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Jeni Harvey

@gappytales.bsky.social
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Woman, feminist, writer. "Like a meth addicted Mary Poppins". jeniharveymindthegap.substack.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17/07/2026
The Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage estimate they’ve removed 6,000 pounds of refuse from ponds on Cape Cod. Members have to be at least 64 and able to swim half a mile in under 30 minutes and free dive to eight feet. “It’s the best feeling,” one said.
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Taking Out the Trash: These Old Ladies Are Cleaning Up Cape Cod
The Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage estimate they’ve removed 6,000 pounds of refuse from ponds on Cape Cod. “It’s the best feeling,” one said.
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Some lovely tributes to my mother today on the anniversary of Embrace The Base at Greenham. She is on the left waving. I am next to her in the pale blue coat and mittens. In the evenings round the fire, I used to wrap myself up in her woolly caftan, watch the flames, and listen to the women talk.
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Yes I read it too, and enjoyed much of it, actually. But it did strike me that I could have written an additional chapter all about Sophie.
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I abhor political violence. It destroys democracy, it favours the powerful. But as the radical right makes hay, I would beg people to inform themselves. It is right wing extremism that kills. The radical right are more politically violent than any other group. Such is well documented.
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Glastonbury 2025 I am in you 😍
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Sisters Salon Brighton #CreatingWomensSpaces @sisterssalon.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
We are liaising with the police and understand that a criminal investigation is ongoing. We will continue to hold space for women, raise awareness about the inequalities we face as women & take action to improve our lives. #SistersSalon #Brighton brightonsisters.wordpress.com/statement-on...
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Statement on the malicious disruption of Women’s Health Event run by Sisters Salon
We are dismayed that our Women’s Health event at Brighton’s Jubilee Library on Saturday 17th May was targeted by a nuisance protestor. We are delighted to report that the event did eventually go ah…
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Do you know who always seems nice? Krishnan Guru-Murthy. As Nigel's go, he seems alright. As you were.
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This is, I think, transactivisms biggest coup. Persuading young women that towing the line and putting all their political energy into caping for men's rights is the radical thing to do. www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/nadi...
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MP Nadia Whittome: "The attack on trans women harms all women”
The UK's Supreme Court ruling is a dangerous step in a global campaign to divide marginalised groups and roll back hard-won rights, argues the Labour MP.
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Open letter to umbrella bodies in the MVAWG sector written by @shonaghdillon.bsky.social and @kareningalasmith.bsky.social These women have been pivotal in defending women's single sex support services and the fight is not over. open.substack.com/pub/shonaghd...
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Supreme Court Ruling - Open Letter to national organisations in the men's violence against women sector
The Supreme Court Ruling, For Women Scotland v.
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Nobody read Sylvia Plath if they're in a bad mood. "Like a terrible fish" 😂😂
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Fathom Deep @fathomdeep.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Inspiring stuff here. "Women find themselves caught in a pincer move between misogynists on the right and left, who threaten either to shunt us back into the kitchen with attacks on our reproductive rights and freedoms, or to deny that we have any specific rights at all."
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Labour Women's Declaration @labwomendec.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Jeni speaks for very many of us 🙏💜🔥
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Antifeminism. But Make It Progressive. In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling. "I am tired. Tired and down to one word: no." open.substack.com/pub/jeniharv...
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Antifeminism. But Make It Progressive.
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling
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forstater.bsky.social @forstater.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
“Those provisions were always there, but the Supreme Court has set that out beyond a doubt.” Clear, strong and impressive from Labour's Minister for Women & Equalities Bridget Phillipson MP speaking for the Government on the #SupremeCourt judgment. Great to hear! 🙏
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Gender, not sex. Gender, not sex. She is talking about gender, not sex. She is not saying that female people are a figment of sexist imaginations, she is saying that gender is a figment of sexist imaginations. Like the oft quoted de Beauvoir, she will be turning in her grave.
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
A really informative blog for anyone with questions as to how the Supreme Court ruling may affect women, girls, and trans men. "We urge everyone to read the judgement before leaping to any conclusions about it's effects". brightonsisters.wordpress.com/blog-sex-in-...
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BLOG: Sex in the Equality Act
What the Supreme Court judgment means for women & girls and trans men Jump to: Lesbians in the Equality Act Pregnancy and maternity protections for trans men Trans men and equal pay claims Wome…
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Labour Women's Declaration @labwomendec.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Opinion of @ObserverUK that @ForWomenScot ruling was necessary & protects everyone "Right across society..the law has in effect been rewritten by leaders & HR managers in response to activist demands..in a way that unlawfully discriminates against women"
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Today transactivists pissed all over the Millicent Fawcett statue and held placards issuing death threats. Honestly, what is it going to take for people to see this for the explicitly antifeminist, misogynistic movement it is.
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Cannot bear it, can you. To be thwarted by a bunch of middle aged women who are supposed to be invisible; who men have decided are now past it, irrelevant, good only for domestic duties. We came together to tell you no. That we were keeping some space for ourselves. And you are apoplectic.
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I thought the consensus was that no man would ever pretend to be something he wasn't in order to invade women's spaces? Also, Jolyon, mate. Keep your private thoughts to yourself.
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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
'“I am so relieved and so pleased by the Supreme Court judgment” ... As one of the three directors of For Women Scotland, the grassroots campaign group who took their argument all the way to the UK’s highest court, she had every reason to be happy.' www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
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UK Supreme Court gender ruling is huge victory for women dismissed as 'bigots' by Sturgeon and co
Feminist campaigners lost their livelihoods as they fought for the right to speak the truth about the definition of a woman, writes Susan Dalgety
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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
'Five judges from the UK supreme court ruled unanimously that the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 did not include transgender women who hold gender recognition certificates (GRCs).' 💃🍸💃 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Gender critical campaigners win at UK supreme court over definition of woman
Judges rule that Equality Act definition excludes transgender women holding gender recognition certificates
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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The court ruling makes clear to all what ordinary women across the UK have been saying for years: the law protects single-sex spaces & services. A significant moment in the fight to protect women's, especially lesbians, rights. #WeKnowWhatAWomanIs www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...
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For Women Scotland Supreme Court Victory — FiLiA
On Wednesday morning, in a packed courtroom at the Supreme Court in London, the judgment in the For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers (FWS2) case was handed down. The Supreme Court unanimously a...
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Well it's not as though you haven't made a career out of getting things wrong.
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
OH MY GOD YESSSS!!!!
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Male people are not female people, no matter if they have a special pass. This is the truth we have been fighting for, that matters to women's lives and freedom. My stomach is turning with anxiety this morning but whatever the outcome we fight on. #WeKnowWhatAWomanIs
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Mate we are never getting out of the patriarchy 😭
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Does anyone remember when Sally Hines said that before the enlightenment female skeletons didn't exist? Sorry. Just feeling sentimental.
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Brendan O'Neill, who has never given two shits about VAWG, suddenly finds it within himself to care when the opportunity to demonise both Muslims and left leaning female MP's arises. @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social has worked for decades to support women and girls facing violence. This is shameful.
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Except that 75% of the 238 men recently deported without due process to El Salvador had no known criminal record. One day this will all be over. And everyone will know what you have done.
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
In the lead up to publication of Minority Rule, Ash Sarkar appeared in many interviews and podcasts, newly critical of the ways in which identity politics had derailed the cause for social justice. Those of us who shared the same material conditions and so ought to be natural allies had splintered
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Jane Clare Jones @janeclarejones.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
New post on Judith Butler's critique of Trumpian authoritarianism, but refusal to understand her own. open.substack.com/pub/culturew...
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Judith Butler: Speech, Censorship, and the Goddamn Pope
On what feels like an annual basis, Judith Butler is dispatched to the British press, mostly for the purpose of reminding us that anyone who thinks that humans come in two sexes is basically the Pope.
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
A global movement of far right, authoritarian leaders are coming together in an attack on our independent, democratic institutions. They wish to dismantle the checks and balances that curb their power. They do this in the name of "freedom" and "democracy" - principles in which they do not believe.
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Do I hate men? #notallmen But is it really so ridiculous and dangerous for women to do so considering all that Hollie goes on to list? There is no moral equivalence when the balance of power is so skewed. It is not the same thing.
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
First we turned the frogs gay... Now look.
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Happy Mother's Day to all. This wee one is now at an age where she can cook me steak for tea. ❤️
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Compensating for something lol?
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
No no no no no. This a total dereliction of duty of care and of safeguarding. You cannot put the most vulnerable girls in the land in mixed sex sleeping arrangements. Shamefully negligent and a scandal waiting to happen. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Care watchdog: Girls should share rooms with boys who ID as female
Girls in care should share a bedroom with boys who 'self-identify' as the opposite gender , according to 'terrifying' guidance issued by a watchdog.
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Ali Ceesay @hanoverhussy.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
"Feminism can become easily less concerned with dismantling systems of male domination than with the business of appearing sufficiently, charismatically kick ass. The politics of change become lost to the politics of fandom. It is easier to swim in the shallow end" open.substack.com/pub/jeniharv...
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Attention! Attention! Feminism in the Attention Economy
I began my online life as a mummy blogger.
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
File under weird shit posh people do. 🧐
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NeallM @neallm.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This is an absolutely brilliant piece. Thank you Jeni.
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Attention! Attention! Feminism in the Attention Economy New post by me. open.substack.com/pub/jeniharv...
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Attention! Attention! Feminism in the Attention Economy
I began my online life as a mummy blogger.
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
A vibrant hub of feminist organising and solidarity, Sisters Salon makes a difference for the women of Brighton and beyond. I am proud to know you @hanoverhussy.bsky.social Always working, always busy, making other women's lives better. youtu.be/DVmBXzwAScg?...
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Sisters Salon @ The Brighton Women's March 2025
YouTube video by Sisters Salon Brighton
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
After a Christmas break from social media I returned yesterday to look at my Twitter feed. In just two weeks the levels of disinformation and of racist and abusive rhetoric have ratcheted up yet further. It is a vile feeding frenzy. My belief is that there is no longer any ethical way to engage on
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Hope one of them takes a sneaky piss in your flower bed.
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Jeni Harvey @gappytales.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
All my admiration and gratitude to the women of Woman's Place UK, whose work on this issue has been absolutely pivotal. I will never forget the power and excitement of those early meetings. In sisterhood. You set a new wave rolling.
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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Re: #Amnesty – we published this blog back in September. 'Amnesty: denying women truth, justice, freedom and dignity' by @gappytales.bsky.social 🔗 www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/... #WeKnowWhatAWomanIs #WhatIsAWoman #SexMatters
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