Emma Dhesi

author of contemporary women's fiction 👭 book coach 📚 host of Turning Readers Into Writers Podcast 🎙

[Emma Dhesi @emmadhesi]

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@BBCWomansHour @Leomie_Anderson @GlowUpBBC @BBCNuala @Leomie_Anderson was inspiring to listen to and I hope you’ll have her on the show again. Her mother sounds so wise and has reminded me it’s okay to be honest with my kids about the realities of life rather than sugar coat everything 👍🏼

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@BBCWomansHour @BBCNuala Go Tilly! I love her campaign. She’s busker - will woman’s hour give her the opportunity to sing on the show?🎤

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

🎉🌼🌸April Fools! 🌸🌼🎉

Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren't women at all, but men, every last one of them.

In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls. The new legislation is wide open to abuse by activists who wish to silence those of us speaking out about the dangers of eliminating women's and girls’ single-sex spaces, the nonsense made of crime data if violent and sexual assaults committed by men are recorded as female crimes, the grotesque unfairness of allowing males to compete in female sports, the injustice of women’s jobs, honours and opportunities being taken by trans-identified men, and the reality and immutability of biological sex.

For several years now, Scottish women have been pressured by their government and members of the police force to deny the evidence of their eyes and ears, repudiate biological facts and embrace a neo-religious concept of gender that is unprovable and untestable. The re-definition of 'woman' to include every man who declares himself one has already had serious consequences for women's and girls’ rights and safety in Scotland, with the strongest impact felt, as ever, by the most vulnerable, including female prisoners and rape survivors.

It is impossible to accurately describe or tackle the reality of violence and sexual violence committed against women and girls, or address the current assault on women’s and girls’ rights, unless we are allowed to call a man a man. Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal.

I'm currently out of the country, but if what I've written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment.

If you agree with the views set out in this tweet, please retweet it.

#ArrestMe #AprilFools #HateCrimeActScotland

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[Emma Dhesi @emmadhesi]

@JThorn_ Ah, the good old days 😀

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This totally take me back to my youth! I played that tune to many times on my tiny portable record player! 🤣

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I'm so excited to be at #shetlandnoir this year! Can't wait to get on the plane 🛩️ See you soon @jloakley !!

[Shetland Library @ShetlandLibrary]

#ShetlandNoir - the movie.
Starring
Ann ‘The Cleever’ Cleeves;
Richard ‘Little Dickie’ Osman;
Val ‘Queen Vee’ McDermid;
Martin ‘The Iceman’ Edwards;
Elly ‘Grizzly’ Griffiths;
Margaret ‘Killer’ Kirk;
Mari ‘The Hatchet’ Hannah;
Tim ‘Psycho’ Sullivan …

[Unbound @unboundsocials]

#lovelaydown is at 92% funded - almost there!!

@TaylorHelen_M has been keeping supporters entertained with updates, and the latest one has a wealth of crowdfunding tips in.

Check it out and pledge for your copy: https://t.co/op6yPb5zry

[grace sammon @GSammonWrites]

FREE PUBLISHING CHAT! @brooke_warner and Betty Lee Crosby! With @emmadhesi Register: https://t.co/XTzOSlDa8T
#publishing #publish #publishers #freewebinar

[Prof Alice Roberts💙 @theAliceRoberts]

My news series #AncientEgypt starts this Saturday on @Channel4!

[Emma Dhesi @emmadhesi]

@TaraWineQueen Showing my age here, but Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a geisha blew my mind! I wish I could read that again for the first time!

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@PSLiterary The housemaid

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@theAliceRoberts Happy birthday!! 🎂🎉

[The Indy Author @TheIndyAuthor]

@emmadhesi on THE POWER OF A BOOK COACH #186 The Indy Author Podcast
Full interview at https://t.co/ihlQXt7zug
Show notes and podcast links at https://t.co/vuKtDP2lO7
#bookcoach #bookcoaching #amcreating #amwriting #authorlife #writinglife #WritingCommunity

[Emma Dhesi @emmadhesi]

What’s your trick to start writing when you’re not in the mood? Mine is to tell myself I need write only 50 words. What’s yours?
#WritingCommunity #writersoftwitter #writerlife

[Emma Dhesi @emmadhesi]

@goodreads The woman in black by Susan Hill. Terrifying!! 😱

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I've got my ticket for next year and am very excited!!

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I just subscribed to Eva's Newsletter because she gave a rock star presentation at @daneildavidwallace's Escape The Plot Forest Summit 2022. https://t.co/5pwrHYphwN

[Bloody Scotland @BloodyScotland]

Check this out - @alanjonesbooks has started gathering together all UK book festivals in one place, if you're lucky enough to be able to hang out for 52 weeks a year! https://t.co/gSlxMvnPqz

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@goodreads North Korea