Obviously one of the main motivations for both @CountDeadWomen and @FemicideCensus is to raise awareness of men's fatal violence against women in the UK.
Consequently, I am pleased when either my work @CountDeadWomen or the team's work from @FemicideCensus is used in protests/art (or media or cited in academia).
Although it pisses me of when the source isn't cited, I also recognise that data becomes its own thing when it is released into the world.
Anyway, there was a fantastic demo last weekend of the names of UK 118 women who are suspected to have been killed by men this year, stitched onto pillowcases. The photos are really moving.
But look at this tosser, inserting himself with his TWIW placard.
At least 122 UK women killed with a male suspect this year but this fella wants to highlight 'transwomen'.
How many transwomen have been killed by men (or radical feminists) this year? None. Zero. 0 -as far as we know -and also,please note, the number of women *is* an undercount
In fact, at least 342 UK women have been killed by a man or (where the criminal justice process is not complete) in circumstances where the principal suspect is male, since the last known male who identified as a transwoman was killed in the UK on 11 Jan 2019.
342 dead women are totally irrelevant to that dude. Nothing.
For anyone who might be interested and who hasn't seen this before, I wrote this earlier this year about why Counting Dead Women is about *women* kareningalasmith.com/2021/03/16/cou…
And I wrote this too about the murder/manslaughter of people (all males) who identify as transgender in the UK - as far as we know - since 2009. kareningalasmith.com/2021/04/21/cou…
I should hope it goes without saying, I am very pleased that no person who believes themselves to have a gender identify that differs from their sex has been murdered in the UK this year. Long may this continue.

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16 Nov
Her name was Stella Frew and her life was worth so much more than the 4 and a half years that James Martin was sentenced for killing her.
This is misogyny in action.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
From her daughter “It pains us to think how frightened she must have been.”
“Learning the fact my mum’s bag was taken and later discarded on the road with all her belongings has hurt us all.Knowing it could have been returned or handed in and not dumped like it was worthless.”
She went on: “She was somebody, she had a family who love her dearly.

She went on: “She was somebody, she had a family who love her dearly.
“Mr Martin may have thought my mum was worthless but to us she was everything.”
Read 6 tweets
19 Oct
So, I’ve seen this floating about for a day or so and I wasn’t going to bother to respond, because it is so ludicrous that it doesn’t even begin to get under my skin.
(And thank you to women who have responded citing some of what some of those named actually do.)
Firstly, none of us who spoke were paid to contribute to the #FiLiA2021 conference.
Most of us there at our own expense, except I hope, women on low income, whose expenses will be covered.
FiLiA itself is created by volunteers.
Then, speaking for myself:
Since January 2012 I have collected the names of all women killed by men in the UK and shared these on social media, mainly on my blog here wordpress.com/view/kareninga… and also at @CountDeadWomen
Read 18 tweets
6 Sep
Find myself blocked by this misogynist @TomPashby standing for Deputy Leader of the the Green Party.
Tom said "A cis woman (Women who are born women) who can’t give birth is no less of a woman and you can apply that to people that identify as women."
Tom,I couldn't have children. I'm female.That makes me 100% woman & you cannot apply that to any dude, no matter how he identifies
It's so telling when a man lets slip that he sees child bearing as the defining status of womanhood, which he inadvertently does by using that analogy.
Read 6 tweets
16 Jun
I don’t want to see women berated for their first steps into contested ground but feminism isn’t a spectator sport. If you want in, you put yourself in. If you sit on the board of a national ‘feminist’ NGO, you surely can’t sit it out and wait for the storm to pass.
If you’re taking the first steps into battles other feminists have been fighting for years, you don’t assume yours is the nuanced, informed or most valid position.

You remember that no advance in women’s rights has happened without a fight from women.
Surely you recognise that no advance is women’s rights has been achieved by women being nice.

We haven’t yet achieved the liberation of women from patriarchal subordination. We are still fighting.

Surely you know that if you’ve opted in?
Read 5 tweets
15 Jun
Thinking about Daria Pionko, a 21-year-old woman who was murdered in December 2015, 2 1/2 years in to Leeds' failed prostitution experiment.
We can't really say that the managed zone caused her death, a man did that, but prostitution gives murderous men easy access to women.
This is a good piece by @sarahditum newstatesman.com/politics/femin…
It's taken Leeds City Council more than 5 years to close down the managed zone since Daria's murder.
It hurts to think how many women have been harmed in Holbeck since then.
Early in 2017 (or late in 2016?!) @nia_endingVAWG opened a new specialist refuge, specialising in supporting women who'd been subjected to sexual exploitation, particularly prostitution.
We named it Daria House, in Daria’s memory we say prostitution can never be safe for women.
Read 5 tweets
15 Jun
Crying.
Thank goodness.
And like @bindelj sais, shame on you for taking so long Leeds City Council @LeedsCC_News

Than you to the women of Leeds and West Yorkshire in particular who have campaigned long and hard for this day.
I think it's highly disingenuous to claim/imply that a reduction of women in prostitution on the streets is a reflection of the success of the scheme. I think many cities will report the same due to COVID, and that certainly doesn't mean that prostitution isn't happening.
And this ... "But since its introduction, the scheme has been subject to complaints about soliciting on streets beyond the bounds of the scheme and reports of men making unwelcome approaches to women not involved in street sex work when they are on residential streets."
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