Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 31/03/2026🖋I wrote first piece for a while with my name on it! On pornography regulation and the decision coming up for govt: whether to make "consent" the law or overrule the Lords www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe UK has a chance to pioneer pornography regulation – it must take it | Susanna RustinThe crime bill proposes a stronger model of consent – and with violent imagery and child sexual abuse soaring, who, really, can argue against it? says author Susanna Rustin 041
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 05/06/2025I wrote about the Equality Act and why i think it's wrong to assume young gender identity activists are progressive www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comWhy is there such a generational divide in views on sex and gender in Britain? | Susanna RustinI believe the key lies in our respective life stages, says social affairs journalist Susanna Rustin 54513
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Guardian view: decriminalise abortion www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe Guardian view on abortion prosecutions: decriminalisation can’t wait | EditorialEditorial: The trial of Nicola Packer shows why MPs should seize the opportunity to change the law and safeguard vulnerable women now 041
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Interview with one of the extremely rare US Democrats to stick up for women's single-sex sports and spaces: just 22 years old and a former volunteer for Bernie Sanders 1349
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Me in the Guardian on the Supreme Court. Women's rights are sex-based, always have been, and this fight isn't over. But the judgment is a huge moment. ://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/17/clarity-uk-supreme-court-rights-of-women-campaigners?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Othertheguardian.comAt last, a moment of clarity – the UK supreme court has upheld the rights of women | Susanna RustinIt is vital that we give credit to the tireless campaigners who brought us to this point, says Guardian writer Susanna Rustin 55115
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 15/04/2025🖋 i wrote a review of Julie Bindel's excellent new book about lesbians, I've never posted on substack before so not many people have seen it. Please have a read, & share if you like it open.substack.com/pub/susannar...open.substack.comJulie Bindel's excellent new bookA patriarchal society’s attitude to lesbians is a litmus test 1165
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 07/04/2025This is such a good piece -sexual politics of migration are often ignored, is rare to read about the women left behind www.theguardian.com/global-devel...theguardian.com‘Barcelona or death’: mothers watch and wait as Senegal’s men risk all to reach EuropeFor many the perilous journey to Spain seems the only future. Can the country’s new government create enough jobs and prospects to make them stay? 162
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Thanks so much for reviewing my book and sharing on here 🙏 000
Reposted by Susanna RustinThe Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 31/03/2025Susanna Rustin‘s account of independent MP Eleanor Rathbone is “a stark reminder that political and legislative progress for women is not linear, but often a precarious, exhausting and continued negotiation“. Laura Hamilton on @susannajrustin.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social. buff.ly/JlhNOTO 632
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 24/03/2025.. including two responses to my piece on T-levels (some of which are good, as letter-writer says, the problem is thinking they should replace so much else).. and also this lovely one 🎂 010
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Really great page of Guardian letters on education... 220
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 18/03/2025..while the whole issue - like the college sector where it's happening- isn't getting the attention it deserves & needs if the situation is to improve. Please have a read: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comT-levels are a disaster – and young people are suffering because ministers won’t admit it | Susanna RustinThey were supposed to boost vocational learning, but they’re not popular with students and the dropout rate is high. Time for a dose of realism, says Guardian journalist Susanna Rustin 010
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Very pleased to have a piece on T-levels in today's paper. These reforms were meant to transform vocational ed for the better - boosting life chances of 60% who don't go to uni. But it hasn't worked! & this isn't being faced.. 111
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 17/03/2025I wrote about T-levels, which were meant to transform vocational learning but haven't worked out. And why this whole mess doesn't get anything like the attention it deserves www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comT-levels are a disaster – and young people are suffering because ministers won’t admit it | Susanna RustinThey were supposed to boost vocational learning, but they’re not popular with students and the dropout rate is high. Time for a dose of realism, says Guardian journalist Susanna Rustin 042
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 07/03/2025www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe Guardian view on undercover policing: the struggle for accountability continues | EditorialEditorial: The public inquiry into police spies was brought about by the bravery of the women they abused, as a new documentary shows 130
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 24/02/2025www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe Guardian view on AI and copyright: creativity should be cherished, not given away | EditorialEditorial: The government’s consultation was weighted towards big tech. Now is the time for a rethink 000
Reposted by Susanna RustinJessica Studdert @jesstud.bsky.social · 15/02/2025New Public Management is not fit for purpose (though it is alive and well in many parts of Whitehall). We need New Public *Mobilisation* if mission-led government is to have impact. My latest MJ column… www.themj.co.uk/public-mobil...themj.co.ukNew Public Mobilisation is the answerOld habits die hard. While New Public Management (NPM) might have fallen out of fashion in the think-tank community, it is alive and well in Whitehall. Its core... 0179
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 09/02/2025"Victim support and women's refuses are chronically underfunded.. A policy focused on the needs of victims and survivors would send a powerful message" - editorial on violence against women www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe Guardian view on violence against women: put victims and survivors first | EditorialEditorial: The problem is getting worse, while the last government’s strategy has little to show for it. Ministers should go back to basics 174
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 07/02/2025I'm on today's episode of AntiSocial @bbcradio4.bsky.social @bbcsounds.bsky.social talking about feminist arguments about surrogacy since the 80s. Is a good episode I think, range of voices/views on contested subject www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukAntiSocial - Surrogacy - BBC SoundsShould surrogacy be allowed? 062
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 28/01/2025This is a fantastic piece by @glosswitch.bsky.social thecritic.co.uk/making-the-p...thecritic.co.ukMaking the patriarchy progressive | Victoria Smith | The Critic Magazine“The core of patriarchal ideology, as with all exercise of power, is not the rules but the double standard.” It’s amazing how often this point, expressed here by Kajsa Ekis Ekman, is missed by those… 080
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Here's tonight's editorial on the very weird, unfair decision by Bridget Phillipson not to include sixth form colleges in teacher pay rise: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe Guardian view on teachers’ pay: colleges don’t deserve second-class status | EditorialEditorial: College staff deserve a pay rise along with their peers. Widening the gap with schools would be a serious mistake 020
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Men's rights dressed up as progressivism turns out to be intoxicating.. 030
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 25/01/2025I basically agree but think anti-feminism is another ingredient. Because the issue pits male people's identity claims against female people's privacy/safety. And loads of men, it turns out, think the former is *much* more important (as sadly do far too many women) 240
Reposted by Susanna RustinSteven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 25/01/2025It’s a blind spot for liberal / social democratic etc parties throughout the world. They’ve painted themselves into a corner that they’re struggling to get out of. 373
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 25/01/2025I'm one of many who are desperately frantically trying to help.. 130
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 25/01/2025..wishing or pretending that women's rights ( including sports and prisons without males in them) can be safely disregarded by parties hoping to run governments. *Because it isn't true* 2/2 141
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 25/01/2025This is a really good piece by @susandalgety.bsky.social. I have no idea how many US voters were put off by the Democrats' anti-science sex denialism (in the misleading name of "trans rights"). But liberals/ democrats everywhere urgently need to stop thinking .. 1/2 x.com/DalgetySusan...x.comx.com 3113
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 21/01/2025📢 I'm doing an event on Saturday, talking about my book which puts UK gender-critical feminism in historical context, with @nicolelampert.bsky.social, hosted by a Fawcett Society group in north London. Booking link here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sex-or-gen...eventbrite.co.ukSEX OR GENDER?SEX OR GENDER? Why the confusion? Who benefits? Who loses out? Rustin tells us her take on gender identity, interviewed by Nicole Lampert 0111
Reposted by Susanna RustinDr Keighley Perkins @perkinskeighley.bsky.social · 16/01/2025There has been much-needed attention on the sexual exploitation & abuse of children in the news recently. However, what news reports on this controversy fail to acknowledge is the role of the internet in grooming cases. Read more from @susannajrustin.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/3fcksh8ntinyurl.comZuckerberg, Musk, answer me this: what about the child abuse scandal playing out online? | Susanna RustinVictims of ‘grooming gangs’ have been badly let down, but children must be protected online as well as in the real world, says Guardian writer Susanna Rustin 154
Reposted by Susanna RustinSusanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 14/01/2025I wrote about need for policies to tackle child sexual exploitation (grooming) gangs *and also* other forms of abuse including the disaster unfolding online www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comZuckerberg, Musk, answer me this: what about the child abuse scandal playing out online? | Susanna RustinVictims of ‘grooming gangs’ have been badly let down, but children must be protected online as well as in the real world, says Guardian writer Susanna Rustin 073
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 14/01/2025I wrote about need for policies to tackle child sexual exploitation (grooming) gangs *and also* other forms of abuse including the disaster unfolding online www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comZuckerberg, Musk, answer me this: what about the child abuse scandal playing out online? | Susanna RustinVictims of ‘grooming gangs’ have been badly let down, but children must be protected online as well as in the real world, says Guardian writer Susanna Rustin 073
Reposted by Susanna RustinWomen's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 07/01/20257 January 1792: #OTD Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women was published. This text was hugely influential and is regarded as one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. 553323740
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Agree on diversity-of -activist-paths point. Didn't mean there's just one line to be traced.. & fwiw I don't mind GC at all, I think it's useful. Was just being careful in labelling others who don't self-describe in that way. 000
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 07/01/2025(Because criminal justice is an area where sex differences - size,strength, huge differences in rates of violence -are really important) 120
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Thanks for replying. And hny to you too! My view is that one reason for strength of sex-based rights (aka gender critical) movement in UK *is* the feminist criminal justice movement which grew out of UK second wave.. 120
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Zoe lots of GC feminists (tho some dislike term 'gender critical') are longstanding criminal justice campaigners: joan smith, karen ingala Smith, Rhona hotchkiss (former prison governor), Pragna patel, julie bindel, Harriet wistrich, jess Phillips, Jane Clare Jones (PhD on rape), joanna cherry, etc 181
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 19/12/2024just became a paying subscriber to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social's substack broligarchy.substack.com/p/who-is-the...broligarchy.substack.comWho is 'the money behind the money?'As the Guardian announces the 'sale' of the 233-year-old Observer to Tortoise Media, I wave hello to my new bosses (hi!) with an investigation of their finances. 152
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 11/12/2024I will be going on strike with my Guardian and Observer colleagues about the sale of the Observer from midnight for 48 hours. For more info @gonuj.org or @nujofficial.bsky.social or come and visit us outside Kings Place, Kings Cross 0104
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 10/12/2024And here is another excellent letter objecting to the proposed sale of the Observer @gonuj.org www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...theguardian.comWhy foreign correspondents are alarmed and dismayed at plans to sell the Observer | LetterLetter: Current and former contributors to the international pages of the Guardian and Observer respond to an article by Ole Jacob Sunde, chair of the Scott Trust 061
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 09/12/2024And here is a letter from the very-recently-retired Observer editor Paul Webster www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d... 162
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Very pleased to have signed this letter about the 'sale' of the Observer along with many colleagues www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d... 092
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 07/12/2024* the labelling of gender-critical posts & people as intolerant is one reason why I'm not making the effort to move over here currently. Not saying X is better but I've had enough of gender identity activists throwing insults around. Anyway thanks if you're following me,will try to post sometimes! 🙏 4291
Susanna Rustin @susannajrustin.bsky.social · 07/12/2024This is the US model of gender affirmative healthcare that people (including me) have been called bigots for rejecting. & now this app has labelled @jessesingal.com "intolerant".. so here we are again: in the looking-glass world where it's bigoted to think it's wrong to cut children's breasts off 0225
