I thought that Ilaria Michelis’ name looked familiar.
She wrote a truly execrable piece that was pushed on LSE socials at the start of the year about gender critical feminists being all about white victimhood.
She is happily trampling on the legacy of feminists from Fawcett to Greer at Newnham College - & her frankly fanatical devotion to the idea TWAW becomes all the more absurd when you read that linked biography. I worked in humanitarian response for ten years, focusing on preventing and providing services to survivors of Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). I lived and worked in Uganda, Ethiopia, Iraq and Lebanon, and have supported programmes across the Middle East, Central and Eastern Africa, working with populations displaced by conflict. How then, exactly, did it elude you, that VAWG is about sex not gender? That there is no handy get-out clause?
The fact that she should be so well-informed & yet she STILL buys into the ultra-privileged genderist narrative? Horrendous. Utterly horrendous.
I’m so sorry they’re STILL insisting on this @IamSarah: if you feel able, I’m sure that the press would enjoy reminding them of your story.
(As a side note, I’m so SO fecking sick of ZOMG NOBODY SUFFERS LIKE TRANS PEOPLE. You mean the same group of people who say being told things they don’t like = literal violence are filling out surveys saying they have experienced ALL the discrimination?! I am shocked. Utterly shocked. I don’t doubt that some trans people do experience some discrimination; & that some trans people have been very badly discriminated against. But when TRAs have deliberately tried to elevate the rate of hate incidents recorded & deliberately misleading statistics get used over & over again, it’s impossible to trust even those drawn from government stats [due to issue with perceptions + way language has been abused]. The UK does have groups of genuinely vulnerable & marginalised people. Improving things for them would take a lot of resources though, so…)