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"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own".
Audre Lorde

Apologies to the chill people who got caught in my Blockenheimer experiment.
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I've been told the best way to get informed on sex testing in sport is to listen to the podcast "Tested: The surprising history of women's sports."

So I will. And I'm going to record my thoughts on it here in this thread.

Rose Eveleth
#npr #cbc New America Fellowship
www.tested-podcast.com
TESTED – A surprising history of women’s sports
www.tested-podcast.com
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Bravo 🙌

J K Rowling
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Me: I just want to sleep!
Brain: AND I WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT EVERY LIFE CHOICE YOU'VE EVER MADE!
Bladder: Oh & don't forget about me.
December 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Day 2: How have pavements cut off underground mycorrhizal networks that once connected trees in mutual support across miles?

Join the 31 Day #Symbiogenesis (sort of advent) Calendar

"... Each day invites a sense of emergence ..."
#LivingBuildingsDaily
December 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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🧵 (1/2) #16DaysOfActivism Action 7:

Listen to ‘The Forgotten Women: Wives & Girlfriends of Sex Buyers’ by Red Light Exposé👇

open.spotify.com/episode/1rW2...

In this episode, commercial sexual exploitation activist Andrea Heinz reads her renowned peer-reviewed paper ‘A Mule for the Patriarchy:
The Forgotten Women: Wives & Girlfriends of Sex Buyers
open.spotify.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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While women and women's groups are targeted & banned on Meta products almost immediately for disrespecting men and posting pictures of breast feeding, rape advertising & trafficking gets at least 17 strikes before Meta takes any action. #opdeatheaters

www.theverge.com/news/827658/...
December 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Sign the Petition
Stand with Survivors - Criminalise Sex Buyers
c.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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pca.st/episode/6240...
The marvellous Naomi Cunningham.
‘Why I'm defending Sandie Peggie’
pca.st
November 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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That Book!! 😝

TRAs try to get The Women Who Wouldn’t Weesht banned again.
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated. In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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🧵 (2/2) Please join us for the next 16 days!

Educate yourself, support organisations that matter, campaign, help spread awareness and encourage all your friends to take part.

#IDEVAW #16DaysofActivism #EndMVAWG #16DaysMACS
November 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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🧵 (1/2) Tomorrow is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which marks the start of the 16 Days of activism against men's violence against women and girls.
As in previous years, we have compiled 16 EASY actions for men & boys to take👇
16 EASY actions for men & boys to help stop male violence against women & girls during the ‘16 Days of Activism’ 2025 - Male Allies Challenging Sexism
If we (men & boys) want to become more empathetic and humane beings it is important to continue to learn, challenge ourselves, challenge each other, be critical, and support radical feminist thinking ...
menchallengingsexism.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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The women described a culture of fear where even seasoned correspondents did not dare veer from the Stonewall-mandated position on trans issues in case they were accused of “transphobia”. "… It felt like activism, not news.”
www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...
Emails reveal BBC women complained over trans reporting
Messages dating back five years show female staff raised concerns with bosses but felt rebuffed or ignored
www.thetimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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For me this is the most damning piece of evidence that the BBC wasn’t impartial in the gender/sex debate.
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Nothing like a proposal for a modest amount of lower-income housing nearby to find out who your neighbors are.
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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My comment in @theguardian.com on why the new law requiring porn and social media platforms to remove choking/strangulation content is very welcome.
November 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Number of trans women actually "surveyed": 54. Number of trans men actually "surveyed: 65. Number of "NB, intersex or other" in survey: 338. 🤔

YouGov warns in the full data: "percentages calculated on bases fewer than 100 respondents... should not be used."

This survey is worthless.
🗣️ 65% of trans adults reported verbal abuse in public spaces
👊 24% said they have suffered physical violence

A new YouGov poll reveals safety crisis for trans people in the UK:
https://goodlaw.social/u5y8
‘Abject terror’: survey shows 84% of trans people feel Britain is unsafe
YouGov poll reveals safety crisis for trans people in the UK
goodlaw.social
October 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Prnhub's PR as impressive as ever, with the media just lapping it up.
No challenge to Prnhub's claims it's content is legal & consensual. What about all the sleep prn (aka rape) still there? It's T&C prohibit 'depicting' children, a cursory look finds a lot.
It's the content that matters #despair
The owner of adult websites such as Pornhub told the Financial Times that traffic to the site dropped by more than three-quarters after tougher checks were put in place on.ft.com/3WSAoIa
October 23, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Return-to-Office Mandates Are the New Glass Ceiling
Return-to-office mandates erode the flexibility gains of the pandemic, disproportionately impacting working mothers and widening the gender pay gap once again.
www.forbes.com/sites/juliak...
Return-To-Office Mandates Are The New Glass Ceiling
Return-to-office mandates are widening the gender pay gap. Learn how flexible, inclusive workplace policies can help companies close it, and retain top female talent.
www.forbes.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Meet Intolerant Melbourne. No kindness shown.
October 18, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Women-led patrols and fire prevention restore forests in northern Thailand
Over the past two decades, a group of women in Lampang province have taken action to improve their local environment and curb sources of haze by restoring their local community forest.
news.mongabay.com/2025/09/wome...
Women-led patrols and fire prevention restore forests in northern Thailand
BAN PONG, Thailand — “Look at these ones over here!” calls Chamran Tahpan, as she crouches next to a mound of damp leaves on the forest floor. A cluster of mushrooms sprouts from the center of the ear...
news.mongabay.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
open.substack.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Play silly games….

Man who appealed Pelicot rape conviction handed longer jail term www.bbc.com/news/article...
Man who appealed Pelicot rape conviction handed longer jail term
www.bbc.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM