HeatherTeachesConsent

London based public speaker and facilitator for consent and trans* inclusive feminism workshops for schools. she/her Email at [email protected]

[HeatherTeachesConsent @HeatherConsent]

To celebrate the end of term but also as a spirit boost after so much awfulness from the adults in charge, I’m going to be posting quotes from my workshops to show that #TheKidsAreAlright

Keep an eye on my insta for daily(ish) boosts of goodness

https://t.co/AuDRfuExK2

[HeatherTeachesConsent @HeatherConsent]

The @fawcettsociety discuss all of the different ways the @LibDems are proposing policy designed to help all women, looking at policies that will target long standing inequality for lots of different groups of women.

TERFs - BUT WHY ARENT THEY BIGOTS LIKE US???

🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

[Fawcett Society @fawcettsociety]

We spoke, they listened. We campaigned with our members and are changing the election debate.

Our full comment on the @LibDems manifesto below⬇️1/8

[Dee Whitnell | Trans Activist @S3xTheoryDee]

It’s starting to warm up so I wanted to repost last years summer binder tips~ but add in some reminders for those on antidepressants like me!!

Feel free to add your own tips & reminders below!! 👇

[Penny Reid @ReidRomance]

For authors, re: trigger and content warnings.
My middle kid and I were talking about content and “trigger” warnings in books. She said, from her perspective, if someone includes a trigger warning for something like suicide and self-harm, she can pretty much take for granted--

[Lucy Worsley @Lucy_Worsley]

Every morning after I've had a programme on @BBCTwo my inbox gets delightfully full of messages from men who didn't like my lipstick. It makes me feel like it's 1922 and I'm being castigated by Captain Hastings for being 'fast'.

[Lily O’Farrell @lily_ofarrell]

My favourite activity is watching a movie with a boy and then “ruining it” by pausing it every few mins to explain a sexist film trope 🤪

[Jingna Zhang @zemotion]

This is funny cuz a woman won the last & final gold medal in the mixed gender Skeet Shooting event at the 1992 Olympics.

I was often told that she was so good it made them cancel the mixed event. And even as a child I thought it had to be an exaggerated story, till one day: 1/

[HeatherTeachesConsent @HeatherConsent]

Oh no……..

[Gina @ginamartinuk]

For all the people asking me to point to “just one study!!!!” that comprehensive sex education helps mitigate sexual violence and literacy around sexual abuse. Here’s a whole fucking thread 🧵

[HeatherTeachesConsent @HeatherConsent]

Childhood innocence is a luxury - RSE is vital for abused kids to understand what has happened and how to seek help. To deny those kids even the language to describe what has happened because it makes you uncomfortable your child will know the word vulva, is unconscionable

[Dame Andrea Jenkyns DBE ��🇧 @andreajenkyns]

I do not want primary school children full stop to have sex education. Nor do I want children to be taught about changing gender. We need to protect their innocence and childhood.

[Gina @ginamartinuk]

All the studies show that young people who don’t receive sex education are less likely to know they have experienced sexual violence, harassment or abuse. So you advocating for this is literally advocating for that.

[SHYBAIRN @Shybairntheatre]

Adding to all the messages of sadness & worry now that Vault is closed. We shared our first show #TALKPROPA at Vault in 2020 as new graduates, recieved the Cultivate Bursary to afford to do so (also closed...) & met loads of artists & venues who we're still working with now

[FranMcBookface @FranMcBookface]

✨️As promised, another giveaway!

✨️Like, follow & RT for your chance to win these 3 books, candle, chocs and book badge

✨️Feel free to tag friends too

Closes Tuesday April 2nd at 5pm. UK only please

Good luck! 🍀

[Bad Gays @badgayspod]

It is a matter of historical fact that trans people were persecuted by the Nazi regime and saying otherwise is, as a Cologne court ruled in 2022, "a denial of Nazi crimes." https://t.co/QZia1xetTj

[Dr Kay Sidebottom 🌿🕷⛸ @KaySocLearn]

Happy #InternationalWomenDay :) And remember 👇

[Moira Donegan @MoiraDonegan]

Happy International Women’s Day. Be as obstinate and ruthless in your commitment to women’s dignity as misogynists are in their commitment to women’s subordination.

[Whores of Yore @WhoresofYore]

I can’t believe I’ve been woken up the for this, but here we go.

1. The historian Strabo (64BCE - 24 ACE) described operations on the clitoris

2. Galen (129-126 ACE) called the clitoris “the nymph” in his “on the usefulness of the parts of the body.”

3. Soranus of Ephesus (1st century ACE) also calls it a “nymph” and describes it as “hidden underneath the labia such as young brides hide under their veil.”

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

The contributors to "Feminism against Cisness" showcase the future of feminist historical, theoretical, & political thought freed from the conceptual strictures of cisness. #Philosophy #LGBTQStudies Read the free intro! https://t.co/5kQiHVdbN3

[Bad Gays @badgayspod]

scientists: we think the whales were very good friends

[Oops! All Genders! 🌽 🍉 @MackenzieEHyatt]

as someone who has actually done sex determination on skeletal remains… she’s absolutely right! Even if we have all aspects of a skeleton, we grade sex characteristics on a scale from Likely Feminine to Likely Masculine. with several points in-between! transphobes are stupid

[HeatherTeachesConsent @HeatherConsent]

Congratulations to all LGBT+ people in Greece! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

[Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru]

Same-sex marriage legalisation:

2001: 🇳🇱
2003: 🇧🇪
2005: 🇪🇸🇨🇦
2006: 🇿🇦
2009: 🇸🇪🇳🇴
2010: 🇵🇹🇮🇸🇦🇷
2012: 🇩🇰
2013: 🇧🇷🇫🇷🇺🇾🇳🇿
2014: 🇬🇧
2015: 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇱🇺
2016: 🇨🇴🇮🇲
2017: 🇩🇪🇲🇹🇦🇺🇫🇮
2019: 🇦🇹🇹🇼🇪🇨
2020: 🇨🇷
2022: 🇨🇱🇨🇭🇨🇺 🇸🇮 🇦🇩🇲🇽
2023: 🇪🇪🇳🇵
Greece just legalised marriage equality! 🇬🇷🏳️‍🌈