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Flowers for J K Rowling

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Dances · 08/06/2020 22:08

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TwatCat · 09/06/2020 22:58

@PamDenick I was about 13 or 14 in a science lesson at school. I bled through my bottle green skirt whilst sat watching the male teacher do an experiment at the front of the class. It was summer. None of my friends or I had a jumper. I had to borrow the male teachers jumper to wrap around me so I could leg it to the office to get my parents to pick me up.

I used to miss several days of school every month because I bled so heavily that even chunky maternity pads couldn't control the clots and gushes of blood. I had to suffer this until I was THIRTY EIGHT when I had my hysterectomy (October 2019)!!!! Never being able to leave the house without knowing where my "safe" places were. Places where I knew I could change.

Having my husband load our mattress onto his van in the middle of the night so he could take it to the tip early the next morning so my neighbours couldn't see it.

I can go on and on with these defining moments.

Don't tell me that men who believe they are women know ANYTHING ABOUT MY LIFE AS A WOMAN!!

GoodyPea · 09/06/2020 22:52

🌺🌻🌼🌷💐

Loveacuppa · 09/06/2020 22:52

Flowers from me too

MimbleCat · 09/06/2020 22:51

🌹🥀🌺🌻🌼🌷⚘

ThatLockdownLyfe · 09/06/2020 22:50
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happinessischocolate · 09/06/2020 22:48

💐 ThanksWine

Xpectations · 09/06/2020 22:48

FlowersDaffodilStar

Utini · 09/06/2020 22:46
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MrsHuntGeneNotJeremyObviously · 09/06/2020 22:43

💐🌸🌹🥀🌷🌺🌻🌼

crumpet · 09/06/2020 22:41

*at risk

crumpet · 09/06/2020 22:41

💐 I’ve tweeted more the last couple of days than in the entirety of my years on twitter, engaging in debate (which always founders when we get to facts - eg exactly who is army risk of ovarian rather than prostate cancer, for example), and danced around like a grasshopper asking for quotes in evidence from people who are shouting that JKR has denied the existence of trans people. Strangely they can never come up with one.

I am so sorry she has had to face the vitriol. Am very proud to have her as an ally.

And WTF was Daniel on?

RelaxTheCacks · 09/06/2020 22:38
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R0wantrees · 09/06/2020 22:38

Flowers & solidarity

JulesJules · 09/06/2020 22:37

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Pepperwort · 09/06/2020 22:30

Dunno if she'll ever look at this, but here's some to add to the count.
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I liked the books and what they did for kids' literacy too.

MForstater · 09/06/2020 22:22

This thread is uplifting after all the shit on twitter Flowers Flowers Flowers and some Cake to JK Rowling.

JigglypuffsCaptor · 09/06/2020 22:14

Thank you JK, as a 30year old woman who feels so ailianated from peers of my age because I will not tow the party line, and accept the eradication of "woman" under the guise of "inclusive language", thank you for giving me hope 💐

ArchbishopOfBanterbury · 09/06/2020 22:12

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FruHagen · 09/06/2020 22:11

DaffodilThanks

BadMoon · 09/06/2020 22:10

JK - you are a wonderful, kind, brave woman. My heart is sore for you right now, but I can see how strong you are. So much love and respect. 🌹

Wheezyfreespirit · 09/06/2020 22:04

🌸 🌹💐 Thank you from a mum with two girls, one with severe learning difficulties 💕.

PamDenick · 09/06/2020 22:03

Anyone else got any stories when your female physiology defined you?
Maybe stress incontinence, or needing to breastfeed, or in agony during childbirth?

Coffe3break · 09/06/2020 22:02

🌷🌻🏵

PamDenick · 09/06/2020 22:01

A web chat with DR! Great idea!
Perhaps we could all give an example of when our biology defined us? I’ll start.

How about being a 12 year old girl and having to go to the bathroom in the middle of a maths lesson, and then finding you needed to change your underwear including your tights because, you know, menstruation, and then slinking back into the Maths lesson, in you pe socks and not quite feeling like putting your hand up to answer the equations, even though you’d been near the top of the class and never quite getting back your confidence back. And knowing that you were fairly lucky because in the 80s your comp had separate girls and boys toilets but your daughter now aged 12 at her academy where there are gender neutral toilets feels intimidated fr I’m going to the loo in case one of those crazy Year 11 boys pops his head over the loo, maybe with a phone, but you can’t complain, because, you know, people who menstruate don’t need any special care or attention...

JemimaShore · 09/06/2020 22:00

This was put on twitter earlier, by an artist who said she will embroider it "till her fingers bleed".

I love it.

Flowers for J K Rowling
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