Yes I read it too, and enjoyed much of it, actually. But it did strike me that I could have written an additional chapter all about Sophie.

I abhor political violence. It destroys democracy, it favours the powerful. But as the radical right makes hay, I would beg people to inform themselves. It is right wing extremism that kills. The radical right are more politically violent than any other group. Such is well documented.

Glastonbury 2025 I am in you 😍

We are liaising with the police and understand that a criminal investigation is ongoing. We will continue to hold space for women, raise awareness about the inequalities we face as women & take action to improve our lives. #SistersSalon #Brighton brightonsisters.wordpress.com/statement-on...

Do you know who always seems nice? Krishnan Guru-Murthy. As Nigel's go, he seems alright. As you were.

This is, I think, transactivisms biggest coup. Persuading young women that towing the line and putting all their political energy into caping for men's rights is the radical thing to do. www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/nadi...

Open letter to umbrella bodies in the MVAWG sector written by @shonaghdillon.bsky.social and @kareningalasmith.bsky.social These women have been pivotal in defending women's single sex support services and the fight is not over. open.substack.com/pub/shonaghd...

Nobody read Sylvia Plath if they're in a bad mood. "Like a terrible fish" 😂😂

Inspiring stuff here. "Women find themselves caught in a pincer move between misogynists on the right and left, who threaten either to shunt us back into the kitchen with attacks on our reproductive rights and freedoms, or to deny that we have any specific rights at all."

Jeni speaks for very many of us 🙏💜🔥

Antifeminism. But Make It Progressive. In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling. "I am tired. Tired and down to one word: no." open.substack.com/pub/jeniharv...

“Those provisions were always there, but the Supreme Court has set that out beyond a doubt.” Clear, strong and impressive from Labour's Minister for Women & Equalities Bridget Phillipson MP speaking for the Government on the #SupremeCourt judgment. Great to hear! 🙏

Gender, not sex. Gender, not sex. She is talking about gender, not sex. She is not saying that female people are a figment of sexist imaginations, she is saying that gender is a figment of sexist imaginations. Like the oft quoted de Beauvoir, she will be turning in her grave.

A really informative blog for anyone with questions as to how the Supreme Court ruling may affect women, girls, and trans men. "We urge everyone to read the judgement before leaping to any conclusions about it's effects". brightonsisters.wordpress.com/blog-sex-in-...

Opinion of @ObserverUK that @ForWomenScot ruling was necessary & protects everyone "Right across society..the law has in effect been rewritten by leaders & HR managers in response to activist demands..in a way that unlawfully discriminates against women"

Today transactivists pissed all over the Millicent Fawcett statue and held placards issuing death threats. Honestly, what is it going to take for people to see this for the explicitly antifeminist, misogynistic movement it is.

Cannot bear it, can you. To be thwarted by a bunch of middle aged women who are supposed to be invisible; who men have decided are now past it, irrelevant, good only for domestic duties. We came together to tell you no. That we were keeping some space for ourselves. And you are apoplectic.

I thought the consensus was that no man would ever pretend to be something he wasn't in order to invade women's spaces? Also, Jolyon, mate. Keep your private thoughts to yourself.

'“I am so relieved and so pleased by the Supreme Court judgment” ... As one of the three directors of For Women Scotland, the grassroots campaign group who took their argument all the way to the UK’s highest court, she had every reason to be happy.' www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

'Five judges from the UK supreme court ruled unanimously that the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 did not include transgender women who hold gender recognition certificates (GRCs).' 💃🍸💃 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The court ruling makes clear to all what ordinary women across the UK have been saying for years: the law protects single-sex spaces & services. A significant moment in the fight to protect women's, especially lesbians, rights. #WeKnowWhatAWomanIs www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...

Well it's not as though you haven't made a career out of getting things wrong.

OH MY GOD YESSSS!!!!

Male people are not female people, no matter if they have a special pass. This is the truth we have been fighting for, that matters to women's lives and freedom. My stomach is turning with anxiety this morning but whatever the outcome we fight on. #WeKnowWhatAWomanIs

Mate we are never getting out of the patriarchy 😭

Does anyone remember when Sally Hines said that before the enlightenment female skeletons didn't exist? Sorry. Just feeling sentimental.

Brendan O'Neill, who has never given two shits about VAWG, suddenly finds it within himself to care when the opportunity to demonise both Muslims and left leaning female MP's arises. @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social has worked for decades to support women and girls facing violence. This is shameful.

Except that 75% of the 238 men recently deported without due process to El Salvador had no known criminal record. One day this will all be over. And everyone will know what you have done.

In the lead up to publication of Minority Rule, Ash Sarkar appeared in many interviews and podcasts, newly critical of the ways in which identity politics had derailed the cause for social justice. Those of us who shared the same material conditions and so ought to be natural allies had splintered

New post on Judith Butler's critique of Trumpian authoritarianism, but refusal to understand her own. open.substack.com/pub/culturew...

A global movement of far right, authoritarian leaders are coming together in an attack on our independent, democratic institutions. They wish to dismantle the checks and balances that curb their power. They do this in the name of "freedom" and "democracy" - principles in which they do not believe.

Do I hate men? #notallmen But is it really so ridiculous and dangerous for women to do so considering all that Hollie goes on to list? There is no moral equivalence when the balance of power is so skewed. It is not the same thing.

First we turned the frogs gay... Now look.

Happy Mother's Day to all. This wee one is now at an age where she can cook me steak for tea. ❤️

Compensating for something lol?

No no no no no. This a total dereliction of duty of care and of safeguarding. You cannot put the most vulnerable girls in the land in mixed sex sleeping arrangements. Shamefully negligent and a scandal waiting to happen. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

"Feminism can become easily less concerned with dismantling systems of male domination than with the business of appearing sufficiently, charismatically kick ass. The politics of change become lost to the politics of fandom. It is easier to swim in the shallow end" open.substack.com/pub/jeniharv...

File under weird shit posh people do. 🧐

This is an absolutely brilliant piece. Thank you Jeni.

Attention! Attention! Feminism in the Attention Economy New post by me. open.substack.com/pub/jeniharv...

A vibrant hub of feminist organising and solidarity, Sisters Salon makes a difference for the women of Brighton and beyond. I am proud to know you @hanoverhussy.bsky.social Always working, always busy, making other women's lives better. youtu.be/DVmBXzwAScg?...

After a Christmas break from social media I returned yesterday to look at my Twitter feed. In just two weeks the levels of disinformation and of racist and abusive rhetoric have ratcheted up yet further. It is a vile feeding frenzy. My belief is that there is no longer any ethical way to engage on

Hope one of them takes a sneaky piss in your flower bed.

All my admiration and gratitude to the women of Woman's Place UK, whose work on this issue has been absolutely pivotal. I will never forget the power and excitement of those early meetings. In sisterhood. You set a new wave rolling.

Re: #Amnesty – we published this blog back in September. 'Amnesty: denying women truth, justice, freedom and dignity' by @gappytales.bsky.social 🔗 www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/... #WeKnowWhatAWomanIs #WhatIsAWoman #SexMatters

My son has just posted this to the family group chat. Oh HAHAHAHA says everyone. 🙄 Except the kind of questions I ask are far more interesting. Ones like: Why is he doing that? What did she just say? What's going on? 😂

Like many, I have chosen to disengage from X after watching Musk turn it into a pit of right wing extremism, disinformation, and racism. I am greatly alarmed by what I see as a surge towards fascism, authoritarianism, misogyny, and the scapegoating of minorities. Extremism is not only the preserve