Folk singer of sorts.
Sheffield, England
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A few months ago I was in a service station with only male/female toilets. I saw an elderly man lead his dementia-suffering wife to the door of the ladiesā, patiently explain step-by-step how to use it and stand outside looking sad and worried as she went in alone.
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Boris Johnson: *shoots someone dead on live TV*
Keir Starmer (crossly): Boris Johnson simply must apologise
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Call me old fashioned but I think the smoking gun is *not* whether Boris Johnson did or did not say ālet the bodies pile high in their thousandsā - itās that he did, in fact, let the bodies pile high in their thousands
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Worried about lesbians? Why does the Times not start a lesbian culture column? Why does JK Rowling not use her gargantuan platform to write a world best seller series about a lesbian kid? Why does your concern for lesbian visibility never involve making any lesbians visible?
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Piers Morgan isnāt gay and Donald Trump isnāt gay and they arenāt gay together and saying they are isnāt woke and is in fact regular old homophobia so straight folk for Christās sake please find. a new. fucking. joke.
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Imagine you sold carrots, turnips and parsnips; you wouldnāt call your store āthe carrot shopā. Folk wouldnāt know they can get turnips there. So calling it āthe root vegetable shopāwould cover all options. Then imagine the media reacted by screaming āYOU CANāT EVEN SAY CARROTSā
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āHolly and Phil jumped the queue to see the Queenās coffin and as a monarchist I am very angry about the idea that somebody should enjoy unearned preferential treatmentā -
honestly this place cracks me up
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āThe kingā, okay who is that. Iām not going to be calling him anything other than Prince Charles, Iām sorry. Itās been seven years and I still call it 4od
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Who made the decision to seek out five individuals with unusually sentimental stories and construct an entire article from them that doesnāt even mention why the strikes are happening? How can you label that news? How can people possibly believe the BBC is impartial?
The passengers set to miss life events due to the rail strikes bbc.in/3MZSBwc
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Before you reply, Iām sure thatās rare; most places have family changing rooms etc. But it just really made me think - a needlessly stressful experience gender neutral toilets would help. In the crossfire of this vicious culture war thereās all manner of ordinary people.
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Say it everyday but I truly canāt believe Starmer chose this to be his legacy. Starving an imprisoned population will define his premiership. Taking office after 14 miserable years was the widest open goal in history and this is what you did with it. The shame is beyond words
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Everyone who has been pointing out JK Rowlingās transphobia for several years logging onto Twitter today
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Hereās what I want to know. Iām a butch lesbian. How come NO TRANS PEOPLE EVER have:
-tried to convince me Iām trans
-tried to stop me using ālesbianā
-interrogated me about whether I will have sex with trans women
-erased me in literally any possible way
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The tell is in the language: āDiversity, equality and inclusionā isnāt even a term we use here. This man is being paid to prepare Britain to be utterly hollowed out by American interests. Thatās what your so-called patriotism amounts to if youāre a useful idiot voting Reform.
Nigel Farage, "I would advise anybody who is working for Durham County Council on Climate Change initiatives, or Diversity Equity and Inclusion"
"I think you all better really be seeking alternative careers, very very quick"
Beth Rigby, "You talked about people not working from home, you don't like Diversity, a lot of people won't like that"
Nigel Farage, "This is happening, it's not a one off, it's real"
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I have no comment whatsoever on Graham Linehan crying on television about the losses he has sustained except that to describe the *decision* his *autonomous* partner made to leave the relationship as her being ātaken awayā is exactly the level of misogyny I would expect
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The silly sod reply squad have turned up so Iām muting this but fully agree we need more inclusive, fully accessible facilities everywhere for the benefit of everyone
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I too am furious at these newfangled gender-bending characters being shoved down our childrenās throats! Bring back the bastions of heteronormativity that I grew up with!!! š¤¬š¤¬š¤¬
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Itās funny, I remember when I was a kid and my mum explained periods to me and I was like - sorry, what the fuck?? This sounds appalling??? And now Iāve been menstruating for nearly 20 years I have to say - I was spot on
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This is going to be fucking unpopular but: if previously unpolitical people are now waking up to the importance of protecting the NHS I would infinitely rather find a way to welcome those people into the movement so they will stay on our team than yell at them for whatās done
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āIcarus, youāre sure thatās the one you mean?ā
āIām sure.ā
āAnd thereās definitely no, like, foolish errors in that myth or anything?ā
āNone at all.ā
āWill we just give it a google, just to checkāā
āIām 100%. Icarus is the one. Top flier. Symbol of unmitigated success.ā
Nigel Farage is the Brexit Icarus. Here's how he can see us fly out of the EU to freedom | Hunter DuBose
telegraph.co.uk/politics/201ā¦
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So much respect to these brave souls who, in the name of protest, endured the indignity of dressing like Tories
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Itās really shaping up to be a Pride month of corporations being like āhappy Pride, love is love, be yourself!ā and five minutes later going āwe profusely apologise for and wholly retract the previous statement, love is not love, be someone elseā
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My edgy festival take is you should be allowed to bring in water particularly in this heat. Itās right scab behaviour to discourage people bringing in their own and charging extortionate sums for canned water. Literally what are we doing
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As so many people have warned and predicted for so long, transphobic activists are making the incredibly short journey from spreading fear and suspicion about trans people to spreading fear and suspicion about gay people. We TOLD you this was going to happen.
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Who would have thought that gaining power after 14 years and immediately using it to tell people that actually nothing will get better for them wouldnāt be popular
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Why canāt you get a variety pack of stock cubes. I never need 12 of any flavour. Have I got to think of everything myself
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The day Susie Dent is like āword of the day is cunt, as in Boris Johnson is a cuntā must surely be approaching
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Iām no being sarcastic. Pre the last couple of years I was a huge Harry Potter fan. Do you know what difference a gay Hermione could have made made to legions of teenage lesbians? Why does these folksā concern never examine their own contribution to a lack of lesbian celebration?
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Beaches filled with raw sewage, 87 year old citizens waiting 14 hours for ambulances, energy bills running into thousands. Jesus Christ what will it take
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I find the suggestion that gay people (ālesbians especiallyā) need straight celebrities to police our community and our own ongoing conversations with each other about gender nauseatingly patronising, thanks
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Sure you would have stood up to the fascists and you would have backed Rosa Parks and you would have boycotted South Africa during apartheid but one year without watching the fun singing contest, that is asking a bit much
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Maybe you see nothing wrong with the policing bill. Maybe you have never protested. But one day, you might find the govt does something you donāt like, and you could be arrested for standing alone outside and saying so. Free speech isnāt just about seeing right wing comedy on TV
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I donāt want to dwell on this but yesterday Graham Linehan again tagged me in some bonkers transphobic ravings and I obvs muted it, but have just checked it again and once more his cult of very normal disciples are spending their time asking me deeply intrusive sexual questions.
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Ah fuck it, THREAD, I guess. Iāve tried to hold my tongue re: the lack of female guitar acts/female headliners/the āpipeline problemā at Glastonbury. But perhaps my experience is relevant. I am a female guitar act. I write big, singalong chorus songs that go great at festivals.1/
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Hereās what I think about Labourās spending plans: I DONāT FUCKING CARE HOW MUCH MONEY IT COSTS TO GIVE EVERY HUMAN BEING A BASICALLY DECENT LIFE AND IT IS DISTURBING THAT THIS IS TREATED AS A RADICAL IDEA
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Iām not exaggerating even a tiny bit when I say that the level of harassment I have had simply for opposing TERFs is incomparably more than all the homophobia Iāve experienced in my life. So - youāll forgive me if I find the ādefending lesbiansā rhetoric a bit hard to swallow
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Living in this country makes me feel like Iām losing my mind daily. The mild voice of the BBC newsreader innocuously announcing that 7000 deaths in a week is good news, and the government have appointed someone to enforce nationalistic revisionism in universities.
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I heard the Trump press conference is in between a sex shop and a crematorium. It sounds like heās caught between a cock and a charred place
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Here we go. If you have fanned the flames of transphobia in the UK, understand that the targeting of all queer people was always the next logical step. Buckle up folks, itās going to be a nasty, homophobic, āfamily valuesā election.
"People purport to be gay when they're not actually gay"
Home Secretary @SuellaBraverman accuses asylum seekers of lying about their sexuality to gain refugee status in the UK
Full interview with @AnushkaAsthana tonight ā¬ļø
š»LIVE 9PM @itvpeston
šŗ11.15PM @ITV
#Peston
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Itās funny how you canāt sing any overtly political songs on the BBC but Homes Under The Hammer is buy-to-let landlord propaganda
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And yet, conversely, transphobic feminists have repeatedly:
-tried to stop me using queer to describe myself
-interrogated me about who Iām willing to have sex with
-told me the answer makes me ānot a lesbianā
-erased my voice repeatedly in their claim to speak for lesbians
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I totally missed that this sack of shit Prime Minister called the idea of cancelling Christmas āinhumanā when he cancelled Eid with like 2 hours notice. You said the fucking racist bit out loud again you incompetent scumbag
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Princess Anne says slimmed-down monarchy 'doesn't sound like a good idea' news.sky.com/story/princess-ā¦
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We should all be more like the person who doubles back to open the door for the sandwich-stealing seagull, and less like the Tory who tries to confiscate the sandwich from the seagull
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Then imagine itās not root vegetables, but essential healthcare, and you are close to the ridiculous, hate-filled, mind-bogglingly stupid situation in Britain, where folks are starving and freezing and Rishi Sunak wants to become PM so he can crack down on inclusive language š¤¦š»āāļø
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I hear Iām on the verge of extinction. Sponsor a lesbian today, your Ā£2 a month will go to vital protective flannel shirts and youāll receive a cuddly lesbian in the post
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And youāre just there like āwhoa whoa, relax everyone! Of course you can say carrots! Look, thereās carrots everywhere in my store!ā and the media was like āthis has gone TOO FAR! This shop can only be allowed to exist if every single vegetable in here is labelled a carrot!!!ā
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SAFETY?! Lmao yeah them unarmed mourning women were much safer after you slammed them to the ground and held them down 3 on 1
You trampled on the flowers laid in memory of a murdered woman for Christās sake
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I *am* being slightly less than sincere when I say that the next time I release an album I am excited at the inevitable onslaught of double page features of press I am sure to receive in the Times, Telegraph and Spectator, knowing how much it pains them to see us dying out
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Rishi Sunak serving food at a homeless shelter is the most disgusting disingenuous PR stunt I have seen from a man basically made of disgusting disingenuous PR stunts!!! Fix the country instead of this photo op shit you corrupt little multi-millionaire!!!
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You know what has happened to me, as a lesbian? A man once threatened to break my nose when I asked him to stop harassing my then-girlfriend.
A group of men harassed me and my then-girlfriend and attacked our home for 10mths w/ vandalism and bricks (once a firework) til we moved.
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Trying to stay out of the Labour noise but v depressing that those people who worked hardest and pounded the streets in the pouring rain are apparently fair game to be relentlessly kicked by the sensible grownups whose contribution to the effort was loudly shouting it would fail
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I remember as a young butch lesbian how much comfort and strength I got from the many, many positive butch lesbian characters I saw in Harry Potter and thatās how I know JKR really cares about me and isnāt using my community to further an agenda of bigotry š
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Thoughts and prayers with those folks having to go without their weekend edition of transphobia x
This morning people across the country will be prevented from reading their newspaper because of the actions of Extinction Rebellion.
This attack on our free press, society and democracy is completely unacceptable.
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Think all these Harry Potter takes are quite unfair, the PE teacher Professor Butch OāFlannel-Dyke made me feel so seen
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Trans children have got to be one of the least powerful groups in society I can think of. But on this, the day a sitting PM found to have broken the law has succeeded in making himself immune from scrutiny, thatās the group the Times thinks you all need to be afraid of.
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I donāt want to assume that this tweet is as badly motivated as it seems, so could you clarify that youāre not actually mocking the police for promoting the safety of the LGBT community in an area where a man was recently homophobically murdered
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Extremely fucking stupid that the country is a total binfire and Sunak has calculated all he has to do to get people to slap their hands together like seals is slag off trans folks and extremely fucking stupid that it will work on some people
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Here is my bid for Christmas number one. Itās festive and not at all political
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What, like the Bible
UK schools told not to use anti-capitalist material in teaching theguardian.com/education/20ā¦
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I have been physically intimidated by homophobia and misogyny at various points my whole life. None of it has ever been from trans women. My experience reflects that of hundreds of lesbians I have met. That article does not reflect the experiences of anyone I have ever met.
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āI love peasā
āErrr excuse me, carrots are actually really worthwhile.ā
āSure, Iām just talking about peasā
āSo carrots donāt even merit discussing? I canāt believe you want to ban carrots.ā
The internet, every single day.
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If trans people were trying so hard and so relentlessly to āconvertā butch lesbians into trans men, I think itās odd that, having met literally hundreds of trans and NB folks in my life, not a single one has ever tried to persuade me Iām anything other than a butch lesbian.
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I mean if I say I hate men then please *always* take that with the certain knowledge that Iām not actually talking about the patriarchy, the layers of systemic oppression, the power constructs that keep men dominant and all who suffer them but that I do mean *you*, individually
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I havenāt seen a single headline that doesnāt at the very best imply it was both sides. Iāve watched videos with my own eyes of kneeling women set upon by multiple cops and what gets reported is āprotest turns violentā. This is what weāre up against
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You know all joking aside...how have hairdressers never been sued for charging by gender? Can I really be expected to pay basically a surcharge for being a woman? That seems like something not possible for 2021 AD
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Heh, Mhairi Black is *immediately* trending. If she became First Minister of Scotland Iād pack my bags and move up tomorrow.
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Last night I was really surprised and saddened to read on Twitter that some members of the audience were subject to transphobic comments at the show. I want to reiterate in the strongest terms possible these views are the opposite of what Iām trying to communicate in my songsā
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LGBTQ+ people need to be able to privately access support and info without carersā knowledge. This was standard practice even when I was a youth worker 8+ yrs ago. It is frighteningly damaging and disingenuous in the extreme to spread the idea that this is in any way sinister.
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MAYBE
You arenāt sick of elections
MAYBE
Youāre just sick of elections that leave the Tories in power
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Yesterday I told a transphobe to please not come to any more of my gigs and the rest of them are having a real party about how theyāre not gonna come to my gigs/but they wouldnāt havenāt anyway/but my gigs will be full of weirdos/but also empty and Iām like guys, I have no gigs x
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Donāt ask why the one gay show didnāt tell everyoneās stories. Ask why thereās only one. Then demand every story gets its own.
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Okay listen weāre going to say this one more fucking time.
Itās not that all men are a threat. Itās that all men are a POTENTIAL threat. EVEN. POLICE. OFFICERS.
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Itās weird that they give you shampoo in hotel rooms even though itās fine to not wash your hair for a day but they donāt give you toothpaste which is essential
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I am sure diabetes in cats is a serious and concerning issue but if you want me to believe that why would you illustrate the story with this picture
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Iām really confused I thought this account was BBC News? This is an article about a man missing his stag do
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Morning folk of all gender. Just to reiterate for those who arenāt clear: Iām actually not trans. I go on about trans rights a lot cos 1. Lesbians like myself are being lobbed about as political grenades by the worst cunts alive & 2. cis ppl need to fight transphobia! Its grim!
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The tweet Iām quoting above is literally celebrating a new rule stating only binary toilets will be built, Iām suggesting that future will make that couplesā lot even harder. I thought it was an obvious point but clearly needed spelling out more
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I feel strongly that a lot of the conversations right now would benefit from me listening and not me talking but billionaire straight women defining MY sexuality for me so they can feel self righteous about being transphobic bigots isnāt one. Fuck JK Rowling forever and ever x
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