Roz Hopkinson

Artistic Director at Stance Theatre Co. Writer/Director at SottiDog TV, Film & Media Production (London, New York) Freelance Director

[Roz Hopkinson @RozHopkinson]

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[Roz Hopkinson @RozHopkinson]

Don't strip PIP cash payments from sick and disabled people! This will lead to impossible hardships and fatalities.Tories out now! Sign for your lives!
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[Julie Burchill @BoozeAndFagz]

JK Rowling and the Cass report reckoning https://t.co/7eFCpWGnPL It's me in the Spec!

[Roz Hopkinson @RozHopkinson]

@Wrongone100 @timpeters2911 @OptichromeLtd Terrific cover - such a good pic.

[Frances Aviva Blane @Wrongone100]

◼️PORTRAIT 🧟 my new book with Susie Orbach 💐design @timpeters2911 @OptichromeLtd 📊. thank you Susie & Tim 🟥🟨🟦

[Roz Hopkinson @RozHopkinson]

@ethnasia Is your jewellery hypoallergenic plz?

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

Absolutely incredible.

At the European Pool Championships, female player, Kim O'Brien, forfeited the women's final where she was set to play male player, Harriet Haynes.

I am happily paying her the prize money she lost out on. Stop playing their game. More of this!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

It is possible to want trans people to be safe and happy while recognising that there are risks to women and girls in eradicating single sex spaces. Women and girls are being pressured to surrender their hard-won rights to a group that poses a proven danger to them. 1/3

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

We don't leave our doors and windows wide open when we go out because 'thieves will find a way in, anyway.' Strangely, I've never heard anyone say 'let's stop background checking teachers, because paedophiles will always find a way to interfere with kids.'

When men - all men, however they identify - are banned from women's spaces, those who disregard the ban can be challenged, inside the space and out. They mark themselves out as suspicious by breaking a rule decent men respect. Nobody claims the rule has successfully kept out every single man who wants to commit voyeurism or sexual assault. What we're saying is that allowing males into female only spaces on the basis of their claim to be a women removes an obstacle that has hitherto been *proven* to increase women and girls' safety.

88% of sexual crimes committed in changing/locker rooms happen in those that are unisex. Why? Because malign men don't have to justify their presence near unclothed women and girls. They can't be challenged. They don't stand out. This is obvious to all but the terminally naive.

It is too seldom noted that every single man arguing for the removal of single sex spaces is arguing for his *own* right to enter those spaces. I know from experience that they feign outrage when this point is put to them, gibbering that they're just being good, virtuous progressives who're standing up for trans women, that they *personally* won't be availing themselves of the new opportunities afforded them. The fact remains that instead of calling out male violence against trans women, and working to make male spaces safer, these men have thrown their energy into the fight to remove women's and girls' rights to safety, privacy and dignity.

And if anyone genuinely believes none of these enthusiastic heterosexual, non-trans-identified male 'allies' aren't personally enthralled by the idea of women and girls losing basic protections, I have several bridges to sell you.

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France makes abortion constitutional right https://t.co/OS8HTs49M8

[Roz Hopkinson @RozHopkinson]

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[Psychoanalysis - the Scottish dimension @scotusanalyst]

For anyone looking for a unique artistic experience of the link between unconscious realities and the outside world, don't miss this beautiful exhibition in Belgium

[Roz Hopkinson @RozHopkinson]

@Sue_writer @SerenBooks @Holburne Fabulous evening, Sue! Thanks so much for the invite. Both talk & reading went down very well. Great response! x

[Julie Burchill @BoozeAndFagz]

The welcome demise of the smug shop https://t.co/nQ0GpHZawG It's me in the Spec!

[Roz Hopkinson @RozHopkinson]

@ForWomenScot Done! The line is in the sand, and we will not give an inch!

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

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