Lucy Hunter Blackburn
@LucyHunterB
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One of @mbmpolicy. Co-editor of The Frontline @ethelwrites and of The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht. Freelance HE researcher.
Edinburgh
Joined October 2014
Grounded in our history (with help from The Attagirls), engaged with the reality of our present, looking to our future - @DalgetySusan and I wanted to find a way to platform more women’s voices. On the first birthday of #womenwhowouldntwheesht, here it is.
A new fortnightly publication by women for women - and with the organisational skills of its co-editors, @DalgetySusan and @LucyHunterB behind it, you just know it will be good.
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RT @PamGosalMSP: This is a question I’ve asked the SNP Government many times but have not received a clear answer 👇.
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RT @WRNScotland: We also wrote to the Justice Minister who passed our enquiry over to the @scottishprisons claiming it was their area of re….
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RT @wokal_distance: This isn't a merely a PR crisis. What is at issue is not about the focus of the institutions or the way people present….
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be clouded by a combination of conservative attitudes about appropriate male and female appearances, pity, and expectation that women, in particular, would turn a blind eye as much as needed to accommodate male wants. Hoorah, here, for the Supreme Court ending that history.
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That there were a clutch of appearance-based judgments, and that they all, to the best of my knowledge, related to men who wished to be treated as women, suggests to me that some judges let their clarity of thinking about what could possibly work in practice as a set of rules/.
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"Discrimination by perception", which applies to all of us, is such a cleverly-framed provision precisely because it confers no new rights, but just allows for the possibility that people may behave badly towards others because of something they wrongly assume about them.
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Not only does the statute not make assumptions about appearance, it's impossible to see how any sort of personal legal rights could ever be based on how others sees you. Who decides? How? Everyone? Always? If not, who, when? It's a prescription for policy and legal disaster./.
The Supreme Court engaged with this issue of "passing" and recognised that both the protected characteristics of GR and the criteria for getting a GRC do not depend on someone looking the part.
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RT @bencooper: @LucyHunterB That would be a way to get more funding for the Scottish Courts Service:. "A judgement has been reached in your….
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That it took two years to publish the analysis of the responses to the consultation is remarkable.
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The report itself was a bells and whistles, kitchen-sink, thing, written in unusually personalised prose. Whether it was what was really needed, to make any change happen in practice, rather than satisfy a desire to present the most full-on package possible, is a fair question.
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In Issue 2 of The Frontline, Marlyn Glen recalled her frustration at the impossibility of getting any legal change here, as an MSP 20 years ago, and we set out the tortuous history of nothing happening.
🎁 token: Nice work if you can get 🤦🏼♀️. SNP broke rules to pay Labour peer £100k for abandoned misogyny law.
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Perhaps the idea is that we will need to buy the book to find out.🙃.
Over two years out from the investigation starting, and Nicola Sturgeon’s autobiography out in a month, which will have to say something about the long period she and her husband jointly ran the party. And not clear that, even by then, the charges against him will be public.
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Over two years out from the investigation starting, and Nicola Sturgeon’s autobiography out in a month, which will have to say something about the long period she and her husband jointly ran the party. And not clear that, even by then, the charges against him will be public.
I can’t understand the delay in indicting Peter Murrell. It’s way past time the detail of the charges against him were in the public domain.
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RT @mbmpolicy: NEW: Our latest blog explains why the Justice Minister’s attempt to distance herself from Scottish Prison Service decision-m….
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RT @UofGVC: Important interventions here from experts such as @DavidNFBell and @LucyHunterB as well as from @UCUScotland 👇. .
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RT @JournalismSEEN: Activist opinion columns - should they be better signposted and challenged?
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