Liz Ward 🇰🇳🇮🇪
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Freelance. Let’s work together. Consultant @FA ⚽️ Non-exec Director @38degrees 💪🏽 ex: @stonewalluk / @advocacyacademy NORTHERN @footieblacklist 2021
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Absolutely wild that entire books on How To Be An Activist are being written by 21 years olds and not a word of the vast and complex histories of community organising is being uttered. Books written completely from the 'I' perspective. The individualisation of this has to staaaap
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Today I start my new role at
@stonewalluk
as Director of Programmes and I can't wait to get going. Call it Irish superstition but, I've been keeping it hush until now.
Now, more than ever, is the time to fight for *all* LGBTQ+ people.
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At this stage, I feel that everyone involved in this is complicit. The cops, the policy makers, the comms team, the graphics people, the social media admin who posted it.
I’m not sure my compassion and understanding can extend through to any of those who were involved here.
BREAKING: The first people set to be removed to Rwanda have been detained.
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Started working at
@stonewalluk
about three months ago and there’s not a day that passes I don’t feel proud of my colleagues, inspired by our work, and more driven than ever to fight for all lgbtq+ lives. TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS 🏳️⚧️ say it AGAIN. 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
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The Argos catalogue was truly capitalist escapism for us poor kids eh. Dizzy on the memories of eagerly circling everything I wanted - from micro scooters, to playstations, to multi coloured disco lights, a blender - never to get any of it (of course) but the dream was enough
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This whole thing makes me sick. I think about Sean rigg who never left brixton police station and I think about how we march for his life every year and I think about how none of you bludclarts come, but benedict cumberdink is out here dropping of colonial ginger cake to you man
Thank you note and flowers for staff at Brixton police station today from
@ExtinctionR
protester.
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Blackpool shirts are all sold out. That's what I'm talking about. 🧡
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Violence against women is overwhelmingly committed by cisgender men, so why are the Tories blaming transgender people? | Glamour UK
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it is so sad, that the term 'woke', an AAVE term, that means to simply be 'awake to injustice' has become this highly politicised term, spat out with venom by the most hateful people.
how so very sad, to make the world more hateful, instead of more loving.
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I think if you have a widely used nickname of ‘bastard Dave’ and then ‘bastard Dave’ is accused of rape steadily for 18 years, and nothing comes from it - it probably indicates ‘bastard Dave’ has a lot of ‘bastard friends’
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Laurel Hubbard is competing today! I'm so happy for her as she steps up to lift some big weights 🏋️♀️
here's what we are not going to do:
❌deadname her
❌repeatedly say it's controversial
❌ misgender her
❌question her 'introvert persona'
Reckon u can do that mainstream media?
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finally, trans women are women, trans men are men, gender is a social construct and you can put your transphobic views in the bin hun xox
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I don’t know who this nice lady is but she killed it right there 😮💨🙌🏽
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michael gove and sarah vines daughter calling her tiktok '420bandobaby' is everything that's fucking wrong with these middles class white kids that loveeeeeeee fetishizing black working class culture, especially its darkest sides, especially weed.
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Stonewall statement on misinformation about the Diversity Champions programme
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I’m sorry to all A Level students that are having today passed around as a political football by people who almost exclusively went to private schools and oxbridge.
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I rarely tweet about anything other than footy these days, but fwiw this is a very tough week for our staff.
We work diligently, dedicatedly, endlessly to try and make the world a better place for lgbtq+ people. That’s all. Staff, ex, old, and new - thank you for all that you do
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This Diane Abbott news cycle has left me feeling so low.
The hot takes, the excuses, the whatabouterry, the ‘finally it’s time to challenge racism’ LinkedIn posts - all of it, vacuous and empty.
As a distal stressor, it’s knocked me for 6.
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really feel for all the goalkeepers in playgrounds up and down the country who will be on the receiving end of every kid-striker doing a back-heel-nutmeg today at lunch x
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🚨LIFE UPDATE🚨
Sadly at the end of 2023, I’ll be leaving Stonewall. It’s been an honour and privilege to lead the programmes team🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
📍Next stop: Freelance world 2024.
Let’s work together?
Thread ⬇️
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Whoops! Just got cut off on
@bbc5live
but why I wanted to say was; 65% of sport fans believe homophobia doesn’t belong in our game - amazing! So let’s keep the conversation going so the 35% of fans that think it’s ‘just banter’ learn that words can hurt, even when it’s a joke
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hate to agree with Adam here, but honestly, I feel the same.
we're facing a really scary backlash in men's football, whilst other sports (cricket, rugby, etc) are more keen than ever to show their support.
A very quiet rainbow laces this year from men’s football, on an issue that requires conversation for progress. Hard to resist conclusion that events in Qatar last year (armband gate) & possibility of Saudi league💰(& backlash) rendering men’s game even more cautious to speak.
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Can you imagine being a little kid who wears a hijab, whether you’re in the UK, France or anywhere Islamophobia is rampant, and you see this????? I’d be on top of the world. I’d be so proud. I’d rock up to my nearest football team ready to GO! Benzina on the back of every shirt
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Back on
@SkySportsNews
duty this afternoon! Talking all things Jake Daniels, football, and why I’m now a
@BlackpoolFC
fan!
#seasiders
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Raise your hand if you have ever been personally victimised by anterior cruciate ligament
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it would be huge to see alex greenwood captain england at the world cup. scouse queen. defender. perfect lashes. perfect brows. that's my captain.
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It's been a journey, at times a painful one. I quit football when I was 13 cos someone called me a lesbian. I got into relationships with boys cos I thought I had to. I denied thoughts, feelings, words, actions for a long time. But here I am, very out, very loud, very proud.
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Windrush families: please we want justice please listen to us
The State: ……..tubeline?
For the first time ever, our six Overground lines are each getting a new name and colour.
Read more about the inspiration and meaning behind each new name ⬇️
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Some personal news; it’s my 19th day of lockdown and I’m thrilled to share that thanks to all the coffee shops being closed, I now have enough saved to buy a 2-bed in hackney. Grateful to have something to look forward to after this, boomers were right, we just needed to save up!
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It’s crazy that this lady only just passed. For something that is presented as being ancient history, 88 is young. These people walk among us, still.
Emmett Till should be alive today.
Read up on his story if you’ve never heard that name before.
Carolyn Bryant Donham, the woman whose accusation led to the brutal murder of Emmett Till in 1955, has died at 88.
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The Greenwood case highlights pretty much everything you need to know about the criminal legal system when it comes to survivors/allegations of abuse.
it's a perfect study in power and failure.
Solidarity today with all survivors 💛
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Wow anyone else feeling destroyed by the news at the moment?
Suella braverman homophobic in 4k, Laurence fox and Dan wooton debating on how they wouldn’t shag a young female journo, and a 17yo stabs a kid cos she won’t take his flowers?
This country is broken.
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Seeing so many Black players for France is affirming and healing in a way I didn’t know I needed.
Yeah, it matters.
#AllezLesBleus
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🗣THE MET ALSO IMPOSE SECTION 60 ORDERS ON ENTIRE BOROUGHS TARGETING THE LIVES OF BLACK KIDS WHEN CHILDREN DIE AT THE HANDS OF CRIME THAT HAS BEEN PROLIFERATED DUE TO GENERATIONAL GOVT FAILIURES AND RACIST POLICES BUT THAT ISNT HEADLINE NEWS 🗣
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Some personal *bits*
to grow up Irish catholic & Caribbean christian is not an environment that is hugely conducive to being Out, Loud & Proud. Sprinkle *~*working class*~* into that and...yeah.
Growing up, I was told it was a Sin. A mortal one at that.
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There are not enough words to explain how incredible
@Nancy_M_K
has been as a boss.
Just the most empathetic, kind, inspiring, optimistic, wonderful person I’ve ever worked with. More than just a leader or mentor, but a friend.
We’re all absolutely heartbroken.
I’m sad to share that I’ll be leaving
@stonewalluk
at the end of this month. Sad, but so SO proud of what we’ve achieved in the last three years, working as part of the incredible LGBTQ+ rights movement (BIG 🧵incoming!)
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If you think defunding the police is impossible the government just defunded the entire arts sector.
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Loved writing this! All things sport inclusion, from kickabouts in the playground, to now.
A personal one, from me, for
@IndyVoices
@stonewalluk
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Proud to support
@SurreyCCCLGBT
and
@surreycricket
at today’s game at
@KiaOvalEvents
cricket is everyone’s game!
@stonewalluk
#RainbowLaces
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Lived my whole life following the England football team. This is the first team that has publicly stood up for Black Lives, celebrated LGBTQ+ people and expressed a gentle masculinity that puts unicorn inflatables > dentist chair drinking games.
That’s my
@England
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Really amazing to see this from Warrington wolves.
For Brianna ❤️
Taken far too young. Our club and town sends our condolences to her loved ones
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If you’d be horrified to hear of a gay player being sent home from international duty for having a boyfriend, then you should be horrified that Mahamadou Diawara was sent home from the U19
@FFF
squad for observing Ramadan.
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wouldn't it be so cool if we could donate to the NHS every month! maybe it could just come out of your salary or something when you get paid? silly idea ignore me hehe just being random 🤪
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I stopped playing football aged 13 because i was worried people at school would call me a lesbian. The irony eh. Wasn’t until I was 26 that I started playing again. Proud to play for
@fc_goaldiggers
and support the
#RainbowLaces
campaign 📸
@JessicaLKeating
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retweeting and liking every word from megan rapinoe's press conference yet wanting her to taste bitter defeat tonight? it's not called confused it's called a lifestyle x
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I have seen quite a few people lately saying that they would like to sleep better/wake up earlier in 2022.
I wake up at 6.30am every day and get 8hrs sleep, sometimes more on weekends. No one asked for this, but here’s some useful tips I’ve picked up:
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Every day, me and 28 staff and kids (90% black and brown) have been travelling from elephant and castle to brixton every day on the bus and every day we have had a racist incident. Thinking about how much worse it must be in other parts of the country. Britain is racist lol.
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I feel so blessed and privileged to be a woman - i actually do really love it, I think we are FAB and we get to do girly things and be huns, smell nice, love football and, most crucially, not be Joey Barton.
Another day waking up, and I'm not joey barton. Rejoice girls!
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I’ve had broken bones, sprained ankles and I STILL have missing vision - all from playing footy. All injuries have been caused by cis women. That article is hysteria for a non-problem that is steeped in transphobia.
At this rate are we going to ban tackling in football?
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SO happy to be kicking off 2024 with this announcement 💪🏽
LVW has been such a highlight for me over the last couple of years and it’s an honour to be joining the team.
A day without lesbians is a day without sunshine, so here’s to endless sunshine 🌞
LETS GO! 🌈
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wembley boxpark greeting the chelsea womens team like its 1968 and they're the beatles
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Closing out
@FvHtweets
#FootballVTransphobia
with my
#TransFootyAlly
badge at
@stonewalluk
workplace conference! Sun is shining and delegates are arriving! Wahoooo!
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please, please, please work with subject matter experts on campaigns that will have a wide reach. Think about how your message may be perceived. Think about who and how this may harm others. Look who isn’t run the room and ask why.
Thinking of survivors today and always.
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Gunna have to do more than a little speech with ten trainee officers in a room when the same folks are taking selfies with dead black bodies imo.
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Some ✨personal news✨
at the end of Feb I'll be leaving The Advocacy Academy! Simply not enough superlatives to cover the range of emotions, it's been the ride of my life.
Never underestimate the power of young people to change the world.
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Not enough superlatives in the world to say how awesome
@Nancy_M_K
is. This speech launching Lesbian Visibility Week, highlighted the many many lesbians who are unable to be visible this week. Had me welling up tears before me panel!
The amazing
@Nancy_M_K
@stonewalluk
speaking at the launch of
#LVW22
@LSEplc
urging us to fight for LGBTQI rights not just in
#LesbianVisibilityWeek
but all year round 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Concerning how quickly player-player relationship discourse has become latently homophobic/lesbophobic.
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Working so hard in my twenties so I can refuse that MBE in twenty years time 🙏🏽🙏🏽 never stop fighting for your dreams 💪🏽🥺
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What a gorgeous way to start a football game. Big love to
@gaygooners
and
@Arsenal
today!
And thank you to the ever-wonderful
@jdarcyswan
for being the most awesome!
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Can’t believe grown men on GBNews tried to insult Gary Lineker by saying he would like Brighton cos it’s full of ‘rainbow flags’
Last time I heard a joke like that was when someone said a lunchbox was ‘gay’ cos it was yellow.
I was 7 years old.
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Absolute dream to be named on the
@FootieBlackList
! One for the memory books. Football is everyone’s game, no matter who you are. Huge thanks to whoever nominated me, the judges and big congrats to all the other listees! What a cohort!
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The trans community is under attack. Refugees are under attack.
Working class are under attack.
Stand for something or you’ll fall for anything.
Solidarity always with trans and non binary people
#transpeopleareloved
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Do you know how amazing it is that hendo scored in rainbow laces ????????????????????????????????????????? Love him x
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Up at 5.30am and leave the house with out coffee?
Perfectly possible, nothing to see here 🤪😂🤦🏽♀️
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I’m not the first to say this by any means but big big BIG respect to
@greenbenali
for an amazing campaign 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
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For all the lesbians I’ve loved before 💐
The strong women, femme women, butch women, power-suit women, trans women, extrovert women, introvert women, footy playing women, KD Lang loving women (
@LilySlydel
), women who love women -
#lesbianvisibilityweek
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it's hard to reckon with the fact that everyone, especially those within key departments such as department for education, equalites and home office, would be keenly aware that the brianna ghey trial would conclude this week, and yet still chose to usher in their draft guidance
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I feel such pride when I see english clubs/football respect and celebrate ramadan.
I'm not a muslim, but seeing others have their identity celebrated, makes me genuinely happy - who wouldn't want to live in a world like that!
#Ramadan
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100 years since women were banned from playing football and the legacy today still lives on. We still fight for pitch space, to be taken seriously, to get the appropriate level of funding.
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Aw what!!!! What an amazing (and slightly surreal) surprise. Incredibly humbled to be nominated, what an honour.
We definitely don’t do this work for accolades, but how amazing to see so many wonderful folk getting their flowers 💐
thank you!
Congratulations to the nominees of the
#DIVAAwards23
, including two of our trustees
@catdixon100
and Mitch Oliver, and our Director of Programmes
@LizMaryWard
!
We are also very proud to be nominated for Charity/Community Project of the Year 🥳
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Absolute honour to speak at the
@CardiffCityFC
stadium tonight alongside
@WebberTJason
to talk all things
#football
and
#inclusion
Really best part of my job is working alongside our friends in
@StonewallCymru
and the inspiring
@FvHtweets
🌈⚽️
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Making the patch of footage around the armband black and white so you can’t see the rainbow is just sickening tbh.
‘If you don’t stand for something you’ll fall for anything’
Thanks for nothing, Hendo.
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This is so beautiful and precious and really the most British response to anything ever is ‘good for you’ 🥰
More power to haille, go get your £30k foof hunni x
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We cannot be divided. Not now, not ever. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Absolutely raging.
🚨 U-TURN ON THE U-TURN 🚨
The Prime Minister has changed his mind off the back of the reaction to our report and he WILL now ban conversion therapy after all.
Senior Govt source absolutely assures me it’ll be in Queen’s Speech.
But only gay conversion therapy, not trans.
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Celebrating pride month by going to the Netherlands with a bunch of my favourite lesbians to watch the UEFA women’s champions league final ⚽️
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this is so unnecessarily cruel.
it harms no-one to expand your language, and it helps many get the treatment they need. it really feels like bullying behaviour at this stage.
What's even more pernicious is the fact that waiting times in the NHS are through the roof.
@Conservatives
know what a woman is.
I know the vast majority of hardworking NHS staff and patients do too.
That is why I ordered a reversal of unacceptable changes to the NHS website that erased references to women for conditions such as cervical cancer.
#CPC2023
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Stand for ALL. Be on the right side of history.
#StandForStonewALL
On the 32nd anniversary of our founding, we are proud to introduce our 2021-25 strategy: Free To Be. At Stonewall, we stand for all LGBTQ+ people and imagine a world where LGBTQ+ people everywhere are free to be themselves and can live their lives to the full.
#StandForStonewall
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Hi my name is Charley the dog I climbed onto my mum’s desk to get to the highest shelf in the house and ate a whole box of birthday chocolates and now my mum has to watch me all day to make sure I don’t die xx
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Spent some time at the incredible
@BishopsgateInst
archives last night and I was struck by so much. Firstly, if you haven’t been before - GO, the staff are so helpful and the archive is HUGE so much LGBTQ+ history on display
Here’s some thoughts THREAD ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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seeing the captain of ireland (gay) win player of the match (legend) only to be interrupted by her girlfreind (also a player + legend) saying 'does Katie's mam pick player of the match or what' on national TV is incredibly affirming for a gay irish catholic out in the world.
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Just getting my hair done and I go to my Caribbean loc shop, v traditional, convos always bumping, usually gets a bit problematic but I’ve been going for years now - I feel like family [THREAD]
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That’s called assault.
🚨 | Spanish FA president captured kissing Jenni Hermoso on the lips during ceremony. The player later said that she did not enjoy it.
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The fact that
@IanWright0
turned 58 and not 35 today astounds me, a youthful king! Happy birthday boss!
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How many
@Lionesses
goals in the
@WEURO2022
QF last night were scored by northerners? Exactly x
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What a beautiful day! Happy pride month!
The government didn’t say anything weird this weekend about my workplace, right? 🤠
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What a complete honour to be named along some real legends on the Black Lesbian Power List 2024.
Thank you to whoever nominated me and thank you
@MsLadyPhyll
and
@DIVAmagazine
@LindaRiley8
@LesbianVisWeek
@Nancy_M_K
for creating this space/platform.
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Celebrating international lesbian day by showing you my new WATERPROOF that packs into its OWN POCKET and comes with a CARABINER
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THIS is how you utilise a platform.
@LewisHamilton
- you’re such an icon. I stand with you. Big love to
@RacingPrideHQ
too and all those in sport that believe in LGBTQ+ inclusion
#RainbowLaces
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one month down of being freelance and I'm OBSESSED with it. Working with the best people, delivering work that makes my heart sing, and sharing the exciting, transformative approaches to challenges in a way that feels freeing, and useful.
and so. much. more. time. to. exist.
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I just emailed my MP using the amazing tool by
@stonewalluk
It costs over £19,000 for my partner and I to start a family where I live. South of the river? £4,500. Back in my home town? Over £10k.
This postcode lottery has to stop!
Email your MP now:
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