🧵1 / “No TERFs! No JK Rowling!” These words are part of a pre-recorded ‘welcome’ message played during the show GROOVE, funded by The Arts Council England and The National Lottery Community Fund

Why are @ace_london and @TNLComFund supporting misogyny in theatre? 2 / The exclusionary message is explicitly aimed at women who defend their rights on the basis of being members of the female sex. It is staged as a celebratory moment to garner cheers and applause from the audience. You OK with this @ace_london and @TNLComFund?

🧵1/ “I am gay because I’m a male who is exclusively attracted to others males” I said. The guy I was talking to responded “You need to sit with that for a while”, and promptly ended our convo. 2/ This happened yesterday in Brighton. I’d struck up a conversation with a guy on the beach, having seen him reading Germaine Greer’s ‘The Female Eunuch’. He had long red hair, painted nails and fingers, and just from the way he held his book and how he generally held himself...