett
When you are gaslit, you know something is wrong but you can’t put your finger on it. We self doubt and self blame.
This is what is happening the the listeners of womens hour today- women thinking they must be missing something for not getting it- trust your instincts women!
Absolutely sick of the ridiculous protests at womens’s events
My 8 yr old son was left shaken & anxious
I’m case in needs to be said
MEN SHOUTING AT WOMEN IN UNDERPASSES IS SINISTER AF
#FiLiA23
& those sisters standing with them should come inside
#WomensRights
#filia23
When survivors across
#BrightonAndHove
responded to the Pan Sussex domestic abuse strategy, 50% of them stated in the additional comments box that they wanted SINGLE SEX services, Steph apologised to the Council for their responses. She called them ‘transphobic’….
Steph has gone
@GillFurnissMP
Considering that we are all becoming aware of poor practises at Gender clinics (medicalising gender non conformity, cross sex hormones, puberty blockers, the uncritical care pathways), I would suggest halting such services would hugely reduce the amount of harm being done.
@luluchops1
Remember when men surrounded the Brighton BME centre and kicked pavement level windows of the basement room they were meeting in?
Remember when liquid was thrown at the CEO of FiLia when walking through the crowd that the police failed to holdback?
6) It would be ace to see
@Filia
comp tickets to some Cardiff colleges for the enrichment of interested students for
#Filia2022
To keep bridging the gap
@FiLiA_charity
Council leader Phelim Macafferty who over saw the destructions and fragmentation of Brighton and Hove’s specialist domestic abuse services….
…………is gone……….
#LE2023
#brightonandhove
#GreensGone
@Docstockk
The entitlement of incredibly privileged young people picking on their intellectual superiors (you) as well as punching down on low paid workers is, in my view, chilling
These people have no concept of equality, respect or inclusion.
I reported all of this to
@SussexUni
…
This decisive win by Labour is not just a push back against the Tories. It is people reclaiming their city from a party that failed to balance the needs of all of its citizens.
They forgot women.
#GreensGone
#SistersSalon
@EddieIzzardLab
Hi Eddie- thanks for the reminder- I’ll be voting for Tom- he has roots in our city, a history of political activism & he doesn’t brag about scaring teenage girls out of public toilets in parks.
#EddieGoHome
@womensaid
Thank you sincerely! This statement is so overdue- as you rightly state, the damage to our services and the impact on victim/survivors via lack of clarity, and coercive funding streams can not be understated
@ManduReid
@TabithaMortonWE
@WEP_UK
Amazing that they knew what a woman was when it came to incarcerating us in laundries, forcing labour with no pain relief and selling our babies for $$$$
#UnderHisEye
@PeterTatchell
Yet any woman who has raised this issues has been berated and bullied by you Peter.
This tweet, all though I whole heartedly agree, is as hypocritical as Jamie Willis himself.
Screaming and chanting protestors are setting off smoke bombs outside a labour meeting of feminists . Will labour continue to be silent on this increasing harassment?
#ExpelMe
@BBCWomansHour
@Emmabarnett
This individual is a long time abuser of women.
And now because he has an academic career he knows better than women…?
This is so gross
@QuillRKukla
@alexbryant_
Absolutely. Maybe burn the paper?
Or maybe that’s not enough?Maybe a priest could exorcise it for you? They have always shared your contempt for female sexuality.
Dress however you please.
Call yourself whatever you like.
Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you.
Live your best life in peace and security.
But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?
#IStandWithMaya
#ThisIsNotADrill
@GoodLawProject
What is criminal is that CAMHS discharged children with no support only a referral to GIDS.
GLP should have been lobbying for CAMHS support not puberty blockers.
GIDS waiting lists prevented a lot of irreversible harm. CAMHS discharging kids has caused a lot of permanent harm