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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 2d

#FiLiA2025 has arrived in #Brighton

♀️ Building Sisterhood and Solidarity
♀️ Amplifying the Voices of Women
♀️ Defending Women's Human Rights

🎟️ filia.org.uk

#Sisterhood #Solidarity

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Nina Welsch @ninawelsch.bsky.social · 1d

I'm thrilled to have an essay in Fairer Disputations, a sex-realist feminist journal.
In it, I explore how society went from not taking adolescent girls seriously at all to taking their political "wisdom" way, way too seriously, and why both extremes stem from the same sexism.
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https://fairerdisputations.org/punchlines-to-prophets/

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Nina Welsch @ninawelsch.bsky.social · 2d

I'll pay the fine and we'll say no more about it

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Nina Welsch @ninawelsch.bsky.social · 2d

I just ate an appalling amount of biryani, honestly feel I should be arrested.

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StepfordTO @stepfordto.bsky.social · 4d

Long but worth reading. (It thoughtfully raises the question of why the Palestinian movement did not experience its anti-tankie moment after October 7.)

k-larevue.com/en/the-octob...

The October 7th pogrom as a non-event on the Western left - Jews, Europe, the XXIst century

Since the 7th of October we are appalled by the continuous flow of reactions denouncing Israel and only Israel. We are especially appalled by those that come out of academic institutions, articulated ...

k-larevue.com

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Nina Welsch @ninawelsch.bsky.social · 5d

Finally sent off an article draft I've been working on for aaaaages. It's very not perfect but it's finished and sent. Bed.

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Nina Welsch @ninawelsch.bsky.social · 7d

It's a drinking Pepsi Max at 10.00 am kinda writing day

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Nina Welsch @ninawelsch.bsky.social · 10d

He's out of prison hence back in the news.

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Nina Welsch @ninawelsch.bsky.social · 10d

Gonna hang out on Bluesky instead of X for a bit because I physically can't stomach looking at anymore pictures of Barbie Kardashian on my feed.

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Nina Welsch @ninawelsch.bsky.social · 11d

Am I the only one who finds David Lammy's gaff accusing Nigel Farage of being involved in Hitler Youth extremely funny? Like he may as well have blurted out "he's been involved building the Death Star"

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Nina Welsch @ninawelsch.bsky.social · 14d

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https://itsmyroom.substack.com/p/how-jodi-picoult-lost-the-plot?r=1rznb9

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Nina Welsch @ninawelsch.bsky.social · 14d

New substack is up! Read my deep dive into Jodi Picoult, one of the literary world's most disappointing sellouts to women and the values of debate she built her fiction career on. Link in first comment.

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Nina Welsch @ninawelsch.bsky.social · 15d

Broken watch and all that.

Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 16d

I firmly oppose the government’s plans for compulsory digital ID cards.

This is an affront to our civil liberties, and will make the lives of minorities even more difficult and dangerous.

It is excessive state interference — and must be resisted.

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Nina Welsch @ninawelsch.bsky.social · 16d

The dog's expression of "I'm confused but nonchalantly going with this turn of events" 😂

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 24d

"Fred West and his wife Rose seem to have a knack for getting into trouble!"

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 24d

you know I wouldn't say I had high hopes for "the Spectator interviews the Tate brothers" anyway but somehow the piece is worse than I thought it would be

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Gudule Martens @gudulemartens.bsky.social · 24d

On point, as usual.

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Michael Balazo @mbalazo.bsky.social · 24d

Watching Adolescence, and I can't stop thinking about the chilling scene in ep.3 where the kid throws the child psychologist's hot chocolate on the floor. She paid good money for that hot chocolate and now it is wasted.

Fathers, talk to your sons.

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Nina Welsch @ninawelsch.bsky.social · 26d

I have tried very hard to stick to a diet since my birthday but in the words of Former Prime Minister Theresa May.

"Sadly, I have not been able to do so. I tried three times.
I believe it was right to persevere, even when the odds against success seemed high."

This will be my final statement.

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Nina Welsch @ninawelsch.bsky.social · Sep 11

C'mon Nina, if you go out for a half hour jog now, you can have cookies after dinner.

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Nina Welsch @ninawelsch.bsky.social · Sep 6

Marital breakdown has many downsides but on the plus, I'll be able to get the rescue cat I always wanted.

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Joe Harrison @lancsjoe.bsky.social · Sep 2

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Nina Welsch @ninawelsch.bsky.social · Aug 20

The teen girl fixation with things like 'Heartstopper' I think enables them to fetishise/romanticise boys without sexual threat.
I've also long observed there's an infantilisation of gay men amongst women (speaking very generally) and a *lot* of naivety of the realities of gay male sexuality.

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · Aug 20

'But my right to set mobs on people is FREE SPEECH' say the worst people alive.

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Nina Welsch @ninawelsch.bsky.social · Aug 17

I didn't say you couldn't, I was just underlining how fast the tune changed from "You're not popular nyeh nyeh" to "Yeah well you're only popular cos u r dum nyeh nyeh" 😂. Granted, it's still above the level of reasoning prowess I've come to expect from your ilk.

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Nina Welsch @ninawelsch.bsky.social · Aug 17

So is Noma. Also, you seem to have switched your line of "argument"

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