Dr Karen Ingala Smith
@K_IngalaSmith
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Woman. Feminist. Northerner. Terf. @femicidecensus @countdeadwomen. Author of Defending Women’s Spaces.
People's Republic of Yorkshire
Joined October 2011
Women victim-survivors of men's violence (sexual and domestic violence/abuse, including prostitution) deserve women-only support services. Read about why and how this has become contested in my book Defending Women's Spaces. It's available to order here https://t.co/xiPT1AdJyO
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@ruskienboots For this. They went for this. To create conflict, film it, and then centre themselves in the chaos that followed. Because it's very lucrative when one is trying to make it in the attention economy.
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@BenthicOrganism @GappyTales A person who felt spurned by LW feminists after they’d had enough of her toxic shit & so distanced from her went all out to ruin their reputations & cause maximum damage to all LW feminists as payback.
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This.
You attacked women at the Filia disco. For clicks and likes and attention. Which had been your plan all along. You were the aggressor. And as a result you have been banned. You are a poisonous saboteur, and should never be allowed at any feminist event again.
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It is fascinating & sad that so many vocal women attending at @FiLiA_charity think the only participants should be people who think like them on every subject. FILIA should be a conduit not a position taker. Let’s have lawful disagreements and debates here at @FiLiA_charity .
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I have been at FiLiA all weekend. Everything you're reading from "Jean Hatchett" is as usual lies. If you weren't here and you didn't see or hear what she's claiming has happened take a beat and check your sources. If she's your only source do remember she's a habitual liar.
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I was at the Woman's Place meeting in Brighton in 2019 when trans activist protesters were allowed by police to bang and kick on the venue windows continuously to drown out the speakers. Inside the room it felt like the windows might break, it was quite frightening. Six years on
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For those confused, this is what @RahilaG said.
I was late but glad to be in time for @RahilaG, stressing environmentalism, internat'lism - and the genocide in Palestine. "I have fought against religious fundamentalism all my life so no one needs to lecture me on the evils of Hamas.' Ending with 'Free Palestine!' #filia2025
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To describe FiLiA as an event that inflames digit and creates tension is to completely misunderstand the point of feminism. What a ridiculous statement from @sianberry
Events that inflame division and create tension should be guarded against and @BrightonHoveCC needs better policies for which events it will host in our council-owned venues. The choice of Brighton was clearly provocative from organisers and the problems caused predictable.
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This kind of violent direct action is disgraceful. It is designed to intimidate people - in this case women - into silence and it must not be allowed to happen with impunity. https://t.co/5lg5SDKz5W
bbc.co.uk
The Bash Back action group said it vandalised a Brighton conference venue ahead of the event.
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Out in a pub in Brighton town with @HWistrich (aged 63) and she’s just got ID’d. 🤣
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Important perspective from Pragna Patel, talking about Southall Black Sisters, paraphrasing: ‘Wr set up seeing ourselves as a political organisation, not a service provider organisation. Yes, providing services was part of what we did.’ #FiLiA2025
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Brilliant panel of women looking at the history of the movement supporting women victim/survivors of men’s violence: Gill Hague, Pragna Patel, Liz Kelly and Sarbjit Grainger. Never forget those we are standing on the shoulders of. #FiLiA2025
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We are SO excited for the pre-launch of our young women and girls podcast at FiLIA tomorrow! #FiLiA2025
💥 #FiLiA2025 session news 💥 TAKE THE MIC: AMPLIFYING YOUNG WOMEN'S VOICES with @nia_endingVAWG Join us for the pre-launch of nia’s first podcast, created to amplify the voices of young women and girls. 🎟️ https://t.co/WotaCliHTj
#Podcasting #YoungWomen #GirlsMatter
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Joyous, celebratory and determined opening to #FiLiA2025. Esua Goldsmith with a slide of some of the gains we have made
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Oh the irony. Big dude with a megaphone telling upwards of 2,000 women entering #FiLiA2025 what feminism is.
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Did they think that hanging up flags, spray-painting and smashing the venue windows would stop us? #FiLiA2025 goes ahead. See you there. Sisterhood and Solidarity!
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'The House of Commons has been forced to apologise after allowing a transgender woman to use female-only lavatories on the parliamentary estate despite the recent Supreme Court ruling that protects single-sex spaces.' Good. https://t.co/uR93Xbmuqt
thetimes.com
Robin Moira White was attending a parliamentary committee meeting about the Supreme Court ruling that defined a woman according to biological sex
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