I applaud staff at USA publishers #Hachette who walked out in solidarity with sexual abuse survivors, forcing the publisher to cancel plan to publish Woody Allen‘s memoir.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar…#WoodyAllen
Maybe I’m straying into unpopular opinion territory but for me the free speech issue is not clear cut.
I wouldn’t play let alone pay for a Michael Jackson record. (Helps that I don’t like his music). I wouldn’t watch a Polanski film. For me there are red lines.
As the quote from a member of staff at Hatchett said, this book deal would have included distribution, marketing and publicity- and I assume a considerable fee - for Woody Allen.
It would have been a cynical move from a publisher who also worked with Ronan Farrow.
If you disagree with me, that’s fine by me. For as long as I can remember I’ve believed the issue of free speech is less clear cut than usually presented.
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Today's prize for 'do as I say not do as I do' goes to @Oxfam
Oxfam says "Ten harmful beliefs that perpetuate violence against women and girls
Oxfam highlights "Ten harmful beliefs that perpetuate violence against women and girls’ as part of their campaign “to challenge and change the harmful social norms that justify abuse, to ones that promote gender [sic] equality and non-violence.” oxfam.org/en/ten-harmful…
Very bad day in the global fight for women’s rights.
Women in the USA will still seek to end unwanted pregnancies. However safe abortion will be harder to access and disproportionately so for women with low incomes.
This is a real life consequence of an empowered religious right.
I am not in the same movement as those who deny women autonomy over their own bodies. That should never be a right that we ‘set aside’ or deprioritise.
I don’t think we can claim to fight for women’s sex based right if we stand aside when something so basic is eroded, when the step backwards is so huge.
1.Court case: Successful appeal against Re:C so care workers cannot be required to purchase sexual access to women in prostitution for disabled men 2.Best decision by a politician/political party: Diane Abbott affirming stance against prostitution
3.Worst decision by a politician/political party: not a decision but Keir Starmer: cervixgate
4.Journalist of the year: Yvonne Roberts for Observer’s End Femicide campaign 5.Best new book: Tie: Selina Todd: Snakes and Ladders; Kathleen Stock: Material Girls.
Seeing the awful news about the death of 16-year-old Amber Gibson in Hamilton. I can't help but be reminded of the comments of Angela Crawley, Scottish National Party MP for Lanark & Hamilton East in the Women & Equalities Select Committee on reform of the GRA in April this year
She, Angela Crawley MP, said "perhaps a trans female has transitioned*, they are also at equally and perhaps greater risk of the same violence."
Greater risk? Of the same violence?
*Not sure what she meant there.
At least 13 women/young women have been killed and a male suspect identified/charged *in Scotland* this year.
In the UK, 9 people with a possible trans identity have been killed since 2009, ie the last 13 years.
How anyone gets that to be the same or greater risk is beyond me.
On any day, but especially the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, centring women - centring women who have been killed by men - is not transphobic. #IDEVAW
A minimum of 348 UK women have been killed by a man or where there is a male suspect since that last known person with a transgender identity was murdered on 11 January 2019.