New Ground Cohousing 💙

Women's 50+ cohousing community, with mixed tenure in Barnet.

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

Aggressively dominant male mammals typically urinate to scent-mark their territory.

“I’ll piss where I like." "I❤️pissin' on TERFs."

They think they’re women. But can you imagine a better walking, talking, reeking advertisement for toxic masculinity? #SexMatters

[Dignity in Dying @dignityindying]

Dying people want choice.

Together we can finish what we started - it's time to back the assisted dying bill again.

[New Ground Cohousing 💙 @NewGCohousing]

@_MrMustard @BarnetCouncil Should be purple

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

It has officially been 9 months since the Giggle v Tickle appeal hearing & we’re still waiting for a decision 😩 one of us could have had a baby in this time…

I will announce as soon as we have a date. As always, thank you for the support 🩷

https://t.co/0vsdBdlUU5

[Theresa Musgrove @BrokenBarnet]

Wonder how many #WASPI women, normally Labour voters, Labour members, withheld their votes yesterday, with subsequent significant impact on the outcome?

[Mr Mustard @_MrMustard]

Would my followers please send me the registration numbers of the scooters that traffic wardens use in Haringey. I know of LR69UJG - by email to [email protected] please

[ripx4nutmeg @ripx4nutmeg]

New Oxford University study on BBC reporting of 'transgender' people:

Since 2000 in the UK

• 11 were murdered (mostly killed by their male partners). This generated 137 news stories

• 20 committed murder. This generated just 58 news stories, of which only 23 mentioned trans

[Community Plan for Holloway @Plan4Holloway]

Welcome news of funds for  women’s centres "to deliver vital specialist help to female offenders, the overwhelming majority of whom are themselves victims of crime." We hope this leads to real investment in the Holloway Women’s Building to open in 2028. https://t.co/Cd8tKWooj9

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

It's been a year today since the Supreme Court judgment, and:
-Bridget Phillipson still hasn't laid accurate guidance before Parliament
-She still hasn't taken the old, bad guidance out of circulation
-The government itself still has unlawful policies.

Unacceptable. (🔗 next)

[Woman | the word no-one dares to say @gettagripfolks]

An interesting website project that aims to catalogue roads/streets named after women.
https://t.co/9QTyzGesUk

[Ellie 💚🤍💜 @eille_sselt]

@SeeRedWoman1 speech #OneYearLaterBelfast

"In five days’ time, it will be exactly one year since the Supreme Court ruling.And what did it say?
Something so simple it should never have needed saying. That women-only spaces are for women.
Years of fighting. Thousands of pounds. Extraordinary courage. For what was, in the end, just stating the obvious. Finally, in law.

And yet here we are. In Belfast. One year on, Still waiting for it to mean something in actual, everyday life.

Let’s talk about the women who got us here.
Marion, Trina, Susan, and Magdalen Berns. The women behind For Women Scotland. They saw what was happening and refused to go along with it.Magdalen didn’t live to see the ruling. She kept going through illness, kept speaking, kept telling the truth. She died in 2019, aged 36.

Her words still stand:It’s not hate to defend your rights. And it’s not hate to speak the truth.

I found her at a point when I thought I was alone. She cut through everything. No performance. Just clarity.

I was blacklisted by feminist groups here in Belfast for mentioning her. I know what it costs to even say her name.
And I’m saying it anyway.

Marion, Trina and Susan carried that fight all the way to the Supreme Court. Mocked, dismissed, told they were on the wrong side of history.
They weren’t

And they’re not the only ones.

J. K. Rowling faced a cultural pile-on most people wouldn’t withstand. Told her career was over. Attacked from every direction. - She didn’t back down.

Maya Forstater lost her job for stating a basic fact. Took it to tribunal. Lost. Appealed. And won. That judgment changed the landscape. Every case since stands on ground she helped secure. Because of her our reality is worthy of respect in a democratic society.

Sandie Peggie, an A&E nurse, objected to a male colleague in the women’s changing room. She was suspended, investigated for months, and took NHS Fife to tribunal. She succeeded in her claim and is still appealing the parts that didn’t go her way with the most incredible counsel.

Two years of her life. She’s Still fighting.

And the Darlington nurses. Eight of them. They raised concerns, were ignored, told to broaden their mindset. They formed a union, took a case, and were successful at tribunal.

And then the arts.

Because this is personal.

Róisín Murphy. I’ve loved her music for years. And when she spoke, privately, about puberty blockers, it felt like the industry turned on her almost overnight.

Reviews rewritten. Her Album sidelined. Pressure to apologise. She didn’t.

And that matters.

Rosie Kay. Pushed out of the company she built. So she built something else.

Denise Fahmy. Fifteen years at Arts Council England. Faced a hostile internal climate, resigned, took a case, and won.

And there are others - claudia, sibyl and . Women who can’t be named. Watching. Waiting. Weighing the cost. - We are here for them too.

I worked in the arts here in Northern Ireland.
Inclusion was my job. Literally.

And when I spoke, in my own time, about why single-sex services matter, that inclusion stopped at me.The pressure built quietly at first, and then all at once, until leaving didn’t feel like a choice anymore.

And I left. Not because I was wrong. Because I became a problem.

And there are women here who know that feeling exactly.

The email you don’t send.
The meeting where you stay silent.
The quiet calculation that the cost is just too high.

Women are still making that calculation. Today.

So yes. The ruling matters. It confirmed that sex means biological sex. That single-sex spaces are lawful. That women’s rights to privacy, dignity and safety are real.

That’s not abstract.

It’s the woman in a refuge who needs to know who she’s sharing with.

It’s the survivor walking into a rape crisis centre who needs clarity, not ambiguity.

I can tell you that trust isn’t a detail in that work, it’s the entire foundation.

So the law is clear. The need is clear. And still, nothing moves.

#OneYearLater

[Older People’s Commissioner for Wales @talkolderpeople]

The Commissioner and the Office of the Public Guardian have developed a new guide to Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPA), updated to give you the most up-to-date information.

The guide helps older people to understand the benefits of having a LPA to manage their finances, health and welfare.

https://t.co/GXg0wXHFFR

[New Ground Cohousing 💙 @NewGCohousing]

Hedi is our eldest member

https://t.co/LBaHpr4QRU

[Older People’s Commissioner for Wales @talkolderpeople]

@AWOCUK are currently reviewing their work priorities for the next four years, and want to hear from you about your experiences #AgeingWithoutChildren.

By completing their survey, you will help to shape their strategy, and ensure that they are supporting you in the best possible way.

Find out more: https://t.co/usakm66umn

[Julie Hull @rivier]

This morning, @BBCNews eulogising their ‘beloved’ colleague Jenni Murray, while slyly insinuating she left Women’s Hour in 2020 for health reasons. Here’s Jenni in her own words, exposing the truth those misogynist bastards refuse to admit.

https://t.co/m8JLVnT68N

[Solterra Co-housing @solterra1]

Home Conversion Program
What if your home could be the solution to your future?
The Home Conversion Program helps seniors stay in their homes, reduce costs, and gain support through shared living.
👉 Watch to learn more
https://t.co/JktRIAL5DF via @YouTube

[New Ground Cohousing 💙 @NewGCohousing]

@BrokenBarnet Let’s hope he doesn’t do the full Tony Blair war thing

[Full Fact @FullFact]

Thank you to our readers for the many questions we’ve received about the meningitis outbreak in Kent.

We’re publishing our answers here, including why not everyone gets the vaccine, and how long protection from the vaccine lasts 👇
https://t.co/4QyVsLfxuZ

[AgileHomes @agile_homes]

We’ve just submitted a planning application for Halton Senior Cohousing Group!
Lucy Wood and Pat Steward worked closely with HSCG, a wonderful group of over 55s who choose to live together as a community.
Fourteen homes, shared landscaped gardens and a common house where neighbours will meet, eat and share support with each other. 
At Agile Homes we know that interdependence and independence combined for later life works.
The landscape design is core to how the design works, swales, planting and people flow together. We were able exceed the Biodiversity Net Gain target entirely on site, in a relatively dense layout. Ground screws, rather than trench foundations keeps the hydrology of the site intact!
The whole, definitely greater than the sum of its parts!
#Cohousing #communityled #lowcarbon #affordablehomes

[FayeRC @FayeRCTribunal]

Dear all, my court case against NHS England to protect single-sex spaces at work is starting on 16 March. I'd appreciate your help with a final push for the crowdfunder – grateful if you could share the link please: https://t.co/0MgOEvU7XL #SexMatters #RespectOurSex #WomenRise