Diane Jones

Sex-based rights now!
Sex realist. Materialist left. Feminist. Communist (CPB)

[Fred Sargeant 🏳️‍🌈 🟦 @FredSargeant]

If you're not over pride yet, 𝗖𝘆𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗮 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝘁 @Ghostofcynthia sums up nicely why you should be.

[Fred Sargeant 🏳️‍🌈 🟦 @FredSargeant]

Here's my take on your deeply homophobic post @RepOgles. The queers and trans advocates would embrace what you posted.

I know good people in Tennessee and you're not one of them.

[Kate Barker-Mawjee @KateBMwriting]

It’s so galling that commentators are using Pride - which used to be Gay Pride - to promote their anti-women, anti-gay message. Even worse that LGB people are shackled to this homophobic bandwagon against our will. LGB and TQ+ must split.

[suzanne moore @suzanne_moore]

Ridiculous posturing by some MPs on refusing to approve guidance on Supreme Court ruling. This is the law and if they want to change the law campaign on that. This is an absolute waste of time , performative echo chamber stuff .

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

“It is undeniable that there are women who are against women on this issue [trans]… I’ve always likened these women to the women who were against women getting the right to vote. Women’s rights have always been won against opposition from some men & frankly far too many women.”

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

Peter Murrell was not a criminal mastermind he just took advantage of a system devoid of adequate checks & balances and a culture where scrutiny and questioning were demonised. That culture has infected the Scottish government, our Parliament & our civic life. It needs to change.

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

The thing about libel is it has to be untrue.

A Jewish baby born today in a West Bank community will have full rights in Israel, a vote in national elections, and access to civilian courts; a Palestinian baby born in that same community will have no democratic rights, tight restrictions on their movement, frequent harassment from settlers, and no access to justice beyond what Israel’s unaccountable military courts mete out.

That’s apartheid. It’s just literally apartheid.

If you think apartheid is really evil, such that it’s a terrible thing to say about a country, well, you’re right, it is. That’s why we have an issue here.

[Julie Bindel @bindelj]

Funny, isn't it, that Sturgeon is perfectly fine with "she raped two women", but is appalled that she is being blamed for the "crimes of a man".

[Labour Heartlands @Labourheartland]

Let’s stop pretending this is about toilets.

That is the smallest doorway into a much bigger argument.

This is about women’s rights: the right to assemble as women, organise as women, speak as women, and be represented as women.

It is about dignity, privacy, safeguarding, safe spaces, fair sport, single-sex services, hospital wards, refuges, changing rooms and the basic right of women to set boundaries without being smeared for it.

The toilet door is only the symbol.

The real battle is whether women are still allowed to have anything of their own.

https://t.co/1pN4Wg68C3

[Ursula Doyle @suladoyle]

This is @hayfestival in a nutshell.

[Outspoken Women @women_outspoken]

How bloody wonderful to see @Joanthan_Hinder stop TRA Victoria Derbyshire dead in her tracks. Her face!

[Max Dashu @MaxDashu]

First Afghan woman to summit Everest tells how as a teen she survived a Taliban massacre by smearing menstrual blood on her face and pretending to be dead. She was one of three survivors out of fifteen. Well worth watching. https://t.co/6Ne0K0DdEN

[Zara Hussain @zarahussain999]

A British national living in Southampton had her car and property damaged. She said,

“I’ve never felt so unsafe in my house.”

She did not feel unsafe because of Sikhs, Muslims or migrants but because of other British nationals, a section of whom were far right.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Trump’s choice for acting director of national intelligence, Bill Pulte, is both terrifying and predictable, @davidfrum argues. https://t.co/yTapQmBqeS

[Jess Asato MP @Jess4Lowestoft]

Today, I’m launching a High Court claim against xAI, the company behind Grok.

I am just one of thousands of women and even children who have been the victim of abusive and sexualised AI deepfakes.

This should never have happened – and xAI must be held accountable.

[Nimco Ali (OBE) @NimkoAli]

The pro-FGM First Lady of Sierra Leone is coming to the UK this week. She should be held accountable for supporting a practice that kills women and girls. FGM is abuse, not culture, and we cannot stay silent while it continues. https://t.co/cJgJD23ScD

[Anne Nelson @anelsona]

In a land where journalists are purged for stating the facts, where lawyers are purged for representing their clients, where scientists are purged for defending their research. Here we are.

[Taj Ali @Taj_Ali1]

Henry Nowak’s father said he did not want his son’s death to be exploited to create further division, hatred and tension. The far-right have ignored him.

[RopesToInfinity @RopesToInfinity]

Aside from the fact Floyd was murdered by the cops rather than a citizen, one big difference between these two things is that as far I can tell nobody is trying to say that Henry Nowak deserved to die