Tara Wolf's mother belongs to Sister's Uncut

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Turns out that the mother of Tara Wolf, who was convicted of attacking Maria MacLachlan at Speakers Corner, is a member of Sisters Uncut, the group who caused the problems at the vigil for Sarah Everard at Clapham Common.

Looks like the apple doesn't fall too far from the dysfunctional tree.

Ah. More dot joining

I saw this on Twitter, I don’t know how reliable the source is though, and what of it, not massively surprising is it. Hardly merits discussion.

True, it's not a good source of verification.

But it wouldn't be a huge surprise would it?

The tweet has been deleted I think?

Like I said, unsurprising. Just uninteresting as well!

Probably not meant literally. The convicted violent thug appears to have changed names several times. Difficult to know what name might have appeared on the birth certificate.

An alleged feminist is cheering on male violence against women.

This is important. Actual feminists will want to stay clear of her and any organisation she's associated with.

The twitter thread hasn't been able to verify it; but as pp say, a person active in SU knows enough to joke about it.

As pp say, joking about the assault of a woman in her 60s by a person assigned male at birth.

(Forced to say that phrase.)

@NotTerfNorCis

An alleged feminist is cheering on male violence against women.

This is important. Actual feminists will want to stay clear of her and any organisation she's associated with.

This is exactly why I posted it.

These thugs are supported by Reclaim These Streets, who were given money by people in good faith, thinking it would be donated to women's refuges etc, only to find that might not be the case. Not to mention that by their own admission, believe TWAW.

We need to be very careful about names here. Reclaim These Streets was, as I understand it, an ad hoc group set up to organise the vigil for Sarah Everard. They cancelled the vigil because of disagreements with the Met Police. Sisters Uncut ended up playing a role in the protest that took over from the vigil, which had happened anyway.

Reclaim These Streets then raised £0.5 million by crowdfunding which the group eventually realised it didn't have the skills to look after and to pass on to worthy causes. It's asked a specialist grant-making charity to distribute the money to charities for women and girls.

Meanwhile, Reclaim The Streets has been around as a campaign for a lot longer and some people related to Sisters Uncut appear to have revived the name. No idea about the original organisers, whether they're still around, whether they have any connection with SU etc etc, but I don't think they're the same group as Reclaim These Streets.

They are a different group entirely. Reclaim These Streets were blocking anyone who asked them if the money was going to actual women's groups, which was a bit worrying tbh.

The group now distributing the money is known to be trans inclusive.

The group now distributing the money is known to be trans inclusive.
Trans inclusive yes but not single-sex provision exclusive, is my understanding. Karen Ingala Smith thinks the foundation is suitable & I trust her judgement on this.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g - there have been threads about the role Sisters Uncut played in the Clapham Common vigil, which they gate crashed in a totally disrespectful way with political banners and megaphones. Not surprising theyhave done this to other women's events. And even if the organising group is genuinely ad hoc, from the way they are running the group page they are more than influenced by SU, and appear to be trying to direct what women should and shouldn't discuss in a way that is quite upsetting. ie lots of women bravely sharing details as there experiences of male violence and abuse, and group admins going on about protesting about the police bill. The bill may be faulty in many ways, but the murder of a woman walking home alone would not be changed by the bill. It is very puzzling and I think a lot of genuinely unaligned women who thought they were joining some sort of support network are being left confused. Such a wasted opportunity.

Thanks, @stumbledin. I'm not on Facebook so have not seen any of that. The whole thing is extremely distasteful. Poor SE's memory seems far from central to what's going on now.

It seems Lora is a member of Reclaim These Streets rather than Sisters Uncut. Not sure how much difference there is though.

m.facebook.com/groups/265689315139290/permalink/267845521590336/

When I looked on public posts on fb she's been heavily involved with the hs2 campaign as she mentions here. I think this is more about anti police

Anti police violence that is