Judith Watson @JudithWBrighton Twitter profile

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Judith Watson

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7 months

@_celia_bedelia_ I appreciate this but we’re talking about young girls. If they don’t want to clean up in front of boys they don’t want to clean up in front of other girls either. The only solution is to have some accessible toilets with their own washbasins.

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2 years

@speakoutsister Sentence seems extremely lenient for sexual assault.

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@ccwild79 Was it a university application through UCAS? If it was, please give this feedback to UCAS and to the university involved because they need to review their systems.

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2 years

@speakoutsister Can they define what a “mother” is? Does it include the lesbian partner of someone who gave birth? Does it include adoptive mothers? People who have still births? Stepmothers? Foster mothers? Or are we going to scream at children that they are lying? Science!

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1 year

@Michelle82rose @BBCNews What are they going to learn about loans, mortgages and the rest without understanding fractions and algebra? Have you ever tried studying business?

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7 months

@AllyFogg Even so, Londoners are like “a house!” An “actual house!!” For less than a garage.

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1 year

@Rebeccaboden4 @MForstater @oxfamgb Schools have been saying “parent or carer” since when? At least the 1970s.

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1 year

@JaneyGodley Working mothers, non-working mothers, women who aren’t mothers. Old people, young people, disabled people, athletes. Dog owners, dog walkers, dog haters, eco warriors, people who spoil the countryside, people. And above all the French.

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6 months

@_celia_bedelia_ Wow is she going to find menopause hard.

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1 year

@RozKaveney I am so horrified this morning. They are baying for the blood of this baby’s “real mother”. They do not hesitate for a moment to push lesbian mothers, adoptive mothers, disabled mothers and mothers who choose not to breast feed under the bus.

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2 years

@cbouzy Be careful relying on the popular vote lest you end up with Spouty McSpoutface.

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8 months

@ask_aubry USA is the only country in the world not to sign the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Children are essentially chattels in the USA.

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6 months

@moira_robin Virtually everybody working in the public sector and a lot working in the private sector have done some training in equalities law. They know that single-sex provision is only in certain limited cases and that men are just as protected as women.

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8 months

@griddr @PribblePrabble @rose_dirty234 @DrHistoryBrad They knew. A professional writer doesn’t usually know how to write an academic paper. They weren’t in the classes and didn’t know which authorities to cite.

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7 months

@speakoutsister Most public toilets in Britain have a sign “these toilets are cleaned by male and female staff”. If someone has been sick all over a cubicle in the Ladies everyone wants it cleaned up quickly, by whichever staff member is on duty.

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1 year

@David__Osland A hung parliament is the only way to get proportional representation, but it would be good to see the Tories eliminated as a force in British politics.

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1 year

@mjeslfc @NeuroLatina @C4544S But why don’t they have individual changing rooms? Lots of people would prefer not to change in a communal area even if it is women only, Crazy.

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1 year

@speakoutsister @project_lesbian They don’t understand a lot about the census. The questions on sexual orientation and gender identity are optional. If they want exact numbers of cis lesbians - and why not? - that is just one of the barriers.

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5 months

@speakoutsister People may consider a double mastectomy to reduce the risk of breast cancer.

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1 year

@speakoutsister It’s the kind of radical feminism that proposes matriarchy. As well as being incredibly ableist and heteronormative, and ageist against older women as you show, it also treats children as chattels.

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7 months

@speakoutsister There are some jaw-dropping claims in that poster. How does a single-sex space protect lesbians from “the straight gaze”? And young lesbians are identifying as bi? Could it just be that those who say they’re bi are bi?

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1 year

@LauraPidcock Well phew, Laura. Let’s build up alliances then to bring down patriarchal capitalism/capitalist patriarchy. That can’t happen without the whole LGBTQ+ community.

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6 months

@DanNeidle Are they not acting for The Knox Group Ltd? Company number 10556595? The one that has filed accounts for a dormant company since it was established? With £100 of current assets as of 31 January 2023?

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10 months

@helenstaniland Women take immunosuppressants for reasons other than womb transplants, and have successful pregnancies. If you want to call yourself a feminist you have to defend our reproductive rights.

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6 months

@moira_robin The name on my passport is slightly different from the one on my birth certificate, and that is with no documentation at all. Cis woman. My civil partnership too, no quibbles. Changing your name is easy in Britain if you’ve no intention to defraud.

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9 months

@helensaxby11 @speakoutsister Not true. I had a dreadful menopause, and am still furious enough how misunderstood it is and how little support is given. Furious also with the “GCs” who consistently regard non-menstruators as lesser women.

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1 year

@setoacnna Not even playing a woman though. Playing a goose. “In this interval it doth befall That I, one Snout by name, present a Wall..”

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2 years

@Jumbo09250024 @EuanYours @mimmymum Hang on, wearing a skirt is the big thing for men in Scotland isn’t it?

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1 year

@setoacnna It’s not by Aretha Franklin. It’s words by Gerry Goffin music by Carole King. So, by the way, is “He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)”, which doesn’t get much airtime these days.

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11 months

@DrProudman Where did you get that nonsense from? It’s from Proto-Germanic *konto, female genitals, probably not connected to Latin cunnus, same meaning. A nice variant is “queynte” as in The Miller’s Tale.

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9 months

@speakoutsister It’s virtually always ableist too and often ageist.

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1 year

@TabitaSurge Even a typical non-pregnant cis woman of child bearing age doesn’t produce eggs. She just releases eggs she already has. So the public toilets will have to be repurposed as chicken runs.

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2 years

@SheBePamella @DrProudman We know it through victimisation surveys. That’s also how we know how many burglaries and assaults there are because those are often unreported too.

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1 year

@Glinner How to show off that you’ve never read Margaret Atwood.

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10 months

@sharrond62 Pity she doesn’t live in France where mixed-sex PE lessons are compulsory to age 18.

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2 years

@speakoutsister Patriarchy is rule of the father over the family, which includes not only wives but also children and slaves. The opposite is not matriarchy but liberation and equality.

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5 months

@_celia_bedelia_ Just because there is so much misinformation about the UK NHS. A child doesn’t see a pediatrician unless it’s serious, they see a general practitioner. Child is asked if they want the parent there, or they can have a chaperone, probably a nurse.

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2 years

@ShahrarAli But can you do it without using “bastardisation”? Let’s see whether you can argue without slurring children of unmarried mothers like me as “bastards” and “illegitimate”.

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1 year

@ejrosetta @jarvinen_aku @AGoldmund You don’t need a dad to do etymology, luckily for me as mine died in 1982. “Cis-“ is fascinating. It can be traced back to proto-Indo-European, and is cognate with “he” and “here”, but not with “cistern”.

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1 year

@Butch30586594 @UncleLonny63 Most parents in Britain take their kids to the pantomime, “Butch”.

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1 year

@RadioFreeStPaul @stellacreasy I’ve given birth and I have no problem with anyone LARPing in a dress or even in the nude.

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2 years

@SteveBTooze @JustStop_Oil I’m not outraged, but I’m terribly disappointed. Liking old paintings something we want to encourage, not discourage. Compare how in the 1990s Greenpeace installed solar panels on the roof of the Department of the Environment. That’s direct action that actually makes sense.

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11 months

@TabitaSurge It should be misconduct for a solicitor to alter a Wikipedia page on behalf of a client. Errors and libels can be reported on the biography of living persons noticeboard.

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9 months

@speakoutsister Lack of abortion rights. Maternal mortality. Child mortality. Domestic violence. Casual street sexism e.g . wolf whistling. Absence of maternity leave/pay and paternity leave/pay. Violence against sex workers. Lack of sex education. Lack of children’s rights. Police violence.

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11 months

@DrProudman @X Things feminists have been doing for decades, independently of you: using only their forenames; merging two surnames; double-barrelled surname for both in couple. You should have noticed lesbian couples in the forefront of these moves.

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9 months

@JaneyGodley Please bear in mind that France has no “wards” in hospitals. Every patient gets a bedroom.

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1 year

@AllyFogg I’d say tabloidocracy but you’d have to include the Telegraph in that.

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10 months

@helenstaniland So, “women’s rights” means rights for women you approve of but not for women with disabilities who need to take medications that are approved for use in pregnancy. How lovely.

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6 months

@speakoutsister Was just hearing about the extensive surgery a young woman of my acquaintance had to have after childbirth “ripped her apart”.

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1 year

@AndrewLeeGough @darrengrimes_ Singapore is successful and diverse.

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8 months

@SevilNeville @speakoutsister @Juleschao @LauraON72679105 @vdmval @theunderdoggym I’ve no idea what you think “properly examined” is. I gave birth to a baby girl. After hours of labour I needed to feed her, dress her, change her, get her to sleep. Nobody tested her chromosomes or tiny internal organs.

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9 months

@Ajaygee71 @speakoutsister What, exactly 6500 differences? That sounds precise but “crucial” is not precise. You are right that medicine has taken male bodies as the norm. Trans rights are not an obstacle to changing that.

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1 year

@Peston There’s Sugar, that’s one thing. But there’s also Jimmy Savile campaigning for the Tories. Jimmy Savile.

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2 years

@speakoutsister It’s a belief that is intrinsic to patriarchy and that we all have difficulty in freeing ourselves from. Our parents warned us not to trust men, and we warn our daughters, because we love our daughters and want to see them live.

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10 months

@CeilNoyle I distinctly recall Baddiel and Skinner agreeing that anal “is no good if she wants to do it”, then having to apologise. Now I can’t find a reference to it. Anyone else remember?

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2 years

@speakoutsister One thing that’s common to all humans is that for some or all of the lifespan we can’t gestate babies.

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2 years

@BelindadeLucy She didn’t just ask, though, did she? She was given a perfectly good answer but wasn’t satisfied. She went on and on and on.

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1 year

@MyArrse I don’t like Stella Creasy’s politics at all but she tweeted that her baby was ill.

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2 years

@speakoutsister A TERF called me “dude” so I just called her “dude” back. If it’s polite enough it’s polite enough.

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2 years

@JeanHatchet @speakoutsister That’s cause you’re on the Internet.

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6 months

@DanNeidle Isn’t it one of the purposes of registering companies to make such things clear?

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1 year

@Rebeccaboden4 Age is a protected characteristic. I suppose whether or not it’s immutable is a philosophical discussion.

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2 years

@speakoutsister It’s a lot more than half when you take into account all the people on hormones (“the meds”) for contraception, regulating periods, endometriosis, fibroids etc etc etc.

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1 year

@peterwalker99 Yet no comment yet from @MichaelTakeMP ? Come on, Sir Michael, your succour is needed,

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@JudithWBrighton

2 years

@speakoutsister “Diversity industry” speaks volumes, doesn’t it? Meanwhile, in real workplaces people (especially unions IMHO) are getting on with trying to be more inclusive and lower barriers. Here, for example, is bread and butter stuff from the HR folks.

CIPD | Sexual orientation, gender identity and gender reassignment

Explore the CIPD’s point of view on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender reassignment, including actions for Government and recommendations for employers

www.cipd.org

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Judith Watson

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8 months

@SPhinbow @andrew_b72 Point out to him that in English the plural “you” has superseded the singular “the” and “thou” even when you’re only talking to one person.

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6 months

@thatanna23 @DawnButlerBrent How is that unkind? Websites that don’t bother with proper moderation should all be reported.

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1 year

@ta_mills He and Skinner had a huge problem with women’s sexual consent. There are quotes out there.

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2 years

@David__Osland I was in NUS in the 1970s so I would be very surprised if they weren’t still at it in the 80s.

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2 years

@David__Osland Don’t work too hard on it. You can just read it and skip whenever you like, or you can have a guide alongside it. There’s no exam at the end.

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1 year

@GeorgeMonbiot Grazing has been part of ecosystems in Britain for a very long time. I live in the South Downs. We’re trying to protect our grasslands.

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@MForstater Men are protected against discrimination on grounds of sex. If you don’t understand that you don’t understand anything about equalities or rights.

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1 year

@Craig4P @OwenJones84 Hey honey. Take a walk on the wild side.

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2 years

@bilvershells @Paul_Ilett If I swap clothes with my male partner and walk down the street in a sweatshirt, jeans and trainers nobody will notice. If he puts on my dress and long boots you will start to scream. “Gender critical”? Not much.

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1 year

@SpillerOfTea They’ve tapped into a tiger mom sensibility. “I will parent this child to death and you won’t stop me.”

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1 year

@speakoutsister @FlorenceHRScott Is it the same surrogate that Meghan used?

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11 months

@nazirafzal Looks among other things like a institution placing defence of its reputation above all else.

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1 year

@GeorgeMonbiot @guyshrubsole @IrishRainforest You’re gonna to go back and undo the Neolithic?

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11 months

@DrProudman We gave both surnames as a matter of course but then we’re not married.

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10 months

@OwenJones84 They’re opposed to all infertility treatment, per Janice Raymond. See comments on a post by Helen Staniland.

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1 year

@TheHangedMan18 @DrProudman You can go and search for where the figure comes from. It is for girls who were pregnant before 15, and the fathers’ ages were 20-29. The big problem is it’s a very old estimate.

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1 year

@MacKinnonDaily And carers wipe bottoms of old people they wouldn’t otherwise know, just for money. Nannies change nappies they wouldn’t otherwise change and plumbers unblock toilets they wouldn’t otherwise unblock. Capitalism.

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1 year

@speakoutsister I used to do research using census data. Everything has been “self-ID” since 1911. People saying they usually walk to work may actually get the bus more often than not. And the other way round, so it all comes out in the wash.

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@NasarCefas @TgDelicious @_celia_bedelia_ You won’t. It’s only a rough indication.

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2 years

@_JessWhittaker @francineGDM @buildacabin @AntheaRogers @KaySocLearn I had that row with someone who was arguing that the hijab should be banned. She said “I couldn’t go to work in a wetsuit and flippers”. At the University of Sussex! She SO could.

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1 year

@setoacnna Sadly too some women die before they reach menopause. Some girls for in infancy and childhood.

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1 year

@speakoutsister I see “mother”, “father” and “parent”as parallels. These are social categories that have a loose relationship to biology. There are step parents, in-laws, adoptive parents, godparents and foster parents. Do you stop being a mother if your child dies?

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2 years

@mitorthebold @MavenOfMayhem How are you getting on with learning German?

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1 year

@AndrewLeeGough @darrengrimes_ How is that not diverse? It values and celebrates its diversity too.

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8 months

@speakoutsister How, just how, do they propose to keep bi women out?

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10 months

@Btn_EHT @simonharris_mbd Cause otherwise she wouldn’t have had any attention. It’s not like she’d just won the World Cup or anything, is it?

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1 year

@AllyFogg They should look at France where not only was the mainstream conservative party reduced to nearly nothing but the mainstream socialist party too. Hatred of Tories does not mean love of New Labour.

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7 months

@BevJacksonAuth @speakoutsister @Vaishax I highlighted two sentences in the poster you shared. One seems to exclude straight women from women-only spaces and the other to disbelieve young women who say they are bi.

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2 years

@noraj_williams I’ve been retired a few years now but this thread still fills me with despondency. Everyone else in and around academia is a miracle worker. I’m reviews editor of Capitalism Nature Socialism. I did that.

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1 year

@AskATranswidow @PaulSim10353260 What you’re saying is that women can wear absolutely anything we like but men have to stick to traditional masculine roles. How is that fair?

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2 years

@speakoutsister The background to all this is Tory education policy and the enforcement of strict gender segregation, especially gendered school uniforms. Until the 1970s teachers had to, by law, take the register of the boys before the girls. That’s the world they want to take us back to.

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1 year

@DarkestFayth The Suffragette movement was not a monolith. It included Sylvia Pankhurst as a major figure, and you can hardly accuse her of neglecting class or colonialism.

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1 year

@AllyFogg Global Institute for Women’s Leadership chaired by Julia Gillard, poll conducted for International Women’s Day. Bourgeois feminism trying to play it safe and scoring an own goal.

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9 months

@luluhawkley @speakoutsister @billybragg I’m a cis woman and an actual 70s feminist, and I support Speak Out Sister.

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2 years

@speakoutsister I’ve been doing my family tree, and in the mid 19th century there were some ways an AFAB could get out of having 10 or more children. Like, die in infancy, die in first childbirth, marry someone very old, become a missionary. Such is our reproductive power!

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