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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 52m

Smashed windows and graffiti at the FiLiA conference.
FiliA aims to amplify the voices of women, particularly those who are silenced or unheard, and to defend women's human rights. But clearly, they shouldn't be allowed to discuss anything at all without the prior approval of trans activists.

BASH BACK @bashback.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING: BASH BACK TARGET FiLiA ANTI-TRANS CONFERENCE

The conference, whose alumni include J.K. Rowling, this year hosts hate groups LGBAlliance and Transgender Trend, along with the director of Scottish Lesbians, one of the groups responsible for April's segregationist Supreme Court ruling.

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Heather Collins 💀🧬⚕️🎓♿️ @variola13.bsky.social · 1h

We’re back in a time when women’s voices are being silenced. 2,400 delegates are discussing global issues that deeply affect women, conversations that must happen. That matters far more than an organisation’s stance on who can pee where.

www.theargus.co.uk/news/2553219...

Live: Venue vandalised and protesters demonstrate at feminist conference

The Brighton Centre has been vandalised as a feminist conference begins there today.

www.theargus.co.uk

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 47m

Smashed windows and graffiti at the Brighton Conference Centre, where women have come from all over the world to talk about male violence and women's human rights. This is trans activism, and it's misogyny in action.

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Red and green-ish @redandgreenish.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine what TRAs could achieve if they spent their time, energy and resources into something constructive, rather than destroying what women have built over years and decades? Everything they do justifies our efforts.

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callthistea.bsky.social @callthistea.bsky.social · 16m

Totally. What a waste of everyone’s time and effort. But agree it only justifies our actions and bolsters and spurs us on. I hardly recognised you with your new look! (This is when you tell me I’ve always had this profile picture or it’s been like this for weeks and I’m all embarrassed…)

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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 57m

Did they think that hanging up flags, spray-painting and smashing the venue windows would stop us?

#FiLiA2025 in #Brighton has started!

See you there.

Sisterhood and Solidarity!

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callthistea.bsky.social @callthistea.bsky.social · 2h

Love this image of Lisa-Marie. Don’t love the graffiti and broken window at the venue. #FiLiA2025

Male Allies Challenging Sexism (MACS) @menvsexism.bsky.social · 3h

Course #FiLiA2025 will go ahead regardless of attempts by self-identified ‘activists’ to disrupt / stop the conference, including violence of course (property damage).

Solidarity with the feminists in #Brighton who are gathered here for women's rights and liberation.

#IStandWithFiLiA

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Male Allies Challenging Sexism (MACS) @menvsexism.bsky.social · 3h

Course #FiLiA2025 will go ahead regardless of attempts by self-identified ‘activists’ to disrupt / stop the conference, including violence of course (property damage).

Solidarity with the feminists in #Brighton who are gathered here for women's rights and liberation.

#IStandWithFiLiA

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callthistea.bsky.social @callthistea.bsky.social · 2h

Here! At @filiacharity.bsky.social. Amazing to see so many women gathering together. Sad to see misogynistic terrorists ‘Bash Back’ attacking the venue last night - spray paint, smashed windows. Well done lads. #FiLiA2025

#FiLiA2025 welcome screen at Brighton Centre

Venue damage by arsehole misogynist terrorists Bash Back - venue damage with graffitied and smashed windows. Well done lads

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Lady Tehilah 🏴‍☠️ @ladytehilah.bsky.social · 9h

"and from now on you are ‘mentruators’ and ‘cervix havers’ and ‘pregnant people.’" the single most offensive part. And this is for real life. They tried "birthers" in America. Absolute misogynistic batshittery at work there.

callthistea.bsky.social @callthistea.bsky.social · 27d

The annals of the TERF wars
janeclarejones.com/2018/11/13/t...

The Annals of the TERF-Wars

So, yesterday this turned up in my feed, which struck me as something of an, um, mispresentation… and somehow, I ended up writing my own version of how this whole thing went down… &nbsp…

janeclarejones.com

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callthistea.bsky.social @callthistea.bsky.social · 3h

Absolute homophobia from this shower. This reminds me of ‘You just haven’t tried the right man yet’ and corrective rape and all the other nonsense lesbians have had to put up with. Well done lads.

LGBTIQA+ Greens @lgbtiqagreens.bsky.social · 1d

It's International #LesbianDay (8th October) and we hope that if you're a lesbian you're having a great day. Trans lesbians are lesbians. No amount of shouting about that from anyone can change that.

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Brap @brap.bsky.social · 3h

Men are not lesbians. This is homophobic nonsense.

LGBTIQA+ Greens @lgbtiqagreens.bsky.social · 1d

It's International #LesbianDay (8th October) and we hope that if you're a lesbian you're having a great day. Trans lesbians are lesbians. No amount of shouting about that from anyone can change that.

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 14h

How do men like Husamettin Dogan find wives? And will his wife divorce him now?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

French appeal court increases sentence of Gisèle Pelicot rapist

Husamettin Dogan loses appeal after jury at retrial finds him guilty of raping Pelicot while she was sedated

www.theguardian.com

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callthistea.bsky.social @callthistea.bsky.social · 16h

I don’t know. I noticed she’s gone last night. We’d had a brief chat and the suddenly…vanished. 😞

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callthistea.bsky.social @callthistea.bsky.social · 1d

Where’s Canada gone?! @brap.bsky.social @geekgirl397.bsky.social

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callthistea.bsky.social @callthistea.bsky.social · 1d

Will I knock up in ten minutes a shit t-shirt of ‘suck my kitty balls’ for you? It’ll be next week now what with the packing and whatnot xx

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callthistea.bsky.social @callthistea.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t believe you haven’t closely followed my Very Hard Work of knocking up in ten minutes two (2) shit t-shirt designs for a laugh 🙄. I imagined making the #DerangedHarpies one for @filiacharity.bsky.social but it's tomorrow and I haven't.

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callthistea.bsky.social @callthistea.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no, does this mean I have to make another shit T-shirt?

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d

Unbelievable that TikTok & Insta are amplifying 1970s ‘jokes’ about N*****s & P***s to a whole new generation.

Bernard Manning, of all people, is back in fashion…

The Nerve @thenerve.news · 2d

Bernard Manning rides again: how TikTok and Instagram are promoting racist “jokes” to teens

Sketches from the 70s & 80s featuring slurs including the N word are going viral on social media, shared by millions and boosted by algorithms

@stokel.bsky.social reports

www.thenerve.news/p/bernard-ma...

Composite of Bernard Manning clips on social media with the title: Bernard Manning rides again: how TikTok and Instagram are promoting racist “jokes” to teens

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d

Highland cattle are famous for their ability to "disco nap". Normally these brief, efficient sleeps will last between three and twenty minutes, deploying a variety of objects as pillows, including moorland boulders, cars or any particularly large dog or sheep who happens to be nearby.

A highland cow having a little nap on a boulder on Dartmoor (ok, it was actually scratching its head)

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MaidenOver 🧙 @judeet44.bsky.social · 2d

Looking at my calendar I see time's a bit short to do many more mannikins for 5th Nov ceremony but I'd like to add Stephen Miller and maybe Boris Johnson to the pyre. There are other figures I deeply detest but they're harder as they have fewer strong visual clues I can work with.

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 1d

Just popping on to say a miracle has taken place and ffp3 too!

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callthistea.bsky.social @callthistea.bsky.social · 1d

PPS I’m unlikely to reply tonight as I’m packing to travel to @filiacharity.bsky.social conference tomorrow to gather with women, learn about global feminist action, fight for women’s liberation together and/or be topped up with fury. Excellent.

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callthistea.bsky.social @callthistea.bsky.social · 1d

PS I have no idea what on earth you mean by ‘nativist fascist’ and ‘birth caste’. It’s the gender conservatives and gender identity lot who are in thrall to biological essentialism, suggesting women as a sex are reduced to our biology because we are women and know sex is important. Fuck that.

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callthistea.bsky.social @callthistea.bsky.social · 1d

I gently suggest you rethink your equating of a ‘post-op transsexual woman’ with a woman with a hysterectomy. It’s breathtaking offensive. Plus it amazes me, frankly, you’ve got away with the term transsexual when, if us radfems use it, the grief we get is off the charts. All the best to you.

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