The truth doesn’t require you to go into battle for it. The truth doesn’t require a war.
The truth just requires - actually, it demands - that when you discover it, when you stumble across it, when you uncover it
you state it.

That’s all. You state it.

You don’t have to shout;
the truth doesn’t need your fanfares or parades; doesn’t need enforcement or initiation.
That’s culture.
That’s not truth.

The truth is simple, supported by reality, and, while it might be painful for you, it will absolutely bear you up.

You might be required to state it more
than once. Say it to authority. Declare it in court.

You might lose all kinds of people or places because of it,
but you don’t have to *fight for it,
because all of nature and reality is doing that for you.

If it’s true, it just *is.

The truth requires that you be brave.
Find your courage.

The truth doesn’t *need you to be brave, but *you need to be.

#SexMatters

And you know it.

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More from @SonyaDouglas

11 Sep
The male psychology affected by certain decisions and their attendant consequences: expanded.

Consider a transwoman who passes.

Hair, face, figure, all highly reminiscent of, not just any woman, but the most beautiful, most desirable of women by our society’s standards.
It’s not a woman’s body, but how would you know?
“You don’t see gametes!”we’re repeatedly told.

She looks like a woman, she feels like a woman, she lives as a woman, uses pronouns and everything.

But.

She thinks like a man.

How do we know?

Because she has a man’s physiology;
she has a man’s psychology:
She has the body and brain of a man who has thought of himself as, and has been made to look like, a beautiful woman.

Did her physiology inform her psychology, or her psychology direct her physiology?
Read 8 tweets
11 Sep
If you elevate a collection of stereotypes about what women are and what women do over the universal experiences of female people, you will come up with nonsense like this⬇️about the ways race, gender and class interact.
I’d like to show you why #SexMatters here.
A thread:
Black women, Brown women, White women, disabled women, any kind of woman, and transwomen.

What is it they all have in common?

1.Humanity, ofc.

2.Human physiology, informing and affecting our human psychology.

3.A broad approximation of appearance - recognisably same species.
4.We are all a part of the sorting and structure of society.

Why am I talking about women?
Because men also exist.

What do women have in common with men?

All of the above.

It’s why, and how, we co-exist.
Read 16 tweets
15 Aug
A man killed his mother and her friends, including a three-year old girl, because he couldn’t get a girlfriend.

What’s misogyny?

Some say the mother, and the young women who wouldn’t have sex with him, must share the blame.

What’s misogyny?

The man had his gun license
granted, even tho his social media was full of violent threats against women and there’d been an allegation of assault. (And this in a country where women have had police visits over the content of their tweets.)

What’s misogyny?

@Reddit banned his account the day before the
shooting. That’s the same Reddit that’s banned every GC account. Where you can find any number of subreddits dehumanising and debasing women.

What’s misogyny?

Today on Twitter a man said it was unhelpful to go after Incels.

What’s misogyny?

@GOVUK says they’ll add Incels to
Read 10 tweets
14 Jul
I asked whether you thought Black women silenced for speaking about the importance of sex were being held accountable or being bullied.

You didn’t answer, but now this?

The action of a coward and a hypocrite.

Free speech has consequences, and so does bullying.
It’s easy to assume the mantle of anti-racism guru when you’re a Black man.
After all, what makes life uncomfortable but the damn racism, right?
Wouldn’t life be fine and dandy without it?
Black women, otoh, still have to deal with men like you selling our rights out from
under us so you can be the loudest voice in the biggest chair.

When are you going to stop appropriating other people’s oppression, or did you think this was something only White people do?

You take the struggles of Black people who don’t think like you, love like you, act like
Read 7 tweets
17 Dec 20
.@Critic_Speak asked me to contribute to a podcast discussion around the subject of race in the Welsh Arts scene.

They wanted me to talk about how I might have suffered, as a Black artist, from the gatekeeping White hierarchy that has dominated Welsh culture forever.

Instead/
my piece talks about how being Welsh, being Black, being an artist, is not based on some outward evaluation, someone’s acknowledgment of my oppression, nor on some outside validation of my identity; I base my value on the meaning that is left when all else is stripped away/
That is, simply, How Do I Live?

How do I live when women and girls are subjected to such violence on their bodies, their psychology, their education and choices?

How do I live when to be born female is still to be thought of as lesser, to be treated as of little consequence?/
Read 7 tweets

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