🖋I wrote first piece for a while with my name on it! On pornography regulation and the decision coming up for govt: whether to make "consent" the law or overrule the Lords www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I wrote about the Equality Act and why i think it's wrong to assume young gender identity activists are progressive www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Guardian view: decriminalise abortion www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Interview with one of the extremely rare US Democrats to stick up for women's single-sex sports and spaces: just 22 years old and a former volunteer for Bernie Sanders

Me in the Guardian on the Supreme Court. Women's rights are sex-based, always have been, and this fight isn't over. But the judgment is a huge moment. ://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/17/clarity-uk-supreme-court-rights-of-women-campaigners?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

🖋 i wrote a review of Julie Bindel's excellent new book about lesbians, I've never posted on substack before so not many people have seen it. Please have a read, & share if you like it open.substack.com/pub/susannar...

This is such a good piece -sexual politics of migration are often ignored, is rare to read about the women left behind www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Susanna Rustin‘s account of independent MP Eleanor Rathbone is “a stark reminder that political and legislative progress for women is not linear, but often a precarious, exhausting and continued negotiation“. Laura Hamilton on @susannajrustin.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social. buff.ly/JlhNOTO

Really great page of Guardian letters on education...

Very pleased to have a piece on T-levels in today's paper. These reforms were meant to transform vocational ed for the better - boosting life chances of 60% who don't go to uni. But it hasn't worked! & this isn't being faced..

I wrote about T-levels, which were meant to transform vocational learning but haven't worked out. And why this whole mess doesn't get anything like the attention it deserves www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New Public Management is not fit for purpose (though it is alive and well in many parts of Whitehall). We need New Public *Mobilisation* if mission-led government is to have impact. My latest MJ column… www.themj.co.uk/public-mobil...

"Victim support and women's refuses are chronically underfunded.. A policy focused on the needs of victims and survivors would send a powerful message" - editorial on violence against women www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm on today's episode of AntiSocial @bbcradio4.bsky.social @bbcsounds.bsky.social talking about feminist arguments about surrogacy since the 80s. Is a good episode I think, range of voices/views on contested subject www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

This is a fantastic piece by @glosswitch.bsky.social thecritic.co.uk/making-the-p...

Here's tonight's editorial on the very weird, unfair decision by Bridget Phillipson not to include sixth form colleges in teacher pay rise: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s a blind spot for liberal / social democratic etc parties throughout the world. They’ve painted themselves into a corner that they’re struggling to get out of.

This is a really good piece by @susandalgety.bsky.social. I have no idea how many US voters were put off by the Democrats' anti-science sex denialism (in the misleading name of "trans rights"). But liberals/ democrats everywhere urgently need to stop thinking .. 1/2 x.com/DalgetySusan...

📢 I'm doing an event on Saturday, talking about my book which puts UK gender-critical feminism in historical context, with @nicolelampert.bsky.social, hosted by a Fawcett Society group in north London. Booking link here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sex-or-gen...

There has been much-needed attention on the sexual exploitation & abuse of children in the news recently. However, what news reports on this controversy fail to acknowledge is the role of the internet in grooming cases. Read more from @susannajrustin.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/3fcksh8n

I wrote about need for policies to tackle child sexual exploitation (grooming) gangs *and also* other forms of abuse including the disaster unfolding online www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I wrote about need for policies to tackle child sexual exploitation (grooming) gangs *and also* other forms of abuse including the disaster unfolding online www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

7 January 1792: #OTD Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women was published. This text was hugely influential and is regarded as one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy.

just became a paying subscriber to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social's substack broligarchy.substack.com/p/who-is-the...

I will be going on strike with my Guardian and Observer colleagues about the sale of the Observer from midnight for 48 hours. For more info @gonuj.org or @nujofficial.bsky.social or come and visit us outside Kings Place, Kings Cross

And here is another excellent letter objecting to the proposed sale of the Observer @gonuj.org www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

And here is a letter from the very-recently-retired Observer editor Paul Webster www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

Very pleased to have signed this letter about the 'sale' of the Observer along with many colleagues www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

* the labelling of gender-critical posts & people as intolerant is one reason why I'm not making the effort to move over here currently. Not saying X is better but I've had enough of gender identity activists throwing insults around. Anyway thanks if you're following me,will try to post sometimes! 🙏

This is the US model of gender affirmative healthcare that people (including me) have been called bigots for rejecting. & now this app has labelled @jessesingal.com "intolerant".. so here we are again: in the looking-glass world where it's bigoted to think it's wrong to cut children's breasts off

I am joining Guardian and Observer colleagues who are on strike for 48 hours over the sale of the Observer. I will be back at work on Friday. For more information follow @nujofficial.bsky.social and see nuj.org.uk/savetheobserver

📢 The Stuart Hall Foundation's essay prize is open for submissions! For an essay by a writer aged 18-30, prize of £2k, more details here. Last year's inaugural winner wrote about Palestinian geographies www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...

"There is something ludicrous about a guy poised to roll out cars that are going to start at a hundred grand boasting about being mega-inclusive." 🎉 Marina Hyde lays into woke capitalism www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian view on children's homes: cap profits and don't stop there www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thanks if you've followed me on here btw, I need to catch up later ( I haven't left X but trying this out). And I'm going to try again sharing a photo which didn't work just now..

🚄 On train to Glasgow for my first Scottish book event. V exciting ( thank you FiLiA 🙏) to have chance to discuss UK women's movement history with Scottish panel & audience. Thinking too about Scottish women in my book: Flora Drummond, Jennie Lee, the "Red" Duchess, Aberdeen's women's lib group..♀️

First post! Someone on X asked me share this here so here goes: my piece for US feminist website Fairer Disputations, about UK's sex-based rights movement and why 'gender' on its own doesn't cut it fairerdisputations.org/british-femi...