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Woman, not the fashionable kind. Player of board games, owned by chickens, non believer in gender. Don't ask my pronouns or title.
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How can it be 2025 and this is the first guideline?

Strangulation in porn to be banned - www.gov.uk/government/n...

Message from @maternityaction.bsky.social 'For many Women, a period of maternity pay effectively meant being ‘pushed into poverty'... You can join our call on the Government to increase #maternity pay by taking action here.' maternityandmidwifery.co.uk/pushed-into-...

MP Ann Cryer was ignored by fellow MPs, police and imams when she tried to raise the issue of grooming gangs in 2002. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014...

What are the implications of the Supreme Court ruling on the women’s sector? Last week I was invited by Women's Resource Centre to speak on the implications of For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers . We are doing a repeat of this on Monday 7th July 1-3pm Link below

'These women make huge sacrifices to make a living, yet are treated with disrespect. I am tired of hearing people claim to be feminists when they refuse to advocate for all women workers.' Marissa Begonia #DomesticWorkersDay #VODW #DomesticWorkers www.bigissue.com/opinion/dome...

What is the EHRC hiding? We submitted a FOI request to the EHRC asking for their emails with Sex Matters, or Maya Forstater, including emails Akua Reindorf has had with them, stretching back to 2021. They’ve admitted they hold the information. 1/4

Chanel 4 uses sexist, misogynist language, "b****s" the language of male abusers, to justify their inclusion policies which don't include women.

'It took more than 45 minutes for the Women and Equalities Committee to mention “women and girls”. That was left to Conservative MP Rebecca Paul, who, with Rosie Duffield, sat physically apart from and in stark contrast to the rest of the committee.' www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-...

Millions of us marched in protest of trumPutin today #nokings

Great that Sky News is taking such trafficking seriously, and many thanks, still, to Tonia Antoniazzi MP for pursuing legal change.

Another crisis with catastrophic levels of abuse and violence against #women and girls with close to no attention. Shame of what the world is allowing to happen in terms of normalisation of utter disrespect to lives, safety and dignity of half of mankind.

#OtD 8 Jun 1913 Emily Wilding Davison, the socialist suffragette who tried to grab the King's horse at Epsom a few days earlier protesting for women's right to vote, died of her injuries stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1081...

#OtD 7 Jun 1968 women workers at Ford's Dagenham plant in England walked out on strike for equal pay with men. The strike led to the Equal Pay Act of 1970, although pay equality at Ford was only achieved after a later strike in 1984 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1071...