Times: Trans Goldsmiths lecturer Natacha Kennedy behind smear campaign against academics

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Fucking hell

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Natacha Kennedy, a researcher at Goldsmiths University of London who is also understood to work there under the name Mark Hellen, faces accusations of a “ludicrous” assault on academic freedom after she invited thousands of members of a closed Facebook group to draw up and circulate a list shaming academics who disagreed with campaigners’ theories on gender.

The online forum, seen by The Times, also revealed that members plotted to accuse non-compliant professors of hate crime to try to have them ousted from their jobs

Ms Kennedy said that the list was necessary so students could avoid accepting a place on a “dangerous” course.

Aimee Challenor, the former Green Party candidate who used her father as her election agent even though he was facing charges of raping and torturing a ten-year-old girl, for which he was later jailed, was among those who responded to Ms Kennedy’s post of August 14 to the Trans Rights UK Facebook group, with suggestions of who to blacklist. All the named academics were women

God that’s a good article!

N Kennedy though what an arsehole

Ah fuck, I didn't check the date

Still worth a read if like me you missed it first time around.

Yes, the person is a real piece of work. The story is an old one and has been discussed before:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3359116-The-Times-smear-campaign-by-trans-lecturer-at-Goldsmiths

This ain’t news. It was all over twitter and the internet. A real charmer. How do these people (for they have two egos) keep a job?

Paging Goldsmiths HR department. Anyone home ?

It’s GOLDSMITHS... Lost cause!

I’d say 18 months on from this the hostile environment being created by people like this, for female academics who are gender critical, is every bit as bad as it was then. See Selina Todd being no platformed in Oxford in 2020.

But it’s being seen but a much wider audience now. Everyone is seeing this crap.

What exactly does a researcher at a uni do?

Natacha Kennedy having a say on this Facebook thread about Suzanne Moore's Guardian article (towards the bottom of the thread)

www.facebook.com/GuardianOpinion/posts/3034266669939175?comment_id=3035802619785580&notif_id=1583252140217346&notif_t=feedback_reaction_generic

Thanks for highlighting this article even though it is almost a couple of years old. I was not aware of the details although I had heard about a list of GC academics being created.

How has this shitshow of an ideology and many of its prominent adherents been allowed such a free reign?

Ms Kennedy, who describes herself on Facebook as a “stroppy, bolshie transgirl with attitude who hates the Tories with a passion”, refused to comment. She represented Goldsmiths during trans awareness week in February.

It confirmed that she was an employee but would not explain which department she worked in or why she appeared to be listed twice in the staff directory: once as Mark Hellen, in the department of educational studies, and secondly as Natacha Kennedy, who is named in equality and diversity reports. Both profiles appear to be active.

It also remained unclear why an academic paper on Ms Kennedy’s specialist subject of transgenderism in children, published by the Graduate Journal of Social Sciences in 2010, cited two co-authors: Natacha Kennedy and Mark Hellen.

Neither Ms Kennedy nor Goldsmiths would clarify whether the paper was by two individuals or the same person.