Loved my #7NecessarySins event at @wcfbook Friday night! Thank you all who came, asked Qs, bought books & brought me gifts! It was one of my favourite events so far. Thank you @MsBaci and staff at this wonderful feminist bookshop. And @heathercorinna - fabulous hanging out after!
And thank you librarians who are feminist and determined to give readers diverse, inclusive and representative books! #7NecessarySins
So moved by Raed, a brother and comrade from #Saudi Arabia who came to my #7NecessarySins to show support for my work and to ask how he can best raise his daughters to be feminists
Dear @ManUtd: I wrote this #ValentinesDay essay for you. We know that football-win, lose, or draw-increases incidents of abuse of women and children. The violence that goes home with supporters mirrors that of the players. And it is all enabled by patriarchy. Take a stand! #MUFC
The three players associated with #MUFC who’ve been accused of domestic and sexual abuse of women are just three who were outed/caught: how many others are “saved” by the massive PR machines of football clubs?
We have an idea of just how bad the abuse of women and children gets after supporters go home, specifically after Manchester United and Manchester City supporters go home.
For #ValentinesDay, I wrote this to Manchester United, my 1st love. I've supported them since 1976 when I was 9. Now, with 3 players associated w/ #MUFC accused of domestic & sexual abuse of women, my team are becoming synonymous with misogyny. feministgiant.com/p/essay-femini…
It's not just #MUFC, of course. Football is one of the many outlets that patriarchy offers to cis men as an excuse to treat us like shit.
I wrote this before the finals of Euros and Copa America last year about misogynist violence associated w/the sport feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-f…
It’s hard enough watching men’s football, with its ever-present threat of violence; violence often mirrored by fans in the stands and after matches.
Most people know I've supported Manchester United since 1976 when I was 9. With not 1 but 3 players associated w/the team accused of domestic & sexual abuse of women, #MUFC are becoming a team synonymous with misogyny. I wrote a #Valentine to urge my team to do better,much better
It's not just Manchester United, of course. Football is one of the many outlets that patriarchy offers to cisgender men as an excuse to treat us like shit.
I wrote this just before the finals of the Euros and Copa America last year.
It’s hard enough watching men’s football, with its ever-present threat of violence: players ready to fight when fouled, to argue with referees, to dive and exaggerate the consequences of a challenge. Violence that is often mirrored by fans in the stands and after matches.
I chased him down, sat on him and punched and punched and punched. I wanted him to know that next time he thought he could assault a woman, she too could beat the fuck out of him.
Jan 6 2021:white supremacists stormed seat of govt in US capital
Today:white supremacists holding hostage Canadian capital. In both cases, past & present military & police were involved; in both cases fascists weren’t taken seriously because they’re white cbc.ca/news/canada/co…
U.S. white supremacists who supported & planned Jan 6 support the white supremacists holding Ottawa hostage..
In both cases, these fascist fucks are emboldening white fascists around the world.
How the fuck did the Canadian capital become besieged like this? White supremacy
And this is ostensibly in the name of “freedom.”
White fascist fucks in the US and Canada and across Europe and Australia are increasingly laying claim to a word and a concept that their very ideology denies to anyone who doesn’t look like them. “Freedom Convoy” “Freedom Fries.”
Bit late with this: In January, the new president of #Chile, Gabriel Boric, named a progressive, majority-women cabinet; 14 women and 10 men were named ministers. It is also the youngest cabinet in the history of Chile; seven members are in their 30s. theguardian.com/world/2022/jan…
Boric, a 35-year-old former student leader, will replace the billionaire rightwing president Sebastián Piñera on 11 March as he becomes the youngest president in Chile’s history.
Chile’s new defence minister is the granddaughter of the socialist president Salvador Allende, who was deposed in Pinochet’s bloody 1973 coup d’état. Maya Fernández, 50, will preside over long-overdue reforms of the military that overthrew Chile’s democracy.