Category: activism
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Questions for council candidates?
Yes, women are asking candidates about sex. I do rather worry that unscrupulous politicians (like Boris Johnson) will just say whatever they think the women want to hear, whilst those who’ve been bullied will say absolutely nothing, whatever their views. It doesn’t need to be complicated though. If you’re a candidate and receive ‘the questions’…
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Left in the Middle with You
It has been a very wearing experience being a woman doing battle for the Corbyn movement in Labour, and then a woman doing battle with the remainder of the left in Labour after Corbyn. (Yes I had to stop and read that sentence back, too.) This is an article about solidarity In the Corbyn years…
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Prepare to support your trans comrades
***long read*** No, I am not saying be ‘a trans ally’. That’s identity-politics nonsense, it’s being partisan, it’s like joining a football supporters’ club – but the thing is, the wheels really have come off Stonewall’s #NoDebate train in their self-ID/queer theory/gender-ideology campaign, and it’s time to re-assess the situation. It’s a real shame it…
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I have made up my mind
I’ve had a few friends, both on social media and in real life, getting cross with me lately for giving consideration to all sorts of odd ideas on the situation in Ukraine. On the one hand yes, I know it’s hard to stay calm when something’s suddenly a hot topic, and all kinds of whacky…
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We are getting somewhere near to having that debate!
Come on politicians, come on councillors, teachers and GPs – do the reading, do the thinking, take responsibility… Here is a brief summary of an excellent article in the current edition of The Spectator, ‘The true cause of No10’s conversion therapy muddle‘: The government just shocked everyone by throwing out a plan to pass a…
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Our society hates women
Yep, she was right, wasn’t she (you know the quote I’m thinking of). I know, I know, someone’s going to say ‘oh, society loves *this* woman, and *these* women…’ Yep. I thought that too, for most of my life. I knew loads of blokes who were decent to women, and loads of successful women, shining…
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What we are
I feel silly writing this, but it appears to be necessary… Has this ever happened to any other group of people? Ever since the last Labour Party conference, we people formerly known as women have been subjected to politician after politician being asked, ‘what is a woman’ and getting into a sweat over the answer.…
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A thank you, and some thoughts
I’m not sharing this post around social media, just publishing it where those who actively follow my blog will see it, and sending it to those who’ve helped with the blog one way or another. (But if you want to share it anywhere, feel free). The failure of democracy I set up this blog in…
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Amplifying Elaine
This may shock you, but if you haven’t already, we need you to look at this – we really, really do. (I’ll get to what you need to look at in a minute…) I think this is world-changing information – maybe it’s going to break through anyway – it’s got 6000 views in a couple…
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Is our Post failing?
I’ve had a lot of post arriving well over the one-day or two-or-three-day expectation of first and second class post in recent months. Most notably, on the 31st of January, I received three letters, all of which had been posted in December. I have a book launched this weekend without all the necessary books in…
Kay Green 