Cátia Freitas
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Dinosaur living on the brink! I protest flipping of class relations. Profile pic is part of a mural in honour of the Carnation Revolution. #25deAbrilSempre
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@billybragg
@JeanHatchet
@Ecuadorian_Mum
@Passie_Kracht
@CroneInAMillion
You have no idea just how we do, Billy. I'll never believe a fucking word you say about racism when Small Axe - Education has been there for as long as it has to show you and the fucking nation the meaning and difference between separatism and segregation.
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@The_TUC
It's 130 odd years since the TUC passed its first resolution on equal pay and here you are engaging in what is tantamount to policing of women's speech within trade unions themselves. Why the warning when Maya has never defended hatred, harassment or discrimination of anyone?
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I'm still laughing because I'm saying "cis is the slavery" but they were the one's with the loudspeaker so my voice is not heard. I love that they think unprocessed hair and refusal to conform to westernised ideals of beauty is such a sin.
In this one a male targets a black woman, says her natural hair is "minging" and tells her to buy a weave
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@billybragg
@JeanHatchet
@Ecuadorian_Mum
@Passie_Kracht
@CroneInAMillion
Separatism is a defense mechanism by populations which are discriminated against AND exploited. That is black people and women. We do it so as to fight racism and misogyny away from interruption AND sabotage.
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@billybragg
@JeanHatchet
@Ecuadorian_Mum
@Passie_Kracht
@CroneInAMillion
So... fuck off with that analogy because all you are doing invoking "segregation" to women fighting for our rights, recognition and against violence against us is denying structural misogyny and racism and we are well and truly sick of this shit from white men like you.... sir!
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@billybragg
@JeanHatchet
@Ecuadorian_Mum
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@CroneInAMillion
Segregation has always been an exercise of power by a dominant population over another one. That's never been black people NOR women.
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I say
#NoThankYou
too:
To conflating "gender" with sex to the extent it moves the concept of gender away from the social mechanism which keeps women subordinated in society.
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Realise the enormity of your words. If talking of women's rights, if the mere acknowledgement of the condition of woman globally and historically as reliant on the specificity of the female body is an expression of trans hate then talk of trans rights is an exercise in misogyny.
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@billybragg
@JeanHatchet
@Ecuadorian_Mum
@Passie_Kracht
@CroneInAMillion
We do it because for all the weasel words you lot use, liberation is a far away dream to us TODAY regardless of well intentioned patronising and harmful shit of the sort you have uttered there and which posits us as oppressors when we did not create the systems which oppress us.
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@billybragg
@JeanHatchet
@Ecuadorian_Mum
@Passie_Kracht
@CroneInAMillion
We do it because in order to be exploited the dominant population (that is white ruling classes and males) cannot get at us as we go about minimising damage to us, providing relief and recovery and organise against both racism and misogyny.
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As far as I'm concerned housing males with women is a weapon of mass coercive control over women. Coercive control is a common form male violence against women and girls takes. The state should not be sponsoring it. Get all males out of women's prisons now.
#KeepPrisonsSingleSex
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@OwenJones84
You dare compare a robust and well argued defence of women's freedom of speech to the unspeakable brutality that was the killing and displacing of millions that was the Iraq war and you call yourself a socialist, you weapon of mass misogyny?
Fuck you!
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@billybragg
@JeanHatchet
@Ecuadorian_Mum
@Passie_Kracht
@CroneInAMillion
And do take note, Billy man, because when I speak of oppression I'm talking of that which enables the fucking class system of which you have been fortunate to escape even if you were born into it.
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@BeyondBeautiful
If you're not willing to support women to have our boundaries respected please do not have children. Your sons will grow to disrespect women, your daughters will grow to accept abuse.
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@The_TUC
It's incredibly sad, tragic even that you seem so unable to celebrate with women who collectively have made employment rights history by supporting Maya Forstater.
How do you expect women to fully feel part of the class struggle when this is your reaction? Are you management now?
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A reminder to racialised gender identity theory proponents that by joining in the demonisation of those you perceive to be majority white women all you are doing is helping to reinforce the invisibility of racialised women who disagree with you. We are many more than you think.
just a reminder that T*RFs and “g*nder criticals” are white supremacists who’ve co-opted feminism to mask their bigotry ✨
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I wish these people stopped pretending black women don't exist when we hold opinions they think obnoxious.
Today I learned there’s a whole population of white women in the UK who proudly identify as TERFs + wear the title proudly. They’re 100% confident in their bigotry toward trans people, especially trans women, and are quick to label as sexist anyone who challenges them. Wild stuff
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@billybragg
@JeanHatchet
@Ecuadorian_Mum
@Passie_Kracht
@CroneInAMillion
We are not so very fortunate. So... in Small Axe -Education you see black people starting schools for black children because institutional fucking racism left children like moi behind which is why though I am right now schooling you I never had the "white privilege" of one.
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The insult is in how it naturalises women's subordination while positioning women as privileged oppressors. It's a sleight of hand meant to hide class relations and, therefore, rendering us impotent to fight back. Call yourself a socialist? Really?
“Cis” is just a prefix, used to describe people who identify with the same gender as their birth. It’s no more insulting or made up than describing someone as being straight.
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Women have the right to talk about ourselves and the problems we experience in a male supremacist world.
If you look at "woman-centred" and see "anti-trans" you've got a massive misogyny problem and we're the ones with reasons to beware of you.
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@billybragg
@JeanHatchet
@Ecuadorian_Mum
@Passie_Kracht
@CroneInAMillion
I stuck inverted commas in that last tweet because I am making a point in *this* conversation (moi and afropessimism don't get along). Women on the other hand have our spaces too for all sort of shit from moving freely in a society that doesn't care about
#MVAWAG
to providing...
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@billybragg
@JeanHatchet
@Ecuadorian_Mum
@Passie_Kracht
@CroneInAMillion
... each other relief, recovery and as much of a good "restart" of our lives because without it we'd be fucked. And black women, knowing of the additional blight of racism in our lives need ours too.
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Rowling’s beliefs are sex is real, male violence is a problem, women should be able to talk about themselves in clear language, and no woman should lose her job for expressing such opinions. No critics have explained why believing these hurts trans people.
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Excellent! An investigation was needed.
Shame on
@guardian
for reporting this as a manifestation of transphobia. I hope among them is the woman who never thought a supposedly child friendly place to neglect children in their customer policy.
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Solidarity with Afghan women! 💜✊🏿
Hitting the streets with Taliban ghouls in power is probably the bravest act happening in the country!
Miles de mujeres salen a las calles de Afganistán protestando contra la restricción de sus derechos por el regimen Taliban: «El trabajo, la educación y la participación política es un derecho de toda mujer.»
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#Filia2021
was my first women's conference. I had the time of my life. It was brilliant to meet so many great women and participate in a great festival of female ideas, ideals, inspiration and consciousness. Thank you
@FiLiA_charity
and all volunteers for putting it together.
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"Highly manipulative" male predator confirms he knew exactly why women were wary of his presence in a female only space and told court officials he should not be placed in a women's prison.
“They saw me as a man – and a threat to them”
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These are not women's crimes
A Blackpool woman who amassed 81,000 images of child sex abuse has been jailed for 9 months. Julie Marshall (54) was caught as she accessed such material from her hospital bed via public wi-fi as she recovered from a heart attack.
677 of the images were of the most serious kind.
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"Cis" is just the latest in western white based thoroughly bourgeois neocolonial delusions of superiority.
Prove me wrong.
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Lesbianism doesn't require mastectomy.
Autism doesn't require mastectomy.
Adapting to unwanted male advances doesn't require mastectomy.
Abolishing misogyny is what's required.
Shocking to hear fellow panellists suggest
#trans
people suffer from a mental condition
This echoes what homophobes said about gay people in the 1980s: that homosexuality was a form of mental illness
More evil demonisation of trans people
@theFoxFisher
@TransMediaWatch
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Is
@guardian
competing for most disgraceful article written against women in this century so far? It sure looks like it.
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Well said, Ms Pather:
"The sound of a male voice can be absolutely terrifying when they've been subjected to violence from males and shouting in a loud, deep voice," she said. "When you hear that again it brings back that trauma, so they need some time."
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Real white feminism is the one that forgets that most of the world is not white and period stigma prevents many a girl from even going to school, you privileged shit.
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"It is morally repugnant to see people renting wombs from women in poor countries, no matter how they try to dress it up."
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Women aren't a mere identity. We are specific sexed humans: *female* humans.
#PeakMisogyny
to attempt to change the very meanings of words in order prevent us from talking about ourselves or refer to us as if we were reduced to our reproductive functions or organs.
#NoThankYou
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This terven witch would like to know how exactly is Judith Butler showing "solidarity" and *alliance* with women by rethinking the category of woman to the extent that it takes from us the right to congregate and organise by ourselves for whatever reason? That is all!
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Class response thread.
The reason why
#IStandWithJKRowling
is that she never forgets to connect her state enabled persecution to wider struggles faced by women.
Thank you, Jo Rowling. 💜
#SexMatters
#WomenWontWheesht
Last Friday, my family’s address was posted on Twitter by three activist actors who took pictures of themselves in front of our house, carefully positioning themselves to ensure that our address was visible. 1/8
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That is the "I'm alright Jack" attitude that makes me think
@Fawcett
is among the cruellest jokes played on working class women in this country; that and your forgoing of women's liberation in the name of a brand of "equality" that leaves me and awful lot of women behind.
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@tomhfh
@Scienceofsport
Well done for replicating the means by which this conversation is made impossible for women to conduct, Tom. We talk of sex and sexism. The other side has decided that we're not allowed the very words to talk of either. Male/female refer to sex. No?
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In the Bible you're Adam's rib. To Aristotle you're the mutilated male. Atwood throws you a fish.
Woman, content yourself! 🤦🏿♀️
But that is not what gender describes.
Then there is the baramundi... :) An interesting fish.
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@gmpolice
I only have one question about this tweet:
Who told you empowering men adept at gaslighting women was a good idea?
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Men have no place in feminism in the same way bosses have no place in the trade union.
That they can benefit from learning from feminists about how they too get hurt by the patriarchal hierarchy is incidental. Feminism centres women, is for women, by women.
That is all.
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I speak publicly on women's rights while feeling
#SuperScared
the male I escaped for DV and might track me down still. Doing it doesn't make the fear go away. But threats to women defending women's rights make me more determined.
Exclusive: The BBC is expected to quit Stonewall’s LGBTQ diversity programme.
LGBTQ staff at the BBC told me they are “super scared” by the implications of the decision, and they hope managers will change their minds…
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There's no sexism without sex and JK Rowling knows it.
So true. Without my ovaries I wouldn’t have feelings or emotions. My husband is basically a fleshy robot incapable of feeling either pain or pleasure, whereas I, with my ovaries, am a frantic whirl of giddy emotion.
#progressive
#definitelynotmisogyny
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"I even booked in an emergency session with my therapist to work out a coping strategy for my mental health."
Well, well, well!
I couldn't even have known I'd need one in my social groups or my political ones as I got into this debate, Ayesha. But here's the rub:
"I’m not saying all of this is easy, but there has got to be a way through which moves on from women taking lumps out of each other while powerful cis men sit back and laugh" |
@ayeshahazarika
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@EdinRapeCrisis
@mridul_wadhwa
There are so many levels of misogyny and misogynoir in both this appointment and your announcement of it all I can say is you've exceeded all expectations".
Signed:
An ordinary black female human who thinks we too deserve male free spaces as well as freedom from racism.
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"We are not hateful because we are female homosexuals. We do not owe males access to our bodies, and we have the right to speak out about the violence we are subject to by those who refuse to take ‘no’ for an answer."
My solidarity,
@RadFem_KatH
💜♀️✊🏿
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@chasestrangio
We're not your props and we too do not consent.
Deal with it along with your racism!
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“We should be listening to the voices of the vulnerable women in the refuges. Even if their views could be seen as unpalatable to some, they’re vulnerable and their views should be taken into account.”
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No woman is a subset of women. I'm a woman because I am female. My ancestors didn't not need the Portuguese to arrive in their shores to find out what sex is.
#NoThankYou
to the racism and the colonial mindset that has black women put on a par with males.
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#NoThankYou
Women have the right to meet on our own and organise exclusively in our shared interests for whatever reason. Stop trying to stop us. It's not stopped us.
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Every woman becomes one. All it takes is asking pertinent questions. That's how I became one... and that was long before they came up with "black birthing bodies".
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@peterjukes
When indeed!?! Was it when Aristotle dictated women were mutilated males or when Butler decided we were figments of male imaginations?
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#NoThankYou
to the homophobia that accompanies the latest gender orthodoxy. Solidarity to my lesbian sisters and their brothers. Some of us saw through it as soon as we became aware of it. We're with you.
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I see a lot of people describing themselves politically homeless when what they are is unrepresented.
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@billybragg
Why are her clothes relevant in this context?
Do they blind you, Billy?
What makes you refuse to properly read her words and the words of the other women?
Just because you refuse to see the appropriation, and the consequences of it, it doesn't mean women do not lose basic rights.
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The black woman laughing was me. Because the "racist" angle is idiotic.
Male protester insulted my breasts & how low he thought they'd hang without bra, insulted my friend's hairline and forehead, another woman's "flat ass", hurled racist crap at a black woman, insulted a woman's general body shape, and even male security gaurd's beard!
#WPUKPrisons
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🤦🏿♀️ Here's me in blackface. The make up department at
@Womans_Place_UK
was brilliant when I lent them my words in defence of women's spaces back in May or June of 2018 (speech is their youtube channel). Or when I wrote this to appeal for women to be heard.
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@sally_hines
@invistring12
The one that has you and your troupe shitting on white women's suffering in the name of having space carved for us. Some of us refuse space won on the bodies of other women if nothing else because it replicates the colonial mindset that ended up with me growing up away from half
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Does this mean
@BloomsburyBooks
won't be able to advertise her books on train stations? Do you realise the enormity of your decision? If a judge asks you in what way is her name political how are you going to answer?
#IStandWithJKRowling
@Lewis_C_Baird
@NetworkRailEDB
This advert is no longer being displayed at Edinburgh Waverley. The poster in question is against our code of acceptance for advertising in our stations owing to its political nature.We do not allow advertising that is likely to support or promote one viewpoint over another.
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@DavidLammy
Don't be a hypocrite! You called us dinosaurs and accused us of hoarding rights as if freedom of movement within society was a privilege reserved for males. Your party's response to
#mvawg
is one premised on an acceptable collateral damage logic. Good luck getting elected.
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"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape." -- Bell Hooks
Rest in power, my sister!
#RevolutionaryLove
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Man - Mulumé
Woman - Mukai
In my ancestors language in southern Angola.
They had their own peer review processes; cattle herding was their means of subsistence. Be complicated if they had needed scientists help in working out that they wouldn't get baby goats without ♂️ and ♀️
@WorldOfOrdinary
@kilgefin
@HeatherRoseRya1
@Shereste
@Iris_ish_
@NathanP47305749
@artofhunger75
@yarbsalocin
biological sex is a concept created by scientists through the social processes of peer review, interpretation of data, and collaboration
these scientists live in a world infused with gender
of course the two are connected
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Every word in this letter is important. Do share it. It's as important to speak out as it is to enlighten others, especially women of the extent to which many orgs notion of "inclusion" exclude women.
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"Hubbard stole the place of Kuinini Manumua, a 21-year-old woman of color who had trained for years. This would have been her first Olympics. Remember her name."
Thank you, Julie!
#KuininiManumua
#SayHerName
I am sick to fucking death of this bullshit: Laurel Hubbard is the beginning of the end of women’s sports
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@billybragg
@Florencefoofoo
@JeanHatchet
@BoydMurdoch
@Ecuadorian_Mum
@Passie_Kracht
@CroneInAMillion
Blairites introduced the GRA in such foolhardy way this was predictable. Tories introduced self-id. It's never been feminists at the helm of this disaster, Billy. We know your tears are not for the women in Limerick being forced to live with rapists. Cry your river.
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@sally_hines
@invistring12
You've been defending a paper (and I read it all) that renders voices such as mine invisible. That should be enough for you to get off your high horse and listen because what you are defending in effect stops the forging of solidarity bonds between women across the globe.
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...difference of major importance between women and trans women because the very way males are automatically believed about their identities versus the way women are dismissed when they speak of their
#maleviolence
related problems reflects the misogyny that permeates society.
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@BBCWomansHour
@Emmabarnett
@rhodritd
But the main problem with the BBC's involvement with Stonewall is that it worked to keep women in the dark about changes to legislation/regulation on issues and areas that affect us and which go from taking away our right to organise away from males to how data is recorded.
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I could not afford therapy, if I did know, before I got into this discussion. While you remained silent about the abuse that comes with the word TERF or the gaslighting and unbelievable levels of coercive pressure I encountered as I defended that women are female and that's a...
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People running "class" think tanks having forgotten how to distinguish between the two humans involved in the first, the original and the most enduring class relation. 🤦🏿♀️ Do you even realise what you sound like to us mere mortals
@elliemaeohagan
? Who tf funds you?
"I want the viewers at home to really think about why it might be upsetting for a transgender woman" to have an MP "call them 'male-bodied people'" says Ellie Mae O'Hagan of the CLASS think tank
#PoliticsLive
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@ShahrarAli
@AdrianRamsay
I hope Adrian doesn't forget that there are 9 protected characteristics in the EA. I also hope that he doesn't forget that women are most affected in work precarity and encouraging the monstering and sacking of women for wrongthink only makes it more difficult for those of us...
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The word "cisgender" is dangerous because it locates women's subordination in our very brains while positioning women as privileged oppressors. It's a sleight of hand which hides and negates class relation and, thus, renders us impotent to argue back. That's all.
#FuckCis
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#NoThankYou
to *gender identity*.
I haven't spent most of my life struggling against the legacies of the *negroid* identity imposed on my ancestors to usurp and exploit to now stand by as the notion that the trappings of women's subordination are embedded in my brain is promoted.
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#NoThankYou
to the deliberate confusing of separatism with segregation that is used to prevent women from achieving much needed consciousness of the misogyny that surrounds us.
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I heard a witch cackling and then realised it was moi!
#IStandWithJKRowling
@jk_rowling
🥂
On 16th July I posted a tweet of JK Rowling saying “I ignore porn tweeted at children”. This was entirely misleading as I took her words out of context. I was wrong to make this defamatory and untrue allegation and apologise to JK Rowling.
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The triumph of the politics of symbolism within the Labour Party. With women already bearing and set to bear more of the brunt of an ongoing economic crisis made worse by a pandemic, Labour decides that identitarianism should replace a material analysis of women's oppression. 👎🏿
It is deeply disappointing that the government has let trans people down and dropped its plans to reform the Gender Recognition Act.
Labour is committed to equality and we continue to support updating the GRA to introduce self-declaration for trans people.
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@bindelj
@HJoyceGender
@PennyRed
I haven't seen nasty. I've seen angry, ridiculing and contemptuous replies but I didn't see nasty ones. When I saw that tweet of yours I stopped replying but what it actually looked like to me was that she couldn't stand her own kitchen's heat.
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Sex is not an essential quality, Ash. It's a specific biological existence. We're specific sexed human beings not to be reduced to figments of your imagination.
#MoralMaze
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If you saw terfs trending and think terfs are villains: Hi
Lesbians are being coerced to accept male partners
Female prisoners are having to share prisons with male sex offenders
Women are being threatened with violence
GNC youth are being medicalised
“terfs” stand against that
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#NoThankYou
to taking away from women the right to analyse our collective lives and important tools women need to study what happens to us in society, such as sex segregated recorded data.
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@sally_hines
@invistring12
If you don't think defending the category of "woman" is not important enough then don't pretend to be on the side of black women. Black women have enough problems with black and white men without white people of either sex butting in "in solidarity". 🙄
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@GiulioOfLondon
@SussexUni
Female students at the uni have been tweeting they don't feel safe enough to voice their opinions. Is trans people's acceptance contingent on women's silence? Are you planning on building Gilead in the name of trans people?
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I fear for Spanish working class women in dire straits right now but I also understand this is down to a left which has stubbornly turn deaf eyes and ears to women and, thus, has allowed the right to monopolise material reality. 1/2
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The woman referred to here was talking of rape being used as a weapon of war. Outside the building...
#FiLiA2021
#FILIA
#NoThankYou
You could hear these protesters chanting while the most incredible woman was telling a packed room about the
#TigrayGenocide
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#FiLiA2021
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"But what if, for many of those involved, the abuse is the point? There seems little point at this stage in pretending trans activism is anything other than a respectable cover for misogyny."
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@sally_hines
@invistring12
... of my family. The one that in effect denies the sexual origin of different forms of patriarchy that existed before and coexisted with settler colonial patriarchy and became almost invisible with neo colonialism. The one that makes homosexuality a privilege of the rich and...
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