Helen Harding
@helenha.bsky.social
Musician, teacher, nature lover.
The EHRC is consulting on its belief that it's right to exclude women and men who are trans from women and men’s groups and spaces.
I've just shared my response. Will you add yours?
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I've just shared my response. Will you add yours?
goodlaw.social/dcf1da
How to respond to the EHRC consultation
Good Law Project has taken advice from a leading public law King’s Counsel on how to respond to the EHRC’s consultation. What follows is a form which, after you complete it, will automatically be sent...
goodlaw.social
June 15, 2025 at 7:44 AM
The EHRC is consulting on its belief that it's right to exclude women and men who are trans from women and men’s groups and spaces.
I've just shared my response. Will you add yours?
goodlaw.social/dcf1da
I've just shared my response. Will you add yours?
goodlaw.social/dcf1da
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#NION
🎉Today has seen a big surge in signatures. We’ll hit 30k within hours 🎉
Please keep sharing across all your networks.
Personally I’d love us to hit 50k by the end of Pride Month.
Let’s do it women of Bluesky.
#notinourname
#transrightsarehumanrights
#Reclaimthenarrative
#AllWomenWelcome
🎉Today has seen a big surge in signatures. We’ll hit 30k within hours 🎉
Please keep sharing across all your networks.
Personally I’d love us to hit 50k by the end of Pride Month.
Let’s do it women of Bluesky.
#notinourname
#transrightsarehumanrights
#Reclaimthenarrative
#AllWomenWelcome
June 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
#NION
🎉Today has seen a big surge in signatures. We’ll hit 30k within hours 🎉
Please keep sharing across all your networks.
Personally I’d love us to hit 50k by the end of Pride Month.
Let’s do it women of Bluesky.
#notinourname
#transrightsarehumanrights
#Reclaimthenarrative
#AllWomenWelcome
🎉Today has seen a big surge in signatures. We’ll hit 30k within hours 🎉
Please keep sharing across all your networks.
Personally I’d love us to hit 50k by the end of Pride Month.
Let’s do it women of Bluesky.
#notinourname
#transrightsarehumanrights
#Reclaimthenarrative
#AllWomenWelcome
chng.it/RpNVZ4h6CL
Happy pride to all my friends in the LQBTQ+ community. If you are a cis woman please consider signing this letter in support of our trans friends.
Happy pride to all my friends in the LQBTQ+ community. If you are a cis woman please consider signing this letter in support of our trans friends.
Sign the Petition
Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community
chng.it
June 15, 2025 at 7:30 AM
chng.it/RpNVZ4h6CL
Happy pride to all my friends in the LQBTQ+ community. If you are a cis woman please consider signing this letter in support of our trans friends.
Happy pride to all my friends in the LQBTQ+ community. If you are a cis woman please consider signing this letter in support of our trans friends.
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Reposted by Helen Harding
So then Elon goes "Kill the Bill!" and Trump goes "Elon has TDS!" so Elon goes "I'm the reason Trump won!" so Trump goes "we waste billions on Elon!" so Elon goes "Epstein!" and a corpulent flunkie goes "Deport Elon!" and Elon goes "Impeach!"
And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.
And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.
June 6, 2025 at 3:33 AM
So then Elon goes "Kill the Bill!" and Trump goes "Elon has TDS!" so Elon goes "I'm the reason Trump won!" so Trump goes "we waste billions on Elon!" so Elon goes "Epstein!" and a corpulent flunkie goes "Deport Elon!" and Elon goes "Impeach!"
And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.
And THAT'S why women are too emotional to be President.
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To mark the 1st day of my 4th year without Alice I have an announcement:
I’ve joined up with a determined group of women working to change the narrative around trans people. Women standing in solidarity with our trans siblings.
Our first step is to ask cis women to read and sign our open letter ⬇️
I’ve joined up with a determined group of women working to change the narrative around trans people. Women standing in solidarity with our trans siblings.
Our first step is to ask cis women to read and sign our open letter ⬇️
Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
chng.it
May 27, 2025 at 10:22 AM
To mark the 1st day of my 4th year without Alice I have an announcement:
I’ve joined up with a determined group of women working to change the narrative around trans people. Women standing in solidarity with our trans siblings.
Our first step is to ask cis women to read and sign our open letter ⬇️
I’ve joined up with a determined group of women working to change the narrative around trans people. Women standing in solidarity with our trans siblings.
Our first step is to ask cis women to read and sign our open letter ⬇️
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UK friends:
🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp... #kidlitUK
Petition: Make the arts part of UK National Renewal | Campaign for the Arts
The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. The arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them.
www.campaignforthearts.org
May 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
UK friends:
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That Giuffre’s name is not forever linked to Trump and Mar a Lago is another piece of evidence for how broken our media is, how feckless the Democrats are, and how Teflon Trump is.
“In interviews and depositions, Ms. Giuffre said she was recruited to the sex ring in 2000 while working as a locker room attendant in President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. “
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
Virginia Giuffre, Voice in Epstein Sex-Trafficking Scandal, Dies at 41
She accused Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, of recruiting her to join their sex-trafficking ring and sued Prince Andrew for sexual assault.
www.nytimes.com
April 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
That Giuffre’s name is not forever linked to Trump and Mar a Lago is another piece of evidence for how broken our media is, how feckless the Democrats are, and how Teflon Trump is.
TW abuse / suicide
“Giuffre…said she met Maxwell…in 2000 when working as a locker-room assistant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida…during which she alleged she was… “passed around like a platter of fruit””
Where is the justice?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“Giuffre…said she met Maxwell…in 2000 when working as a locker-room assistant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida…during which she alleged she was… “passed around like a platter of fruit””
Where is the justice?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Virginia Giuffre, who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse, dies aged 41
Giuffre’s family issued a statement confirming she took her own life at her farm in Western Australia, where she had lived for several years
www.theguardian.com
April 26, 2025 at 6:38 AM
TW abuse / suicide
“Giuffre…said she met Maxwell…in 2000 when working as a locker-room assistant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida…during which she alleged she was… “passed around like a platter of fruit””
Where is the justice?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“Giuffre…said she met Maxwell…in 2000 when working as a locker-room assistant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida…during which she alleged she was… “passed around like a platter of fruit””
Where is the justice?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The country is… gripped by what Naheed Farid, …has described as a system of “gender apartheid”. Mohseni worries that the lack of international engagement will …exacerbate a trend towards ever greater repression. “You ignore Afghanistan at your peril,” he said.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
A ‘strange dance’: media mogul Saad Mohseni on making TV under the Taliban
Once dubbed the ‘Afghan Rupert Murdoch’, Saad Mohseni’s media business was founded after the fall of the Taliban and is now navigating their return
www.theguardian.com
April 21, 2025 at 6:21 AM
The country is… gripped by what Naheed Farid, …has described as a system of “gender apartheid”. Mohseni worries that the lack of international engagement will …exacerbate a trend towards ever greater repression. “You ignore Afghanistan at your peril,” he said.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Welcome little one!
April 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Welcome little one!
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Every news outlet in Britain should run this photo - especially those who were so keen to plaster half a dozen weirdos with bottles of champagne all over their pages on Spy Wednesday
Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.
April 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Every news outlet in Britain should run this photo - especially those who were so keen to plaster half a dozen weirdos with bottles of champagne all over their pages on Spy Wednesday
Nearly over, but highly recommend this exhibition. Harrowing, but with many glimmers of hope. Maida 10 and Marwa 7 whose father secretly educates girls, or the three girls in Banyan secretly rehearsing their circus skills stuck with me.
www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/bri...
www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/bri...
Bristol Photo Festival: Hashem Shakeri - Staring into the Abyss | Bristol Museums
Hashem Shakeri's first solo UK exhibition captures daily life as Afghanistan readjusts to life under the Taliban.
www.bristolmuseums.org.uk
April 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Nearly over, but highly recommend this exhibition. Harrowing, but with many glimmers of hope. Maida 10 and Marwa 7 whose father secretly educates girls, or the three girls in Banyan secretly rehearsing their circus skills stuck with me.
www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/bri...
www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/bri...
She says women cannot afford to give up their country, or the idea that things can change. “We cannot afford to lose hope,” she says. “That is the only thing keeping millions in Afghanistan alive”
Meet the last female Afghan ambassador as she leads the resistance against the Taliban
Meet the last female Afghan ambassador as she leads the resistance against Taliban
Arpan Rai sits down with Manizha Bakhtari, Afghanistan’s only remaining female ambassador, to talk about the Taliban’s new regime and what it means to resist
www.independent.co.uk
April 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
She says women cannot afford to give up their country, or the idea that things can change. “We cannot afford to lose hope,” she says. “That is the only thing keeping millions in Afghanistan alive”
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Jay can always be relied upon to reduce me to rubble, and today of all days i’m now completely broken.
"And in His pain He thought
of all Creation
as good enough;
still good."
of all Creation
as good enough;
still good."
April 18, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Jay can always be relied upon to reduce me to rubble, and today of all days i’m now completely broken.
Springtime golden hour mooching.
March 20, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Springtime golden hour mooching.
Living in Switzerland, my daughter was in school in the uk. I had rising sense of panic as boarders closed. There was a total disconnect between leaving a deserted Zurich airport (everyone masked), arriving in London and travelling on a crowded tube where few were wearing masks. #fiveyearson
I would really really love to hear other people's notes/strong memories about the specifics of this. I feel like we were all in such trauma that the memories have vanished fast, leaving a blanket of "oh god yuck awful" which isn't helpful for understanding how it's affected us.
#fiveyearson
#fiveyearson
I have this feeling that over the next few weeks I might like to note and mark what I was doing five years ago. Because it is big and real and still feels incredibly present in our lives.
I'll use the hashtag #fiveyearson which as far as I can tell is only used about Covid. Do mute if you need.
I'll use the hashtag #fiveyearson which as far as I can tell is only used about Covid. Do mute if you need.
March 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Living in Switzerland, my daughter was in school in the uk. I had rising sense of panic as boarders closed. There was a total disconnect between leaving a deserted Zurich airport (everyone masked), arriving in London and travelling on a crowded tube where few were wearing masks. #fiveyearson
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Actually, I think we got all of them in here, explicitly or in context, no?
War is peace.✅
Freedom is slavery.✅
Ignorance is strength ✅
Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. ✅
War is peace.✅
Freedom is slavery.✅
Ignorance is strength ✅
Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. ✅
February 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Actually, I think we got all of them in here, explicitly or in context, no?
War is peace.✅
Freedom is slavery.✅
Ignorance is strength ✅
Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. ✅
War is peace.✅
Freedom is slavery.✅
Ignorance is strength ✅
Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. ✅
Although the article points out that this is barely coded Islamophobia, it is also Anti-Semitic. Thank you to @theradr.bluesky.social for the lesson over in the other place.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
religionsgeek.com/index.php/20...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
religionsgeek.com/index.php/20...
The Word “Judeo-Christian” Should Be Retired - ReligionsGeek
We frequently hear preachers, ordinary people, and politicians invoke the term “Judeo-Christian,” usually paired with the word “values.” Franklin Graham speaks this way, as did Rush Limbaugh, as does ...
religionsgeek.com
February 22, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Although the article points out that this is barely coded Islamophobia, it is also Anti-Semitic. Thank you to @theradr.bluesky.social for the lesson over in the other place.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
religionsgeek.com/index.php/20...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
religionsgeek.com/index.php/20...
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Empathy, like love, is not a zero-sum game. In fact I would argue that the more you allow yourself to feel, the more you are capable of feeling.
Some thoughts on the release of the hostages’ bodies today.
There’s enough sorrow to share. Enough empathy to go around.
Let us break open, rather than close up.
There’s enough sorrow to share. Enough empathy to go around.
Let us break open, rather than close up.
on hostages and broken hearts
some thoughts on today's news
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
February 21, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Empathy, like love, is not a zero-sum game. In fact I would argue that the more you allow yourself to feel, the more you are capable of feeling.
