1. History repeats. Emmeline Pankhurst talks about how her and another suffragette were surrounded by ragefull men and boys and beaten in mid-Devon, stronghold of Liberalism in 1907. #LetWomenSpeakBrighton #LetWomenSpeak
'After the declaration at the polls, my companion, Mrs Martel, and I started to walk to our lodgings...Suddenly we were confronted by a crowd of young men and boys... these young men who wore the red rosettes of the liberal party, had just heard of their candidates defeat... one of them pointed to us crying "They did it. Those women did it!" A yell went up from the crowd and we were deluges with a shower of clay and rotten eggs' p.94
2. #LetWomenSpeak #LetWomenSpeakBrighton
'we rushed into a little grocer's shop... the grocer's wife closed and bolted the door, but the poor grocer cried out that his place would be wrecked... they led us out the [back] door... we found that the rowdies anticipating our move had surged round the corner and were waiting for us'
p.94
3.#LetWomenSpeak #LetWomenSpeakBrighton
'They seized Mrs Martel first and began beating her over the head with their fists, but the brave wife of the shopkeeper... flung open the door and rushed to our rescue.Between us we managed to tear Mrs Martel from her captors and get her into the house. I expected to get into the house too, but, as I reached the threshold a staggering blow fell on the back of my head...
A thread collecting together my #QueerTheory series. Each of the titans of QT, those students are being indoctrinated into support the sexualisation of children. Have a look at this Trojan Unicorn: uncommongroundmedia.com/the-trojan-uni…
2. Rubin, considered a foundational thinker and writer for #QueerTheory , argued for the legalisation of child abuse imagery. uncommongroundmedia.com/the-trojan-uni…
3. #QueerTheory: Califia: 'In ‘No Minor Issues: Age of Consent, Child Pornography, and Cross-generational Relationships’ written in 2000 Califia admits that she/he thought that all age of consent laws should be repealed' uncommongroundmedia.com/the-trojan-uni…
1. Queer theory is the academic justification for paedophilia. At it's root it argues that the breaking of sexual boundaries is key to liberation & the only harm caused is in how an action is described.
I mean what could go wrong there?
What follows is my Trojan Unicorn series
2. 'Sexual violence and child abuse are ‘extremely banal’ for Foucault. He presents the giving of money as purchasing the child’s consent after the act and thus changing the reality of the event'. uncommongroundmedia.com/the-trojan-uni…
3. 'Rubin argued for the legalisation of child abuse imagery'. She claimed that paedophiles were an oppressed sexuality...
'PIE was not a secret organisation which worked underground and consisted of a small number of men... At its height it had hundreds of members and the organisation worked closely with government and NGO officials. Its members included Peter Righton, the Director of Education..
'During the late 1970s, PIE was not simply tolerated as part of the authorities’ proper commitment to freedom of speech & freedom of association but was accepted as a legitimate voice of an oppressed sexual minority by respected & well-established civil society organisations