Writer and independent feminist scholar
Queer person of colour
#FreePalestine
Feminist Killjoy
Every crime in which an ethnic or cultural minority is the perpetrator used to justify repression or worse of minorities. Every crime in which a minority is the victim used to argue for the idea that ethnic diversity is inherently unstable and should be reduced or eradicated.
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These are extraordinary findings for the High Court to make. Hard to see how the so-called Office for Students can survive in its current form.
“Who else becomes an also? The barely mentioned? After thoughts?
To become a stranger, sometimes, is to remain in the shadows, at the edges of social experience, not registered as living and breathing.
Until.”
So relatable and heartbreaking 💔
The Court of Appeal judgement on Palestine Action is frankly bonkers. It says PA is not "a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes operating transparently in the open."
Right: the arson, bombings, slashings etc were all planned in open meetings in Parliament Square 🙄🧵
I’m joining the campaign to Defend Our Juries - Take action here: www.defendourjuries.net
Because, as everyone knows, protest works best when it's approved by the government.
The entire judgement is based on a series of fairytales: about democracy, the benign nature of the state, the efficacy of polite, obedient and invisible protest and the harmonious course of English history.
If the Suffragettes were active today, there is not a shadow of a doubt that Keir Starmer's government would have banned them as a terrorist group, and insisted there are plenty of other ways in which women can register their dissent. Why don't they write letters to their MPs?
It's a year today since the Supreme Court decision on the meaning of "sex" under the Equality Act 2010.
Jolyon Maugham and I have written a reflective piece with our thoughts on the judgment, everything that has happened since, and why it's so important that we are still fighting - together 👇
