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Dr Rachel Broady

@drrachelbroady.bsky.social

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Working class feminist academic. Research focus: epistemic injustice, anti-poverty activism & representations of poverty in journalism. NUJ activist. Admired Danny Dyer long before it became fashionable. Views are my cat's.

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · Nov 15

A thread of my work researching how the media, particularly journalism, talks about people in poverty. First up, why I'm frustrated at how poverty is reported. www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/new...

"Why I'm frustrated at how poverty is reported in the media"

Media, Journalism, Reporting, Society, Poverty, Social Justice, Research

www.ljmu.ac.uk

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 8h

They couldn't care less, not even about Jewish women. Jane Clare Jones is right: they're 'whipped up outrage merchants'.

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 8h

Vile.

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Red and green-ish @redandgreenish.bsky.social · 10h

I am *shocked* to read that the Male Allies Challenging Sexism event wasn't targeted by TRAs, even though they make the same arguments when it comes to gender ID ideology.

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 12h

Their determination to undermine the conference is the same as the TRAs they hate.

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 12h

Moonlighting is streaming on STV.

a person is pressing a button that says ' blade mode ' on it

ALT: a person is pressing a button that says ' blade mode ' on it

media.tenor.com

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 12h

For 'the flag of Hamas' he means the flag of Palestine. I wonder if he thinks the St George Cross is the flag of Labour? Anyway, who's he to judge women and comment on women's meetings?!

Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 13h

There are right wing "GC Ultras," who claim to defend women's rights, all over X today, ganging up on and insulting the looks of women they dismiss as "socfem". It's all so pathetic ... and really misogynistic.

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 1d

Nelson's friend needed support for addiction; such support defunded in UK over decades.

Denying addicts benefits - money! - will create hungry, homeless addicts. Threatening hunger and homelessness unless they get help will create stressed addicts.

Stop burdening individuals with societal issues.

Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 1d

Why should we? Even she didn't manage that! 😄

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 1d

Mariam Elsayeh, a freelance journalist and elected member of NUJ Ethics Council, has been subjected to a two-year campaign of intimidation for her professional work covering pro-Palestine protests and her public advocacy for Palestinian journalists in London.
skylineforhuman.org/en/news/deta...

Journalist Mariam Elsayeh faces escalating offline and digital threats

SIHR has documented an alarming campaign of of physical attacks, incitement to violence and onlie hate speech targeting journalist Mariam Elsayeh due to her coverage of pro-Palestine protests in Londo...

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Brap @brap.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not interested in brownie points. I’m interested in defending women’s rights.

The only bullshit is from people defending male violence against women.

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 1d

A perfect example of why women need single-sex spaces for safety, dignity, privacy, and for organising politically as a sex class. Male violence is never acceptable.

Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 2d

Feminists shouldn't vote for Greens. The titnotising scammer as leader is bad enough. Now a Green MP thinks feminists were just asking for male violence. They'll shit all over women's rights.

Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 2d

In case you were in any doubt about Maria Corina Machado's politics, on being given the Nobel Peace Prize, she said: "I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!"
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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 2d

"Activists from Bash Back, which describes itself as a "trans-led direct action group", posted a statement saying it was behind the vandalism."

I'm really, really, really sick of these woman-hating bastards.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trans activists vandalise FiLiA feminist conference in Brighton

The Bash Back action group said it vandalised a Brighton conference venue ahead of the event.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 2d

And yet many who should know better still unflinchingly support them.

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 2d

"Trans activists" who target conferences advocating for women's rights, smashing windows, daubing graffiti, making threats of violence, claiming feminism is transphobia and anti trans, are dangerous misogynists.

It really is that simple.

Trans activism Feminism

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Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 @chicana74.bsky.social · 3d

This headline 🤣🤣🤣

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 2d

As Maria Corina Machado is now quickly, unthinkingly, worshipped by the 'left' because her Nobel Peace Prize win might briefly uPSet tRuMP ...

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 2d

I agree that it's potentially a dig at Trump wanting to retain power and his undermining democracy. I'd like to think so.

Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 2d

I was agreeing that it's positioned like that. It wasn't sarcasm. 😊 But she's challenging socialist policy, promotes centre-right politics, wants privatisation, etc, so she's a politically safe winner.

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 2d

Her politics challenge socialist policies so a pretty fair conclusion, I think.

Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 2d

They do position it as that, definitely.

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 2d

Ah well. Trump can at least be happy that the Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado hates socialism too. Bless.

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 2d

Demanding men can be lesbian, that men can redefine lesbian, that men can enter lesbian only spaces, that men can ignore lesbian sexual boundaries isn't just the ugliest misogyny of this regressive movement, it's violent in its contempt for women.

LGBTIQA+ Greens @lgbtiqagreens.bsky.social · 4d

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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