All women knew Gisèle Pelicot wasn’t the only one. She was just the first one the world heard about.

The homeless man who ran to help, who cradled a woman who died in his arms, that's who we should aspire to be He has nothing & gave his all.

Couldn’t you find it in your hearts to call her a woman @BBCNews ?

Oh for goodness sake can’t a married, middle aged man, in a powerful job with an indeterminate number of children,have a much younger woman as a best friend, who he visits in her flat & accompanies him on overseas trips funded by the tax payer, anymore? thetimes.co.uk/article/1143a…

I took Emmy out Christmas shopping yesterday & we went to a cafe. There were 4 teenage girls sitting at a table. When Emily walked past them they recoiled in horror and started laughing and making “oh my god” comments. I don’t know if Emily noticed. Maybe for her the abnormal cruelty from strangers that is so normalised now by social media, and off social media, that she just takes it in her stride. But I noticed and I do wonder. I wonder how so many with obviously less than perfect hearts and thought patterns themselves, rationalise their cruelty as legitimate whilst they focus on superficialities like body shape and facial perfection and ageing - particularly for women. I wonder when did we stop telling our children not to point, make comments or laugh at people who are different to them? Is it since their parents took to sitting on social media & doing so for hours? Is that who we are now? Emily may not fit a mould with her learning disability. She may not feature as a priority for in deed it could be argued she’s a target for MP’s, legislators, bureaucrats, comedians or social media influencers; but Emily would never judge or hate anyone on the colour of their skin, sexuality, sex, disability or age. Emily really does meet the world with open arms. I wish more people did that. Happy Christmas. #LearningDisability

A heroine to millions of women and a #WomanOfACertainAge 💜

Oh my I absolutely LOVE this woman 💜

A pregnant woman is sexually assaulted on a train by a man & the judge’s bizarre priority is that finding him guilty, will adversely impact his life. It’s a man’s world alright. theguardian.com/commentisfre…

The thing that marks out Gordon Brown for me as a decent human being is whenever I hear or see him being interviewed, it’s never about him. He’s always using his platform to highlight others. Currently it’s the humanitarian crisis facing the people of Afghanistan.

Morning all. It’s my 56th birthday today which makes me closer to 70 than 40 & I think the perfect birthday to get my 2nd ever pair of dungarees (my first when I was 15) let’s be anti ageism not anti ageing. All love Nik ❤️💪

Dear All. It’s 3.30am on Monday 27th January and I have some time as I’m awake currently. I’m awake because I’m in hospital. I’m in hospital because on Saturday morning at 4.30am I had a heart attack. The paramedics saved my life for the first time and then the consultant in Stoke where I was taken in a blue light ambulance, saved it again. The nursing teams, auxiliary staff and everyone involved is so brilliant and so kind. (6.43am) (Sorry bloods & blood pressure and a rest. ) The thing I want to highlight is that we aren’t very good at knowing the different presentations of symptoms of cardiac problems in women. It doesn’t always start with left arm pain or jaw pain. It ended up there believe me, and with a crushing burning pain in the centre of my breastbone radiating out over my back and shoulders but that’s not where it started. It started weeks earlier with heartburn and as women can we honestly say that’s something we would take to a doctor? No. Most of us will brush it off and carry on. I know I did. Too trivial, they’re too busy, I’m too busy, “I can’t pitch up there with heartburn how embarrassing wasting their time” But grumbling heartburn if you’ve never suffered from it before, shouldn’t be ignored. I ignored it for the last 6 weeks and here I am. So what I was thinking was I’d post it here and then if any woman with no other symptoms suddenly get heartburn which wont go completely, she could offset her embarrassment at visiting the doctor with my post. Then she can blame me. 10.27am Like many people in my situation I have such love for the NHS. The speed and efficiency of the paramedics, the A&E team at RSH who put two cannulas in my arms so that the hour long blue light trip to stoke was covered “just in case”. The team in Stoke (led by Dr Karim Ratib) and the nurse, who told me gently that I’d had a heart attack and then told me I needed a stent fitted straight away. The immediate procedure, the aftercare ,the time the patience and the dedication, all of it was beautiful and precious and irreplaceable. 10.56am And that’s the word isnt it. Irreplaceable because the NHS is just like the people we all love, absolutely irreplaceable and always there for us when we need them. 💙 Tuesday 28th January. 8.30am Morning all. I’m home again with lots of meds & lots of bruises and so much gratitude for our NHS. I need another stent fitted but this will be in 6-8 weeks. There was mild to moderate damage to my heart from the heart attack but fortunately it wasn’t the part of my heart which carries the love I have for my children, my husband, my family and my friends. I’m going to see Em today because she needs to know what happened from me, so she knows I’m ok, but obviously I’m only giving her enough info to inform not frighten her. I will post this message to you all after that. My big aim right now is to work towards making other women aware of how the symptoms of cardiac problems present so differently in men and women. I’m hoping @wesstreeting as health secretary might help with that. Women matter at every age and women’s health is too important to continue to put ourselves at the bottom of the list. We are so often the glue holding everything together, we fight for those we love and share our concerns and worries with our friends & spouses/partners but not always with GPs in case we’re “being a bother” But it’s time for women to have a “heart to heart” with their GP on that. Don’t leave too late like I did. Huge love, from a moderately damaged heart. Nik xx ❤️ xx

I remember my sister waking me up and telling me it was Christmas Day and giving me my presents in Mum's room. I remember walking downstairs and seeing my mum. I remember collapsing when my mum told me she was sorry but that Michael had died. She was still wearing her coat. I remember that he had bought me a paint set, the only present he managed to get because he'd been so exhausted. I didn’t speak for 48 hours and just painted. What I didn’t remember was seeing him for the last time in hospital. My sister told me last year. I had completely blanked it out. Apparently I’d been crying, so maybe that’s why. Anyway he’d be 63 today. It would have been 63 years like the 17 he lived. With heart and compassion and integrity and wit and wisdom. There is a tendency to deify those who die young, to imbue the years lived, with unreasonable assertions of goodness. I'm not doing that. My brother was one of the best people I ever met. Happy birthday Mike.

It’s funny how these humanoid robots are always “women”, always attractive, always thin and always young. Isn’t. It. …….

This on the difference between gender & sex is superb. Also iconic on ageism targeting women. An inconvenient fact in assurances that the generational war on self ID & single sex spaces led by older women, stems from bigotry & hate #ActingYourAgeCampaign

I see The Sun has chosen to track down JK Rowling’s abuser. This is why women think very carefully about detailing domestic violence because it often continues and increases the abuse and trauma. Her courage in detailing it, knowing what she’d be subjected to is incredible xx

No journalist should back off the Cummings story if it’s true his child is autistic. What they should do is highlight how virtually nothing has been done for wider autistic community. Autistic people have been suffering & dying throughout. Their families left to cope alone.

What if JK Rowling just wants safety for women & girls & Suzanne Moore just wants impartial journalism & Julie Bindel just wants lesbians to know they’re valid & Kathleen Stock just wants Universities to discuss ideas & Martina just wants women to have a sporting chance. No hate

On the 25th December 1978 just before 4am  my brother Michael asked Mum if he could have some more iced water. The men's ward was quiet as everyone was sleeping and so as mum walked back to his bed with his drink, she heard him die. He was 17 years old. Michael  had been born in Kenya on 3rd October 1961. I met him 5 years later when he and my sister were brought to the Belfast Hospital where I was born. Apparently my Mum said ‘There you are Michael you have someone to boss around now.” according to my Mum he said “and someone to kiss” My brother was tall and blond and tanned whilst my sister and I are medium height, dark and pale. We don’t tan, so much as freckle or burn. He exuded physical perfection which was why, when the symptoms of the heart and lung condition which would kill him first surfaced, they were missed. The first time I noticed anything was wrong was our last holiday before my Dad left. We were walking and my brother kept stopping to rest. Then he gave up altogether. He went back to school and during a run in full CCF kit he’d started coughing up blood. Then he passed out. The other boys found this “weakness” in such a handsome threat, a rich hunting ground for cruelty. They derived pleasure from letting him know that. He went to the Dr who detected a heart murmur and referred him for tests. As Dad left just before Michael was diagnosed, Mike did what he felt he had to do. He hid his symptoms. Fighting his exhaustion and breathlessness, he dug the garden and emptied the bins and cut the grass. He didn't have to, he wanted to do all the things my dad had done. He endured two cardiac catheterisations and when the Consultant got the results, the diagnosis was primary pulmonary hypertension and the prognosis was 10-15 years of eventual decline, then death. They were doing some trials for some new drugs and procedures and Mike was included for the trial which was to begin in January 1979. Had he lived he would have had a heart and lung transplant. Mum was travelling to her job as a health visitor and Mike by now needed to be off school. He would get up and dressed before she left and then spend the rest of the day in bed. Then just before she was due home he would get up and act as though he had been up all day. Mum asked for time off after the diagnosis. Her manager refused. Because I was twelve and because this was the 70’s, nobody told me anything except the bare minimum. I knew he was in bed a lot and I knew he seemed much less patient than normal but aside from that nothing much. Apart from one conversation. He said “I know you don’t like boys much at the moment but one day you will. Make sure you marry someone who loves you and looks out for you as much as I do” I thought that was an odd thing to say at the time because he usually found me annoying, plus he always beat me in top trumps and chess and everything really. Then just before Christmas he got a cold. He’d gone into town to buy Christmas presents. By Mum’s birthday on the  23rd December he couldn’t even sit up in bed to play chess with me anymore. I remember seeing the board with a single spatter of his blood after the ambulance took him to the hospital. The thing that drove him crazy was not being able to play his guitar. He had taken it up and after 6 months his guitar teacher recommended that he have master-classes with legendary classical guitarist Segovia. Listening to him play was one of my best and most vivid memories, especially the piece, Asturias which I've linked to. The rest is a little hazy. Apparently this was shock. I remember them carrying him down the stairs by stretcher. I remember waking up at 4am on Christmas Day because I was sleeping in my mum's bed and the time was on the alarm clock. (Continued) (1/2)

RIP Terence Stamp and contrary to what Sky News & truly shockingly the BBC is telling the world, I don’t think he’s “best known” for playing General Zod in Superman, no. Please stop putting kids in charge of public news feeds,it’s getting ridiculous. #ActingYourAgeCampaign

John Cleese using his BBC interview promoting his new GB news show, to decry the BBC for censorship & cancelling is the best example of “entitled men not thinking they’re quite entitled enough”, that you’ll hear today …….

Brilliant first question from @bbcnickrobinson “Why should a 16 year old be able to make permanent, life altering alterations to their bodies when it’s not legal for them to buy a bottle of wine or get a tattoo?”

My last comment to you @billybragg because I think trying to engage is pointless. I posted a photo of Jk Rowling & Rosie Duffield together. Overnight I was sent an email saying me & my “transphobic friends” deserve to be raped. If you think feminists are the problem you’re wrong

66 year old former professional sports woman Sue Barker’s not presenting a sports show at the BBC anymore either. Not because she breached impartiality. She didn’t know why she was sacked She’s been replaced by a male stand up comedian. No mass walk out, no boycott, no hashtags

It’s fascinating what passes for a genuine question these days. Genuine answer from me though - stop making another woman’s appearance any of your business. An obsession with “ageing women = failing women” is a misogynist’s talking point.

Jess already has a panic room installed in her family home. Her best friend in Parliament was murdered. Her constituency office was attacked and there are credible threats against her. She is trolled constantly & deals with the foulest of MRA tweets. Feminists turning on her now?

The gendered ageism inherent in much of the cancelling online isn't lost on me. "Middle aged woman" is a term of abuse. Young women are enabled to despise middle aged women openly, forgetting that invisibility is on a timer for them too. We've been you, you have yet to be us.

I think my time on here is coming to an end. Seeing Jess Phillips thrown under the bus by feminists, whilst they fan girl Kemi Badenoch (who also refused an inquiry) is truly the lowest point. What has happened to them?

The sad part for me with the Harry Potter stars lining up to condem JK Rowling is that not one of them called for the hate and abuse targeting her to end. If they care so much for all human lives being valued, all human rights being protected then why didn’t they include her.

Everything that J.K. Rowling voiced concern about in her essay has proved to be true. None of her critics can find a single transphobic comment by her. Just because she’s accused of it doesn’t make it true. The question is why are her critics lying ?

A tricky post to write but bear with me please as I’ve been asked by the lovely WPC I just spoke to at West Mercia police to post in an effort to keep other people safe. I’m a big fan of walking and one of my favourite places to walk in my home town of Shrewsbury, is the Quarry Park. It’s beautiful all year round. The River Severn edges the park and the footpaths are wide which leaves lots of room for families, runners, walkers like me & cyclists. There are lots of bridges crossing the river and you can walk from one end of the town centre to the other which is what I did today. It’s incredibly misty here today as yesterday (photo I took yesterday below) so as you walk on days like today, you get enveloped by the mist. I walked past the St Julian’s Friars car park and noticed a guy walking from his parked car towards me headed into the park behind me. As I turned back to the path ahead I was turning into an empty space by the monument and I noticed a cycle tyre level with my right leg and incredibly close to me. I thought the cyclist was a bit close but also expected it to pass me. But it didn’t, it stayed level which made me stop and look up. Very close to my face was the face of a man on the bike. I stopped because he was looming over me. He said “Excuse me Lady”. I felt incredibly unsafe. I felt scared. He had something in his eyes, which frightened me. I thought about the other guy, the guy walking into the park behind me and so I turned around. I walked up to the guy who was behind me walking out of the car park and said really loudly “Oh god I thought it was you I haven’t seen you for years how are you?” Then I dropped my voice and said “I’m so sorry I know you don’t know me but that guy on the bike is really creepy.” and then I burst into tears. The nice guy checked I was ok, patted me on the shoulder and as cyclist guy was gone I carried on walking. I was so angry. Angry that I was just walking. Angry that the cyclist had invaded my personal space and angry that he’d made me feel afraid. He didn’t touch me he didn’t have to, he was just too close and scaring me. I have no idea what his intention was but his demeanour was one that as a woman in my late fifties still made me feel the fear that all women & girls learn to recognise. Anyway. My reason for posting is to alert people. I don’t want pity or sympathy. This isn’t the point. The point I suppose is to say if you can be the type of man who scares women walking alone, or the type of man who helps in that moment, be the latter. Nik xx

Lovely Amanda Abbington has posted a video on Insta about people deciding to boycott Strictly because they’ve decided she’s transphobic. If you don’t already follower her there you should. She’s a lovely woman & cancelling a woman on the basis of groundless accusations is foul 💜

It’s not great to add to the anger on here so I’ve counted to ten before tweeting but I’ve just watched @iTN news & a woman who has had to sell her daughter’s toys so they can raise money to eat & so I’m asking @BorisJohnson & @RishiSunak what they’re going to do about that

On @bbclaurak Brian Cox says he doesn’t like the way that @jk_rowling has been treated and that as a woman she’s entirely entitled to speak on the issue of self ID & GRR and that “people have been quite high and mighty in respect of her quite frankly”

Who is saying Cummings son is autistic? Where has the guidance EVER been adapted for EVERY autistic child except for additional exercise? This is making me very angry now. I’m beyond sick of autism being used when it’s convenient.

You don’t have to agree with ⁦@Glinner⁩ don’t have to like him,or follow him,support him or endorse him but when you choose,as a tweeter just did,to send something like this to him, you cross a line. He’s a human being & a cancer survivor. This isn’t activism, it’s hate.

Still hearing & seeing the same lies being written & spoken about JK Rowling that she’s attacking minorities. No she isn’t. As men wrestle for power of the U.K. she’s using her power & platform in the service of the most vulnerable women in the world. Good men get that, recognise the worst of their sex & support women fighting for their rights.

Are we allowed to say no to this @wesstreeting or is it just going to be done to women like everything else in the NHS? It’s our health service too & if we don’t want men to perform our mammograms we should be allowed to refuse or do older women not matter bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c367…

I am RAGING. If you have an autistic child and you’ve been at the heart of government and done NOTHING for the autistic community all this time, whilst autistic people have been suffering and DYING you don’t get to say you’re part of the community now you’ve been caught out.

Anyone else finding Starmer weaponising the murder of a child as an answer to a political question about protecting women’s rights, horribly inappropriate & offensive?

The fact that she funds a rape crisis centre for women who are victims of violence and rape.

Elizabeth Taylor would have been 90 today. She was known for championing health so rather than a photo of her at 16 or 25, here she is in a photo by Herb Ritts aged 65 showing her scar after a brain tumour was removed. She was beautiful always, not just when acceptably young.

On #BBCR4Today two people explained that they have symptoms and can’t get tested. Michael Gove listened, expressed sympathy then said “it’s important that we put this into context” They can’t get tested Michael, that is the whole context....

Just took her to the vets. They’re going to take a paw print. We can collect her ashes in two weeks. Thank you so much for the kindness. She slipped away in her sleep, in her bed beside ours last night. Totally unexpectedly. Protecting us until the end.

Blocked for quoting Owen Jones back to..(checks notes)....Owen Jones.

“My disabled daughter has £57 per week to live on – what more is there left to cut in your budget George Osborne?”…… sorry I mean ⁦@RachelReevesMP⁩ My piece from 2016 - same sh*t different party. independent.co.uk/voices/my-…

“I’m not supporting the PM on Tuesday I’m supporting the public & the NHS” Keir Starmer #Marr important distinction to make I think.

A very balanced interview by @MartineBBC of trans identifying activist Heather Herbert who appears confused as to whether the Supreme Court ruling will make any difference at all or whether this makes us “Trump’s America”. Herbert seems surprised to be challenged at all.

Superb interview with @sharrond62 on #bbcPM “I’m just really pleased that women & girls are getting their sport back at last. But this has been an incredibly excruciating journey which has taken nearly ten years” 💜

Some women are clever. Some women are brave. Some women are stoic. Some women are patient. Some women have the resources to legally stand their ground and say “You’re not going to do this to anyone else” JK Rowling is all of those things.

My fear is that Labour will recodify “woman” in law to mean gender, not sex. If I vote for them and they do that, it will remove all safeguarding from the most vulnerable women in society & I’ll never forgive myself. Clarity matters because women matter.

I don’t own mine. I rented for a while then decided to do a lease hire agreement. Sure the paperwork is complex but it’s worth it because you get new ones every three years & I went fully electric with the last ones….

The fact that the protestor (at Kathleen Stock’s interview) was removed by police to rounds of applause at the Oxford Union, is going to sting more than the glue I expect….

Can I plead with the women blithely stating how they’ve never had a problem with a male clinician to stop. Safeguarding isn’t there for the majority who don’t abuse or for the majority of women capable of making informed choices, safeguarding exists for voiceless women & girls.

I’m sorry did Jeremy Hunt just call benefit cuts a “cure to sickness” by forcing mentally ill, physically ill and disabled people into work or face benefit sanctions? This goes against all good practice and reasonable adjustments. Foul to hear this toxicity #bbcLauraK

I don’t know if @jessphillips is on here much anymore given the levels of targeted abuse she gets but she posted this on insta and I wanted to share here. I really like Jess. I knew she’d make a difference for women & girls in office & that’s worth shouting about.

How has every other “little whinging fucker’s” day been then … ?

Gregg Wallace and his attitudes to women of his own age in the entertainment industry, are exactly why I launched my #ActingYourAgeCampaign six years ago. The BBC promised to me for two years they would work with me under their #5060Gender initiative. Then didn’t bother ….

When I cleared my mum’s house I found a school blazer of my brother’s who died when he was 17. In the pocket was a list of jobs he wanted to do when he left school. Xx

I think Catherine is a cracking Princess of Wales. Not easy to take on that title I imagine.

Today the verdict of the largest rape trial in French legal history is handed down by the judge. The strength & dignity of Gisèle Pelicot is known already though. This 72 year old women is an icon to all women & girls. Through her determination that shame must change sides.

I used to be a big supporter of the phrase TWAW believing it to be no more than a benign phrase of social affirmation. I thought it self evident that this would never be interpreted to mean biologically female or an actual change of sex. I was wrong.

Amanda Abbington is one of the loveliest people I know. I got to know her through my Acting Your Age Campaign as she’s a stellar supporter. I don’t know her reasons but do know there’s been unrelenting verbal abuse of her on here.I’m so sick of those shits theguardian.com/tv-and-radio…

I might pitch Marvel with my idea “Menopauso” whose super power is that she has zero tolerance for bullshit coupled with middle aged female invisibility. 💪

There’s a group of people on here who can’t understand why anyone would choose to speak positively about @jk_rowling in public. To me & many women she’s an icon - for her writing,her philanthropy & for the simple,powerful truth that she stays true to her values in spite of hate🖤

Yeah awful. Please remember how lucky you are to be presenting on a national broadcaster and don’t ask questions like this next time. Poor Andrew Scott. Clip @PresenterAlex

Hilarious to see @jessphillips being criticised by Owen Jones. When I couldn’t bring myself to vote for Labour under Corbyn at the last GE I went to Birmingham to canvass for her. Jess is bloody magnificent, understands real inequality & campaigns unstintingly to fight against it

“Men control your women”

I see this joke about 21genders, which makes a great point on how the NHS devote time & energy, has predictably caused tempers to flare. It’s “Have I got news for you” they make jokes about the news. Why does gender ideology expect special protected status. Force of habit?

I’ve been told on here today that I’m negatively “obsessed with trans people” so in a change of tone here’s a tweet about crafting & the importance of having a hobby.

Remember how these MPs deliberately filibustered to prevent discussion of a bill aimed at stopping private clinics from prescribing puberty blockers to vulnerable children & autistic LGB teens. In the light of Cass they should feel ashamed. They won’t

I’m not normally a vocal supporter of Keir Starmer but I’ve found his diplomacy this week & his unequivocal support of President Zelenskyy to be very impressive & an important & accurate reflection of the public mood at such a precarious time. #bbcLauraK

When @MhairiBlack spoke about her own bullying by angry men in Parliament, she said it “Creates an environment that allows women to be abused". So I’m confused because does she think that’s ok for @RosieDuffield1 just because she doesn’t agree with her?

Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But send hate & targeted abuse to a writer for expressing her opinion & to me for asking you not to? #IStandWithJKRowling

I run a campaign for middle aged & older women’s representation in the acting industry. None of the supporters ever mock another woman for looking older. These women have lived experience of how sexist ageism manifests. Misogyny always targets female physical appearance.

Wait isn’t this the movement that believes words are literal violence. Female ageing is just a fact. Women are routinely shamed for it, unlike men.

When I was pregnant with our oldest, I was advised not to attend a friend’s funeral due to the stage of my pregnancy. It wasn’t in a pandemic & it didn’t involve a transatlantic flight. Meghan’s responsibility is to protect her pregnancy, not to pander to negative opinions.

“And in other news, Scotland’s first period dignity officer reacts to the backlash following his appointment by issuing a statement : “Alright, alright, calm down…. Jesus…I mean what’s up with you? Are you all on the blob?”

Brilliant @jessphillips getting on with the work for women & girls, despite the verbal abuse, despite the credible threats because that’s what matters. I bloody love her xx

Oh oh oh here we go. Despite @RosieDuffield1 getting directly mentioned in the question on women’s rights the first words out Mansplainer in Chief’s mouth are “I agree with Tony Blair on this”. “It’s about how you do politics and how you deal with difficult topics” he adds not mentioning Rosie at all despite her being unable to attend her own constituency hustings, as the Labour Candidate, due to safety concerns….I guess he thinks she’s a “difficult” topic? #BBCQTLeadersDebate

I’m honestly baffled that Liz Truss is the likely choice for PM. She interviews like she’s won a competition entitled “If I was PM for a day, here’s what I’d do”

CBT being offered to menopausal women to help their physical, biological symptoms-sometimes instead of HRT. I see. You can’t talk your way out of biological menopause so it seems a bit like “conversion therapy” for middle aged women who no one cares about. theguardian.com/society/2023…

I mean forgive my directness @mrjamesob but how can you not know that disabled, ill & elderly women need intimate personal care?

Actor David Tennant gives his support to the #ActingYourAgeCampaign parity pledge to ensure women in TV & Film over the age of 45, remain visible in the industry #DontCastHerOut

We can and should criticise the @BBC when & if they get it wrong but my god we should also be incredibly proud of & grateful for journalists like @maitlis & @afneil

I think @wesstreeting has shown real leadership on this. He apologised to Rosie, held up his hands and said he’d been wrong previously (again a really hard thing to do) & taken on board the issues raised in the #Cass review final report. He deserves this praise & our thanks 💜

When a picture paints 1000 words on the value of women. Huge respect & admiration for ⁦@joannaccherry⁩ In #LesbianVisabilityWeek still standing up, still fighting. 💜

Author of “The Handmaid’s Tale” Margaret Atwood: “I’m not that kind of feminist. And I’m not the kind that thinks that trans women are not women.” irishtimes.com/culture/books…

I’m going to guess that Twitter will be much angrier at you for pointing this out about Mermaids rather than with Mermaids.

Oh Little Mix are excellent

Although I’m glad to hear @BBCRadio4 covering @jk_rowling piece in The Times where she speaks about the abandonment of feminists by @UKLabour - she isnt “outspoken” she’s merely speaking about women’s rights. She also details her deep concern that @Keir_Starmer only listened to Sir Tony Blair stating the biological reality that you can’t change sex, not his female MP @RosieDuffield1 who was in fact investigated by Labour.

Hi @oxfamgb @Oxfam I campaign against ageism targeting women over 45 in media due to enabled stigmatising, portrayals - we’re routinely targeted by. I’m happy to meet with you to address your gap in knowledge as demonstrated by images like this. Best Nicky #ActingYourAgeCampaign

Hi @michaellegge just wondering why Joanna’s age seems an issue for you? I fight sexist ageism targeting women everyday, especially online. It’s an enabled discrimination that men really don’t appreciate. Challenge her views if you don’t agree, not something she can’t help.

It baffles me that the same people who won’t read JK Rowling explainer essay for themselves because “it’s too long”, are happy to watch a two hour video explaining why the essay means she’s transphobic.

Oh my god this is the police. The police, whose job is to protect and serve the public. All of the public whether they’re feminists or not. telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03…

This from @janeclarejones was a standout moment from @AHFdoco for me. So huge thanks to @mandystadt for pulling the clip nitter.app/mandystadt/status/1604…

3 weeks on from my heart attack. I’m getting stronger & more keen to address women’s cardiac health. It’s not widely understood that there are sex based differences in symptoms. So this is my plea to @wesstreeting to meet with me & consider a female cardiac health campaign. ❤️