I’m often sneeringly accused by all sides of being ‘obsessed’ with the rise of trans. And it's true that for the past few years I’ve not been commissioned to write on much besides. Consequently, I’m now one of a handful of journalists to become expert in the issue. 1/3
RT @BradfemlyWalsh: Thinking about crowdfunding for a new woodchipper for all the men who pretend to not know that having vaginal sex with a woman means that then doing anal sex without asking for consent is still rape.
Working name: My Chippy-Wip.
RT @NottsRtN: We've had our event published in several local online publications & appreciate the support we have received via social media.
Women in Notts have been let down previously by police. We hope they do the right thing this time!
@LWSLocals@ThePosieParker
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Nottingham Reclaim the Night@NottsRtN
Our Reclaim the Night march happening tomorrow in Nottingham is not affiliated with any group, charity, organisation or individuals.
We are a collective of women from across East Mids who are restoring Reclaim the Night to its origins of being a strictly female-only event.
Our Reclaim the Night march happening tomorrow in Nottingham is not affiliated with any group, charity, organisation or individuals.
We are a collective of women from across East Mids who are restoring Reclaim the Night to its origins of being a strictly female-only event.
RT @NottsRtN: Thank you Jo!
Tomorrow we make history.
The first female-only Reclaim the Night in Nottingham for many years!
Time to reclaim Reclaim the Night🌙
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Jo Bartosch@jo_bartosch
If you're in the area, make sure you support this grassroots, properly feminist Reclaim The Night
If you're in the area, make sure you support this grassroots, properly feminist Reclaim The Night
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Nottingham Reclaim the Night@NottsRtN
Our Reclaim the Night march happening tomorrow in Nottingham is not affiliated with any group, charity, organisation or individuals.
We are a collective of women from across East Mids who are restoring Reclaim the Night to its origins of being a strictly female-only event.
RT @rosereeve: Interview with one of the organisers of the first UK Reclaim the Night.
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Nottingham Reclaim the Night@NottsRtN
Reclaim the Night is a march focused on helping to end MVAWAG & the right for women to walk in public without fear.
Please share & join us in 3 days time!
@nottm_post@MyNottingham@NottinghamPost@BBCNottingham
Reclaim the Night is a march focused on helping to end MVAWAG & the right for women to walk in public without fear.
Please share & join us in 3 days time!
@nottm_post@MyNottingham@NottinghamPost@BBCNottingham
RT @leakylike: "Hutchison said. “We will not be frightened into silence.”
“To women watching this unfold, our message is simple: stand together, speak the truth and do not allow threats to drive you out of public life. We remain unbowed.”"
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TERFTimes@TERF_Times
NEWS! Police arrest man who allegedly threatened nurses, but only after enquiry from Daily Mail journalist
RT @Scot_Feminists: “Our society has reached a sorry point when women who peacefully and lawfully defend single-sex spaces can face threats of lethal violence. The law must be enforced, violent intimidation must be confronted.” Don't these thugs know, the women will not wheesht. 💜🤍💚
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TERFTimes@TERF_Times
NEWS! Police arrest man who allegedly threatened nurses, but only after enquiry from Daily Mail journalist
RT @jo_bartosch: NEWS @DarlingtonUnion President Hutchison confronts police over threat "Other police forces must take note... many of these forces have firm commitments to ending violence against women and girls. Protecting us needs to be more than a slogan."
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NEWS! Police arrest man who allegedly threatened nurses, but only after enquiry from Daily Mail journalist
RT @theworldofmomus: Incest porn or simulated incest porn should never have been legal. And just because other bad things still exist in society doesn't mean you can't agree with removing this bad thing. Get a bloody grip of yourselves.
I don’t know what happened with Russell Brand. He denies criminality.
But I DO understand why women might not report rape to the police
My take on tonight’s #PoliticsHub 👇
I don’t know what happened with Russell Brand. He denies criminality.
But I DO understand why women might not report rape to the police
My take on tonight’s #PoliticsHub 👇
Freedom of speech- permitting discussions so that we can live harmoniously
Wanking over school girls being strangled....
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Marco Young@darkst
Anyone cheering on the government's ability to arbitrarily limit speech in this instance is really going to cheer when their 'conversion practices' ban kicks in and makes it illegal to deny someone's gender identity...
...unless they're utter hypocrites, that is
RT @jo_bartosch: The porn lobby are in overdrive spreading misinformation about what the new law will mean. But we have been here before.
I remember being perplexed when the lie that face sitting would be banned first surfaced. I even thought about joining a protest against it (mainly bc it seemed like a laugh). But that didn't happen.
Read this thread.
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The Other Half@OtherHalfOrg
How did we get to this?
Giving schoolkids lessons on sexual strangulation danger seems like a last resort: but it’s really the first resort in a several decade long battle with the harms of ultraviolent porn. It’ll be clear we’ve done nothing for too long 👇
Anyone cheering on the government's ability to arbitrarily limit speech in this instance is really going to cheer when their 'conversion practices' ban kicks in and makes it illegal to deny someone's gender identity...
...unless they're utter hypocrites, that is
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Jo Bartosch@jo_bartosch
Here’s a sample of the scum currently on my TL complaining that not being allowed to masturbate over footage of women being abused is an infringement of ‘free speech.’
They make the case for me.
How did we get to this?
Giving schoolkids lessons on sexual strangulation danger seems like a last resort: but it’s really the first resort in a several decade long battle with the harms of ultraviolent porn. It’ll be clear we’ve done nothing for too long 👇
Here’s a sample of the scum currently on my TL complaining that not being allowed to masturbate over footage of women being abused is an infringement of ‘free speech.’
They make the case for me.
RT @TERF_Times: .@Artemispat2 reports on the vigils supporting victims of rape networks.
Rose Reeve from Northern Radfems has been present outside Manchester Crown Court every week since the hearing began:
“Whenever I hear about a case like this, my thoughts go immediately to the woman and the unimaginable trauma she is going through. That’s why I stand with the other women outside the court, to show support and solidarity to her.”
RT @robjessel16: "Porn = sex" is revealing far more than this wanker realizes
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@robjessel16@TheEconomist The transphobia-addled of mumsnet are a fascistic, repressed group of Taliban inspired prudes.
Jealous of those having sex and want to legislate them out of existence.
RT @Wecantconsentto: It's already against the law to make, publish and distribute strangulation porn (Inc online) here. But none of these laws have been enforced against sites.
The latest ban puts duties on OfCom to enforce. OfCom have previously decided that there isn't good evidence on watching strangulation porn and real life strangling.
@robjessel16@TheEconomist The transphobia-addled of mumsnet are a fascistic, repressed group of Taliban inspired prudes.
Jealous of those having sex and want to legislate them out of existence.
Brendan on form: ‘The Brand circus was hard proof that there is none as gullible as the elites. They saw a guru who would lead Britain to revolution or America to Christ, where the rest of us just saw a twat and a predator.’
RT @Wecantconsentto: Solidarity to all the women (and some gallant men!) encountering the pro strangling lobby this week.
Got the t-shirt x
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What many males don't understand is that the online "kink" and "husband fucking" wars actually have little to do with us. The beef is between Prude Women and Down Women.
The Prude Women - a numerically smaller group that is very disproportionately asexual, lesbian, or post-abuse (glad to cite!) - want to paint the things that the Down Women genuinely do like as being a form of false consciousness......driven by porn, or some other type of Evil Male Scrotery.
This is, of course, nonsense: female tastes like "being taken hard by a strong man" exist across every society that has ever been polled, ever ever. But, it isn't whollly dishonorable nonsense: part of the PW goal is shielding rising PW, YOUNG women, and other people that the Women's Circle used to help out from the fragrant demands of adult heterosexuality.
Men should, basically, support and-or-lead the Down Women, while accepting and creating opt-outs for the people this^ second point applies to. Get thee to a nunnery!
RT @WRNNorfolk: There is very strong public support for banning pornography aka sexual abuse material showing
someone who appears or is pretending to be a child under 16 years old (88% support), strangulation and suffocation (78% support), and apparent or pretend incest (77% support).
There’s no safe way to strangle someone, and normalising this has had terrible and fatal consequences for women and girls.
Strangulation is never safe. Unconsciousness can hit in under 10 seconds, even with less force than opening a can of coke. Death or irreversible brain damage or stroke can follow rapidly. That's why pornography involving strangulation has been illegal.
The foul, defensive replies from some men this week insisting it’s “just a kink” , "she asked for it" or that it is harmless well done properly only underscore why the change in the law was needed. It will save lives, and stop normalising child sexual abuse and incest.
If you want to know more about how porn industry rewires our brains, normalises sexual violence and boundary violations, and even shapes new protest movements, we recommend you read Pornocracy by Jo Bartosch and Robert Jessel.
@WomensRightsNet@norwich_s
What many males don't understand is that the online "kink" and "husband fucking" wars actually have little to do with us. The beef is between Prude Women and Down Women.
The Prude Women - a numerically smaller group that is very disproportionately asexual, lesbian, or post-abuse (glad to cite!) - want to paint the things that the Down Women genuinely do like as being a form of false consciousness......driven by porn, or some other type of Evil Male Scrotery.
This is, of course, nonsense: female tastes like "being taken hard by a strong man" exist across every society that has ever been polled, ever ever. But, it isn't whollly dishonorable nonsense: part of the PW goal is shielding rising PW, YOUNG women, and other people that the Women's Circle used to help out from the fragrant demands of adult heterosexuality.
Men should, basically, support and-or-lead the Down Women, while accepting and creating opt-outs for the people this^ second point applies to. Get thee to a nunnery!
Tomorrow, 3 categories of pornography will become illegal under the Crime and Policing Act 2026. Our new poll shows the public support the banning of each type
-Porn depicting someone who appears or is pretending to be under 16: 88% support
-Porn depicting strangulation/suffocation: 78%
-Porn depicting apparent incest or pretend incest: 77%