We are a women's liberation group. Our goal is to liberate girls & women across class, race, sexual orientation & disability from all sex-based oppression.
Katie Sheldon is a 20 year old from Dublin and already a world class professional darts player. Today a world title and £2300 prize was stolen from her by a male cheat, years older and twice her size.
Will the Irish media and fellow athletes stand up for her?
#SaveWomensSports
VICTORY FOR VAN LEUVEN! 🇳🇱
Noa-Lynn van Leuven clinches her maiden PDC Women's Series title in Wigan! 🏆
Van Leuven overcomes some late double trouble to defeat Irish youngster Katie Sheldon in the Event Two final!
The fertility industry uses sanitised, colourful and youthful advertising to groom very young women into selling their eggs.
Notice how this ad talks only about the money, and not about any of the risks of egg retrieval, which include ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (fatal in…
We’re a group of Irish radical feminists who want to create community and end sex-based oppression for all women and girls! We would appreciate an RT and follow to help us reach as many Irish women as possible ✊
Irish celebrity Brian Dowling frames erasing mothers from birth certificates as a gay rights cause.
Brian’s husband fathered a child with Brian’s much younger sister, used as gestational surrogate. She is rightly on the birth certificate, as SHE gave birth.
#StopSurrogacyNow
"I have no legal standing with my daughter in Ireland. I'm tired of having to ask permission"
@brianofficial
& Arthur Gourounlian on their surrogacy journey and the problems with the system in Ireland
#IrelandAM
@belleofthejar
“Refusing to accept society’s devaluation of anything feminine as inferior”… Does she know how women who don’t perform femininity are treated? 💀 Society wants women to look the way she does. She’s a walking male fantasy. It’s so depressing that this is what passes for feminism.
@ReduxxMag
Riley Jay Dennis has been invading women’s spaces for years. Remember his “genital preferences are bigoted” videos?! What a disgusting, predatory individual.
Sur la place de la république, le collectif « booty therapy » organise une action. Elles twerkent pour « montrer que ce n’est une danse de putes mais une façon de se reapproprier son corps et de s’empouvoirer ».
#Manifs20novembre
#NousToutes
@ReduxxMag
Meanwhile Katie McCabe, captains the Irish women’s soccer team who qualified for their first ever World Cup this year. She is a lesbian and one of the most successful athletes in the country. Yet this nobody fetishist wins the national award for playing against little girls.
Under new laws, a man may use the embryos of his deceased female partner so that a surrogate can give birth to the genetic child of the dead woman.
This is so horrifying and unethical. What on earth is
@DonnellyStephen
thinking?
#StopSurrogacyNow
"Woman" has been removed by HSE on cervical screening material.
Is it too much to ask to also be included and not be disregarded in issues pertaining to women’s health?
We urge you to use our template to write to HSE about this.
#womanisnotadirtyword
We condemn the Irish Prison Service’s decision to detain Barbie Kardashian, a dangerous male, in Limerick Women's Prison. Once again, Ireland has failed to protect its female citizens. Read our statement & use our template to inform your TDs. /1
@amillennialterf
@EllyArrow
Especially during these rape scenes. Game of Thrones "needed" all those rape scenes for realism yet none of the women had a single strand of hair on their bodies.
These scenes exist purely to sexually titillate the male audience.
@allie_coghan
@IWF
Thank you for speaking out and I’m so sorry you went through this. Shame on the university and the sorority for putting male feelings above the safety of female students.
@BBCNewsNI
What absolutely disgusting, selfish people.
That baby’s mother will have to stay in a war zone. Where is their concern for her? Will their child forgive them in the future when he finds out they trafficked him from Ukraine and left his mother in a war zone to die?
While women, throughout history, have fought for the right to single-sex spaces, the Irish government has decided to spit on women's rights by allowing a male sex offender to be housed among female prisoners in the women's prison in Limerick
"Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us." - Andrea Dworkin
It’s time for people to wake up and realise that your children are watching sexual abuse on the internet. 1 in 3 children have watched hardcore porn by the age of 12, warping their understanding of normal acceptable sexual behaviour. This leads to horrible crimes like this one.
A boy who recorded himself sexually assaulting his eight-year-old cousin when he was 14 and tried to upload the video to YouTube has been sentenced to 16 months in detention.
According to
@UN_Women
, this is our role as feminists.
Girls & women are not other people's caretakers. We've been burdened with society's expectation to put our needs & boundaries last.
So, NO!
Our role as feminists is to liberate women from the shackles of this expectation!
The Irish government is currently working to liberalise Irish surrogacy laws. We need to act NOW to let them know that we oppose the exploitation of women and the buying of babies.
The Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill is currently in Committee Stage of the Dáil. The…
@BritMartinez
How can she acknowledge that she can’t connect with the child and that she felt guilty for taking the baby from its birth mother one minute and say surrogacy is “still great” the next? She clearly knows deep down that what she did is very wrong, but she doesn’t care. 🤦♀️
@marketingmog
@crit_gen
“Girl math” is a really misogynistic tiktok trend at the moment. They’re trying to make being bad at maths and managing your finances a cool, girly thing.
5 things MEN must normalise for men:
1. Stop objectifying girls & women
2. Stop male violence against girls & women
3. Stop expecting women to be their human shields or their emotional punching bags
4. Stop forcing women to cede our boundaries
5. Stop taking over. Leave women be.
@MercyBuzzard13
@stevnstuff
This girl is literally being pulled around a hallway by the hair. How are people so desensitised to violence that they see an assault like this as normal or an everyday thing?
Critics of the methodology of the systematic reviews that form the basis of the Cass Review are displaying their limited understanding of research methods and evidence based medicine — but that’s what got us into this mess in the first place
We'd like to thank you all for doing your part in emailing HSE to put the word WOMEN back in CervicalCheck materials. Women should never be reduced to our biological functions or our body parts. Sex bias in healthcare is real & clear, accessible language is necessary.
@PeterTatchell
Only the rich use surrogacy.
It’s never a selfless act of kindness. It’s usually exploitation of a poor woman in a poor country by the wealthy. And even in the UK, where only “altruistic” surrogacy is legal, surrogates receive average payments of well over £10k.
#StopSurrogacyNow
Pro-surrogacy lobby group Irish Gay Dads have issued a press release stating the proposed surrogacy legislation “marginalises same-sex couples”.
The proposed law is already the most liberal and most exploitative in the EU. Under the law, gay couples will be able to access…
On Sunday, members of Radicailín attended the National Surrogacy Conference, organised by pro-surrogacy lobby groups.
Speakers included commissioning parents, lawyers, SF TD Kathleen Funchion and Senator Mary Seery Kearney.
Comments made were delusional, shocking and…
Funny how people think "Irish feminism" is superior to the feminism of British women because of Repeal — it only took 35 years to achieve a landslide.
Irish men literally gained the right to be recognised as women under law before we got the right to abortion!
@MarieKeating
@DeniseMBreen
This article is absolutely absurd.
Denise has a prostate because Denise is male.
This sort of messaging harms women. Imagine how confusing this tweet would be to a woman who doesn’t speak English well or has issues with reading? Stop gaslighting us.
The Vatican has declared today that surrogacy violates both the dignity of the surrogate mother and the child.
“When catholics, muslims, marxists and feminists all oppose the same subject, know that it is serious” - Kajsa Ekis Ekman
#StopSurrogacyNow
@HappyHa07846347
What’s your point? Even if that’s true, he is still a man entering a women’s competition. A cheat.
BTW, there are many reasons why there are women’s darts competitions, including historical exclusion of women from competition and lack of opportunity. Not all advantages are…
@RadfemBlack
She’s more attractive than Tom Holland.. plus it’s Shakespeare, not Hollywood, they don’t cast West End theatre based on looks or race. These people are just vile racists.
@thatsnotmine125
That’s irrelevant because this is a women’s competition and he shouldn’t have been allowed to enter. And darts has women’s competitions for a number of reasons, one of them being lack of opportunity for women.
We are determined to fight the upcoming plans to validate this form of exploitation in Irish law.
Over the next few weeks we will be sharing more of what we learned at this conference, information about this industry and how you can help. We hope you will join us to…
Embarrassing comments from Green Party TD
@neasa_neasa
. Desperate to be cool.
She says johns “aren’t hurting anybody”. Do you listen to the voices of women in the sex trade?
If you did you would know about the rape and abuse they routinely face.
We would like to voice our appreciation to everyone who attended our protest yesterday and everyone who has participated in the campaign!
Big thanks to our speakers
@FemmeLoves
,
@anliathluachra
, Graham Linehan and
@RachelRMoran
♥️
Let's keep the momentum going ✊
#SaveOurSpaces
This case is so horrifying. But did you know that the proposed surrogacy law in Ireland will not require commissioning parents to go through a Garda vetting check?
There is no safeguarding in surrogacy. It puts children in danger.
#StopSurrogacyNow
JUST IN: Chicago-area vet and well-known national dog show judge Adam King, 39, has been arrested on disturbing child porn charges alleging he posted in an online chat his plan to sexually assault his newborn child. He also posted ultrasound images and baby outfits, feds say
@elisaodonovan
@Limerick_Leader
Care to explain to us what it is that you find so unbelievable about the existence of a group of Irish radical feminists who oppose the presence of Barbie Kardashian, a man who has assaulted women and expresses a desire to rape and murder women in the future, in a women's prison?
What a bizarre photo.
Senator Mary Seery Kearney’s young daughter who was born through surrogacy in India (where international surrogacy is now banned) used as a prop to promote this awful legislation, surrounded by commissioning parents.
It’s exploitation.
#StopSurrogacyNow
Important day at Health Committee
@OireachtasNews
as we progress Assisted Human Reproduction Bill. We're progressing through surrogacy amendments, including international surrogacy and plans on recognition of retrospective surrogacies. Thanks to all for support for Bill so far.
@october____x
@noeleensaid
It’s not maintenance or hygiene. It’s totally unnecessary. If you want to remove all your pubic hair and have your genitals resemble those of a prepubescent child go ahead but please do not act like you do it for yourself. You do it out of shame, and because it’s expected of you.
Since going public, there have been a number of accounts unhappy with our level of Irishness, constantly challenging us to prove that we're Irish for "Irish Feminist Twitter" as well as being called "foreign" as though that is the gravest of insults & some sort of a "gotcha"./1
Topics included their agenda to legalise and regulate domestic and international (commercial) surrogacy in the country, their hopes to streamline the process of legally severing mother and child, and how to choose an “ethical” clinic abroad (newsflash - it’s impossible).
Senator Mary Seery Kearney speaking about the government decision to regulate commercial surrogacy.
Biased Seery Kearney helped to write the recommendations. Her child was born to an Indian surrogate mother in 2015, the same year surrogacy was banned in India!
#StopSurrogacyNow
We were shocked by published responses to the Law Commission Consultation, revealing the dark heart of the surrogacy industry.
This response from a NHS OBG deserves a thread of its own.
The entitlement and self-centredness is off the charts. Listen to him. It’s all about HIS rights and HIS feelings. Does he have any regard for the rights of the child? Or the rights of his own sister? Why should the fact she gave birth be erased validate him?
#StopSurrogacyNow
"The public censure of women as if we are rabid because we speak without apology about the world in which we live is a strategy of threat that usually works. Men often react to women's words—speaking and writing—as if they were acts of violence."
Stand your ground, sisters! ✊🏽
@IrelandAMVMTV
@brianofficial
Frankly I’m sick of the Irish media being so one sided about surrogacy, sanitising it and painting it as adults rights to have a baby. This is an exploitative practice that’s illegal in most countries. Why not explore that? Show the other side of the story.
Boys have become so porn sick that they cannot fathom how sex could possibly be enjoyable without misogyny and woman-beating.
This is what young girls and women are having to deal with.
People often ask “what about altruistic surrogacy?” in discussions about the ethics of surrogacy, as if the only exploitation in surrogacy is when payment is involved. In reality, altruistic arrangements can be just as harmful to mothers and babies as commercial ones.
We hope…
The referendum showed that the government failed to understand how the nation values families and motherhood, so how can they be trusted when it comes to
#surrogacy
?
We wrote about the proposed law, which is the most liberal in Europe.
#StopSurrogacyNow
The European Parliament has voted today to include exploitation of surrogacy as a form of human trafficking in its directive 🙌
How can the Irish government continue with their extreme plans to legalise both domestic and international surrogacy now?
#StopSurrogacyNow
En direct du vote au Parlement Européen à Strasbourg.
La GPA sera inscrite dans une directive sur le traffic d’êtres humains 🙏
Merci
@fxbellamy
pour ce travail acharné.
#stopGPA
The new misogynists in Ireland are something to behold—intimidation to correct your thinking & ensure that your feminism must include everyone otherwise you'd be hunted with their pitchforks. How dare women demand better?
This is a perfect example of how society treats women as 2nd-class. Women are expected to cede for others—no questions asked. "Here's a free hot drink for you."
We need to start asking WHY.
Why do people think it's OK to ask women to give up our spaces?
Worrying to hear that convicted pimps are exploiting EU privacy law to wipe their crimes from online search results.
This man trafficked women into Ireland for sex slavery in a multimillion euro prostitution ring. His crimes should not be hidden.
‘Irish families fear surrogacy slur’
The face of surrogacy in Ireland: a nepo baby pageant queen. A senator. A well-off professional couple. Privilege.
They purchased human beings. How dare they paint themselves as oppressed victims?
#StopSurrogacyNow
Are we really willing to pretend that this acceptable? Even after seeing the sexual abuse inflicted on women inmates in the UK with the likes of Karen White and Canada with Madilyn Harks?
We say NO! Women's right to female-only spaces must be reinstated.
@HSELive
removed the word "women" in their cervical screening materials. Sign this petition for "women" to be ADDED alongside existing language as this removal will harm a no. of women who don't know what a cervix is.
#IncludeWomenHSE
@DonnellyStephen
We stand with WOMEN in Poland fighting for their reproductive rights. This is a WOMEN'S HEALTH issue, the government needs to STOP controlling WOMEN'S bodies. Show our Polish sisters solidarity with this poster. Download:
#StrajkKobiet
#piek
łokobiet
Dear sisters, heed the words of suffragette Nellie McClung:
"Never explain, never retract, never apologize. Just get the thing done and let them howl."
Introducing our 'Save Our Spaces' Campaign!
In light of the upcoming Review of the Equality Acts, we are protesting at the Dáil In advocacy of women and girl's right to single sex spaces and services.
We are demanding that our rights be respected! Who's with us?
#SaveOurSpaces
We choose female solidarity.
So if your brand of feminism isn't approved by the "True Irish Feminists of Twitter", that's probably for the best. It means you're not racist, sexist or classist. We're here for you. Get in touch.
/end
Winnie, a brave young Traveller woman endured 6 years of threats & abuse after reporting her uncle to the gardaí for raping her over a four-year-period, which started when she was 14. On Tuesday, she got her justice when her uncle was jailed for 6 years.
Lobby group Irish Gay Dads concerned that new laws (the most liberal in the EU!) don’t go far enough - They worry they may be prevented from accessing commercial surrogacy in the USA, where a baby often costs $150k+. This is privilege.
#StopSurrogacyNow
This man (who is not on any hormones, nor has he had surgery) is convicted of 10 counts of sexual assault and one count of cruelty against a child yet he is now living among some of society's most vulnerable and marginalised women.
This violation of women's sex-based rights it's totally unacceptable and deeply misogynistic. Ireland has once again shown complete and utter disregard for women's well being. They have decided to place the feelings of an extremely dangerous man above the safety of women.
We’d like to bring your attention to the sinister motion proposed at the NUIGSU which lumps feminists with the far right.
How has campaigning against Female Genital Mutilation & being against the practice of child brides be discriminatory or far right?
Charlie Lawlor abused a lesbian couple, punching one of them in the face leaving her with permanent scars and still received a fully suspended sentence.
Another abusive male (sorry, “decent young man”🙄) on our streets. Thanks Judge Nolan!
Ireland is not safe for women.
Charlie Lawlor (21), who assaulted a gay couple and threw homophobic slurs at them as they tried to intervene in a row he was having with his girlfriend, leaving one woman with a permanent facial scar, has been given a fully suspended sentence.
We are horrified at this blatant disregard for the rights of incarcerated women, many of whom are locked up for minor, non-violent offences and are extremely vulnerable people. We believe this case has highlighted some major flaws in the Gender Recognition Act 2015. /2
Solidarity with our sisters in France who got attacked today simply for protesting against porn & prostitution.
Violence against women are being celebrated because misogyny is masquerading as 'progressive' nowadays.
Stand strong, dear sisters. We're with you.✊🏾
Today in Paris, the feminist group CAPP organized an action against prostitution. I joined it with my sisters from
@l_amazone_
. There were several prostitution survivor with us.
We were beaten up by queer activists who also threw eggs on our faces.
The racism & hypocrisy coming from these accounts is unacceptable. We're proud to be a feminist organisation that welcomes migrant women.
We're also proud to support & be supported by our feminist sisters all around world.This xenophobic divide & conquer strategy won't work./2
We're thankful to 1500+ of you who signed our petition to put women back in HSE materials. Shoutout to Sarah Anderson who was featured on Liveline. Thanks to the amazing WOMEN & men who cared enough about women's health to make this happen & for standing with women!✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
A 13-year-old girl said a man approached her & asked if she was "open for business" when she was walking to school.
Repeating the slogan "sex work is work" does absolutely nothing but normalise objectifying girls & women. It doesn't make prostitution safer.
"sex work is work", they say...
Schoolgirls approached for sex
Girls being followed
Used condoms lying about
Used needles discarded
Fears over aggression
Fears about girls being abducted
But..."sex work is work", they say.
D*sgusting m*n.
Happy
#LesbianVisibilityWeek
!
Lesbians have always been at the forefront in the fight for gay and women’s rights, despite lesbian-specific issues often being ignored by others.
📷: Lesbians on International Women’s Day, Cork, Ireland. 1985.