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Jennifer Milligan💙

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Jennifer Milligan💙

4 years

I am a woman with Turner Syndrome, not a 'Turner Syndrome'. I have experienced various things in my life because I am female. I am profoundly grateful to the feminists who helped me understand this and who support me and other women with Turner Syndrome

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2 years

@MayorofLondon As a woman with a DSD - this is beyond unhelpful to people with DSDs. All it does is makes it more difficult to discuss our conditions and health needs

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2 years

Woman with Turner Syndrome here. This is a beyond offensive take. Not only does Turner Syndrome have serious health implications I can tell you that getting diagnosed and having the condition explained is a life changing experience (not for better)

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@SherylCrow @mikeparson Where is your compasssion for Beverly Guenther and the 14 year old girl 'Amber' raped?

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Jennifer Milligan💙

5 years

@NHM_London @hstanley_ Hi I am a women with Turners Syndrome which means my karotype is XO- I and my friends with this condition are female. Please do not make our lives more difficult with tweets like this

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@MuslimMemeGirl Anyone who thinks a toddler need to be dressed like this is supporting the worse sort of child abuse. And this is not called for in Islam

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2 years

@PrueBray As a woman with a DSD - What you are saying is beyond offensive. People with DSDs are either male or female. Stop using us in this manner

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Jennifer Milligan💙

2 years

@birdfacepower @lisasevern I need HRT because I have a DSD and without it I could develop cardiac issues and osteoporosis. I had significant issues when there were shortages two years ago. No 'natural med' could alleviate there. You are pushing a dangerous narrative

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Jennifer Milligan💙

4 years

I know twitter can be awful but trolling survivors of female genital mutilation who are campaigning to end this horrific practice takes a particularly awful level of racism and misogyny. Thank you @HiboWardere and @RadfemJana and all the women who are campaigning on this issue

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5 years

I will never forgive those on the 'left' or who style themselves as 'progressive' who have condoned or even worse stood by while women have been harrassed and intimidated for standing up for our rights . Please wake up before it is too late

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Jennifer Milligan💙

3 months

It's been a grim 36 hours for those of us with DSDs . Rebooting this

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The Invention of Intersex

The below essay is very quickly written and still very much a work in progress, but I felt it was important to share some of this information as part of Intersex Awareness Day. As someone bor…

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3 years

@jk_rowling Solidarity. And it was the least we could do

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3 years

@MargaretAtwood Women around the world who once respected you continue to be concerned that you seem to not be grasping the erasure of women and the ability to fight for our rights. You see in the responses here you will never appease the mob so please regain your integrity and stand for women

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Jennifer Milligan💙

3 years

Just seen a post by a Facebook friend about another young woman with Turner Syndrome who died as a result of aortic dissection. I really wish people who weaponise and misuse DSDs would understand what they actually involve and what people with DSDs have to deal with

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2 years

So... Two tweets crossed my path today arguing that 'intersex' is a separate sex. Where to begin? There are over 40 different DSDs all of which have different medical implications and which are sex specific

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9 months

@Skirt_Go_Spinny might this be a skit?

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3 years

@BBCWomansHour @LittleHardman @Docstockk @Emmabarnett Thank you for interviewing Professor Stock and for allowing her to put her side of the story

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5 years

@lisanandy What are you going to say about this?

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@NorthWestCancer This is incredibly inappropriate on several levels. Firstly you are objectifying women. Secondly you are erasing women and going against best practice in clear language in health education

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Jennifer Milligan💙

2 years

Tbh I am having a difficult time not just dealing with legacy of my treatment as a teenager and behaviour of the 'support group ' but with a few health issues that are a direct result of my Turner Syndrome. Seriously this is beyond offensive

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Jennifer Milligan💙

5 years

@BBCPolitics As a woman with a DSD (Turner Syndrome) I want to say how offensive and badly informed Lloyd Russell-Moyle's behaviour is here. He knows nothing of the struggles of those with DSDs

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3 years

@bessbell This is complete nonsense. You haven't even bothered to read what she actually wrote

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3 years

@guardian Pregnant women. This is why I don't even look on the guardian website any

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@AlisonMoyet I was just thinking earlier how grateful I am that I grew up in the 1980s with amazing women musicans like yourself showing what women could be and could achieve. Thank you

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2 years

@ACLU The word you are looking for is women. You are contributing to the erasure of women's ability to fight for reproductive rights

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2 years

@ReduxxMag @SheffLibraries you have removed tweets and Facebook posts about this but we see this is happening. Shame on you

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@ThaiRivera Pity you have turned out to be a virulent Misogynist who attacks women. You seemed to have more sense

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Jennifer Milligan💙

5 years

I am just going to say this - if anyone tries to erase the fact that Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte directly spoke about the lack of rights and situation of women in their society pity for being born female - I will respond

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@Finn_Mackay Finn I remember you with gratitude for getting Reclaim the Night restarted and helping set up spaces that helped me understand the importance of namimg women I just feel so sad to see how far you have drifted into this anti woman ideology.

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5 years

@bbcthree @Dr_Ronx Why is BBC three pushing dangerous practices?

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Jennifer Milligan💙

3 years

@DiRichardsUK @ZeldaTheChicken @FridaRadFem @vickyjane64 @catherine_mc @JayAStewart @DanowskiKit @RTSPompey Well -Karen Ingala Smith runs a service for women suffering domestic violence and the femicide project. Julie Bindel founded Justice for Women and has helped in numerous campaigns

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Jennifer Milligan💙

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@JamieLRutter Woman with Turner Syndrome (45XO) here -this is an absolutely appalllng and inaccurate piece . People with VSDs like myself are not separate sexes

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@UncutLeeds @Womans_Place_UK @LeedsCC_News Absolutely delighted this wonderful group is finally meeting in Leeds. They are sorely needed in a city which has such issues with violence against women you do nothing to deal with

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Jennifer Milligan💙

2 years

@silvsmith0919 @francesweetman @eva_kurilova I am a woman (with Turner Syndrome (a DSD). Myself and my friends with Turner Syndrome have a completely different set of issues to men with Klinefelter's or women with CAIS. Lumping all the people with DSDs together as 'Intersex' is offensive and ignores what these DSDs involve

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@joannaccherry Shame on @theSNP @NicolaSturgeon for standing by and saying nothing while this happens time and time again

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@LouiseRawAuthor Thank you for telling this - Roger's story should be better known

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@Jezebel Yes! She spoke truth to power

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@FreyaVanadiss This is appalling. A member of Library staff should have intervened and stopped this. I say this as a librarian

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5 years

@jameelajamil It would be good if those who criticise the LGB alliance could stop harrassing Black British lesbians and demanding they get fired and take women's concerns seriously

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3 years

@stephenfry Woman with a DSD here. This is actually not helpful at all to people who have what are termed 'intersex conditions'.

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3 years

@GetTheLOutUK They had @AmnestyUK placards I noticed. Does @AmnestyUK support protesting a women's rights conference?

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4 years

@naomirwolf @jk_rowling Don't use people like me with DSDs to belittle and tear down other women.

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2 years

@WomensSocIre @Glinner @DreyfusJames @Jebadoo2 @_QueenMeabh @BrayBri70 @Sadbh73286087 I've reported it

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@mrjamesob @vaughangething The' toxicity' was the harassment and silencing of staff who questioned the affirmation model and who blew the whistle on what was going on. Cass makes this clear

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3 years

@janeclarejones Thanks for saying this - many of us with DSDs are reeling after the last few weeks and it is deeply appreciated that th way women with CAIS have been discussed by some is getting called out

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7 months

@GoodLawProject Naw going to donate to this instead. We see your contempt for women

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Our CrowdJustice fundraiser is now live! Please donate and share widely.

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@MargaretAtwood Margaret please do not use materials that misrepresent people like myself with DSDs. I am sorry you have been subjected to such abuse in last day but this should make you more sympathetic to women who have had to deal with even worse abuse

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@MargaretAtwood I genuinely have sympathy for the abuse you are receiving. But Rowling has had to deal with even worse abuse. This is badly done.

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4 years

@C4TIRights Not in my name- from a woman with a DSD. Stop using us to silence legitimate debate and silence women.

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4 years

There are so many amazing Black Radical Feminists here on twitter who have had to deal with horrendous abuse - usually from white men. I stand with them. They are amazing

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3 months

@daisyblaines @KathyBurke Shame on you

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2 years

@labisiffre Labi stop this. You are being deeply offensive to people like myself with DSDs and othering us. We are not different sexes

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Trying to group all these together as some sort of third sex is beyond othering and ignores the real issues those of us with dsds face. It is why some of us feel deeply uncomfortable about the use of the term intersex

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3 years

@FondOfBeetles sorry you are having to deal with certain things at the moment

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4 years

@NadiaWhittomeMP @jameelajamil @Palomafaith @nicolacoughlan @renireni @zarahsultana @AyoCaesar Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. There was Trans day of rememberance last week which would have been more appropriate. 241 women were murderered by men in UK last year- stop pretending violence against women does not matter

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1 year

@The_StateMedia Olivia Colman signed a disgraceful letter on International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women too. Went right off her

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2 years

@AliceDreger Please stop using and misrepresenting people with DSDs in this manner. It is incredibly harmful to us

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2 years

@JeanHatchet When I left there was some disgraceful chalk graffiti all around the venue. The leader of these chants is clearly male too

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3 years

@jk_rowling @TrustFundOzu Thank you for not being initimated by stuff like this. It helps others

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Jennifer Milligan💙

4 years

Just a word- you can disagree respectfully but if you in any way agree with the abuse and smears JK Rowling has had to deal with over the last few days please look at yourself. She should not be having to deal with this harrassment #IstandwithJKRowling

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Jennifer Milligan💙

2 years

@LSEnews @LaurenGNC_Butch @FemmeLoves @LottieHistory @LSEGenderTweet why are you supporting the silencing of feminists alomg with @ahrc_gender ? You need to take a serious look at @LSEGenderTweet as a department as a whole

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1 year

@AlanJZycinski @FiLiA_charity Shame on the misogynistic bullies trying to close down this vital conference which is truly intersectional and which raises up the voices of women and girls from around the world

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2 years

My notifications have been going mad the last few days because people have discovered a brilliant thread @FondOfBeetles did in response to a badly informed thread by the Natural History Museum three and a half years ago! That is how good her ability to set out facts is

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@nz_kiwi0107 Shame on you forever for upholding a femicidial regime and sportswashing its appalling abuse of Afghan women and girls

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@Lachlan_Edi @trudylynch64 Owen's statement on chromosomes shows a complete lack of understanding of what issues people like myself who have a different Karotype face and the trauma of getting diagnosed with a different Karotype

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@openDemocracy This is a disgraceful piece and shame on you for publishing it

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2 years

@dhnnjyn @oxfamgb will never get another penny from me (and I was a regular donor) because of the contempt you have shown women and girls

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@ForwomenScot @MhairiBlack Oh for goodness sake @MhairiBlack stop perpetuating false statistics and narratives people like myself with DSDs. This is incredibly harmful to us.

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@millihill Erasing a woman's work and contribution to the world. same old misogyny

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@ColetteColfer As a person with a DSD- tired of 'intersex' being co-opted. This event does not speak for people with dsds

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@DrJaninaRamirez Women's rights and safety is a 'horrid hill'? Attacking a domestic violence survivor is not a good take

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3 years

@oneilllo Appalling piece which dehumanises and mocks women atheles and has not one shred of scientific evidence

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@NWiser8 @Arachoid666 Simon Pegg actually said he is grateful to Graham and Arthur Matthews for giving him a break in Big Train in this week's Big Issue

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@guardianopinion No it was cancelled because people rightfully had safeguarding concerns and the deeply inappropriate nature of the material in the show. Why is the Guardian supporting this ?

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5 years

@SocialistswithT This is McCarthyism

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@billybragg @NewStatesman Three women a week are murdered here in the UK.. thankfully no trans individual has been murdered here in three years. Three women a day in US are murdered by their male partners. An African American woman is murdered every 8 hours

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@donshoegaze @bbcthree @Dr_Ronx No they are not. This is the equivalent of pushing foot binding

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@tarajohn You did not interview one person from any women's groups concerned about self ID. It is not a 'toxic narrative' - it is valid concerns

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@GeorgeRSimms Lies. You cape for mediocre men and clearly hate women

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@DrFrancesRyan The replies you got were not abusive. They were making a point. Shame on you for attacking a domestic violence survivor who deals with misogynistic abuse and harassment here every day

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@KirstySNP @theSNP that was a disgraceful retweet as is this tweet. Especially as Joanna Cherry had to deal with death threats

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@periodmovement @Always Using a term that dehumanises women and reduces them to a biological function is deeply problematic I cannot support you and along with many other women are deeply shocked by your language

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@Kidscape @thejeffreymarsh This is badly done. Marsh does not understand safeguarding and has msde inappropriate posts

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7 months

@MetroUK This is a scare story. This individual could use the toilet of their sex There are numerous recorded cases of girls being attacked in Unisex toilets in UK schools from the last year alone

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Boy accused of sexual assault on pupil in gender neutral school toilet

A boy has been arrested on suspicion of committing “serious” sexual assaults on a pupil inside a gender neutral toilet at an Essex school.

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Both Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte had to fight to be taken seriously as writers and had constant financial struggles because they were born female . Charlotte Bronte died at a young age of pregnancy related complications. These foresisters have always inspired me

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@sunflwrlanyards @EuroPride @Parapride @ValentinoInter As a woman with a DSD/CRD who uses a sunflower lanyard as I have hearing loss due to my dsd- this isn't helpful and these organisations do not help people with DSDs

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Seriously I am getting so frustrated with people with DSDs being used by people who have no knowledge of these conditions to further their arguments. They show they actually do not understand these conditions or what they involve for the people who have them

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Jeez seen two threads today by individuals how have no connection to Turner Syndrome discussing if we are female. Myself and my friends are not some 'gotcha' - educate yourselves and actually respect us both as humans and females

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Transgender superstar Dana International to the defense of J.K. Rowling: We don't need 'unnecessary wars' - Israel News

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@rafiazakaria @polblonde Joan has a long and respected track record of speaking up for women. Her last book 'Homegrown' looks in at issues of violence faced by women in all communities here in UK. Her work remains vital and relevant

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@sussexlibrary @SussexLGBTQ @LGBTQiWF @transformsussex @SusxUniStudents @SussexUniStaff @Sussex_BAME @DecoloniseS @USSU As a librarian I am appaulled that a library of an academic institution misrepresents people with dsds like myself and promote a particular ideology which uses language that many LGBT people find offensive. This is a deeply biased list

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@vagina_museum And the 'red hair ' analogy is both inaccurate and deeply Eurocentric

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BBC Radio 4 - More or Less, Intersex Numbers, Fact-Checking Facebook, Jack Bogle

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@AynenMakino @SpitfireAudio This is an appalling tweet. Christian Henson has nothing to apologize for

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@lmfaoitsjoeyy The hated and violence is all on your side gross misogynist.

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@BLACKCAPS @skysportnz Shame on you for upholding a femicidial regime

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@alexrubner @zoesqwilliams because Adichie isn't - and she totally outclassed Williams here

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@Tangeri28347072 @Jezebel She is an amazing Nigerian writer and feminist. I highly recommend all her books

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@MyNottingham Shame on you. You are supporting the silencing and harassment of women and stand against everything libraries are supposed to uphold. From a librarian.

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@leivyon @CC_Wellness7 @honestrainbow @DoodyAlisha @dontshamewomen @NWCI Woman with Turner Syndrome (karotype 45 XO ) here- we are female , not a separate sex. Please don't use us in your arguments. Our lives deserve more respect than being used something you found on Google without understanding

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