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Charlotte

@charley50.bsky.social
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I love podcasts and feminism. Radical, intersectional feminism. I strongly support all 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ people without exception. Curtailing trans people’s rights to exist freely is not feminist. Do the reading. Vote Green 💚 Norfolk, UK

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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 8h
The thing I've been mulling: for every horrifying sexual assault story you hear, there are 100 stories that don't quite reach the level of "report this to the police immediately" but still are traumatic, still have long, long effects. 1/
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 8h
If you’re arresting a Jewish 94-year-old human rights lawyer for peacefully protesting, you’re on the wrong side of history. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...
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‘I’m rather proud’: Barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action
Margaret Owen OBE, a celebrated human rights lawyer and friend of Ed Miliband’s late mother, talks to Al Jazeera.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 7h
Why should the public pay the cost of private failure? It's time to end the rip off and bring failing water companies back into public hands.
A graphic featuring an image of Green Party Deputy Leader Rachel Millward speaking at a podium at Green Party conference, and white text that reads:

"The Green Party would immediately bring South East Water and Thames Water back into public ownership. At no cost to the taxpayer."

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 7h
You know, I am quite ambivalent about bsky because it's quite genteel and unbothered in the main. I have seen FAR MORE OUTRAGE about the Greens motion over the last two hours than posts about Palestine over the last two years.
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 6h
I can’t really take a political mainstream that insists the Greens be shunned but Reform and the Tories be treated as legitimate seriously.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5h
Cis guy walks into a women's locker room and immediately proceeds to sexually assault women. JK Rowling: this is trans people's fault.
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 5h
I prepared to fight for HRT. Five minutes later, I had a prescription. My trans friends can wait years for similar treatment. I wrote about what that contrast says about whose healthcare is treated as healthcare, and whose is treated as politics. medium.com/@heatherpate...
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Five Minutes for Me. Years for Them.
This afternoon I picked up my first prescription for HRT.
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Metal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh God Helen Lewis is on the TV every Sunday morning apparently. Fucking shit take machine broadcasting on full power. I have every single person that follows Helen Lewis on this website muted. An unusually stupid, terrible and sneering elitist, and transphobe.
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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ian Hislop was having a love in with the BBC this week and smugly blaming disinformation and the rise of the far right on the public. The far right inclined transphobic crank Helen Lewis is an editor of Private Eye and writes for the very dodgy The Atlantic. Jenny Jones is also a terf.
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Dracula is a Secret Yorkshireman (also Dog) @bignewgraphz.bsky.social · 13h
I’ve been going out on Halloween as the Madri Man for almost a decade now but I’ve decided to break with tradition this year and go out as ‘the face centrist commentators pull to present themselves as dispassionate intellectuals in a world of populist fools’
Helen Lewis doing the faceIan dunt doing the face with a cuppa
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Metal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I actually hate Helen Lewis
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Charlotte @charley50.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Rape is the logical endpoint of the way men are socialized to understand their own sexuality - as domineering, as eroticizing violence, as taking gratification in the humiliation of women…All men are indocrinated into this culture which valorizes rape as an expression of masculinity.” Moira D 👏👏👏
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where the oleander grows @nonblnary.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
matt lucas and richard ayoade on taskmaster is so funny. if you merge them they make ricky gervais
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David @davidbtn2.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If pensioners can be arrested for holding up signs about climate change or wearing t-shirts protesting a genocide, a gang of old men sure as hell can be arrested for assaulting a young woman shouting at fascists. This video shows who Reform are, a bunch of nasty, bigoted, violent thugs.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A lot of people who claim they hate the wrong *kinds* of feminism in fact just hate feminism.
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026
it might shock some people but framing Steinem as a scheming scammer who's main objective was to hurt socialist/communist men or whatever is doing a lot of the heavy lifting for the reactionary white supremacists currently *actually* making everything awful. just so dudes know!
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The feminist movement that Steinem did much to mainstream and expand is in retreat, with women’s rights and status eroding conspicuously, and I’d like the usual suspects to consider this before they go on their ahistorical little rants about how she was a CIA stooge or whatever.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Feminists are not more prone to mistakes and missteps than the leaders of other liberation struggles. Rather, their mistakes and missteps are given disproportionate attention, significance and publicity.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My Steinem obit: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Gloria Steinem personified America’s feminist movement | Moira Donegan
The activist made the movement mainstream – and became a receptacle for its hopes and disappointments
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Without saying your age, what is your favourite movie that came out when you were 20 years old
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Whitney Houston: Emotional Hug in The Bodyguard
Alt: Whitney Houston: Emotional Hug with Kevin Costner at the airport runway in The Bodyguard a propeller plane sits in the distance
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/09/2026
"Even if you're unhappy with the racism, you're not unhappy enough to look elsewhere" says James O'Brien about Reform voters and the only thing that made me think of was Labour supporters and transphobia.
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Charlotte @charley50.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Huh. Terf and fake feminist Lewis (one of the awful Helens) is also a fake “free speecher” and tacit racist…
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Donald Glover as Troy Barnes: Wow Shocker
ALT: Donald Glover as Troy Barnes: Wow Shocker
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Ben McCormick @benmccormick.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Insisting Helen Lewis has a point worth listening to about literally anything is an emotional point rather than a rational one. And yet here we are.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/08/2026
In the days following Charlie Kirk’s assassination, institutions rushed to appease online mobs and vitriolic politicians who demanded takedowns of anyone critical of the right-wing influencer. Now, courts have forced them to answer to something much more enduring than right-wing pressure: the law.
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Karen Attiah fought the Washington Post and won
Employers who fired their staff for posts about Charlie Kirk have lost a string of high-profile disputes.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/08/2026
More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.” (Published July 2025)
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A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2026
you could have ended the second klan very quickly if you had gone back in time and told william joseph simmons that in a century the US would be so mongrelized that you'd have dark-skinned italian klansmen
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/08/2026
@timmiller.bsky.social and @benrhodes.bsky.social discuss the fundamental contradiction at the heart of JD Vance’s blood-and-soil nationalism—that his own life looks a lot more like the pluralistic America he’s trying to argue against: "The story doesn’t make sense."
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 28/08/2026
The government must put the brakes on. Data centres should not be given priority for water and electricity over communities.
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Holly Brigstocke @hollybrigstocke.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
After the event The Guardian went crying to Press Gazette because people in social media comments complained they were using an ethnic minority journalist to cover up their complicity. See also: The Guardian using synthetic feminists to cover for transmisogyny or "science" to cover for ableism.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We still haven’t heard why Kath Viner editor of the Guardian got her Black journalists to join in the pile-on and write about Arday even after he resigned, one of whom was the “culture” writer a higher education story hardly being his beat. I imagine he’s distraught.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Right now the government is putting our communities, our water security and our climate ambitions second to the demands of tech giants. It's time to slam the brakes on water-guzzling, energy hungry datacentres.
Greens call for temporary ban on new data centres
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Tony Cross @lokster71.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Yeah, that Channel 4 documentary by Dr Grift wasn't a coincidence. They're trying to build a reason to cut support from people with ADHD and Autism. It's a tried and tested plan. The fact that NHS 'leaders' are helping push this shows that the NHS is run by the wrong people.
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
But nothing beats the obstetrics textbook wherein one of the authors made his wife do the index, so she slips this one in:
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 28/08/2026
⚖️ UPDATE Barrister Sarah Phillimore repeatedly deadnamed and misgendered a trans woman online, but the regulator refuses to take action: goodlaw.social/rv0e
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Bar Standards Board fails to take harassment seriously – again
Barrister Sarah Phillimore repeatedly deadnamed and misgendered a trans woman online, but the regulator refuses to take action.
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“There is no such position as academic neutrality. The failure to critique the status quo is a political act of complicity in its inequalities, its injustices, and exclusions.” The Feminist Collective offers a manifesto about “academic freedom” for those of us who are struggling against injustice.
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Academic Freedom and the Role of the Academic: Resistance, Solidarity, and the Politics of Knowledge - Feminist Legal Studies
Feminist Legal Studies -
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The_Lady_Red @theladyred.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Black People Didn't Play About Dolly Parton
YouTube video by Reese Waters
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PGincville @pg4gcm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Excellent news. Hmmmm seems to me that vaccines work. Like MMR and all the others that we take. Thank you scientists.
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Deb's Noise 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 @debsnoise.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Having a Gender Conservative #GreenParty members stall is no different to having a Raise The Flags stall from members who want to 'repatriate' POC. Both right-wing beliefs are antithetical to the party's platform. They can hold such beliefs but are not entitled to manifest them in any & all contexts
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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Trans people, since forever, have said that bigotry and discrimination wouldn’t just stop with them. That GCs don’t just hate trans people: we were their wedge issue to normalise it wider. But, oh no, we were told we were just being hyperbolic and paranoid. Guess what, cis people, it’s here.
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Deb's Noise 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 @debsnoise.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Help the Greens protect trans members from the legal attacks of anti-trans members (and their exceedingly wealthy & right-wing financial backers). Protect the last UK left-wing & progressive party from the wreckers goodlawproject.org/s/6b3b53
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Help the Greens protect trans members | Good Law Project
The Greens took action to protect trans people. Now the party is facing legal action – so we’re defending them in court
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Stéphanie says… 🏴‍☠️🦈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @stephaniejane.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Scratch a transphobe…
Helen Lewis is a British author and anti-transgender activist who launders gender critical extremism into mainstream media. Lewis is a sex segregationist who claims to be writing from a feminist/leftist viewpoint. Lewis demonstrates that anti-trans sentiment extends into every political point of view and movement.
Lewis' anti-trans views center around:
• Challenging legal recognition of trans people in systems developed on the basis of sex, particularly opposing the UK's Gender Recognition Act
• Maintaining systems of sex segregation, particularly in matters of law, public accommodation, prisons, sports, and other sex-segregated institutions
• Maintaining the strict gatekeeping of trans healthcare via government control, developed under nationalized heath systems (so-called "gender clinics") in the 20th century
• Maintaining medico-juridical control over trans and gender diverse people though disease models and medical requirements for legal recognition (sterilization requirements, etc.)
• Maintaining non-affirming models of care for gender diverse youth, developed last century for "the prevention of transsexualism" and now widely outlawed
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Ben Evans @ogkittylyst.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Dolly said it. Here's Karen saying it. Join a union. If it didn't change anything they wouldn't spend so damn much trying to stop you doing it.
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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I spoke about being queer in a religious upbringing to 200 Scottish teens at book event this afternoon. Had seven (yes, seven) queer students and two trans students come out to me quietly in the signing queue afterwards, one of them in tears. I will never forgive those who make their lives so hard.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 27/08/2026
The Green Party are standing up for their right to make trans people feel safe and welcome, so we're defending them in court Get involved 👇 goodlaw.social/yndo
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Help the Greens protect trans members | Good Law Project
The Greens took action to protect trans people. Now the party is facing legal action – so we’re defending them in court
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jane fae #facciamorete #antifa @janefae.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Awful: "A judge dismissed a lawsuit from a civilian engineer in the Military Sealift Command after it was determined that her report of being raped in her own bed aboard a Navy transport ship was within her duties and must be treated as a worker’s comp claim." www.stripes.com/branches/nav...
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Lawsuit over sexual assault aboard Navy transport ship dismissed as worker’s comp issue
The order handed down this month closed an attempt by a civilian engineer to get justice for an assault she said threw her life into shambles.
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Why is a woman still not safe @treemuseums.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving."

Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
God has heard your pleas and taken one of the bad ones
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The_Lady_Red @theladyred.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
😂🤣😉💞
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The Best of Dolly Parton | David Letterman
YouTube video by Letterman
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Look - I believe very firmly- that people's private lives are their own business. BUT when you've left your partner, moved with your kids to Dubai without them and started a relationship with someone who also left their partner and kids... well you deserve nothing but mockery for posts like this.
So you think money is more emotionally
important than the love and stability and
positive influence of being brought up by
both a mum and dad? 1 don't care what
any statistics say. Some things are just
common sense. ISABEL OAKESHOTT
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