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Singer-songwriter Louise Distras and her cancellation - interview

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flyingbuttress43 · 10/01/2024 16:14

It's an hour long but an excoriating condemnation of the captured music industry and how it set out to deprive Louise Distras of her livelihood for her GC beliefs - simply for her comment that trans women are not women.

Watch the whole interview for context, but she sums it up.."I think it [cancel culture] is an attempt at murder for people who are so pyschologically and spiritually bankrupt that they welcome this totalianarianism with open arms to fill the void. I see them as people who will do anything to project their fears and anxieties onto other people, whether that's me or someone else and then they move on to someone else.

"They are cowardly in the way that they do it - it's like they haven't got the balls to just go out and straight kill somebody so what they do is destroy their reputation, take away their income, their roof, their food....I often get told I should starve and I should be out on the street, or I should be in prison or I should be dead because that's what I deserve because that's the consequence of my actions."

She is quite amusing though as well. Billy Bragg, who she said once admired her music and invited her to Glastonbury, turned on her because she is GC and "put a target on my back": she described him as "a weird doppelganger of Jeremy Corbyn."

All I Said Was: Trans Women Aren't Women - Louise Distras (4K) | heretics. 18

We're back on the topic of Gender Critical, trans, gender and J K Rowling with Louise Distras, a punk singer who is supposed to rage against the machine. But...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_sOZj2zwZI

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SoOpenMindedBrainsFellOut · 26/06/2025 16:50

KnottyAuty · 26/06/2025 16:40

WTAF - is this true!?

Edited

She is in court for breeching a non-molestation order. Putting the pieces together, she spoke about her brother, which breeched it.

For some reason though she isn't being upfront and posting it as if she is up in court but has no idea of why, and neither does her lawyer. Until today. But still she is playing like she doesn't know.
Odd bizarre behaviour. Well not really bizarre it got reshares from some big accounts like Glinner and Tommy Robinson. But the truth will come out so it's shooting yourself in the foot, like being deliberately dishonest.

KnottyAuty · 26/06/2025 16:40

frazzled1 · 23/06/2025 09:56

https://x.com/LouiseDistras/status/1937060451285864599

I'm in court this week and facing up to 5 years in prison for my words at the Let Women Speak event in Leeds on 18 November 2023. My speech is publicly available for all to see

WTAF - is this true!?

SoOpenMindedBrainsFellOut · 26/06/2025 16:19

I'm guessing the Non-molestation Order was taken out by her brother, and she mentioned him in the speech. I'm guessing she mentioned it in the space on X too.

She has written on X she plead Not Guilty and has a court date for next month. I don't know why she is being so vague about it but it's so disingenuous that she has no idea why she is there. I think she is stringing it out for publicity.

It all seems really iffy to me. Like her last court case she crowdfunded for. I donated under basically false pretences. She never was clear about why she was there and I think if she had she wouldn't of got the donations she did. I can't be the only one who believed I was helping out a woman that was being taken to court for something that it wasn't. There was 0 transparency and yes it was the family court but she painted it as something different.

moto748e · 23/06/2025 23:56

It does. That's showbiz these days, sadly.

Brewdug · 23/06/2025 23:52

Not to derail, Moto that one might deserve its own thread. An entire stage for female (‘identifying’) talent who have to play for free and do lengthy unpaid bar shifts just to get on the bill?

Yet Fatboy Slim’s son Woody Cook (‘who identifies as a man’, the Indy sees need to clarify) is on the same stage? Can’t see him getting stuck pulling pints somehow.

All the best to Louise. What she’s had to put up with really stinks.

spannasaurus · 23/06/2025 18:45

In her LWS speech she says that she had to take an injuction out against her brother and her substack seems to suggest that the person she had an injuction against is the same person who contained a non molestation order against her.

GargoylesofBeelzebub · 23/06/2025 18:33

Do we know who it is that's harassing her? Is it a lawyer who likes to golf?

RoyalCorgi · 23/06/2025 17:07

It's always West Yorkshire Police, isn't it.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 23/06/2025 17:03

I hope she's got good legal support - it all seems dystopian reading her article - and a depressingly familiar story for so many women.

Pudmyboy · 23/06/2025 17:01

Is that a link a way to donate money to help with fees and costs?

CassOle · 23/06/2025 11:32

Thanks for that link fedup.

fedupandstuck · 23/06/2025 11:29

If you find the link to her Substack article it explains the history of the situation and that she has been charged with allegedly breaching a non-molestation order, which can carry a prison sentence of up to 5 years.

https://louisedistras.substack.com/p/i-spoke-for-womens-rights-and-now

I Spoke For Women's Rights and Now I Face Up to Five Years in Prison

I'm in court this week

https://louisedistras.substack.com/p/i-spoke-for-womens-rights-and-now

CassOle · 23/06/2025 11:21

Are one of the people or groups that she mentioned trying to sue her for slander?

This whole thing is madness. Poor Louise, I hope she is successful in her defence.

womanbornn · 23/06/2025 11:13

what the hell happened? 5 years in prison possibly? For what? Need more information. This is horrific. I saw the speech and didn’t see any law breaking.

lcakethereforeIam · 23/06/2025 11:04

So she was cleared of the first allegations in May 2024 but she's being prosecuted now! Does anyone know what she's been charged with. If she's facing jail time it must be a criminal charge.

BettyBooper · 23/06/2025 11:00

What??! This is outrageous! I hope this gets picked up by the press.

DefineHappy · 23/06/2025 10:29

frazzled1 · 23/06/2025 09:56

https://x.com/LouiseDistras/status/1937060451285864599

I'm in court this week and facing up to 5 years in prison for my words at the Let Women Speak event in Leeds on 18 November 2023. My speech is publicly available for all to see

My goodness! It’s hard to believe the capture that has allowed a woman stating the truth to be facing 5 years jail… Dystopian indeed.

frazzled1 · 23/06/2025 09:56

https://x.com/LouiseDistras/status/1937060451285864599

I'm in court this week and facing up to 5 years in prison for my words at the Let Women Speak event in Leeds on 18 November 2023. My speech is publicly available for all to see

https://x.com/LouiseDistras/status/1937060451285864599

SinnerBoy · 06/05/2024 10:51

MishyJDI · 11/01/2024 14:33

Big Yawn. She should own what she expresses and believes in. If her fans really loved her music and words they would continue to support her and the GC's would be all in buying it to keep her well afloat.

Well, you would say that wouldn't you? It's because you're such a plonker.

She's lost gigs and income over this, because of illegal discrimination against her.

Anklesprainssuck · 06/05/2024 06:59

Judellie · 05/05/2024 14:29

Was there ever any update on this? I gave up on Twitter/X and not keen on going back there but i can't see anything anywhere else?

https://x.com/louisedistras/status/1786067285649535327?s=46

link to Louise’s X post here for reference, good outcome for her.

https://x.com/louisedistras/status/1786067285649535327?s=46

Delphin · 06/05/2024 06:49

"She should own what she expresses and believes in."

Apparently it has become necessary to put a command of silence into the rules of one's private SM groups. Otherwise one's "friends" will sell one out to the bloodhounds.

Judellie · 05/05/2024 14:29

Was there ever any update on this? I gave up on Twitter/X and not keen on going back there but i can't see anything anywhere else?

UtopiaPlanitia · 15/01/2024 23:38

Louise is an indomitable spirit; some people have so much shite landing in their lives and they fight it rather than collapsing under it - I admire her for her tenacity.

I love her song 'Stand Strong Together'.

Timefortea4 · 15/01/2024 22:19

I watched this tonight. I'm at the point where I think I won't be shocked, and then I am again. Huge respect to Louise. But terrible to see someone who has survived so much being targeted in this way.

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