Issy

Middle aged, adult human female. Vegetarian, lesbian, raging about the erosion of women’s & girls and gay rights. #DeedsNotWords 💚🤍💜

[Issy @IssyIssyIssyOi]

I spoke and it felt good! (first one up) LWS Speakers' Corner - 28th May 2023 #letwomenspeak #standingforwomen https://t.co/sab38Atx4G via @YouTube

[Issy @IssyIssyIssyOi]

@GayGordon84 My soul mate (long gone) was a collie cross and in agility/obedience class she was the opposite of Pete. She would almost roll her eyes at being asked to do anything clearly within her capacity but that she couldn’t be arsed to do. At least Pete has enthusiasm 😉

[OurFightUk @OurFightUk]

🚨 LATER THIS MORNING WE ARE STANDING WITH STOP THE HATE IN SUPPORT OF OUR JEWISH FRIENDS—PLEASE JOIN US

Stop the Hate's announcement:

✡️ THEY CHOSE A SHUL. WE CHOOSE TO STAND. THIS IS OUR HOME. ✡️

This Sunday, the Palestine Youth Movement are coming to protest Edgware United Synagogue.

A place our families pray.
A place our children grow up.
The heart of Jewish Edgware.

Our answer: THEY SHALL NOT PASS.

📍 Edgware United Synagogue, Parnell Close, HA8 8YE
🕦 11.30am
🗓️ Sunday, 14th June

90 years ago, Jewish communities and their allies stood at Cable Street.
Today our message is the same:
Jewish people will not be intimidated out of our own neighbourhoods.

Bring your friends. Bring your family. Bring your flags. 🇮🇱

👇 FORWARD THIS TO EVERY JEWISH GROUP, FAMILY CHAT & NEIGHBOUR.

A shul was chosen.
Nobody sits this one out.
This is OUR home.

[Issy @IssyIssyIssyOi]

@Lfromthenorth My 30s absolutely rocked. Many happy returns Lin, you have adventures to come! 😘

[Issy @IssyIssyIssyOi]

@RorgViking 👏🏼 respect 🫡. I know how hard it is.

[Issy @IssyIssyIssyOi]

@RorgViking Aah, that’s a shame. I gave up myself last year too. Sometimes other priorities have to come in. I’m really chuffed for you about the job though, every best wish 😘

[Issy @IssyIssyIssyOi]

100%, what she says 👇🏼. It was indeed very moving.

[Thecatzmother @lamereduchat]

Been to the Nova exhibition today. So much to see. So affecting / overwhelming. A brilliant talk from a survivor Daniel. So many photos of the murdered. This disabled girl and her devoted father. 💔💔💔

[Issy @IssyIssyIssyOi]

@ThefantasticsL ❤️

[Issy @IssyIssyIssyOi]

Today…

[Nova Exhibition @novaexhibition]

East London is now home to the Nova Exhibition.

A moving experience sharing the witness stories, memories and spirit of the Nova Festival. Now open at:
📍 30 Curtain Rd, London EC2A 3NZ

We will dance again.

Limited time only, get your ticket here:
https://t.co/PU6Zzq4VBu

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

This is the most explosive story you’ll read all month, but the mainstream media won’t say a word about it.

An anonymous researcher has created a database of donations made to LGBTQ+ causes by over 1,600 major corporations, including all of the Fortune 500 companies and every corporation given a score by the 2022-2023 HRC Corporate Equality Index, from 2022-2024.

These donations, given to more than 2,500 separate groups and beneficiaries, add up to over a BILLION dollars.

“Gender affirming care,” however, is a $6 billion/year industry — two years’ investment recouped 6x over, year after year after year.

Everything we’ve suspected is true, and here’s the proof. Gender ideology is indeed a creation of corporate greed, meant to sucker people - especially children - into a lifetime of medicalization, thus creating a steady stream of income for shareholders.

Thousands of little donations - at an average of $400k - to small “grassroots” organizations deliberately created the false impression that gender ideology was a legitimate civil rights movement. I don’t know about y’all, but I’ve never heard of a civil rights movement with 1,600 corporate sponsors before.

1,600 major corporations, including the world’s 500 largest, handed these people more than a BILLION dollars from 2022-2024 — and they think they’re marginalized? That they’re vulnerable?

They have used every last dollar of that money to oppress people who actually are vulnerable, whining the whole time that telling them “no” is violence.

Look at them, with their corporate ideology that was cooked up in boardrooms to maximize profits, repeating whatever strategic lie the advertising department came up with last week.

What is it this time? We’ve already heard that “trans girls” get periods, that hormones make your feet shrink, that there’s no physical difference between men and women, and that women’s sports should be taken over by men because not enough people care about them — so what’s next on the List of Obvious Nonsense?

If you watch closely, you can see the “unrelated” accounts all swing into action repeating the new lie. When they don’t have anything in particular, they resort to repetition, knowing that some people come to believe the things they hear over and over again, even when they objectively know better.

The researchers also included a sample of the DEI policies enacted by corporations, although they were “too numerous to list in full.”

This database makes one thing very clear. DEI initiatives undertaken by major corporations were not a response to public pressure: rather, they were created to pressure the public.

There is no massive pro-trans grassroots movement; it’s just a bunch of corporations funding a thin, loud layer of fanatics, bullying groups of uncertain people who think they’re doing the right thing.

https://t.co/gFYuZIX5yb

(reposted to clarify the time period covered by the database)

[Issy @IssyIssyIssyOi]

@ScotLesbians 🤦🏽‍♀️

[Issy @IssyIssyIssyOi]

And here we still are. Thank you Jean #PrideShame #MisogynyIsADrag

[Schrödinger's Lesbian ⚢ @IsleLesbos]

Another one to remember. Jean O’Leary calling out the misogyny of drag, addressing Rivera directly at NYC Gay Pride 1973. Have a listen. Lesbians were already fighting against the misogyny inherent in drag culture back then. Same old misogyny today. Even worse as men skin walk us

[Issy @IssyIssyIssyOi]

@IsleLesbos @womenrapetruth 1973?! T’was ever thus…

[Issy @IssyIssyIssyOi]

@LGBAlliance_USA @Glinner I 100% support LGB Alliance but this feels wrong - using the (other sides) push in chevron and the Stonewall edict Get Over It = 😱.

[Labour Heartlands @Labourheartland]

Pride, the old proverb warns, comes before a fall. And so it has proved.

You can measure the fall precisely. Among Britain's largest corporations, social media posts mentioning Pride have collapsed by ninety-two per cent in two years. Manchester Pride, forty years old, went into liquidation owing creditors three million pounds. Reform councils in Durham, Gateshead and Staffordshire have cut the grants and hauled down the flags. The sponsors who once queued to wear the rainbow are walking away, and the names on the departure list read like a stock index.

The easy story is that Britain is turning against gay people. The polling says otherwise. Only seven per cent of Britons hold a negative view of gay and lesbian people. The right to love your own sex, to marry, to live openly, has never been more widely accepted. That war is over. It was won.

What the public has turned against is what Pride became while nobody was watching. Capital rented the flag and turned a riot into a retail opportunity. And behind the corporate floats came something worse: an ideology that brands same-sex attraction itself a heresy, that saw lesbians removed from a gay rights parade by police "for their own safety," and that watched eight Darlington nurses dragged through a tribunal for wanting a female changing room while their own union posted clenched fists against them.

In 1984, Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners stood on street corners with collecting buckets for the coalfields, and the miners repaid the debt by carrying gay rights into the heart of the labour movement. That was solidarity of the old kind: it cost something, and it came with no sponsorship deal attached. Compare it with the unions of 2026, who found twenty-five thousand pounds for a Pride float and called women bigots for wanting to change in private. That is not solidarity. That is capture.

So let us be clear about what is dying and what is not. Rainbow capitalism is dying, good riddance. The ideology that recast same-sex attraction as a heresy and women's rights as an obstacle deserves to die with it. What cannot die, because it was never for sale, is the thing underneath: people standing with people, the right to your own body and your own desire, and the solidarity that makes the demand stick.

They built a movement so a man could love a man and a woman could love a woman. Then they called that love a heresy and rented the flag to any corporate taker. Pride comes before a fall. But the cause beneath it, love without shame, truth without fear, solidarity without sale, remains.

Read the full article: https://t.co/CybV3jdvEK

#Pride #womensrightsmatter

[Issy @IssyIssyIssyOi]

I’m more over Pride than the writer, imo it’s had its day https://t.co/ooHALhX4sl

[Issy @IssyIssyIssyOi]

@e1duchess @EddieSelling Oh love… 🤦🏽‍♀️

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Rathika Ramasamy, known as the first Indian woman to have an international reputation as a wildlife photographer #WomensArt #PhotographerWeek 📷