Category: Analysis
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Posie Parker and Let Women Speak
What is ‘Let Women Speak’? With a website touting events, forums and a store, ‘Let Women Speak’ boasts that its events are the only events hosted by Posie Parker / Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, the transphobic, anti-feminist and far-right political campaigner. Such an event has been scheduled on 6th April in Edinburgh. As the Australian press wrote when she…
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Who is Kellie Jay Keen-Minshull / Posie Parker?
Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, who performs under the name Posie Parker, is a transphobic, anti-feminist and far-right political campaigner. She rose to notoriety in 2018 after being questioned by the police in relation to Twitter harassment of Susie Green (CEO of Mermaids) and her daughter. In the tweets, she misgendered Green’s daughter and made reference to “castration”.…
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A Good Week for Bad People
It’s been a bad week of politics for queer people. It’s been a bad week of politics for trans people. It’s been a bad week of politics for anyone with a moral backbone or an ounce of care for other people. It’s been a bad week; but not the only week.
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Rights or Liberation?
RTiE Trans Liberation Event 20th October 2023 Trans Liberation is the right to be yourself. But this needs to be beyond the simple question of legal rights, which can be taken away by the state as readily as they can be given. If we can make common cause with all of the oppressed, then trans…
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Defend Trans rights, defend democracy
The Scottish Government challenge against the Section 35 blocking of the Gender Recognition Reform Bill (Scotland) is now in court. What is the Bill about? Why did the Tories block it? Gender Recognition Reform in Scotland ‘This is a significant and important Bill, but it has been met with one of the most spiteful and…
Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh 