Helen Joyce and Julie Bindel at Oxford Lit Festival 2025

[DungsWearingHarpy]

https://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-events/2025/april-2/trans-gender-identity-and-the-new-battle-for-womens-rights

Thanks! I see on Twix there have already been complaints about the speakers

I really really want to go to this, but need to check commitments first.

I laughed my head off

Same lot are having a right whinge on about this in their Reddit hugboxes as well

https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/comments/1how72q/joyce_and_bindel_oxford_literary_festival/

Well. I know that all of TRA Oxford will rise up with a terrifying, head tilted chorus of shrieking outrage to get them deplatformed pronto, but to even get them on the platform in the first place is surely an amazing step forward? You go, girls.

I saw some twitter cry of "I'll sue!" (a screenshot, I'm not on twitter). And more claims of "anti-trans activist" from threads, who also think she is on the payroll of Opus Dei and involved in all sorts. Oh Helen, how could you :) I'm buying a ticket anyway, can't wait

Here is a screenshot:

I heard Helen has her own albino monk who goes around violently misgendering anyone who seeks the Holy Grail

Booked by ticket- lower level already sold out

Thanks for flagging this! I have just bought a ticket and am looking forward to a nice overnighter in Oxford. Professor Garry Francione introduces the session also which is a bit exciting because I have read alot of his philosophical musings on legal rights for animals. So I get to fangirl over Helen, Julie and Gary!

Same lot are having a right whinge on about this in their Reddit hugboxes as well

They're hoping the cricket kids turn up, with Baker I expect.

Thanks for the heads up - ticket booked!
see you there!

As a fellow atheist Irish woman, I resent this lazy attempt at such sectarian stereotyping of the brilliantly intelligent and eloquent Helen Joyce. Yes, we come from a majority (formerly very theocratic) Catholic country but that does not mean that, as Irish women, we don’t have the brains, principles and independence that let us think for ourselves. Many Irish women (and men) support Helen and other GC activists.

This reputation savaging is a combination of the daft idea that women are too stupid to organise on our own (so we always have to have shadowy male backers secretly running everything) with our detractors having reading one too many Dan Brown novels 🙄

Going on my own so if any vipers fancy saying hello... Might also go to another talk too

I'll be the dungs wearing harpy, of course. See you there!

I will be there. Wearing very subtle dino earrings and a less subtle suffragette scarf (that i bought for myself yesterday).

meet you all later at the pub? (There must be a pub surely).

The comment from Tess Hall in the Twix screenshot is totally unhinged, I wish I could go, it's sounds like it will be an interesting festival. 😊

Helen is so fabulously intelligent and articulate. I was cheered to see all the good seats have already sold out (even though this means I'll be in the rubbish seats). (edited to add, sorry crosspost but still yay at so many booking tickets!)

meet you all later at the pub? (There must be a pub surely).

Pubs? In Oxford? Well I never.

Booked 😁

joanne Harris is disappointed that this is happening so it’s even better that it is 😁

😂

Someone else also unhappy about it!

Wow, that's insane, they really are the most unhinged generation ever. 😮

What legal grounds do they think they have for taking action I wonder.

’Oxford Litteracy Festival’ 😂 and those errant commas….