
Rachel Rooney
@RooneyRachel
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Erstwhile SEND teacher/children's poet ๐ Heretical Globularist ๐ Views mine (obvs) & not those of my publishers ๐ค I prioritise child safeguarding ๐ก๏ธ
Brighton, UK
Joined June 2016
I've reluctantly cancelled my website that links to my past poetry projects partly due to expense/returns & but also because it's an easy way for muppets to send abuse into my inbox. If you want to support my work here's a list of my books ( library loans work just as well too!)
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I wonder if politicians - Brighton and national - will condemn this violence ahead of a feminist conference which is in large part about how to counter male violence against women?
BREAKING: BASH BACK TARGET FiLiA ANTI-TRANS CONFERENCE The conference, whose alumni include J.K. Rowling, this year hosts hate groups LGBAlliance and Transgender Trend, along with the director of Scottish Lesbians, one of the groups responsible for April's Supreme Court ruling.
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"I have come to believe over & over again that what is important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood." - Audre Lorde Heading to #FiLiA2025 today! For a recharge. #WomensRightsAreHumanRights
https://t.co/PswcPfz9z4
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"When men come to disrupt women's meetings, they come in gangs, with noisy instruments, and sing and shout together and stamp their feet" Emmeline Pankhurst. #FiLiA2025 goes ahead
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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We are all set up for #FiLiA2025! We're excited to be launching new book #GrannysFlag, a warm and inspiring picture book for girls by @RooneyRachel, illustrated by @RosAsquith. If you are in Brighton over the next three days, come and say hello and get your copy!
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Transactivism's habitual response to people who believe different things to them. There is no other activist movement that behaves more like raging, resentful, tantrumming toddlers - prove me wrong.
Trans activists have smashed one of the large front windows of the Brighton Centre - the venue where 2500 feminists are meeting this weekend to talk about male violence, misogyny and the like. Why can't EVERYONE see this movement for what it is?
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Trans activists have smashed one of the large front windows of the Brighton Centre - the venue where 2500 feminists are meeting this weekend to talk about male violence, misogyny and the like. Why can't EVERYONE see this movement for what it 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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Look at this lovely #FiLiABunting at the station to welcome you all to ##Brighton for day ONE of #FiLiA2025 See you all soooooon! #OneMoreSleep
#Sisterhood #Solidarity
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Need to add - the bunting is for Filia not me. I'm only joshing.
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Delighted to see my hometown promote my new book with bunting at Brighton station๐. Oh yes- itโs #FiLiA2025 this weekend.
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@blablafishcakes @BannedWeekUK @hayfestival @IntPublishers @thebookseller @BannedBooksWeek I trust this event will be foregrounding The Women who Wouldn't Wheesht, My Body is Me & other works by women who have faced cancellation & hostility in the publishing industry & whose books are hidden or not stocked by certain libraries & bookshops in thrall to the TRA cult.
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@BannedWeekUK @hayfestival @IntPublishers @thebookseller @BannedBooksWeek Hello there. Can you tell me which books are currently banned in the UK please?
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Our first #FiLiAFlag picture comes from one of our volunteers! โ๏ธโ๏ธ Share a pic of you arriving in #Brighton for #FiLiA2025 with the #FiLiAFlag in it โ let's get excited! ๐๐ ๐๏ธ https://t.co/WotaCljfIR
#Sisterhood #Solidarity
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The first episode of Mary, Mungo and Midge was broadcast on this day in 1969.
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In Pornocracy @robjessel16 & I argue drag queens are a form of โpre watershed porn.โ They are men performing the sexual humiliation of women. The drag craze wouldnโt have happened in a world that respects women.
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Big Brother fully leans into its Orwellian origins
A Big Brother contestant has been issued with a formal warning because she said "but you haven't got a willy" to a female contestant, while they were talking about her impregnating another woman. The other contestant pretends to be a man and the comment was considered transphobic
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Women on FIRE today.
"No trans athlete has EVER been excluded from sport. They've just been asked to compete where it's fair" This is fantastic. @sharrond62 brilliantly deals with a trans activist who heckled her at the Conservative Party Conference. Calm. Confident. Correct. Well said Sharron๐ฅ
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A trans activist heckled a woman to try & stop her speaking about women's rights. So the woman & the trans activist were brought together to debate like adults. The debate didn't end well for the immature trans activist. FWS v FFS
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