🧵 (1/3) You can finally watch the brilliant talk Clarice Saadi from MATRIA gave at #MACS2025 on YouTube 👇 youtu.be/9CpQElnvSzI In her talk Clarice explains how transgender ideology has become embedded in Brazilian life and how gender ideology is eroding women's rights and freedom of speech.

Are you a woman living in Sussex? Are single-sex, women-only services important to you? Add your name to our open letter: brightonsisters.wordpress.com/open-letter-...

🧵 (1/2) #ManWithBenefits: Feeling free & totally unconcerned crossing a dark and unlit car park at 6:30pm whilst listening to my favourite music on full blast over my in-ear headphones. I choose this route for convenience as the lit route along the main road takes an ‘entire’ 90 seconds longer…

As the UN day for the Elimination Of Male Violence Against Women and Girls approaches, we prepare for 16 days of feminist actions. What issues & actions will be important to you? Let us know! #16Days #RespectWomen

Do you know this man? Flashing is a serious non contact offence, with a known link to contact sexual assault Travelling between Seaford & Brighton on Wed Oct 1st- 4:30-5.10pm Text 61016, or by calling 0800 40 50 40 quoting reference 488 of October 1 www.theargus.co.uk/news/2558979...

We’re asking ourselves the same question… Then again misogyny and male violence towards women and girls is so normalised it would be more surprising to see masses of people up in arms about Manson’s return to the UK this week…

(1/2) 📺 We released Jo Bartosch’s and Rob Jessel’s talks at our Men Challenging Sexism Conference to celebrate the publication of their book #Pornocracy today. youtube.com/watch?v=lfBL... Jo and Rob speak about how pornography fuels misogyny, driving a wedge between the sexes and how we can all

🧵(1/2) 🪩 Just released the 1st of many talks from our Men Challenging Sexism Conference in Brighton earlier this month on YouTube. 📺 Tune in as Vaishnavi Sundar exposes the chilling extent of public sexual violence in India. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l3y... Her talk reveals the societal factors

How should we talk about strangulation with young people? 🤔 @institutefas.bsky.social and Sex Education Forum explore in this insightful podcast episode ➡️ buff.ly/MDm0hVa

🧵 (1/2) Unsurprisingly #MACS2025, our men’s conference in solidarity with #FiLiA2025 has not been infiltrated, protested or attacked by activists. Nobody claimed we were in #Brighton to cause tension / be provocative. Despite the fact that some of the women speaking at FiLiA also gave their…

At #MACS2025 author Jo Bartosch is speaking about how the reduction of birth rates and how heterosexual couples are having less sex, but are watching more porn… #Pornocracy #Pornography

Chris Green (@chrisgreen777.bsky.social) talking at #MACS2025 about men’s crèche groups in the 1980s, where men provided childcare so women could enter politics. #MenChallengingSexism #AntiSexistActivism #Childcare #WomensRights #Equality

Course #FiLiA2025 will go ahead regardless of attempts by self-identified ‘activists’ to disrupt / stop the conference, including violence of course (property damage). Solidarity with the feminists in #Brighton who are gathered here for women's rights and liberation. #IStandWithFiLiA

Double the LOVE double the MONEY For the next week, every donation you give to RISE will be doubled. #EndMaleViolenceAgainstWomenAndGirls #FiLiA2025 Donate to RISE here: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

We launched an open letter in collaboration with No Abusers on Stage urging venues in the UK to cancel Marilyn Manson’s gigs this October/November Please sign or share our letter👇 menchallengingsexism.org.uk/2025/10/08/o... #MarilynManson #MVAWG #NoAbusersOnStage #CancelManson #CancelMansonUK

🧵(1/2) On Wednesday MACS & No Stage for Abusers will launch an open letter to @OVOArena, @nottinghamarena, @UtilitaArenaCDF, @O2ApolloManc & @birmingham_live demanding they cancel their upcoming booking of #MarilynManson. If you’re a UK-based organisation, institution or

Arrived on the south coast and currently travelling eastbound towards #Brighton, where we are hosting the 3rd ‘Men Challenging Sexism’ conference next Saturday & Sunday! More info on our programme & speakers at tr.ee/MACS25 #MACS2025 #MenChallengingSexism #BrightonEvents

🧵(1/2) Join us at our 3rd ‘Men Challenging Sexism Conference’ in #Brighton next weekend! It's a great way to learn how to become more empathetic, learn how to recognise & challenge our own & other men’s sexism and meet like-minded men. Tickets & info: tr.ee/MACS25 #MACS2025 #BrightonEvents

Just 10 days to go until the #MenChallengingSexism2025 conference in #Brighton. Join us for conversations about how men can be more empathetic humans, pornography, gay rights, women's sports & challenging male violence against women & girls. tr.ee/MACS25 #MACS2025

In preparation for the #MACS2025 conference in 2 weeks, we‘ll discuss Caitlin Roper's 'Sex dolls, robots & woman hating" in our discussion group tomorrow. Caitlin will speak at #FiLiA2025 & our conference in #Brighton in 2 weeks #MACSDiscussionGroup #MenWhoRead #Reading #ReadingGroup #BookGroups

🏆 Massive congratulations to England for becoming rugby world champions!!! A well deserved title!! 🏆 #RWC2025 #RedRoses #RugbyWorldCup #Champions #England #Rugby

During the 1st weekend of Oktoberfest a man sexually assaulted a woman & 7 women reported 6 acts of sexual harassment. Dear men at Oktoberfest: 👉Be an active bystander, 👉report men who harass or assault women & 👉don't harass / assault women. www.br.de/nachrichten/... #Oktoberfest2025 #MVAWG

20 days from today Caitlin Roper from Collective Shout will speak at #MACS2025 in #Brighton about how how AI facilitates new ways to exploit and harm women & children. Day & weekend tickets (£25/£50) 👇 tr.ee/MACS25 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CollectiveShout

20 days from today Clarice Saadi from MATRIA will speak at #MACS2025 in #Brighton about how gender ideology, imported from the global north, enhances threats to women’s and girls’ sex-based rights in #Brazil. Day & weekend tickets (£25/£50) 👇 tr.ee/MACS25

20 days from today Melinda Tankard Reist from Collective Shout will speak at #MACS2025 in #Brighton. Her talk will expose how TikTok is mining young women and girls for the sex trade. Day & weekend tickets (£25/£50) 👇 tr.ee/MACS25 #TikTok #SexTrade #SexualExploitation #CollectiveShout

If this is you, your mate or if you see a guy filming/taking a photo of a woman or girl without her consent, say something! Behaviour like this is NOT normal. It’s invasive & abusive. What would you say/do? Say: “What are you doing?” Do: “Stand in front of his camera.” By @womenthatrock - Insta

Lisa-Marie Taylor, CEO of FiLiA, said: "We are delighted to be in Brighton for our 10th conference which will include speakers from Afghanistan, China and Columbia, as well as local women from Brighton, Hove and Sussex." www.theargus.co.uk/news/2545622...

1 month from today Chris Green, OBE (@chrisgreen1954.bsky.social) will speak at the Men Challenging Sexism Conference about 50 years of activism to end sexism & men’s violence against women, incl. founding MACS & White Ribbon UK. Day & weekend tickets (£25/£50) 👇 tr.ee/MACS25 #MACS2025

1 month from today James Roberts of HumanGayMale, returns to #Brighton after a local pub cancelled their booking in August. James will join #MACS2025 for a conversation about gay rights, community building+more… Day & weekend tickets (£25/£50) 👇 tr.ee/MACS25 #GayRights #Community

Organisers of Sisters Salon Brighton are proud to add our names to this vital open letter. The racism, misogyny & homophobia propagated by the far right is counter to the rights, interests & safety of all women & girls. #feministsagainstfascism actionnetwork.org/petitions/e8...

Gutted 🤢 1 of the world’s biggest #metal bands, #Slipknot, mainstreams abuser #MarilynManson by booking him to headline #KNOTFEST in #Mexico! #NotFest impressed #CoreyTaylor, #JimRoot, #ShawnCrahan & #EloyCassgrande! #NoMansonOnStage #NoAbusersOnStage #MansonIsAnAbuser

Please join us and sign 👇 petition to urge leaders in #Germany, #Netherlands, #Canada and #Australia to take #Afghanistan to court. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/... #WomensRights #HumanRights #Injustice #Taliban #HumanRightsAbuse

We have signed 👇 petition to free activist Ibtissame Betty Lachgar, who is facing 30 months in prison for ‘offending’ Islam with a t-shirt she wore. www.change.org/p/lib%C3%A9r... #FreeBetty #IbtissameLachgar #Injustice

Women and girls in abusive / controlling relationships with males are advised to turn off any hidden phones due to today’s #EmergencyAlert at 3pm across the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #DomesticAbuse #DomesticViolence #CoerciveControl #MVAWG

Conscious we’re a bit late to the show but how the actual…has Graham Linehan been arrested over social media post relating “to him challenging a ‘trans-identified male’ in a ‘female-only space’”?! theguardian.com/society/2025... #IStandWithGrahamLinehan #IStandWithGlinner #GrahamLinehan

If you’re in #Brighton next Monday for the Trades Union Congress or otherwise, I recommend you attend 👇 #TUCFringe event ‘Prostitution and the trade Union movement’ Monday 8 September 6:30-8pm | FREE (delegates) /£5 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/prostituti... #TUC2025 #NordicModelNow

#MarilynManson on tour 2025: 👉claims being right (=innocent) 👉disdainful of survivors of his abuse 👉reframes his abuse as a campaign to ‘destroy’ him #DARVO #MVAWG #Misogyny #NoStageForManson #MansonIsAnAbuser #NoAbusersOnStage #MarilynManson #MACSxNoStageForAbusers

For the August #MACSDiscussionGroup we’re reading @davidchallen.bsky.social's 'Unthinkable: A story of control, violence and my mother' DM /email to join! Monday 1 September | 5:45pm (BST) www.hachette.co.uk/titles/david... #TheUnthikable #DavidChallen #CoerciveControl #DomesticAbuse #TrueStory

🧵(1/2) MACS supports calls from women’s organisations to remove Snoop Dogg as the AFL’s choice for the grand final on 27 September! Snoop Dogg been physically violent to women, sexually exploited them & boasts about this in his misogynistic songs / lyrics. Share your concerns… #NoStageForAbusers

Research by Refuge looking at domestic abuse amongst young women & girls. - 49% said perp threatened to harm them. - 35% said perp threatened to kill them. -62% of 16-25yr olds surveyed who reported physical violence, half said they were strangled or suffocated. news.sky.com/story/distur...

Our 2025 highlights so far!👇 menchallengingsexism.org.uk/2025/08/13/h... 👉Collab + No Abusers On Stage cancels #MarilynManson 👉Launching #RefuseTheBait 👉Helping Collective Shout take down #AndrewTate & #NoMercy 👉Helping decriminalise abortion 👉Contributing to #misogyny inquiry & Lost Boys report

We are all Sarah. "I simply asked if they could run an additional space for biological women. I thought a rape crisis service would be sympathetic to the needs of women who have a trauma response to males. I felt it was a modest and reasonable ask.’’ www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...

Honoured that Clarice Saadi, Brazilian feminist & director of MATRIA will speak at #MACS25 about the threats of transgender ideology to the sex-based rights of women & girls in Brazil. tr.ee/MACS25 #MenChallengingSexism2025 #SexBasedRights #MATRIABrazil

🤩 Support Ash Regan's #Unbuyable bill in less than 3 minutes using Not Buying It's bill easy guide👇 notbuyingit.org.uk/sex-trade-ta... Help criminalise sex buyers / decriminalise those who are bought. 🙏 🙏 Ash Regan MSP & Not Buying It

🧵(1/2) We’re thrilled to announce James Roberts of @HumanGayMale will speak at #MACS2025 in #Brighton about gay men’s priorities, the impact of gender identity ideology & community organising. 20% off tickets until 19/8👇 eventbrite.com/e/1137720515... Last week a pub cancelled...

The horrifying reality for women who stand against men’s violence against women, is that men will aim that same violence & #misogyny directly at them for doing so. Thousands of men sent rape & death threats to women who objected, to games that glorify rape & sexual violence. #CollectiveShout

Non-fatal strangulation poses significant health risks, including strokes, nerve damage, and psychological harm. @institutefas.bsky.social has released guidelines for the clinical management of non-fatal strangulation, aiming to provide victim-survivors with optimal care.

#MenChallengingSexism2025 speaker update! MACS co-founder Chris (@chrisgreen1954.bsky.social) will speak about his involvement in anti-sexist work in the last 50 years & how to engage men. 11+12 Oct. in #Brighton Tickets 👉 macs2025.eventbrite.co.uk #MACS2025 #AntiSexism #Campaigning

Listen to #MarilynManson survivor Bianca Allaine Kyne's full testimony👇 “So he had the 14-year old girl with braces on his lap & you know, playing with her hair...it's just really disgusting...she's 14 & he is 26 years old…” linktr.ee/fromnowonpod #BelieveWomen #Podcast #NoStageForAbusers

Whilst #Nottingham politicians (Alex Norris MP + councillors Georgia Power & Matt Shannon) support #NoAbusersOnStage & calls to cancel #MarilynManson’s upcoming gig. Host #MotorpointArenaNottingham continues to stay silent www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting... #NoStageForManson #MansonIsAnAbuser