Statement from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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www.chimamanda.com/, published yesterday.

She is angry. One can understand why. One to watch I think.

I belive the reason TRA's haven't been advocating for things that society could really get behind is because much of this is political ideology and the trans debate has offered a perfect platform of how to move a political ideology into society by stealth with much wider implications for the take over of society by CRT and Queer theorists.

My apologies but on this, I am a conspiracy theorist because there is no other way to understand what is happening

It's not really a "conspiracy" unless it's hidden though. This stuff is in the published literature...

What matters is not goodness but the appearance of goodness. We are no longer human beings. We are now angels jostling to out-angel one another. God help us. It is obscene.

Wow. Wow wow wow. So powerful.

Wow. Wow wow wow. So powerful.

A spoken version would be epic. I read it out to my DP (as I read JKR's essay before it).

I didn't do either justice, but this one was great to perform aloud...

Kenan Maliks very good article on this in today's Guardian/ Observer is worth a read.

@MaudTheInvincible

Just saw this interview with her on Channel 4. Sorry if it has already been posted and I missed it. [[https://www.channel4.com/news/stand-up-against-social-media-abuse-says-author-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie?fbclid=IwAR0503z]]F9Go6L2AARDspmkq6rrcw40nN6TZ-ZBR1gqi47ZfTI2biOoKUg

Thank you so much for posting this. CNA is just magnificent (I lost my father one day after she did in June last year - still not been back to the UK and I feel I haven't really started grieving - I should probably read Notes on Grief...)

TanteRose

Here's a piece from a female journalist (Christina Lamb of The Sunday Times) describing what it's like to be targeted on social media:

archive.fo/v9vY1

As a female journalist I am sadly used to online abuse, from jihadists who hate western women, or Pakistani hardliners because of my association with the activist Malala Yousafzai, whose autobiography I worked on. This was different. People apparently thought it was a perfectly reasonable response to abuse me, my husband and son. The jihadists were polite in comparison.

“Be strong,” said one woman in Afghanistan (yes, it had even reached there). “Don’t abandon us and cave in to a mob.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is the subject of Profile on Radio 4 this weekend following her essay. The programme is only 15 minutes long, so it is a very brief but fair (IMHO) outline of her life, career, and the recent "social media firestorm," as they put it. The programme is online at www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000xdgg and will be repeated on air at 5:40 on Sunday.