BelfastBeatnik Gorgoyle
@BelfastBeatnik
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Poet, Writer #SpokenWord #PerformancePoetry -My language is restricted, prescribed, controlled, predicted... Restricted B.B. circa 2014
Belfast, Northern Ireland
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I just wanted to say thank you
@jk_rowling
for the memories, the connection, the nostalgia as we show a new generation your work.
#IStandWithJKRowling
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Last night I said "Turn off your tablet so we can eat together" to my son.
"Sure, put on a film and we'll sit on the sofa" to my adult daughter and him.
My 8 year old said "I don't want to watch anything"
My 26yr old put on Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone 1/4
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Which we watched together for the first time when she was 8, 19years ago. It was an amazing experience. We watched him become entranced. We watched his amazement and wonderment.We exchanged looks of nostalgia and knowing.We were welling up at his excitement. It was beautiful 2/4
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He was enthralled and delighted. His face lit up at the magic and we revelled in the moment, my daughter and I, because it reminded us of so long ago watching it together ❤ 3/4
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"Anti-Trans activist"= Women's rights campaigner.
"Scuffles"=Several assaults inc the GBH of a 70 yrold woman.
"Do not represent the majority"=people have been bullied and silenced.
"Spread fear and misinformation" = Tell the truth.
#LetWomenSpeakBelfast
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@troonytoons
I think it's heartbreaking. This person was sold a dangerous lie and the insurance doesn't cover the recovery. 😪
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@GSpellchecker
Who is this woman? I love her words and philosophy!
"But Billy, think about this...Do you really think, do you have the conceit to believe that your morality today is the ultimate and perfect morality for all time? "
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@PSNILGBT
So can policeman wearing his woman hat intimately search women? And vice versa? Or is it just a hat swap?
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@lynsey_bee
This is ridiculous 😒 You know I've Walked past both of you & you've smiled &said hello?You want to ruin our well respected local for what? Having a pint,some very delicious chicken wings &watching a film while your crew hounded a black woman off the stage for telling the truth?
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@CllrMegBirchall
Oh pleeease. Do you mean that people online criticised you for attacking a Labour politician saying that a generic YOU couldn't speak for women???
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@ForWomenScot
Shocking. Was watching in horror.
I can't believe they want to protect sex offenders and rapists so badly.
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@itssamanthaaaa_
"You should realise you're lucky to have me, nobody else will love you, sure look at you. You're nothing."
Everyone who has been abused by a narcissist knows this one.
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Facts
1) You need a uterus,ovaries and fallopian tubes to have a period.
2)Cramps are caused by the contractions of the womb
3)A period is caused by the shedding of uterine lining.
4)Any women with IBS/ digestive issues vrs PMS or PCOS or PMDD know there's a huge difference.
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@No7Sammy
I'm not anonymous, m'on over to Northern Ireland, sure. I'll bet the PSNI won't have any trouble disarming you and stopping you from coercive and abusive behaviour.
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My son is 8.He has had two courses of antibiotics in his life.Poss.bout 3-5
5ml doses of kids fever meds. When he heard about non-binary, from a friend, at 5years he said "Im NB too mum,I think" What I did not do was put him on a course of drugs to stop him growing into a man.
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How can anyone say that this is anything other than homophobia. I'm straight. I see it. Am I getting it wrong?
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@roseveniceallan
So sorry to hear that all three ponds are male inclusive now and
Women don't have a space of their own.
#SaveOurSpaces
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This is now bonkers. HerStory is now HisStory.
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@MegaSausageHead
Hey, your prostate is causing you problems? Why not try journalling? Can you imagine?
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@naomirwolf
It's heartening that yourself and many other people are seeing this is not about being anti anything but pro-women. There is a definite shift happening; more people are at least willing to look at the conflicts of interest for women, the LGB and the safety of children.
#LookAgain
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@LouiseP70493237
Absolutely, I'm horrified the media focus on the man in these stories Thank you for bringing her name to our attention x
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For Shame.
Graham Norton
@grahnort
could listen to what Fred Sargent, who was at Stonewall, since he's thrown Graham Linehan under the bus
Here's Fred's recent statement.
The Disaffected Podcast also covered his attack at Gay Pride Burlington recently.
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@CreativeScots
Good. To be funding explicit porn, in a cave no less, with d/deaf, neurodiverse people, who have private rehearsals in a secret location, does warrant significant safeguarding.
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@PatrickStrud
This is libel and bad reporting. I spoke to women who were at Melbourne they were not with the group of MEN who marched past the police and trans activists,stood on the steps behind the women gathering while a TRA took the stage & tried to break the microphone to distract them.
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I am very much looking forward to attending
@SpeechUnion
's event on Friday evening in Belfast. I was at
@ROBINSONSBAR
that day and witnessed the discrimination and the aftermath of the assault. We left peacefully after spending a lot of money there. I am also fully in support of
‘The slogan "no debate" has had an incredible chilling effect.’
Education and Events Director of the Free Speech Union, Dr Jan Macvarish and Solicitor Advocate and Litigation Specialist, Simon Chambers, give their view on free speech in Northern Ireland.
@andrewdoyle_com
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@VersoBooks
I'm sorry, WHAT?
WOMB CARRIERS???
Who wrote this?
Who edited it?
This is a terrible advertisement for writing.
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@FemNorthern
Any bit of wonder the venue is half empty. Disgraceful that the responder couldn't address the reasonable questions asked and went straight to name calling and the dangerous, hyperbolic rhetoric of "killing". Well done all involved. X
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@TheFamousArtBR
I saw loads of terrible tweets with "disappointed" "devasted" "did she have to put it that way" "I don't think she is but she could've just not said it" "please don't let her be a TERF" rubbish in real time 5 or 10 mins after the clip was released. Most of them now gone & denied
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@JakeGraf1
No, you need to realise you and many others have been misled about these Pharmaceuticals. You don't have to listen to "Terfs" Look at gender specialists sounding the alarm over the past 5 years in Finland, Sweden, The Netherlands, France and the UK and parts of America. These
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@GinaGwenffrewi
He was one of the founders of Stonewall. You are politicising a child's death to further your ridiculous ideology. Please leave the child in peace.
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@HomoLittlest
Nothing wrong with being anonymous. I admire many anons. I'm sorry I didn't set up a sock account instead of using my stage name sometimes. I started questioning on my Facebook account so it seemed silly to try after that as belfast/NI is so small. There have been consequences.
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@JustMisogyny
I'd like to see these "studies" that Robin says are robust. I'll bet five million fivers that even I, a lay person, could debunk them with a lil help from some scientists.
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@jk_rowling
@KirstieMAllsopp
Thank you. You have made it easier for many to speak out and feel reassured that not every high profile woman is a coward. X
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So, I've been asked...What do you want for your birthday? My birthday is the 5th of May. What I want is a candidate to vote for that can BOTH define a Woman AND respect HER right to choose. There isn't one here in NI. Is there?
#RespectMySex
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@KarlaHolmboe
@jk_rowling
Sorry, what day? The day of Mothers. The day of Women who are the only people who can be Mothers? The words that others who are so called "inclusive" want to erase. That group of people? Is that who you mean here? It's not at all clear.
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@AndrewGold_ok
They hate that we can be women, no matter what we look like, and they cannot.
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I'm thankful that i see children & gardens today.
I'm thankful that I live in some peace.
I'm thankful my daughter is in uni today; & not lying on a jeep in a heap.
I'm thankful my water is flowing today & my dinner sits in the fridge.
I'm thankful I don't need to grieve
Today.
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@Sistah_Space
@ManduReid
@SuzanneEJacob
Oh god, that's awful. Sorry you had to go through that. You'd think that they would have had a little decorum at the Palace. X
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@Belstaffie
What a ridiculous situation. Women being violently attacked by men for talking about male violence against women. It couldn't make it clearer why outright voices are necessary. Hope you're ok.
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@GBNEWS
How does this woman have a job as the Minister of Equalities and Women? It's an absolute joke.
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@Tyranicus
They are prefixes that come from molecular biology which prove the existence of sex as a binary. This includes those lovely men and women who have to deal with people appropriating their medical conditions for an ideology. (Before you start)
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Not sure why
@hen10freeman
s account is shut down. Possibly due to the abuse she has had to deal with for wanting same-sex care.
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As Dr Em would say "children are not kinky". There is a need to appropriately educate and safeguard your own and other people's children. Age-inappropriate knowledge of sex and sexual practices used to be the No1 indicator of child abuse. Why is it not still??????
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Witness 1: ignorant
Witness 2: arrogant
Witness 3: evasive
Witness 4: informative
#IStandWithLGBAlliance
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@joannaccherry
No way it was an accident. Anyone who has done practical theatre knows how precious and scrutinised our equipment is and how closely H&S rules are followed. I will second Gavin and suggest complaining.
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@shaneellall
Disgraceful behaviour. You assaulted a 70year old woman and a mother of 4. You bayed, screamed and broke barriers, you harangued and harrassed and stopped women from speaking.
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@Primark
Disgraceful reaction to concerns about safety for women and girls 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 Off to buy my new quilt, winter coat and new autumn clothes somewhere else.
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@thisonethyme
@AGallagherAlly
People with Klinefelters are men. I am lucky to know some of these men. They should not be brought into this argument. They are men with medical conditions and they are fed up with activists using their conditions for validation for either argument. X
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@andygeorgeni
@WeAreFairCop
@PoliceChiefs
What about the Black Woman that was hounded off stage at the International Women's Day event in Belfast for saying XXWomen. Did you investigate that as the representative of Black policing here in NI?
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@KingBobIIV
@jk_rowling
Fantastic stuff. I'm currently reading the very problematic Enid Blyton mysteries of the Famous Five.Last month we learned how to make & experimented with invisible ink & have decided that number 10 in the next street needs investigating as no one has been seen coming in or out!
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@ThePosieParker
This man does not have any qualifications for working in the women's sector. Doesn't even have the aspired "piece of paper" to say so. He got his first job in the women's sector by lying and has achieved other appointments because of that original lie. He does not have a GRC, not
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@StandingforXX
Surely it's reasonable to ask for all female care. I never have until I was raped in my 30s, but that does not mean it shouldn't be available to all, regardless of why.
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So it continues. I have been a regular member of a writing space. Have read my own work and been told I give great feedback on other's work. I have never brought up my politics, nor would I. I am now blocked because some people don't agree with me politically. That's very sad.
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I've since explained why women have an extra layer of fat. Why women have wombs. Why boys have testicles and why our pelvises are different and why women don't tend to grow as big as men. At no point have I had to talk about the sexual act explicitly. THAT would be inappropriate.
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@politicsIN
Pro-women campaigner. Congratulations to the Dept of Communities for representation of women in their communities.
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@EcuadorianMum
I'm so fed up with the ridiculous notion that we are all some sort of homogeneous blob with no brain that blindly follow KJK. Instead of an array of intelligent, independent women using a platform made available to us by a magnificent team of global individuals. It's infuriating.
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@planetjedward
Well done for speaking up. People who are trying to shut the lads up. No. They have every right to speak
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@BBCPolitics
Can any journalist ask Owen about the thought process of potential gay men being told that their bodies are wrong and they need to be medicalised in order to make them "right" ?
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Instead I said "That makes sense, I think we are all unique and have different ways of doing things that some people say are girl things or boy things. You just be you.
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@9NewsMelb
@EmilyRice28
This is the footage of the
#WomenWillSpeak
event. None of the women were involved in "clashes" with anyone! Thankfully the Victoria police kept them safe and separated.
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@teresamaryclark
This person is not following or followed by anyone who is remotely talking about women's rights. Your clutching at straws here. Why not address some of the valid concerns and questions many people? Too much of a challenge?
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A good recent representation of
@Docstockk
's views if anybody who is assuming she is transphobic gives a fuck. Interviewed by a very reasonable and trans inclusive Detranstitioner
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@simplyjennifer
Men are taking personally. That's the problem. Imagine a hypothetical. Men vrs knitting. Awful. Statistically more women knit. Oh ah dreadful 😕
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@hen10freeman
Oh Henrietta. Thank you for speaking out about this. It is shameful that you even have to. As someone who, only briefly, needed intimate care, I can't imagine what it must feel like to have to rely on it indefinitely. I'll be thinking of you each time I speak up about this. Xxx
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@KennyFarq
@thetimes
This is dreadfully sectarian. The writer should be ashamed of themselves.
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He asked me yesterday"why do women not have a willy?" An innocent question revealing the ridiculousness of adults who have been sucked into an ideology that actively seeks to affirm,sterilise, debiltate sexual function and medicalise children,with drugs for life because,Why?
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@keybehaviours
@StandingforXX
Basically. It's very sad. Not one woman's speech shared. Not one tweet shared about the dreadful treatment women and horses (yes horses) got from TRAs. Not one solidarity message to the women who were attacked.
@briancanavan1
@psni
@TRPNI
The women on the ground there were horrified they were being screamed at, inner circle stormed, equipment damaged all by TRAs. Horses punched in the belly,urine mixed w faeces thrown,one woman seriously injured.
They are distraught Nazis were allowed to march through peacefully.
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@Isla_macy
@Freda_Wa11ace
You've targeted this woman and harangued her mercilessly. It's been disgusting to watch.
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Small man issues tiny apology for HUGE error which caused MASSIVE problems for peaceful women gathering across the world.
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@millihill
This is one of the most egregious boundary violations and downright dangerous disregard for newborns' health.
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@brandonmwlyons
I used to think Drag was just a parody, a joke, an adult gay man reacting to the way in which they were accused of femininity as a weakness. An Art. I no longer think this. This is an insult to Women and a Slur on the idea of how Gay men behave.
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Then we had a look at the human body book we have. He was disappointed. He asked why women have more things inside. I explained about how girls have ovaries and boys have testicles and they make our bodies different by producing different chemicals (hormones) from about 8 or so.
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Oooo...look who popped by for a quick visit the ladies wot lunch. Good to meet you Maya. 😁 Have a great rest of your trip.
@MForstater
#NorthernIrelandMassive
#WiseTheBap
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@jk_rowling
This sounds like it is in relation to something I've been saying for a while. We women (mainly) made you rich. I love that you are using that money to help women and contributing to excellent worthy causes. Makes me feel it was all worth it. Xxx
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@Sidewalk_Steve
No, no, no. There is nothing a 3 year old can say that needs to be validated by cross sex hormones and social transition. Don't even give them ibuprofen or paracetamol (tylenol) without due cause.
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@OkayBiology
How patronising. "Apologies to the viewers who may not have kept up" ???? It's herself that is ill-informed.
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@varindeus
I don't think these are Gay men. Drag queens never ordinarily have an obsession with female bodily functions. Because...eh...they are Gay Men.
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Professor Gigi Foster. Telling it like it is:
"But Billy, think about this...Do you really think, do you have the conceit to believe, that your morality today is the ultimate and perfect morality for all time? "
I like her and want to hear more.
It's fairly obvious that Billy Bragg isn't particularly bright.
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@PhilipPullman
@amoozeboosh
Oh my, you are part of the magisterium now. Standing up for those who would cut real children's bodies and give them drugs to stunt their growth. These are pretend daemons they are separating children from,it's their own brains and bodies, being medicated because of imagination.
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And I tell him THE TRUTH. That truth includes the reality that boys grow up to be men and girls grow up to be women. And the most pertinent truth, as I see it, is that medicalising a physically healthy body is insane and the risk to benefit ratio should be ever present in the WHY
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