Lily Madigan has published an article.

[UpstartCrow]

www.youngfabians.org.uk/transmisog

''100 years on since the first women got the vote, there are still inequalities in the feminist movement. Why are some feminists still failing transwomen?

The evidence is there if you look for it – Transphobic leaflets being given out in the safe zone at Labour annual conference; prominent party feminists suggesting violence against transwomen; someone being kicked out of a Labour Women’s Network party for harassing a teenage trans woman; fundraisers being started to try and legally challenge Labours trans-inclusive policies; transwomen being excluded from Labour run women’s events by a women’s officer. The list goes on.

Most state their actions aren’t transphobic at all, but they are merely seeking the protection of women’s spaces. Some go further, suggesting transwomen are men’s right activists working purposely to erode women’s hard won protects. They commonly misgender people like me as a means to belittle our experiences and score social media points. And so I think its fair we question how much authority they have as cis-women to decide whether they are being transphobic.''

It continues in this vein.

Lap

You don't need to have a second account. If you open in a private window, it's logged out of twitter, then dismiss the login screen. You can look at anyone's account

Lap - that website is hilarious! I went to university with lots of people who would be in to that kind of faux-Russell Brand stuff

Here's an extract for anyone who doesn't want to click on the link:

Act for freedom now! is a website and its ensuing publications. It is an instrument developed by a few individual anarchists to make known the ideas and struggle of imprisoned anarchists in Greece and elsewhere, as well as to seek out and spread glimpses of the multiform attack on power and its servants. It is a point of reference, a beach-comber gleaning messages washed up by the ebb and flow of revolt. An individual project within the wider projectuality of the struggle against dominion in all its forms fired by the need to have done with this oppressive world.

^It is not a political group, nor is it an attempt to ‘manage’ or homogenise individuals or groups on the basis of categories, ‘prisoners’, ‘fighters’, ‘squatters’, ‘trans’, etc, but seeks to recognise signals and explore methods, encounter the spirit of freedom in its many manifestations while creating a terrain where others can widen their vision, explore ideas, ponder contradictions, kindle their desires.
While aware that digital technology is fused with power and is a major player in this death society we are using an infinitesimal part of it, conscious that it is a double-edged sword whose frequentation must be critical and transient.^

Olennas

It’s pure Young Ones, isn’t it! Neil would be right at home

A callout was disseminated to the squat/autonomous scene at the time,accompanying a special issue of SLAP (Squatters of London Action Paper).
To those anti authoritarians who have so far responded with silence and inaction, we invite you to reconsider in the light of the severity of the charges faced, and the prospect of an emboldened TERF presence at the hearing.

15 turned up. I wonder how many “anti authoritarians” they were expecting? I didn’t know squatting was even a thing any more. Didn’t they change the law on that?

See, I've read it half a dozen times now, and I still can't work out whether it's satire

I can't even make any sense of it? Either there are a lot of words I don't actually understand but thought I did, or a bunch of random longer words have just been jumbled together in a kind of nonsensical way. As if someone is sat with a thesaurus. A bit like in friends, when Chandler and Monica ask Joey to do a reference for their adoption.

Answer on a postcard please

Translation:

The anarchist squatters put out a special edition of their paper SLAP, together with a call for support.
They are asking those who have not yet responded to the call for support to reconsider their inaction.
Their trans member* is on an assault charge.

They are expecting feminists, who are feeling a bit courageous, to turn up at the local magistrates hearing, and cause a bit of bother as the accused is trans.

• Lisa the She - wolf who is seemingly a trans anarchist.... she is charged with battery.... allegedly. ( I'm sure it doesn't say battery on the charge sheet )

I'm old, I've seen a lot of things, the anarchists don't write like they used to. Sigh! Can't get the staff these days.

They’re talking about Tanis Jacob Wolf aka Tara Flik Wood who was charged for the Hyde Park assault, I think.

I’m sure anarchists used to have self-awareness and a sense of humour. What a bunch of tools this lot are.

I've just browsed the TERFBlocker hit list. The 1st South Battersea Brownies account is listed.

Brown Owl is fighting the good fight, perhaps?! 🦉

Maybe they have refused to wear skirts?
I'm hitting WTAF mode?

Well, they are pretty scary, them lot

I like asking anarchists where they'd go if they broke their leg, what with the NHS being part of the state apparatus for social and economic control.

I so want to go to the plea hearing with a placard.

I like asking anarchists where they'd go if they broke their leg, what with the NHS being part of the state apparatus for social and economic control.

I briefly flirted with anarcho syndicalism in my Yoof. I left, because I couldn't drink proper tea.

As all propertea is theft.

Hipster Careful now!

Maryz I assumed they were a bunch of Trustafarians upsetting mummy for a couple of years before joining Daddy's chambers or Uncle Binky's Futures brokerage.

It will be interesting to hear about the background of Lisa/Tara/Tanis.

And I wonder what the reaction will be if they’re misgendered or deadnamed during the hearing.

Oh my actual god. The 1st South Battersea Brownies are on the TERFblocker list? For the love of all that is holy, someone PLEASE send me a screenshot. I am literally dying. I’m going to send her subversive crests. And possibly flowers.

The 1st Battersea Brownies - crusading for armed militant radical feminism since 1972.

Surely at some point some straw is going to break this particular camel's back? Then again, I've been thinking the same thing about Trump for quite a while now. Maybe I'm just an eternal optimist!

He’s on the scrounge again. Is there not a code of conduct for CLP officers?

I've got this in my head when I read that Trasarchist account of things.

My arse is he a size 8.

So that's how trans socialism works, is it? You whine away on twitter until people give you stuff.

Battersea is ‘ard core. And you don’t want to mess with the Brownies.