Lisa Muggeridge commented yesterday on this thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3284251-Lisa-Muggeridge-Suspended-by-Twitter-and-Quoting-her-breaches-MN-Guidelines
"In 2010 I realised that austerity would hit me and my peers from the Looked After system and lone parents very hard and that the implications were serious. I was invited to speak at oxfordgef.yolasite.com/blog/lisa-ansell and thought this was a movement to fight austerity. THAT is what they said. I was invited to speak at Netroots, a Labour, trade union funded event, paid for with my trade union dues. I didnt know that I wouldnt be allowed to talk about the political consensus on the systems I was discussing or that my speech there would lead to me being targeted by people with actual power.
The elite brats who are STILL at the heart of Corbynism, and the Labour Party, and editors, all went out of their way. I had stalkers validated, I stopped counting harassment on twitter if it lasted less than 7 hours, I eventually stopped counting if it lasted less than a day then I stopped counting when it hit 100 episodes.
The elite brats around Oxford University and Labour when I discussed protocol for social workers on strikle days if they had court hearings, call me a scab. The entire British left, really. My daughter not safe at my house not once, not twice, but repeatedly. Threats, rape threats. This is for discussing wat was in that speech at oxford univresity. That speech would now get me called TERF.
I have been defamed, abused, threatened, had my house targeted, and had major institutions push this. I didnt choose austerity, I didnt choose poverty and I didnt choose to understand these systems but what I did do was record tribalism being manufactured to hide consensus and I didnt stop. And I did this because the parasitic dynamic between the left and women like me can be easily broken if the host says they are aware of the situation, and the parasite behaves abusively openly. Addition of social dimension to political communication meant this was possible for the first time.
I also kept an eye on the crisis I was discussing because I knew and can demonstrate I knew 8 years ago we were heading into institutional redefinition. I crowdfunded tuition to the LSE to their new Inequalities Institute NOT because I wanted a masters, although I do, because they would give me an overview of how elite institutions viewed the institutions I was familiar with and I could see and assess the distance in light of what I had experienced.
I was correct there is no way for them at this level to know about these systems cos they developed from the ground up and the last time had the opportunity to redefine institutions(you cant just do it you have to wait for crisis) the changes to family, understanding of abuse, loooked after children, didnt exist. These systems have evolved through crisis and THIS crisis will merely consolidate them. I know this and say this. Which is why I have to be silenced.
This all sounds like I have loads of resources. I dont. I have complex ptsd, I live on less than 150 a week,. that transphobia list made me unemployable so even with an LSE masters I am unemployed. My daughter hasnt had new clothes from me in over a year and her dad has bought them so she doesnt wear clothes with holes. I wear clothes with holes. So if I am completely powerless, the crisis I am describing is happening in front of us, why do I need to be constantly targeted, erased and why is it now illegal on Mumsnet to discuss what I am discussing?
Because what I am discussing ALL mothers know. Regarding 'deadnaming'. The law is actually clear. We have laws around abusive behaviour which require that ALL mothers are literate in identifying abusive behaviour and in that instance we are ALL required to disregard the identity of that person and focus on their behaviour. An abusive male is correctly being identified in terms of gender and sex and in line with the law. An abusive male does not become a victim because I didnt consider his inner identity. I will not be forced, as someone who has had abusive relationship be forced to say things which are not true out of fear. I will NOT do that.
I am sorry Mumsnet feel that I am so terrible, and so awful but I think you will find I havent done anything but injured the identity of narcissists.
My twitter account was under constant attack. It had 1400 followers. Thats not a media following. I talked about breadmaking, and moaning about not doing housework and on the days where I was stuck I talked to my friends. I never used it to broad cast, I never asked to be INVITED by major political parties and newspapers to be their novelty pov and I have done nothing to deserve eight years of abuse putting me and my daughter at risk.
BUt fine I am clearly something dangerous and scary. I dont have enough money to get through the week, some days I dont eat, I am skinny, I am probably going to end up not well. But yah. Am bullying the GUardian, the elite brats around Corbyn and trans activists with more money than God. Course I am.
If I hadnt record that who would have? My trade union? The Guardian? Did Mumsnet know how many of their membres were not eating during austerity? I have NEVER pursued a media career, I dont even have a background where I could be a public figure because me and sister have agreements over what our kids know about our childhoods, so am no threat to anyone. Am not in competition. And yet me saying this terrifying to political parties, newspapers and people with power? Why. I think we all know why."