Thread by @ForthFeminists

Now @MagiGibson: One of the two cancelled women poets in Scotland since 2015 for speaking against self-ID #FVFWomensFestival

@MagiGibson Now removed from Scottish Book Trust for removing to sign up for new code of conduct has been on register for over 30 years. #FVFWomensFestival

@MagiGibson Poetry can be political and feminist. The very act of women writing poetry is feminist. Salma, Indian poet removed from school when menstruating. husband said he would throw acid on her face for writing. #FVFWomensFestival

@MagiGibson Hugged her baby boy as she slept to prevent her husband from throwing acid on her while she slept. Exchanged sex with her husband for sanitary protection #FVFWomensFestival

@MagiGibson Jenny Lindsay is another poet cancelled for speaking her mind in Scotland #FVFWomensFestival

@MagiGibson This stretched back to ancient Greece and Rome. Mary Beard says women were women's voices were only to be heard at home, and women were to be as guarded of their voice as taking off their clothes in public #FVFWomensFestival

@MagiGibson Magi Gibson wrote a poem about it being easier to take off your clothes in public than to use your voice. The scolds bridle en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scold%27s… is our inheritance #FVFWomensFestival

@MagiGibson Distant in time it may be MB warns us, but it's a tradition we are the direct heirs of #FVFWomensFestival

@MagiGibson Manifests in cancellations and no-platforming, job losses, men in black balaclavas. Men speaking up have much less push back #FVFWomensFestival

@MagiGibson Women are conditioned to not express anger! We are betraying our sex. Even when we speak calmly we're accused of being aggressive or talking too much #FVFWomensFestival

You'd think even if we spoke about the reality of the female body, our own space we'd be on safer ground! BUT we are told "the true subjects of poetry are male subjects, not OUR bodies. #FVFWomensFestival

Women's rights in Afghanistan were lost overnight. Even being able to talk about our own bodies in Scotland, which we fought for in 2nd wave feminism (reclaim it from men), are under attack #FVFWomensFestival

cervix havers, womb havers... #FVFWomensFestival

Women themselves are a disadvantaged group. Women employees had to take Glasgow City Council to court for disparity in pay and £770million pounds was only agreed in 2022! #FVFWomensFestival

Until recently Gaelic and Scots was suppressed. the Scottish Government know that language & the suppression of language is important, which is why they have fought for the survival of Scots and Gaelic. But are happy to suppress the language of the female body #FVFWomensFestival

Vulva art is being censored in womens arts groups not for Calvinistic reasons, but out of respect for "trans sisters" #FVFWomensFestival

I'll be asking @MagiGibson for links to the poems she's reading to post them later! #FVFWomensFestival

@MagiGibson Advice for female poets: if you're about to read a poem with a vagina in it, don't be a c**t (to get past the twitter censors!). #FVFWomensFestival

@MagiGibson Poetry is a way to fight back. "Your silence will not protect you" - A Lorde. Neither will your kindness. #FVFWomensFestival