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I wrote an Op Ed for @thetimes.com on how adults might best respond to #Adolescence ‘Having boys watch Adolescence won’t help adults listen’ If we don’t listen, we can’t learn. If we don’t learn, we can’t help www.thetimes.com/article/d822...

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Thanks to Helen Pidd @theguardian.com for interviewing those young men and this old one. I hope people find the podcast to be a conversation-starter. www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

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Upcoming webinars and training dates On April 10th I'll be co-facilitating, with Dr Tamasine Preece, a webinar on the basic language and ideas of the #Manosphere On April 28th and then again on May 8th I'll be facilitating the one-day FOUNDATIONS: 12 DIALOGUES training sessions for those working…

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I've been overwhelmed by the excellent response to this 😍

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Excellent to listen to this brilliant man on BBC’s Politics Live today… @michaelconroy.bsky.social Wisdom and clarity about what kids get from social media and the manosphere. As a mum of two boys, a feminist and a believer in equality we need to counteract harmful messaging for everyone’s sake.

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Did a brief slot right at the end of BBC R4's Today prog this morning. I wasn't gr8 but the intended gist: Find out (about the #manosphere & its various facets) Show up (as a positive, curious, collaborative and reliable presence in the lives of boys and young men) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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‘Consent’ is a red herring, here. Ersatz ‘consent’ is easy enough to manufacture, coerce &/or extract through lack of risk awareness. One can’t consent to criminal harm There’s #NoSafeWayToStrangle, no matter what one calls it ('choking') cc @institutefas.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Please sign this petition - we have co-signed. There is #NoSafeWayToStrangle

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“This is a really dangerous time for women” says Sophie Mortimer of the Revenge Porn Helpline. It truly is. Yet there seems so little appetite to do much about it. Instead we see an intensification of misogyny online. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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There is #NoSafeWayToStrangle. External providers of Sex Ed/RSE in UK schools should be prohibited from claiming otherwise (whether through rank ignorance or ideological capture). Please sign and share. cc @cmckinnellmp.bsky.social @institutefas.bsky.social www.change.org/p/sex-educat...

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Check out our 12 Dialogues training & resource package for those working with boys/young men. A practical, jargon-free, safeguarding-focused, engagement framework around issues relating to being safe (for thmslvs) & safe to be around (for male peers, women/girls). No more, no less menatworkcic.org

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If you spike women’s drinks so that you can sexually assault them, then it is desirable, imperative even, that you experience profound, revelatory shame, as a catalyst for ending your behaviour. It’s the only way you’ll ever stop, short of dying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Men who publicly claim to be 'feminists' are often at least as misogynistic / abusive as the men who publicly say that they hate feminism. Neil Gaiman is a classic example of that specific brand of #gaslighting nymag.com/press/articl...

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As a man, I find the term #VAWG problematic when really we all know we are talking about #MVAWG (Male Violence Against Women & Girls) #TheSilentM is a problem, IMO Too many ‘M_ _’ are silent We should speak the ‘M’

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I was on @lbc.co.uk Vanessa Feltz show yesterday, discussing misogynistic influencers and their appeal to boys/young men. x.com/LBC/status/1...

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Apple is being sued for not detecting and removing child sexual abuse material from iCloud, although it has the tools to do so. Civil suits are the only measure we have to hold tech monopolies to account, in the absence of law reform from Washington. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/t...

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PLEASE SHARE STOP STREET HARASSMENT #RespectWomen Street harassment is now a crime! Learn more, including how to safely intervene & the impact of #StreetSexualHarassment Action 15 #16DaysofAction #HollaBack #MeToo #Brighton ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ brightonsisters.wordpress.com/action-fifte...

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CPD Accredited I Online I Thursday Dec 5th Coercive & Controlling Behaviour Join us for a comprehensive training session on Coercive and Controlling Behaviour (CCB) in intimate/family relationships. Last remaining places. #16Days #16DaysOfActivism www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/aurora-new...

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From Hags. I'm glad more people are seeing it (even if some of them called me a Karen for writing it two years ago, and probably will again tomorrow) geni.us/HagsPB

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Worth noting that the middle-aged women #greggwallace finds so objectionable are of the demographic who've been routinely dismissed as 'TERFS' for the past 10 yrs. It's almost as if there's something about mature women, wise to male abuse strategies, that abusive men don't like. Who'd a thunk it?

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Yo #GreggWallace (and pals) Read this - on the demonisation of middle-aged women, from the excellent @glosswitch.bsky.social #Only13 #MiddleAgedWomen www.amazon.co.uk/Hags-eloquen...

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Just been writing something about men who use the fact that women are losing their reproductive rights to tell women to shut up about other things and how this indicates these men don't actually care that much about reproductive rights. It's like I'm psychic.

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Sturgeon’s friend Swinney has been left to clean up the mess created by her obsession with identify politics….The lanyards are fraying now…But women are still dying prematurely because of their sex. That is Nicola Sturgeon’s enduring legacy. Me in @TheScotsman www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

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There’s an awful lot of selectiveness around the types of #BodilyAutonomy which matter - how about the right to bodily autonomy in breathing clean air and walking on land owned by the rich, swimming in clean seas and rivers, stopping work before old age? Interesting, no?

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A GoFundMe for a film about the #FamilyCourt Please share 👍🏼 www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-sh...

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A ‘one off’ public event has been organised in Glasgow on 6th December. Would love to meet anyone there!

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This from Culture Reframed looks very useful. Check it out 👇🏼 www.eventbrite.com/e/breaking-d...

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