franamery.bsky.social
academic, feminist, illegal lesbian (the cis kind). abortions and sex changes for all
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"threatened"
Btw GCs interrupted my talk and shouted a load of stuff at me. They even explicitly said that I was lying when I said that GCs wanted to remove trans people's protections from the Equality Act and ban us from public spaces
That's them feeling threatened apparently
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Get well soon!
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Notably, while same-sex services were on the agenda in 2009, that wasn't the key point of contention. Everyone agreed that trans people should normally have access to services in accordance with our lived sex. Instead, we were arguing over expanding which trans people were protected in law.
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*somehow going to be free 🤦🏻♀️
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And if you think a anti-porn conference hosted at an anti-trans sexual violence service founded by one of the world's most prominent transphobes is somehow not going to be free from transphobia because you happen to agree with the anti-porn part, you're definitely failing to do that reflection. 3/3
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smear and target queer people and other 'sexual deviants' far more than they have to benefit women. Those are uncomfortable truths we have to sit with. I think feminism in general would be in a much healthier state if more people were willing to sit with this kind of discomfort and reflect on it.
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Plenty of legitimate feminist critiques to make of the porn industry of course but anti-porn work is also RIPE for exploitation by reactionary forces. Be careful.
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And yes, it will definitely be this:
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Speakers will include Mary Sharpe of the controversial Reward Foundation. Sharpe has argued that many form of sexual release is potentially dangerous and that orgasms can lead to terrorism, due to a dopamine drop.
I kid you not. This is who they're trotting out.
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That's a really helpful way of thinking about it!
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But transphobes can't accept this, because period activists are generally trans-inclusive (and several wrote an open letter criticising JKR a few years back). So instead it's cut off the nose to spite the face 🤷🏻♀️
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But also: pretty much anyone who menstruates has had a moment in our lives when we've been caught short without products. Product provision benefits us all.
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Forstater suggests just giving people money to buy their own products, saying this would cut costs. Except we know from actual research that this will often lead to women still going without products and funneling the money towards the needs of others in the family.
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There is a genuine issue with 'period poverty' being bracketed off and treated as if it's somehow separate from *poverty* more broadly. Period poverty won't end without measures to end all poverty. We're (disturbingly enough) aligned on that point.
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She also questions the evidence base for a lot of 'period poverty' discourse. Actually, I agree! (See upcoming book with @dr-mel-channon.bsky.social and @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social 😉). I'm just not convinced it follows that providing period products is a waste of time.
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Periods aren't dirty, and the phrase 'feminine hygiene' is misogynist. Anyone advocating for keeping it is an anti-feminist
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This is all over the place in menstrual politics: great activism that could benefit women loads getting obstructed and drowned out because activists dared to acknowledge that trans people exist