Hadley Freeman
@HadleyFreeman
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So tell me everything is not about me. But what if it is?
Joined July 2011
I am COMPLETELY shocked: the Wall Street Journal has named Good Girls one of its top 10 books of the year! Thank you so much to the WSJ editors and to @slsatel for the original brilliant review. You have honestly made my year https://t.co/JM57Z0QPPP
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Have a read of this piece by the brilliant @HadleyFreeman discussing CUSW and student backlash:
thetimes.com
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@HadleyFreeman The last warm and fluffy thing in his life he beat to death with a baseball bat.
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I meant to post this earlier: here is a v bad photo of the trans flag flying from the roof of Newnham Colleg. Once the beating heart of a British feminism, now an endorser of reductive pink and blue gender stereotypes. Might as well be a white flag of surrender
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"The cruelty of gender activism is a feature, not a bug. The cause is so nonsensical, it can only survive in a climate of fear" @HadleyFreeman interviews 3 brave @Cambridge_Uni students who set up @CUSocOfWomen. Archive version ➡️ https://t.co/jZ9zNYYIS6
https://t.co/0QEiS1AYaH
thetimes.com
I met the young women fighting for a return to gender sanity. One returned from sick leave to find ‘Terf’ on her door
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'I visited the college to see things for myself ... looked up at this once great bastion of British feminism, and there, flying from the roof, was the pink and blue flag. As a visual emblem of academia’s capitulation to misogynistic nonsense, it was hard to improve.' Devastating.
Today’s @thetimes column is about the brilliant @CUSocOfWomen who, if we’re all very lucky, will be in charge one day, instead of the cowards we currently have in government https://t.co/qYEGK8uuqA
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(And by “quite friendly” he means we swapped tweets occasionally - until he blocked me when I asked why he said this bbc report about a trans identified male rugby player injuring women players was “inspirational”) https://t.co/R2XK2eE8fT
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Kelly Morgan says she is playing with a smile on her face after taking up rugby again following transition from male to female.
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Love getting career and life advice from the kimono fox killer. Unsurprising that a man who worships gender stereotypes prefers women to write “warm, fluffy columns.” But only one of us went so mad as to believe men can be women and it wasn’t me, bucko
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And for The Sunday Times Magazine I went walking and talking with Ethan Hawke https://t.co/ENX6N26mLC
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Today’s @thetimes column is about the brilliant @CUSocOfWomen who, if we’re all very lucky, will be in charge one day, instead of the cowards we currently have in government https://t.co/qYEGK8uuqA
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The reasons why women want single-sex spaces should make men ashamed. Instead, women are shamed for wanting single-sex spaces.
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Is shocking @hannahsbee was blocked from this briefing by Science Media Centre. No reporter has done more to inform the public about use of puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria. She covered for @BBCNewsnight (with @deb_cohen), @NewStatesman & wrote an impactful book
NEW: Puberty blocker trial for children gets green light, but many questions remain. Sadly, my request to attend a media briefing & put some of them to study leads was turned down on the grounds I’m not a ‘specialist’ health/science journalist.
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Pretty devastating critique here from Baroness Cass: “You cannot ask the person why they want to die. I don’t know how then you can possibly assess for coercion Unless you can hear from the person, in their own words, why…you can’t advise on symptom control let alone coercion”
Baroness Cass: regardless of amount of scrutiny, there are absolute conflicts between intent and delivery, and the reason cannot be trust in how we deliver this in real life...is that we are discussing importance of recognising coercion, and yet it has been voted that you cannot
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Rachel Cooke, by Tony Quinn. May we all have such a marriage https://t.co/FFqLC6rYdd
observer.co.uk
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Join us for rooftop champagne, a sumptuous three-course lunch, book signing, raffle prizes and more at our Butterfly Speaker Lunch on Tuesday 2nd December: https://t.co/A4RT4D7jDf With special guests @stephenmangan and @HadleyFreeman in conversation.
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Around the world, people with eating disorders have died under assisted dying laws. Ailidh could have been one of them. People like Ailidh need support to live, not assistance to die. It is time to rethink the Assisted Dying Bill. #DyingForTreatment
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Re-reading the utterly original Rachel Cooke
newstatesman.com
The writer, who was the New Statesman’s TV reviewer for nearly two decades, has died aged 56
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A beautiful obituary for a friend, by a friend. Thank you @SusannaRustin for capturing Rachel’s unique, bright, witty brilliance x
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