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What does Trump's win mean for abortion rights... here's an article I did not want to write but we are where we are.... thread incoming... One: this is bad. Already since Dobbs, women have died as a result of abortion bans, girls have been forced to carry their rapist's foetus, and told they are too immature to have an abortion but mature enough to have a baby. WTF.

Yesterday the place I used to work tweeted all its Rwanda coverage except any articles written by me. Which is odd as I was one of the first reporters to realise this was different from the Australian policy & the first UK reporter to uncover a 13th refugee killing there… This was my first article on the scheme - looking at the failures of the Australian and Israel policy bylinetimes.com/2022/04/14/joh…

There’s a lot to agree with in this piece about individualism & choice feminism, but as someone who was v active before & during the 4th Wave, I do think we deserve some more credit… heres why… thread incoming thetimes.co.uk/article/089098… I got involved in feminist activism in 2007 and I really do believe a lot of the actions we took were radical & about collective action. We did consciousness raising, pro abortion protests, Reclaim the Nights, cultural events, grassroots protests against porn culture…

Falling for Christmas on the telly and tree up - it’s getting festive in here! Cc @DrLizJenkinson 🎄🎄 The script and acting leave much to be desired, as does the narrative progression, but I’m obviously so into it.

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I looked at how the cost of living crisis is impacting council-run children's homes and the results were staggering - with huge energy bill rises and concerns Government support does not go far enough bylinetimes.com/2022/10/27/rev… FOI requests sent to councils in England and Wales found that more than half of those that shared their predicted energy costs for the next 12 months are expecting to pay double the amount of the previous years. bylinetimes.com/2022/10/27/rev…

Since the leak of the Roe v Wade decision, me & @Heidi_Cuda at @BylineTimes have been relentlessly covering the story - with data, reporting, and analysis. In May, we looked at the data on maternal mortality, poverty & women's rep in states ready to ban: bylinetimes.com/2022/05/04/64-… We followed that up with an analysis on the roots of the backlash against abortion - its echoes of 1860s US, Nazi-era Germany, fascist Italy, and a rising far-right today bylinetimes.com/2022/05/05/the… @Heidi_Cuda @BylineTimes

Me and @AdamBienkov looked into Conservative MPs and opposition to abortion in the wake of Roe being overruled in the US... with concerning findings bylinetimes.com/2022/06/30/con… @BylineTimes From Danny Kruger saying he disagrees with the fact that women have an absolute right to bodily autonomy, to the women's health minister voting against abortion rights, many Tories are antagonistic towards reproductive rights bylinetimes.com/2022/06/30/con… @AdamBienkov @BylineTimes

“To do this work, you absolutely must believe that it can make a difference – that it will inform people, expose those with bad intentions.” theguardian.com/world/2022/jun… My experience reporting on far right extremism is not as devastating and painful as described in this article. But I recognise a lot of what Leah says here.

I’ve seen a tweet saying the UK gave asylum to every person from Rwanda in 2020 - I spent a lot of time looking at home office data today and I’m not sure this is correct. Here’s the data I have (asylum granted in red) The MOU also says “The Participants will make arrangements for the United Kingdom to resettle a portion of Rwanda’s most vulnerable refugees in the United Kingdom, recognising both Participants’ commitment towards providing better international protection for refugees."

OK So I've read the speech and the MOU and the announcement and there's a lot to be concerned about in this proposed policy - thread incoming...

https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1514544978479001601

1. From the MOU: The objective of this Arrangement is to create a mechanism for the relocation of asylum seekers whose claims are not being considered by the United Kingdom, to Rwanda, which will process their claims and settle or remove (as appropriate) individuals

Hold on a sec, why did Johnson refer to Windrush in his list of people seeking refuge? Windrush was the UK asking Commonwealth citizens to come here to help us rebuild after the war? gov.uk/government/spe… This is bullshit: "It’s a striking fact that around seven out of ten of those arriving in small boats last year were men under 40, paying people smugglers to queue jump and taking up our capacity to help genuine women and child refugees." - Women & girls arrive via family...

EXCLUSIVE: I spoke to 3 families of EU Nationals left in limbo as they wait for Family Permits to bring a parent or spouse to the UK... with one man spending 15 months apart from his wife bylinetimes.com/2022/04/13/the… @BylineTimes Marie, an EU National who has lived in the UK for decades, has been waiting more than 6 months for a family permit to bring her elderly mother with dementia to live in the UK bylinetimes.com/2022/04/13/the… @BylineTimes

EXCLUSIVE: Mine and @LavinSascha big scoop for @BylineBITE @BylineTimes on #IWD2022

Thousands of NHS staff sexually harassed by patients since 2013 - with at least 12,675 cases recorded inc sexual assault & indecent exposure

bylinetimes.com/2022/03/08/iwd… This investigation has been 3 months in the making and exposes the widespread nature of third-party sexual harassment in the public sector, including NHS

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UK media seemed to miss the arrest of former Fox exec in London on Thurs for violating sanctions & his links to anti-abortion, anti-LGBTIQ oligarch - me & @Heidi_Cuda didn't tho... bylinetimes.com/2022/03/07/the… @BylineTimes This is a story about disinformation, about global anti-rights actors from UK, US, Russia & Europe collaborating to rollback progress bylinetimes.com/2022/03/07/the… @Heidi_Cuda @BylineTimes

Another woman has died in Poland after being denied an abortion. Both her twins died. She is at least the 2nd woman to die since the ban was tightened a year ago.

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1486362334134165506

PRO LIFE THAT’S A LIE, YOU DONT CARE WHEN WOMEN DIE.

Since August, I've interviewed various vulnerable people stuck in Afghanistan, including interpreters who worked with the British, and women's rights activists.

Now we have the emails that show PM authorised the pets charity evacuation, something previously denied. Here's the story of a military family, trapped in Kabul, fearful the Taliban will "kill us while we wait" bylinetimes.com/2021/12/07/the…
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So after years of freelancing on the side, this year I got my first proper full time, permanent journalism job at @BylineTimes – & what a year to do it in! Here's a thread of the stories I'm proud of.
Starting with THATCHERISM IN YOGA PANTS! bylinetimes.com/2021/01/18/fro… How corporate supporters of International Women's Day are failing to deliver equal pay:

bylinetimes.com/2021/03/08/iwd…

Here's a thread on my reporting of the rise of far-right/normalisation of far-right politics in UK/US/Europe - @BylineTimes @wildwalkerwoman

Starting with a joint piece by me & @paulmasonnews on far-right pressure re Borders Bill bylinetimes.com/2021/12/15/far… Starting with the UK - how Johnson's fantasy of Peppa Pig world betrays authoritarian tendencies bylinetimes.com/2021/12/01/new…

The other night I watched a doc about the attempted insurrection at the Capitol and had some very real concerns bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod… which I will share in a thread. The doc featured illuminating interviews with many of the people who stormed the Capitol but it was really concerning that no context was given about their views or their previous careers.

In two weeks I’m having a camera inserted through my cervix with no pain relief. I’m told to take an ibuprofen an hour before, while women report screaming in pain at the procedure. All this talk of cervixes and yet we aren’t really ever talking about pain, sexism & medicine. One of the hardest stories I ever worked on was about obstetric violence and the pain inflicted on vulvas, vaginas, wombs and cervixes. I had nightmares about it. odz.sk/en/when-gyneco…

Partner of "official" IWD campaign HCL Technology: in 2018 women's median hourly wage is 88p for every £1 a man earns, a gender pay gap of 11.8% gender-pay-gap.service.gov.uk/Employer/2ArjF… Partner of "official" IWD campaign Medtronic: women's median hourly wage is 87p for every £1 a man earns, a gender pay gap of 13%: gender-pay-gap.service.gov.uk/Employer/HJM2s…