Forever baffled by the fear that cis male predators will masquerade as trans women to gain access to safe spaces. Seems like more of an indicator that we need to dismantle the patriarchy than it does a reason to strip trans rights to me.
It's also incredibly damaging to respond to a victim being honest with you about their experiences with "yes but" the person you know is not necessarily the person their significant other knows. Behind closed doors and all that.
Abuse is not one thing, it's not "he hit me" or "he told me I was a bitch everyday" it's a pattern of behaviour that can include a multitude of things and its up to the abused (and their therapist) to decide whether it was abuse.
if the govt were really concerned about people’s health they would make fruit, veg and other more nutritional foods more affordable and accessible but I see they’d rather just calorie shame.
I lost my necklace containing my Dads ashes in Southsea, rose garden, pier area on Monday. Devastated doesn't come close! Desperate to find it. Please, please retweet, i don't have many followers?
Someone used a vile slur against travellers and Romani people in conversation w me yesterday. Its times like this I'm v aware of my privilege, I'm so lucky to be able to surround myself with people who dont use such horrible words so that when someone does it shocks me.
At 3:30 am this morning police battering rammed into my apartment with machine guns on me while in bed asleep. Handcuffed and not told what for for 15 mins. They were looking for another tenant with a warrant. I feel lucky to be alive but the trauma will last forever
The reaction Wiley's tweets got from Priti Patel & the British media compared to Katie Hopkin's years of constant islamophobia & racism on both twitter and instagram is VERY telling.