RIP Deborah Orr

Some particularly revolting TRAs are claiming she was 'abusive' to trans people. They aren't providing proof because there isn't any. Refusing to believe in the female penis is not abuse.

About turn? It’s just easy to be black and white and demonize and dehumanize women as merely bigots and Terfs- forgetting they are your mum, gran, sister, friend.

She said the new tabloid Guardian didn't have space for her ideas.

twitter.com/DeborahJaneOrr/status/951776642145443840?s=19

I just had a peep at Patrick Strudwick’s twitter. I don’t know who he is, has he done an about-turn then ?

Why was she sacked?!

I wonder if OJ had anything to do with her getting sacked from the Guardian.

She will be missed.

NoSquirrels

For me the most compelling and also the most authentic part was the sheer rage. From what I've seen, that's what dying is really like but it gets sanitised.

So sad to hear this news and sickened to see the gloating by a certain section of twitter

Really? God, some people are absolutely unspeakable.

Julie Bindel on Twitter:
If there were to be an award for self-aggrandising hypocrisy decided today, the judges would have to do a Booker and give it to both Owen Jones and Patrick Strudwick. Those of you that know will know exactly what I mean.

Strudwick ?

Floisme yes to all that.

My mum had the same missed diagnosis of breast cancer recurrence- she is Stage 4 but we have had 5 years since and hipe for more. Her tweets about being so breathless she couldn’t speak hit me so hard- I remember sitting next to my mum as she struggled to catch her breath and feeling so scared.

I am deeply saddened.

Fucking cancer. I’ll miss her on Twitter.

I think Strudwick’s little outpouring is a bit hard to take actually.

Agree. Surely bone metastasis should be the very first thing you test for in a woman with bone pain who has been previously treated for breast cancer, no matter how long ago. Arses.

My friend had exactly the same breast cancer treated pain in back a few years later but as soon as she got pain in her back the doctors were on it. She was terminal but had amazing care from st barts and had 5 good years of life due to her palliative treatment before dying at 43. Appalling Deborah did not receive this level of care too.

Yes it was very moving wasn’t it?

I rarely agree with Patrick Strudwick about anything but his twitter thread about Deborah was beautiful.

Yes, she outshone Will in every way possible and like so many men who were raised to believe that they were better than women, he couldn’t stand it and tormented her to the end. Life really isn’t fair but so many people loved her.

There are also some disgruntled TRAs on twitter harping on about her supposed transphobia (she was no transphobe) but thankfully even their woke advocates like Dawn Foster and Patrick Strudwick are tweeting about how much they loved Deborah.

So sad to hear this news and sickened to see the gloating by a certain section of twitter

Someone suggested we all pre-order her book and send it to the top of the bestseller list x

An impressive journalist her family and friends.

She transcended Will - as he always knew and feared she would.

Her tweets over the last few months have been absolutely compelling. She wrote about everything: her botched diagnosis and how she knew she was going to die, her book, her ex (if ever anyone had a surname straight from heaven it was Will Self), her broken family, her birthday, her house, the spring bulbs she had ordered. I think it's possibly the best celebration of life and death I've ever read.

I read Suzanne Moore's tweets this morning and they made me cry.

She also said on Twitter that one of her sons sided with his father and had been abusive. I hope they were able to reconcile but considering how recent it was, who knows. What a horrible mess.

I’ve absorbed her work over the years without knowing much about her. I will read her book ‘Motherwell’ with a heavy heart. I wish I’d known her as she sounded a good person to know. The range of people she knew and who valued her work and friendship crosses all sorts of political/ideological divides. It must have been such a privilege to know her.

Gone way to soon and sounds like she lived a full and amazing life. She was tweeting just last week about being really ill with septicemia but thought the doctors were on top of it. Such a shame she had all that upset and stress about moving in the last few months of her life. Thoughts to her children, family and friends.