Category: women
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For a Materialist Left: Photos and videos
I said I’d post again when the videos were released. Links below. Thanks to Ian McNee for a smashing set of photos here’s a selection… All the speeches will be available soon on the Materialist Left YouTube channel, for which, thanks goes to Inside Film. Here are the first two panel sets… Panel 1: Mary…
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An Extraordinary Materialist Meeting
Actually, I had the cheek to wonder on the way home if the conference I attended on Saturday was unique. It’s certainly unusual in the current political climate… The materialist left That means people who profess a politics based on sound, evidenced analysis of what’s going on in our society. It means acknowledging the very…
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Toilets, toilets, toilets. TOILETS!
In the EHRC guidance on sex-based provisions, this government (that has apparently sweated over this composition for a year) advises trans people to use the accessible toilets if necessary. Meanwhile, all the people you’d expect to be standing up for women are making a ballyhoo about how terrible this all is for trans people. I…
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The table is a cow
The banner you see above was carried all the way from the US to be defiantly unfurled at a conference in Brighton last October — for the benefit of a group of women who had never, ever claimed rape was legitimate resistance. Bit silly really — how did such a thing occur? Like this: The…
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Ordinary politics?
Yesterday (that was 6th April – the nearly-Armageddon day) just like millions of other people, I spent the day trying to earn a crust and thinking that although you can’t live on the state pension, it really can’t come soon enough if I’m to hold my little world together – but also yesterday, the BBC…
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A truly terrible book
I picked this book up because it’s subtitled Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction, and it got a further punch of urgency from the strapline by Eric Idle, ‘Put this at the head of your reading lists immediately’. I thought it might be about one of the emergencies the great and the…
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Stand up to misogyny
This morning, I asked Shereen Benjamin if I could reproduce a post from her social media for a blog article. Here it is… Edinburgh Stand Up To Racism (SUTR) said this: Yesterday’s demo would not have been possible, or half as much fun, without the amazing Tom and Nathan from @cabaretagainst 🎶 Constantly keeping the…
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What is Your Party really dying of?
With thanks to Chetan Bhatt and Paul Knaggs for some definitions of things that we know but are very good at forgetting to take into account. A very wonderful am dram group presented a rendition of Peter and the Starcatcher in my town last Christmas. Good it was, funny it was, troubling it was, because…
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Books and broligarchy
A couple of blogs ago, I wrote about a Rose Tremain novel that I’d missed… … that set me off looking through her works to see what else I hadn’t read, and I came across Islands of Mercy. More of that presently… This week, I wrote about what the Epstein files really show up, and…
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Chomsky – Epstein – gender industry! — shocked?
I’m not. Nor are you, are you? Did you notice that once social media had had a day or two to gossip about the new releases, most thinking people have come round to ‘well, we knew that was how the world worked, nothing’s going to change…’ Honestly, go over to YouTube and watch some old…
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